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Coming over the water. one story survived here. it's a weird scene to paddle through this neighborhood. it looks like new orleans, somewhat after katrina, but it's a very different pace here. it's quiet, without the violence of that storm. things are likely to get worse here, too, over the next nine days, yesterday i could see a window in this house, from the first floor. it's rising about a foot a day right now. >> now, just to try and give you a physical example of how bad things could get here in small towns like satarsha, this is a levy i'm walking up now, the last time it was breached was...

Crist, called this an underground volcano of oil. the feds announced more than 6800 square miles of fishing areas are closed all the way to the florida panhandle. look how fast the slick is spreading. this map shows it a week ago and projections it will get bigger tonight. that's the size projected by tonight. hurricane katrina hit the region hard but, quote, this will finish us, wipe us off the map. jonathan hunt is live in venice, louisiana, where we've been from the day are this happened. what's the latest with the cleanup effort? >> it's not too dramatic to say the cleanup effort is a disa...