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The pipeline is on land. give us the background. >> well what happened wolf this pipeline which is that way, which is on shore, you often hear about oil spills going from offshore to on in this case it came down went into a culvert, and it emitted all this oil, this gooey thick mess here on refugio state beach. you know this area well. this is below reagan ranch of your days of covering the western white house. a pristine area one that is unspoiled and the concern, of course is are the animals here the fish the shore birds. look over my shoulder here in the background dozens of workers in whit...

Hundreds of migrants believed to have died off libya when their ship overturned en route to italy, it overturned in the mediterranean. one survivor says there may have been 950 people on board including some who had been locked in the hold by smugglers. the italian prime minister is calling for a european council meeting to address the crisis of migrants fleeing syria and north africa for europe. >> it is a somber day of reflection for many along the gulf coast. five years ago, the deepwater horizon oil rig exploded killing 11 workers and triggering the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history...

>> whenever you hit the bottom you can see oil coming from the bottom. stuff like that. >> one of the scary things about this is that the birds are still on these islands coming in here feeding, so you can just imagine the contamination that takes place within the wildlife. five years after the fact. look how dark that is right there. this is stuff that's been kicked up from the bottom by the prop. this is what it looks like. along the beach here in grand isle, louisiana, there is evidence all over the beach of the damaging effects of the spill. right here on the beach, if i were to dig here w...

A friend of mine owns an oyster house down on that side. and he has nothing. >> many local seafood workers believe the tar balls are a direct result of the chemicals used in an effort to clean up the gulf. bp refutes that claim and sis dispercent dispersants were an important element. what about the core exit that they used? did that make it worse? >> in my opinion, that's the whole problem we got. if they would have never sprayed nothing, all the natural substance. i mean, once you put a chemical i mean you done destroyed the gulf by putting all the oil in there. why would you compound matter...

If this is bpees idea of recovery and this is the oil industry's answer to their mistakes, then this country is in deep trouble if we are allow this to continue on. this is what concerns the people of louisiana. wildlife and seafood in the gulf are in really bad shape. these pictures were taken last year. they showed deformed shrimp caught in the gulf of mexico. local shrimpers say it's a direct result of the spill. shrimp like this are caught all the time. they're doing a lot of sorting ask what they're doing. you know? this picture shows tar balls in a red snapper filet. how would you like t...