in fact slow moving katrina is a very good way to describe it because so many residents and business owners on the island whethered katrina and rebuilt their businesses but they say the horrible thing about an oil spill is unlike a hurricane where you can rebuild in a matter of months with an oil spill you don't know what is going to happen next you don't know what to plan for. what they are doing is planning for a worse case scenario trying to protect the community as well as they can. earlier in the weekend they were setting up booms these inflatable boo buoys lining th beaches that it would stop the oil before land fall. the weather was so choppy and waves were so rough many of the areas were preached. they came in and removed them. today the national guard came in and installed the barriers with the chemical you be stance. when the substance comes in contact with oil it turns the oil into a solid. the idea is when the oil seeps into these barriers it becomes a solid easily removed and then you can rebuild the barriers with chemicals and hopefully absorb even more oil. >> jonathan

you also are saying essentially, this is president obama's katrina. where do you see the similarities between katrina and the response to this? in katrina, we know there were failures at the local, state and federal level. where are the failures here? >> here, you have an oil explosion on april 20th. on april 22nd, i think it was, the rig collapsed and the platform sunk into the ocean. that is a major catastrophe. on april 23rd, the u.s. coast guard suspended rescue efforts because by that time, if any of those men were still alive, they had been in those ocean gulf waters for three days, so the coast guard rightfully suspended rescue efforts. it wasn't until april 27th, that janet napolitano issued her declaration of a spoifl national significance. what were they doing in the meantime? they left the coast guard out there without the additional resources that the coast guard needed, just like president bush left me down in katrina without the additional resources i needed because they were dillydallying around back at washington d.c. >> i appreciate y

bush had his katrina, obama had -- except katrina was something that he was warned about. it was a natural disaster and they kept saying, days before, the storm is coming. no one kept saying to obama, the rig is going to blow in three days, it's brewing up there in the gulf. >> bill maher, always good to have you on, thanks. >> pleasure, anderson. >>> next, facebook users, beware a glitch that may have exposed your private chats. >>> and elephants and what terrorizes them. and i trust the crest 3d white collection. [ female announcer ] introducing crest 3d white. use these together for a whiter smile in one day, with dramatic results after full kit. okay, smile! [ camera shutter clicking ] brilliant! [ female announcer ] learn how these crest 3d white products can give you a whiter smile in one day at 3dwhite.com. lose weight and save money with our lowest price since 2004. i'm angie everhart, and i lost 34 pounds on nutrisystem. i lost 120 pounds on nutrisystem. enjoy four perfectly portioned meals a day with our best price guaranteed. i'm marie osmond, and i lost 50 poun

i'm interrupting because we're out of time. >> you asked whether this was obama's katrina. it is not there yet. this well is exploding oil thousands of barrels into the ocean. >> yeah. >> every single day. >> quickly. >> it explodes and could be. >> is it his katrina? >> it is not. this is a whole different -- maybe, but we don't know enough about the end of sea bed drilling. >>> we'll be right back with predictions. when planning for retirement these days, the forecast is full of ifs. if i'm too exposed to downturns. if i'll go through my savings too fast. to help you feel more confident consider putting a portion of your savings in a metlife variable annuity. when the market goes up, it gives your assets a potential to grow. while protecting you if the market goes down with a steady stream of income. let america's number one annuity provider help you stay on course with guarantees for the if in life. get answers about annuities at metlife.com. ♪ my country ♪ 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land ♪ of liberty ♪ of thee i sing [ laughs ] ♪ oh, land ♪ where my fathers died

in fact slow moving katrina is a very good way to describe it because so many residents and business owners on the island whethered katrina and rebuilt their businesses but they say the horrible thing about an oil spill is unlike a hurricane where you can rebuild in a matter of months with an oil spill you don't know what is going to happen next you don't know what to plan for. what they are doing is planning for a worse case scenario trying to protect the community as well as they can. earlier in the weekend they were setting up booms these inflatable boo buoys lining th beaches that it would stop the oil before land fall. the weather was so choppy and waves were so rough many of the areas were preached. they came in and removed them. today the national guard came in and installed the barriers with the chemical you be stance. when the substance comes in contact with oil it turns the oil into a solid. the idea is when the oil seeps into these barriers it becomes a solid easily removed and then you can rebuild the barriers with chemicals and hopefully absorb even more oil. >> jonathan

