[narrator] even for expert navigators like bill stevens, the coast is still difficult to navigate with hidden offshore pinnacle rocks. with the help of the national park service, archaeologists have now begun to research this area and found that in fact there's been a very long history of settlement. [man] we knew this site was here. it hadn't been that well described, but it was found by some archaeologists who were working for the state of alaska following the exxon valdez oil spill, and there was great concern that some of these areas that were being impacted by the spill had archaeological sites on them that no one had looked for and that could be damaged by the oil directly or by clean-up activities, and one of the results of the spill was that almost 1,000 new archaeological sites were discovered. when alaska was purchased by the united states, they instituted the census every 10 years, and the first one in 1880 recorded a few people living in one village out on the coast, and by the next census in 1890, there were no native alaskan settlers out here. they had in the meantime res

bill. it was built for it evacuee's of katrina. louisiana gov. is visiting the flooded areas. he met with the emergency officials to discuss flood prevention. they help the sunken barge prevent backwater flooding. >> and stevens bill and other areas that are potentially volatile to flooding this will make a huge difference, for thousands of families, for thousands of home. we're preventing back water flooding. and that it could be weeks before everything falls back. >>darya: we have rain on the way. good morning james. >>james: this is the walnut creek camera. it is showing cloudy conditions. no rain falling. and let us take a quick look at where we are seeing the radar. rainfall in in measurable forms. over the of clouds. i lot of clouds our love. we are seeing heavy mist and drizzle across the golden gate bridge. all that as it appeared this morning feature cast for is dealing with a spotty on-again, off- again. as we advance the cause of it becomes more organized. you can see that here. pockets of heavy rain to the north. the bolt holding it to the later hours. even into our late evening hours, 9:00 p.m., heavy rain. not only in the north bay but in the delta. it will not be until 11:00 p.m. or deny that w

t mobile work on capitol hill today to argue in favor of at&t's $39 billion bill to acquire its rival t-mobile. randall stevens you appeared before the senate judiciary antitrust subcommittee. he said that the merger will increase to -- will lead to increased competition and eliminate drop calls. but it is argued that it would create the nation's second and fourth largest wireless companies. >> today, we meet to consider a merger that is likely to have profound implications on how americans communicate. the proposed merger between at&t and a t-mobil will bring together two of the four largest cellphone carriers to create the largest cell phone network with an estimated 43% market share. a will control close to 80% of the national cellphone market. creating such a huge market shares in an already concentrated industry, it is up to you to justify why we should do it. an industry that began in 1980 is as luxury car phones used mainly by business people have become a way that we mainly communicate. there are nearly 300 million subscribers. cell phones are increasingly the main with that millions of consumers conne

so the republican party bills itself and build itself as the white man's party and here you have abraham lincoln lincoln and he's debating steven douglas in that famous 1858 senatorial campaign. the republican party's slogan that year was vanquish the despotism in going hand-in-hand. now, i should tell new full disclosure that abraham lincoln was not a religious bigot. he hated religious bigotry but he swallowed the republican party line because it was very effective among the republican party base. you know, you've heard in politics, get out the base. get out the base. it was the republican party base. the republican party base were protestant working men in cities and there were protestants

-coordinated model of the legislation that late-senator ted stevens passed establishing the federal gas pipeline coordinator. my bill addresses the problem too many projects are caught in shall -- the presiding officer: the the senator has used seven minutes. mr. begich: i would ask for an additional three minutes. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. begich: my bill addresses the regulatory whack a mole. you think you have a regulatory one hurdle, another one pops up. this bill gives authority t. second, let's align the clean air standard for offshore drilling permits among the affected federal agencies. we must have a level playing field whether you are in alaska or the gulf of mexico or the eastern united states. as my colleague from louisiana knows, who is here joining me on the floor, louisiana has one rule, alaska has another rule for the same issue. third, let's invest in american transportation and safety infrastructure to develop soil and gas resources in frontier areas. the fact is we need a far greater coast guard presence in the arctic for oil spill prevention and

