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What is a complicated rescue situation is now more difficult because there is a dangerous fuel, 500,000 gallons of fuel if the ship moves too much the environment minister is talking of a "state of emergency," but it is not emergency level just yet. what is clear the ship was way too close to the island and the company running it says that, they defended the captain said it was the normal route and they say there was serious human error and the captain is behind bars. he has not been officially charged. they are looking at possibility of manpower and abandoning ship. finally, despite what seem...

President bush and president clinton, to release that oil into the market, what it did, it reduced prices significantly and immediately, 33 percent in the case of the first president bush, 19 percent with the second bush, and 9 percent with president clinton. so it helps to arrest the speculative premium that we're paying at the pump and is hammering the middle class and our small businesses. jenna: and gas prices when the oil prices came down around this time, we did see a trickle down effect to gas prices, but we're about $45, $46 away from the all time record high for oil prices and some sa...

In or out of the city. cell phones down, so as you can imagine, we're struggling to get information about what's actually going on down there. and the -- our government here has activated a civil defense center in the capital. thus raising the emergency level to a level three, which is the biggest level for a regional disaster of this kind. so just to -- just to sort of describe to you the magnitude of this and just how significant that is. that is a very high alert level. our prime minister, he has -- he is actually on his way to christchurch. he will be making his way. he might find it diffi...

That was a 7.1 quake. but already, we're seeing television reports and we're getting reports here in our newsroom of some serious damage to the city. buildings collapsing, people trapped in buildings, and many injuries. we're also getting reports of multiple fatalities that we can't say at this stage, just a number of people who have died in this quake. what's going on in terms of the city itself, the airport is closed, so no one's able to get in or out of the city. cell phones down, so as you can imagine, we're struggling to get information about what's actually going on down there. and the -...

And the -- our government here has activated a civil defense center in the capital. thus raising the emergency level to a level three, which is the biggest level for a regional disaster of this kind. so just to -- just to sort of describe to you the magnitude of this and just how significant that is. that is a very high alert level. our prime minister, he has -- he is actually on his way to christchurch. he will be making his way. he might find it difficult, but he will be there to see the situation for himself. >> kim savage, thank you very much. and our thoughts are with all of the people in...