a woman forced here because of hurricane katrina is graduating five years here in maryland. jessica was at her graduation today. >> reporter: for shallon edwards, it's a day she and her father have been looking forward to for years. in 2005 she attended xavier college in lousiana when suddenly she was forced to evacuation. >> hurricane katrina hit. >> reporter: the damage was devastating. she left school and flew back to native virginia where she enrolled in two colleges before coming here to baltimore. >> it was a tremendous emotional stress to me. just because that was my first choice. i spent a year there. >> she's spirited, spunky,en earthityic and passionate. >> reporter: morgan somerville is the assistant director of admissions. she helped organize a trip to new orleans to help rebuild homes destroyed by katrina. >> she was one of the students that saw fire in one of the walls here on campus and said i want to be a part of that. >> when i drove back it was just flattened soil. it doesn't even exist there any more. >> reporter: she has a job lined up as a lab technician

you know, we have something to learn. >> how would you compare the storm of 1856 to katrina? and do you think that new orleans has taken the right approach in its rebuilding efforts? >> you know, it was different than katrina and that it came a little bit further to the west. it passed to the west of the city and that brought onshore winds, you know, when i came across the land and it brought onshore winds and the city, the devastation from katrina that it passed to the east and we had winds that came back and flooded, that flooded the city. the question about whether new orleans is taking the right approach i was on a national resource council committee overseeing the protection plans for new orleans in south louisiana, reviewing the protection plans. and it seems to me that we have to make choices and the choices are difficult. there's not enough sediment today coming down the mississippi river, that if we could grab it all and spew it in the appropriate places on the d-delta, that we could rebuild the delta to where it once, to the state that it once was. i think we have t

it is the same thing that we faced during katrina. the government cannot get it done, it is that simple. host: david from asheville, north carolina. caller: thank you for the opinions you are expressing because they are some of the most nuanced that i have seen. it is refreshing. we need to reform the environment. i wonder if you could say something to the fact that we need to get corporations to start redesigning products infrastructures to work more closely with the way that major functions. we are completely dependent on these types of products. i appreciate your bringing it up, but what can actually be done about it? guest: i appreciate the question. incidentally, i love asheville. first of all, we have to educate ourselves. it is happening in greece, portugal, spain. when i am on the air and somebody contradicts something that i say and i have nowhere to go because i am wrong, i am forced to change. that is where america has to go. that is where america should be heading. nobody reveres the cousteau family more than i. i grew up

fumbling the katrina response. while no one is criticizing president obama. >> they were there and on it from day one, and it's 1,000 barrels a day. they would have burned this thing off, and it could have been far less the catastrophic. ten days, the government did nothing. but they claim they were there from day one. i want them to be honest with the american people. >> honest? honest with the american people? let's see, early on, we were told by the oil experts -- it's not really leaking, not really that bad. don't worry about it. of how are you supposed to respond to that. now, i don't want to minimize what's happening in the gulf right now, but let's be serious. hurricane katrina was the worst natural disaster -- natural disaster in this country's history. and more than 1,300 people died. americans. died. drowned. waiting for the bush administration to get its act together instead of strumming the guitar. unlike the oil rig explosion, the hurricane wasn't a surprise. the bush people had plenty of advance warni

happened in katrina, the government wasn't there to respond to what was happening. i think the difference in this case is we were there immediately. we have been there ever since. >> press secretary robert gibbs said the justice department is gathering information but would not say if a criminal investigation would be open. meanwhile, b.p., which is responsible for the cleanup, made a full-page public relations effort in today's "new york times" and will try again to plug the leak with a squad top kill, which would pump a mud mixture from the surface down to this in nearry would clog and stop the flow of oil, but, of course, there are no guarantees. >> and you see this streaming video of the leak in the corner of your screen. well, we figure that during that two-minute-long story, using after average estimate from independent experts, more than 4,000 gallons of oil poured into the gulf. that's enough to fill roughly 100 bathtubs with oil, all in just two minutes. tomorrow a revised official estimate is expected to be released. russ? >> mitchell: really helps put it

