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With us. cape coral, florida. bill, are you here? >> yeah, i was just taking a second, resetting myself and taking a wider perspective of the storm. i was focused on the storm surge because we were thinking that was going to cost the most damage and lives and the storm surge predictions haven't come true. that's fine. we've had a storm surge. i saw pictures of marco island with water up to vehicles and into homes but it wasn't 10 to 15 feet. it was in therd of 4 to 6 feet. so still bad. still a lot of damage, but not like houses washes away into the ocean with the waves going into them after w...

Miles southeast of corpus christi and 100 mile-an-hour winds. moving onshore within the warning area, late tonight, early tomorrow, bringing strong perhaps major hurricane winds to portions of the middle texas coast. in addition to that, the storm surge hazard, warning, in this dark pink area from north of brownsville to galveston island and the boulevard peninsula. this is life-threatening storm surge. water moving in from the ocean as the hurricane makes landfall, could see 6 to 12 feet of flooding. i'm 6 feet tall. couple my height in areas along the coast from near corpus christi up to vic...

Said on several occasions, even if we contain the well and even if the well is capped in mid-august, there still a significant amount of oil out there and the oil recovery and the impacts of this oil will extend well into the fall in terms of oil coming ashore and tar balls and beach cleanup and then we will be moving at that point to the damage resource assessment trying to understand the long-term impact of the event. >> there have been some confirmed amount of tar balls from the bp oil spill washing ashore in texas and in galveston, i'm wondering, if you know of any test results on the tar ...

Charges, and that they didn't feel like this was a case that should have been prosecuted -- prosecuted. here is the statement from tom perez, the assistant attorney general who is accused of lying, he said, quote, the position of the disposition of the case was ultimately by the career attorney acting as assistant attorney general for the civil rights division. we assure you the department is committed to cough hencive enforcement of the civil and criminal enforcement. martha: shannon bream reporting live from washington, thank you very much. rick: the lone star state is now reporting tar ball...

Being spotted in texas, meaning the b.p. oil spill has now touched all five gulf states, including the shores of galveston and the boulevard peninsula. in all, evidence of the disaster stretching 550 miles from west to east. at the same time, cleanup crews are keeping an eye on the weather. a series of small storms could be headed their way this week. britain's queen elizabeth ii making a visit to new york city on tuesday, the visit scheduled to last only five hours. she will address the united nations. and she will lay a wreath at ground zero and help open a garden of remembrance to the 67 br...