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Exxon valdez in 89. there was enormous reaction we got to epa from richard nixon, you know, we got earth day, we got concern about the environment. weve got nothing out of this, when the president even announced its kind of time to go back to drilling. so, i dont get it. i really dont. >> rich, what about the tenor of the story regarding the cleanup? have there been enough good news stories, we heard from bp and the timing of this is less than coincidental, but the setting up of a brand new bill...

Exxon valdez in 89. there was enormous reaction we got to epa from richard nixon, you know, we got earth day, we got concern about the environment. weve got nothing out of this, when the president even announced its kind of time to go back to drilling. so, i dont get it. i really dont. >> rich, what about the tenor of the story regarding the cleanup? have there been enough good news stories, we heard from bp and the timing of this is less than coincidental, but the setting up of a brand new bill...

World behind saudi arabia and russia and we have oil and gas in our backyard and we need now to produce it. we need to be safe. we need to you stewards of the environment and of our resources. but the obama administration views this as a problem rather than an asset. >>neil: well put, thank you very much. looking back, there was of course very good reason to be concerned, an estimated 200 million gallons of oil did spill into the gulf. but where did all the oil go? could it just disappear? a mar...

In my opinion it wasnt sheen that was the problem. it was the hangars on laughing at every awful pun. it was like old "red eye" from 2006. >> old "red eye" from like last month. >> from tonight. >> a lot of things are going through my mind when i was watching that clip. winning was not one of them. >> cocaine was. >> cocaine definitely was. but thats always in my mind. he is surrounded by a hangar ons and one is wearing a like-minded pho dora. yeah they have one hot chick and after they passed h...

Oil spill has decimated life in parts of the gulf of mexico. with much of the crude remaining stuck at the bottom of the sea floor. she also disputes an assessment by bp that the gulf will recover by the end of next year estimating that microbes have only consumed about 10% of the leaked oil. texas lawmakers are expected to approve a law soon allowing students and professors to carry concealed weapons on college campuses. if the measure is approved, texas will become the second state following...

Karl rove, as always, great to see you, thanks so much. >> you bet. >> an amazing find, in the gulf, scientists discovered a microbe with a hunger for oil gobbling up the muck, all the while, without significantly depleting oxygen in the water. now, scientists at the lawrence berkeley national laboratory in california, say the bacteria may have adapted over time, to new periodic leaks, and, natural oil in the gulf and the hope is the microbes could help dispose of any oil plumes deep under the s...

City. so the concern is not only that you found the dop droplets of oil widespread but where you found them. >> areas critical habitats for commercial and recreational fish. >> reporter: bp officials tell us they want to know everything everyone wants to know about this oil spill and that theyve funded some $500 million to study the long-term impacts of all of this. they havent had a chance to see these specific findings from this recent mission but now scientists at the university of south flor...

There is this one particular gene that confers resistance against antibiotics on the part of the microbes. but the difficult thing is that it can spread from one bacteria to the other so it isnt just something in isolation. what weve seen now that this is relatively widespread in india so that when people get secondary infections, for example when they go into hospitals, they can get this resistant microbe. and unfortunately, if they leave india and go someplace else, they can take that microbe ...

At this point. i think thats why theres a basis for optimism moving forward. >> so you think its sealed? >> well, it needs to be sealed from the bottom. weve sealed the casing pipe from the top. we need to drill into the area outside the casing pipe and well bore and do that with the relief well. that will be happening this week. >> i want to play you some sort of things from april and june when we were trying to get a grip on what you were dealing with here. >> it has involved into an environme...

Says, well, three-quarters of it is pretty much gone. theres another quarter in there that microbes will take care of and it doesnt sound like the environmental disaster that we were told it was. >> well, if youre sitting in barataria bay, its still an environmental disaster. if the folks havent come back to the panhandle of florida, its still a disaster. i think what we need to understand is theres a lot of oil thats been taken care of, theres a lot of oil still out there and a lot of shoreline...