the whole panhandle is a rural area and that's what our livelihoods depend on. without wildlife, we'd be very damaged. >> as it is, the tragedy is bringing attention that could help florida's wildlife for many years. some of the support for the program came through a program called volunteer florida. it's an initiative by the governor's office here. which is aimed at just this -- getting people out to do what they can to improve their communities at all times and especially when faced with catastrophic problems like this one. new trouble in the toronto as the g-20 summit wraps up. at least 224 arrests today. cnn is on top of all of it our jean me serve is keeping aen a i on the protesters, ali velshi focusing on the world leaders. let's begin with jean and the protests. >> fredricka, there's a standoff going on right now on the other side of town. at the facility where some protesters are being held. right now we have the police and a group of demonstrators staring down one another. why is it going on there? because there have been so many arrests today. police tell us 224 arrests since 6:00 a.m. this morning. that makes 562 since june 18th, when some of the protest activity began. you know yesterday there was violence here in the streets of toronto, there were windows broken, police cars burned. and today the police went on the offensive, they were stopping young people in some parts of the city, asking to look in their bags. and if they found anything whatsoever that was suspicious, they were taking them into custody and taking them to this detention facility that i mentioned. that has prompted protests on and off through the entire day. at one point there was even gas deployed there. tear gas deployed there. the muzzle discharge that affects individuals rather than large groups of people. i can tell you that there's a lot of controversy about how the police have been conducting what some view as round-ups. some potentially innocent people. there are also is some controversy from civil rights groups and the protesters about the conditions in which they're being held. civil rights groups saying that two of their monitors are being held and they haven't even been allowed to call their lawyers. so this will be a point of some controversy. the g-20 may be leaving town tonight. but i suspect argument over what's going on the last few days may continue for a while. fredricka, back to you. >> jean meserve thanks so much. now on to the business of the g-20 summit. let's check in with ali velshi. ali? >> it's not fair, fred, coming to me after jean. what am i going to tell you, the prime minister of france tripped the south african president? that's not to say, that's not to say there isn't disagreement on the inside among the world leaders. in fact i don't know whether it's meant to make the whole thing spicier, the g-20, to go into this thing saying they're not in agreement or whether that's really the case. the bottom line is we're still stuck in economic problems and the leaders have come in with different views about how to get out of it. people will say, can't countries have different views? in the last year and a half, the world has worked in absolute concert, the central banks and leaders have come together to agree that the governments will put in as much money as necessary to make sure the economies are stable. and now the countries want to go in different directions and some are saying don't pull out too early. government can't pull up to the plate. meanwhile in europe, debt problems are so high as we've seen in greece, portugal, spain, italy, ireland, and they're saying, we need to do that. we need to pull back. we need to start stop spending as much money. we need to raise taxes tharks the disagreement they came into the g-8 and the guntty wi-20 wi. as you know, fred, a lot more gets discussed here. health care issues, national security issues and international other international issues, oil, iran, israel, north korea. so generally speaking, the leaders are getting ready to leave. we're waiting for the final comments, we'll hear from president obama probably in the next hour or so. but generally speaking, the leaders are leaving here with some sense that they've accomplished something. and on the other hand, you're seeing all the stuff that jean is saying is showing you. in that there are still protests on the street and there's still a lot of people angry saying, why do we even do these things the way we do. why do we spend the money on it? that's the story from toronto, fred? >> ali velshi in toronto, thanks so much. cnn will carry those comments from mr. barack obama coming in the 6:00 eastern hour. as they wrap up the g-20 summit. you'll see it here. meantime, some oil workers have been evacuated now from offshore oil rigs in the southern gulf of mexico. the national hurricane center has just released its updated forecast on tropical depression alex. meteorologist jackie jaris. it is still a threat? >> it is still a threat. and the models have quite a spread on it meeting our kst confidence as to where the storm is going is a little smaller. the accuracy has been so incredible in the last five to ten years. but this time around, it's a little different ball game because of the high pressure ridge which is in place and very little steering on the storm down the line. so there you can see how large the cone is down the line. and this is the forecast position for thursday. and this is the area for friday. so at earliest, it would be late thursday, that we would see landfall. and more of a northerly track would indicate a later landfall. as well. so something to keep in mind. now we have seen a little bit of a shift in this track. a little farther on up towards the north as well. so this cone has seen a little bit of a change since last time we saw us. as you take a look at the satellite picture, you can see, you