close kevin owen here in our team tonight updating our top stories for you the former i.m.f. chief is accused of sexual assault will be tied down to house arrest of one billion dollars back with her concerns the scandal surrounding his resignation might jeopardize the financial aid given the ailing economy is needed to survive the u.s. . is ready u.s. relations are being tested right now as prime minister netanyahu meets president obama in washington the israeli leader blasted the bombers earlier call for palestinian forces based on what the word might consider themselves something also

called for by pressuring the moon. and two former presidential candidates in credit get jail sentences for inciting election and the rest of the verdicts on two of the supreme perspire their supporters say they've been punished for standing up to the country's longtime leader president and friend. on thirty one pm here in moscow thanks to your own for the worst oil spill in american history we visit the coastline that suffered the most to hear how the fate of the local environment there is determining how communities recover. everywhere you look inside in the museum there is one. rivers creeks swamps the gulf of mexico the mississippi river. because of his abundance today everyone. has a. right to post three.

louisiana it for me it's in some ways a dream. if you have a little bug or whatever. within ten minutes away from. you can be in the wilderness. ok some fish for supper you can watch the birds to your heart's content that's the

beauty you know you can own a little place like this where i can have my own little swamp and on the valar it's a really is a magic place to live. in the space of about five to seven thousand years all of coastal louisiana was built through the mississippi river every year the river delivered tons of sentiment which slowly but surely built onto the sea creating a very biologically diverse ecosystem. and. there. are very wide unload coastal flood plain created by the mississippi became an ideal place for people to settle in because of the fisheries for animals and so on and also navigation on

trade because of this big river. well unfortunately because of the nature of the land and the terrain being close to sea level. flooding is a big issue. so the europeans are came in from from the western part of you. had grown up if you will build a levee systems to think about the levee systems in the netherlands so we had a birth of new orleans and i levee system associated with it and that levee system continued to expand. utilizing the existing natural banks or levees of the river system until nineteen twenty seven in nineteen twenty seven we had a major flood on the mississippi river where a large number of these levee systems were breached huge sections of louisiana were

flooded and thereafter congress passed the nine hundred twenty seven flood control act but called for control of the mississippi river and control of the flooding. in nine hundred sixty five hurricane betsy came a category four storm and the flooded lot of new orleans. from there we started to develop the hurricane levee system so we had a river levee system and now we will ball the and i came protection system let's immediately started to interfere with the natural land building capabilities of them the supreme. plan so i readily beneficial in the physical

sings they are our number one protection. and we destroyed. katrina to put this all in perspective was was barely a category three storm at landfall most new orleans by thirty five miles new orleans was on the weak side new orleans than even experienced hurricane force winds. i guess we destroyed a major american city and twenty four houses. the was. a little bit of a local. millions

around the world have heard hurricane katrina stories of death survival and rebirth . what has received far less attention is how this storm started station was intertwined with a handful of questionable decisions made in recent years across southern louisiana . in two thousand and five ivor was named director of the louisiana state university hurricane center. louisiana chose him to lead its investigation into the levee failures during hurricane katrina. didn't take me very long to realize that there was one agency to blame and i was a call vention s.

for shoddy shoddy engineering. but after i've republished his official levee report his university contract was terminated. before. the levees lock them in a superior good schools before we cut out everything with the our oil and gas taxes canals we used to have very extensive cypress sponsors all the way along the coast . cities like new orleans used to have almost thirty miles moss. you can knock the surge down and maybe as much as six feet within one mile of healthy cypress where.

protecting the museum is coastline and its people in the future will require some difficult choices coastal erosion must place and the remaining cypress swamps must be protected by the mississippi river and they have to be diverted again. we cannot save every single community we can build a wall of china across louisiana. whitlam's but that the levees the levees protect .

the coastline is quickly disappearing at a rate of a football field every thirty minutes or about twenty five square miles every year . by two thousand and fifty it is predicted that another seven hundred square miles will be lost. what people think of the shrub if think

a lot of you know full of mud and dirty for biting the insects and skeeters on and on for my dad you know. completely from his face you prolly would have more live around you in the base and in a minute when of a murder. on the hill like twenty three years. i can give oxygen i was in the way to the amazon rainforest and i wanted to get used to the haven mosquitoes before i go i live within his now as i'm not so i came to louisiana and i went to the swamp us there in the swamp and from once we thought of all the error of. the last year. and i fell over the shock. never went to the amazon.

that's a lot of bases one perform in a. more than forty percent of the us coastal wetlands are in southern louisiana is one of the wonders of america he says for us it is so much like the. name of another how are a hundred species of fees and show for each new we have ministers or birds leaving the tough love basin in the minivan and we migrate through his woodlands and also the one to rest of the front so the pee to cook for everybody nothing to. eat you destroy decided that sirius is real birds who may be going to. a significant percentage of overgrazing of the birds used these a long time ago that when the lobster. can birth you have a great snow the river is a little marsh that's awful aves in these many trees is the straw just way more by the verse in the everglades way more important for the nation

a matter of the rebirth of live at leeds. you know. how to walk and walk everything like the a.b.'s using the trees of the court so that what it will that all of whose job it is actually will also hold a moment of all to make they'll climb trees and misty hold. them. since nineteen twenty one and tens of thousands of miles of canals have been

a cut through the wetlands to extract oil and natural gas. is manmade oil and gas canals have reshaped southern louisiana as wetlands and contribute to the rapid erosion washing more land out to sea. this used to be someone like you used to be small right deal was done in one out nice and out. for several years dean went undercover spying on lumber nodes and following logging trucks. infiltrated cutting sites and confronted the large retail chains selling cypress mulch illegally. and.

