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Brace yourself, it happened so quickly. >> what was going through your mind? you werent slowing down as you approached the dock? >> its my very first ferry ride. i didnt know what to expect. disintegrate know if we were going too fast. he said brace yourself. i looked out the window and saw we were right at the dock. the alarm over the intercom happened seconds before impact. >> the ferry is the same boat that was involved in an accident that killed 11 people back in 2003. another developing s...

Jim hutchinson of the louisiana department of culture, recreation and tourism. lee sentel and will secum of visit florida. thank you so much. jim, let me begin with you in louisiana. you clearly being hit first. we know a number of captains canceled boat excursions for tourists for fishing expeditions. in what other way can louisiana try to brace itself for being hit hard by this oil slick? >> well, fredericka, the primary business that would be affected by the oil slick obviously is the sport f...

Main floor and saw the people injured that we realized something serious happened. it was people were hurt and there was major damage done. >> reporter: coincidentally, jason, this happened -- there was another accident involving this same ferry in 2003. far different results, 11 people were killed. does that give you pause? >> totally. we were actually on the front of the boat taking pictures of the statue of liberty on the way over. it started to rain and was cold so we decided to go back insi...

There, again, as a sign of protest. we are expecting many more hundreds of people here this day, lots of speeches, a concert and more speeches after that, a full day of events, fredericka, back to you. >> susan, thanks so much. even a police officer is suing to keep from enforcing the new immigration law in arizona. does he have a case? well find out from our legal guys.

Which has never been more important than the past years. >> what is it now, six to eight months? >> you can take a look at stocks. we think its a difficult time. >> do you sometimes call ken "kenny?" >> no. he hates that. >> fredericka, you can call me anything. >> hes not fond of kenny. >> you can call me anything, fred. >> ill stick with ken. i want to continue to be your friend. all right, ken and daria dolan, thank you so much. >> see you soon. >> you can get the dolans to answer your questi...

President says reform needs to take place to help save our homes? in what way specifically? >> that is a very good question, fredericka, although well talk about our reaction to the reform proposed. there are four things we like. we like all of them. should i do the first two? >> go right ahead. >> number one is to be able to wind down too big to fail firms without the whole world collapsing as they practically did in 2008. number two, transparency for the financial markets such as trading these...

System we are talking about. on the back side while youre done with the showers and thunder showers, winds are going to be really, really strong. wind advisories have been issued here from parts of south dakota all the way into texas where the winds could be gusting at times. pushing 50 miles per hour. look at this into the dallas-ft. worth area. we are looking at 22, 23 miles per hour sustained. we do have some delays at the airport. about 30 minutes to arrive there because of it. tomorrow, our...

With automatic crash response from onstar that can call for help, even when you cant. we call it peace of mind. a consumers digest best buy two years in a row, chevy malibu. all weekend long and today, as a matter of fact, weve been talking about the immediacy of health care. 27 days. thats how much time you have left to file your income taxes. if youre looking for ways to get more money back, weve got some tips. at least our ken and daria dolan do. they are back with us now. good to see all f...

That is the man, robert bob, who will be making this big announcement today at 11:15 eastern time in detroit about how theyre going to turn the school system around. >> i know you spent a lot of time in detroit. give us a sense of what parents and students might be feeling about now. >> we spent a lot of time and thats us in detroit last year with fredericka turner and her daughter and fredericka is one of those parents and this is her old high school, its broken down and the windows are blown o...

Casualties at all costs. one thing, fredericka, everyone is keeping an eye on what are the taliban going to do. you were saying nato saying they are disoriented. will they mount a counterattack right now? what we are hearing from nato is there are pockets of resistance, but it seems more like this noncoordinated hit-and-run tactics rather than something that would be a larger coordinated attack. >> thank you so much, coming to us from kabul. the southeast slowed by snow, digging out from yet a...