contain this oil slick. listen to janet napolitano. we ll be taking a very close look at efforts underway, particularly to minimize the environmental risks in the area. our key focus is making sure that people know what is going on, and they understand what relief efforts are underway, what the extent of the response is, what we know, what we don t know, about this incident and how we intend to move forward. bill: homeland security chief janet napolitano, one of president obama s top people, going to the area today. kris gutierrez is there, live in venice. what can you see from the water, where you have been? good morning. reporter: good morning. i want to explain to our viewers why it s difficult to track this oil as it comes closer to shore. in fact what i ve done is pulled up google maps and i want to point out this, because right here is the mississippi river, this thick area is in blue, but you also see that all paved roads into venice, louisiana where we are, you se
right now a major political upset in massachusetts is reverberating all across the country, the shock waves hitting capitol hill and 1600 pennsylvania avenue hard. moments from now, we will hear from the man at the center of it all, senator-elect scott brown, he replaces the late senator ted kennedy, stepping into a seat that hasn t been held by a republican in more than five decades. he becomes the senate s 41st republican vote. wiping out the democrats supermajority, and putting health care reform very much in jeopardy. until this election, brown was a little-known politician but his campaign attracted high-profile attention, especially in the final days. it all started with me, my truck, and a very few amount of dedicated volunteers. however, it ended with an air force one, making an emergency run to logan. [cheering] jon: all this comes exactly one year to the day after president obama took the oath of office at his historic inauguration but oh how the times have chang