in terms of this latest spill in arkansas, arkansas's attorney general has been so far pretty much allver this. we had him on the show earlier this week. he has been touring the affected area. in recent days. he said today that his head hurt all the way through yesterday just from being exposed to the fumes in mayflower for a couple of hours. he's now demanding a trove of documents from exxon, including the company's inspection reports for this pipeline. there is news today a number of residents of mayflower, arkansas who were affected by the spill, they have now filed the first class action lawsuit against exxon for what happened there. again, to our viewers in arkansas, to anybody affected by this spill, here is the thing to know about fighting exxon. here'sed thing to know about fighting exxon over this thing that they just did to you and your state. there is nothing that exxon fears from the federal government. they have so captured the parts of the government that are supposed to punish them when this sort of thing happens that the pain that that sort of punishment could cause the

if you live in arkansas, there is for you.u know anyone who lives in arkansas, give them a call, tell them it tune in. this might be helpful if you live in arkansas. okay, ready? all right. the fifth most profitable corporation in the entire country right now, the fifth most profitable, number five, is the ford motor company. ford is back and they are back in a big way. number five. number four, on the most profitable companies in the country list is microsoft. seriously. this is an list from 1998. i promise. this is the most recent fortune 500 list. microsoft cracked the top five. they are number four. number three is apple. that sort of makes sense, right? apple is just an absolute juggernaut right now. number two, second most profitable corporation in the country. a little mom and pop operation called chevron. giant oil company pulled in $26 billion in profit last year alone. not bad, right? as you can see, the top four most profitable corporations in the country are all within a few billion dollars of each other. all clust

these come from arkansas. most of these birds are been bathed at least once before the pictures were taken. just two days before the big suburban spill in arkansas, a train derailed in minnesota spilling 15,000 gallons of crude into a rural minnesota field. we don't know for sure whether that was also tar sands oil, but we do know it came from alberta. as for the pipeline that ruptured in arkansas, that pipeline used to carry crude oil from texas up north to illinois, but in 2006 because there were so much heavy crude oil coming out of canada, exxon reversed it so now it flows north to south. as america is projected to become the western hemisphere's hub for oil production, some estimate we'll outpass saudi arabia by 2020, we have a view of what our oil fields can look like. this could be your neighborhood soon. they're set to do particularly at the keystone pipeline is ultimately approved whether it's fracking in your backyard or a pipeline under your subdivision, this is the future of fossil fuel america unl

economic policy or are they what's causing the global economic crisis in front of us also as mayflower arkansas continues to clean up from last week's tar sands oil spill there are new questions surrounding the exxon mobil's handling of the spill why is the oil giant preventing media coverage of the spill and they knowingly let oil contaminate local wetlands and conservatives hate government regulations and constantly argue that the federal government needs to have a smaller role in a capitalist society is that really the case or do we need to put more regulations in place to protect our economy and overall wellbeing. and we begin tonight with margaret thatcher the former prime minister of the u.k. for eleven years in the only female prime minister in that nation's history she died today of a stroke at age eighty seven in the past fifty years of british politics there was no leader more divisive and more transformative than margaret thatcher after the devastation of world war two the u.k. like many western european nations and like the united states came together embrace progressivism encourage

we have to guess from our arkansas. mark pryer, the democratic senator from arkansas is the great example of a kind of guy who is stuck at the moment. his party wants to make changes but he faces a re-election next year. he's one of several conservative democrats who face a real challenge in trying to find a way to either support this or reject it and explain why they did that. >> ifill: we'll be watching and reporting on that. ed o'keefe of the "washington post," charles collins, the republican of arkansas, and vinny demarco of marylanders to prevent gun violence, thank you all very much. >> thank you. >> ifill: you can watch president obama's newtown speech in full on our youtube page. >> woodruff: finally tonight, we return to the legacy of the cold war and a battle to preserve one of its icons, the berlin wall. our story comes from independent producers carl nasman and anne- sophie braÄndlin, and is reportd by nasman. reporter: thousands of people at the berlin wall in germany. but this time instead of tearing down

