As long as I've been here this is the toughest thing that's ever happened to this city and I want to urge everybody out there to give whatever you can - as little as you can or as much as you can - to give something because there's a lot of people really hurting right now.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

"Most of the fish,shrimp, blue crab they are spawning out in the Gulf right now, and any of those really small larvae fish and crab, is probably going to be killed if they encounter the actual oil spill."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13