the culture of louisiana is one that. does not prepare people in general for success a lot of the culture has won the prepares people for success in prison. louisiana also has the highest rate of inmates the capital and the well. the state has around eight hundred prisoners to one hundred thousand people that's ten times more than countries like france germany. the cost and a professor of criminal justice has been a regular visitor to angola for the past twenty eight years. he's an expert in corrections systems. legislators who are primarily. it's primarily white primarily coming from smaller cities smaller tales and rural areas who are making laws designed to protect the people of louisiana from crimes committed mostly about poor people living in cities many of whom are boy probably in this room within the next few years one of you will be murder if you believe this. and i say this tough on crime approach enjoys broad support in louisiana a majority of the citizens believe that tougher laws and permanent incarceration ar

louisiana, we got the best product in the world to work with in louisiana. but we come together, we come together as a community, and we come together in spirit, and we fight to survive. what i need your help with, that website i just mentioned, we hired a former cbs news correspondent, and he's got a team of reporters on the ground writing stories about real people in louisiana, real people in louisiana, both in every industry that it's going to affect, including the oil industry, because this is the relationship we have with our restaurant industry, the layers go on and on and on as you all know. so y'all could do me a favor, our fishing communities a favor, your communities a favor. get on that website, send it to everybody you know. 20,000 people could affect 40,000, 80%, and on and on, the reach will be tremendous. now, i'm going to close with a quote from the president. everybody's been following the unemployment issue, and this is what the president said on monday. you all ready for this? it's time to stop workers being laid off in this recession host

louisiana has a pardon board that can theoretically recommend a sentence be commuted. but the board hardly ever does. in the last ten years only to clemency is were granted out of four thousand inmates in a life sentence. a laugh some or should mean a laugh sometimes i think they should dad and go oh it doesn't matter if they rehabilitate it they're there to be punished you commit a crime someone murders your mother your wife your daughter then you want them punished and if the punishment is a laugh some it's done they shouldn't get out after twenty five years if they rehabilitate it i think that's good for them i'm happy for them but that has nothing to do with punishment the son says for punishment many people who are sitting in a goal with a natural life sentence. or easily rehabilitated. but because of our laws there are laws or or kane and their ancient. people who could come out and be productive in society will never have that opportunity they're going to sit in angola. for the rest of their lives they're going to die nicola and if their family doesn't come in a

and put louisiana seafood on america's dinner table once again. but that decision, like so much on the gulf coast, is on hold. now, as the test goes on at the government's insistence, bp is going to step up its monitoring of the sea floor which, up to now, admiral allen says, has shown no signs of trouble. brian? >> anne thompson starting off at the end of an eventful week there in louisiana. thanks. >>> when this oil is capped permanently then the healing in the gulf can begin. one local official, a parish president in louisiana said last night he fears oil will wash up for years to come. but those waters will get cleaner -- they have to -- and gulf seafood will come back. some of it is safe to harvest now, as you saw, but who ensures it's safe to be served to all of us in restaurants across the country? some answers tonight from nbc's thanh truong in new orleans. >> reporter: a major line of defense against oil-tainted seafood starts with a sniff. >> if it was a minor effect you would probably get a little bit of a gas taint to it or maybe a lit

louisiana sea food news.com. louisiana sea food news.com. one thing we do in louisiana, we come together as a community. louisiana seafood board, our job is to make sure the markets are available for our fishermen to bring their product to market around the country. following katrina our chefs -- we've got the best in the world. louisiana, we've got the best product in the world to work with in louisiana. but we come together, we come together as a community and we come together in spirit and we fight to survive. what i need your help with is that website i just mentioned to you all, we hired a former cbs news correspondent and he has a team of reporters on the ground writing stories about real people in louisiana, real people in louisiana both in every industry that it is going to affect because including the oil industry, the layers go on and on as you know. so you all could do me a favor and our fishing communities a favor and your communities a favor. get on that website and send it to everybody you know. 20,000 people could affect 40,00

