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Influenza and may not be flu zone related. >> this vaccine and how it is made has not changed in decades. so billions of people have received this type of vaccine safely. >> the maker of the flu zone released a statement to fox news earlier today which reads in part, quote: the f.d.a. still recommends giving flu shots to children. comes as the f.d.a. has been working on disclosing more information about any potential safety problems with drugs and devices after they have been approved. the f.d.a...

Birds now, they say than before that have oil on them and it may be because they are looking for them in places they were not looking before. >> well, we need to look for it and lets try and get the wildlife safeleventhal, and the word bp may have known about severe safety problems on the deep water horizon months before the rig blew up. according to london sunday times, an audit conducted by the company included a list of nearly 400 overdue maintenance tasks and the report said safety policies ...

>> absolutely. its mind-boggling in a way. what the people of arizona are frustrated, just like so many people in this country, saying why doesnt the federal government enforce our borders? why dont they enforce immigration laws? why have we got such a problem with immigration, illegal immigration? its because the federal government, over the years, both parties, looked the other way. american people are getting fed up with it. we ought to either enforce the law or we ought to repeal the law. i ...

Takes aim at washington. a once little-known governor is little-known no longer. david muir, abc news, new york. toyota is recalling nearly 500,000 cars. the automaker is still struggling with safety problems. 412,000 sedans and vehicles sold in the u.s. are being recalled. toyota says theres new facts causing the wheel to lock. 2000 to 2004 avalon sedans are recalled. there is a similar problem in some lexus 470s. toyota has recalled nearly 10 million cars since last october. the phoenix ar...

Keeping them honest. a lot of bps safety record, leak in the transalaska pipeline it co-manages. as drew griffin reported last night, continuing allegations of safety problems on that pipeline. given that record, you would expect that regulators would be giving bp extra scrutiny when it comes to risky projects. bp, with the governments okay, is to about to finish a rig that critics say combines the risk of offshore drilling with the loose oversight of drilling on dry land. drew griffin is keepin...

Weve been reporting a lot of bps safety record, leak in the trans-alaska pipeline it co-manages. as drew griffin reported last night, continuing allegations of safety problems on that pipeline. given that record, you would expect that regulators would be giving bp extra scrutiny when it comes to risky projects. it turns out that bp, with the governments okay, is about to finish a rig that critics say combines the risk of offshore drilling with the looser oversight of drilling on dry land. drew g...

Louisiana. bob dudley will be the new ceo. what happens now that he is transitioning into the top job? >> yeah, dudley took over from hayward after a series of gaffs in may and june. dudley is well respected here, hes from mississippi, he lives in houston, hes been around the gulf coast, people know him here and they seem to trust him, at least more than they did hayward at the time. as you mentioned, dudley is replacing hayward, hayward was asked about how he felt about the oil spill, given tha...

Tea with his wife in the afternoons, and watch cricket and to travel to visit his children and grandchildren, and that is a nice way for retirement. wolf? >> i hope he enjoys his retirement. he deserves it. hes worked hard for many, many years. thanks very much, lisa, for that. safety problems aboard the deepwater horizon oil rig revealed. cnn obtained some portions of a confidential study of conditions before the rig disaster. also, was the u.s. duped by an iranian scientist who may have been...

Wicked weather picks up steam in the caribbean. a storm which could become a tropical depression in the next 48 hours is still hundreds of miles from the spill site but because it takes so long to clear out ships and equipment, they had to put a hold on efforts. meanwhile on capitol hill, the political rangliwrangling continues with lawmakers holding a hearing on how to restructure the agency that controls deep water drilling. a controversial survey shows workers aboard the deepwater horizon...

Hearing. >> so today the fda will decide over this course of two-day hearing avandias fate. you published a study back in 2007 that started a lot of this, people who took avandia said, according to your research, you say they face 43% higher risk of heart attacks yet the fda kept it on the market. what could change today? >> well, there is a problem. the fda has a structural problem. the people that approve drugs in the first place are the ones that have the authority to take them off the market...