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The amount of putting out the fire, but $20,000 to do a mop up on the fire is ridiculous. >> so eric, starting with you, do you agree with me if he had obama care everything would be all right? >> that is obama care. here's what happened. the the homeowners house burned down and now he's mad he didn't buy the insurance prior to hit. it's the pre-existing insurance thing. obama care guarantees pre-existing insurance. instead i'm in favor of this. i'm sorry mr. homeowner. your house burned down. you should have purchased insurance prior to the fire. >> proving my point about hard conservatives. ...

It is thick black sludge. and the rescue teams, the mop-up teams have been working around the clock. they say they've probably got about 70% of the oil so far. they say they will have completed the task by saturday. but certainly if you look at this area, there is a lot of oil on the beach still. no one has taken responsibility for human error in this. but there's a lot of questions being raised on the impact on tourism. this is a big tourist area, it's quite close to bangkok, the capital of thailand. a lot of locals come here as well and they've been leaving the island in droves. the good new...

Passengers strappeded for more than five hours when the bottom deck became filled with water. police had to row up in dinghies and get people out one by one. more than 400,000 people in homes are without power which adds insult to injury, you're dealing with this mop-up and without power, a concerning time in toronto to be sure. >> and another train incident going on. boy, oh, boy. >> thank you. we're going to take a break and when we come back something very interested happened in the zimmerman trial. for the defense it's all about trayvon martin's father, they put him on the stand, why? an...

For standing with him. >> did you catch the first line from sununu? here it is. >> when you take a look at colin powell -- >> he said, when you take a look at colin powell. as if it's obvious why powell would endorse a black president because he's a black guy too, right? this is outrageous. this morning a radio host had an interview with the president and asked the president if he was offended by sununu's remarks. >> any suggestion that general powell would make such a profound statement in such an important election based on anything than what he thought was what's going to be best for americ...

Anything other than what he thought was what is going to be best for america i think doesn't make much sense. >> well, here comes the mop-up. sununu has now issued a statement calling general powell a friend and says that he respects the endorsement. he says, i do not doubt that it was based on anything but his support for the president's policies. it's not exactly an apology, is it, folks? sununu clearly stated he thought powell's decision was influenced by race. it's certainly not about race. it's about policy and the performance of the president of the united states over the last four years...