this dialogue in the south assumption is going to focus more on the of the folks. i want than they were rogan the amount of weight of twenty thousand acres a year between the years is sixty below eighty thousand acres that's one tenth of all the stuff the force in question was you. know they got serious and c.n.n. you know talk about illegal logging in brazil you know if you go over has happened here you have the states cannot discovering you know and the difference is you go to a country like brazil and they're poor people trying to make a living. there's no law to really use in the real leading roles got into that because they come across as a prescription soul creek. people go to wal-mart only paulo's and they were fun about they would have at florida address and they would say may for environmental you are suckers and i actually was on feliciana include thoughtful song will never come back so they've lost their lives across systems and song as

a moment the hardest road. of. illegal logging operations have stolen tens of thousands of acres of cheese from salinas coast. cutting down the natural barriers that once helped protect the coast from devastating storm surges and and hurricanes. the companies don't like. to flow through the base of. customers looking for those kind of violations. right now we only do have to do them once and so the log. is a renewed beyond the group this time the meeting that all of the folks.

you've been drilling off the coast of louisiana fire number of years any oil spills to worry about you know that's one of the great unwritten success stories after katrina and rita is awful storms and no major spills. and she says three days after hurricane katrina in september of two cars and find oil slicks coming across from mexico. and they just spill is considered anything over one hundred thousand gallons. after the two thousand and five hurricane season the louisiana department of environmental quality estimated that at least nine million gallons of oil spilled

across the state and in the gulf. oil spills have been considered business as usual in the easy for a long time. the father ship company. the fish in the bottle itself. call it a good. education i just wanted to tell you what it. is july twenty third there was a down tanker that ran into a wayward arch that the taker pierced the barge basically cut it while was covering the river from bank to bank for miles this isn't a uncommon occurrence for us with the willie gas industry that we have here's

a predominate environmental factor. mississippi river is uses a drinking source for metropolitan new orleans and for up points south of here so immediately we shut down those water intakes and started the process of bringing in drinking water for the residents of this area. after a couple of days we found a loyal gun almost all the way to venice louisiana which is. eighty miles from here .

that's if it was god's blessing. on their that's on their of their lives the resources that they harvest. we pray that they will have a safe and abundant harvest here after. the fishing is everything and fishing is the way of life you know fishing is a source of food fishery is the industry it was only natural that they would have the say on the work of the resource and the men who do the work and harvest the

resource. we're in the twilight. of an industry here. between all the different conflicting interests the art interest the natural gas interests you know so many conflicting groups. traditionally have the the big boys fishermen they're born standing in the first arouse in the opening of the spot a fisherman is interested in the values the less than strong makes. craft can function. and that of course the economic factors that have taken their toll.

the globalization of the economy the import of practically everything from overseas countries. there's no way the people here in louisiana can compete with wages against such such mega size competition. the cost of running a simple family business involves the family visits small fish a man with his wife and his children they can compete against these giant corporations that you know can produce phenomenal amounts pay almost no wages. it's a hard life has taken a stall in the family life here it's often the land to size it's a harsh way to make a living you'll find the elements to seize the waves the wins that's all that we have a blessing of the fleet to invoke god's help to carry him through the hard times

and challenging times. and they will. bring. somebody just vote and they approach someone down with the ship has just got enough to do. the first are finishing up a starter on a boat with mo follows brought up and ninety seven to seven and i was eighteen years old when on a boat eighteen days from him again a check of for the speed her dolls uncles rich eighteen years old got a check for eighteen days and got forty eight hundred dollars you know what to do with day you know a man owes a lot of money and i stuck what i love is like a challenger to him he left to go out those a as

a child to see because more from the net of those. you know what no handles we just want to make honestly. i like knowing that one of our comments somebody is going to eat the best protein. that's needed to know which i actually do now i don't make an initially kill people i just make food feel we just moved on fish and i guess it is in a balloon so i tell people is in a boat it's a disease. loves

born here raised in morgan city and when my husband i were married we moved to new iberia. this is just the kind of people there are in louisiana they live for the life they have here they're very happy living here they've lived here for generations whatever is negative they deal with it may just move forward. they live off the land they have a big fish eat the seafood i wouldn't live anywhere else. the some wonderful place to live it's a wonderful place to raise your family. other than getting shot up. over time at my office with a broken into and they would steal the fax machine they would steal. food out of

the chair and the sheriff's would tell me you know it's just somebody's caressingly . well summer of two thousand and six my husband was working out the flowers at my house is around the corner and he could see in the sky go up and down the road and i was trying to get out a bunch of things because i was going to go to d.c. and be able presentation on the impacts of the hurricane and you saw them come back and the guy put the gun out the window on the passenger side and shoot my office. the sheriff stopped before they even came to us the passenger was gone the gun was gone and we couldn't find out who the driver was because it would violate his rights. issues the so much to him and i do you think israel appearing on the mark was a loveless marriage or a dangerous embrace to take your papers but pakistani american legion's probably

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