caller: people calling this obama's katrina? c'mon. they want to blame obama because of an accident? it is not his fault. host: we have showed you the president's comments. here is back to the story from "the financial times." "the director of the local coast zone management department said that it was clear that bp did not have a response plan. they counter that they attack -- tackled the leak on several fronts. a rig is in place to dig a relief well but they are waiting for the water to come? -- calm down." suzanne, santa cruz. caller: this is marvelous. obama did nothing for eight days, moved in equipment that was not ready for this. we know the basic science. burn off alight oil on the top and the heavy oil drops to the bottom. these liberals in the white house oare rubbing their hands together. they want to do windmills. here in california we have all of these windmills we cannot even turnon because the liberals say that they disrupt the flight patterns of certain birds. this whole thing, they are in charge and they are just lovin

even after katrina. kevin davis couldn't wait. >> i'm going to do what i have to do. >> reporter: davis rented coastal protection the parish couldn't afford, miles of boom, $10,000 a day. >> i'll worry about the fink irpointing and who's going to pay us at some point down the road. >> reporter: federal law caps bp's liability at $75 million. the company exceeded that, promising $100 million to cover damages in four gulf states. not nearly enough for three democratic u.s. senators. they want the cap hiked dramatically, to $10 billion. >> basically we're saying, hey, you know, the polluters should pay. >> reporter: this is what someone has to pay for, what everyone here is trying to stop, crude oil floating in gulf water. now imagine there are millions of gallons of it, and it's floating toward a coastal community just like this one. mark strassmann, cbs news, venus, louisiana. >>> in portland, oregon, a wild police chase you have to see to believe. carjacking suspect 40-year-old donaldatinger was caught o

public reaction to that, we saw that with president bush during katrina. the obama administration is hard at work today demonstrating what the president is doing and what the federal government will continue to do with little hope that the spill will be contained anytime soon. >> juliet: julie, thank you. >> gregg: deadly storms leaving behind dangerous flooding in the state of tennessee. rick riechmuth has the latest from the fox extreme weather center coming up next. [ male announcer ] we call it the american renewal. because ge capital understands what businesses need to grow. that's why today ge capital provides critical financing to more than 300,000 growing companies. ♪ to more than 300,000 growing companies. anncr vo: ...you can get help gwith a flat tire.... anncr vo: ...find a nearby tow truck or gas station... anncr vo: ...call emergency services... anncr vo: ...collect accident information. anncr vo: or just watch some fun videos. anncr vo: it's so easy, a caveman can do it. caveman: unbelievable... caveman: where's my coat? it was suede with

. >> this is like a six-week katrina. there's no end in sight. >> reporter: in the bayou village of myrtle grove, they donate make their living on the water, but their lives. >> i'm looking at my entire life savings and i'm looking at my retirement home that could very well be in just a big puddle of oil in the next couple of weeks. >> reporter: and this, the first day they've seen that oil, now inside the endless rich estuaries of the baretarya bay. >> it's inconceivable that something like this could happen and nothing happens about it. >> reporter: so surgeon glenn swartzberg and others who hadn't seen it yet set out. it didn't take long. oil-soaked booms, teaming pelican grounds, almost too much to bare. >> as you can see out here at this beautiful god-given -- god-given -- >> reporter: and then the reddish chunks everywhere in the water. >> look at that. i'm not even going to be able to get it off. >> this is oshl. this is going to kill everything around here. >> reporter: shrimpers out in closed waters trying for a

at what happened in katrina, the government wasn't there to respond to what was happening. that quite frankly was the problem. even tracking the hurricane for days and knowing fairly precisely where it was going to hit, i think the difference in this case is we were there immediately. we have been there ever since. thad allen is directing our response as the national incident commander. there are people on the ground. there are thousands of people working even as we speak, bob, to figure out a way to plug this hole and to deal with the spread of this oil. >> schieffer: let me shift this a bit because, well, you're getting hammered from one side for not doing enough. there are those out there including rand paul who won that blow-out republican primary victory in kentucky who say you're not doing enough. liss tone what he said in response to this. >> what i don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, you know, i'll put my boot heel on the throat of bp. i think that sounds really unamerican and his criticism of business. i've heard nothing from bp about no

