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JAEC.HONG—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens to a home care worker during a roundtable discussion home care on Thursday in Los Angeles. ByBradleyKlapperand Ken Dilanian The Associated Press WASHINGTON Neither of the two emails sent to Hill- ary Clinton now labeled by intelligence agencies as "top secret," contained informa- tion that would jump out to experts as particularly sen- sitive, according to several government officials. One included a discussion of a U.S. drone strike, part of a covert program that is widely known and dis- cussed. A second conversa- tion could have improperly referred to highly classified material, but it also could have reflected information collected independently, U.S. officials who have re- viewed the correspondence told The Associated Press. Still, it's looking increas- ingly likely the issue of whether Clinton mishan- dled classified information on her home-brew email server will have significant political implications in the 2016 presidential campaign. Clinton, who has been seen from the outset as the front-runner for the Dem- ocratic nomination, agreed this week to turn over to the FBI the private server she used as secretary of state. And Republicans in Con- gress have seized on the in- volvement of federal law en- forcement in the matter as a sign she was negligent in handling the nation's secrets. On Monday, the inspector general for the 17 spy agen- cies that make up what is known as the intelligence community told Congress that two of 40 emails, in a random sample of 30,000 messages that Clinton gave the State Department for re- view, contained information deemed "Top Secret," one of the government's highest levels of classification. While neither of the emails was marked classi- fied at the time they were sent, they have since been slapped with a "TK" mark- ing, for "Talent Keyhole," suggesting material ob- tained by spy satellites. And they also were marked "NO- FORN," meaning informa- tion that can only be shared with Americans with secu- rity clearances. The two emails got those markings after consulta- tions with the CIA and other agencies where the material originated, offi- cials said. Some officials said they believed the des- ignations were a stretch — a knee-jerk move in a bureau- cracy rife with over-classi- fication. The officials who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity work in intelli- gence and other agencies. Top secret Hillary Clinton emails include drone talk CORRESPONDENCE By Cain Burdeau The Associated Press DELACROIX,LA. Rocky Mo- rales is watching his small Louisiana town of Dela- croix slowly melt into the water. The woods where he played hide-and-seek as a boy are gone. It's all water and mud back there now. So, too, is the nearby marsh where townsfolk once trapped for muskrat, otter and mink. Many of the fishermen who once lived here — his friends and relatives — have disappeared as well, fleeing behind the intri- cate levee system protect- ing New Orleans out of fear that one more hurri- cane will be all it takes to send the rest of Delacroix into the sea. Ten years after Hurri- cane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast — killing more than 1,830 people and caus- ing more than $150 billion in damage in the nation's costliest disaster — New Orleans has been fortified by a new $14.5 billion flood protection system. But out- side the iconic city, efforts have lagged to protect small towns and villages losing land every year to erosion. And as that land buffer dis- appears, New Orleans itself becomes more vulnerable. In the past century, more than 1,880 square miles of Louisiana land has turned into open water — an area nearly the size of Delaware. And the loss continues un- abated, with an estimated 17 square miles disappear- ing on average each year, according to the U.S. Geo- logical Survey. Cemeteries are disap- pearing into the Gulf. En- tire barrier island chains, Andrew Jackson-era brick forts, Jean Lafitte's pi- rate colony, lighthouses, bridges, roads, schools and entire towns have been washed away. "We're losing the cul- tural fabric of south Louisi- ana," said Jessica Schexnay- der, a researcher with the Louisiana State University Sea Grant program. "It's not just whether the land will disappear, it's about when it's going to be gone." Hurricanes speed up that disappearance and Morales, one of the few re- maining fisherman to still call Delacroix home, knows that another Katrina could be the end of his town. "It will run us all in- side the protection levees," the 51-year-old crabber and shrimpersaidfromhisperch on his 16-foot-high front porch crawling with marsh bugs and ants. Pairs of white rubber shrimp boots were hungtodryatthefrontdoor. Neighboringhomesstand either on massive stilts that lift them two stories above ground or sit on wheels that would let them flee in the face of a new storm. Mud flats and open wa- ter extend into the horizon. "All that was solid land. There weren't all these lakes," Morales said. "Ka- trina tore it all up." Loss has been a dom- inant theme for the past 50 years, since Hurricane Betsy clobbered New Or- leans on Sept. 9, 1965, flooding many of the same places Katrina did 40 years later. Over this period, sci- entists say a series of fac- tors — most of them man- made — have caused the rapid loss of wetlands. There's sea-level rise (es- timates of 3 feet or more in the next 100 years), the nat- ural sinking of the delta, ongoing damage from oil drilling (more than 10,000 miles of oil canals criss- cross the coast in high- way-straight lines), and re- peated hurricane damage (six hurricanes, including Katrina, have ravaged Lou- isiana's coast in the past decade). Add to that: clear-cut logging that wiped out the state's abundant swamp forests at the end of the 1800s, oyster dredging that ruined a delta-wide reef world, the spaghetti-like network of gas pipelines and wetlands loss due to urban development. "The best hope for these communities, and this in- cludes New Orleans, is get- ting behind a very aggres- sive delta restoration pro- gram," said Jim Tripp, a senior counsel for the En- vironmental Defense Fund. He sits on panels exploring multibillion-dollar plans to restore Louisiana's coast. Since the early 1990s, the government has spent bil- lions on coastal works to slow land loss, but the Gulf inexorably advances. Katrina itself caused about 190 square miles of land erosion in the space of a couple of days, the loss of an area bigger than New Orleans itself. Since then, Louisiana has sought to ramp up ef- forts to save the coast by establishing new agen- cies focused on coastal restoration. The state also launched pilot proj- ects to reclaim open water by pumping in mud. Un- der Gov. Bobby Jindal, the state developed a 50-year, $50 billion master plan to reverse land loss. Despite some successes, land loss continues, and now Louisiana's fragile coast feels like it's at a dan- gerous tipping point. In community after com- munity along the 150-mile- wide delta, the same story is told: People are leaving be- hind generations-old home- steads and moving behind the levees, many of them fortified since Katrina. "You could see it chang- ing slowly before Katrina, but nothing like this," said Henry Martin, a 71-year- old dock and boat owner in Hopedale, a fishing town near Delacroix in St. Bernard Parish. "This is dead for sure," he said of his bayou town, which has been largely abandoned by its residents. RISING SEAS Gu lf c he ws a t co as t ou ts id e levee-protected New Orleans GERALD HERBERT — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raymond Reyes, a lifelong resident of Grand Bayou, La., pilots his boat in this shrinking fishing community on Tuesday. Youcanfileaclaimnowif: • You purchased gas at Oregon ARCO or ARCOampm locations between January 1, 2011 and August 30, 2013 and paid a 35-cent debit card transaction fee, • You did not receive a letter about the lawsuit, • You did not already file a claim, and • You did not opt-out. If you already received a letter about this case, do not file a claim because you will receive an automatic payment. HowcanI file a claim? 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