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Arkansas, are looking out their front windows this morning at a major oil spill. and by major, i mean thousands ofallo several homeowners knee-deep in slick mess after a major pipeline ruptured. 26 homes had to be evacuated. a major oil company saying we regret that this incident has occurred and apologize for any disruption and inconvenience it has caused. speaking of the cause, the cause of the spill is unknown at this point and its under investigation by federal, state and local authorities o...

Certainly in the immediate areas surrounding these nuclear plants. there have been radiation releases. if the situation gets worse, its possible that that radiation release could spread to other parts of japan. it does not appear it poses a threat to hawaii, our territories or the united states. >> obviously hes got advisers telling him theres a concern it could spread throughout japan. whats your level of concern on that? >> its growing. the radiation levels are being detected 60, 70 kilometer ...

>> with the after shocks that are taking place near that site. 6.one and others and higher. >> thats a big earthquake. >> what will that do to the effort to contain this thing in >> it will make it harder. if you are standing there and you are a worker and you are pumping sea water and everything starts to shake. you naturally retreat and not just intutitty and insinctiively. logisticallyy you cant keep power going to the putches and you cant cipe the nozzle aimed and you are not where there is ...

Festival last weekend. german chancellor angela merkel joining with the thousands of mourners at the service. the head of the epa has got really a firsthand look at the oil spill in the kalamazoo river and she says shes confident the oil wont seep in to lake michigan. thousands of barrels have leaked from a burst pipeline and oozed into the river. you see some video right there between the towns of battle creek and marshall. the spill covers about 25 miles. an environmental protection agency c...

Bed now what. are they going to do now? >> the president and staff are exhausted by this, its been a cliff-hanger for the better part of the week. the president cancelled a trip to indonesia to stay in washington. as express bid many advisors the president did not stay in town to watch a defeat and clearly today, he did not. couple things i want to tell but what happened after that scott brown defeat, and what resurrected, if you will, if that is the proper metaphor, health care reform. very to ...

The site.han 2700 people died at we would come to know as "ground zero." vice president joe biden took part today and turned -- he turned to poetry to pu the day in perspective. >> we come not to mourn, but to remember and rebuild. in the words of henry wadsworth long fellow, the poem "the builders." all are architects of fate, working in these walls of time, some with massive deeds and great, some with ornaments of rhyme. nothing useless is or low, each thing in its place is best. and what seem...

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