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>> i'd walk in a couple times late at night getting up and see my mother crying over bills. >> reporter: in 1984 shirley sherrod took a job at the federation of southern cooperatives, headquartered in east point, georgia. her boss was jerry. >> she was able to save a lot of farmers of all races, hundreds of farmers in georgia that were impacted by shirley. nationwide, they got probably thousands. >> one of the white farmers she helped, roger spooner. but she was hesitant to help out at first and that initial hesitation would later ignite a media frenzy. in 1999 shirley sherrod and other activi...

>> reporter: the womans who father was allegedly killed by a white farmer would have her reputation rescued by a white farmer. sherrod hadn't seen or spoken to the spooners in more than 20 years. but three days after grabbing headlines across the nation -- this would change. >> i want the first hug. this means a lot to us. this means a lot to us. >> it means so much to me. >> it means a lot to us. >> to me too. thank you, thank you. >> reporter: a long awaited reunion. a picture of racial unity. >> and we are digging deeper into this controversy. you'll hear from our panel of experts about how...

Someone said to me, maybe this will open up and we'll start talking more about it and it will change things and i said we said that after the election of the first black president and nothing happened. now we have this moment we talk about it for a little while and nothing happened. is that what's going to happen every time, you believe? >> until we make a substantive change. until we stop allowing them to. aren't completely reactionary, you know, based on the politics of the right. this is going to happen. and until you have an obama administration that isn't, quite frankly, scared of white p...

These were actually part of the defenses for the coastal areas here to keep the oil from getting into lake ponchartrain. so there's a lot of moving parts that have to move back to where they were as they were fighting this oil. but right now all eyes are on that drilling platform. how soon can they get that back up? they're hoping within a matter of days to be back on track. but so far this storm that actually didn't happen as it fell apart on its way here has actually cost this operation probably, don, about a week. >> okay. so that's the time frame. for about a week. everyone, i ask you ever...