the oil disaster is taking a heavy emotional toll on those who live along the gulf coast. we will talk to zach rosenberg about what s being done to help and the push to provide more mental health services. an american in hiding. federal agencies say he preaches heat. cnn investigates anwar al awlaki. take a look at this new tropical storm. we are tracking colin.
emotional pressures with groups like this one. other wifrs are here, too. i have one at home that needs to vent but won t. he ll fuss at me or him or the kids. reporter: among other things, the group is taught breathing exercises to control stress. push the air out. to release all of that negativity from your body. reporter: the project s ceo zach rosenberg says if bp doesn t pay, this life line will end for many. even now it s far from ideal. those anxious, angry or depressed already have to wait eight weeks just to get in for a first appointment. reporter: is this wellness group an example ef why you need more money particular bp? if we are able to get more dollars in the door, we will start a peer-to-peer counseling program, and add more hours and open a satellite office down the road because the need is clearly
he s drinking and smoking more when we re trying to quit. he takes it out on us in general. we do something that would make him upset and all of the other stress is piling on top of that and he blows up. kperts call this young american heir apparent to osama bin laden. part two of the story. what makes him most scary? its adapting best business practices to terrorist processes. good morning, everyone, i m randi kaye in for tony harris. those stories and your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. right there, you see admiral thad allen giving the very latest on when the static kill procedure might begin, holding his daily media briefing from houston. we have pump rates and we have pressure. that will then provide the basis for a decision to proceed to the static kill later on today. at that point, they ll begin to pump mud into the choke line, and the horizon blowout preventer. it will start at one barrel per minute and move that up to two barrels her
million to help people like your family, that the state has requested? no, i don t think it s not surprising to me. i don t think they re doing nearly what they could do. they don t care about us. we re an inconvenience to them. reporter: an inconvenience and perhaps just another expense in bp s $3 billion tab in the gulf. randi kaye joining me right now from new orleans. randi, you made the point, considering how much bp is on the hook for, it seems like $109 million the state is asking for doesn t really seem like much, that it wouldn t make much of a difference to them. reporter: that s certainly the way folks here are looking at it. in addition to the health secretary s letter to bp, one lap la congressman sent his own letter to bp, to doug settles there, the ceo, about two weeks ago, saying, hey, why don t you guys forgo your bonus, the executives forgo your bonuses for one year? because last year, the top five
experiencing emotional trauma since the spill. fisherman like louis lund jr. who can no longer fish because of the oil. his wife says he s full of rage. he wants to go on a rampage, screaming, punching, hitting, whatever he can do, and he can t, and he just can t get it out. it s just stuck in there bubbling. reporter: how s that anger coming out? it comes out he started drinking. he s smoking more when we re trying to quit. he takes it out on us, just in general. we do something that kind of would make him upset and all the other stress is kind of piled on top of that so he blows up. reporter: rachel wants to help. she s learning how to navigate the emotional pressures at group wellness classes like this one at the st. bernard project. other gulf wives are here too. same problem. i ve got one at home right now that needs to vent, you know, but won t, he ll fuss at me or he ll fuss at him or the kids. reporter: among other things,