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to certain discovery beach hotel. the sea entrepreneur resort. hotel. resort and spa. in israel. damage control and a mom home to washington after. reports of the afghan war reveal civilian deaths for more american soldiers say the country should focus on its questionable methods not. the. living off charity slamming the government for doing nothing to help the country recover from the financial meltdown leaving many to fend for themselves. magical deception russian authorities give psychics a reading of the road to crack down on swindlers preying on people's misfortune. to change at b.p. as robot duckie takes a. look small for you in the business bulletin in twenty minutes time. nine pm here in moscow right now six in the evening in london one in the afternoon in new york city wherever you're watching us around the world a warm welcome mrs arty it's kevin zero in with the top stories for you this hour and the pentagon is hunting for the sources behind the biggest leak in u.s. military has to.

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. >> places like daytona beach, florida, the average hotel rates are 20% lower than june and july. >> reporter: rates in myrtle beach, south carolina, are 10% lower. and in gulf coast states still suffering from the flood of bad publicity surrounding you the oil spill there are not only discounted rooms, but hotels offering a clean beach guarantee, a full refund if your vacation is disrupted by the spill. other late summer vacation bar gains can be found at destinations headed into the offseason, like the rockies or maybe the caribbean before hurricanes really get active. >> these are the types of destinations we are going to find the rock bottom deals. >> reporter: airlines aren't backing off higher airfare bus that is making an august cruise more attractive, especially, experts say, if you are within driving distance of a cruise port. chris clackum, nbc news. >> travel experts say there are bargains even places like paris and london, where hotel rates 13% lower than a month ago. >>> a wild scene inside oakland children's hospital overnight. a man walks in with a gun and pulls it on

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beaches are closed. some are still off-limits. hotels and restaurants, charter boats and restaurants are facing cancellations. tourists are shying away from the areas of the goal in been due to oil coming ashore. bush for shoppers across america are asking if the seafood is from the gulf and if it is safe to eat. we will hear from tourism officials and businesses from each of the state's dealing with this catastrophe. we will also hear from kenneth feinberg and the independent and ministers in charge of looking at all claims to damage and loss in the oil spill. he is responsible for determining the proper level of compensation for each business, worker, and family impacted by the spill. this hearing will give the committee a better understanding of the impact of the spill and the essential part on the gulf coast economy and help us understand what we can do further to help the region recover. i thank everyone for being here. i look forward to their testimony. thanks. >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from florida, mr. stearns for

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we had 150, 170 people, this quaint little beautiful hotel on the beach.had the ceremony overlooking the ocean, and kristen and i were actually so tired from celebrating all week, we were drinking water when we did all our toasts. we were over it. we had so much fun -- >> larry: how did you come to jump into a pool? >> the girls were all dancing, and i saw kristen and there was a shallow area of the pool, maybe like an inch deep where she was dancing. i was at the bar. i said to my dad, i'm going to go jump in -- >> larry: with your clothes on? >> i was wearing a pair of shorts. it was very casual. i jumped in the pool and next thing i know, i'm floating, and i knew i was in trouble. i had no real recollection of willing able to move. i just knew i was in trouble and that i couldn't get myself out of the pool. >> larry: do you know what you hit? what happened? >> i really don't know what i hit. >> larry: did you see it happen, kristen? where were you? >> i was under water at the time from jumping in as well. when i came up, they already turned him over and

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launched yesterday already signed up three dozen hotels in stores and almost 2,000 beaches are also a away. the first of ten states which plan to build a similar thing. is that honolulu? >> yes. >> i saw the big -- what's the big -- there it the big pink hotel. >> is that where you stayed? >> no. [ laughter ] >> had cocktails there, though. >> you did? >> of course. >> you're talking too much. traffic and weather! >> sydnie right there in the corner. >>> we found out why it's so slow in the south bay on 101 out of downtown san jose. southbound 101 still seeing a lot of red on our sensors from about 280 at the capitol expressway. there's some late running roadwork in the area. so expect delays for about another few minutes. they said they hope to have it wrapped up by 6:00. so we'll continue to watch that. in the meantime coming out of downtown on 280 traffic is still light. we'll take you outside to more traffic cameras. across the span of the san mateo bridge this morning, i'm hoping chopper 5 can fly for a hi-5 segment here coming up but everything looks good go across the span ther

