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Yesterday's incoming ceo said it's time for a "scale back" in the clean-up effort but local folks are warning b.p. there is plenty of oil left to mop-up. firefighters in southern california report progress in this hour in the battle against four raging wildfires. one has been burning in the high desert above los angeles for two days now. it has charred nearly 22 square miles of brush and at one time threatened 2,000 homes and buildings. 1300 firefighters on the scene. it's now 62% contained. i'm julie banderas. back to "huckabee." for the latest headlines, go to foxnews.com. ♪ ♪ >> mike: t...

At the ag department being mainly motivated by politics, not necessarily the right thing to do, thought they wanted to cut the bleeder off and show to the white house how they take care of things in their department. there is a lot of overeagerness there. we do know vilsack yesterday afternoon after it was becoming clear that shirley sherrod had been totally set up and had done nothing wrong, he was still releasing statements saying because of this controversy we can't have anyone like that out there. which again was a shameful statement to make. you are ceding power to your enemies if they ra...

>> how are vilsack and the administration doing with a mop up with a situation like this? starting with the apology to shirley sherrod. >> so far, so good. vilsack was indeed contrite. robert gibbs at his press conference had a heartfelt apology. he wouldn't answer all the questions. people asked about some of the contacts after the dismissal between the white house and the ag department. they are not being completely transparent. they realize they screwed up big time on both sides, at the white house and at the ag department. they sincerely want to make good, make shirley sherrod as whole as ...

But here we can see what's happening onshore. we can see people potentially losing their family business. we can put a pencil to that. i want to know how they came to this calculation of $10 billion. who did the math on this? let's see. you've got texas, you've got louisiana, you've got mississippi, you've got alabama and florida. oh, everybody gets $2 billion for the mop-up? is that how's going to work? have they checked with tourism, with the tax commissioners office to see what receipts are coming in? to arbitrarily take a $so billion figure out of the sky and say this is what the liability...

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