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The rust has penetrated and eaten clean through that pinch weld which means a decent section of the body needs to be cut out and rewelded with a hand formed panel. It's hard to tell exactly how far up into the body it may have eaten and i highly doubt that's the only rust intrusion spot.
may need a body shop estimate but that can range from slap some sheet steel on it and spray paint it for $250 to a rather significant amount of panel forming that could run $1500+ in labor quite quickly. Wont' really know unless a professional sticks a camera up in it, but I will tell you rust is an ugly cancer that, if you see it in one place, it exists in 10 others...