when my father left louisiana to come to california he came by himself. he had he was married and had 2 children i was not yet born. he came. got a job. sent money back. when he had enough, then my mother came with the 2 children. and then when he saved enough money he sent money back and brought his brother over. when he it more money he brought his other brother. that's a concept that's not louisiana or the south it is a concept around the family unit and the importance of that unit. >> as you have been out over the past years touring and talking about this book what reaction have you had, particularly in places like louisiana and alabama and georgia? >> it's really been gratifying. now, i have to assume those people that would be upset don't turn out. [laughter] >> good thing. but those people that turn out have just really they have been interested in genealogy and interested in their own family tree and interested in the concepts. what surprised me the most without question is i was doing my initial touring with this were the number of people who wou

an invasion louisiana does not want to fight by itself. can you assure the people of louisiana that bp and the coast guard won't cut and run? >> we're not running anywhere. there is a coast guard station in venice here. i talked with bob dudley. we're committed to be here and make sure this thing ends correctly. >> reporter: a promise louisiana officials say they are not buying into just yet. anne thompson, nbc news, venice, louisiana. >> reporter: i'm janet shamlian in baritaria bay. officials said it would be fixed within a day but an abandoned well hit by a tug boat has been spewing a toxic mix of oil and natural gas into the gulf for almost three days, and the coast guard said it could be 12 before it's finally capped. >> it's spewing 30 barrels of oil a day into the area that was already impacted by the bp oil well spill. it's not good news for us. >> reporter: what began as a small leak now blankets six square miles as spools of containment boom rage a david and goliath battle to protect estuaries nearby. >> i have seen barges hit we

but the fight is not over for louisiana. but we know this is a marathon. >> reporter: everyone involved realizes this may only be a pause in this disaster. >> make no mistake, the number one goal is to shut in the well and kill it and stop it at the source. this is merely an intermediate step to contain the oil pending finishing the relief wells and plugging the hole. >> reporter: now, every six hours, bp and government officials will assess those test results and decide whether or not to move forward. this is going to be a very slow and deliberate process. brian? >> for however long it's shut off, anne, we'll take it. anne thompson in venice, louisiana, again tonight. thanks. >>> and now to something we will see here tonight for the first time. this next story answers one of the most frequently asked questions we have been getting in e-mails. where does the oil go after it's cleaned up and soaked up and picked up? nbc news correspondent thanh truong has spent days trying to find out. tonight from louisiana, he has our first

today, there was not a minute to waste along louisiana's oil-weary coast. tugboats pushed barges loaded down with boom and equipment up the mississippi river. on shore, crews readied supplies to be transported out of the path of the storm. seeing their protection move, some local officials criticized the strategy, but the leader of the federal response says the plan is rooted in his hurricane katrina experience. >> i'm still haunted by the specter of flying in over new orleans on the 5th -- 6th of september as a principal federal official and looking down at new orleans to a parking lot full of buses that were flooded and not used for evacuation because they were not moved in time. >> reporter: venice, louisiana's southernmost town, is at sea level. the risk here, storm surge and flooding. coast guard commander claudia gelder is sending her supplies and people to higher ground nine miles away. safe, but close enough to return quickly. >> the storm will move all around. we want to just make sure we are in the right place as soon as possible after the storm.

the gentleman fr louisiana. mr. boustany: mrspeaker, i yield three minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. hensarling, who serves on the president's fiscal responsibility commission. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recoized for three minutes. mr. hensarling: i thank the gentleman for yielding and indeed this is the difference between the two parties here today. as i've listened carefully to the debate, i haven't heard anybody say we shouldn't be extending unemployment benefits. what i have heard is that one side wants to borrow 43 cents on the dollar mainly from the chinese and send the bill to our children and grandchildren. those are my friends on the democratic side of the aisle. on this side of the aisle we're saying, you know, all the trillions of stimulus money, the $1.2 trillion when you add in the interest factor, those unspent funds, maybe some of the unspent tarp funds, these programs that have helped continue to mire us in almost double-digit unemployment, maybe we could use some of

