good evening. once again tonight, all eyes are on the gulf of mexico where we are days away from marking the fifth anniversary of katrina, where they have 90 days worth of crude oil in that water. today, the massive bp fund, $20 billion designed to make it right, as they say in their commercials, starts to get handed out. there is one man in charge of it a new england lawyer named kenneth feinberg. can you imagine having that job? he s the authority who will get to decide who gets what and when. the gulf region is full of people who suffered real hurt as a result of all that oil in the water. we begin again tonight with our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson in venice, louisiana. ann, good evening. reporter: good evening, brian. you know, venice once called itself very proudly the fishing capital of the world. to reclaim that title, the fishermen and business people here need financial help. so you will understand why the people in venice and, indeed,
today, the massive bp fund, $20 billion designed to make it right, as they say in their commercials, starts to get handed out. there is one man in charge of it a new england lawyer named kenneth feinberg. can you imagine having that job? he s the authority who will get to decide who gets what and when. the gulf region is full of people who suffered real hurt as a result of all that oil in the water. we begin again tonight with our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson in venice, louisiana. ann, good evening. reporter: good evening, brian. you know, venice once called itself very proudly the fishing capital of the world. to reclaim that title, the fishermen and business people here need financial help. so you will understand why the people in venice and, indeed, across the gulf coast are looking at the man who will decide how much they will get for all that they have lost. ken feinberg is the $20 billion man. here s another reason you ve got to fill out