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thanks so much for being with us on this wednesday. good to see everybody this morning. you know the pictures are coming in, new pictures, and the devastation, continues for the midwest. >> thats right. ali velshi in joplin, missouri, where they had a harrowing night. hi, ali. >> good morning, christine, kiran, it is a better morning here. people counting their blessings. a near miss last night in joplin, missouri. everyone taking shelter and bracing for another twister that thanchgful...

If this really gets negotiations off. >> gene, can you explain to our viewers because i think you said it very well. there may be a political impact here. diplomatically, not a great impact. weve said from day one, this is where most people think this process ends anyway. but politically, the political impact fwh the united states, the political impact in is reechlt why does it make such a big difference when the president of the united states utters the words pre-1967 borders? >> it makes a dif...

Now portrayed into some of our favorite television with julianna margolies and chris noth. basically the caricature of the loyal spouse, the wife, standing by as her disgraced husband as were seeing it played out on an international scale, with french and american perceptions, for whatever did happen there. but what about that, loyalty and the demand that the wife always stand by her man? >> i think were getting away from that a bit. even if were not, here is my feeling about that. what happened...

>> everyone is happy that bin laden is dead, gone, no longer stalking the earth, but as barnicle said when people go to the gas station the next morning and it costs them 80 bucks, 90 bucks to fill up a tank, what am i going to take away to fill up the tank, its vap rates very, very quickly. if the president and the administration doesnt find a way to do something about gas prices or at least make people feel the recovery that we keep hearing about thats anemically rolling along, hes going to ha...

What does that do to the mentality of the american voter? >> it fuels the perception things arent going as well as the numbers might suggest. its very sluggish. as you pointed out you lost gdp growth more than a point. but when you look at wages, and you compare them to the cost -- the rising cost of things that people use in their every day life like food and gas, peoples perceptions are they are paying more and their dollar is not going as far. thats the kind of thing that has the white house ...

Off to protect him? or maybe they knew that heck, once bin ladens gone, then the united states doesnt need pakistan as much. i dont think thats true. i think we still do need them to fight al qaeda. but thats a question going forward is how much now do we need this relationship with pakistan? how helpful will they be in fighting al qaeda going forward? >> what do you make of this? when you have so many -- such a huge majority of americans sort of wise now to what the game seems to be, dont polit...

Now. people in the past week have described him as invincible and many could not believe that he was in fact dead. not all of them, many were certainly anti- bin laden claiming him for bringing war to their country and ruining the lives of thousands of people here. but when you see these images, its very much at odds with the very carefully calculated image that bin laden has projected over the years. people are used to seeing him in a very forceful matter, a figure often seen wearing battle fat...

Concerned about how this could be viewed at least? are they concerned about how it might be viewed inside of libya and around the world if the u.s. or nato tried to take out gadhafi? >> right. i think there is no question about that. u.s. officials told us last night when we started asking questions about this, that they were very concerned it would be seen as a propaganda victory for kernel gadhafi, it would be seen as the u.s. was engaging in targeting and, you know, perceived as murder, that ...

Perceptions of how the world is. so when they succeed here, they know they can be loved and appreciated for who they are, not what they wear, not how many people they can beat up, not how much they can sell on the streets. then its like, wow, thats a 180. >> reporter: ulma escalante started as an intern and now holds a full-time job at the lodge. how has this changed what you feel you can do for your life? >> the place and the people have helped me grow stronger every day, conquer, you know, my ...

>> it took months to plug the hole after the bp spill. do you have to prove now that you have the technology to plug that hole pretty quickly if that were to happen on one of your rigs? >> we have to prove that we have the capability to cap the well, hopefully cap an contain it as it is, and also prove we have the ability to respond to it in the very unlikely event it was to occur again. >> whats the biggest misconception about deepwater drilling? >> i think the thing i worry about most, it rela...