206 million gallons of oil poured into the ocean, doing untold damage to wildlife, the fishing industry and everyone who depends on the gulf. tonight, a year later, bp is painting a rosy picture of progress and promise keeping. one year later it reads our commitment continues. more on that in a moment. the copy goes on to say that all beaches 99% of waters are open. but there s something bp doesn t mention. open doesn t necessarily mean oil free. listen to louisiana s governor bobby jindal today. we continue to call on bp and the coast guard to continue to clean up our shoreline. there are still over 300 miles with some amount of oil. 40% of the louisiana coastline continue to be oiled today. and so do the marshes. this is what anderson found last year on one of louisiana s barrier islands. this days a lot of it remains as david mattingly discovered on a recent trip to the gulf. reporter: returning 10 months later, the louisiana governor s office gave me a disturbing lo
i have to believe in my heart that people will do think that, now that something exists, now that the heavy lifting has been done. i kind of guess that eye you know, not to live in a fantasy world, even though i make movies. i have to believe that, ok, it s there, we do want it. we have to have it. i guess i have to believe that. short of anything else, i kind of would be just a little baffled, right? we re following several other stories tonight. a 360 news and business bull 10. good evening. military prosecutors have recommended the death penalty for the accused mastermind of the deadly bombing of the uss cole in october of 2000. 17 sailors were killed and more than 40 others injured. the suspects will be tried for a military commission at guantanamo bay, cuba. the faa has fired two air traffic controllers for sleeping on the job. one worked in miami, the other in knoxville, tennessee. meanwhile, the faa and ntsb are investigating monday s aborted landing of the
in a deadly mishap blamed on bp. rig operator transocean and drilling contractor halliburton. 206 million gallons of oil poured into the ocean, doing untold damage to wildlife, the fishing industry and everyone who depends on the gulf. tonight, a year later, bp is painting a rosy picture of progress and promise keeping. one year later it reads our commitment continues. we ll have more on that in a moment. the copy goes on to say that all beaches and 99% of waters are open. and while that s technically true, there s something bp doesn t mention. open doesn t necessarily mean oil free. listen to louisiana s governor bobby jindal today. we continue to call on bp and the coast guard to continue to clean up our shoreline. there are still over 300 miles that have some amount of oil. 40% of the louisiana coastline that had been oiled during this spill continued to be oiled today. and so do the marshes. this is what anderson found last year on one of louisiana s barrier islands.
february, we have never seen this type of spike. it s about 10 to 15 fold increase, which is significant. noah s bob hadad is collecting evidence and building a legal case against bp. he s looking for a settlement big enough to rebuild the gulf. this is not a spill about turtles or about shore lines or about fish. this is a spill about an ecosystem. one year later, man and machine work to clean some marshs still covered in oil. everything out there is getting some of that sheen. you can t see it. still? sure, still, and it s been happening for a year. you can t see any of it. all of those birds, even if all they have is a smudge on their breast, they re constantly preening and trying to clean that off. they re ingesting the oil. last year, over 2,000 birds were rescued from oil with over 1200 moved away from the spill to texas and florida. david muth of the national wildlife federation can only hope they survived. no one has done any real
counties. authorities evacuated several small towns. rain may fall today, but a firefighter says it s not even going to make a dent. just burning from tree to tree. it s so dry, once one tree goeses then the next one can do and it doesn t even need wind. severe warnings are posted across the south and midwest right now. witnesses say two funnel clouds touched down in pike county, missouri, leaving homes and barns in splinters. a storm blew a tractor-trailer off the road in arkansas. in memphis, thousands now have lost power. today marks one year since the deep water wore riseo oil rig exploded killing 11 workers. oil flowed freely into the gulf of mexico for almost three months. a year later, not all of the oil is cleaned up and some businesses are still waiting on bp to pay up. we re still having a problem. thad allen is gone. who is in charge. japan is working on a legal way to both force and keep people out of the 12-mile wide nuclear evacuation zone. residents a