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Saying bp often carpet-bombed the ocean with these chemicals. and the coast guard allowed them to do it. in a second round of testing, the environmental protection agency found, when dispersants were mixed with the type of crude oil that has gushed into the gulf, the result was no more toxic to marine life than the oil itself. a look at louisiana marshlands showed oil is still a menace. thick, black gobs of it choke the shore. >> look at the oil oozing back u herfhh. >> reporter: louisiana governor, bobby jindal, said it's a sign the cleanup process is far from the cleadedg rocess is far from ...

Some in congress say they are not convinced. and they say more long-term studies need to be done to determine what the consequences are of using those chemicals. a look at louisiana marshlands showed oil is still a menace. thick, black gobs of it choke the shore. >> look at the oil ooze out of the marsh. but there's no oil out here. >> reporter: louisiana governor, bobby jindal, said it's a sign the cleanup process is far from over. but he applauded the reopening of some fishing regions. >> our people don't want a bp check. they don't want an unemployment check. as soon as it's safe they want ...

>> heavy rains and rising waters cause a dam to collapse sending water gushing and hundreds of residents fleeing. it happened in hopkinton, iowa and the problems are not over yet. on the phone is coordinator of emergency management office. give us the latest it looks like a piece of the dam held, some of it broke. what's the latest? is it holding? is the rest of the dam holding? >> yes, the dam itself is stable. it was the earthen levee beside it that actually was challenged and then failed yesterday during the high water event. the river is now receding and we're having residents and business...

Stated. six months later not much appears to have changed. it still looks like a bomb just drop order this city. >> when you walk around port-au-prince, it often looks like the earthquake just happened yesterday. the government has barely begun the cleanup process. roads in the center of the city are still blocked by debris and some experts predict that the current rate of removal, it could take up to 20 years to remove all of the rubble from that terrible earthquake. >> we have moved 250,000 cubic meters of rubble which sounds like a lot until you realize there's 20 million cubic inches of ru...

Six months later, not much appears to have changed. it still looks like a bomb just dropped on this city. when you walk around port-au-prince, it looked like the earthquake happened yesterday. the government has barely begun the cleanup process, and roads are still blocked by debris and some experts say at the current rate of removal, it could take up to 20 years to remove all of the rubble from the terrible earthquake. >> we have moved 2 slft,000 cubic meters of rubble, which sounds like a lot until you realize it's 20 million cubic meters of rubble here. >> reporter: united nations estimated...