fishing boat captain was working for bp on clean-up duty in the waters that once made him a living and in so many ways gave him a life. his friends say the oil spill and all that s happened since weighed heavily on. we don t know what happened that made him end his life. the concern now is that he will not be the last. the strain is growing. church groups are bringing in extra clergy along the coast. 1500 people have received counseling, according to catholic charities. experts are seeing more drinking, more domestic violence, more despair. here is david mattingly. reporter: people who knew him say allen kruse lived to fish. those closest to him say that life unraveled when the oil spill hit the gulf waters where he worked. he thought it was dead? yes. reporter: he said that to you? yeah. reporter: and there was no hope fishing was going to come back? not in his lifetime. reporter: kruse was a leader, drumming up business in good time. fishing will be good a
holmes sitting in for tony harris here in the cnn newsroom. le. we are on day 67 now of this gulf oil disaster and there have been so many tolls taken on the economy and also the environment. all, it s taking more of a human toll literally. stress from the crisis being blamed for the suicide of a charter boat captain in alabama. folks say allen kruse couldn t handle losing his business and shot himself yesterday on his boat. also, bp says it spent more than $2.3 billion on the disaster, including everything from containment and relief well drilling to money bade for claims and damages. also, a storm brewing in the caribbean could exacerbate the problems in the gulf. admiral thad allen discussed an action plan. they can move to a quadrant of the storm that is less dangerous. sometimes they can take evasive action and deploy as a group to the back side of the hurricane and come in behind it. those are the normal tactics for vessels at sea. it is not a good idea to sta
right? also, protests as the world s financial powers come together in canada. how does this grab you? one group says if the rich countries cannot unite on policies it will cost the planet tens of millions of jobs. and did you watch this? game, set, match, history. what do you think about 11 hours and five minutes of intense tennis? what might that do to your body? we will ask elizabeth cohen. it is happening yet again here. more than a million jobless americans just totally cut off from the federal benefits. the senate could not quite pass a spending package. so each party, you can imagine, pointing fingers at the other one. let s talk more about this with cnn s christine romans and here we go. third time not necessarily the charm in this case. right? that s right. third time senate failed to extend unemployment benefits again. look, brooke, usually people get 26 weeks of jobless benefits of the unemployment check. once they lose their job. under the similar us will, an
afghanistan. so today, president obama and his war council took stock today of how it s going, eight and a half years into the war. and just over a year before the u.s. withdrawal is to begin. defense secretary robert gates insisted the u.s. is not bogged down, but the president made clear the pullout will not be completed overnight. national security correspondent david martin is at the pentagon tonight. david, the senate armed services committee said today it will begin confirmation hearings for general david petreaus next tuesday. reporter: he is expected to be confirmed quickly and easily, but defense secretary gates acknowledged today the war itself is going slower and harder than expected. the man gates calls one of the greatest battle captains in american military history made the rounds today ahead of his senate confirmation hearings next week. before he is confirmed, petraeus will have to answer questions about the july 2011 date president obama has set for beginni
closing the door behind us. we said we d been begin a transition phase in which the afghan government is taking on more and more responsibility. reporter: defense secretary gates says everyone at the pentagon agrees with that. we are all on board for beginning this process this gradual process of draw-down in july of 2011. that was the president s decision. and that decision stands as far as all of us are concerned. reporter: petraeus wasn t answering questions ahead of his confirmation hearings, but his spokesman said one of his areas of focus will be on improved civilian-military relations and unity of effort. an obvious reference to the rolling stone article where general stanley mcchrystal and his aides openly disparaged the civilian members of the president s afghan team. the chairman of the joint chiefs, who had recommended mcchrystal for the top job in afghanistan described his reaction when he sawtd article left-hand. honestly, when i first read it, i was n