. >> bill: it's not like hurricane katrina. >> right. >> bill: yeah. it's a slick that nobody sees and hasn't come ashore in great numbers yet. nobody really, it's not like hurricane katrina where you had people on roof tops screaming to be evacuated and thugs breaking into houses and action all over the place. but is it -- is it valid, george to, make a comparison between the lateness of the obama administration, remember, they bp in the beginning said yeah, we've got it under control. and the lateness of the bush administration in hurricane katrina. is that a valid comparison? >> it's a stretch because of the differences between the two disasters that you just pointed ut is what makes it difficult. the public doesn't make that comparison yet by this point. president bush was having solid disapproveal from the public. i think it could get there which the why the president came out today f this is going on several months and if this top hat doesn't work and they have to build a relief well and there is oil spilling out there going to exceed any other i

back up, we spoke with the owner, listen. >> this is probably the best year we've had since ivan and katrina. so i'm hoping that this isn't going to impact us as hard as everybody is saying because it isn't like a hurricane. this will have a much longer impact and-- >> and of course, the oil spill already taking a toll on the commercial fishing industry and soon will take a toll on recreational fishing which you see going on behind me. folks taking advantage of what many believe may be the last weekend of fishing on mobile bay for a very long time. juliet. >> jonathan serrie live in alabama, thank you, jonathan. >> juliet: today, president obama visiting the state where oil is just a few miles off shore. the president briefed at the coast guard center in venice, louisiana. back in the nation's capital, some of the top cabinet members responding to tough criticism. julie kirtz is live in washington with that. >> the weather cut short and the president's helicopter tour and spent more than an hour at the coast guard station in venice, not far from the underwater source of the gushing crude oil

. >> james could this be a katrina moment for the obama administration? >> no, i think an entirely different kind of event than katrina than this silliness. what this is this is going to be some kind of a defining event in our hist dwroirks know which way this is going to go as of right now, a hail mary thing, trying to get this thing plugged up, you know, if they don't from what people estimate, could be another three months before they do it keep spewing this up as far as people know. so, we are -- we might be in the first, second inning of this thing, to use a baseball analogy. we just don't know what is going on. there is some talk about currents taking this i can up in the atlantic ocean. this is an ongoing story. we are going to be on this story for a while to come, i'm afraid. >> james, the president announced he was going to expand oil drilling off the atlantic coasting now stopping all of it was that premature? >> let's remember are, think robert can address this, too, this is deep-water drilling this is 5,000 feet. something like this happened a

and the lateness of the bush administration in katrina? is that a valid comparison? >> >> i think it's a stretch because of the differences between the two disasters that you just pointed out. that's what makes it a difficult comparison. certainly the public doesn't make that comparison yet by this point. president bush was having solid disapproval. but i think it could get there. which is why the president came out today. listen, if this is going on for the next several months, if this top hat doesn't work and they have got to build a relief well and you have got oil spilling out that is going to far exceed the valdez and any other oil spill in american history, then this will become the president's problem it will become the president's responsibility and they are trying to protect themselves from that right now by showing that anger today. >> bill: all right. you know the clintons very well as one of the advisors for bill clinton when he was president. and a sound bite by hillary clinton on 60 minutes caught our eye. we dealt with it with dick morris on wednesday.

these communities are still not recovered from katrina and ike. they are recovering but this is the inverse of katrina. boats will be there. the docks will be there. they might not be able to get to them. this is an ecosystem that is open for business. if you are at a restaurant, please keep more seafood. we have been aggressive to make sure it is safe. we are closing areas where oil might be coming ashore. if it is on the menu, it is safe and he did. these communities need help. we look forward. we know the oil is contaminating the wetlands right now. that will continue because the oil has not stopped flowing yet. we think it will have significant long-term effects. that is the worst-case scenario. we hope that whatever the bp response is, we want to make sure the ecosystem is cleaned up and make sure these coastal communities remain whole and are supported in the interim as they are being affected by the oil spill. we must learn from this and make sure that any offshore drilling is done safely with the effect of responses. ultimately, we hope to

i mean to me it's like katrina all over. because people at the top are not paying attention to what's going on on the ground. >> what do you make of bp's role here with regard to the ploeout preventer and the fact that that was sort of the final way to deal with the situation as horrific as this? do you think they had the right management? were they following procedure? where's the blame lie in terms of letting this catastrophe occur in the first instance? >> i don't think we know yet, chris. i heard the clip from dana preno and the others, i think we have to get the robots on the seabed, get the equipment up above sea level, get it on to some docks and let's see what happens. right now i don't know. you either had faulty equipment. you had some problem with bp and some people speculate maybe there was some sabotage. >> what do you make of that speculation? what do you make of that speculation about sabotage? why would somebody sabotage something to cause this kind of damage to our planet, really? >> well, because i think th

