no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high minimum detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity to twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they do it. is still in the trial the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prep

these are the images and seeing from the streets of canada. today. louisiana produces about thirty percent of the seafood the same didn't study number one in blue graham frampton or stripper so it is a huge industry a multibillion dollar industry. of health and human services the f.d.a. sent a letter to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the ground or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they could say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispers

no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in the trial the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepared be

jackson the louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a fact of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the decisions that a series of trade offs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released who are the head of the soon as you say i would to either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from day one ms jackson forget about cleaning up forget about the natural resource to average just for releasing that. oil just for releasing oil. tens of billions of dollars of fine well if you can eat. released. those pictures down from twenty five billion to maybe one or two billion billion dollars here a billion dollars or you took a real movie. the company that makes correct said now coke is a joint venture with exxon mobil it's received over twe

in the old homes for texas a good old. louisiana the political structure is the economic structure of those states are sold by well wishers were the number one issue. one thing that is unique about the museum is where tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene. the senate is the most now apportioned body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world or louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related belts proposed in the last decade every bill that contain provisions fo

i ran one of the regulatory agencies and louisiana whose environmental quality agency the oil and gas industry lobbyists run our halls every day i mean they're talking to people in the. agency that might have some say over how they would regulate orleans jazz the same time they're making campaign contributions in every election that comes along when the time comes for a vote i've seen the oil and gas industry for example kill environmental bills just by putting the. modern russia was built on coal. fields for its factories. coke for its steel. gold is it more than heat for its people. join me james brown to meet them and spend their lives underground and work in one of the world's most dangerous professions. for. hearts of coal on naughty. it's. the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure is the economic structure of those states are sold on the oil where the number would be issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's were tiny state politically we have single digits in terms

i ran one of the regulatory agencies and louisiana whose environmental quality agency the oil and gas industry lobbyists run our halls every day i mean they're talking to people in the. agency that might have some say over how they would regulate oil and gas the same time they're making campaign contributions in every election that comes along when the time comes for a vote i've seen the oil and gas industry for example kill environmental bills just by putting the thumb up. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. they're ready to come here to work and not get paid for it. people from all over the world are eager to help. what does it take to become a volunteer at russia's premium museum why did the son of louvers director come here. i'm one of the cats do. behind the scenes of the hermitage a nazi. it's just it's the same corruption that affects the louisiana happens on a larger scale

i ran one of the regulatory agencies and louisiana whose environmental quality agency the oil and gas industry lobbyists run our halls every day i mean they're talking to people in the. agency that might have some say over how they would regulate this same time they're making campaign contributions in every election that comes along when the time comes for a vote i've seen the oil and gas industry for example kill environmental bills just by putting the phone. there ready to come here and. people from all over the world are eager to help. what does it take to become a volunteer at russia's premium museum why did the son of the movie's director come here. and one of the cats do. behind the scenes of the. morning news today. again fled. these are the images. from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. it's just it's the same corruption that effects the louisiana happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas oklahoma louisiana the political structure the economic structure of those states are sold on the oil where the liberal would issues. one thing that is uniq

the b.p. spill dr ronn came to louisiana where in bury terry which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the wellhead the oil and dispersants have come into here yesterday the wind blew really hard these tables got this cloudy gritty glaze on it because that's just what's on the table before we even start the interview. was b.p. about to repeat the same strategy that exxon used with the valve these oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as part of the toxic. lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingered these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers actually did in fact get sick from exposure to a number of chemicals including to be toxic. axons chief medical advisor dr kind of cool it's a memo to x. on and at the very end here you see the intent we do not need a health hazard a value. ation and should try and avoid it if possible. the health hazard evaluation is osha and nyasha coming in and saying sorry there's too many sick people here and you

portion the body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california the california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world of louisiana is not close to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related belts proposed in the last decade every bill that contain provisions for alternative energy was blocked. the only bills that became law with the five that subsidized fossil fuels and nuclear. another factor that contributes to the lack of regulation by congress is the proverbial revolving door. santa congressional delegation is known as the all delegation our senators when every tarak go to work as a lobbyist for walling gas there's a two year cooling off period before you could become a lobbyist out of the sena

