happy, content until you can put together democracy? i think that s the big fear, is it not? i agree about the risk of disappointment and that s a fairly high risk. it certainly wouldn t be the next time that s happened. it s also an opportunity. there really is an opportunity here to reinvigorate the economy. it may be an opportunity for some other arab countries like the gulf states and saudi arabia to come forward with a rehabilitation package for egypt. egypt is poised actually, has been poised for the last few years for traumatic economic growth. its good position toward europe, its intelligent well-educated people. there are opportunity ifs the country can calm down and get its act together. who s running the place? i realize it s a military council, but doesn t there have to be a person who says, yes, no, go this way?
rules of the game so you don t have crony capitalism. you don t have people ripping off the state. they have to come clean on the corruption side. do you think there is a way to keep egyptians day to day happy, content until you can put together democracy? i think that s the big fear, is it not? i agree about the risk of disappointment and that s a fairly high risk. it certainly wouldn t be the next time that s happened. it s also an opportunity. there really is an opportunity here to reinvigorate the economy. it may be an opportunity for some other arab countries like the gulf states and saudi arabia to come forward with a rehabilitation package for egypt. egypt is poised actually, has been poised for the last few years for traumatic economic growth its good position toward europe, its intelligent well-educated people. there are opportunity ifs the
wide. it also left fears of an environmental and economic catastrophe. we re talking about fishing, shrimping and gas prices. our john roberts joins us live from new york. what exactly did the coast guard tell you with regard to the crude oil impact? well, if they were to be a good situation, kyra, that comes out of all of this it would seem we re in the best situation possible right now. there was an awful lot of crude oil that was dumped in the gulf of mexico in the initial explosion and fire, but much of that actually burned off, so what s left now is what s being called by the coast guard a sheen of oil. it s about a mile wide and about five miles long. it s got something of a dark scent, and it doesn t seem to be a heavy crude discharge at this point. what happened after the initial explosion, it s not all that bad at the moment. the big fear, though, is what can happen if that well head at the bottom of the ocean, in the ocean floor starts leaking. we talked with marylandry abo
from this flooded area in gwinnette county. eva pilgrim joins us tonight from st. charles parrish. the meteorologists warning this could be life threatening flooding tonight. and the barrier is nearly a mile long, eva? reporter: that s right, david. they will be working through the night to make sure this is ready. it s been raining here all month. the ground is already saturated so some real concern where the rain is going to go. david? we are thinking about the people in new orleans tonight and across the gulf. let s get to rob marciano with a track of this thing. rob? hey, not a hurricane but it is a large storm. look how far north and east the rain extends. 200 miles out from the tropical storm force winds. it s 200 miles from the coast and it s not moving. we do forecast it to move. tropical storm warnings through galveston. the forecast track doesn t take it much. across the texas border early thursday morning. but again, the biggest impacts can be well east of that line.