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from where the vehicle was parked. >> this hour continuing our probe of the shocking near miss. >> also tonight the hit in the gulf, how bad is this spill? >> it's worse than exxon rale disease. there are scenarios where it could be worse than the exxon val disease. >> the president prepares us for catastrophe. >> the american people are aware the folks in the gulf are aware we are dealing with a massive potentially unprecedented

environmental disaster. the oil that is still laking from the well could seriously damage the economy and environment of our gulf states and could extend for a long time. oo it could jeopardize the lively hoods of thousands of americans who call this place home. the latest from the gulf. and from the war along the border. >> you have an all out drug war happening in mexico and it is spilling over into american cities and the federal government has failed to secure that border. >> there is reasonable suspicion an offense has been committed they can acquire about the immigration status of someone. that is a tool quite frankly that they need. >> the arizona law is draconian in it's devices. this is about singling people out because of their background and ethnicity.

>> will texas be the next to adopt arizona's harsh state law. >> beware the revenge of the wanabi. >> when you build this in the communities in the bend will be wiped out. >> tonight the avatar activists continue their fight on earth. and... he played last night. >> i saw michael steele backstage when we were taking pictures aka notorious go peek. >> do you think john edwards was watching? >> we all hunger what john edwards first thought when he saw her without any pants on his first thought was probably put your pants on. that's what she said. you know something? that was when she first thought the night they met could have involved the president. >> tonight andrew young the edwards aid blew the whistle on

baby gate. live and at large and around the world. >> edwards lover speaks the great arizona immigration debate and latest at the attempt of mass murter in times square are coming up front in two of our special sunday reports the slow-motion katrina that's what they are calling the inexerbly creeping oil slick at the shorelines of louisiana and mississippi about 20 sea turtles have been found dead in the offshore waters although authorities are not yet attributing those deaths to the oil spill which seems a long way away from being stopped. here's the president who is on location today was warning of a massive environmental disaster. it is being used to try to stop a lake that is more than

5,000 feet under the surface. this is unique and unprecedented it could take many days to stop. as well as any resource available to stop the oil from coming ashore and mitigating the damage it could cause. bp is responsible for this lake. bp will be pay the bill. as president of the united states i am going to spare no effort to respond to this crisis for as long as it continues. we will spare no resources to clean up whatever damage is caused. >> aside from meeting and greeting the first responders the president also had a closeup look from a helicopter of the now 30 mile long oil slick caused by the more than 200 thousand gallons of crude oil being spewed from the well every day. in alabama i assume the slick is feared heading next, you tell us what's going on? >> indeed geraldo.

in fact slow moving katrina is a very good way to describe it because so many residents and business owners on the island whethered katrina and rebuilt their businesses but they say the horrible thing about an oil spill is unlike a hurricane where you can rebuild in a matter of months with an oil spill you don't know what is going to happen next you don't know what to plan for. what they are doing is planning for a worse case scenario trying to protect the community as well as they can. earlier in the weekend they were setting up booms these inflatable boo buoys lining th beaches that it would stop the oil before land fall. the weather was so choppy and waves were so rough many of the areas were preached. they came in and removed them. today the national guard came in

and installed the barriers with the chemical you be stance. when the substance comes in contact with oil it turns the oil into a solid. the idea is when the oil seeps into these barriers it becomes a solid easily removed and then you can rebuild the barriers with chemicals and hopefully absorb even more oil. >> jonathan thanks. i appreciate that. >> now to the mayor of golf shores alabama who's crowd is attempting to feel the full force of the oil spill tomorrow. mayor you have a situation where this is pouring out almost a quarter of a billion gallons of crude oil every single day. that's an awful lot of gunk every day. don't you have an atom bomb heading your way? >> yes, sir, without a doubt we are concerned about it and involved in the placement of

boom achd prying to p -- and tr prevent it from getting on shore. >> how are your residents coping with what will be a disaster in their lives. >> we have had our share of hurricanes with ivan and katrina. we are fairly well prepared to deal with problems and with a positive attitude and are fairly confident working together we have been able to over come some things. we don't know what to expect and don't know for sure don't have any experience nor does anybody else how to deal with it. the concern is the unknown. >> do you want your fellow alabamans and others to come down with whatever they can to help clean up your beaches? >> i would say we don't know the

exact extent of the damage. we are ready to mobilize. we have contractors on contract already with the city to be prepared in case of a hurricane that ha are very capable in cleaning up our beaches already. this is a different problem. i think we have people that can handle it. we are mobilizing local volunteers to clean up the beaches and to get trained on how to deal with wildlife and marsh lands where this will cause a problem and will create the need ffor>> mayor craft, thank you and good luck to your residents. >> i appreciate you coming on tonight. >> where do we go from combat what looks like to be a grim historic footnote much like the 1989 exxon val disease disaster. we report from washington. what is ahead? what does the president have

planned? oo the president hoped to get a first-hand look at the massive spill of bad weather prevented the helicopter from flying out that far. he got a view of the coastline miles from the source of the gushing crude oil when he went down there. he got a real sense at what's at stake. the president stopped at the coast guard station in venice, louisiana, the visit was a chance to show the country and state official levels in response to the bill the president got a detailed briefing from the coast guard about bp's plan to place a comb and suction device over the well in a week or so. in the end the cost of the massive cleanup will be paid for by bp and not taxpayers, not