see the little circulation right there? it's just starting to emerge off the yucatan peninsula, and head out over the open waters into the bay of campeche into the gulf of mexico. maximum sustained winds are 35 miles per hour. so it's still very weak. but once it stops interacting with land, we'll see it get over the heat source again and intensify, so it will likely become tropical storm alex once again. let's show you the computer models i was talking about fredricka. notice the big spread. the closer together these things are, the higher our confidence is. and some of the better computer models bringing it closer towards texas. so we still have a ways to go with the storm system and exactly where it's going to go. one of the other things to keep in mind is where the oil spill is out here into the gulf of mexico as well. and what kind of interaction that could be happening. the more of a northerly track this is, the likelier we're going to have some type of an impact. when i see again about the bottom of the hour, we'll talk more specifically on what we think that could do. >> thanks so much, jackie. all right. chris lawrence is in the gulf where the storm is just one of the worries. the on again-off again drilling moratorium is also causing worry. >> the oil rig workers are protected by a fund. they're getting paid still. but it's all the support folks, the cleaners, the truckers, the loaders, the caterers, when the rigs don't work, they don't work. they're worried that if a six-month stretch is on, it's going to cause irreparable harm to the businesses and workers. we talked to one man about the impact it's having on him already. >> i know i'm just waiting for the axe to fall. because it's got to. that company can not survive holding on to guys like me. they can't. >> we did get some good news. we spoke to ken feinberg, the bhan who is now in charge of this whole claims process that president obama appointed. we asked him point-blank. what about the support, guys? we know that the fishermen are covered. what about all the support workers. and now he says they are also going to fall under his jurisdiction. so those workers, you know, like anthony thibodeax we just saw, can file a claim to get reimbursed for their losses. >> thanks so much. senator robert byrd is seriously ill and in a washington-area hospital. the 92 y8d west virginia democrat was admitted to hospital last week. a statement today from byrd's office said after he was examined by doctors, other conditions developed. byrd is the longest-serving member of congress in history. and health care reform kicks in this week. at least one group desperately needs it. how to get the coverage the new law provides. don't take the trip. or even buy the camper... without blueprint from chase. create a plan to pay off large purchases... and save money on interest. does your credit card have blueprint? design your plan at 866 blueprint. cone on, kiddo, let's go. hold on a second... come on up here, where your brothers sit. wow! chevy traverse. a consumers digest best buy, with a 100,000 mile, powertrain warranty. it seats eight comfortably - not that it always has to. now, get 0% apr for 60 months on a 2010 traverse with an average finance savings of around fifty four hundred dollars. see your local chevy dealer. i'm a home in a high-risk flood area. it doesn't look risky. i mean, phil, does this look risky to you? 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let's take a look at this, a national poll, we asked should the senate confirm elena kagan to the high court. 44% say now. that's down ten points from back in may, soon after the president nominated kagan. you can see most of that support has gone to the unsure column rather than the no column. what about the hearings that are coming up? more than six in ten americans, we asked in our poll, more than six in ten say they thought that it would be a major fight between the parties rather than relatively easy process. when it comes to these confirmation hearings. fred, the administration would like for the judiciary commit to confirm her before the senate goes on break in early august. >> and of course, the president wants things to go well. but what else is the president focusing on this week? >> busy week, one thing that stands out for me of course is he's going to wisconsin on wednesday. he's going to be talking about the economy. it was just nine days ago that he was in ohio talking about the economy as well. of course it is the number one issue with americans. he's going to be talking about jobs again, a top, top priority and it was nine days ago in ohio that kicked off a recovery summer, an effort to highlight the stimulus package and how it has created and will continue to create more jobs. fred? >> we know somebody else who will be celebrating maybe a honeymoon this week. our own senior white house correspondent ed henry. he's got a big weekend ahead this is why you won't see ed henry on tv this week. there he is on right. right next to him is shirley hung, the direct or and elvis ws there. >> the good guess is las vegas, yes, it was. i hear it was a bipartisan affair, republicans and democrats. >> glad to hear it, thanks so much, paul and congratulations to shirley and ed as well. this is a big week politically and otherwise. july 1st this week as well. a day to remember. particularly if you're suffering from a preexisting medical condition. and you haven't been able to get affordable insurance coverage. well, july 1st is when certain provisions of president obama's health reform package kick in. joining us with some details on this, andrew reuben. an expert on the health care industry. he also hosts the weekly show, "health care connect" on sirius satellite radio. good to see you, andrew. give us an idea who needs to be paying attention to what happens on july 1st? >> a lot of people need to be paying