now, today, mayflower, arkansas, swrus outside arkansas.t's friday afternoon and by now, you know the drill. it starts with boom. >> so, that is a pipeline that has busted and has flooded the neighborhood and is going all the way to the drain at the end of the street. luckily, our house is here, but the smell is unbelievable. i mean, look. that is oil. >> lots and lots of oil. on friday afternoon, another pipeline, an exxon mobil pipeline, this one carrying between illinois and texas, ruptured underground. it sent a thick stream of crude oil everywhere. dozens of residents have been evacuated indefinitely. it's now encroaching toward lake conway, a local source of drinking water. so far, the oil company says 12,000 barrels of oil contaminated water have been recovered by emergency responders. one of the things that has emerged is that it turns out this oil pipeline, a ticking time bomb, this was mostly unknown to the residents who live right on top of it. watch. >> mike oswald is worried about his mother. >> no, i didn't know there was one.

what is going on in arkansas eric what is going on in arkansas well exxon is basically running the show they got permission from a local judge to basically take over their paying all the over time for the local police for the local sheriff's department to keep media away from where the oil is where the tar sands bitumen is rather we were told by one officer quote i'm being paid a lot of money to keep ya'll out of here and we went in anyways and we got footage of the wetland where are they how are washed all that tar sands fishermen that spilled into the neighborhood and the idea that our washing could send it to the wetland is absurd water runs downhill and there are topographic maps and hydrological maps that they have access to they knew exactly what they were doing and they put it someplace that it would be harder for the media to see the extent of the spill and then made the neighborhood itself look as tidy and cosmetic as possible for the t.v. cameras that they do allow and so eric the media is camped out there covering the one part of the oil spill with the media mainstream media

whether the pipeline is in arkansas or in the gulf or anywhere else.hink people are anxious to see us fixing the debt, getting our fiscal house back in order so we can put our resources to that. >> this becomes the nimby factor. support for that collapsed after bp. ditto with the nuclear -- >> it tends to bounce back over time as well. the interesting thing about this as well, it splits sort of a two-core democratic constituencies. labor is going to be there. labor is going to be there regardless. i think the point with regard to information and education is very relevant here. but these events tend to bounce back over time. >> the bounceback is from opportunity. >> opportunity is everything. >> supporters of keystone -- the irony is they may want them to delay a decision because if they want it make it now, they may say -- thank you, both. pleasure. >>> up next, going for broke, a big city goes into bankruptcy. plus, president obama set to unveil an initiative that could ultimately lead cures for devastating brain illnesses. we'll bring that to you li

arkansas gets tornadoes this time of year.n you have containers filled with oil-soaked soil and oily water all set in a staging area, yesterday afternoon, i said, just god forbid what happens if we have a tornado in the staging area? what do we do about that? lots of water, a lot of runoff because of the storm. so we were very concerned about it. you're right. it's not just light sweet crude. it is heavy tar sand crude. of course, we don't know what the solvents are. i still want to know and i don't know if they've included that in what they provided to me. it's 12,000 pages, so we haven't got it all digested within the last 24 hours. but there are obviously a lot of chemicals that are incorporated into the product. i need to know what those are as well. >> arkansas attorney general dustin mcdaniels. thank you for your time tonight. before you go, i feel like i need to tell our audience they appreciate you being here that i forced you to sneak away from your grandmother's birthday party tonight in order to be here. i just want

some lefty ground water hugger snuck past it and broke into arkansas. this is video by activities with the group. >> this is where they pump the oil that spilled into the neighborhood. they pumped it into this wetland. >> eric says he spoke with eyewitnesses who claimed workers power washed oil into storm drains. >> stephen: of course it's going into the storm drains. they are just putting it back underground where it came from. it's called recycling, duh! any environmentalists don't get your hemp panties in a bunch because exxon's disaster relief team has the situation under control. >> the workers have been there. they are using some kind of quilted papertowel to try to soak things up. these are their paper towels. >> stephen: clearly they are taking the spill seriously or they wouldn't have sprung for the quilted. exxon is employing a time honors cleanup technique pioneered by drunk guys. throw paper towels down on whatever you spilled just get out of there. there are other drunk guy options like hiding the spill a strategically placed coffee table o

