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And running? >> they're still targeting interception point late july, but it could be days or weeks before they actually bore in, pump the drilling mud in there, keep the oil and methane gas down and the sphet is shut for good. it could be mid august. however the deepest of the relief wells is about 45 or 25 more feet deeper than it was at the last reading, so it's now at 17865. the interception point is roughly 18,000 feet. here on gulf shores, mississippi's beach, every time the tide comes in it brings in small, quarter nickel size tar balls, and here's one right there, there's a tar ball di...

Confirmed. they are confronting small tar balls that are coming daily with the high tide. juliet: phil keating, thank you for -- thank you for that report. bill we have new criticism from a government watchdog today that the white house pushed car companies gm and chrysler to close car dealerships across the country earlier than necessary and that may have backfired, only adding unemployment when the economy was in a tailspin. stuart varney has seen the report, the host of varney & company of fox business network. it concluded what? too quick, too rash? >> yes. it concluded the job of closing ...

Exploded soon after, and mayor landrieu deployed booms and barges to keep the oil away, and that worked until the winds from hurricane alex bushed the tar balls towards the barriers. new orleans was in trouble long before the oil began gushing up from the oil floor. >> just as dramatic as the consequences of the bp oil spill are and continue to grow, so too, are the dramatic consequences of the city's budget deficit. like the spill, it's worse than we thought. >> he entered office with a $67 million budget deficit, almost twice the amount landrieu said he was led to expect by the previous admi...

The catastrophe. mayor landrieu deployed booms and barges to keep the oil out of lake pontchartrain. that worked until last week when the winds from hurricane alex pushed tar balls past the barrier. the city is asking bp for $75 million for a marketing campaign to help lure back tourists, but new orleans was in trouble long before oil began gushing up from the ocean floor. >> just as dramatic as the consequences of the bp oil spill are and continue to grow, so too are the dramatic consequences of this city's budget deficit. like the spill, it's worse than we thought. >> he entered office with ...

Now we're dumping them below the surface in the hopes of breaking up the oil before it causes more harm. we don't know if that will really work. >> the stuff we're seeing is mostly for show, as the birds indicated. ken cook, thanks for your time tonight, sir. >> thank you, keith. so, democrats, you say your president's polls are slipping. your voters are stepping on tar balls the size of caroline center in new york. is that what is bothering you? hold your head up high and shout hooray. john boehner just announced he wants a moratorium on regulating wall street, regulating insurance and if y...