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>> if it was held in iowa. >> jonathan alter, new book is "the promise." >> thanks. it is be on store shelves may 19th. >> that's "countdown" for this, the 2,559th day since the previous president declared mission accomplished in iraq. i'm keith olbermann. good night and good luck. now joining you from venice, louisiana, here is rachel maddow. with the latest on the impact of the oil spill there. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, keith, thank you very much for that. appreciate it. and thanks to you at home for staying with us. we are in venice, louisiana, tonight, a place known as the end of the world affectionately so. it's at the mouth of the mississippi river, just about the closest place in the continental united states to the oil spill currently gushing from the deep horizon well, a mile below the surface of the gulf of mexico, just about nine miles off the coast here. a 2,000 square mile oil slick threatening to devastate these ecologically fragile coastal wetlands.