when we come back, there has been a tar sands leak in an exxonmobil pipeline in arkansas. will speak with bill mckibben, founder of 350.org. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. exxon mobil continues clean-up efforts after a ruptured pipeline sprayed thousands of barrels of crude oil across central arkansas subdivision, forcing nearly two dozen homes to evacuate. the 20 inch so-called pegasus tar sands pipeline burst late friday near mayflower, arkansas, creating what the epa is categorizing as a major spill. officials said the pipeline gushed oil for 45 minutes before being stanched. more than 12,000 barrels of oil and water have been recovered. the pipeline will be excavated as part of its investigation to determine the cause of the leak according to exxon. the company says about 50 claims have been filed so far. a local news station spoke to two mayflower residents impacted by this bill. >> we're all having to pay mortgages and we cannot even live in our houses. if it does not fit in our

will the arkansas pipeline spill affect the key stone decision?in a few weeks to make the decision regarding the key stone exel pipeline. but you in your piece go to trans canada. that's who owns the pipeline. they insist that they have new operations, new safety measures, state-of-the-art, leak detection systems that would prevent or warn them of any possible rupture. >> absolutely. for one thing, these newer pipes. the pipes that spilled in kalamazoo are decades old. even with these safety measures, a small leak, anything less than 1.5% of the flow rate won't be detected. even the spills that are detected, it is not immediate shutdown. the spill could still do a lot of damage. >> no one knows what the obama administration will do but people are hedging their bets but say it is assumed he will reluctantly approve the pipeline. >> that's where most people have been thinking. activists are optimistic. they're hoping with this tragedy, perhaps they'll have more cause to help push obama to stop the pipeline from going through. >> all right. mean whil

the streets over us town in the state of arkansas have been deluged by over ten thousand barrels of crude oil after an exxon mobil pipeline burst on friday around two dozen homes have been evacuated with some residents forced to stay away for several more days when a cleanup operation continues auntie's washington correspondent and has the details now. exxon mobil is naturally trying to downplay environmental concerns they're not saying exactly how much oil spilled onto the streets of that neighborhood in arkansas but the company says it has already collected more than twelve thousand barrels of oil mixed with water from the affected area not clear how much of it was water though twenty two homes were evacuated there as they're still cleaning up the pipeline that was carrying canadian heavy crude to the south of the u.s. this is the country's gulf coast refineries this latest spill response from critics of the proposed keystone x.l. pipeline the keystone x.l. pipeline would carry eight hundred thousand barrels per day just to compare the pipe that leaked in arkansas can carry around ninet

here's on the big picture tonight there is a river of oil flowing through the streets of mayflower arkansas resulting in resulting from abrupt. spewing tar sand all across this all across the city yet big oil won't want to build another the keystone x.l. pipeline putting millions of americans at risk is this risk worth the reward also guns on school campus the n.r.a. has announced their school safety proposal that includes arming and training school staff will these measures make our schools safer or will they make our teachers and students more at risk and this past december michigan state legislature passed a law passed a law making a right to work making making michigan a right to work state and now they're back at it trying to pass a law that will strip unions of their exclusivity rights which means attacks against the middle class and working class and what is it going to stop. so tonight we kick things off with our tuesday politics panel joining us tonight are patrick hedger policy analyst with freedom works and neil mckay conservative commentator editor the guns and patriots newslett

it's a good comment just to send in a picture of that mess in arkansas.50.org , we've got it set up so you can do it easily. this is a real line in the tar sands, as it were. "time" magazine said that keystone had been the stone wall in the climate so we won't give up. >> john: before we move on to fracking, i have one question what is the biggest piece of information you've heard repeated about keystone, bob let me start with you. >> there are--there is actually misinformation on both sides of this issue. on the industry side they like to talk about jobs and how to improve the economy and all those things that hit the buttons with the republicans. it won't add jobs, in construction it will until it's completed. then there won't be that many jobs at all. the thought that we just can't do this. we have to stop this, and when private businesses are operating on a profit motive, it's very difficult to get the politicians to stop an activity. so the challenge here is to price all of the costs into every pit of energy that we have. so everything is more of a l

