deterred by those who embrace evil and call it good. sarah palin posted that video this morning at 5:00 a.m. eastern time. that s actually midnight alaska time, when she did it. it runs just under eight full minutes. and of course, she released it at 5:00 a.m. eastern time this morning. joining me now is tom donohue, the president of the u.s. chamber of commerce. y yesterday gave a speech about the new relationship going forward that you want to have both with the federal government, the obama administration, and congress. but before i go to that, you ve been around this town a long time. simply on political discourse, worse now or not? not worse, different. driven in part, i believe, by a 24-hour news cycle, which has added to the people playing in it blogs and new means of conveying information that have no system of checks and balances
united states senate candidate to win a write-in campaign since south carolina strom thurman did so he so in 1954. today s certification follows a lengthy legal battle between murkowski and her rival republican joe miller. you will recall a federal judge dismissed lawsuit after the state supreme court upheld the election results there we re told miller plans now to hold a news conference tomorrow. it is set for 2:00 p.m. alaska time to announce whether he plans to file an appeal in all of this. well, he is the former republican governor of florida. and his dad and brother both former presidents of the united states. now, a new poll shows more than 70% of republicans in the sunshine state want jeb bush to run for the u.s. senate in 2012. he would be taking on an incumbent democratic senator bill nelson now in his second term. our phil keating with the news live in our south florida newsroom. phil, clearly florida republicans have one democrat smack in the middle of their bulls eye right
and i m just wondering why you wouldn t like to tell us right now. well, we have a press conference scheduled for 2:00. there are a number of options available to us. we have a number of supporters that would like to continue the fight. we have an election contest that can be filed after certification. we also have the option of appealing the federal court s decision to the ninth sur cat and onto the u.s. spreet court. those are the options being considered. we ll announce it at 2:00 p.m. alaska time. it sounds like you have decided to press ahead. we re going to find out later on. the winner has been certified. are you willing to take this to the supreme court of the united states? well, this ab from the beginning of the legal process, transparency and integrity in elections here in alaska.
oil lost power in a remote area off the aleutian island. right now a rescue tug is trying to pull the ship to safe harbor. it has bad weather and high seas working against it. earlier today, i talked with chief petty office dana war in anchorage. they got on scene yesterday about 5:30 alaska time. it took them three hours before they got the tow set up. they had to go through safety procedures and make sure both captains were comfortable with how far things were going to go. the crew on the tug, this is what they are. they re an ocean-going tug. they can handle the sea states. your greatest concern would be what? right now if if the tow was to break. that would be our worst concern. we have backup emergency towing
we do not know about the fate of the others on that plane. here s what we believe we know. that plane crash last night about 8:00 p.m. alaska time, it took rescuers about 12 hours to get to the plane because it was in rugged terrain in southwestern alaska. we believe five people were killed on that plane and we do know of three survivors who are being treated although there are some conflicting reports that there may have been four survivors. there were either eight or nine people on that plane. that is the plane. you re looking at it right now. it is a dehavelind otter. it went down in a rugged area. we don t have any details about the crash, what caused it. who was piloting the plane. we do know they were off to a fishing lodge as an anchor from anchorage just told me. autumn is setting in this alaska.