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Drilling platform each day. anne thompson is in new orleans monitoring this for us this morning. i heard you talking on the "today" show about how this could affect shrimping and some industry down there. how bad is this spill? >> well, the spill is bad. chuck, it's 600 square miles right now. the oil slick. most of it is a very thin sheen on the water. that is good news. it is not a continuous oil slick. it's broken up. the problem is that well head is still leaking and today, the next 12 hours are really crucial here because right now, the oil companies are using remote-controlled submersibl...

Supposed to benefit students. sallie mae says it's forcing the company to restructure under those new rules. eight minutes past now. martha: a crisis in the gulf of mexico this morning, new fears of a possible oil spill from that sunken drilling platform off the coast of louisiana. now, an environmental group is saying today it could have a huge impact. marine life and vegetation, all along the cufl coast, is in danger if the oil from that rig reaches the shore, crews say up to 336,000 gallons of crude could leak from the well on the ocean floor and meanwhile, on the most serious note of all, ...

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Immense flooding. and we want to emphasize because this is erupting does not mean that katla will erupt, but historically they have erupted at the same time. so, there are a lot of tourism officials in iceland that are angry about what the president said, but the president said, hey, it's important to be honest about history. and another major story developing in the gulf of mexico. 11 people are missing after an explosion and fire on an offshore oil rig. there are also a number of injuries in the blast. coast guard cutters and helicopters are on the scene off the louisiana coast. now, let's...