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The T. Boone Pickens Foundation has donated $21 million to the Ronald Reagan Foundation in California, recognizing the businessman's faith in the president.

Phase I of Iroquois Gas Transmission System LP's 08/09 Expansion -- a 1.6-mile pipeline loop in Newtown, CT -- began flowing gas on Nov. 14. The three-phase 08/09 Expansion will allow Iroquois to receive an additional 200 MMcf/d at its interconnect with Algonquin Pipeline in Brookfield, CT, and deliver the volumes to National Grid's KeySpan system at South Commack in Long Island. Iroquois will act as a middleman between Algonquin and KeySpan. Algonquin has entered into a precedent agre...

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You say we have what we need to become independent from foreign sources and you say there is so much focus on energy production, but you say transportation in this country could be a key. how so? >> well, there is no question you can replace imported dec weldomestic natural gas. i would like the president to say that all federal vehicles purchased in the future will be on do do mestic fuel. that gives everybody a chance. biofuels, it gives natural gas tgives a battery -- everybody a chance. but ...

Asiana jetliner crash that happened on the approach of the runway at sfo yesterday. some passengers and witnesses say it came inly and may have clip aid sea wall at the end of the runway. two teenaged girls from chinear killed. 189 other injured, 89 of them, crittedically. we will get adam shiv and tray radel from florida and ask them about the role that the u.s. should play in the egyptian bloody transition. our next guest says the presidents position on coal could impact america. the pickens p...

Different places, refineries and all. 30 million barrels. and over a ten-year period, they have spilled about 100,000 barrels of that oil. >> so a small fraction of that. >> why its 99.9% safe. so were going to -- >> until its in your back yard, right? then it is a horrible, horrific thing. >> well, horrible, horrific. what did it do in arkansas? where was it spilled? youre not talking about much oil there. you can clean it up. it isnt that big a job. >> you -- part of the pickens plan is a move...

And the revolutionizing. its enough to make you forget that youre flying five hundred miles an hour on a chair that just became a bed. you see, were doing some changing of our own. ah, we can talk about it later. were putting the wonder back into air travel, one innovation at a time. the new american is arriving. ♪ 41 past the hour. here with us now is founder and ceo of bp capital management boone pickens. good to have you on board again this morning. how have you been? >> great. everything...

until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. im absolutely confident of that. >> late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. >> all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad that it is time for a transition. its time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the kill...

according to activists. secretary of state clinton had a warning for the assad regime. >> assad can still made the choice to end the violence, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will chemopressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. im absolutely confident of that. >> late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. >> all of us w...

government is trying to kill them and is succeeding at doing that. >> first, sharp statements from the obama administration as america and more than 60 other countries, so-called friends of syria, met in tunisia. this is video of the meeting. they called on the assad regime to end the violence which claimed at least 91 lives today, according to activists. secretary of state clinton had a warning for the assad regime. >> assad can still made the choice to end the violence, save lives, a...