but off louisiana's southeast coast, the oil keeps coming. four miles from shore the crude grabs onto the sargasso grass polluting food and shelter for some of the ocean's smallest creatures. tonight, officials will decide whether or not to evacuate the relief wells or the drilling rigs for the relief wells. if they have to do that, it could delay killing the well, brian, for 10 to 12 days. >> last thing we need. anne thompson in venice, louisiana, tonight starting us off gechblt anne, thanks. >>> we want to get more on the story from jim cantore of the weather channel in north miami beach. jim, if we have this right, florida gets brushed and everything kind of mobile bay to the west is vulnerable to the next one, correct? >> reporter: they are, brian. one thing you have to watch out for is, a, does it redevelop further north in its infancy, and does it become a stronger storm? hurricane intensity forecasts are horrible at best. that's what we have to watch out for. we are not out of the woods with this by any stretch of the imagination. let'

houston is not louisiana are mississippi or alabama, where the damage has occurred. >> a law professor says the judges in idaho have other options. >> in a case like this, it is politically charged. where one side wants new orleans and one side wants texas, one possibility is the panel could decide multi district litigation will take place in new orleans but could appoint a judge from outside of louisiana. >> four weeks, people have looked at the images from up -- images of oil flowing from the bottom of the ocean. the choice of a judge may it affect how many billions of dollars bp may ultimately have

this is a single most important issue in my home state of louisiana, the people of louisiana are facing job loss. in addition to a failed economic policy, a failed stimulus, president obama's ill-conceived and unwarranted and in the words of a federal judge, arbitrary and capricious ban on offshoring drilling is galvanizing residents along the gulf coast like i have never seen before. the long-term implications of this, mr. speaker, are real. real leaves are affected by this. because of this policy, thousands, tens of thousands of good paying jobs along the gulf coast are immediately at risk. it doesn't have to be this way. unfortunately, the elites in this administration and the president himself refuse to understand this. six weeks ago the louisiana delegation, entire delegation, democrats and republicans, house and senate, requested a meeting with the president in writing. and we have not even gotten a response back. frankly, mr. speaker, that's just unacceptable and irresponsible. already three gulf rigs have left american waters heading to other ports of the world and the trend is

mark strassmann is in grand isle, louisiana, tonight. and, mark, there's some misconceptions about conditions down there. >> reporter: costly misperceptions, katie, so for gulf coast residents hearing that the well's testing is finally on the way is good news because every delay and setback is the last thing this region's image needs. after 11 weeks of b.p.'s disaster, this may come as a surprise: mitch jurisich still dredges perfect oysters because louisiana does have some oil- free waters. >> that's a beautiful oyster. >> reporter: but in new jersey, cheryl stavola is afraid to order it. >> as time passes i'm going to be even more afraid of it. >> reporter: and this seafood restaurant has redone its menu. >> i don't buy gulf products. i don't buy gulf shrimp. i just don't do it. >> reporter: this leak's growing stain has become the gulf's stigma. the reality: b.p.'s massive spill has blacken add fraction of the gulf coastline. the perception, from louisiana to florida hotels up to 20 miles inland report a 40% cancellation rate. this sp

louisiana, i don't know if you guys know this, but louisiana is the number one producer of oysters in america. we provide over 45% of all oysters consumed. due to this unnatural, unnatural catastrophe in our waters, p and j may forever be ex contintinct. we have individuals that are calling crying and saying what are we going to do for our christmas and thanksgiving family gatherings? this is a critical componnant of what this culture is all about. the oyster. the louisiana oyster. we are the most scrutinized and regulated seafood in america. we have incurred expenses just to stay in business. we have helped stet the standars for the shell fish industry throughout the nation and oystermen, of one of the most productive areas in the world, we have been stewards of the sea, creating a bounty for the oyster itself, but all the fisheries to thrive. without the precise management of our oysters for well over a kent t century, we would have already been presented with waterfront property and losing the communities that we have. on that note, one thing, one lesson that we shall learn from th

late today, we asked louisiana's governor about the delayed decision. he told us, the stakes are very high. >> we are at a point where we cannot afford for them to make this worse. we cannot afford for them to do damage to this well. >> well, david, good news that the tests, at least, are under way. but we keep hearing about the pressure. give us a number so when we listen to the briefing, what is the number they do not want it to go below? >> reporter: they certainly don't want it to go any lower than 6,000 psi, diane. psi, similar to what we measure the pressure in the tires in our cars. pressure per square inch. anything below 6,000 would mean that the oil is not strong enough, that there are other leaks in that well. optimum end, 8,000, 9,000 psi. that is what everyone here in the gulf is hoping for tonight. diane? >> okay, optimum, eight to nine, and you don't want it below six. thanks to you, david muir, and of course, throughout the night, it will be a very watchful night, as we wait for some results. >>> also, tomorrow, we are going to have our

