more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations throughout the day. welcome back here's a look at the main stories we're covering today on our team israel has a bluntly rejected president obama's view on the borders of a future a palestinian state based on fri night hundred sixty seven lines in an unusually sharp rebuke to his closest ally prime minister netanyahu said the proposal would leave israel quote indefensible. u.s. action in libya is now formally unconstitutional after congress leaves the sixty day long campaign to go along without official approval but the white house insists

the operation is on a solid legal footing. and a religious group in the u.s. claims today the world will end will they say the apocalypse will start with a giant earthquake rolled across the planet. and now we take you to the u.s. state of louisiana where water pollution is the disastrous cost of doing business the first part of this special report is up next. everywhere you the concert in the reason there is one. rivers creeks. the gulf of mexico the mississippi river. because of this abundance today everyone. has a. louisiana

it for me it's in some ways a dream place. if you have a little bug or whatever within ten minutes away from. you can be in the wilderness. ok have 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 one and i have my own little swamp and on the volokh 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 and slowly but surely built time to see creating a very biologically diverse ecosystem. very wide in low coastal flood plain created by the mississippi became an ideal place for people to settle because of the fisheries animals and so on and also navigation and trade because of this pedro. well unfortunately because of the

nature of the land and terrain being close to sea level. flooding is a big issue. so the europeans are came in from from the western part of europe had grown up if you will build a levee systems just think about the levee systems in the netherlands so we had the the birth of new orleans and i levee system associated with it and they had levee system continue to expand. utilizing the exist dean natural banks or levees of the river system until nine hundred twenty seven a nine hundred 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

their bed called for control of the mississippi river and control of the flooding. nine hundred sixty five hurricane betsy came calibra for storm and the flooded lawns parts of new orleans. from there we started to develop the hurricane levee system so we had a river levee system and now we will bore the and i hurried came protection system there immediately started to interfere with the natural man building capabilities of the in the subpoena where planned so i probably beneficial in the physical sayings they are our number one protection. and we

just want them. 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 experience very painful with winds. and yet we destroyed a major american city and twenty four aisles. in the middle of a political. millions

around the world have heard hurricane katrina stories of death survival and rebirth . what has received far less attention is how the storm started station was intertwined with a handful of questionable decisions made in recent years across southern louisiana . in two thousand and five i 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 no one agency to blame and i was a call vention s. for shoddy shoddy engineering.

but after i've published his official levee report his university contract was terminated. before we both live in. the mississippi river into its course before we cut up everything worthwhile and gas taxes and else we used to have very extensive cypress sponsors all the way along the coast. cities like new orleans used to have almost thirty miles more us wants to go 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. still erosion must face and they remain in cypress swamps and must be protected by the mississippi river and they have to be diverted again. we cannot say every single community we can build a wall of town across louisiana. with millions of take the levees the levees protecting. 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. some people think all of us want to think alike you know fool a mother dirty for biting insects a mosquito and my dad you know. completely from his face you probably would

have more live around you in that supply base and in his than anywhere in of america. to be here like twenty three years. i can give oxygen i was in love with the amazon rain forest and i wanted to get used to the heathenish keeps the frog olive wood in his now as a scythe enthusiast. that went to the swamp was then travel from wants to thought of all the errors. the last dear. fellow with a smile. and there went to the amazon. that's awful our base is one performer in

a. more than forty percent of the us coastal wetlands are in southern louisiana is one of the on this remark of these are these it's a must watch the. name of another how are one hundred species of feast and trophies and we have been honest because your birds are leaving that's a flood basin. many of vendor will migrate through his woodlands and also the want to listen to the concert so they need to call. anyone within. the u.s. for the study that serious business will birds who may become extinct. because they become percentage or what proportion of the birds used these a long time ago there in the livestock. compared to everglades another is a little marsh that's awful aves and as many trees as straw just way more by the verse in the everglades way more important for the nation a matter of birth and living rates. you know.

