oil spill liability is part of the letting in dealing with the results of the bp oil spill and that will certainly be in whatever legislation is taken up. in terms of bp, what are you hearing about the prospect of a tropical storm and evacuations? admiral allen is going to brief later on today and he ll have more on this, but the depression warnings have gone out for the bahamas and parts of south florida as and the president received a briefing as you all got the readout for in the situation room yesterday, both about where we are on the cap and that process as well as the trajectory of the storm potentially leading across florida and into the gulf. the protocols admiral allen gale force winds, so winds in excess of 30 miles an hour at the site, that preparation should begin 120 hours prior to that event in terms of moving that equipment out of the area. obviously the equipment is owned by different companies and so transocean and bp and others all will make individual d
has been offered another job in the government. we look at the naacp initial action and subsequent action to reverse course but we begin with major garrett on repentent obama administration. a disservice was done, and apology. white house apologizes for tom vilsack s decision to fire shirley sherrod after hurdly and falsely hurriedly and falsely conclu concluding she made remarks this spring. he called and apologized and offered another job. i regret the circumstances and i accept full responsibility for them. i asked if she would be interested in figuring out a way forward that would take advantage of the extraordinary life experiences that she s had. vilsack said sherrod would think about it, leaving resolution of the fiasco in her hands, not the administration s. sherrod said she believed the white house played a role in her firing, citing department secretary sheryl cook. vilsack denied it. miss cook indicated a white house hayiason had been contact liaison
jon: a sea creature makes an unwelcomed visit ashore, a massive jellyfish that stings 150 beach goers, even after it was dead. we are in at the fox news room, breaking news is coming from the domestic desk, our foreign desk, keeping tabs on events around the world and for the pictures, our media desk, bringing in the video and pictures we ll show you during the next two hours of happening now . jenna: fired usc official shirley sherrod is conferring a new considering a new job offer, at the center of the political and media firestorm after the agriculture department forced her out over accusations of racism, then apologized and invited her back. major garrett is live at the white house with more. sherrod is being offered a new job. is she inclined to take it? reporter: on a couple of statements on the morning talk shows, jenna, she said she was not inclined to take it, at least not yet, she said she would like to talk to president obama at some point in the future. we ll
after the bill signing, they endorse elizabeth warren to head the financial agency. she currently heads the congressional oversight panel on the tarp program. this is 15 minutes. good morning. what a great day this is for consumers of our country. the this is massive legislation. people have focused on various parts of it. what is lost in the shuffle is the tell and how is details and how important it is for consumers of our countries. three things to come together in a way that has not happened before to get consumers protection in their transactions. one of the most basic is the creation of a consumer financial protection bureau with in the federal reserve in doing it in a way that has some independence. what have been for so long is that financial regulatory agencies like the comptroller had the authority for consumer protection in these transactions whenever the comptroller of person they are regulates the savings and loan, what is their first priority? it is the
there s a frenzied culture, news, politics, and administration, in this case this one, get wrapped up in it and he tried to say repeatedly or repeatedly said the white house did not overreact because of any anxiety or fear of dealing with a issue of racial sensitivity or insensitivity. there were many questions in that phrased many ways and in each instance he deflected them. the victim says it was her understanding from the phone the pressure was coming from the white house. do you have what you believe to be a definitive answer on whether or not that s the case? the only answer we have given repeatedly is robert gibbs has no personal knowledge of that. and the statement on the record from the agriculture secretary that edit not do it. but sheryl cook, deputy under secretary of the democratic of agriculture is identified ashirley sherrod as the one who told her the white house was