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behavior during another disaster, including e-mails that the company would rather you didnt see. also tonight, a decision coming soon in a crucial court battle over same-sex marriage n a cnn exclusive, you will meet the unlikely duo fighting to give that right to millions of people. but we are going to start with bps costly day and it was costly on two fronts. the oil county tried to calm an angry president and nation by agreeing to put $20 billion in an escrow county. the companys...

welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. i guess you could say enough is enough. thats what california congressman john garamendi is saying. hes calling for a complete ban off offshore drilling on the west coast. garamendi is stepping up and showing some leadership, and i sure wish the rest of the congress would to the same thing including the white house show some intestinal fortitude on this. the garamendi bill has support of many members in the house as far as the...

even in markets, is perhaps insufficiently rapid enough to engage with the scale and the speed with which change has to occur, and then you were hinting at and i hope the panel discusses later, you talked about the south koreans and other governments, i think many people are looking at the way that our democracy from its distributed, pre-@@@ @ @ @ @ @ b >> april fools. >> and the only hope, the secretary of energy and the president bring you out from california where you were one of th...

we need to start thinking about having an industrial and energy policy that is more systemic. where policy makers are willing to take car looks at the overall system and say, these are some problems that we want solved. >> i really hear you talking about our decision making apparatus in government is rapid enough to indicate to the skill and speed with which change has to occur. you are hinting at, you talked about the south koreans and other governments. many people are looking at the...

the closer we get to port-au-prince, the more signs of the quake. women and babies, sleeping outdoors. the first thing you notice driving into haiti is how few cars are coming out of that country. theres no line of refugees at the border gate. no one clamoring to get out. thats probably because so many are trapped in the capital city with little means to escape by road. we talk our way through several border checkpoints. and then, just up the road, notice a crowd gathered around a truc...

here in this earthquake-ravaged country, bare hands are being used to rescue those that are still trapped under the rubble, as the scope of the disaster is still difficult to grasp. overnight, the american aid effort began. and countries as far away as china sent search and rescue teams to help. as tens of thousands are feared dead. and im george stephanopoulos in new york. here at home, america rushes to help. rescue workers, doctors, soldiers and sailors, scramble to reach the 3 mi...

shared responsibility, standing up for what is right. these are the values that led us to fight and win two world wars, that were on display in the dark days after the september 11 attacks. we must embrace them again now. so how do we secure our homeland and stay true to our values? we do it with four levels of collective response. it starts with the american people, from there it extends to local law enforcement and from there, up to the federal government and then finally out beyond ...