bp has taken full responsibility for the clean up in the gulf and that includes keeping you informed. my job is to listen to the shrimpers and fishermen, hotel and restaurant workers and find ways to help. that means working with communities. we have 19 centers in 4 states. we ve made over 120,000 claims payments, more than $375 million. we ve committed $20 billion to an independent claims fund to cover lost income until people impacted can get back to work. we ll keep looking for oil, cleaning it up if we find it and restoring the gulf coast. i was born in new orleans. my family still lives here. bp is gonna be here until the oil is gone and the people and businesses are back to normal. until we make this right.
wing festival in new york. champion eater joey chestnut headlined a chicken wing eating contest devouring the most wings in seven minutes. in the end the professional eater could not gobble up the competition. he lost to a woman. oh. beaten by a girl. she s known as the black widow sonja thomas. maybe next year. and that s going to do it for me. thomas roberts picks it up next among the stories following, a new tropical storm formed in the gulf setting the sites on mexico and texas. plus, why one group says anti-bullying campaigns in schools promotes who no sexuality. we ll explain that one after the break.
all right. neil irwin, thanks. good to see you. thank you. watching a new storm in the gulf. tropical storm hermine formed overnight. the weather channel meteorologist scott williams here in the studio and joins us live. what does this one tell us? veronica, right now looking at hermine, the eighth named storm of the 2010 season and the bottom line with this, not a wind producer but it will be a rain maker. trouble here going in time for the lone star state and northern sections of mexico here. you can see on the satellite perspecti perspective, deep convection and moisture to stream inland. look at the rain bands beginning to impact south texas. tropical storm warnings posted here. hermine, maximum sustained winds at 45 miles per hour. drifting to the north at 10 miles per hour and the pressure at 999 millibars. not expected to be a tropical weather maker as we go into the latter part of the week but
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