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Toyota going head to head today. ray lahood described the meeting with toyota president as quoting, tough but respectful. that meeting comes as u.s. highway safety officials investigate the japanese carmaker for safety violations. toyota has been find nearly $16.5 million for not reporting safety problems. history in the making. stay right there. you are going to see it. president obama due to announce his choice for the u.s. supreme court. cnn has confirmed that she is elena kagan, the president's solicitor general. that means she is the president's top lawyer to go before the supreme court. ...

Some of the toughest critics of b.p. in all the world are here, too, and we've been getting an earful from them about the incidents happening over in the gulf of mexico. now, b.p. they know has had a string of safety problems, a history of safety incidents. best known, a fire at a texas city refinery back in 2005 which left 15 people dead. many more injured. that and other problems including this latest spill put down to by these critics, cost cutting at b.p., profit seeking. that has singed the engineering staffing there forcing the company to spend more on subcontractors like the operator of...

Agents are looking into whether massey energy company was criminally negligent in its attention to safety concerns. a separate report suggests the feds are also investigating whether inspectors from the mine safety and health administration accepted bribes to ignore safety problems. the labor department denies that allegation. this news comes on the heels of a report that massey energy offered a settlement of $3 million to the families of each of the miners who died. that is not justice. massey energy and their ceo don blankenship are tried to cash whip grieving families. that's what it is. it...

Another mining problem so soon after west virginia. it appears this particular mine also had some safety problems. >> state records are coming out today. they're saying this particular mine. the dough tiki mine had -- t violations in the past. >> jon and jane a fluid situation. the rescue began after reports these two guys were trapped in there. that was last night. perhaps some progress. as soon as we get more information we'll bring it to you. jane: rick, thanks. also breaking at this hour we're taking a look at live pictures here from the white house. we're waiting to hear at any moment fro...

This front right here, which eventually will clear that out and shift the winds a bit is going to stall out here this weekend and probably into monday and tuesday. so i think we are going to be dealing with persistent winds for a while. winds that will be strong. coastal flood alerts in effect this weekend, shepard. and on top of that we have high tides this weekend, spring tides that are astronomically higher than your typical tides are anyway. >> shepard: that does not look good at all does it? >> not at all including the panhandle of florida, that entire stretch. >> shepard: rick reichmuth ...