even though this has been going on for almost three months, the anger and the frustration has yet to subside. that one heckler, that protester questioned the objectively of the panel itself as it goes forward, which is going to be one of the questions when you do have a multi-membered commission looking at what is a very controversial issue. ed lavandera live in new orleans, thank you very much for the very latest. let s head over to chad myers now who s watching weather for us as well as what is happening underneath the sea. let s get right down to it. i can get three-dimensional on you here. oil still spewing out. let s say i stopped the oil. the old cap goes away. the new cap is not a sucking mechanism. it s a stopping mechanism. when this new layer comes down on here, they cut that bad-looking thing off, the oil was coming out, the scraggly looking. it s now gone.
drilling engineer. i asked if it was in response to all of this criticism and he said no, they were planning to do that all along. you know, there have been pretty harsh words. take a listen to this op-ed from gop senator john barrasso. instead of appointing unbiased scientists engineers and drilling experts the president appointed extreme environmentalists and politicians who have already made up their minds about offshore drilling. barrasso is getting support from the other side of the aisle. five democrats on the senate energy committee voted for his amendment to create an alternative commission to investigate this oil disaster. richard? okay. patricia wu following the later there on this new panel. as it goes forward and what it is trying to do which is come with recommendations and really break down what is happening, what had happened 84 days ago. of course, here what we will do is continue to watch what is happening live underneath the
and donald bosch, president of the university of maryland center for environmental science. also on this panel, there s terry garcia, a national geographic society executive and cherry murray, dean of harvard s school of engineering school. francis ulme, lance chore of the university of alaska anchorage. there is no one from the oil and gas commission and that omission has been at the is center of the criticism of the panel. yes. when we look at this, that is the center of the argument. and we look at the issue of objectivity and don t have any representation from the oil company or from the oil industry. how is that going to affect their efficacy going forward once they come forward with what their findingings are? i actually spoke with the panel s communication director this morning about the criticism and he says that they just hired a science adviser who worked for 30 years at shell as a deepwater
it is safe. the study says it has flaws and it is biased. president obama will unveil his strategy for cutting the number of hiv infections. the new york times says this first ever national strategy has been in the works since the beginning of the obama administration. the goal here is to try to cut annual hiv infections by 25% within five years. 56,000 people get hiv in the u.s. each and every year. that s more than 1 million americans that are living with hiv at the moment. tens of thousands of these people are not getting any care. the president s plan calls for no major increase in federal spending, though. the government now spends more than $19 billion a year on a.i.d.s. programs. president obama s commission on the gulf oil disaster, getting down to business today. the folks are questioning the panel s objectivity. who is on it and what s the big deal here? we will have that for you next. after using rogaine for a while, i went to my stylist
explosion and this oil leak and also to set up to hell prevent this from happening again in the future, is holding its first meeting here in the new orleans area. and in the first couple of hours, the fireworks and the sparks were flying already with members of the board and people, again, voicing their anger at bp and also the federal response and federal officials who are handling this clean-up as well. take a listen to what happened this morning here with a heckler and the commission. do we have security that can export this person out? they have no right to be investigating crimes of their making. with revolution newspaper, bp and the government have been looking at for their own interests. reporter: we understand that gentleman was escorted out of that commission hearing. again, many people continue to watch closely what is going on here, richard, and that anger,