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Yucatan peninsula, a 5-hour drove if you were to drive from cozumel, if you come out for tourist reasons. we have a map, and if you look at t. this is massive, people here say this is the forgotten spill from 1979, 30 years ago, but it coasted almost the entire gulf coastline of mexico and even up to 160 miles of the texas coast. we went back through, using some of our affiliates in techs and other people we met and found video and reports from the tile and you can see that some of the video, even though it's old and grainy is similar to the pictures we're seeing out of the gulf in the bp spil...

Then fingers of it would get heated up and dribble back into the gulf. >> reporter: we had a chance to talk to marine biologist in the u.s., as well as in mexico, we went on a boat tour down here, they tell you that questions, -- yes, the gulf responded quickly. surprised many of them. over the first couple of years, most of the marine life close to shore died but by year three a lot of it had returned and 30 years ago, you -- years later you can still find tar balls. the oysters, they haven't returned and when you do find them they taste like oil but the marine biologists in mexico say they'r...

Starting to boycott the state of arizona? feds say no. some democrats say yes, they are. we investigate with allan combs. stossel is here to tell us why gun control is bad. and sex-crazed poodle or innocent man? al gore is in kelly's court today. all starts top of the hour. see you then. jamie: the oil disaster in the gulf is putting another spill back into the spotlight. it happened in 1979 when some 140 million gallons spilled into a deep water well that had blown out. it happened off mexico's yucatan peninsula. but the gulf recovered surprisingly quickly and a sizeable shrimp industry did r...

Following, two people die in shootings at a medical marijuana clinic, but the violence, it's giving folks in one state pause before voters decide whether they will make smoking pot levment they do plan to do that, and they call it the other gulf spill. 140 million gallons of oil, spewing into the gulf. it happened three decades ago. adam housely is live in mexico on what lessons should be learned. adam? >> reporter: jamie, that spill covered most of the mexican gulf coast, it also covered about 160 miles of texas beaches. what we found now, what we learned from back then, and how it relates to...

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