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hall. mayor grays chief of staff out. thanks for joining us tonight at 10:00. im shawn yancy. >> im brian bolter. the move comes after weeks of scandals including revelations of overpaid staffers. fox 5s wisdom martin here to explain what this means for the city government. >> mayor gray said he requested and accepted the resignation of chief of staff gerri mason hall. he said they discussed the resignation over the last several days and in the end gray says the distractions with the p...

Similar oil leak from offshore wells. and they testified, the oil companies testified before congress and said, this will not happen in u.s. waters. well, the proof is in the pudding. the oil and gas companies do not know how to drill safely in the gulf of mexico waters that are below 5,000 feet. we should stop all drilling operations right now. >> it sounds too big to fail. the politicians say it will always be better next time. eric, can you give us any insight right now as to the threat to th...

Tragic incident. >> listen, eric, keep us posted. i know the next few days are critical, obviously intervening into the flow of the oil slick and capping the well beneath the surface. up next here in "busted," anthem blue cross blaming bad math for its decision to boost rates by as much as 39%. and a wrecking crew demolishing the wrong house. no joke. theyre on the wrong side of the street. they knocked the place down. that was a rough time. my doctor told me i shouldve been doing more for m...

Nothing like this happens again. we need to find out what happened. something went wrong. >> i should also argue we should only go down the road of anything that works, because i-degree with foumtly. if theres enough resource there, as there is the case for natural gas, where you have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of gallons, you can move the truck over as t. boone pickens likes to say, if theres not enough oil available, why do we bother creating the risk? just because its good politics, i...

Eric, do you feel that the president and the white house have appropriately and aggressively responded to this spill as described? >> yeah, i think the president and the cabinet secretaries, you know, the secretaries are down there, were deploying the military. the coast guard has been in close contact with bp. so i think the administration is doing what it can and should right now. we have to remember that bp, who is responsible for planning against these accidents, didnt predict the catastroph...

The 18-wheelers. and thats 8 million trucks is what it is. the 18-wheelers would really help you. if if you go back and look at what the president said at the nomination when he accepted nomination in denver, he said, in ten years we will not be importing any oil from the mideast. here, you know if youre going to say that, youve got to have a plan. and the only plan that will work for us and work quickly is to use our own resource, which is natural gas. so say that we do get the natural gas into...

Rolled out the so-called pickens plan converting the u.s. from oil production comes, is largely consumed from foreign sources or even if we were to do all of this drilling would provide us if maybe were lucky a years worth of oil to natural gas, for which we are equivlent to saudi arabia and then some. ault with us eric peca, president of the group friends of earth which is lobbying against this plan. t. boone, ill begin with you, is this a valid solution to our energy problems, what you saw tod...

drill, baby, drill. drill, drill, drill. >> ♪ drill, baby, drill ♪ drill, baby, drill ♪ >> drill. drill. drill. >> drill, baby, drill. >> well, good afternoon, to you. i am dylan ratigan. a republican chant becomes a democratic plan. the presidents new call to drill, baby, drill, up and down the east coast of america, up in alaska. why now? will it work? and is it an actual solution to our energy crisis or merely a political prop by the democrats pretending to solve another prob...