tonight, the oil platform that was on fire off the coast of louisiana is gone. it sank today into the waters of the gulf of mexico. and the first thing a lot of people thought about was all that oil. this can t be good for the environment. all that oil. at the end, it was 206 million gallons of oil that ultimately poured into the gulf, making it the worst spill in u.s. history. and all that economic and environmental damage, of course, is still being felt across the coast. let s get to anne thompson, nbc s chief environmental affairs correspondent, covering the spill from the beginning, spending many months standing right where we find her this morning. anne, good morning to you. how do things look to you? what has changed, and how are people coping? reporter: savannah, i think that what would surprise most people is that one year later, the most immediate problem along the gulf coast is not environmental but economic. and it stems from two things. first of all, the national
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