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Just unbelievable. >> billy, we cant send traffic after dodger games. come on. i know we fancy ourselves as the best and brightest this planet has to offer. true. that doesnt mean we can harness the cosmic. stuff like this happens. we better get our head around the fact that if we think were going to manipulate the temperature of this planet, like gore says were not. were living the dream. we cant even shut this well off. tomorrow is day 80. 80. im talking about around the planet in 80 days. and...

The threat of the terrorism is still imminent. >> reporter: let me ask you in the final minute we have left two quick questions. is the u.s. deadline of beginning to pull out troops in july of next year helpful to afghanistan? >> no. frankly not. for two reasons. first, if you over emphasize a dead line that is not realistic, you are making the enemy a lot more bold. you are prolonging the war. if that deadline should be realistic and based on the reality on the ground and we should give a clear...

Nato and afghans are there to finish the job. if thats not the feeling, we lose the support of the afghan people and make the neighboring countries who have an interest bolder to interfere in afghanistan. >> if i could, talks with the taliban? karzai, like i said, he wants to try and bring them into the fold. a quick status report. >> we built a strong national consensus on the issue. i think our regional countries are becoming a lot more cooperative. we look forward to implementing this. we can...

The world to be there. we have made a lot of progress. the threat of terrorism is still imminent. >> let me ask you two quick questions. is the u.s. deadline of beginning to pull out troops in july of next year helpful to afghanistan? >> no. frankly not. for two reasons. first, if you overemphasize a deadline that is not realistic, you are making the enemy more bold. you are prolonging the war. if that deadline should be realistic, the deadline should be based on the reality on the ground and gi...

Going on there, one of the biggest things is his relationship with president karzai. >> its key. its one of the things right now, petraeus and his remarks talked about the need for unity from all sides. what we are hearing in washington increasingly is so many people complaining about president karzai saying he is not up to the job, that he is -- he has a corrupt administration, and he cannot deliver electricity, and people dont like him. this is the person that the u.s. is relying on to get his...

♪ [ male announcer ] all we ask is that you keep doing what youve always done. ♪ the lexus rx. never has a vehicle been designed to feel so natural. ♪ see your lexus dealer. a change of okay mapped the under way in afghanistan, now that general david petraeus is on the ground as the wars new military leader. what if a political solution could be hammered out with the taliban? our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr has been looking into that. what do we know? >> even president obama sa...

Things but also tourism along the gulf right now. and the bread and butter really for the tourism season down there are these big holiday weekends. yes, people go down and vis at this time whole season but they hope to make a lot of money during the holiday weekends. reynolds wolf is there for us. bonnie nider is live with us as well keeping an eye on the weather. reynolds, i want to start with you though in talking to folks down there. i mean, what are their hopes for this weekend now? are they...

Been three fold. youved that a very poor economy, youve got high unemployment, but then you bring in the oil spill. so those three together have been the detrimental issue for people her and the tourism here. souvenir shops, gas stations, the restaurants will r. being effected, not to mention the deep sea fishing, charter boats, theyre all having problems. one of the biggest issues you have right along the shoreline. that oil that continues to come up in parts not only louisiana and mississippi ...

Week, thomas, on consumer confidence. it was way down. from month to month it fell from 61 to 51 which is a 17%, 18% decline in just one month. no one feels very confident, let alone business owners who are holding back. they dont want to add payrolls if -- if they believe that the economy is just going to be in a stall for a while. >> were seeing red arrows across the board. tyler matheson from cnbc. thanks. >> thank you, tom. i want to talk to money manager jim lakant with macro portfolio we...

The "a-whale" arrived in the gulf yesterday. its billed as the worlds largest oil skimmer out of washington. the u.s. department of labor releases its latest report on unemployment. and 472,000 americans applied for unemployment insurance for the first time last week. thats up 13,000 from the previous week. the numbers could reflect census jobs that have ended and those out of work due to the bp oil leak in the gulf. the nba has its free agency negotiating period. which actually got started at...