over the cave. even a small nick or scrape to the skin can turn into an infection. they have help so they can get the anti-buy ybiotics for that. you can only imagine their mental state and realizing what they have to go through to get out of there. what about eating? i imagine they re weak from nine days without eating, eight days without eating. how might that affect them? they re going to be weak and they need to be strengthened up, especially before their go through the journey of trying to get out of the cave, whether they re walking, floating or diving through the thing. the rescuers, they did a smart thing, they started them off very slowly with food. they haven t had food for nine days. they need to make sure they don t just give them a large meal because their body will reject that. it is a race against time here. they have to be basically playing both odds here, getting them as healthy as they can. gary, forgive my ignorance on this, but drilling, why wouldn t drilling
how quickly did the water come up? 5:00 is when it really because i had to shut down one of the pumps. i was running on a generator, so, you know, then the fire department told me to shut the generator off because i had it in the garage. i had the doors open and everything. that s when i lost everything, once i shut the pumps off. my furniture is underwater, high water. everything. it was getting out of his house. he had the pumps running and the fire department said, no, man, it s too dangerous. you can t this electricity. always a trick when you have pumps running when it floods. people have to keep conscious of that. the pumps can handle a certain amount of water but there s a wire and it s plugged in. you re in danger of getting electrocuting yourself. thanks very much. we ll check in with you. see you in 20. all right, here s another story we ve been talking about. you probably heard already that president obama has said that he wants to now authorize drilling in are
hasn t taken place yet. now, the red areas are those areas that the president is proposing for more oil drilling. this is the northwest. it s just off the northern tip of delaware, down to central florida, which will be opened up for exploration. now, that means that the interior department which controls all of this offshore land, of all the offshore waters, will have toxplore and study to see what s viable. the first not possible until 2012, except in this area off the coast of virginia which is already been approved for work. now, i want to show you. this is alaska. we moved it over here for a minute. this area over here is being preserved because of fisheries and because of whales. this area will be preserved. but the north part of alaska will be opened up to more drilling. now, obviously a lot of people are concerned about what this does for tourism. this area around the gulf and off the east coast, you won t be able to put an oil rig in more
political editor. we have traveled across the country at a time when gas prices were going up and hearing people s frustrations. michael brune from the sierra club in san francisco. michael, thank you for being with us. mark, first of all, drill, baby drill was a refrain uttered by republicans to say allow offshore drilling to take place. it was something president bush wanted to do. it was not a democratic platform at all. it was made famous by a woman from alaska, of all places, sarah palin. if you remember, drill, baby drill. democrats were very much against that, ali, because environmental concerns. we ll hear more about that. president obama during the campaign didn t say he was not opposed to drilling and of course here we are today. this is important. it s not a complete turn for president obama. not a complete turn but i m sure the environmental community is not happy. let s hear from them. sierra club director michael
areas to oil and natural gas drilling including long stretches of the east coast, eastern gulf of mexico and the north coast of alaska. the aim is to help end dependency on foreign oil. if voicing their anger, coastal residents and environmentalists. in road yhode island, the o signed a disaster of declaration for the state. emergencies have been declared in massachusetts and connecticut. hundreds of people have been forced from their homes. three days of record breaking rains have tapered to a drizzle now. forecasters warn the worst of the flooding is yet to come. in houston, barbara bush was released from the hospital today. she was there for four days to have a series of tests. the statement says the 84-year-old bush may have surfed a mild relapse of a thyroid condition. all right. when come back, we re going to continue our conversation about education, race to the top. that s the money that the federal government gives to schools, school districts, and school boards for incr