website gasolineis too damn high.com which is sponsored by the conservative and pro oil drilling group let freedom ring. in florida this morning congresswoman gabrielle giffords watched the launch of the space shuttle endeavour. giffords husband mark kel se commander of the 16-day mission. as you can see low clouds obscured all but the first few seconds of the flight but one lucky airline passenger was in the right place at the right time with her iphone. stephanie gordon posted this video to twitter. that s a pretty amazing picture. i actually retweeted that. she picked up a thousand twitter followers after people saw that picture. that is great stuff. you re right. what timing there. you look ow the window. there goes the shuttle endeavour. intread ip work with the iphone there. congresswoman gabrielle giffords is recovering from the gunshot wound to the head. she traveled down there to watch
fills the environment right now for the families. she s doing great. commander kelly begins the mission, the entire crew begins the mission. i understand he left some gifts behind. he did. at the main engine cutoff, which is the major milestone where they ve reached orbit and a lot of the potential for early problems is gone, scott kly, mark s brother, delivered a bouquet of red tulips to gabby and red roses to his daughters claire and claudia along with some notecards. it was sweet. one of the conversations with the congresswoman about her prognosis of returning to congress one day? it s not a conversation that s started in earnest yet because at this point they re focused on the day-to-day. for gabby, she still has the sort of hurdle of the brain surgery that s left to be done which is to replace the portion of her skull that was removed. it is really day by day.
the state making a decision to open the spillway and release water into some communities, burying homes in those communities to protect communities like baton rouge, new orleans, one of the extraordinary measures this state is taking. the stakes are enormous. governor jindal saying $300 million alone in crop damage, tens of millions in other property damage. there are a dozen oil refineries in flood zone. there are chemical factories, homes and businesses as well. listen to governor jindal here explaining the tough decision to open the spillway he says will protect larger communities without a doubt but for the families right in the devastated zone, listen to how many homes could be, could be just buried. look, worst case scenario and i don t think the numbers will be this bad. they said 3 million acres under water. 20 to 30,000 people will be flooded. approximately between 11 or 15,000 homes. since then the estimate has been revised. they didn t have to open as much of the