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On that corner. he caught 80 to 100 fish. he said each and every day. in fact, when i was talking to him, ali, he actually caught one in the ten minutes i was there, and right over his shoulder is what could be one of the older riffings in the coast of alabama, and i would say mike wallace is one of the most prolific fishermen that are also here in this area. so, you get a sense of what fishing means to the people that come down to this area. that is what is at risk. >> is that a drilling platform off the coast that we're looking at? >> reporter: you're now looking off the west side of this co...

Station on a mass scale. oil tankers from around the world dock here, load up on about 2 million barrels of oil each and then had their separate ways. every vessel that approaches the platform is pre-checked by a team of iraqi and coalition marshalls. >> we'll be onboard and we'll check passports and after all of the passports are checked we go through the entire ship and check bases looking for stowaways, bombs, weapon, you name it. >> reporter: coalition troops here live and work alongside iraqi oil company workers as well as iraqi sailors. the troops pass on their know how and help to train...

>> small boat approaching a u.s. navy vessel. >> reporter: this is the military drill at the al basrah oil terminal known as abot just off the iraqi coast. it's part of an international effort involving u.s., british and iraqi forces. the troops here are charged with protecting iraq's most precious resource. ♪ ♪ >> when we have a vessel that's unknown to us coming inbound to the platform, we go into ready condition to protect the oil platform. the vessels out in the water that are protecting the oil platform will conduct certain procedures to verify that that vessel has hostile attempt tha...

U.s. military for help. >> in light of, you know, the depth of the water, the complexity of the spill, whether they have any, either expertise or actual assets, in addition to all the other things they are being employed, that would be usable either, a, to plug the leak, stop the leak, speed up the repair of the leak. >> shepard: this all started last week when an explosion aboard a drilling platform that left 11 workers still missing and oil still spilling into the water. at first, the scientists estimated 1,000 barrels a day were going into the gulf of mexico. but, after they spotted a new l...

>> greta: next senator santorum. but first our new york newsroom with ainsley earhardt. >> reporter: goldman sachs could become the target of a criminal probe if house lawmakers have it their way in a letter 62 representatives write a criminal fraud on a historic scale seems to have occurred. goldman facing stem charges for allegedly profiting from the housing crisis while misleading investors. word of a new leak from that wreck of an oil well creating a massive slick in the gulf of mexico. control burns are unway to try to keep the oil from reaching the cost of louisiana that could happen fri...