hurricane katrina ingrained in their minds. >> if we wait we'll die. >> reporter: with wildlife and weigh of life thang ha in the many are building barriers to save the land they love. >> it is sml that will be irrelevant repable damage to our fishermen. >> reporter: federal officials say they're pressing bp for a solution. >> we now have new schedules for what they expect to happen this week. >> reporter: bp officials hope to try again to patch up the spilling well on tuesday. but many local leaders say they can't wait that long and are threatening to take matters into their own hands. in venice, louisiana, john pinsari, fox news. >>> another disaster in undefeated answers last month's deadly mine explosion. tomorrow a congressional committee will be in west virginia to try to figure out what went wrong. relatives of four the men killed in the explosion will testify and so will the state's governor. the explosion killed 29 workers. so far investigators have not pinpointed an exact cause but have said there is a dangerous build up of methane gas inside. >>> graduation at university of vir

this is when larry spoke to brood brad pitt about hurricane katrina and the devastation that remains. >> i just can't describe this view. it goes on and on and on. it is ghastly. >> it was shocking to see that district in new orleans, a city i love and what had happened to it. seeing things on television and tlk is another. >> the plan is to build 150 homes. i need the help of the american people. we need the help of the american people. >> i'm a great admirer of brad pitt. he is a super guy and he does wonderful things like katrina. >> if you see all the roadblocks we have encountered and have yet to encounter, but people like charles, there are literally hundreds of people involved in this. this thing is working and it will get done. >> larry: he is, there he didn't have to do that. brad pitt is on the ground. very successful raising of money from that appearance. so if some wealthy person of our viewers were to give a check for $150,000, that can build a house. >> they are putting a family in a house. they are returning a family to their neighborhood. done. >> larry: great respect

they have been so many times there in the gulf coast with katrina. >> jeff: how does it affect me here in los angeles? >> it's going to affect people who eat fish, that's for sure. it's going to affect us in many ways. it's going to affect the ecosystem there is going to be a sad trickle-down effect with that. but you're not powerless. do something. save fuel by riding a bike if weather and fitness permanent. take public transportation if it's available near you. turn off the lights. save energy. now days if you're going to save electricity, you're also potentially saving a fuel for a vehicle, because they've got plug-in hybrids coming. i just met with william clay. they've got hybrid electrics coming. i came here in a solar-powered vehicle. i make the electrons on the roof of my house. i know it works. >> jeff: i love it. as john paul said, you are living the life. thanks for being here. john paul, thanks for being with us. saving the environment may help save lives. we will tell you about that link with my friend and familiar face from "survivor." this is a big term, but it all kind

. >> do you think this could be your administration's katrina? >> i think the difference in this case is, we were there immediately. we have been there ever since. sam allen is directing our response as the national incident commander. there are people on the ground. there are thousands of people working even as we speak, bob, to figure out a way to plug this hole and to deal with the spread of this oil. >> the administration obviously distancing itself from any comparison to katrina. bobby jindal, governor of louisiana, saying 65 miles of coast land covered and coated in oil. >> that's 6 million gallons of crude. with new bengay pain relief plus massage you can do this... get the ball. get the ball, girl. hmmm, you can't do that. but you can do this. new bengay pain relief + massage. love the nubs! here wouldw bengay pain relief + massage. you go next if you had a hoveround power chair? the statue of liberty? the grand canyon? it's all possible ith a hoveround., tom: hi i'm tom kruse, inventor rand founder of hoveround., when we say you're free

some people are calling this obama's katrina. you were in the white house when katrina hit, and president bush took a lot of criticism. what say you? what i say is the democrats said at that time nobody would have ever faulted president bush for an overwhelming response even if, in fact, after the fact that response wasn't necessary, and what i say the democrats is where's that same responsibility on this president and this administration? he should have known what that rig was capable of producing a day, what was in the holding tank which two days after the explosion sank and is releasing literally thousands and thousands of barrels a day. where is that same responsibility? there has been to date no overwhelming response to an incident that happened on april 20th. megyn: you know what? it's not just folks who are conservatives and republicans like brad, it's even some liberals who are criticizing the president from, well, "the new york times" to bill maher. take a listen to him. [applause] >> i'll tell you who i'm really mad at