the president gets behind the wheel to say his plan was right. 70% of theishing. 70% of the louisiana waters t is thereor fishing. but is there any oil in what they catch? enough.ugh is enough. congressmanan erupts, accusing his colleagues of playing games of capitol hill. . > and here comes the bride. chelsea gets ready. hillary shops. dad holds fort at the wedding holds and the bride to be talks about dingparents. our "person of the week." >>> good evening. it worked. president said president said yerut the taxpayer bailout, as he saluted the official return he saluted of america's auto industry. ce three big companies all in profit for the first time in six e ins. in fact, they're hiring. bailler just announced 900 new ll s. four-letailout still a four-letter word, or did taxpayers get their money's money' jon karl asked that question today. >> reporter: in motown, a victory lap for the president. lo, detroit!troit! >> reporter: the american auto ndustry is on the rebound, and he's taking credit. had donehad done nothing, not only were your jobs gone, but supplier jobs were gone an

louisiana, i don't know if you guys know this, but louisiana is the number one producer of oysters in america. we provide over 45% of all oysters consumed. due to this unnatural, unnatural catastrophe in our waters, p and j may forever be ex contintinct. we have individual that are calling crying and saying what are we going to do for our christmas and thanksgiving family gatherings? this is a critical componnant of what this culture is all about. the oyster. the louisiana oyster. we are the most scrutinized and regulated seafood in america. we have incurred expenses just to stay in business. we have helped stet the standars for the shell fish industry throughout the nation and oystermen, of one of the most productive areas in the world, we have been stewards of the sea, ceating a bounty for the oyster itsel but all the fisheries to thrive. without the precise management of our oysters for well over a kent t century, we would have already been presented with waterfront property and losing the communities that we have. on that note, one thing, one lesson that we shall learn from this i

>> couric: kelly cobiella in grand isle, louisiana tonight. kelly, thanks very much. now, about a third of the gulf of mexico is still off limits to fishing tonight, but inland waters are once again opening up. that's a hopeful sign in louisiana, where recreational fishing is a multibillion dollar a year business. normally more than 900,000 anglers head out on nearly four million trips. harry smith went out request w some fishermen who are back on the water and walking on air. >> first fish of the year! >> reporter: for folks in south louisiana, fishing comes as natural as breathing. >> that's the bait right there. >> reporter: for the first time in nearly three months, folks here can finally stop holding their breath. what's it like to finally get back on the water and fish here? >> love it. >> we love it. this is heaven to us. we've been missing this for a long time. >> reporter: captain verne ledoux says it was almost worth the wait. any concerns at all? because you're going to take these fish home, clean them up, eat them for sure. >> for sure. >> reporter: any co

that is kind of part of our problem here in south louisiana, in particular. almost like a hurricane was sitting over us instead of moving on. the damage being occurred, it continues and grows and we did not know what the end is going to be and we can begin a recovery. certainly, there is a great deal of hope. we don't know what the impact will be. the oil hitting our shores now may have leaked months ago. the oil that is an our marshes now obviously did not leak yesterday. so, how many more months will we continue to be battered even after the leak is close, we don't know. host: michigan, republican line. caller: that is mississippi. i have a comment and a question. it's got i asked the last caller to get right to the question because we are running out of time -- host: i asked the last caller to get right to the question because we are running out of time. caller: petroleum-based products. and he said we need to get away from a bad parent -- from that. how do you propose getting away from the petroleum products and not be dependent on oil? as far as i know,