washington. >> they kept saying using the word every single sound bite they are extremely sensitive to criticism. they didn't move fast enough. >> they are sensitive to that, very much aware of katrina and president bush at the time and the criticism you w he was too o respond. obama officials are saying that was not the case the administration was on this from day one that the coast guard is down there 2,000 personnel are down there. some 70 vessels and the president going down there today to show he is on the case. r , that the federal government is responding to this. >> moving now ladies and gentlemen to that impassioned debate on the anti illegal immigration law which was characterized by the state's largest newspaper arizona r

republic today that is a state law that intimidating at latinos while doing nothing to cush illegal immigration. while criticizing every wrun from janet napolitano the newspaper reserves spoegs scorn for john mccain recalling how he was once champion of comprehensive immigration reform but has since abandoned his principles from former congressman and talk show host j.d. haworth. for the latest from arizona and across the nation casey seigel has been on the case from the beginning. what's going on? >> it is guy et tonight. a very different scene from 24-hours ago when i talked to you about this yesterday on your program when you could really

barely move where i was standing in this spot because 7,000 protestors converconverged. can you believe the issue in phoenix isn't what brought the largest crowds. take a look at what went down in los angeles. that is where the people really showed up about 15,000 folks taking to the streets many calling for californians to boycott arizona businesses over this. let's take you to dallas, texas saw 30,000 people marching through downtown yesterday. doesn't matter which great state you were in the ms message remaining the same. >> in an effort to calm some of the fear abouts this bill possibly racial profiling it would prevent law enforcement to use race as the seoul reason to ask for someone's papers.

supporters say it is necessary to curtail the immigration population in arizona. meantime three official lawsuits have been filed in an effort to keep the law from going into effect at the end of july. more lawsuits are expected but the good news to report no real acts of violence breaking out at any of the protests around the country. >> great thank you. be right back.

>> casey seigel is reporting now. thankfully the demonstrations have been peaceful. there is an exception regret to report that close to 20 businesses were damaged after what started as a peaceful immigration rights march in downtown santa cruz. among they are looking for the perps there 50,000 to $100,000 damage. that was la but you also had a

huge one in dal at thats, a huge rally in dallas saturday protesting against the new arizona statute and texas will soon follow suit. my next guest announced she is introducing a bill in texas. she is from houston tonight. the organizer of the big pro immigration rally. state rep domingo garcia on the right. debbie if i may call you that why are you proposing a bill that governor rick perry opposes. >> he has not said he opposes it. there are issues in it that we might need to look at and question. i would like to clarify something. i am not opposed and most folks were not opposed to immigration. this is the illegal immigration that we have a problem with. because we have got so many problems on the border with the

drug cartels and the crime, the gangs it's like a war zone down there. i got to tell you it's something that absolutely has to be a drift. and this has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with the safety and security for the folks of texas. that's what it's about. >> domingo pretty good racial profiling the 800 pound gorilla in the room. the violence in mexico i was in juarez not so long ago they have multiple murders every day phoenix the kidnapping capitol of the world because of the problems with the mexican drug cartels. there is a security issue is there not? >> there's a problem with the border that needs to be addressed. >> i apologize for being rude but let me ask you to hold your answer to the other side of one of these pesky commercial breaks. ladies and gentlemen, we will

continue this debate after the short break also we will give you the latest on th

>> we have a debate going on with the arizona statute now. debbie riddle the state rep is introducing the same law in texas as if texas needs that domingo garcia is the organizer of the big pro immigration rally she may be use ago machete where a skal pull -- scalpel is nece. isn't representative riddle right about all of the problems at the border and the critical need for border security? >> what happened in arizona will stay in arizona. they say we are going to have the bill in the committee last time she followed it.

it's dead on arrival in texas. let me tell you, the comprehensive immigration reform at a national level. we can't have cities or states trying to pass their immigration laws. that's a federal responsible. the federal government has to step up stais time to fix this issue. the border is a state issue it's not a city of el pa el paso iss any other on the border. the federal government needs to deal with it. >> domingo. >> geraldo, it is a federal issue but the feds have not done anything about it. it's a little bit like geraldo if you were in the neighborhood pool with lots of kids and you see a child that is drowning, and the lifeguard is over maybe playing basketball with a movie star are you going to let the kid drown because the lifeguard

is too busy. by the way the bill that i am introducing is not exactly like that. the one in arizona, it's only about a page and a half. racial profiling is illegal. there's information about that. i would love it if the feds would come in and do somethisom> debbie riddle is right federal government should be ashamed of itself. i know obama didn't expect to have the great recession on the 21st century when he started but he did say he would lo address s issue. i don't know if the mood in the country now -- if they defeated comprehensive immigration reform in 2007 when we had fewer than 5 percent unemployed do you really believe that the congress of the

united states even as presently constituted will deal with comprehensive immigration reform as critically necessary as it may be? >> the probable we have right now, i think senator reed is ready to move on it, senator pelosi is ready to move on it. there's not one republican with the courage to stand up and do what's right. ronald reagan had t passed the immigration bill in 1986 a hero among republicans. where are the ronald reagans of 2010. even john mccain who supported comprehensive immigration reform the mccain kennedy bill switched to the position in arizona. it flip flopped. >> my hero. broke my heart. >> geraldo, what he has been -- what he is talking about all he is talking about a amnesty. >> you are an attorney takes 8 years it makes you pay a fine makes you go through every kind

of hoop in the world it's hardly immigration. i am out of time. we will have you back. we will have you both back. got to take a break. >> be glad to come back. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i work a lot, and so i wasn't sure that i should actually come tonight. biden talked me into it. he leaned over and he said, mr. president, this is no ordinary dinner. this is a big (bleep) deal.xlxlz