who's. going to want to watch everything like that reptiles even though it's easy to freeze a need so that what it will that all of whose job it is likely will also all the models that alter it makes they'll plant trees and medical. since nineteen twenty one and tens of thousands of miles of canals have been 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 small radio they used to be smart right deal was done in one out nice and out. for several years again went undercover spying on lumber yards and following logging trucks. being. infiltrated cutting sites and confronted the large retail chains selling cypress mulch illegally. and. this time logging the south assumption is going to focus more on the of the folks.

i want than they were throwing them away the forty thousand acres a year between the year two thousand and sixty a little way eighty thousand there that's one tenth of all the stuff was english because you. know they got serious in c.n.n. the talk about illegal logging in the brasil you know has happened here like the states and the discovering you know under the phrase 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 world leading roles out of that because they come across as a whole clique of. people who go to wal-mart only wallows in the with one about they would have a florida address and they would say may for environmental you are such a nationalist wonderful louisiana from critical it's full swamp and will never come back so they've lost their lives it was systems and saw that as a moment the harvest broke. of. illegal logging operations have

stolen tens of thousands of acres of trees from sonus coast. cutting down the natural barriers that once helped protect the coast from devastating storm surges and hurricanes. the companies don't like. to flow through the bases. for months looking for those kind of violations. right now we only do to do them once and so the world. really really only proves a stunning meeting that all those books.

you've been drilling off the coast of louisiana for number of years any or all spills to worry about you know that's one of the great unwritten success stories after katrina and rita is author storms and no major spills. and she says three days after hurricane katrina and september of two thousand find some excuse to cross 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 museum and for a long time. coming in the public ships coming. up to timberline only. calif thank goodness. to cook i just want to college they want it. yet july twenty third there was a downtown tanker that ran into a wayward barge hit the taker pierced the barge basically cut it now the oil 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 is

a predominate environmental factor. to secure rivers uses a drinking source for metropolitan new orleans and for 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 almost all the way to venice louisiana which is. eighty miles from here.

for the rest of these guys dressing. on their nets on their on their wives the resource that they harvest. we pray that they will have a safe and abundant harvest here after. the fishing is everything 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 a say on the work of the resource and the men who do the work and harvest the

resource. we're in the try that. of an industry here. between all the different conflicting interests the art influence the natural gas in there's you know so many conflicting groups. traditionally have the they both fishermen they're more interested in in the fish that are out in the open and of the slaughter fisherman is interested in the values the less than strong legs. 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 that people here in louisiana can compete you know with wages against such such mega size competition. the cost of running a simple family business and was the family visits small fisherman with his wife and his children they can't compete against his sheinkopf for asians that you know can produce phenomenal amounts pay almost no wages. it's a hard life is take this all of the family life here it's often around the sized it's a harsh way to make a living you know fighting the elements to seize the waves the wins that's all that we have a blessing of the fleet to involve god's help to carrying through the hard times and challenging times. it will.

bring. a modest boat and they approach someone down to the ship has just got enough to do . the first artificial no astroid on a boat would move follows brother and nine hundred seventy seven and i was eighteen years old when on a boat eighteen days from him to get me a check afford to spend her dollars on doubles rich eighteen years old got a check for eighteen days and get forty eight hundred dollars you know it's a good day you know a man knows a lot of money and i stuff but i love those like the challenger tommy left to go out those as a child to see that's more from banana boat i. don't want no

handles we just want to make honestly. i like knowing that one of our come in somebody is going to eat the best protein. that's beautiful i know which i actually do now i don't make an initially kill people i just make food feel we just moved on vision i guess is in a balloon so i tell people is in a boat it's a disease. of

born here raised in morgan city and when my husband i were married we moved to new i feel. 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 they fish eat the seafood i wouldn't live anywhere else. this is a wonderful place to live it's a wonderful place to raise your family. other than getting shot at. over time my office would get broken into and they would steal the fax machine they would steal. food out of the church and and the sheriffs would tell me you know it's just somebody's caressingly. well summer of two thousand and six my husband

was working out in the flower bed my house was around the corner and he kept seeing this car 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 give a presentation on the impacts of the hurricane and he saw them come back and the guy put a gun out the window on the passenger side and shoot my own. sheriff stop the car 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.

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