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from solving its $121 million budget shortfall, with $70 million in cuts and $42 million in other new taxes already approved. some members of the city council believe additional budget cuts can close the gap. like councilman james craft, a bottle tax opponent. >> i don't think any elected official, including the mayor, is going to tell people that we're not going to clean the harbor up. >> reporter: retailers and beverage distributors have leveed a campaign -- levied a campaign against the tax. >> the mayor has no basis for it. she has never shown where she got that number. >> report...

Oil here at home. they're really being dragged through hell and high water by democrats in this committee, accurately pointing out that they were not prepared to deal with a disaster of this magnitude and it was simply bp's bad luck that they are the ones getting blamed for this, that a. >> coming up at the half hour, msnbc environment and science editor will take us to a marsh in louisiana where they are working to extract contaminated oil. and we're hearing from a connecticut man who was trapped in his basement for nearly four days after his arm got stuck behind a furnace, that man amputat...

our beach." >> reporter: they are waiting for the president's actions, many people showing up here when the president visited pensacola beach here this morning, many of them holding up signs saying they wanted their beaches to be saved in this area. but also you can see in the background today as the day goes on, a lot of people, at of tourists are coming out here, certainly it is not as busy as it normally would be during this time of year, and business owners are also in this for the long haul up and down pensacola beach. it varies as to whether businesses are doing well or not, fr...