attention. this is the first big initiative of health care reform. but in particular if you've been uninsured for the past six months, for at least six months because you have a preexisting condition, you're going to be able to apply through your individual state or the federal government, for health care insurance. which you haven't been able to get. >> and how do you know? i mean it's not that simple. then there are other qualifications as to how you would be considered high-risk, so to speak? >> sure. you know like everything else in health care, it is extremely complicated. here's what you need to know because there's still a lot we don't know. like what specifically qualifies as preexisting condition. the secretary of health and human services is going to start putting that information out this week. but we know, what we know is if you've been excluded from having health insurance for at least six months, you can go on to our individual state website and look online and see if you can fill out an application. if you qualify for subsidized, health care insurance. it's not really subsidized. it's health insurance that the states are going to charge you that are subsidized by the federal government. so it will be cheaper than existing state high-risk programs if your state even has a high-risk program. >> and there's still premiums involved. how much will it, likely cost for a premium, if you indeed qualify and if you're considered high-risk? >> that's a great question. so basically what the law states is that the health insurance is not allowed to be more expensive than what the average person pays in that state for health care insurance. >> it may be different in georgia or what you're paying in new york, state to state. but it's within the state, it can't be any more expensive than what the average person pays for. and the only thing that can trigger a higher premium is your age. >> then where do you find out about this coverage? you mentioned that certain you know states, departments of insurance. but there are other locations where you can find out more forks find out whether you qualify, if you can take advantage of this. >> the best place is going to be the health and human services website. which is hhs.gov. because not every state has opted in to the high-risk pool. so about 30 states have. you'll be able to get that information on your individual state department of insurance website. but health and human services has the full list of which states are in. and if the state isn't in, then the federal government is going to administrator the program and they're going to tell you how to apply. the key here? apply early. you want to make sure your application is in early. a lot of people have said there's not enough money in the program to keep it going until 2014 when insurance reform kicks in. so you want to make sure if you fall into the category of not having health insurance because of a preexisting condition, you need to get your application in early. you can jump on it today and log on to your state website to see if there's any information up already. >> andrew reuben. so many folks thought health care reform is so far away. this is the first phase rolling out there week. so if you have preexisting conditions and it's been a difficult time for you to try to get insurance, you need to be paying attention this week and as you said, jump on the website right now to find out. >> right now. it's a long road ahead. >> thanks so much, andrew. appreciate that. let's talk seafood and other things that you often find in the gulf. coming up, scallops, pretty serious business, particularly along florida's gulf coast. but the scallop season is changing because of the oil disaster. getting ahead of the oil, that's exactly what they're trying to do in florida, where they've opened the important bay scallop season two weeks early. cnn platform journalist john kouls went out with some regulars along florida's gulf coast. >> getting into the water and see something, maybe you can catch a scallop. you never know, we may get one or two. see you later, baby. that's one scallop-catching dog, isn't she? fishing hag become more and more regulated. more expensive to go fishing than it used to be. cost of the boats, cost of the gas and scalloping has been more of the family thing to do. there's more folks coming in now, a bunch of boats. do we go fishing or scalloping? they come over from jacksonville, they stayed the full scallop season and i bet they scalloped three or four times a week. you guys just got here? >> we've been here for a couple of hours. >> okay. >> i don't see the crowds down here that i normally see. but then scallop season is about 12 days early this year. >> it pretty much is the lifeline. it brings us a tremendous amount of out of town business. >> beautiful. >> a whole bunch of them, huh, baby? excited they opened it early. we were a little concerned it was going do back-fire on us. but so far, the scalloping is good. >> it's very addictive. you think if i stay under a little bit longer, i can find more. >> it's just like a never-ending easter egg hunt. >>s did addictive. >> i noticed a little bit of oil on it and i thought, oh my gosh. the oil is here and i realized it was some oil off the back of my motor so we're good. >> the good news was that we were very relieved it gave us a tremendous amount of confidence to hear that others feel that the oil is not coming into the big bend area. >> we came early after the governor opened it up and we thought this was going to be, he may know something we don't. >> they're great. especially being early. >> scalloping to us is close to 70% of our business for the whole year we get in a less than three-month cycle. you guys will sleep good tonight, won't you? 