beach, you have lost business. it is easy if you're a fisherman and you cannot fish. you cannot harvest trend. -- shrimp. those cases are the easy cases. is the tough case. i own a 20 -- a hotel at 20 miles from the beach. i have lost 30% of my guests because of the spill. i do not use the beach. i did not fish. but my tourism is down. is that an eligible claimants? i sell t-shirts on the beach. that is my job. i sell t-shirts to to arrest. the beach is fine. the swimming is great. nobody is coming to the beach. i cannot sell t-shirts. i live in knoxville, tenn., and i make the t-shirts that he sells. at some point, if you have to decide, it is a judgment call. this side of the line, eligible. this side of the line, ineligible. if you are on this side of the line, you are eligible because if you brought a lawsuit in alabama or louisiana or virginia or florida, you would win. i do not want you to have to litigate for five years. come on in and we will settle the case and we will pay you. on this side of the line, if you litigate, even under the federal law, which is more lenient than state law, i did not think you are going to win. i think you are on a fool's mission. i want t

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with the tourist season at its height many beach goers flock to the black sea coast for some summer sun right now but alongside the hotels and restaurants there one ukrainian resort as a marquee aside a desk has become a thriving hub for the sex slave industry as a strategic importance location makes it a hot spot for human trafficking to and from the region as r.t. the legs here are jeff ski reports. it is fun in the sun in the ukraine in port city offered us hundreds of thousands come here during the height to receive. but for this woman from central africa it became a living nightmare with her identity concealed she told us how she was turned into a sex life. i met a man who told me he'd marry me and take care of me he brought me here then he locked me in a hotel room men came every day and raped me sometimes there were three of them at once later the man said he'd sell me to turkey but i managed to find help. she managed to escape from the man who had been slaves now she lives in the under protection program but many young girls here are not as lucky every day ships bring thousands of tourists in and out of but for m

beach because you'll. see. things started to change in one nine hundred fifty seven when the sicilian american mafia met in this lavish palermo hotel organize the world's heroin trade. but business did not run smooth. in one nine hundred sixty three the first mafia war broke out between two clans the greco those and the barbera. giovanni is an anti mafia campaign but he is also the net. few of the key mafia boss cesare. month dello was an ally of the greco. and the first mafioso to be assassinated with a car bomb. was blocking these drive and you needed to go beyond it to enter into that. the car was the same type to a friend he thought he was his friend. so it got into the new turn the key and the explosion happened. why did they not when they killed your uncle use a pistol instead of. my uncle's murder was the first mafia and their first act of terrorism. by killing my uncle in this way they wanted to emphasize their revenge given that the mafia stopped using car bombs for seventeen years until a new more ruthless generation of mafia leaders took over and used car bombs to assassinate judges and magistrates. every judge they blow

he recalled not being allowed on the beach in front of why key's royal hawaiian hotel as a boy. the historic ruling he wrote incorp. rated hawaiian customs by ensuring public access to the shoreline no hawaii beach could be considered a private beach like on the mainland. under his leadership, the court also established the water rights of people living downstream from privately owned properties that surrounded rivers or streams. . native hawaii ans could gather traditional resources like plants for their ceremonies. among his proudest achievements was the opening of hawaii's only law school in 1973. he knew that those with the greatest stake in building a more just and equitable society were often denied the opportunity to attend law school because of the high costs. he fought a lengthy battle to create and shape the law school that now proudly bears his name. over the last years, c.j. had an office at the school where he was a regular source of support and inspiration to students and faculty alike. i would like to extend any deep fest condolences to c.j. richardson's sons and d

