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The North Carolina judicial district that covers Charlotte is asking Mecklenburg County for more funding to help staff manage a backlog of cases.

briefings and updates as to not only the condition of the man but the circumstances involved. >> reporter: police say the pickup truck driver is 56 years old and has a criminal record dating from the 1990s. but nothing recent. >> reporter: the mans injuries were severe enough to send him to a hospital where hes being treated right now. >> reporter: the officer has been on the force for 25 years. many of them on traffic detail. >> were still in the evidence collection stage. but hell be...

Act and brought the world in on this thing with the dutch and the norwegians who have massive skimmer ships, and they werent aloud to come in because of the jones act. that should have been weighed two days into it. >> people may be saying what is the world is the jones act. it helps regulate u.s. maritime congress and a ship going from one u.s. port to another u.s. port has to be built in the u.s. now they are asking for foreign aid to come in. casey what was your grade? we got an f. what was y...

Emotionally about the environment, and last night the president admitted there was an environmental impact, and i believe the word he used was tragedy. he is looking long term. lets here what the president said regarding that. >> today has we look to the gulf we see an entire way of life being threatened by a menacing cloud of black crude. we cannot assign this tragedy to our children. the tragedy unfolding on our coast is the most painful reminder that the time to embrace a clean energy future ...

Good but no substance. we need to know details on that. >> im sure more details will come forward. casey, thank you. clint, whafls your grade of the president? >> d minus. at least he is he the word shrimper. >> that made you feel good? >> how about american presidents talk about a boat blessing i go to every year. he still has to come a long way. its too much has gone on that he should have been involved with. my first priority has been for the last 30 days is trying to stop bp or whoever is in...

>> i guess the address was a good one on a bigger picture scale, but the problem is theres not enough substance. we love a great energy policy. we want that. we think the president missed an opportunity to say what we as individuals can do. we can reduce our footprints. we can do more -- >> oh, we lost her. casey, stand by. let me move on for now as we work that out. clint, the president spoke of fishermen hes spoken to. hes been down on the gulf four types now. people ho dont know how to pak ma...

Talking about this two months ago, and we need action down here. its pretty much too late now to do anything. >> what can he do, sir? what can we offer up in terms of act to help you not right now but this thing is going to go for a long time here? >> right. i have a friend, captain jerry andrews, and he has a 60-foot fishing boat and he currently has it hired out with bp. hes working 80 miles offshore out of alabama, and he sent an e-mail yesterday and said that you know there was just not enou...

Address, all 18 minutes of it, from last night regarding the gulf oil disaster. we want to hear from people representing specific interests like toufrp, the environment and the fishing industry. baker clark owns a hotel in florida. he is with us from pensacola. casey calloway, an environmen l environmentalist via skype from mobile, alabama, and clint guidry, joining us from beautiful new orleans. good morning to all of you. let me get going to you. baker, i want to begin with you. specifically i...

face-to-face at the white house today. well hear from the president coming up next hour. also this -- >> hes going to get osama and bring him back. >> what a story that is, a neighbor voicing support for a one-man mission to capture osama bin laden. good morning, im brooke baldwin in the cnn newsroom. day 58 of the gulf oil catastrophe, and the president now officially taking on face to face here bp officials and estimates on the amount of oil gushes into the gulf. they keep risi...

So, the oil spill could be much worse than we thought. now were realizing, a pure u due university scientist says about 3 million gallons are leaking a day. bp stands by its earlier estimate of 210,000 gallons a day. whatever the number is, this is an environmental disaster. back with us again this week, casey calloway, the executive director of mobile bay keeper. thank you so much. weve been checking in with you several times since this whole thing began. in your opinion, how are things today? ...