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and there really are no charges if they're allowed to just exit today? >> we don't know of, we think that they're just being, we've only seen about ten be released one by one. and they've had sort of different stories. but they claim that they weren't doing anything. and that they are being released. we don't know that legal action has been taken. but they, a few of them have said they had no access to legal counsel. >> okay. cnn producer, leslie perrot. thanks so much for joining us from toronto with that update. once again, the president of the united states, barack obama, is expected to take to the microphones and talk to reporters there, to talk about the thumbs up or the thumbs down moments during the g-20 summit. we'll carry it live as it happens. roughly 6:00 eastern. meantime let's talk about the weather. and this named storm called alex that we continue to watch there threatening the gulf of mexico. our meteorologist jackie jaris in the weather center. >> we've had a lot of questions about what kind of an impact that alex could have as to the gulf oil spill area and which direction potentially the storm could be going. we've got a new update from the national hurricane center on the projected path. and that has shifted slightly to the right. the further north the storm takes, the longer it will take to get to shore. it could intensify a little bit more. and the more northerly track it takes, the closer it's going to be getting to that oil spill. now on google earth here, we put the latest forecast map and projection here for the gulf oil spill and take a look at this. this is alex. way the heck down here. and the storm itself kind encompasses this area with the satellite imagery and how much of the gulf that is impacting the wind. so really right now, is doing absolutely nothing. and if it takes more of this westerly track, we're not concerned about it at all. they haven't evacuated any workers, they haven't unhooked any equipment. but if we start to see more of this northerly track even if it starts getting up over here towards the texas landfall, you know, hurricanes and tropical systems, the winds surrounding them rotate counter clockwise. so they would be going this way around the storm. so it is possible depending on the size and intensity of the storm, if it takes the northerly track that those winds are going to be gusting and churning up the water here across the oil spill. so one good note of that is that it could help to break up the oil a little bit. and help to disburse it a little bit more. and just kind of aid the biodegrags procebio d biodegradation process. right now none of the models are leading it to believe it would be the worst-case scenario, which would be coming to the west of here and bringing a storm surge and the oil onshore. best-case scenario is if it went over this way, the winds would push it away. from the coastline. so that's not going to happen, we don't think. >> that's the wishful thinking. >> yes. >> it's nice to be hopeful. thanks a lot. jacqui, appreciate it. earlier i talked with ocean explorer, jean michelle cousteau and we talked about the toxic legacy and some of the lessons not learned if his famous father, jacques cousteau. >> the entire world economy all the way down to where the oil is coming out is being affected. we're talking about things we don't see. we relate to birds that are dying. we relate to dolphins that are running a i ground. what about everything else in the food chain from the plankton, which is really the foundations of all marine life. all the way up the food chain to to the surface? all of that is being affected right now. so the consequences are long-term, like we've experienced in the exxon valdez where i was 21 years ago, like we've experienced in spain with the prestige. the consequences are foredeck aids. and i don't know how we can look at and say for decades. is how we can say to the people straight in the face, you will get your job back. we are heading for major issues, and we want to help as much as we can. we need to stop the leak and i know how complicated it is. and we need to clean the mess as much as we can. and as soon as we can, before it reaches the coastline. and it already has. it's heading toward florida. its going to come up into the caribbean. it's going to be caught into the gulfstream and it's going to go all the way to the uk, to france, to spain and to portugal. >> well, you're not sounding very hopeful about this at all. all this at a time that you're also promoting your book "my father." the world knows your father many times over, jacques courteau. but perhaps thu don't know him like you're portraying him in your book. how much are you thinking of your father as the world watches how the gulf of mexico, how this catastrophe will be stopped or healed? how much are you thinking about your dad as you help promote this book and as everyone watches you know, what may be a fairly futile i guess future for the gulf? >> well, my dear father taught me a lot and so did his team. and this is teamwork. and what he was telling us, i remember in 1971, he said, if in 20, 30, 50 years from now we haven't taken care of ourselves, of our life support system, it may be too late. this is 11 years from now. and you know, in honor of his 100th anniversary, the book has been published by national geographic and i'm wearing many of us, the entire people on the sanctuary, we're wearing this two days ago. but he did this so we stop doing this to ourselves. this is what we are doing right now to ourselves. you talking about the oil spill, which now has reached the coastline. you're talking about even this little crabs that cannot dive down because the oil is keeping them on top of the surface. we talking about the portuguese man of war. this is what we're doing. i know it's not as spectacular as looking at a dolphin, looking at a turtle. but everything else is being affected by what we're doing and that's