for six months, i studied it to retake the louisiana board -- the law board. six months later, i reject the test. my score catapulted up to a 401. [laughter] i figured, at that rate, i would be about 90 before i got into an english-speaking law school. so i started writing jokes for all comedians who played in the catskill section of new york. the hotels paid me $7 a joke. that was the going rate at the time the vso 21. they are 45. it was like writing for my parents' friends. but i tried my best. they would say to me, like, a sperm banks. sperm banks are in it the news. write me sperm bank jokes. 21, this is what was the foremost on my mind. they have this new thing now called sperm banks, which is just like an ordinary bank except here after making a deposit, you lose interest. [laughter] hey, $7, what do you want? [laughter] then i became the sperm bank guy. they would go, more sperm bank jokes. that i looked into the future. i said, i see a problem with spurring banks. they're starting to freeze sperm. that will be a problem because it is herded up telling

cloud bouchard former executive director of the louisiana state university pennington research centery said if you are an prosecutor in a high tech industry would you refer to hire a graduate from a state where the legislature has a sense declared that laws of chemistry physics or biology can be suspended at times or someone from a state with a rigorous science kirk almost? good point mr. bouchard. repeal of this law has the backing of 78 nobel lawyer rate scientists and major science organizations. but in in a 3-2 vote, the senatation committee deferred the bill leaving the law on the books for a now. our next guest launched the campaign to repeal the act and testified at yesterday's hearing.hearing. you testified at the hearing yesterday, what sort of questions did you get and how did you respond why. >> they have emphasized there are no complaints from teachers and students inside the cools about creationism. that's missing the point. the person who sponsored the bill is for creationism. the governor who signed it is for creationism. and the school board who enacted it have acknowl

and looking again from your report, the louisiana gun murder rate, this was in 2010. the u.s. it's 9.5. then you also see mississippi, alabama, missouri. you know from having lived in thorls for some time, we always try to be ahead of mississippi. sometimes that's all we got. we're just better than mississippi. >> and speaking of generational impact. you would see people with babies at crime scenes. you would see 10 and 11-year-olds riding the bikes. we are missing the stressful impact of this. how can you go to school and be expected to concentrate if you're seeing the bloodshed and the bodies? >> you're absolutely right. how do you put together legislation that makes it safe for people in the streets? and doesn't run over the rights of law-abiding citizens who may happen to own a gun because they wish to own a gun? and the other part is how do you put together gun legislation that doesn't give an advantage to the good guys? >> if i felt what was happening is the louisiana state legislature were coming together and struggling with the question. and therm coming to different a

tennessee passed its own creationism law last year, a law that's based off of the louisiana model. ill pending. next, we're going to go to louisiana to talk to the student who is spearheading the efforts to eliminate them all. stay with us. ♪ hey everybody, hi mom... streaming live with a tour of my new place... knowing you can still reach out. ... and now you've seen it. that's powerful. verizon. get mom a lucid 2 by lg for free. [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good. ♪ [ agent smith ] ge software connects patients to nurses to the right machines while dramatically reducing waiting time. [ telephone ringing ] now a waiting room is just a room. [ static warbles ] >>> in one of my first ever footnotes on this show last year, i introduced to you a teenage student named zach copland. zach, in addition to being a sophomore at rice university, is a leading crusader against the louisiana science education act, which actually allows for the teaching of creationism as part of science class. joining me from new orleans to discuss his undaunte

the elayn hunt correctional center in louisiana claims its boot camp is one of the best.ates in the rigorous and challenging program can reduce their sentences by successfully completing the course. but you'll see it often comes at a heavy price. ♪ it's all right ♪ ♪ it's all right ♪ ♪ all i do is double time ♪ >> the boot camp program at elayn hunt is called impact. >> in my honest opinion, this is the best form of rehabilitation offered by the department of corrections. >> for every 100 inmates who complete the program, the state of louisiana says it saves more than $1 million. to qualify for impact, participants must be nonviolent offenders and free of pending felony charges. >> what motivated me to be in impact was i was trying to make a change in my life. i'm at hunt for possession of marijuana, which is actually my second felony. i mean, people used to tell me on the street that i was addicted to marijuana and i would be like, no, i just use it because i don't want to feel this pain or that pain. when the truth of it was is at first it may have started out as that r

