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Confirmed dead. they found the bodies just moments ago, something that volunteers are very upset about. they have been coming out by the numbers to the command center in langely. they have been going out every hour looking for bodies. i want to show you video of the devastation weve been seeing from the campground. its jarring. the camp is littered with debris. not trash, but big cement slabs that have been pushed up against the trees. we found 18-wheelers wrapped around trees, tents that people...

Be unusual for that number of people to be in that area. so all they are doing is looking for survivors. theyre also looking for victims, and, a you know, yesterday they were able to find some 30 people. this morning we are just down the road from the command center, and we have seen since daylight traffic picking up significantly here. weve seen a canine unit come by. also weve seen a number of local officials and locals going by with all-terrain vehicles trying to get to this area to help sear...

Get serious very quickly. >> ed, shes got scott browns consultant now. shes going to have a pickup truck full of crazy positions now. everything should be better. >> all right. lets talk about rudy giuliani. hes ripping on the president. hes talking about jumping into the race in 2012. he was talking about his response to the gulf disaster. he says "its been a terrible display of somebodys lack of executive experience, never having been in charge and not appearing to have the instincts for it." ...

This, the companies were talking about here, bp, halliburton, names that everyone is familiar with, during the bush administration and right up through 2009 until obama got his team in place they were still doing business with mms. >> lets hear what the president said about this agency. >> for too long for a decade or more, theres been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill. seems as if permits were too often issued based on no more than a...

Whats the latest on stopping that leak? >> lets first start with the weather. i dont know if you can see over my shoulder or perhaps hear it, heavy, heavy rain here throughout much of the day. the command center that is trying to clean up the gulf says they hope some of this rain is going to make a difference in dispersing the oil, but right now, theres no indication of that. now, lets talk specifically about the efforts that are underway. weve just learned from the interior secretary, ken salaz...

>> from afar it does seem as if is. it isnt clear how much the government and bp are working together. they say everything is -- the government will say, we have people at the bp command center and were telling them how to do this thing. are you convinced everything is being done? >> in my opinion, when you think that m.i.t. is coming in, but theyre talking about shooting golf balls into the leak to stop it, its more like the pga. when you think about what kind of protections are going to be bui...

Hose into a pipe. david lee miller, im told that -- we could know by this evening if this plan could work. >> reporter: thats possible. in fact, theres a news conference scheduled later this hour from the unified command center. the authorities are essentially trying that idea of putting a tube in the pipe and then siphoning to the surface like a straw. if that doesnt work, back to the containment dome idea. two different ideas but theyre only going to mitigate the amount of oil spilled. its not...

Government and bp are working together. they say everything is -- the government will say, we have people at the bp command center and were telling them how to do this thing. are you convinced everything is being done? >> in my opinion, when you think that m.i.t. is coming in, but theyre talking about shooting golf balls into the leak to stop it, its more like the pga. when you think about what kind of protections are going to be built in for the coastline and theyre talking about nylons and hai...

The key suspect in this case. so, certainly those congratulations are not unexpected. >> it looks like they got a pretty nice command center over there with the screens showing traffic and stuff coming in to police -- 1 police plaza over there. thanks, susan. thanks to the entire team. well stay on top of this story. jack cafferty is coming up with "the cafferty file." then, an army battle unlike most others. this time the enemy is oil. also, the biggest offensive of the afghan war, about ...

Today. senator lindsay graham wasnt there. he pulled his support in a dispute over immigration reform. the bill includes an expansion of offshore drilling but it allows states to veto offshore drilling if they can prove their state would be hurt by an accident like that massive spill in the gulf. now we want to get you to the very latest developments on that oil disaster happening in the gulf coast. a second smaller dome called the top hat fix has been placed on the sea floor. crews are now movi...