there could be storms ahead of that as well. >> reporter: arkansas's governor just declared 15 counties disaster areas as the severe system moves east, warnings are still posted in florida, georgia, tennessee, and here in alabama, brian. >> gabe gutierrez in birmingham, alabama, tonight. thanks. >>> at the white house today president obama awarded the medal of honor to a genuine american hero. a u.s. army chaplain who risked his life to save and care for hundreds of others in a p.o.w. compound during the korean war before he himself died in captivity more than 60 years ago. he was 35 years old. speaking today about army chaplain emil kapaun, president obama said to friends and family members, i can't imagine a better example for all of us whether in uniform or not in uniform. a better example to follow. we get his extraordinary story tonight from our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: it was one of the bloodiest phases of the korean war. the chinese had just entered the fight. through it all walked a one-man miracle. father emil kapaun. an army chaplain on the front l

arkansas's attorney general opened an investigation into the case. the department of transportation issued an order presenting the company from restarting the pegasus pipeline until they are satisfied with repairs. nearly two dozen families have been evacuated as they work to remove the oil from their properties. many never realized there was a pipeline near their homes. >> if we wanted to, we couldn't go back. if we wanted to stay in our home, we could nlt. i was there ten minutes max grabbing items. my head began to hurt from the fumes. i wouldn't dare take my children into that. >> exxon will pay for the clean up. the age of the pipeline does not determine the integrity. the company is up to code when it comes to checking it. exxon was fined three years ago for not inspecting another section of the pipeline frequently enough. >>> let us know why you are awake at this hour. seriously, why are you up? tweet me@peter alexander. still ahead, texas rangers pitcher, yu darvish looking to make history. the final out just one battle between you and histor

we start in arkansas where exxon oil spilled all over the place. but is exxon being a little slick with their oil? >> michael: the world lose an icon. margaret thatcher dies today. but she had something to say about a couple of our presidents a while ago. >> the mantles you that he enjoys a cold shower every morning will lie about other things. >> michael: so you havana controversy, i've got a havana controversy for. >> you how these two high profile well-connected individuals got to spend their ananniversary in havana. this is "the young turks." this is go time. >> michael: so congress has returned to washington after what i would say is a much-needed two-week break to come back and tackle some real issues. they're going to be tackling immigration, the budget, and they're going to be tackling guns. today the president went to hard hartford connecticut the where gun reform happen in this country since newtown. >> connecticut has shown the way, and now is the time for congress to do the same. as soon as this week congress will begin debateing these

we have a fragile environment in arkansas.s the natural state for a reason. and whether it's the lake conway which is a source of drinking water and recreation in faulkner county or the extentive underground aquifers, essential to arkansas's economy and environment, we'll find out exactly how far the spill goes. >> last question, the pipeline that runs underneath the state, 60 years old. exxonmobil earned a near record profit of $45 billion last year. wouldn't it be nice if they replaced that pipe? >> i don't know how long they intended for that pipeline to be in use when it was put in the ground just after world war ii, and i don't know exactly when it was last inspected or what the inspection records are, but i can assure you the people of arkansas are going to ask those questions and we're going to find out. >> arkansas attorney general dustin mcdaniel, thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> you're welcome. >> talkback question for you today. should the rutgers basketball coach be fi

justin lewis from affiliate katv is live in arkansas this morning. reporter: good morning, john. we're about 75 miles north of little rock here in van buren county. behind me is what remains of a church sanctuary here. this is a foursquare church. i confirmed this morning, at least six homes completely were demolished yesterday from this storm. now, when we got here we saw trees down, debris, things everywhere, people everywhere trying to pick things up. i ran into one young man and asked him how the road was we were heading on. he had a chainsaw in hand and he began to tell me how the storm almost hit his home. he was outside helping out his neighbors trying to clear the road in this rural part of van buren county. a lot of people have been out here, we're expecting the american red cross as well as many other residents to be out here today to help people gather what they can of many of their demolished homes. four people were injured yesterday. all of them transported to hospital. good news this morning, three were released late last night. one of

