gallons of crude oil, gushed into the gulf, after the violent oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers. the victim s relatives took a helicopter to the site to mark the first anniversary. my brother is at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. he shouldn t be there. none of them should be there. reporter: pensacola s beach a year ago, was a disaster, covered in globs of black oil, washing in from the gulf. today, the sugar white sand is back. but business owners need the tourists to come back, too. reporter: gulf coast tourism is a $2 billion industry and is still hit hard. the biggest problem now is convincing tourists to eat local seafood. there s no reason why people shouldn t come back. it s perfect. reporter: but cameron holman is afraid to go in the water. you don t know what kind of long-term effect it s going to have. lingering effects on the oil as the environment tries to rebound from an environmental disaster. reporter: joel brown, wjz eyewitness news.
that s early this tuesday morning, april 19, 2011. good tuesday morning. nice to have you with us, i m erica hill. and good morning, i m chris wragge. as many of you get ready to drive to work or school, you know how expensive it is to get in that car these days. these gas prices are outrageous. you don t want to look when you fill up your car. that s where we begin this morning. we want to get you the latest on this situation. gas now $4 a gallon in many areas. it s rising at a cost of nearly a penny a day. the numbers will go up through the summer driving season. that, of course, impacts nearly everything you buy. elaine quijano has everything from where it all begins, though, at a gas station here in new york. good morning, elaine. good morning, erica. $4 a gallon is one of the psychological tipping points where people feel like they need to cut back to pay their fuel expenses and that could slow down the nation s economic recovery. motorists are finding more pain
what he has to say and what his publisher is doing about it. that s early this tuesday morning, april 19, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good tuesday morning. nice to have you with us, i m erica hill. and good morning, i m chris wr wragge. as many of you get ready to drive to work or school, you know how expensive it is to get in the car today the gas prices are outrageous. you don t want to look when you fill up your car. that s where we begin this morning. we want to get you the latest on this situation. gas now $4 a gallon in many areas. it s rising at a cost of nearly a penny a day. the numbers will go up through the summer driving season. that impacts everything you buy. elaine quijano has everything from where it all begins, though, at a gas station here in new york. good morning, elaine. good morning, erica. $4 a gallon is one of the psychological tipping points where people feel like they need to cut back to pay their fuel expenses and that could slow down the
yesterday. all that water is running into the poe to mac river. it is sort of of a very brian colory. in fact, a couple feet above flood stage from little falls to alexandria, to point of rocks. they are flooded out now. that s why you have had these rescues this morning. so there are people tag bike strips up c & o canal. along the toe path it s srpbl run very high. central virginia, surpb montana in the first. and the part part of the day, reporting at near 50. over the last 12 hours, just a few high clouds coming through. it is setting in the west now. a few high clouds with us from time to time. live picture from our city camera. sunrise less than a half hour away. by 9:00, upper 50s near 60. blustery wind as we reach low to mid 70s. pollen count will be up. tom, starting to load up. a few brake lots as again beltway from north. h.a.v. hropd open. not about. travel lanes are open frederick toward rockville. one more stop this go round. pretty picture. 14th street on t
i m craig melvin. joe krebs is off. it is monday, april 18th. a calm weather day after some severe left some pretty nasty defree and a lot of flooding in some areas as we just heard. very familiar with that marble quarry site. i bike through that area a lot. that is certainly prone to flooding. many low-lying areas are flooded out this morning because of all of that run-off. at the time of high tide, at 9:00 this morning they will see more high water as well. about two feet above normal. high tide about 9:00. here what we ve got just a partly cloudy sky. we have temperatures that are a bit chilly. in fact, down to the low to mid-40s in a few locations to near 50 degrees. it s 52 at reagan national. near the bay in the upper 50s. and in the northern neck of virginia. many weather watchers there reporting temperatures there around 50 degrees. a few sprinkles in pennsylvania overnight. those dissipated. just a few clouds coming through over the jefferson memorial, potomac rive