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Welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. topping the national lead today, california's governor is declaring a state of emergency after a 24-inch underground pipeline ruptured near the santa barbara toast tuesday. more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil likely spread across the beach and parts of the pacific ocean. five times worse than initially thoughts. cleanup crews working around the clock. paul vercammen joins us live from california. what's the latest on the cleanup and are they making any headway? >> reporter: they seem to be making some headway, jake. they said advised us of have 5...

Sands throughout the midwest. as bad as we are of cleaning up crude oil that spills into the ocean, we have no idea how to clean up spills of tar sandsç oil, none. congress's role is to do nothing to improve the safety of drilling. but they are trying to force new oil projects to be approved even when we know overtly that they are not safe. they are insisting that the safety concerns be overridden. and that is sort of reflective of the overall politics on this issue now. it's as if bp never happened. it's as if there never was a catastrophic oil spill off the gulf of mexico, the biggest offs...

Become the biggest offshore spill in our country's history. and the fbi's now investigating what caused a hole in the fuselage of a us airways plane. a pilot making a preflight inspection of the plane found the hole in the rear of the aircraft. the plane just arrived from philadelphia when damage was discovered. >> dra mat ingains on standardized tests in public schools a result of someone making changes? according to a ""usa today" investigation, high scoring schools had extraordinarily high numbers of eraser marks correcting wrong answers. experts say the rates should have triggered aan in...

Thoughts, reach me on twitter, facebook. contessa@msnbc.com. federal prosecutors are considering manslaughter charges against bp managers for the gulf oil well explosion and spill. the deepwater horizon reg blew up nearly a year ago. 11 workers lost their lives and the explosion caused the biggest offshore spill in history. sources familiar with the case say investigators are also looking at testimony made by well, so much for richard and poorer, when marriage ends up in divorce, it's all about the richer especially when millions of dollars are at stake. plus, you won't believe what a pi...

In terms of the safety requirements that would have to be put in place because that accident would be an offshore spill. the same way the transocean rig is really registered in the marshall islands and norwegians determine how safe it is and move it into the gulf of mexico. it's one thing to drill offshore. itis another thing to offshore safety regulations. itis what's been happening. i'm afraid the judge is part of this. one of the ways i got to congress 34 years ago, i had a piece of legislation that banned judged from keeping their clinlts. believe it or not in massachusetts, 100 judges sti...