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Eight-foot mangrove trees on the island, so thick you couldn't get on to the island. you could only drive around the islands, couldn't actually get on the islands. it was covered with birds. >> cat island was one of the barrier islands off the coast of louisiana that saw the most damage from the oil spill. >> cat island was ground zero to the oil spill. there's a series of barrier islands that run along the louisiana coast. what happened was the oil came along the west side of the mississippi river, came through what they call quatro bayou pass and as they came through the little islands were ...

And finally tonight, five years after the deep water disaster sent millions of gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico, bp says it is still committed to the region's recovery. >> i grew up in louisiana so i care deeply about the gulf. >> five years ago we made two commitments to help the gulf recover and become a safer company. >> bp has spent nearly $28 billion so far to help the gulf economy and environment. >> and we've toughened safety standards, too, including enhanced safety and 24/7 on shore monitoring of our wells in the gulf. i'm proud of the progress we've made both in the gulf and in...

Out, there may have been more of an intensity to save cat island? >> i believe more intensity to get more equipment down here because we're being told there's a lot of equipment. the problem is they would leave land, load up their boats, and by the time they got on the water it was 11:00 in the morning, and then they only worked until 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon and by the time they got dark they were coming back off. the locals people that were locally hired, those guys worked until the middle of the night, wore lamps on their head just to go out and collect the oil. >> off the coast of lou...

Cormier, has decided to step up the pace and help as well by using some of the funding that the parrish has, so we've got money that we've cobbled together from donations. i know we can bring it back. we've got to bring it back. i mean it -- the birds are depending on this thing. it's going to be a -- a beautiful bird sanctuary once it gets completed. >> and they are getting support from some unlikely sources. >> shell oil put up $1 million to help us rebuild this island. they are not all bad. they are not all bad. >> yeah. >> this actually at one time belonged to apache oil, and apache oil, i...