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Initial transit sites in the gulf including to qatar, to kuwait, and the uae. but the broader point i would make is that we have been able to take advantage of consular officers throughout this building and around the world. okay. but i m not interested in the broader point. i m just interested in the answer of the question. are you still sending people there? and if you re not, which is fine if you are or not, i just want to know if they re still ramping up. and then on the opposite end of that is that we are approaching the 31st. and if there is no extension in this, you guys are going to have to start thinking and i want to know have you already started thinking about drawing them back down again? if in fact they are going to leave or if you guys think that maybe you can go back to the embassy. well, we are always evaluating what we have on the ground compared with our needs. if we need more people on the ground, we won t hesitate to do it. we came to that conclusion last week. ....
Arthel: pay back for people affected by the bp oil disaster in the gulf. bp says it will not pay bonuses to executives, who are responsible for operations in the gulf including, former ceo tony hayward, last year s blowout triggers the worst offense offshore oil spill in the u.s. history and ten months later the gulf still not recovered. still no recovery, at this point, john roberts, here, with more. i m not happy about this. good morning, arthel, you are not the only one, a lots of people in the gulf coast and 10 months after the deep water horizon disaster there is a perception across the country the whole thing is over and back to normal. and for people who live in the region, we visited them, for three days, recently, this is anything but over. on the surface, life might seem back to normal. there are no slicks of crude oil ....
A second. here s the flooding concerns across the south. this is the spreading. see a couple of red boxes across the gulf including places like pensacola and destin. those are tornado warnings. we have that to deal with. go up to far new england who had all the ramifications from irene last week, those are flash flood watches in effect right now. a lot of this moisture that s out there with lee is going to spread up in the cross parts of new england again. three days from now, we ll be talking about possibly another four or five inches of rain falling and they can t take that because the ground is so completely saturated and they ve had that flooding. it s not going to be looking like a flooding event like we saw with irene but it s going to exacerbate the situation and if you re dealing with the cleanup, it s going to make that a slower process. a lot of people are going to get a lot of rain in the next few days and still dealing with wind and the storm that doesn t want to budge. t ....