the public safe. i m candy crowley. wolf blitzer is off. and you re in the situation room. it s the future of the presidential campaign getting under way in california right now. president obama is appearing before a small audience at facebook headquarters. he s also live on the network site which had more than 500 viewers. candidates are seeking every chance for the online communication and that s brought down. first, we wanted to listen a little bit to the president. obviously we re having a very serious debate right now about the future direction of our country. we are living through as tumultuous of a time as certainly i ve seen in my lifetime. admittedly, my lifetime is a lot longer than most of yours, so far. this is a pretty young crowd. but we re seeing domestically a whole series of challenges, starting with the worst recession that we ve had since the great depression. we re just now coming out of it. we ve got all sorts of disruptions, technological disruptions
a promise to the people. syria moves to lift the state of emergency but there are strings attached. sun and sand and the bp oil spill one year after the gulf of mexico disaster has the clean-up done its job? and dress to impress. you, too, can look like a princess and for a lot less than you might think. britain s plan to get more deeply involved in the revolt in libya is attracting criticism and causing concern. it is sending military advisers to benghazi to support rebel fighters. london says its team won ting training or arming the libyan opposition. it will be to help in areas of organization and communication. the libyan government has slammed the move. foreign minister says it s a backward step that will set back any chance of peace. as the power struggle in libya continues, the head of the opposition is on his way to paris. for the first time he ll hold direct talks with nicolas sarkozy. britain s plan to get more involved in libya come as moammar gadhafi s f
who holds the pursestrings. and how bad is the damage? i ll ask our special correspondent, philippe cousteau. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. by all accounts, this was a pretty ordinary day in the gulf, boats going out, fishermen hauling in their catch, oil rigs pumping out crude. on the surface, it almost looks the same. but when you go deeper, absolutely nothing is the same. it all changed on the day a year ago when the deepwater horizon blew up, killing 11 workers, and flooding the gulf with 205 million gallons of oil. even now, a year later, we don t know the full extent of the environmental damage. joining me now is courteney kemp and shelly anderson, widows of two workers killed in the deepwater horizon explosion. and also joining us is earnest cannon, shelly anderson s attorney. courtney and shelly, first of all, let me offer you both my deepest sympathies. it s the first anniversary since this terrible explosion, which obviously wrecked your lives in m
and so you can have a short-term effect, actually cascade out into a long-term problem. reporter: a long-term problem that affects so many livelihoods along the gulf coast. lynne whitman s shop took a hit during last year s tourism dropoff. but she did not have to close, thanks in part to money from bp. the summer was very slow. i don t think we made as much in june, july and august as we did in march. we hope the u.s. can learn lessons from this disaster. i know we have to have energy and i know we re not prepared at this time to switch to wind or water or switch to something else. we don t have enough of it. we re stuck with some of the dirty energies. i think we re just going to have to start making that move now toward clean energy. reporter: a change that could help protect this environment for future generations. for cnn, i m felipe cousteau. bp still faces billions of
explosion and fire killed 11 workers on the deep water horizon platform. within days the rig sank and thousands of barrels of oil spewed out in the gulf of mexico. on may 19th, the first oil from the spill reach the fragile louisiana marshlands. at the disaster s peak, some 1,500 kilometers of u.s. gulf coast shoreline were affected as a result. by may 25th, scientists estimated that the spill had become the worst ever in u.s. history. and the white house imposed a six-month ban on deep water drilling. it wasn t until july 15th that a contaminated dome finally plugged that ruptured well but not before almost 5 million barrels of oil leaked into the gulf of mexico. the money paid to compensate people affected may help some businesses get back on their feet. but as felipe cousteau discovered, when he went back to the hard-hit beaches of alabama,