officials calling it an ecological disaster. we re live in hungary with the desperate effort to stop it. but first, new e-mails are shedding light on why the department of agriculture threw shirley sherrod under the bus so quickly. she was working for the department of agriculture in georgia when a portion of a speech she gave was posted on a website. ed, looks like initially the department of agriculture wanted to be careful with how they handled this. now that these documents are out, we re getting more of a look at exactly the time line and what happened. reporter: that s right, kiran. we got these documents late last night. we ve been poring through this overnight. this is our first look inside the look of the department of agriculture in those first desperate hours they learned about the speech and were worried, panicked at first this was going to be some sort of a major scandal. but you re right, there are e-mails we ve obtained. we got these through freedom of in