and i know the senator from arkansas agrees as well. i haven't said, on a matter my constituents feel very strongly about for going on two days until now solely pour the purposes of working my friend from arkansas, the distinguished leader from illinois, senator durbin, and we will continue to do it. but at the end of the day, states rights to some extent has to have an element of voluntariness. if states' rights has no element of voluntary judgments by states, it's pretty hard to say a state's got any rights. a state really is going to be coerced -- and we reached that point as i would characterize it where we're going to say in washington, d.c. we believe in states' rights if we think the state is right and they're going to go along with the approach we have dictated. in my part of the world to show the irony of the situation, washington state has a sales tax. oregon does not have a sales tax. there are deferential tax considerations in both jurisdictions, we omnibus make agreements in terms of how we do business. we've shown that it'

these photos of the exxon tar sands oil spill in mayflower, arkansas. we've got a link to these at maddow blog if you want to get a closer look. these are high resolution photos showing the ongoing damage caused by the pipeline spill in arkansas and in some cases showing the means by which they're trying to clean this mess up. and yes, these photos are gross enough about what is going on down there in arkansas, but if you want to grasp the enormity of just how much of the spill is being handled with paper towels, honestly that's the technology they have got for cleanup, for that you really have to check out the gorilla unauthorized video reportedly shot by people sneaking onto the spill site. it shows the marshy wetlands around the site of the spill and it shows the way exxon is dealing with cleaning up this toxic, heavy tar sands oil out in the wetlands is what it looks like is to put a bunch of paper towels on it. see how that goes. this is the extent of the technology that the oil companies have come up with for how to handle a tar sands oil spill, l

administered by the organization it's a move that many are calling irresponsible considering how arkansascurrently has the third highest rate of teen pregnancy in the u.s. but this recent measure is just one of the many that are starting to take a route across the country just last month the university of tennessee called state funding for sex week a series of events and panel discussions exploring sex education interesting that we live in a society fixated on sex and at the same time it seems that the subject is becoming more taboo by the day so to talk.

new meaning over the weekend and exxon mobil pipeline spilled thousands of gallons of oil into an arkansas neighborhood more on the spill in the future of oil pipelines coming right up. plus with their history of accosting travelers you hope the t.s.a. would lay off one man found himself stopped from carrying what was needed for his medical safety why was this item taken away from him r t will question more coming up. it's monday april first eight him in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you are watching r t. starting off this hour the jobs report for march is due out in the next few days but already economists are estimating that the u.s. added nearly two hundred thousand jobs and this is a good sign for our economy it could be yet another sign that the u.s. is back on solid ground financially but while the rest of the country takes the slow and tedious path of recovery one place in particular is on the fast track to riches washington d.c. according to a new analysis by zip realty inc the nation's capital is it the least affordable city in the entire united states here's what else we fo

concerns they're not saying exactly how much oil spilled onto the streets of that neighborhood in arkansas but the company says it has already collected more than twelve thousand barrels of oil mixed with water from the affected area not clear how much of it was water though twenty two homes were evacuated there as they're still cleaning up the pipeline that was carrying canadian heavy crudes to the south of the u.s. this is the country's gulf coast refineries this latest spill response from critics of the proposed keystone x.l. pipeline the keystone x.l. pipeline would carry eight hundred thousand barrels per day just to compare the pipe that leaked in arkansas can carry around ninety thousand barrels a day so the consequences of a leak could be devastating the keystone pipeline would also carry canadian heavy crudes to us we're finally seeing the self the project doesn't have the final green light from the administration just yet but the oil giants involved are pushing the administration very hard to go ahead with that saying it will bring down fuel costs in the u.s. trans canada is firs