the clerk: shelly decree earth dik of louisiana to be united states district judge for the middle district of louisiana. nelson stephen roman to be united states district judge for the southern district of new york. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will now be 30 minutes of debate, equally divided in the usual form. ms. landrieu: thank you. i rise today to present to this chamber the nomination of shelly deckert dick as nominee for the middle district court of louisiana. i was pleased to recommend mrs. dick to president obama and the committee has unanimously recommended her for confirmation. she is equipped with decades of federal court litigation experience, she brings with her a thorough understanding of the federal court system, having practiced for years before the court. she is from all indications from her peers and colleagues fair and even-handed, her temperament i think is appropriate for the bench. she is a current resident of baton rouge but she was born in el paso, texas. she earned her bachelor's degree in business administration from the university of te

as seventeen people injured in a shooting at a mother's day parade in the new orleans city of the louisiana city of new orleans for more on this i'm joined by professor mark mason who we tried to talk to earlier in the hour to get some perspective on this he's a professor and also an activist with the occupy movement so washington has been tightening security since especially in the wake of the tragedy in boston and also police departments throughout the united states are thinking of changing their tactics as well do you see that being effective in this instance. no not at all. we have in the past thirty years. roughly thirty thousand to thirty five thousand people killed every year through gun violence we have it today a painful shocking tragedy but it's painfully tragic yet but also painfully predictable. this congress and the president and the police they are part of the problem not part of the solution we have a culture we are a culture of violence where the. i'm sorry to interrupt what did you say were the number of gun homicides i knew it wasn't such way during the past thirty years b

so i called the louisiana number that was left and a little young voice answered the phone. i asked, is this tailor? a little young voice said, is this robert neighbor? the only person who calls me robert is my mom and this was not my mom. she went on to say she was thinking of committing suicide and she went on you tube and found some videos that some of jill's friend had made about jill. and she thought, if somebody loves jill that much, maybe somebody loves me. i'm always touched by that. >> some day bullying will be something of the past. i also wanted to say we need to work and i see representatives here of cities and counties because those same children are on sports teams under the city rec department, they are receiving services and they are in programs with the county and so having this training, having this awareness go beyond the schools is really important. so i thought i'd mention that. the other thing that we are moving towards in education is more digital. we'll see less textbooks and more digital learning and with that we are promoting a digital literacy poli

so i called the louisiana number that was left and a little young voice answered the phone. i asked, is this tailor? a little young voice said, is this robert neighbor? the only person who calls me robert is my mom and this was not my mom. she went on to say she was thinking of committing suicide and she went on you tube and found some videos that some of jill's friend had made about jill. and she thought, if

so i called the louisiana number that was left and a little young voice answered the phone. i asked, is this tailor? a little young voice said,

the state of louisiana has the second highest rate of gun homicides in the country. is a problem in new orleans and louisiana that is not getting better, it is getting worse. but if the state's leadership wants to do anything as a matter of policy to try to stop the gun violence on the streets of new orleans, in one important respect they are stopped from being able to do anything. bobby jindal stumped for an amendment in his state, establishing strict scrutiny for any laws related to guns in the whole state of louisiana. the new law essentially privileges the second amendment in such a way that even the kind of gun laws that everybody has, the most basic gun laws like if you're a convicted felon you can't buy a gun. even though laws that everybody has, those are in jeopardy in louisiana and are, in fact, being overturned by lower courts who feel like they have to overturn those laws because of that nra supported change in the state constitution. since the elementary school massacre at newtown, connecticut, in december, the only changes that we have had in policy hav

it was just blocks for my house, and we're going to talk about the exclusive report on the fact that louisiana legislators are doing nothing about it. [ dad ] ah! lily... she pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. and she's not exactly tidy. even if she gets a stain she'll wear it for a week straight. so i use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. since i'm the one who has to do the laundry. i do what any expert dad would do. i let her play sheriff. i got 20 minutes to life. you are free to go. [ dad ] tide and downy. great on their own, even better together.

the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. ms. andrieu: can i ask unanimous consent to get 802 pending before the senate, please. the presiding officer: we are in a comboarl. ms. landrieu: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: we are in a quorum call. ms. landrieu: vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. landrieu: i ask unanimous consent to call up as pending 802. the presiding officer: is there objection? ms. landrieu: there is no one here. i'd like to call the amendment up. if there is objection, i can talk about the amendment now and then -- okay. i will talk about the amendment now and then attempt to call the amendment up later in the day, and i thank the chair. mr. president, the amendment that i have pending, or trying to get pending for the wrda bill would delay the increase in flood insurance rates for people in this country that are going to be suffering in unbelievable ways, not just homeowners, not just business owners, but communities, mr. president, across america. th

