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Least three or four times what you would see here. reporter: you used to land next to islands. way out in the bay. those islands are gone. reporter: you couldn t land next to it today if you tried? it s open water. open water. reporter: just look as how the louisiana coastline has changed. nasa recorded these satellite images and from the mid 1980s to now you can see a subtle but steady change capturing how a significant amount of coastline is disappearing. charlie says the gulf of mexico water keeps swallowing up land. like a cancer. it just keeps moving. i watch it every year. it keeps moving farther and farther and farther every year. eventually everyone is going to have to retreat? yeah. reporter: along desolate roads of the louisiana bayou, one of the first signs things aren t right when you come across oak trees like these withering away. these trees depend on fresh ....
The commander told us he had lost 30 of his fighters in a recent battle when isis came down from the mountain. translator: the enemy attacked us with a large number of fighters, using heavy weapons. they took control of three villages and after that, the clashes lasted for hours until we were in control again. reporter: he is a battalion commander, but this is the size of his battalion. a handful of poorly equipped men. the nearest friend lly forces a miles away. the cost of pushing isis out has been enormous. streets here are draped of the flags of fighters killed in battle, along desolate roads, through abandoned villages, we saw scene upon scene of devastation. the wreckage of months of fierce fighting and relentless coalition air strikes. dozens of villages like this one that were liberated from isis months ago are now still completely deserted. ....