a new report finds that facebook had some 600 million active viewers, more than the 500 million announced in july. that may be more than that even since facebook reportedly down plays user numbers in order to make dramatic announcements. let s take an early look at the markets as we get all up in your business this morning. jeff cutmore live in london. good morning. good morning to you. markets are higher in europe and bp is up almost 2% here. just one of the companies that gets blamed in this final report from the white house spill commission. but transocean and halliburton were also cited for failings here, alleging they made poor decisions around that massive gulf of mexico oil spill. it s not stopping the stock from trading higher though. back to you. all right, geoff cutmore, thank you so much. still ahead on a way too early, ted williams standing on a highway off ram weapon a sign a couple days ago is now 7.5
refused to concede on election night, we re working closely with the national republican committee to guarantee what we have the resources need to ensure that every vote is accurately and fairly counted, end quote. and steaks aside there are 9,000 absentee ballots that need to be counted and that won t be done for several days, so for now this race is too close to call. a democrat who lost by a narrow margin on election day is expressing frustration at the white house. alex sink who lost for florida governor says the white house is quote, tone deaf and she says president obama s aides weren t interested in hearing her concerns about the gulf of mexico oil spill or for health care overhaul. and sink is currently florida s chief financial officer and she lost the gubernatorial race to republican rick scott by one percentage point. well, president obama is urging india to bridge its differences with pakistan.
colonel dallas hack, thanks so much for being with us this morning. great to talk to you, and good luck. it s for the troops. all right. very promising. for the troops, not only in the military, but all the way down the line. young kids who might fall and bump their heads. it d be great to have a test like that. good luck to them as they try to expand the studies. meanwhile, it s 42 minutes past the hour. rob marciano is in new orleans today. doing a follow-up on the gulf oil spill. also going to give us a look at the national weather forecast. and then we re going to check in with eric larson. he made it to the top of mt. everest all in one year s time. trying to bring attention and document the way global warming has affected some of these last great frozen places in our country, in our world. 42 minutes past the hour. [ advisor 1 ] what do you see yourself doing one week,
degrees in dallas and 63 degrees in new york. do want to touch on the big international headline. this is meghi slamming into the philippines late last night, downgraded to the equivalent of a cat four hurricane, and now it reemerging into the south china sea. for the most part, and there s your forecast track heading off towards the west. we are also watching something down in the southwestern caribbean. still hurricane season here, and of course, it s always a worry for folks who live in new orleans. and the other reason, the main reason we are here, john and kiran, coming up on wednesday, that s the six month day from when that explosion happened there out at the well. and we re doing a little gulf of mexico oil spill update. take a little report card on what s going on down here. and we ll have reports throughout the week. the first one coming up in a few minutes. we look forward to checking in, rob, and seeing if life has returned to normal in any way, shape, or form for those l
from the public on the gulf of mexico oil spill. and the white house is saying what? well, it was a damning report, and the question today is when did the administration realize the magnitude of the disaster on their hands and whether they were candid with the american people about what was going on. reporter: a commission set up by the president, himself, to look at the administration s own response to the oil spill released a damning preliminary report. it stated that the white house vastly underestimated the tens of thousands of barrels of oil pouring into the gulf after the deepwater horizon disaster, and despite contrary information from scientists who used different measuring methods. the commission says that the white house stuck with the number of 5,000 barrels a day through may 27th, a month after the initial explosion, despite eestimates from outside experts and even, bp, itself, suggesting a much higher figure.