that is here in louisiana. they have also conducted approximately 25-30 phone interviews and they have conducted five or six site visits. on completing the investigation, the board will compile and submit a single report that outlines the facts collected during the investigation along with the lead investigators conclusions and recommendations. that report will be submitted simultaneously to me and the commandant of the coast guard who will review for approval. i just want to say there have been two sets of public hearings on may 11 and 12 and the second on may 26 and 29. there is a third set of hearings scheduled for the. we next week. that third set of hearings will focus on the how and why of the deep water blowout. the board will receive testimony from vessel crew and corporate personnel on the adequacy of the will design and construction. there will be a fourth set of hearings. there is no specific date at this time they will likely be scheduled after the blowout preventer is brought up from the bottom of

michelle kosinski, nbc news, violet, louisiana. >>> good dog. if you want to help, as so many already have, or to see our original report, please go to our website nightly.msnbc.com. >>> that is our broadcast for this monday night as we start a new week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. as always, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> duelling protests over the b.a.r.t. shooting verdicts sparked by a rally to support johannes mehserle and new pictures just into the newsroom show us what happened at the b.a.r.t. station in walnut creek. supporters of oscar grant led the counterprotest to the mehserle supporters outside the

this is a single most important issue in my home state of louisiana, the people of louisiana are facing job loss. in addition to a failed economic policy, a failed stimulus, president obama's ill-conceived and unwarranted and in the words of a federal judge, arbitrary and capricious ban on offshoring drilling is galvanizing residents along the gulf coast like i have never seen before. the long-term implications of this, mr. speaker, are real. real leaves are affected by this. because of this policy, thousands, tens of thousands of good paying jobs along the gulf coast are immediately at risk. it doesn't have to be this way. unfortunately, the elites in this administration and the president himself refuse to understand this. six weeks ago the louisiana delegation, entire delegation, democrats and republicans, house and senate, requested a meeting with the president in writing. and we have not even gotten a response back. frankly, mr. speaker, that's just unacceptable and irresponsible. already three gulf rigs have left american waters heading to other ports of the world and the trend is

kim lawton traveled to the louisiana bayous this week to talk with people in the fishing industry and with local religious leaders trying to give them material and spiritual support. >> reporter: it's sunrise over louisiana bayou country. normally, this is when the fishermen here set out in search of shrimp and oysters and crabs. but things aren't anywhere near normal. instead of fishing, these men have been hired by bp to look for spreading oil, to document damaged wildlife and to assist in the cleanup. there's a safety briefing before they head out, and pastor john dee jeffries opens the meeting with prayer. >> father god in heaven, i pray you will watch over these men, these women. protect them today. >> reporter: jeffries is pastor of the chalmette first baptist church. he's one of several local ministers who have been coming out to the docks every day to support the fishermen. >> can't solve all of the world's problems, but sometimes just knowing that there's someone who's there who cares is more than sufficient. >> reporter: jeffries is concerned that despair is growing across t

louisiana state officials have taken 600 samples and say it's fine to eat. governor bobby jindal is now pushing the federal government to let commercial fishermen get back to work. >> we've done hundreds of our own tests. now we're calling the fda to do their tests so our people with can go back out there, make a living. >> reporter: commercial fishermen could get the okay soon. the fda tells cbs news they've seen no problem with most seafood they've tested and some commercial areas could be reopened by next week. kelly cobiella, cbs news, grand isle, louisiana. >>> this morning rescue crews in wyoming's grand teton national park are searching for a missing mountain climber. 16 injured climbers were pulled to safety wednesday after a thunderstorm and severe lightning hit the area. the climbers were part of three separate climbing groups, all above 13,000 feet when the severe weather blew through. >>> in other news -- a final house vote is expected today on extending benefits to the long-term unemployed. the senate passed the bill after a month-long stalemate

but i am coming here to louisiana with my boston accent, i am coming here to louisiana urging the citizens of louisiana to take advantage of this program. do i need a lawyer, mr. feinberg? you don't need a lawyer to file. we will help you fill out the claims. i am not adversarial to the people here. i am trying to get the money out. you don't need a lawyer. well, i want a lawyer. bring a lawyer, bring a priest, bring your wife, bring your husband. i don't care. bring your accountant. i don't care who you bring. i don't care who helps you. i will say this, you don't need a lawyer to fill out these forms and in fact, i suspect in the next few weeks, just as with my 9/11 victim compensation fund, we will have lawyers if you want one to help you for free. for free. if you think you need one. that is how the program will work. it is not just wages. if you have a business and you are losing revenue, mr. feinberg, we cannot shrimp. we cannot harvest. we cannot steps. we can't use sightseeing boats. file a claim. lost profits from that business are compensable. know if my business is eligible beca