what he's taught us. that's what he has help us understand. and i think we know enough today that we can change. we can make a difference. and i strongly believe in the face of young people, the next generations, we are not going do let them down. we're going to make a difference. we need to roll our sleeves and go to work and stop abusing our life support system. which means abusing every one of us. a look at the top stories right now. the g-20 economic summit is wrapping up in toronto. member countries reached a compromise agreeing to cut their deficits in half by 2013. president obama is scheduled to hold a news conference within the hour. cnn will carry it live for you. and the conference was marred by violence and vandalism. police arrested 500 demonstrators in the past two days alone. and the head of the c.i.a. is talking about the challenges in afghanistan. leon panetta tells abc news that up to 100 al qaeda terrorists could still be there. he also says the war in afghanistan has serious problems, but the u.s.-led mission is making some progress. and the family of a captive israeli soldier is on a 12-day march to try to win his release. some 2,000 supporters joined the parties of gilad shadit. they started today. palestinian militants captured him four years ago this month. his family plans to camp outside of the israeli prime minister's office until he is freed. all right top teams in action at the world cup today. germany, england, argentina and mexico all trying to punch their tickets to the next round. we'll tell you who's moving on and who just might be going home. cone on, kiddo, let's go. hold on a second... come on up here, where your brothers sit. wow! chevy traverse. a consumers digest best buy, with a 100,000 mile, powertrain warranty. it seats eight comfortably - not that it always has to. now, get 0% apr for 60 months on a 2010 traverse with an average finance savings of around fifty four hundred dollars. see your local chevy dealer. smart..welcomerewardsg at this resofrom hotels.com.? 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"time" magazine counted 441 colleges and universities affected in one way or another and on many campuses, the school year ended chaotically. boston university canceled commencement ceremonies. >> there was great unrest on campus and there were sniper threats, so the university thought it best to call off graduation. >> reporter: they went ahead with commencement at the university of cincinnati, but many of the graduates were missing. >> uc went through the commencement process but because school had been closed down for about five or six weeks prior to, a lot of people were not notified or could not come back to attend. >> reporter: this year, after 40 years, some members of the class of 1970 finally got their commencement. >> i present to you the boston university class of 1970. >> reporter: boston university, the university of cincinnati, and ohio university in athens, invited their 1970 graduates back to campus. to join the class of 2010 for some long-awaited recognition. >> i was never much for pomp and circumstance in the 1960s and 1970, it didn't really bother me. what was happening in the world was more important. but, for my father, who lived since the day i was born to see me graduate from college like nobody else in my family had ever done, a couple of us just looked up towards heaven for our parents who were residing there now. and we wished they could be here today to see this. >> well, congratulations to the class of 1970 and 2010. bill mulvi hill is vice president of the university of cincinnati foundation and he is also a member of the class of 1970. and one of the 1970 uc graduates who participated in this year's commencement ceremony 40 years after the fact. so, we caught up with him yesterday. >> when the kent state shooting took place, you heard that from an individual. you heard it from an american who had emotion. you didn't hear it on your cell phone or get a text about it. and i think that caused that time to be much more meaningf f and personal to people than maybe sometimes are today, so the opportunity to close that loop was important to many of us. >> do you remember that as if it were yesterday? >> i remember the closing of schools as if it was yesterday. i remember the turmoil on campus. it was such an emotional time with all the issues going on around the country. when kent state took place, it was such an unbelievable moment, it's hard not to remember it. >> how much of that moment and the ripple effects did you think of during this year's ceremony? >> well, it was hard not to think about it because it was really the reason that we came together and it's something, when you live through something like that, it's something you never forget. i think we all had somewhat tears in our eyes a little bit thinking about the emotional time and the ability to bring closure to that. >> the 2010 graduates can't possibly understand. they're so far removed from that experience, but did you find you and other graduates of 1970 trying to kind of explain or education the 2010 about what this really means? >> yeah, we had several opportunities to interact with some of the graduates from this year and, you know, they have their own challenges going on in the world, but they were very interested in what had happened at that time. they only had vague memories of it. they really didn't understand the total impact of it and i think they appreciated the fact that we took time to come back and celebrate and they gave us a very nice, warm reception when we came back. >> again, congratulations to the class of 1970 and the class of 2010. i'm fredricka whitfield, i'll see you back here next weekend. minutes from now, president obama is scheduled to hold a new conference in toronto where the conference is coming to a close. we'll take you there live as it happens.