politics? we'll talk about that tonight. also, on day 85 of the disaster in the gulf. we have a new reason to keep a very close eye live in the underwater camera. any moment we'll find whether the newest cap will pass a critical test. that will tell us whether bp finally shuts off the flow of oil after all. the littest investigation, the drug scourge killing more americans every year, they're not street drugs, they are prescription drugs, shockingly easy to get. we have a lot of ground to cover. but we'll begin with the number one story. naacp versus the tea party. now it's getting personal. blasting sarah palin by name the other day, and she fired right back, take a listen. >> reporter: naacp addresses the epithets addressed to the black members during the health care debate and racist signs that critics say they spotted at tea party events to support the conclusion that tea party movement is a threat to pursuit of human rights, justice and equality tore all. sarah palin. said party like it's 1776. >> it's very unfortunate they're taking this tactic. any good american hatesism. we don't stand for it. it is unacceptable. >> the naacp says it wild hold an antitea party rally in washington in the fall. let's bring in cnn political analyst roland martin and ed rolands in new york. welcome to both of you. let me start with you. naacp says the tea party has to take responsibility for racism within the movement. tea party members have publicly condemned racism on this show and elsewhere. what is the naacp after, do you think, ultimately by passing this resolution? >> first of all, the resolution condemned racist elements that are there in the tea party. i talked to ben jealous, wasn't to be specific what is in the resolution. mark williams, a tea party organizer right here on cnn a few months ago. i asked him, if someone brought a racist sign would they tell him to take it down, he said no, i wouldn't want them to infringe on first amendment rights. i under not wanting to be labeled a racist. what they should say is, instances people made comes much we threw them out. our example, people made racist cops or had signs at rallies. >> ed to the other point about this. sarah palin said with regard to the resolution that the president and first lady should denow that the first lady was speaking to the naacp. focusing on childhood obesity. >> all americans should denounce races p. >> a resolution she said -- >> it's not the president's place to do that. the president's place is to lead this country and lead the country effectively. the big issue, people -- you see this in the polls, don't approve of his poles. not because he's a black man. or he's president. many americans are proud of that. the tone of this, by the tea party and by the other side is getting accelerated with 3.5 months to go. let me get the white house viewpoint on this. do you think they welcome a debate involving racism right now? >> i don't know. i haven't talked to anybody at the white house. i can't speak for them on this. clearly this white house has not focused on issues dealing with race. we saw what happened, when the president offered personal feelings. i was at naacp, the people who do oppose the tea party. you see 25% believe the president has done more for black people. this is what i say. you don't like the tea party. defeat them at the polls. you don't like people coming out protesting. you beat them at the ballot box. anybody who is a racist. that's how you beat them back. not necessarily a resolution. >> let me ask you to comment on this. sarah palin said the racism charge is a way to undermind the growing political power. let me play what she had to say. take a listen. >> to be called a risist. yeah, those on the left opposing the good message of tea party americans using racism accusation, keep people away from not only the movement but keeping a wall built between what the message actually is and american public that is today receiving that message very well. >> yes group who has discipline you have some people who aren't good people p. there are some people in the ncaa group that have a little racism in their background too. that's not good. bottom line people are unhappy about the policies of the democratic party. joe biden. harry reid, nothing to do with color or racism. >> b looing at same people on the right. using racism to be divisive. obama administration, they are ignoring the issue of race, but not targeting them. hear the chatter on fox bnew, al of these people. don't sit and act as if race is used when it cops to the left. you see people on the right as well. at the end of the day it's about policies and issues, that's what the whole focus should be on. i don't have a problem with the tea party organizing. >> let me make a comment about this being bigger than tea party. there's obviously a lot of anger directed at the president. but the feelings about the president, unpopularity, at least are well beyond the tea party. a significant amount of people think that way. they lack faith to make the decisions in the country right now. what does that say to you? you have majority who don't trust judgment right now. >> you look at the president. positions they've taken. they've been unpopular in some quarters. at the end of the day. this white house has to explain itself when it comes to what they are doing, but also, what is at stake in america right now is the economic angst. that is the most important thing. and when americans are looking at that unemployment number, that's what they are seeing. white house says, hey, we've skimmed the tide of losing half a million jobs a month and seeing some small growth. what the average person is saying, i still don't feel it. that's what you're seeing right now. economic angst. that's what is driving this whole narrative. black and white americans unemployed. until we get americans back to work again, that's what they care about. unfortunately for this president, he's got a tough sled ahead of him. the party is going to get clobbered in mid term election. and there's a lot of unhealthy dialogue that we saw today. that's not good for america or any of us. >> thanks to both of you. appreciate you being with us. should mention roland will be back with us, coming up next, developing news. everyone in the gulf coast symbolically holding their breath as testing begins to see if the new spill cap holds up. we'll take you live to the gulf in just a moment. 