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hall. mayor gray's chief of staff out. thanks for joining us tonight at 10:00. i'm shawn yancy. >> i'm brian bolter. the move comes after weeks of scandals including revelations of overpaid staffers. fox 5's wisdom martin here to explain what this means for the city government. >> mayor gray said he requested and accepted the resignation of chief of staff gerri mason hall. he said they discussed the resignation over the last several days and in the end gray says the distractions with the personnel matters were overshadowing the government's work. chief of staff gerri mason hall is ou...

accepted the resignation as a chief of staff gerri hall. gerri and i have discussed this issue extensively over the last few days and agreed the distractions associated with the personnel matters are overshadowing the work of the government. >> as for brown, he might be out of sight but his former boss is now being asked directly questions about when brown was fired and when brown was hired and why he was fired. seen here, he just confirmed yesterday as head of the department of healthcare and finance where brown worked briefly as an accountant being paid six figures. the grace trans...

Also on capitol hill, lawmakers are trying to get a handled on how badly gulf business will suffer because of the oil disaster. some rex be expecting checks from bp to help but the man in charge of handing out those checks, ken feinberg, explained who is eligible, well that is a tough question in some cases. >> it's easy to compensate a motel or a restaurant on the beach where there's oil. you don't need the wisdom of solomon for that claim. proximity is going tonight problem here. proximity. how far from the beach? >> joining me now, senior vice president of the u.s. travel association, jeff ...

small business tax cuts that athena just mentioned, helping small business and what else he wants congress to do but i think, contessa what this is about, it too is a communication strategy and setting the stage for the fall campaign because the democrats want to go home the house is only in for half a week and the senate for a week and a half, they are going to go home and sort of try and campaign on what they say is behalf of the middle class in america. they will have make it work, make it in america sort of initiative, where they talk about manufacturing in the united states. the...

thinking is how am i going to tell my kids, you know, that their dad's not coming home, and the worst goes through your mind, so we were just blessed that we did get a call. >> 11 workers are still missing. the coast guard's been looking for them all night long and air searches will get back under way when there is enough light this morning. >> we have capabilities to search throughout the night, and we continue the search and rescue case. the 11 people unaccounted for, we will continue the search and rescue case until it's reasonable that we might not find anybody out there. >> the ...