>> new orleans, louisiana. >> new orleans, louisiana the yeah, let's hear it for the 504. how do you prepare for this whole darn thing here? >> practice. >> ok. that will get you to broadway but here you are in union square. ladies and gentlemen, two-time winner, mr. leonard oates. >> this is what i do every day. [ringing bells] >> leonard oates, ladies and gentlemen, reigning two-time champion mr. leonard oates. that completes the entire competition, ladies and gentlemen. let's hear it for everybody you heard today. the votes from the judges will now be tallied. that means up guys actually have to go to work now. we're going to name the tom three winners in the amateur and professional categories. the first place winner of the professional competition will take home a beautiful cable car bell with -- made by gilberto at the frens of the cable car museum. every year this man makes a beautiful cable car bell for this competition the mr. gad oy is pretty shy, he won't talk about his work but the craftsmanship speaks for itself the every bell every year is individually made b

>> anne thompson starting us off from louisiana tonight. anne, thanks. >>> a related story in a way. the new british prime minister david cameron is on his first official trip to washington, and front and center today, were questions about bp having to do with libya and not louisiana, specifically, it's possible involvement in the release of the terrorist bomber behind the pan am 103 lockerbie disaster. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd with us from the north lawn tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the so-called special relationship between the united states and great britain has been tested of late thanks to the actions by a company formally known as british petroleum. david cameron addressed those controversies at a joint press conference today with president obama. >> i completely understand the anger that exists right across america. the oil spill in the gulf of mexico is a catastrophe. let us not confuse the oil spill with the libyan bomber. >> reporter: and yet cameron was peppered with questions abo

the gentleman from louisiana. mr. boustany: thank you, mr. speaker. i have to respond to my friend from the state of washington. and i would say that i would not have the audacity to speak for the people of washington because i haven't had the chance to actually get to know them. and i can tell the gentleman that i do know the fishermen and oystermen and shrimpers and those who run boats down in my state of louisiana. and if they were here on the house floor today they would say, please do not kick us when we're down. lift this ban on drilling because it's going to kill our economy. the shame fishermen and oystermen and shrimpers who are losing their jobs. that's why we need sensible policies. that's why we need sensible policies, mr. speaker. we're all for extending the unemployment benefit insurance but we know we can do it in a responsible way by paying for it with unspent stimulus money. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana reserves his time. the gentlem

so the o'reilly family has been in louisiana for centuries. in cuba, nobody remembers him but it was the street of calle oreilly, famous until the 50's for its banks and bookstores. it was one of the favorite streets of (inaudible) secretary of the spanish count of fernandino, my grandfather, another irish man feeling at home in havana. there, at the busy corner of calle street and oreilly was a cafe bakery owned by a catelan. it was described by many foreigners, in particular british and irish who lived in havana at the time, as one of the best order and most elegant cafes in the world. its large door led to a main floor with a fantastic stone floor. i saw it in the 50's, i was very little but i still was there in the 50's, and have a fountain that all that water really produce a refreshing sound that drown the patrons' loud conversations. but what made dominica famous, according to some foreigners and historians, was its ice cream of countless flavors and its famous fruit ices: guava and other flavors were served according to an irish travel

but anybody that's in this country needs to know the way to help louisiana is to eat louisiana seafood, because it's very safe. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> the house is coming back in now. later in the week, members consider a bill that would make it easier for federal employees to tele commute and a bill authorizing the national flood insurance program. live now to the house on c-span. bill is passed and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: members will please clear the well and take their conversations off the floor. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> thank you, mr. speaker. i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 1509, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h.r. 1722, to improve teleworking and executive agencies by developing a program that allows

