can t trust bp to do anything but when it comes to deep water drilling, we ll just take their word for it. i don t think anybody wants to go through what s happened over the last 57 days again. lord knows i don t and i can t imagine that the people of the gulf, they don t want to do that either. we need to figure out exactly what happened, ensure that that never happens again. but let s not rush to put in place the type of risky framework that led to this type of disaster. let s not let that happen again. let s do all that we can. we re going to protect the people whose livelihoods have been lost and damaged because of this. that s the right thing to do. but we re not going to take bp s word for it right now that things are safe in the gulf. just before we go, does the president trust tony hayward? yes or no. it s not about trusting tony hayward or anybody at bp. it is about ensuring that they live up to each and every responsibility that they have and that s exactly what the
enjoy this much? she is just a treat. she s adorable. more than that, she just has such a great attitude. there is probably so much you can learn from her just talking to her for ten minutes. it had been a long day. she d been going since maybe 6:00, 7:00 in the morning. she still had to do the joy behar show after that. we talked about a lot of other things as well. more of my interview with betty white in the 8:00 half-hour. we look forward to it. she is great. time for a look at your top stories at 31 past the hour. president obama addresses the nation from the oval office tonight on clean-up efforts in the gulf. it will come after his longest visit to the region since the oil spill began 57 days ago. new poll numbers show that more than two-thirds of the country think that he has not been tough enough on bp. parts of oklahoma city under water this morning. as much as ten inches of rain fell in just 12 hours. there are flood watches and warnings up right now across the
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holding on. a rescue air boat is on the way. the woman swims from one tree to the next but appears to be tiring. hang on, girl. reporter: by now she s been in the water for at least 20 minutes. a few minutes later she managed to clamor out of the torrent and on to a branch. but still, no rescue in sight. lightning forces the chopper to leave the scene. 40 minutes later, help is at hand but the first rescue boat capsizes. finally, fighting the current, a dingy gets close enough to pull the woman on-board, as well as some of her rescuers. after a terrifying ordeal, she s brought to dry land, apparently none the worse for the experience. an amazing rescue that played out yesterday and just a miracle that this girl made it out alive. you could just see the force of that wert. su such a deluge across the oklahoma city area. they had another complex of thunderstorms that moved through
that story for us. good morning. wow, this was pretty dramatic to watch yesterday. yeah, it really was. there were a lot of water rescues yesterday but this one was so surreal, it almost played out like a movie where you are cheering for the main character and hoping for that happy ending. but this was real life and many touch-and-go moments that could have ended tragically. this was sooner road in oklahoma city until eight inches of rain in just three hours turned it into a torrent of mud-brown water. a young woman tries clinging to anything to be swept from being swept away. a helicopter caught sight of her but she disappears under a canopy of trees. for a few moments, no sign of her. but then okay, guys, i think this is a woman, clinging on to this tree. there is a road here. she keeps trying to swim but she s going nowhere. reporter: and there s little chance of her making it to dry hand. five minutes later she s still