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Waters, the number three democrat on the financial services committee, vehemently denies any wrongdoing and is choosing to go to trial this fall, rather than admit violating ethics rules. the allegations come as democrat charles rangel, another prom length member of the congressional black caucus, faces trial on 13 ethics violations. bp will perform a crucial test this morning to determine if it can begin efforts to permanently seal the blowout well in the gulf of mexico. the test was initially scheduled for yesterday but engineers ran into a last-minute hitch when they discovered a small hy...

Already the law. under homeland security, this already is the law. >> there is a federal policy and there is an arizona policy. federal policy is goes after the violent, the drug dealer, the terrorists, the people trafficking the drugs. arizona wants every maid and gardener and deport them from arizona. >> it's true because it's required under the law. >> the federal is doing a lousy job doing this, but they're doing a lousy job keeping cocaine out of the country. we have one rogue state that is pissing off mexico and they're screwing up our federal lunion and our deal -- union and our deal. y...

The government attorney is now asking the court to stay the judge's order. we still don't know at this point. the drilling is not going on. the deep water drilling not taking place. it could start back up at some point when it's done. a lot of jobs are on hold because a lot of workers not working. tropical storm alex is off mexico's yucatan coast now. it could be bound for the spill area. we don't exactly know where it's going to g. it's going to be critical. we should see the forecasts and the models get more specific. then we know how this will affect the oil response, the cleanup, and frank...

Coast as a tropical storm as we get into early on sunday morning. then going right across the yucatan, only 24 hours across if it continues at this rate, at this path. and then strengthens back to a tropical storm as we get into tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. possibly with winds of 70 miles an hour. gusts of 85. there's a big cone of uncertainty. there's a chance the storm could move more north. it may stay further south and stay towards mexico. or it could die out all together under the yucatan peninsula. there's a lot of unknowns with this particular storm. what i can tell you, it's defin...

The coast of mexico. jamie: chicago politics front and center. the corruption trial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich well underway now, and next week the prosecution should finish their examination of the former governor's chief of staff. he seems to be telling all. but this this week jurors have been getting an ear full of the exgovernor on tape. here is one clip between blagojevich and this top aid. >> one thing as bad as it would be to appoint myself, i just felt that yesterday, did you? did you or no. >> you mean the people. >> the average person i don't think -- it will be the ...