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From the edge there, maybe about 12 inches down. that's about as max as it usually gets. >> reporter: tom becker and his wife carrie are among the hundreds of people in wichita falls who have been forced to leave their homes. >> it's just overwhelming. you don't know what to do or where to go or how bad it's going to be. >> reporter: the water slowly creeping up in their backyard. they have packed up their valuables and they had to get creative with how to protect what they are leaving behind. >> the first night, we tried to get everything two to three feet. the last two days we kept coming ba...

thoughts and you can also contribute through our facebook page as well. "the new york times" and how they framed the issue. here is "the wall street journal" with their head line -- then here inside "the washington post" this morning. blacks, hispanics, and women hardest hit by the economy. the rate for white children was reported as above 12%, and with their surging population hispanics accounted for 37% of the children in poverty, a share that increased substantially since the recession took hold in 2007, says a brookings institution demographer. that was actually a policy director...

We just heard from tom becker, a guy who's losing money every single day since this oil slick happened. he said it's a matter of perception. people won't come down. get on his boat and go fishing because they think the fish are bad. he's losing money but there's another impact here that is going to go far greater than his pocketbook. talking about billions and billions of dollars at stake. the oil slick in the gulf of mexico could bring devastation to a critical industry that is a driver of our economy, an economy, josh levs, that doesn't need another hit. >> it's unbelievable, isn't it, we're...

It? >> in a month's tile he'll be bankrupt and have to probably do something drastic that i don't want to do but i feel like i can hold on for about a month. >> well, mr. becker, we certainly hope it does not come to that. of course, you and so many others have the same kind of story right now and we're trying to get this message out the best we can. i appreciate you being with us this morning, as well, sir. thanks so much and good luck to you, all right? >> right. thank you so much and that's what we want, we want the people to know that things are not as bad as they perceive to be and please...

Behind me. the water is still clean. the fish are still edible and if they're not, the environmental -- the scientists will tell us they're getting tainted. we'll close down and we'll be -- we'll have to applaud their effort but right now the perception is everything's bad. don't come down there. don't eat the seafood from mississippi or gulf coast. but that's wrong. it's still good and that's the perception we've got to get out to the entire nation. and we ask them to do some advertising. the senior administrator for southeast region was there, dr. crabtree. we told him the same thing and the...