financing market and therefore for the housing market and the last thing a weak economy needs is more trouble in the housing market. >> john harwood, thank you for that report. we'll be watching that today. to the gulf now where a new report today estimates that more than 75% of the oil that spilled is still there. in the meantime, the obama administration is tightening up the rules on deepwater drilling. let's turn to correspondent on duty again in venice, louisiana, anne thompson. good morning. let's start with the report that the oil is, in fact, still there. we all remember the story a couple of weeks ago that said about three quarters of it was i don't know. what gives? >> reporter: savannah, report from the university of georgia and from a team of scientists who have really led the way in talking about those underwater plumes of oil. and basically, what they say is there's no way that the majority of the oil that spilled into the gulf could simply disappear. and if you look at the