would imagine. talk to me a little bit carl about what we have heating up in an ad war in iowa. reporter: we finally have an ad war. there is another milestone, we now have four key candidates all on the air at the same time. newt gingrich who is leading in the des moines register poll has announced a new ad in iowa, 60 seconds long, largely showing visions of the hawk-eye state and taughting america and apple pie. this is a sign they do have organization and can put an ad on the air, which was something that was in doubt e. has real organizational problems. the number two person, ron paul has been on the air in iowa for a while. mitt romney started his first ad on the air in iowa, playing up his business sense, et cetera. no criticism of any rivals in
committee which came in recommended in, late february or early march, that same year for it. and not only recommended for it, but it put it on the fast track. so we re going to focus on that. martha: obviously that is one of the big questions to focus on, what changed from the end of the bush administration to the beginning of the obama administration that made them feel that this was a good company actually to invest in. you know, talk to me a little bit. you say that there is an e-mail trail. we ve heard a little bit of that e-mail trail. what did you learn from it and what tells you about what level, who knew, who knew there was a bad situation going on at solyndra and who signed off on it anyway is the question? well, you have the then chief of staff rom emanuel in the obama white house kind of encouraging a quick decision in the, can the president come out and do a photo-op? you have the chief of staff of vice president biden also
billion fund to aid oil spill victims, bp announced a separate $100 million for oil rig workers with forced off the job by the president s six-month moratorium on deep water grilling. the economic relief certainly welcome, in louisiana tonight, the focus still on cleanup where some pretty frustrated local folks are calling for more equipment and certainly more organization and i think more urgency in all of. this joining me right now from new orleans to talk us to is radio talk show host, corey johnson and also chris roberts, jefferson parish councilman who has been with us on the show, talking to us a lot about what s been happening on the ground. corey, let me start with you here, i know you have your ear to the ground, talking to a lot of people on your radio show. talk to me a little bit. i know you have been touring around about the cleanup efforts, situations what folks in washington, what people outside of the gulf need to know tonight that s not getting across. i would think
city. and for a lot of folks it didn t work out well at all, in arkansas, in particular. talk to me a little bit, mark, about what you need to do in the situation and how you were able to get to these people, so quickly. you know, the good lord s hand was on us in that we had a lot of good sports and leadership and we put the botin this water and the zodiac is ideal in that type of situation and we were able to get into the trees and put the four people in the trees into the boat and fired up the boat and head to shore and it was rough waters and it is tough and treacherous and we risk a lot to save a lot and that day was a very good day for the fire service and a very good day for raquel as well. martha: thank you so much, raquel, great to see you. healthy, and strong, and thank goodness you took the swimming lessons when you were a kid! you are a good swimmer! you are great, heros. thanks for being with us. bill: a great swimmer, right. thanks for having us.
a thing because they covered it up church leaders in pennsylvania stunned at the scale of the abuse admit mistakes were made i humbly offer my sincere apology to reach victims who has been violated by anyone affiliated with the catholic church. i hope that you can accept it in a few of the priests are likely to stand trial as many cases are now too old only two people have been charged small comfort for victims far from world this story i m joined from washington d.c. by julie s holes where she is the religion reporter for the washington post julie is good to have you on the program you know we used the word unprecedented a lot especially in describing this story talk to me a little bit though about how the reaction in the u.s. has been considering just how best these accusations are. it s really