the storm's expected to hit louisiana's coast tomorrow ight.. official officials have already closed the flood gates around new orleans. >> in louisiana, you've got some .ery low-lying marshland. so, the storm surge will penetrate inland in those se -lying area. >> reporter: the army of 0,000 response workers y headed north.sband. bags are being packed and they ana.tles already headed north. they're boarding up bp's command center in venice, louisiana. inside, it's a hive, with all eyes on bonnie. it's 7:00 a.m. now. now.ally all of those workers of thoseout on the water, but on the wa this storm, verything here is on ere is onl, and these folks ght yet bebe evacuated. vacuated. scoot around clearing warehouses of equipment. the only thing staying, these anchors, too heavy to float depressing sight for a depressing sight for those cleaning the spill for the past the pastths. >> be here a lot longer than we should have been. they said six months when we got here, we're already here two and we won doesn't look like we'll be going home any time soo

we had to go to sheave port, louisiana. i had to drive an hour and a half away and listen to 30 people make decisions of where we were going to do this. we had to get a 48-inch bomb, 18-inch bomb. -- boom. we had so many chiefs. we had to buy stuff maybe up to a minimum of a few thousand dollars and they alternated them seven and seven. it was like fema. i am not criticizing fema during katrina. we showed you the whole town and all of a sudden they sent francis in. it looked like what was happening with b.p. and they had to start over again with it. one of the things i forgot earlier, bringing about the stuff was, you get mom and dads not making money. what we did is got with b.p. and asked to hire the kids from 14-year-old to 17-year-old boys and girls. we bring them to the shop, put them on a bus and it's litter control and they got their first paycheck last friday -- no, wednesday, i'm sorry. and they were so excited because they couldn't go in their living room and saw their mom and dad frustrated, fighting. they were a

still, oil is just five miles from louisiana's coast with larger slicks father out. across the gulf region, cleanup crews are now out of the place and trust in b.p. is so low in some places, local politicians saw the storm evacuation as a ploy to leave for good. >> i've called law enforcement, i called the sheriff, and i said, "i'm ready to mobilize our flotilla and we'll go throughout and stop them." >> reporter: b.p. says the company will stay put until the gulf is restored. >> ♪ joy to the fishes and the deep blue sea ♪ . battles that faded into the backgrowntd on the beaches of grand isle today, where there was no oil, no boom, just dancing that concert was intended to raise money for a marketing campaign to bring tourism back to this area but there's still a rot of work to be done, of course, and cleanup crews throughout the region will start moving back into place as early as tomorrow. jeff. >> glor: kelly cobiella once again, in grand isle, louisiana tonight. kelly, thank you. another weekend, another blast of oppressive heat breaking records up and down the e

kelly cobiella in grand isle, louisiana, thanks so much. meanwhile, severe weather is also causing problems in the midwest. in chicago, the heat index reached triple digits today, and more than ten states were battered by everything from heavy rain to tornadoes. and that's not all. from milwaukee tonight, here's cynthia bowers. >> reporter: first the heavens opened, then the earth, as a record downpour created sink holes that engulfed an s.u.v., and threatened to swallow up two homes. sharon fowler lives right across the street. >> when i got up my neighbor was standing there. he said like this, i go over and i... it was like, i couldn't believe it. >> reporter: more than seven inches of rain fell in just over two hours last night, swamping entire neighborhoods, closing roads, and stranding passengers. even air travel was paralyzed due to flooded runways at milwaukee's mitchell field. >> i have never heard of an airport being closed due to flooding. >> reporter: it was all part of a weather system responsible for driving rain and 100-mile-p

>> couric: kelly cobiella in grand isle, louisiana. thank you, kelly. meanwhile, in international news, the obama administration is turning up the heat on north korea over its nuclear program. today during a visit to the demilitarized zone, secretary of state hillary clinton and defense secretary robert gates announced plans to impose new sanctions. and in a show of force, the aircraft carrier u.s.s. "george washington" arrived in south korea today. it's expected to take part in military exercises next week. relations with north korea have gone downhill since a south korean warship was sunk in march an attack blamed on the north. as david martin reports, the 46 sailors who died never had a chance. >> reporter: watch what happens when a heavyweight torpedo explodes beneath a ship. this is an out-of-service australian warship being used for target practice, but it's exactly what investigators from the u.s. and south korea concluded happened to the "cheonan" which was ripped in two last march off the west coast of the korean peninsula. now watch in slow mo