0 hello again, fredricka whitfield. here are the top stories we re following for you. raging waters, rising fears in colorado. more than 170 people are unaccounted for. the emergency crews are scrambling to reach people stranded by flood waters. and a diplomatic deal to destroy syria s chemical weapons. the u.s. and russia agree on a plan, but what happens if the assad government doesn t follow through? and investigating the inferno that swept across the iconic boardwalk. officials sift through the ashes for clues, and jersey shore businesses face the challenges of rebuilding again. historic flood waters are starting to recede, but the nightmare is far from over. hundreds of people in mountain communities near boulder are stranded, awaiting rescue. days of record breaking rain tore through towns leaving people isolated with no way out. at least four people died as a result of flooding. 172 others are missing. this video gives an idea how challenging the situation is. firefighters
life, fishing, tourism, and even oil drilling. the government stopped issuing permits for rigs until the companies could upgrade their drilling plans. vacationers are crowding gulf coast beaches, but tar balls show up now and then too. fishing could take years to recover, fish, crabs, oysters could take years to recover. most of the gulf is now fishable and it looks like a good year for shrimp. a bad year, a very bad year for the dolphins, turtles, and other sea creatures that are still turning up dead on gulf shores. we have that story from golf port, mississippi. i hate to see this, dead baby dolphins washing up on shore. do the scientists or the wild life organizations know why? can they say definitely this is connected to the oil spill? it may take months. the tests take months. a legal case building up against bp. that slows things down further. but the numbers are startling. 10, 15 times, sometimes 20 times it normal stranding. turtles we ve seen over 220 since this y
been paid out so far. i hope it works out. but i m suspicious. where s the money? are the wrong people getting paid? are enough people getting paid? i ll ask ken feinberg, the man who holds the purse strings. and how bad is the damage? i ll ask our special correspondent, philippe cousteau. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. by all accounts, this was a pretty ordinary day in the gulf, boats going out, fishermen hauling in their catch, oil rigs pumping out crude. on the surface, it almost looks the same. but when you go deeper, absolutely nothing is the same. it all changed on the day a year ago when the deepwater horizon blew up, killing 11 workers, and flooding the gulf with 205 million gallons of oil. even now, a year later, we don t know the full extent of the environmental damage. joining me now is courteney kemp and shelly anderson, widows of two workers killed in the deepwater horizon explosion. and also joining us is earnest cannon, shelly anderson s at
morning. it is wednesday, april the 20th. welcome to both of you. it s a sad anniversary, the anniversary of the explosion of the deepwater horizon oil rig where 11 people lost their lives and we dealt with that for months. a yer on the story still unfolding, still seeing the damage to tourism in the area. we ll check on that all the next three hours. also a lot of questions. can the wildlife recover. yep. and will the waters ever be the same? we re going to be covering that this morning. we have another big story developing right now and that is a one-two punch of extreme weather. a new line of severe storms on the move right now through the south and the midwest. there is a look at the radar. heavy downpours, hail, parts of half a dozen states are under a tornado watch as we speak. we have some amateur video of a funnel cloud touching down in bowling green, missouri, where witnesses say that this system destroyed one home and two barns as it made its way across the
the ocean has been rotating for much of its lifetime so something could be coming out of that. not a lot of population in that area. you have to move inland to get to the population in florida. we ll watch that for you for today. you re also watching the arctic sea ice because of our friend philippe cousteau. i know. this is all about the sea ice and where it s going, where it s coming from, or is it disappearing? here is the animation from september. moving it all ahead, how much ice has grown over the winter, that s important to see what the extent of the ice is and where it s going to be in the summertime when it melts. the problem is, you see it growing here, october and then into november. it s getting bigger and bigger. you can t tell how thick it is. you can t tell if it s an inch thick or a foot thick or eight feet thick. we want eight feet thick. we don t want just one little thin spot of ice that s going to melt rather quickly. thicker is better when it comes to ice.