despite worldwide promises of quick and steady aid. >> not just a bad news story. it's a bad policy story on top of a bad news story. >> there has to be a better way to provide longer-term aid to places like haiti. >> worst domestic story. give it to the gulf. the explosion that took 11 lives and produced the oil spill that just kept on spilling. >> the gulf oil spill was quite possibly one of the most depressing events certainly of my lifetime. watching this oil on a live feed gush and gush and gush. >> and nothing was working. it was gushing and gushing and gushing. it was shocking that we couldn't plug a hole. >> the gulf oil spill was one of those reminders that decisions have consequences. >> i don't think people who weren't there not on the ground really realized how it was the