their usual suspicion and animosity to laugh at themselves and at others. the president is due to speak in about 14 minutes. we will be covering that live, of course. then jay leno will follow him. he will probably be a very funny bit. i remember when put down my line in the sand thing, jay did. but, you know, as the late great gilda radner used to say it s always something. and folks, face it, there is a lot going on in the the world outside the event, the immigration debate, the severe flooding in tennessee which as i reported in the last hour already claimed five lives, the water pipe blowout up in massachusetts that shut down a bunch of counties and made them boil their water up there, but especially that spreading oil spill that now threatens the entire eastern gulf coast and beyond. the fear that it will be carried through the currents through the florida keys where we have one of the few living corral eves in the country and up the east coast with the gulfstream up the
kelly also says the car contained three propane tanks, consumer-grade fireworks and two gasoline containers and batteries and electrical wire and other components. a black metal books was also recovered. the moking suv with the explosive device was found as tens of thousands of people were strolling in times square. they were quickly ushered out of the area. for more on this developing story, let s go to ted williams, a former homicide detective and fox news contributor, live on the phone. hello, again, ted. you have been with us through a lot of us, giving your thoughts on everything that has happened with this incident. you know, we have talked about the cameras around in times square and the surveillance tapes. and detectives are going to be really taking a close look at those tapes, hoping to glean something that might be might lead to whoever did this? reporter: absolutely. i cannot tell you how important those video cameras are. they may very well hold the position
unfortunately this measured, calibrated approach was are rejected twice in favor of the largess in this spending bill. in trying to justify the enormous spending increases in this bill, supporters paint a picture of a hollowed out shell of a state department suffering years of neglect. yet according to the congressional research service and the state department s own data, funding for the state department and related agencies doubled from fiscal year 2000 through 2008 this clearly shows that growing the bureaucracy and throwing money at the department of state are not the answers. supporters of this bill further argue that the major funding increases for the hiring of new staff are necessary even in the absence of reforms. i note that there was an effort last congress by colleagues in the other chamber to ascertain the levels of absenteeism at various u.s. government agencies. the results for the state department for impressive, in an ironic way. the department explained it d
well, it really remains to be seen because we don t know whether the new regime in north korea will be more or less report same in terms of its opacity and inscruitability for the rest of the world. we have every reason to believe that kim jong un will be like his father and the reaction of the people in north korea will be like it has been when these others have taken power in that country. and kim junge i will has over the yearsts voter years to south korea. what do you think they are talking about and what steps they are taking at this time? well, certainly they would be defensive when he sures. their territory, south korea s territory has recently been