katie kay. are you there? yeah. good morning, mika. looking ahead to the prognosis on dealing with this oil spill and looks like it may be down to the water but bp better be right in terms of when they think because if they are putting out especially given the fact their earnings report i believe is due. coming out soon. yeah. i hope they are not trying to match expectations. do you believe them when they say by wednesday? katie, do you believe them? we ve had so many times when bp had coma up with a prediction which things are getting fixed only to have the prediction not work or a new technology they are trying down there a mile under the ocean and that not to work. we re not hearing the kind of cries of elation that you think there my be when they think we are going to get this thing capped by the end of this week. to pick up on one thing you said, mika, about the offshore drilling moratorium. i was in the gulf recently.
permits were stopped. plans were stopped. exploration plans. development plans. new well permits. work over permits. pipeline permits. all stopped. reporter: charlie crist called for a special legislative session this month and he wants lawmakers to put a constitutional amendment on the november ballot to ban offshore drilling in florida waters forever. i know i m on board. and i believe the people of florida are on board, too, whitney. the rightness of this is so clear, especially dealing with what we have experienced in the past 80 days or so in the gulf of mexico. governor krist is running as an independent this november. he s been ahead in follows versus republican challenger marco rubio. if this does make the ballot, the constitutional ban on
latest. reporter: good evening. the hearing lasted an hour fifth circuit court of appeals announced early next week it will make the ruling known whether to uphold or overturn lower court s ruling on overturning the moratorium on offshore drilling. they disagree over who has more merits here, the district judge or interior secretary. in the gulf of mexico where it has a third of the energy, the past month has been slow for new drilling. new safety rules issued by the interior department affects not just deepwater operations, deeper than 500 feet but shallow drilling and production as well, the vast majority of gulf activity. the spartan 151 rig is one of own by spartan offshore, three were idle as the issue of permit slowed which is now picking back up. and the oil industry an lized and digested the stricter rules. all forward looking
denied. i was hoping i would be alive i think think this case would come. gregg: if convicted he faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole. martha: a new campaign or push at the white house that is looking to concerns americans that the obama administration is not antibusiness. they have had some criticism in that regard. the latest push comes as the u.s. appeals court rejected an attempt to restore an offshore drilling moratorium for the second time. they have gotten a lot of heat for that because of its impact on jobs. it could cost tons of jobs and money along the coast. but they say their primarily concern is not to have a repeat of what we are experiencing right do you. steven moore is a economic
offshore drilling, it will take 60% or more of the florida citizenry to ban offshore drilling from the sunshine state forever. shannon? shannon: phil keating, thank you. today a judge in boston ruled the federal gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. district court judge joseph tarros says the law interferes with the right of a state to define marriage and forces massachusetts to discriminate against its own citizens. justice department argued the federal government has the right to set eligibility requirements for federal benefits, including those that go only to married people. shannon: the immigration law goes into effect three weeks from today unless there is an injunction. right now there is a new dispute over a meeting of the u.s.-mexican officials. correspondent william la jeunesse explains. under fire for the arizona tough immigration bill,