where the married queen of vietnam church held mass two months after katrina. post-katrina many evacuated and then returned and soon helped to elect joseph galla to serve in congress. the deep water horizon rig explosion filled millions of barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico. joining me now from new orleans is cindy wen, the executive director of vietnamese economic training. good morning. talk to me about how the issues that are facing vietnamese new orleanans is? for the vietnamese community when ka troe in a hit 30 years prior to that we had to migrate to new orleans and rebuild our lives. so when katrina hit, it was like
1,600 acre property. those still living there can legally contest the state s move. also, three former bp employees have entered not guilty pleas in connection with the deadly deep water horizon rig explosion in april 2010. two of the men were rig supervisors, the third was an executive. they entered their pleas and were released on bond, in new orleans, charged with manslaughter in the deaths of the 11 rig workers who died. in that disaster. trials are now set for early next year. high-level negotiations resume today on capitol hill over the looming fiscal cliff. there are fresh signs that republicans may be in disagreement over the best way to avoid tax increases and spending cuts. oklahoma congressman tom cole says instead of risking a tax increase on everybody it would be better to let tax increases for the top 2% of earners go up. if congress does nothing, every family in america will see their taxes automatically go up at the beginning of next year.
also, three former bp employees have entered not guilty pleas in connection with the deadly deep water horizon rig explosion in april 2010. two of the men were rig supervisors, the third was an executive. they entered their pleas and were released on bond, in new orleans, charged with manslaughter in the deaths of the 11 rig workers who died. in that disaster. trials are now set for early next year. high-level negotiations resume today on capitol hill over the looming fiscal cliff. there are fresh signs that republicans may be in disagreement over the best way to avoid tax increases and spending cuts. oklahoma congressman tom cole says instead of risking a tax increase on everybody it would be better to let tax increases for the top 2% of earners go up. if congress does nothing, every family in america will see their taxes automatically go up at the beginning of next year. there has been no serious discussion by the white house on
hostage, jessica buchanan. she s at a hospital in italy. she s going through what s callcal called a reintegration. it requires time. it s to max mime health and welfare. the question is could she be coming home soon. wish her well nonetheless. special delivery. can you say hot sauce? i woke up to the story and thought, oh, my man, what a delivery. politic and tacos, folks. hundreds and hundreds of tacos going to the office of the mayor of east haven, connecticut. i think you know who s behind this, why it happened and what s the reaction to it. we have an amazing video. a snow blower rider fell hundreds of feet. what he did after the crash. there were three angles on that. let me tell you. it looks like he s completely busted up or we wouldn t be showing you the video. we wouldn t have be showing you the video. i like good x games, i tell you. a real daredevil. let s go to the x games of politics, shall we? it was the gop s final four, and they were pulli
the u.s. investigating reports of an oil slick in the gulf of mexico off the coast of louisiana. it s said to be three miles long. a substance is visible, no word if it is actually oil. the gulf region of course is recovering from the deep water horizon rig explosion. and the president is in a latin american trip, and he ll go in one of the slums and the christ the redeemer statue. end the day with a speech and that s supposed to be held in a public square, but indead moved inside to a theater and some sense that may be due to security. a u.s. airways flight from san francisco to philadelphia makes an emergency landing in chicago because two flight attendants got sick. it was met by ambulances and police as a precaution and the flight attendants were treated at the scene. no word on what they had. no passengers got sick, but they were put on another