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Close eye on work that could help determine the cause of the deadly gulf oil rig explosion. we'll have the details ahead. plus, tar balls may be an eyesore for most but for one teenager they could be her college tuition. five years ago katrina transformed the streets of new orleans into rivers and lakes. now see the great wall of the city is building to make sure that never happens again. >> there has never in the history of the world been a structure built like this. a barrier able to withstand a 26-foot storm surge. we'll give you a tour, top to bottom, coming up. or 60 to 0? [ tires screech...

It flowed to the southwest went down through knight island passage through the village right past the hatchery and port san juan also the hatchery out in front of there, there was oil. >> greta: how many miles from where the accident was did it have the impact on the environment? >> out to sand point, falls pass. 1500 miles. >> greta: wow. >> it washed up, came in kodiak got hit pretty good. all the way out to falls pass, they were finding moose and oil bubbles and tar balls. >> greta: i guess if you have the two tugs, assuming the two tugs work [ inaudible ] i hate to use this word,

Thanks, john. >> you bet. and huge questions today over the amount of oil that's still in the gulf. the daily beast reports a bp krark contractor told a fisherman not to report some tar balls that he found. and a new study from the university of georgia finds 3/4 of the leaking oil is still hanging around. that's of course very different from what government scientists have said. they insist most of the oil is gone. nbc news correspondent charles hadlock is live in venice, louisiana. and charles, we've got some reports that are very different about what's going on. i remember the front page ...

>> john yang, outside the courthouse has he has been for several weeks now, thank you. and some sad news from the sports world, justice in to us, the death of a man who hit the shot heard around the world. bobby thompson had been in failing health for several years and he died at his home last night. but he had hit one of the most storied home runs in baseball history. winning the 1951 national league pennant for the new york giants against the brooklyn dodgers. bobby thompson dead at the age of 86. next on msnbc, new details about a possible gulf coast cover-up. did a contractor for bp te...

Oil has been been burned off, skimmed and otherwise recovered and another 25% had dissolved or evaporated. but a team looked at government calculations and concluded that as much as 79 percent of the oil and it's toxic byproducts may still remain underneath the water. and a story on the website the daily beast takes things even further. clanling that fishermen hired by bp are still finding evidence of oil but are being instructed to hide that. good afternoon, and tell me what you found in your investigation? >> well, we're finding in talking to boat captains that are rolling off the vessels ...