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Studies have shown, she's right, at least 90% of the time. what do you think? you can write to me on my blog to weigh in. cnn.com/amfix. john, kiran? >> if we learn anything during the confirmation hearings, she will totally add a new dynamic to the supreme court. >> she has a good sense of humor, doesn't she? >> she does. carol costello, thanks. president obama yesterday a big speech on immigration reform and he's getting some support from what you might think is an unlikely sector of society. 35 minutes after the hour.

>> the president says the country is ready for reform but can he win that political fight this year with midterm elections ahead? joining us now from washington, candy crowley, host of cnn's stat state of the union." thanks for being with us. as john pointed out when he was speaking -- doing an interview on this in the last hour, lot of people saying they are worried more about getting re-elected in the walls of congress than about being statesmen and looking forward to the next generation. how likely is it in an election year to get something as politically charged as immigration reform passe...

Questions they want to look into, but he says he's hopeful that this will be a valuable tool in the fight to clean up this oil. >> the theory would seem to be a sound one, ed. and we do know in saudi arabia some years back there was an oil spill and the super tanker was used to clean that up and the technology was a little bit different. why is this coast guard or why, actually, the unified command, why is it skeptical about this ship? >> well, i think one of the things that seems to be one of the biggest issues that they're dealing with, you may have heard me mention there in the piece that e...

"whale" has move under to the gulf. it promises to skim 300,000 barrels in less than ten hour's time, that's as much as 500 smaller boats but nagging concerns that too much of the cleaning equipment is just sitting there doing nothing. for that we're going to bring in allan chernoff in new orleans this morning. darrell issa is accusing the government of holding out on resources. is there something to his argument? >> john, the congressman is saying that the unified command is providing phantom assets, claiming that a certain number of boats are out there cleaning up the oil when, in fact, a fa...

Thunderstorms popping up particularly around florida. but the flood concern is mainly for texas. here's the reason why, look at the totals in terms of precipitation from alex. almost ten inches of rain in texas and brownsville not much less than that and a lot of rain in an area that has been dry. when you start factoring that in, it makes a big difference in terms of how much moisture the ground can actually hold. flash flood warnings in from corpus christi up to galveston, texas. we could see more flooding with an additional one to three inches of rain. lighter amounts in tampa and orlando a...