effect wre you will be compensating people for loss and you really -- all you know is that hotel on the beach or that restaurant on the beach had its income lost and you really won't know how much of it is from the loss of fishing versus the loss of oil drilling? >> well, that's a tough evidentiary question. i mean, you're right. i'm compensating for damage arising out of the spill, not the moratorium. how you define that, when you get the documents that said this is what i made last year, this is what i'm making this year, that's a tough question. >> you know, i have absolutely nosympathy for bp. if you're -- if your $20 billion can compente everybody, that's great, if they need to give more, that'sreat. but i do have that great question of aren't we in a predicament of which we're tying your hands because the facts you're presented are an effect, but there are multiple effects there including the scare tactics where in many cases people can come down but are scared away? all of that is going to end up being directly in the primity of the shoreline part of the loss. >> congressman, as usual,

country club so boring short term for this beach of the first or at parkland sure convinced switzer told closing the whole bill to let me go to scott golden retriever hotel. this is. in the city of new york at that inboard as both leaders praise most days every improving relations with the west had to agree to use food as a diplomatic weapon. america's longest war the us involvement in afghanistan for paul says vietnam as frustration and builds over the growing human and financial costs attacks in afghanistan reached an all time high in june the bloodiest month for foreign troops since the storms you could hear. the u.s. mock the anniversary of their first joint spaceflight and the foreign cold war were nations that followed on this day years ago two spacecraft one so if you want american lost it all from a to dalton or base in the apollo soyuz mission. up next a fashion. scandal behind the week's financial and economic me that's in the kaiser report up next. i this is the kaiser report on max kaiser this is warren anderson you may recall him he's wanted all over the world for eco terrorism twenty thousand dead in the end this is tony hayward he just a m

effect where you will be compensating people for loss and you really -- all you know is that hotel on the beach or that restaurant on the beach had its income lost and you really won't know how much of it is from the loss of fishing versus the loss of oil drilling? >> well, that's a tough evidentiary question. i mean, you're right. i'm compensating for damage arising out of the spill, not the moratorium. how you define that, when you get the documents that said this is what i made last year, this is what i'm making this year, that's a tough question. >> you know, i have absolutely no sympathy for bp. if you're -- if your $20 billion can compensate everybody, that's great, if they need to give more, that's great. but i do have that great question of aren't we in a predicament of which we're tying your hands because the facts you're presented are an effect, but there are multiple effects there including the scare tactics where in many cases people can come down but are scared away? all of that is going to end up being directly in the proximity of the shoreline part of the loss. >> congressman, as

beach one time, and i was opening. and you have to stay in the house. they don't have you in a hotel.ndominium. >> like "the adams family" meets compton. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: this is a weird place, but it's close to the -- you can walk to the club easily. >> yeah, you can walk right to the club, and i'm in west palm, and it's like, it's a storm, lightning, no lights for the whole weekend. the house is huge. so i watched a lot of horror movies. >> jimmy: no, you didn't. >> no, i watched a lot of horror movies, therefore i was thinking that freddie was in there. i was freaking out. the tv wasn't working. >> jimmy: you didn't have any roommates, nobody? >> i was looking for michael jackson to come out from the closet. [ laughter ] ♪ ♪ it's close to midnight tom be doing comedy at the club ♪ [ sings gibberish ] i just thought i'd throw the -- >> jimmy: there is no words to that song at all, is there? [ sings gibberish ] ♪ >> jimmy: oh, my gosh. [ cheers and applause ] >> is that kobe the congas? >> jimmy: that is not kobe, no. you're doing stand-up -- you still do it all the time, all a

feinberg, i own a hotel on the beach. there is oil there and i have lost customers. ok, pay the claim. i own a golf course 50 miles from the gulf. i am down 30%. people are not coming to play golf. dubious. but we're here to draw that line. that is a judgment call, and you look to the law. but the law only helps you so much. at some point, you have to make a call. so one challenge i have got, these claims are eligible. these claims are not eligible. judgment. i could be wrong. people could draw the line somewhere else. that is one problem. problem #two is a corroboration problem, a problem of proof. mr. feinberg, i was making $5,000 a month as the fishermen. now i cannot fish. pay me $5,000. ok. what do you have to corroborate it? what do you mean? proof. well, it was a cash business. nothing illegal about a cash business. what is your proof you're making $5,000? if you have a tax return? >> i lost it. >> ok. do you have a profit loss statement, a checkbook, check stubs, the? no. will be ship captain vouch for the front of the dollars a month? i mean, i cannot just p

