And he responded by signing a sweeping stimulus. The action was just beginning while the country was reeling from the abuses of wall street, he passed the far reaching financial reform in history. And then a defining moment. Despite criticism, he decided to give auto makers a loan. A loan that would pay huge dividends. This picture would go down in the annals of american history. The president s gutsy call to carry out the Bin Laden Mission that changed the world forever. Tonight, i can report to the American People and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of alqaida. The people of libya are liberated from kadhafis leadership. Our commander in chief has brought the last troops out of iraq for filling a promise we long to hear. A, i can say that our troops in iraq will definitely be home for the holidays. Home from iraq. And given a deadline for a wi withdrawal from afghanistan. He made sure that if youre willing to fight
Shell Petroleum’s pollution of Bonga communities in the Niger Delta and attendant penalties for severe environmental devastation should be a straightforward case.
almost a year after the start of the gulf coast oil disaster, the justice department is considering manslaughter charge in the deaths of 1 workers killed when 11 workers killed. according to the washington post, any such charges would have probably involved bp or transocean which leased the rig to bp. meanwhile, even more headaches for oil spill victims. a bp employee has lost a laptop containing the personal data of 13,000 people who filed claims because of the disaster. bp has mailed letters notifying them of the potential breach. the u.s. government says it is sending robotic equipment to japan to help the country regain control of its crippled nuclear plant. such devices which are built to withstand radiation could presumably work in areas where radiation levels would harm or kill humans. meanwhile, the japanese government is now admitting what many have assumed, that its safeguards to protect the facility from the earthquake and tsunami were insufficient. officials today are
90 degrees. still some heat advisories into the carolinas. everybody else is kind of dealing with some warm and muggy conditions and of course, it is going to start to build a little bit as we head throughout the rest of the week. i was coming through the area passing through riverdale on sunday night and, boy, exits were closed, you saw trees, limbs, scattered everywhere. it was astounding how quickly that happened. everybody says after a tornado you can t believe the force and how fast it happened. pretty rare thing. this has only happened twice now in the last 60 years. all right, thanks. this morning s top stories just a couple minutes away, including breaking news overnight. tony hayward is officially on his way out. he s leaving with a year s salary. that s bp s ceo. $1.6 million as oil spill victims wait for their checks. spilling war secrets. 90,000 documents, names, places, weapons and attacks spanning more than five years in afghanistan. what is wikileaks telling us
after a few hiccups here and there, the group seems to be well on its way now and is already spending millions on ads. the group s seed money, its first $1 million check, came from the president of chief oil and gas in texas. how does an oil company think it s going to benefit from a big investment in republican candidates for this year s elections? i don t know. the mind of an oil company executive is a depth i have yet to plumb. but the republican political response to the bp oil disaster is getting just plain weirder and weirder as time goes on. we already went through the criticizing bp is un-american comment from senate candidate rand paul. we went through the this shows we need less oil industry regulation comment from republican sharron angle. we went through the apologize to bp outburst from the top house republican energy committee, joe barton. we went through the bp paying oil spill victims is a shakedown