the time that those four helicopters flew was shortly after the military made that announcement. it was more of a show of force. they flew the helicopters above the crowd. they flew them in formation. it was clearly a very symbolic method. this military helicopter was doing what it has been doing among several days. they are filming the crowd and some have suggested that they are useling the footage from the military to communicate to the president that these are large crowds that simply cannot be ignored. over the course of the last year as crowds gather in tahrir and other parts of the country, the president is in somewhat of a denial or unwilling to acknowledge that the people here had reached a critical level. in the past 72 hours the military has deliberately flown reconnaissance flights over the large crowd. they even made that footage public by releasing it to local agencies to show the president and others that these are truly historic crowds, the likes of
today saying new york city s terror funding is actually on the rise even though it s being formally cut in some departments because the city is receiving according to dhs more than one hundred million or about one-third of additional monies from the stimulus bill. we re going to have much more on that in our next hour. the cost of fighting the massive oil spill in the gulf coast is growing by the minute. bp says it has spent $450 million trying to contain this thing since the oil rig exploded back on april 20th. this is brand-new, look at this. look at that. brand-new, underwater video of the oil gushing out of that broken well. some 5,000 feet under the sea. bp was told by the white house to make this footage public. the ceo said yesterday the price tag goes up about $10 million a day. new developments now on a story