an uncertain future. we ve been on a steady decline since the spill and we re looking about a 40% decrease from the previous year. what happens ten years from now, what happens 10, 0 years from now? across the mississippi, on the east side of louisiana s famed oyster grounds, it is a much bleaker story. this is point alahach. oystermen here aren t the bigger, they are the smaller. we work day per day. i didn t own a boat. somebody gave me a skiff to go out there and survive and make a living. and five years later you still have no oysters. no oysters and we can t repair our boats. we can t afford to do that. the oysters in the public grounds of plaquemine s perish is not back. bp tried to keep out by
the announcement came about 90 minutes ago, defeating ahmed shafiq. christian amanpour is the global affairs anchor, also with her is correspondent ben wedeman. let s go back to the moment this was announced by effectively the elections commission in cairo. tell me, ben, wareaction imdiate and joyous? reporter: it was incredible. we really heard a rouge roar coming uprom the crowd. the only time i ve heard a louder roar was 6:00 p.m. last year when hosni mubarak s resignation was announced. what we saw it s a very hot, bright day in cairo. i d say tahrir square was about a third full. within about 20 minutes, it just filled up and people continue to fill up in the square coming from all the parts of cairo. as the temperatures become to become a little more mild, i think we re going to hear more fireworks, more car sirens and see more and more people coming out here because this is truly a historic day for egypt where egyptians finally see those who were on the other side
this is the reason that everything is flooding. it dries out for five minutes and in one big downpour you can get an inch of rain. there is no way for the pumping stations in and along plaquemine s perish, no way to handle this rain at this volume for this period. they are doing their best but there was no way to predict this is how it would go down. now to the other side of slidell where they are dealing with on-and-off rains. reporter: it just hit us. i am not that far from you and i have covered hurricanes for a long-term and it came on us fast. look at the folks down here, wading through, and this is characterric characteristic of what happened here.