arkansas want to pay more money? >> arkansas -- let me start senator rockefeller. i think there's a lot of confusion and a lot of that generated by the press about what is going on with arkansas as it relates to premium assistance. they have approached an -- the idea of taking what historically has been done in premium assistance and trying to apply to medicaid expansion. we don't yet have a formal proposal from arkansas. we have not approved anything. let me start there. >> oh. >> so second thing that is important to know, though, we did put out some q & a or -- i'm not using q & a in a bad way but clarification around what premium assistance is and is not. and one of the things that we have stressed to -- we have a handful of states that are interested in the program, arkansas is one of them. so we tried to spend our time educating them about these are still medicaid beneficiary with the same rights and protections of medicaid and the issue of cost effectivenesses, which before has always been a requirement and waiver. we will look, is there a band we're willing

david pryor of arkansas, as a general rule, people in arkansas do not want any gun control.s sort of a blanket statement. heidi of north dakota when she was running ran on schools tractors and guns, it's how we live. she met with the newtown families and she said to them directly to their face, i'm going to vote for the voters of north dakota. gun control in the states that kim just mentioned is simply an issue, no matter what they pass, those voters are going to vote against their elected representatives. it's just that hard out there in the country, and the white house doesn't understand that. and that's why harry reid is having such a difficult time getting any sort of bill through the senate. >> stuart: did newtown not change the political equation? >> not out in the country, i don't think he it did. >> for a while it did, but you're already seeing, at least according to the most recent wall street journal/nbc poll, but that the demand for gun controls is being reduced, coming down dramatically over the last month and part of it is the public looking what's happening. th

the arkansas attorney general is moving forward with an investigation into the incident. in a check-up on ceo pay, the head of cable programmer discovery communications reportedly took home a cool $49 million in 2012, down from $52 million the previous year. jc penney ceo ron johnson's pay package was severed by 96%, going from $50 million to $1.9 million, after the retailer faced continuing problems. and former wellpoint ceo angela braly received $20 million in compensation, despite resigning under pressure in august. a former goldman sachs trader faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud. matthew taylor surrendered to the fbi wednesday. the cftc accused him in november 2012 of hiding an $8-billion position on a futures contract that cost goldman more than $118 million. his bond is set for $750,000. defense stocks are rallying in the face of sequestration. since march 1st, boeing's stock is up 9.6%. lockheed martin has gained 8.3%. northrop grumman and raytheon are both up 6%. analysts sense it's a relief rally considering defense stocks took a h

adam: up next, a huge oil spill in arkansas could put te keystone pipeline on thin ice.pponents say this is the exact reason why the project should be killed. we will talk about it next. plus, commodities by the side of the road. we are going to tell you how you can make some money and profit in that market. can you ever have too much "money"? úúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúúú ♪musicú ♪the more i search0forú my significance,♪ ♪seems0r ♪and0i0ú a0difference♪ ♪in anyú i've been0here♪ ♪and0i0ú laughter♪ ♪it's tp i've ever knownp♪ ♪i0don'ú happensp♪ ♪but i0e ♪and0i0h in you♪ ♪ adam: we talk about the keystone xl pipeline, i knew spill could put the kaj bosch on keystone. an exxon pipeline burst an arkansas forcing evacuations because of the risk to health to help the people that live near it due to the food and fumes fuel to the fire and the critics could be a huge obacle for the keystone xl pipeline. our next guest has been fighting transcanada in court over the keystone project, not necessarily on the environmental issues, but as it encroaches on our farm. manager at the red arc fa

administered by the organization it's a move that many are calling irresponsible considering how arkansas currently has the third highest rate of teen pregnancy in the u.s. but this recent measure is just one of the many that are starting to take a route across the country just last month the university of tennessee hold state funding for sex week a series of events and panel discussions exploring sex education interesting that we live in a society fixated on sex at the same time it seems that the subject is becoming more taboo by the day so to talk about the war on sex education and the culture of sex i'm joined now by conor heartbeat adult film star sex and relationships relationship expert at the new now the next dot com conor thank you so much for joining me. so conor you were recently slated to speak at new york ologists next week and last minute the event was canceled what happened that story was scheduled about a month and a half ahead of time in just about a week before my talk corning community college the president canceled my talk and she said that. on campus group that brought