him for corporate support sopon travel he took to the caribbean. he can t claim ignorance because he wrote the law. he s still on that committee but he was the chairman of it and that was the great irony of it. brianna keilar, thank you so much. the latest twist and turns in the shirley sherrod case. searching for cheryl cook. who is she and where is she? ed henry at cnn. will shirl cook be made available for any questions? there is an allegation that she said the white house wanted shirley to resign. will she be made available to answer questions? why not? i addressed that yesterday. nobody s really saying what happened.
livelihoods? i think these guys are looking at it one day at a time. they re very happy to work on these vessels of opportunity. at least the ones we talk to. they are short term happy about that. most of them at least for now are trying not to think about the long term. they just want to pay the bills day by day, get this mess cleaned up, then worry about the long-term effects later on. all right, rob marciano for us. rob has a special report, rescue saving the gulf. he s on the front lines of what can be the largest clean-up effort. saturday and sunday night 8:00 eastern on cnn. big oil is launching a big billion dollar plan just in case there is another spill in the gulf. we re talking about that with the president of shell oil company next. 38 minutes after the hour.
her entire life. you probably heard her story. have you probably seen the video clips. key word here. if you watched the former usda official address members of the naacp this way, you probably would think she was a racist. i was struggling with the fact so many black people lost their livelihoods here i was faced with that with the white person. i m going to give him the full force of what i can do. okay. it sounds offensive. right? well, here s the problem. that s what happens when you manipulate the message. tinker with the zpruth twist it. how about we tell you what shirley sherrod really meant. it is funny because this part of the speech never made the conservative blog the first time around. 25 years ago, i couldn t
a storm headed their way. when i guess what i m wondering is how bad does it have to get before they decide to call it off? can it just be a little bit of rough weather that will just suspend the skimming operations for the day? it doesn t take much. matter of fact, we were out there probably an hour or two longer than they needed to be as far as being effective. you get three or four-foot seas and it gets tough for skimming operations, especially with the smaller vessels and the smaller slicks. so it doesn t take a whole lot. as for that tropical system you are speaking of, we ll just have to wait and see today and whether or not it develops a little bit further. if it does, it is pointed towards south florida and potentially into the gulf of mexico later on this weekend and next week. we ll know more about that. all of my colleagues in the cnn weather center will tell you more about that as well. want to tell you about something that s happening this weekend. i d been having quit
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