he beat out terry bradshaw as quarterback of the louisiana tech. ted duck dynasty stuff to lure ducks to you so you can kill them. >> duck calls, quack, quack. >> bill: kill the ducks, slaughter. >> they eat them. >> bill: blow them out of the sky. [duck call] >> bill: anyway, he starts this and you will the whole family gets involved and you are all rich but you don't act rich? >> i guess rich people act differently. we can buy better things better we are not all about money. >> bill: you are not. i know you a little bit. we ran into him in d.c. >> we hung out at the baseball game. >> bill: at the gnats game. buff you are rich but you don't act rich. that might be secret to your success. >> we try to stick to our roots. we grew up not rich at all very poor. for us we can remember what it was like. weave try to stay humble and lord willing we are doing it and we have been successful. god has blessed us and. >> bill: and do you incorporate god in the show. >> oh yeah, we have a family prayer right at the end. >> amen. >> amen. >> bill: the aclu bothe

the mission was to fly the missiles to louisiana, and possibly, these were not supposed to be live nuclearre going to take off the warheads, replace them with dummy weights for balance and send them away. however, instead of retrieving the missiles with the dummy weights attached, the air force crew accidentally loaded on to the plane six cruise missiles that had live nuclear warheads on them. they loaded them on to a b-52 bomber and sent it to louisiana. the pilots had no idea. six nukes with roughly the capacity to cause hiroshima times ten were taken on a cross-country flight. that bomber, i'm not kidding you was named "doom 99" ask departed on schedule and for the first time in years a nuclear armed bomber crossed u.s. air space without clearance. upon landing, they sat unguarded on the runway at barksdale for nine hours. until the ground crew there finally realized with a resounding o-m-g they had accidentally acquired six live nuclear weapons they weren't expecting and they had left them sitting around unguarded for nine hours. after that debacle at minot, defense secretary bob gates

placed to authorities by the man's wife in connection with three suspicious letters mailed from the louisianaling center to president obama, mayor bloomberg and the gun control advocacy group. this is is new from fox news that the man is not in custody or charged with a crime. one other point made to me, there are two rounds of testing that are involved anytime there's a threat with a letter believed to contain a poison like ricin. the first is field testing and not very precise. it's performed where the letter is discovered. in the case of the gun control advocacy group, the executive director opened the letter and so that mail was examined in the field. officials tell me that those early field tests only confirmed that there were, quote a biological toxin consistent with ricin. another round of testing is underway in the state of maryland. >> shepard: there's another case i'm learning in spokane? >> reporter: that's right. in the spokane case, the officials confirmed the arrest and charging of one man, matthew ryan buket with one count of mailing a threatening communication. one of the five

back in the this day in 1803, the united states doubled in size as thomas jefferson purchased the louisianasiana purchase cost u.s. government $15 million at less than 3 cents per acre. that would come out to $200 million or 40 cents an acre today. a pretty good deal. in campus in 15 staes presently, and it also started when jefferson wanted to push napoleon out of north america. april 30, 210 yeas ago, a long time ago. we will be right back. he be right back. he answered her question of the day. are you planning to buy or sell a home this spring. and taylor swift just bought a huge rhode island mansion. he will tell you how much you paid for coming up next. was it too much? more after the break gerri: all prices rising in bed you larry. the most and nearly seven years. basically a growing number of buyers out there bidding on a limited supply of homes. are you planning on buying are selling a home? we ask a question on gerriwillis.com. 8 percent said yes, 92 percent said no. and here are some of your e-mails. corey from idaho, i worked for a small business with more than 50 employees to es

but the company, pressured by the state of louisiana, is preparing buyout offers for all the residents. >> i would be upset if that was my home, too. the response has been very challenging chg it's been an all-encompassing full frontal assault for the past eight months. i think we're starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel that is coming to an end. >> reporter: but martin also admits the sink hole could continue to grow for another year or two. >> i think when is this going to end? is it going to end correctly? >> reporter: mary lee orr is the executive director of lean, the louisiana environmental action network. the group says bayou corne's disaster should be a warning about developing in sink hole prone areas. >> sadly we do have sink hole potential here. we really want to make sure that there are buffer zones, no homes or nursing homes or schools or hospitals anywhere near the domes. >> reporter: john arthur, florida's state geologist, says states could map land surfaces for sink hole risks and where needed toughen construction codes. >> if a home is built in on sink hole