. >> i can only think the lesson with hurricane katrina, they will be laying down sheet rock. >> don't need that much water to do that. mold grows up the wall it. >> is ugly. you don't want anything that was ever around the mold. >> mold, shot up yesterday with the ailer jeffs in the moderate category. tree pollen is high. a lovely day today. hopefully the allergens will not be a problem. a beautiful day ahead. spectacular. nice fits but spectacular would be sticking out all over the place. warm tomorrow. a couple of thunderstorms in the afternoon. friday nice day and 70s. and showers and storms for saturday. a lot of graduations on saturday. some could be impacted. the momslikeme.com bus stop forecast, clear and pleasant. upper 40s to low 60s. sunrise is coming up less than an hour from now at 66. a beautiful afternoon. low humidity levels and comfortable winds southeast five to ten and the temperature 80 give or take a degree or two. and tonight partly cloudy and mild. milder than this morning with upper 50s to even mid-60s as the winds stay from the south at five to ten. sunset 4 af

until recently, katrina was a common curse word here. now they use bp. >> it stands for beyond patience. what we need to tell bp is exclueses don't count anymore. >> reporter: at the certainty of it all, bp ceo tony hayward. today, abc was given exclusive access. >> we're going to fight it subsea, on the surface, on the shore. >> reporter: sounds like you're referring to church yn ill who i know you like to quote. >> i believe we're fighting a battle. i thing it's the appropriate approach. absolutely. we're going to fight it in the subsea, on the surface and on the shore. and we will prevail, ultimately. >> reporter: after relanded in grand isle, we drove with him to see the oil up close. one of the things i find so difficult to understand. your company made a profit of $6.4 million in the first three months of this year, wasn't there somebody sitting around saying, gee, you know, we have a lot of money in hand and we're doing this risky drilling. shouldn't we have a contingency plan? >> we believed we had a contingency plan. a fail safe

there have been four hurricanes, rather 3 cents hurricane katrina that have bhit us. this marks the end of the way of life for fishermen, shrimpmen -- two were already getting better economically from the asian imports. this could spell the end of generational businesses. they are more concerned about that right now than stopping this oil. host: the lead story this morning in "the philadelphia inquirer" has the seven -- rebukes for bp over spill response. how much to the people there in the gulf coast region blame bp on this? how which will they be held responsible for the state of louisiana? guest: the governor yesterday is also reacting to the responses for katrina, but he also sees himself on the national stage. he learned lessons. he firmly blamed bp. he has loudly demanded cleanup and mitigation plans. he says we expect bp to pay. if bp does not, he has also ask for aid from the federal government under the oil pollution act -- things like suspending payment for hurricane loans, and opening up the small business administration loans for this new disaster, wants t

we thought 2010 was the year to finally recover from hurricane katrina. we have invested moneys in our boats and company infrastructure. this oil spill would be devastating for plaquemine parish, but it will be extremely difficult ese next few months for fishermen who depend on this livelihood as a source of income and food source. once again we find ourselves crippled by disaster we did not create and as -- in t aftermath of 2005 hurricane season, it has been said that the total cleanup and recovery will take months if not years to complete. on the eve of 2010 hurricane season, which may only make this problem worse, i can tell you we do not have that kind of time. we need your help. we need congressional oversight on the funds distributed by bp and the federal government. we inouisiana have learned hard lessons about the need for transparency and recovery and call upon this committ to closely monitor the recovery activities. louisia is a provider of shrimp, oysters and crabs, crawfish in the united states providing about a third of the seafood consumed

critics calling it his hurricane katrina. former white house spokesperson dana perino joins us in a couple of minutes to put it in perspective plus president obama takes the stage at the white house correspondents dinner and aims right at sarah palin. >> i hear i'm still pretty big on twitter. facebook, or as sarah palin calls it, the socialized media. >> "fox & friends" rolls on in two minutes. stay with us. [ male announcer ] let's take the garden into our own hands. soak our yards in color. get our hands a little busier. r dollars a little stronger. and our thinking a little greener. let's grab all the bags and all the plants and all the latest tools out there. so we can turn all these savings into moreolorful shades of doing. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. get mom the colors of spng with great hanging baskets and container plants at our everyday low prices. [ female announcer ] kids who don't eat breakfast may not be getting the nutrition they need to keep their bodies strong. a nutritious st

