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Booming efforts. as we've been reporting, the seas wash over the booms and can wash some of the oil over the booms. it is complicating some of the efforts. chemical disbursements are being used under water. they tested those out last night. especially aattach to large clumps of water and sink to the bottom. they tested it last night. it worked well and they'll be deploying those chemicals in large amounts today. there are questions whether those chemicals themselves are safe. some say they are almost as bad as oil. e bp says they've gotten the clearance to use this. they hope to be able to use...

Clergy members in ohio who are upset about the tax stat us and ethical status of these members of congress living there? >> very puzzling reaction. i managed to get tim koh, i wanted to talk to him about the complaint, get his perspective and represent him fairly. his first response was he didn't know them from adam, then said he did try to talk to them, despite the foundation's official response is they have nothing to do with c street. then he said he decided they were crazy because they expected him to apparently abide by some standard of transparency, to allow a reporter in the room for th...

T t the. >> house speaker nancy pelosi only had a favorable rates of 11%, 37% unfavorable. more than half of americans don't have an opinion or don't know enough to have an opinion about what would arguably one of the most historic speakers in the house. >> reporter: she definitely has reached that stat us, david. you think of the past year, she's gotten the two health care reform bills passed, the cap and trade bill passed through the house and the stimulus passed through the house. that's some real power. everyone who's in the history department at various universities today is trying to put...

Latest developments now, former president bill clinton taken to a new york hospital. hospitalized there, undergoing a procedure. this afternoon. i want to show you these are pictures of where the former president is right now. this is columbia presbyterian hospital. that is where he was taken earlier this afternoon. his counselor, douglas band, released a statement essentially talking about what had occurred and his current status now that the president was admitted to the hospital after feeling discomfort in his chest. and following a visit to his cardiologist underwent a procedure to mace tw...

Their relationship, i think there is a sea change. >> i suppose the sea change has a lot to do with the force and effectiveness of people supporting your side of the case? >> the chief justice of the united states supreme court also faulted president obama for enforcing doma but not defending it. >> if he has made a determination that executing the law by enforcing the terms is unconstitutional, i don't see why he doesn't have the courage of his convictions and execute, not only the stat us, but do it consistent with his view of the constitution, rather than saying we will wait until the supre...