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Wet suit, and ride for 25 miles and take off the biking stuff and run to central park. >> good luck to you, im proud of you and jealous you have the guts and dont know that i do. >> next year, rick, next year, baby. >> go get em. >> bye, you guys. >> there. >> thats the start of the triathlon. >> clayton: thats in the hudson river. >> alisyn: thats impressive. cheryl has my vote, if were voting for the winner. >> dave: were wondering about the condition of the hudson river. wed like a sample for...

Prices to where they come in and the high labor, the cost of hiring workers is way too much and this is caused by government. >> dave: how is that reversed? if in fact, extending unemployment benefits and passing obama care is holding job creation back theoretically shortening benefits and repealing obama care, what mechanisms could be put in place to get the economy moving? >> repeal would offer that certainty, suddenly businesses know its not going to be so expensive to hire workers, if you ta...

12th new york city triathlon. and woo he sent rick reichmuth, know the to participate, too hard for him, but hes there to watch and rick, i said i didnt find the heat yesterday to be as bad as we all were making it out to be. maybe it was in d.c. and other parts of the country, but right here, it didnt seem that bad. >> rick: you are right. very perceptive, dave. you know what ended up happening, we had a little bit of cloud cover that came over, a bit of an early burst of storms and they though...

Above strategy instead of algae, geothermal, solar and wind. those are not all of the aboves. what are all of the aboves are things like this new plan to permit 3700 new wells, hydraulic fracturing wells in utah. can i explain a little bit what this means? martha: show us what you got. >> in old day in order to get access to natural gas formations do we have it here? natural gas formations are formations separated by rock. old days you have to drill here, drill here, drill here. technology chang...

Even if you get health care from your employer, that employers costs have skyrocketed and theyre starting to pass more and more of those to their employees. more people dont get health care from their employers. >> now, republicans are vowing to undercut, some are actually vowing to repeal health reforms if they win control of the house. in the meantime, 20 different states are suing the federal court. in florida, calling health insurance mandates an unconstitutional power grab. basically saying...

Rick leventhal has been in that region all week, he joins us live from new orleans. whats the latest on the storm? things looking pretty good, rick? >> reporter: well, they are right here, jon. we have been told yesterday that this area might be hit with a tropical depression, tropical storm, the winds could reach 40 miles an hour or more and wed be getting dumped on but as you can see on the edge of lake pontchartrain, theres no rain falling and light winds blowing. some areas in the gulf are s...

And this is 2 miles below the surface of the sea, but the guy who is driving that drill bit has done it 40 times before and hit a target every time. theyre confident they can reach it and resume that bottom kill -- bottom kill but the government officials are saying the bottom kill may not even be necessary because the top kill where they pour this cement and mud into the well from above has actually worked they think very well, and the leak may already be sealed permanently. jon: thats good new...

The depth of the entire casing to push it back down. we have been watching the underwater cameras and lost sight of them, because nothing was happening, but now the underwater cameras are very important, because we dont want to see anything floating around in here, and plumes of oil or mud or gas, because that means that something that will have ruptured. something in the -- because, wolf, they are adding more pressure to this. you just cant take mud, force it into some place down at 6900 or eve...

>> but youre saying -- >> caller: the open hole is spewing 120,000 barrels a day. times that by 42, and you get gallons. thats what is coming out. its not a crack in the earth. its a whole in the earth caused by a drill bit operated by bp. not just bp. but government officials. thad allen, the president, why do you think that this has not been addressed and/or dealt with in must be lick by the government? first of all, this is a very technical area. nobody had any idea what this was about. no on...

Do a sweep. just take the top 100 people and ask all of them. you would find an enormously different story when you get below the top 30. >> as far as your interpretation -- >> caller: this was the story of the leak of the broken pipes. a bunch of people are sick about this but they couldnt speak. >> your understanding of whats going on on the ocean floor and your understanding of how that blowout happened it came straight up the pipe and potentially fractured the bottom of the ocean. >> no, it ...