beach. >> nice. nice. that was fun if mom wasn't with you, right? yeah, i wanted camping time, i wanted to rough it. my mom wanted to stay in the hotels.esses with wi-fi. >> wi-fi. >> yeah, they have wi-fi now. >> really? >> yeah, it's frustrating. rough it, and check my facebook status. >> you're forced to. >> once they're wifi, what will you do, not. >> exactly. >> so you can actually, like, instead of looking at a rainbow you could look at double rainbow. >> no way, my gosh. cool rainbow. i love that video so much. >> so you didn't dop real camping. >> i left them a lot of times. me and my friend andre, rowe and conor, we went to real campgrounds and they went to brandon hotels. >> really. >> yeah. >> when they go back to kentucky, are they excited that you're in movies and all of that kind of stuff. >> i think that they're used to it. since 9 years old, and i pretty much know everyone since then. i'm a kentucky colonel. >> you're a colonel. >> yes, sir. >> like the colonel sanders. >> yes, like the colonel sanders, yeah. >> how does that work, how can you be a collenel. >> they send you a paper in the mail and thai say you're a col

hotels are lowering their rates to get people in their rooms. perception is our biggest problem right now. we have a total of 62 miles of beaches that are open to the public. we have seafood restaurants that are serving fresh seafood. you can fish in our bays and bayous. we are open for business. the problem is people see the national news and they think every place from texas to florida is in ankle deep in oil. the effects of this catastrophe are going to linger for who knows how long. it's going to take time and money to change the perception. leaders of the hotel industry sayhat will not all of our hotels are going to make it through this crisis. some of the small ones may become casualties. they were on the verge of coming through katrina andeathering recession. this should have been the breakthrough year. now they don't know if they have the financial wherewithal to make it through this. i don't have all the answers, but i do have some advice and suggestions based on what i have seen and heard. i think there needs to be more local control, local control. let me give you some specifics. we have a string of barrier islands 1

hotels are lowering their rates to get people in their rooms. perception is our biggest problem right now. we have a total of 62 miles of beaches that are open to the public. we have seafood restaurants that are serving fresh seafood. you can fish in our bays and bayous. we are open for business. the problem is people see the national news and they think every place from texas to florida is in ankle deep in oil. the effects of this catastrophe are going to linger for who knows how long. it's going to take time and money to change the perception. leaders of the hotel industry say that will not all of our hotels are going to make it through this crisis. some of the small ones may become casualties. they were on the verge of coming through katrina and weathering recession. this should have been the breakthrough year. now they don't know if they have the financial wherewithal to make it through this. i don't have all the answers, but i do have some advice and suggestions based on what i have seen and heard. i think there needs to be more local control, local control. let me give you some specifics. we have a string of barrier islan

hotels are lowering their rates to get people in their rooms. perception is our biggest problem right now. we have a total of 62 miles of beaches that are open to the public. we have seafood restaurants that are serving fresh seafood. you can fish in our bays and bayous. we are open for business. the problem is people see the national news and they think every place from texas to florida is in ankle deep in oil. the effects of this catastrophe are going to linger for who knows how long. it's going to take time and money to change the perception. leaders of the hotel industry say that will not all of our hotels are going to make it through this crisis. some of the small ones may become casualties. they were on the verge of coming through katrina and weathering recession. this should have been the breakthrough year. now they don't know if they have the financial wherewithal to make it through this. i don't have all the answers, but i do have some advice and suggestions based on what i have seen and heard. i think there needs to be more local control, local control. let me give you some specifics. we have a string of barrier islan