anthony ward bought 241,000 tons of europe s cocoa beans. he paid over $1 billion for them. beans could fill five ships the size of the titanic. the transaction is pushing cocoa prices in europe to a 33-year high on fears that a handful of investors are trying to corner the market. if you re a chocoholic, don t worry cocoa prices here state side are actually down. a troubling twist in bp s efforts to contain the oil spill this morning. the federal government saying that tests have now revealed a substance seeping near the well. this news making it even more difficult for experts to try to comprehend the nation s worst environmental disaster. joining me from washington this morning, david mizejewski, a naturalist with the national wildlife federation. david, thanks for being with us this morning. when we originally put out the call to talk to you, we thought at least for now this was capped, there was no oil flowing as of thursday afternoon. now we re learning that because of this s
al qaeda, i don t. why don t we talk to the taliban, basically say we know you re going to come back in parts of the country, have you strong connections. if you don t bring back al qaeda, if you don t undermine the rest of the country, then we won t attack you. but if you do those things, if you bring back al qaeda or try to undermine the rest of afghanistan or pakistan, you will make yourself a target. give them a choice. my hunch is at least some of the taliban will not make the same mistake they made before 9/11 by getting very close to al qaeda. what happens to women s rights? what happens to a lot of the crackdowns against women being educated and things that happened under the taliban? sad to say, in parts of the country it is going to get worse. it is going to get worse regardless. there is culculture, history th, tradition. we could say to some of those people, if you violate women s rights badly, you won t get any aid from the united states, any help. i don t think we can
the director of lohan s upcoming film inferno says don t write her off just yet. there s so much untapped power there. reporter: matthew wilder says once the smoke clears, lohan s career will re-ignite. the people who are putting money into the movie redoubled their commitment and called the same day and said, we re on, we re doing this, we re not going to do it with anybody else. reporter: but for now, that movie is on hold. how crucial is it for you as a director of this film that she gets ready to work when she s done with rehab. just my knowledge of people who have going through this stuff, you re thinking about that while you go through all this stuff. you ll want to get out and work and get into your life and not kind of stay on the sidelines. reporter: besides inferno, where lohan plays 70s porn star linda lovelace, she s also attached to the thriller machete set for a september release. industry insiders say it will
now. reporter: well, when we talk about the seepage itself, the seeping itself is not a bad thing. it is what the seepage could potentially mean that s what is truly troubling about the whole issue. what s interesting about the seepage, last night both bp and the federal government were very cryptic with the information. we still have no idea where the seepage is taking place, don t know the exact location or how it was detected. we don t even at this point know how it was even found. the reason why it could be a very interesting or telltale sign, interesting clue is pretty simple. when we combine that with the information we have in terms of the psi, pounds per square inch exerted, of that oil that s coming up from the well and hitting the cap at the bottom, they want to pressure to continue to rise. it has been rising but it hasn t met the level, threshold, they were hoping to get, 6,800. it s been less than that. now it hasn t dropped. to start dropping and you have seepage with t
money into the movie redoubled their commitment and called the same day and said, we re on, we re doing this, we re not going to do it with anybody else. reporter: but for now, that movie is on hold. how crucial for you as the director of the film is that she is ready to work after rehab? my knowledge from people who have gone through this kind of stuff is that s the thing you are thinking about while you are going through all of that stuff. you want to get out and work and get into your life and not kind of stay on the side lines. reporter: besides inferno, where she plays 70s important star linda lovelace, she is set to star in machete, coming out in september. it may take more than that for her to regain her status as a bankable actress. insurance companies and studios don t want to hire libts. she is solely a liability right now. this strategist says it only