in coastal towns like biloxi, mississippi, a resort town that has only just occurred from hurricane katrina, the mood is grim and resolute. >> that is terrific. getting everybody on board, hiring people. i know you see the ads in local area for hires for people to do cleanup work. so i know there are people who are going to be ready. >> and there are occasional forebodings. wildlife choked with oil appear along the coast. >> it has just now reached the barrier islands. it is coming our way. it is killing animals are ready. it is pretty nasty. -- it is killing animals already. >> is hoped that drilling a relief well will -- it is hoped that drilling a relief well will cut off the oil spread. now the oil continues to leak into the ocean, and the gulf coast holds its breath. adam brooks, bbc news, washington. >> good to have you with us on "bbc world news." stay with us, if you can. still to come -- as britain heads into its general election, we will look at help south africans see its former colonial masters. -- we will look at how south africans see its former -- south africa sees its former

and then katrina. this happened in the same region, almost to the nautical mile as katrina. so the same people are going through a new suffering. this is the signed of... this is the kind of suffering that could happen to so many of us. now there's thousands... there's almost a million oil wells around the world. of there's a few thousand oil rigs. this is the kind of disaster that could happen almost anywhere . >> warner: amy jaffe, how does it look to you in houston? what do you think this event is tapping into in the american public? >> well, you know, we in the american public are a big believer that there's a science and technology solution to everything. it was really amazing that the industry we were sort of running out of oil on shore and the industry was able to go out to the depths of the earth under the sea and keep us driving around in our cars. so to sit here night after night and watch all these scientists unable to close a simple pipeline, even though it's a very complex engineering problem, as a lay person when you sit here and watch the oil just spewing out

. >> the difference between the federal response after the storm, after katrina, and now is president obama has sent agency people down to the community level, and they have had meetings and listening sessions and they are taking notes. the problem is they are listening, and then there is no response. it is like they are protecting b.p. instead of us. their job is to protect their citizens. >> reporter: it's not just the people in barataria who are upset. people in three other states are also affected. over in picayune, mississippi, about an hour to the east, tony carbone is also wondering what the future holds. >> i am very scared, very scared. seafood has been our life. we are in our third generation. i think i have salt water in my blood. people ask why dont i leave this house, and i say it is because my gills would dry up. >> reporter: carbone's dockside restaurant is all about seafood. shrimp, on ice... live crawfish, carefully sorted... and oysters in the deep fryer. but no louisiana blue crab. like everybody else around here, carbone is worried about whether he'll be able to bu

katrina came and went and they could rebuild. this thing, they feel, is going to last fair very long time and their worry was very pro found and very real. these men are faced with mortgages. they probably have mortgages on their boats. they have families to feed. they have a livelyhood they're used to and probably don't have other skills to apply to replace their livelyhood and earn an become elsewhere, nor do they want to. and lately with the oil impacting into the shores of grand isle, venice, and barataria bay, you see impact on wildlife. we were on a supply vessel, and one day i was oit taking pictures of some egrets that had landed on the boats, and they were oil stained. and know worst crew members motioned me over the and was frantically pointing into the water. i could see this bird languishing in the water, and he was pecking at the hull, trying to get in, and he had no way of getting in, and he was completely inundated with oil and this was right at the spill site. you can imagine if the plume was coming up right there

. >> we will lose more coastline from this catastrophe than all four hurricanes-- katrina, rita, tkpwaous of the and ike. >> suarez: researchers in florida reported find ago new underwater plume of oil 22 miles long off alabama stretching toward mobile by a. >> brown: the spill and its continuing aftermath was the focus of a news conference this afternoon, as president obama faced pointed questions about his administration's response. here are some excerpts, beginning with his opening remarks. >> lehrer: and to judy woodruff. >> the american people should know from the moment this disaster began the federal government has been in charge of the response effort. as far as i'm concerned, spwao *ep responsible for this horrific disaster and we will hold them fully accountable on behalf of the united states as well as the people in and communities victimized by this tragedy. we will demand that they pay every dime they owe for the damage they've done and the painful losses that they've caused. and we will continue to take full advantage of the unique technology and expertise they have to help