The controversy over Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's treatment has underscored a long-standing reluctance among men to discuss a disease that is highly treatable if caught early but often shrouded by awkwardness.
Austin s prostate cancer case spotlights broader silence around disease yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
the government took a look and said it s 5,000. is too much faith or trust being put in the oil companies to assess incidents like this? i believe that it has to be a combined effort by the industry, specialists as well as the government specialists. as we move through our understanding of what we were dealing with, 5,000 feet bhoe the surface, it has been continually refined as we got more information and assess that information and as we combine that assessment with what we re seeing on surface. it has been a very difficult and complex effort to precisely state what the release has been. but we continue to bring every asset to bear just as we have been doing since this started on the 20th of april. we continue to bring assets to fight this oil. rear admiral sally brice, thanks for joining us.
welcome back to the most news in the morning. we re following the latest on the oil spill? louisiana. president obama sending three top officials to the state to see firsthand the oil slick. four states are on alert, louisiana, mississippi and alabama and florida. let s bring sally brice o hara in with the u.s. coast guard. great to see you. where is the bulk of the oil spill? how much is coming ashore? what s the status of efforts to keep it from coming onshore? good morning. thank you for the opportunity to talk this morning. i want to assure you that the federal government has had immediate sustained and scaled response to this incident.
dwarf that one. officials say there is a lot more in the wells than there is in a single tanker. what can official dozen now that the disaster is getting out of control? we ll talk to rear admiral sally brice o hara. other stories, president obama whittling down his short list. sources tell cnn elena kagan is considered a front-runner. diane wood out of chicago is also said to be a top choice. the president wants to nominate someone by the end of may. two local coal miners confirmed dead after a roof collapse in western kentucky. officials say that this is a mine that had a history of safety violations. state and federal records show 40 orders to close sections of mine since january of 2009.