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House republicans are trying to pass new bills that would allow for off-shore oil drilling while some of their democratic colleagues are saying that would not be safe. they are very concerned about the pulitzer prize situation. joe petroski joins us live to say that he believes this could cost you a lot of money in the months and years ahead, he will tell you why. and this woman who falsely accused three duke lacrosse players of rape could be subjected to life behind bars. well tell you why. thi...

Maybe other people as well. theyve been finding graves with two or three people in them. that may indicate that these people were killed over a period of time, some all at once and others, you know, one by one or two by two, nobody knows right now. they are trying to figure it out. jon: nicholas casey covers the drug what ares and the issues from south of the border. thanks for the information. jenna: new developments in the sir mucsearch for a serial killd more possible victims in long island n...

Applying for unemployment benefits. its the first increase weve seen in three weeks. the labor department reporting that applications for unemployment rose 24,000 to 412,000 for the weekending april 9th. its the highest since mid-february. later in the hour house majority leader eric cantor will be our guest. we will be talking with him about unemployment, the budget, and the battle over tax hikes. thats ahead. jenna: we certain leer going to talcertainly are going totalk t. 8.5 people are colle...

People who create jobs. >> where are the jobs, ernie? if theyre creating jobs, where are the jobs? and everybody -- >> theyre going overseas, because our taxes are the highest in the world. >> we gave you a big tax cut. >> we didnt get a corporate tax cut. >> why in gods names were not creted during the bush administration if tax cuts create jobs. >> even obama says the corporate tax rate has been to be reduced inch thats fine, thats what obama says, but were talking about the personal tax rate,...

6.5 meter above sea level. using recording devices, theyve already learned a lot about the killer tsunami. for instance, there was more than one. the waves acted differently in different places. the highest, 38 meters or 125 feet. the furthest inland, six kilometers, nearly four miles. if you were to follow the path of the tsunami in this area as it roared in from the sea, then this is pretty much where it ran out of steam. came to an end. in the mountains. fritz is still amazed at their power, ...

What we are facing, and to ask us to reach for a big, broad vision is unique in our time. >> but let me take the other side. >> let me finish the point. he brought that to the campaign, hes brought it to the signature moments in his presidency. and i think a lot of us would like to see more of that. >> more of that being the rhetorical flourish -- >> well, the -- >> well, the rhetorical capacity to get the public to support what hes doing. hes playing defense right now. the cuts, you have to ack...

The damage in the nuclear reactor has been treated as a disaster on par with chernobyl. today its been raised to the highest on the scale, which is number seven. prime minister of japan encouraged those to rebuild japan post world war ii. now to egypt where we are getting rorns that former president hosni mubarak is in the hospital. reporting that he had a heart attack while being questioned over possible corruption charges. but when we picked up the phone, they denied that mubarak had been ques...

And now in libya, rebel forces apparently are not ready to give up their fight against moammar gadhafi just yet. their leaders actually rejected a cease-fire proposal yesterday. the plan was turned down because they said it does not call for gadhafi to give up power. the longtime libyan leader had reportedly accepted that same peace plan on sunday. and the ongoing tension in oil-producing countries like libya is one of the factors contributing to those sky-high gas prices these days. the avera...

Today we begin with from bad to worse. a month into the nuclear disaster in japan, officials are now increasing the alert on the severity of the situation there, this as the country continues to deal with even more powerful aftershocks. nbcs dan sheneman reports. >> reporter: japans nuclear safety agency decided to raise the crisis level at the fukushima daiichi plant from 5 to 7. thats the highest on the international scale and equal to the 1986 chernobyl disaster. the news follows reports of a...

The meltdown at chernobyl. officials declaring what many have said for week, the nuclear threat scale at the fukushima plant is a level 7. that rating is the highest in the world since the now infamous 1986 disaster in the former soviet union. nbcs charles hadlock joins me from tokyo with the latest. why are they taking this to the highest assessment now? >> reporter: well, because theyve gotten some more assessments of the radiation leaks that have occurred since march 11th. theyve been able to...