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Livelihoods? >> i think these guys are looking at it one day at a time. they're very happy to work on these vessels of opportunity. at least the ones we talk to. they are short term happy about that. most of them at least for now are trying not to think about the long term. they just want to pay the bills day by day, get this mess cleaned up, then worry about the long-term effects later on. >> all right, rob marciano for us. rob has a special report, "rescue saving the gulf." he's on the front lines of what can be the largest clean-up effort. saturday and sunday night 8:00 eastern on cnn. bi...

That helped track him down in 53 hours. and the chief prosecutor says every day they continue to talk with shahzad, they say they read him his rights and he continues to speak with them without a lawyer present. once they say he's done talking, what he has to say, or they he he's isn't being useful anymore, that's when he's expected to make his first appearance in court. don? >> susan candiotti, thank you. we're going to talk about another story that people are really following especially when it comes to friday. stocks are sliding once again. look at that, down 165 points. we're going to go i...

Responding here positively, steve. what about there in greece? >> reporter: in the short term here the greek markets are up but there is a sense they might require real fund alabama changes. if you're a school teacher earning $35,000 you might just be earning $25,000 once the tightening kicks in. one in five people works for the state. that may have to change. a value added tax is also going to go into effect. that means you pay higher taxes on every single thing you buy, including water, 35%. the anger could come back when these measures kick in over the next few weeks. jane: let's go down to...

I know i'll be running around a lot chasing her from office to office. >> kelly o'donnell, you're going to be coming back with us during our special coverage. pete williams, thanks very much. we're both going to be talking about this all day and probably all week. >> no question about it. we should remind everybody, president obama is expected to announce his nomination of elena kagan less than an hour from now, 10:00 eastern time from here at the white house. stay with us for live coverage right here on msnbc. >> all right. coming up, the trillion dollar plan to rescue greece from financial r...

Need. they're separate. >> but are they separate? look, if the government is letting themselves get bankrolled by the mafia for $54 billion, how do they milli manage trillion dollar plan? >> we have tickle me elmo on capitol hill right now and we talk about afghanistan. we couldn't pull out afghanistan and fix the fraud first. we had the opportunity to fix the fraud first. if we had the 62 million people uninsured and we need to deal with that, but if we don't fix the system first, the fraud will go through the roof. >> jonathan? >> it's 20% of medicare. for 20%! what kind of -- >> it's not 20...