-coordinated model of the legislation that late-senator ted stevens passed establishing the federal gas pipeline coordinator. my bill addresses the problem too many projects are caught in shall -- the presiding officer: the the senator has used seven minutes. mr. begich: i would ask for an additional three minutes. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. begich: my bill addresses the regulatory whack a mole. you think you have a regulatory one hurdle, another one pops up. this bill gives authority t. second, let's align the clean air standard for offshore drilling permits among the affected federal agencies. we must have a level playing field whether you are in alaska or the gulf of mexico or the eastern united states. as my colleague from louisiana knows, who is here joining me on the floor, louisiana has one rule, alaska has another rule for the same issue. third, let's invest in american transportation and safety infrastructure to develop soil and gas resources in frontier areas. the fact is we need a far greater coast guard presence in the arctic for oil spill prevention and

bill but more detail. -- a little bit more detail. host: back to the phones. oklahoma, on the republican line. stevenu are on "the washington journal." stephen, one out turndown your television and it will make this process work smoother. all right, we are going to put you on hold and go to the atlanta, georgia. sarah, independent line. caller: good morning. host: who is better equipped to fix the budget? caller: the democrats. my reason for this, the last administration did not put the wars on the tab, prescription drugs on the tab. just like a woman who knows she is under water with her house, she buys stuff and hides it in the closet from our husband. finally the bill comes due. this is what obama had. the bill came due. everything was put on the budget and now we know where we stand. america cannot stand it. as far as small business people, i agree, they have taxes. instead of fighting for the republicans to maintain these subsidies for corporations, you want to be fighting for them to get rid of input so that we can close those tax loopholes that allow this to happen so that everyone's taxes can

. >> steven ratner worked for you on autos, the press called him the car czar. in his book, bill a cohesive when you went into to talk to rahm emanuel, then the chief of staff about chrysler which pay back their money this way, that he said why even do gm? he wondered if you should in any these bailouts. >> he who said that? >> rahm emanuel. >> at that time although we were having a rich debate like you'd want to about everything you're doing, i remember, think about the choice the president was faced with. very difficult politically, very costly, very asked and said, very risky. but the president and his senior advisers i think all understood that again our job is to do what was necessary to make sure that we prevent as much joblessness as we could and make sure we get out of this as quickly as possible. i think we all felt that if we had allowed the collapse of the american automobile industry it would have seen hundreds and hundreds of thousands more jobs lost. it would've deepened the recession, magnify the housing crisis, and make it much more harder to come out of this. wha

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steven chu on the screen. as the senate is conducting a procedural vote on a republican drilling bill that is under way. needs 60 votes to advance. you can follow that on c-span2. it can follow this on c-span. >> the ranking member has been detained for a couple of minutes. i just saw him. if you do not 9 we will wait a few minutes and then begin. -- if you don't mind. >> there we go. [gavel] good afternoon, ladies and gentleman, and welcome to the energy and water subcommittee but -- committee hearing on department of energy fiscal year 12 budget request. doe requested $30.5 billion for fiscal year 2012. that is an increase of $4.8 billion or 19% from fiscal year 2011. about $1.1 billion of the $4.8 billion increase or 25% is for the national nuclear security administration's nuclear weapons for nonproliferation and naval reactor programs. this subcommittee has already request nmsa's budget with the administrator two weeks ago. the rest of the increases for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, loan guarantees, and the basic energy research. it is my understanding that doe submit this budget

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reid-menendez bill would have increased the price of energy in america, which, i have to say, seems to be the objective of the administration and some in this senate. in september of 2008, stevenchu told "the wall street journal" in an interview, "somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in europe." close quote. dr. chu, who is now the secretary of energy for the united states of america, he needs to be thinking about thousand get the cost down and serve the constituency of america -- about how to get the cost down and serve the constituentive america. i don't know what idea he has that we ought to be raising the cougcost of energy to the leveln yiewmplet and the environmental protection agency in fact is enacting new regulations that will also drive up the cost of energy, in a way that should never have happened, in high view, and we've had some -- in my view, and we've had some votes on that, close votes on that. hopefully we'll soon be ail to pull back that effort. a study by the affordable power alliance concluded that e.p.a.'s greenhouse gas regulations could increase the cost of gasoline by 50%. electricity by 50%, and natural gas by