Secretary perdue the Agricultural Department has a broad portfolio in the United States, certainly from producers, but from food nutrition for people who need who are hungry and need food. It creates food safety, it creates Marketing Programs for trade and many other aspects of the american economy, particularly dealing with farmers, ranchers, and anyone who eats. Steve there is a must of abraham a bust of Abraham Lincoln behind you. Secretary perdue he created part of the Agricultural Department. Steve you just came back from a bus to her. Youre conducting another one. Where did you go and what did you learn . Secretary perdue the first tour was in wisconsin. We opened the fair together, but also used the opportunity for listening sessions for farm groups there, from organics to dairy production to specialty crops. It was a good listening session. What we want to do is get out into the hinterlands of where food is produced and where the impediments are. As you know, the president sign
Secretary perdue the Agricultural Department has a broad portfolio in the United States, certainly from producers, but from food nutrition for people who need who are hungry and need food. It creates food safety, it creates Marketing Programs for trade and many other aspects of the american economy, particularly dealing with farmers, ranchers, and anyone who eats. Steve there is a must of abraham a bust of Abraham Lincoln behind you. Secretary perdue he created part of the Agricultural Department. Steve you just came back from a bus to her. Youre conducting another one. Where did you go and what did you learn . Secretary perdue the first tour was in wisconsin. We opened the fair together, but also used the opportunity for listening sessions for farm groups there, from organics to dairy production to specialty crops. It was a good listening session. What we want to do is get out into the hinterlands of where food is produced and where the impediments are. As you know, the president sign
and today the obama administration blasted b.p. for not keeping the government and the pub informed. in a letter to the company s c.e.o., homeland security secretary janet napolitano says b.p. s efforts have fallen short in their scope and effectiveness. exhibit a, this picture from a live undersea camera feed that b.p. finally made available today. it shows oil is still spewing into the gulf of mexico, a lot more than the company had admitted. by even the most conservative estimate, more than six million gallons have already poured into the gulf. sharyl attkisson begins our coverage tonight from capitol hill and, sharyl, b.p. had no choice but to admit this leak was much bigger than what they ve been saying. reporter: the timing was probably partly due to the fact that the public today would be getting its first extensionive look at the leak. ours were the first cameras to see b.p. s live undersea feed. this feed was provided to congressman ed markey. i think b.p. has
thousands upon thousands of gallons of oil gushing into the gulf unabated. the black tube with stripes is the straw-like device now siphoning off 5,000 barrels a day, but look how much isn t being collected. the white skinny tube is what was, until midnight, injecting chemicals into the plume to break up the oil. under new orders from the e.p.a. b.p. now has to switch to less toxic chemicals. this video, obtained exclusively by cbs news, shows a light-colored cloud which could be disperse zant mixing with the oil may 2. b.p. has already used 655,000 gallons of the toxic disperse zants. congress has questioned why b.p. chose these chemicals, bought from a company where a former b.p. executive sits on the board. now the three members of congress who finally have the video are working to get it into the hands of experts who make k make sense of it. we need objective parties to have access to this information. reporter: this clip shows a robot arm working to prevent a leak tw