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>> we're watching the video feed we're getting. as you look at it. there is oil coming out of the top of it. that is expected. right underneath that oil there's a valve there. really starting to get a sense when the testing begins, they will slowly, slowly start closing that off. for a period of time, it will look as if a thing is shut off and no oil flowing. until we get that word, we should not take that next step. during this testing, that will be shut down. that's when we start to do the testing and pressure to make sure it is where it needs to be and make sure the containment cap is working the way it they hope it does. >> ed, at one point last night when watching the underwater cam. it looked like the oil had actually stopped and started flowing again. what was going on there? >> it was hard to say what was going on there. that is part of what we will see happen here, as they start closing off that valve. it's going to look as if things have stopped and come to a conclusion. that's when they start doing that testing. in what they call integrity testing of this well. that is to determine whether or not this containment cap will work, because if there's damage anywhere around the line, it will not provide pressure, that means that there is oil escaping from other parts. they have been frank about it. there is that situation, they don't know where it is escaping to us at this point. >> ed lavandera reporting for us tonight. thanks a much. coming up a growing use of prescription drugs, we'll show you a big city market. that's turned into one giant illegal pharmacy. another round of recordings. mel gibson making more vial racist comes while threatening his exgirlfriend. abusive prescription drug, now kills more americans than all other illegal drugs combined. for months, cnn's amber line has been looking at the epidemic across the country. tonight in a special investigation she takes us to baltimore where a city landmark >> bob:s a street pharmacy for prescription drug addicts. take a look. >> we're here in the center of downtown baltimore, because we got a tip there's a huge problem with the street trade of illegal prescription drugs. ♪ we call baltimore city of dreams ♪ ♪ sugar factories and subway steam ♪ ♪ where people address the crazy scenes ♪ >> reporter: this is where we're headed. the lexington market, an historic market in baltimore, unfortunately lately it's become overrun with prescription drug users, dealers up and down these streets. everyone is trafficking pills. we found oxycontin, xanax. >> reporter: all over america, in places where the drug trade flourishes, prescription drugs replaced or supplemented better known street drugs like meth, crack, heroin. the u.s. drug enforcement administration is having a difficult time getting a grasp on the pill trade. they start at the bottom busting individuals hoping this leads them to correct doctors and pharmacies. >> we'll pull them out of the market and get them to do the buy outside. >> where are we going to ride? in the pack? >> the issue is the mind of many prescription drugs is not as bad and not as dangerous. in reality, it really is. >> lexington market. we have parking, right -- >> okay. you see the agents up there in the corner. with the jackets on. taking them down if you want to hop out here. >> you just busted how many people? >> two. what were they selling you? >> it's an opiate blocker used to treat heroin adrik. it's also hard to abuse. anyone buying it and selling it isn't trying to get high just trying to fight the pain of withdrawal. even these pills are trying to get the commodity like atm in a bottle. >> these prescription and pills meant for someone who has a problem. yet they are selling it, making it for $200 more. the bottom line, to move in to prescription drugs is profit. it's about making money. >> we're hear at dea headquarters and headed to talk to a guy busted in lexington market. >> we're not identified. we're not showing your face, you agree to talk with us on cnn? >> yeah. >> why do people sell their prescription drugs? >> because a lot of them don't have no jobs, a lot of them don't know where they going to get their next meal come. let's say your son comes up and says i need $25, $30. you have pills on you, you know you can get $25. would you sell it to give your son $25 so he it be in that play or something? block has a huge heroin and crack problem. they've been struggling with those for decades. the last thing this city needs is the new prescription drugs pedaled in lexington market. >> cnn's amber lyon reporting for us tonight. coming up an already dangerous doctor shortage in this country about to get worse. new health care law sends millions of new patients looking for primary care. doctor, will there be any in the house in we'll have that story when we come back. ever seen anything like it? me neither. it's new beneful incredibites. uh-huh! it's just the way you like it-- made with wholesome grains, real beef, even carrots and peas. you love the smaller-size, easy-to-chew kibbles, and i love the carbohydrates for energy and protein for muscles. whoa! wait for me! ha-ha. you only think you're getting spoiled. [ woman announcing ] new beneful incredibites. another healthful, flavorful beneful. even though health care debate is over. there's plenty of disagreement we're headed in the right direction. but the one point everyone agrees on, there's not enough primary care doctors to meet current needs. that is before 50 million more people are thrown into the mix with the new health care law now in place. i talked about the looming crisis with dr. andrew singer, internist and founder of primary care progress, a group of health care professionals, committed to reform the system, and pretty of t the staff of cambridge health alines. