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Human health and, of course, were going to continue to do this. At Stanford David louie, abc7 news. While police investigated a is crime spree that spanned several cities yesterday afternoon were learning more what happened inside the gas station in antioch where hostages were held for two hours. Laura . Reporter hi, dan. One of the hostages was the owner of the gas station. He said hes been here 23 years, probably held up about 15 times. Even still, he said yesterdays ordeal was out of the ordinary but to him not terribly frightening. With more than 20 years at this location, gas station owne...

From l.a., christopher thornburgh, founding principal of beacon economics, welcome to our show, good morning to you. >> good morning. bill: who knew! >> well, actually, we all did, because when they put the stimulus plan into place, they had already said this is going to be spread out over a multi-year period. in fact they told us up front some of the money was not going to be spent until 2011. a lot of economists were upset about that because you know, stimulus money needs to be spent, and what happened is they got the money and it started going to all the sort of pet projects and next thing ...

first though, it is a landmark day as our nation faces an unprecedented environmental catastrophe for the first time, president obama will speak to the nation from the oval office, tonight, addressing the effort to stop the bp oil disaster. it will be a crucial speech for a president on the hot seat over his response to the crisis, from the very beginning. only yesterday, he had these words for the victims in the gulf coast: >> it's going to take time for things to return to normal. there's going to be harmful effects on many local businesses. and it's going to be painful for a lot o...