that and administered by a third party, an independent third party, not bp, an independent third party, because these claims are going to go on for years and years, and these are legitimate claims, contessa. yeah. so, are you concerned when you hear me say that roy blunt just asked bp how much cash it has on hand and the ceo, the chair of the of bp america didn t seem to have a concrete answer? i don t think they re going into bankruptcy if that s what you mean. and what we ve asked for is for them to set aside $20 billion in a trust fund. how likely is bp to cooperate with that? well, if they don t, then we re going to have to pass a law. but there s got to be some kind of mutual understanding so that those fishermen that are out of work, that those restaurants that are losing income, that for over time all the economic
reform? many people say yes. the problem is, it carries with it unintended consequences for the lawmakers who are willing to tackle it. well, i think it s i think it s over time. i think when you hear out the foks in arizona as to what motivated this, it s not racism. there are very practical considerations of what has transpired there, not the least of which has been the violence i would argue because i used to live in southern california. my family lives in arizona. i know how big a problem illegal immigration is in those states. but i have to argue, they are not most illegal immigrants are not criminals. and i hate it when people get up and make the argument that everybody crossing the border illegally is criminals. i ve been out there with the border patrol. i know a lot of them are mothers who really care about what they re doing. they care about making money for their contessa. contes contessa, you haven t heard that from me. you introduced me with a conservative
ban on extracurricular activities since 1983. a lot of people on campus didn t side with him. the new policy points out undergrads are particularly vulnerable given their age and lack of maturity and such relationships can be damaging. it not only bands professors from having sex with their own students but all undergraduates. there s a lot to say there, ed. i ll refrain. always good to have rules, contes contessa. no doubt about it. let s turn to the economy. a slumping economy means more and more unpaid internships. but investigators say some companies are going too far when it comes to free help. in another story, an american military chopper makes a deadly mistake in iraq. it happened three years ago. and now the pentagon is trying to explain why we re just finding out about it. you can catch me back here at 6:00 p.m. eastern time for the ed show right here on msnbc. tonight marks our one-year anniversary. you won t want to miss the special edition.
to three days, then we ll deal with a big rain event. sunday s forecast, rain increasing late in the day buffalo, also d.c. monday looks like a wash-out. potentially tuesday also could be a washout. this looks like another slow moving storm just like the last couple. potential for heavy rain, river flooding, maybe even coastal flood problems and also downed trees just like we did with the last one. won t be as bad but that s the potential. the rest of the country, west coast looks just fine with the storm system that s going to head east, currently today located in kansas, through missouri with a little bit of wet weather. is under the storm system heads through the southeast and tennessee valley. contes contessa, this next storm, we ve had six in the last two or three months that hit the mid-atlantic hard. we could have a five or six-inch rain event in jersey and massachusetts. we could do it all over again. i m looking at that temperature in l.a. and really missing my old days ther
millions of people before it s all done. given the lack of visibility out there, jeff, are you even seeing snow plows at this point? reporter: it s hard to tell what s falling and what s blowing. it s all kind of just one big shade of white out here. we are getting some additional snow and i d say we probably have about 6 to 8 inches on the ground, but even that s hard to gauge because it s drifting so much. we have drifts that are probably 2 or 3 feet high and in some areas of eastern oklahoma as high as 5 feet have been reported. so you don t want to get stuck in one of those. it s best to just stay home and wait this one out. maybe the conditions are so bad you can t see the snow plows even if they go by. jeff morrow, thanks. let s go to st. louis now. up on the line there. well, john yang, it looks like you re getting a little bit of a break there from what jeff is experiencing in oklahoma city. reporter: that s right, contes contessa. what jeff is experiencing in oklahom