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> let me start with you. we talked about this a lot during the health care debate in this country that this influx of newly insured people will put more pressure on the system where there's always a shortage of doctors. talk about the problem? how big of a crisis is this really? >> what we're facing in primary care is what i call a perfect storm. first of all medical students and residents don't want to go into primary care anymore. they look at see their mentors, they see their job is completely unsustainable. largely because of a payment system that doesn't reward or value what primary care providers do. >> if the system is so dysfunctional, explain why, why doctors get paid this way and why we aren't compensating primary care doctors? >> first of all, we don't pay for a lot of really valuable services that they do provide. for instance, coordinating care, all of those behind the scenes activities providers are doing so you don't fall through the cracks. those aren't paid for. only thing that gets paid for in the system are face-to-face visits when a patient is feeding a provider one on one. payments inadequate right now. medical students who are rotating through these practices are watching this and saying, i don't know if i want to do this. so the payment system is not working for patients. it's making providers crazy. and kind of discouraging some of the medical students from going into primary care services. >> so, how do we fix it? >> that's a great question. maybe the billion dollar question that we face. i think that part of what we need to do is fix some disparities. so the average medical student with $250,000 debt, looks at going into primary care and sees that they will make $3 million less during their professional career and said, am i going to work this hard to make this much less? the other half, i think we need to figure out how to make primary care meaningful and rewarding for people who are doing it so that the medical student or resident, as andrew was recently, looks at their presenter and says that's the kind of job that's so meaningful that i want to do it. really exciting thing, increasingly across the country there are hundreds of expeoples going on, looking at primary care providers differently. >> let's talk about that. these new models of care. we hear a lot about it. to the average person, the average patient we don't understand what we're talking about. >> one of these thins we found in these new models. sometimes it doesn't make total sense to make a patient take a half day off work to come in, have a simple question answered. about medication or a rash that hasn't gone away in a few weeks. types it makes more sense to have access to the provider via e-mail and telephone, and patients love it. they don't have to take time off work. they don't have to park and walk to the office. they feel they have much better contact with their providers. that's one example. >> finally, i know you guys care very partly -- or, are very passionate about this. they care a lot about it. working with harvard, i'm brain storming on all of this. i know. you tried to put a lot of issues on people's radars. really the next step in health care reform is what we're talking about. tell me about it. >> what we did is form the group called primary care progress. one of the things we're trying to do is really ensure that all americans understand why primary health care is so important. we think one of the problems is that people haven't really appreciated to date why this is such a critical thing for our medical system. we're engaging patients and providers, identifying what does valuable primary care look like. we know we have ideas. we think patients and providers will have the best ideas. we've established a website where we ask people to come by and tell us what we think. we are also working to engage this next generation of primary care providers in this process of transforming care and transforming the way we train. we actually think they have skills and experiences that they bring to bear that only make patient care better. >> best of luck to both of you. we are certainly in this country in a very transitional phase, they need all of the help we can get in terms of getting people ready for this transition. good to have you here, appreciate it. >> thank you so much, campbell. it's a pleasure. >> coming up tonight, another day, another new profanity-laced racist rant by a man who sounds an awful lot like mel gibson. we'll have details when we come back. coming up, life of a sports giant, loved and disadvised. remembering george stiefrn brennbre stein brenner. >> first, joe. hi, joe. >> the department indicted police days after hurricane katrina. the shooting left two people dead. at times they fired at civilians in self-defense. but there were no weapons found on the victim's body. the bare foot bandit aus cooed of stealing airplanes. landed in miami. earlier in the bahamas. 19-year-old curtis harrismoore, pleaded guilty to illegally landing a plane there. he faces several charges, including theft of an aircraft including burglary. a federal appeals court struck down what we call the bono f-bomb rule. created by the fcc after the u-2 singer let the four-letter word slip out during the 2003 golden globes. the agency decided whenever a swear word gets out on television the broadcast faces a hefty fine but today ruled the zero tolerance policy is vague and creates a chilling effect. speaking of filthy language. another recording surfaced of a bitter exchange between mel gibson and his exgirlfriend. radar online gets the scoop on the latest tape. you hear a man that sounds like mel gibson. using a racial slur to describe a latina employee. >> people that take money from -- [ bleep ]. >> you tell me she take away whatever pennies you've given to me. i do