boeing and airbus, who agree on very few things, just in the last week along with embraer of brazil announced a consortium to work on biofuels. lufthansa, virgin, klm, i think alaska airlines, qantas, many commercial carriers have flown airplanes powered with fuel mixed with jet a, and the fuel is made from kamalina, algae and so forth. that's all been certified. as i mentioned earlier today the navy is calling the fa/18. they call it the green hornet. we have two or three at fedex. this has been derided by the popular press and the conservative wings. and again, i am a conservative. so let me reemphasize that about the president's remarks on algae. but i think the president is absolutely right. the most likely biofuel that can be produced at scale is likely to come from algae. exxon has invested $600 million with craig ventnor, the individual who decoded the genome. we're working with an australian company that seems to have some pretty good technology to make jet fuel feed stock out of algae produced in bioreactors. algae is prolific, both in the sea and in static water. it can be made in b

sam houston were mexican poncho and it picks embraer wrote and leaned back and carved little hearts and handed them off to the ladies in the gallery during debate. so that is what it was like. the second type thing about it was that everybody in the house and senate shoot plug tobacco or took snuff. this is not remarked upon in any newspapers or any contemporary accounts from american authors, but every single foreigner that i ever encountered their pro-memoirs are wrote stories about this was one of the first things they commented on. charles dickens said when you go to the senate it's a lovely room. but if you drop some names, make sure you don't reach for it without a pair of gloves. and so, the place was sort of a mass and needed a little help and a little expansion. this is the house of representatives, currently has most of you ensure in this room know, statuary hall. there is one good thing to say about the house of representatives. it was generally regarded and still is regarded today as an absolutely beautiful room. there was one really bad thing to say about the house of repre

it's net strike caused any structural damage to the embraer erj-190. damage birds can and doause to big jets. last week a delta flight at jfk had to return the airport afr bis got sucked into the engines there. and it was a bird strike that disabled the engines and forced captn sullenberger into his miracle landing on the hudson. in fact, it's more common than that. >> i'll say they're not uncommon. they do happen, but we deal with them on a routine basis and most of the time they are just an inconvenience, but on occasion, you do get -- in a scene like this where we will have some damage. >> repte these bird strikes, animal strikes they ll them, are becoming a bigger problem every year in the united states. last yeathere were nearly 10,000 of them. they cause$600 million in damage. it's not yet clear if there was any damage to this plane. the mechanics haven't looked at it yet. in westcheer county, jim dolan for abc news. >> i hear they charged those ese a cleaning fee. wouldn't be surprised. >>> now to politics this morning. mitt romney has no public

boeing and airbus who agree on very few things, just in the last week alongwith embraer of brazil announced a consortium to work on biofuels. lufthansa, virgin, klm, i think alaska airlines, quantity tus, -- quantity tus, many -- quantas, many commercial airplanes powered fuels mixed with fuels made from jetropha. algae and so forth. that has all been certified. as i mentioned earlier today, the navy flown the f-18, they call it the greenhorn net. we have two or three initiatives at fedex. this has been derided to some degree by the popular press and conservative wings and again i am a conservative so, let me re-emphasize that, about the president's remarks on algae. but i think the president is absolutely right. the most likely biofuel that can be produced at scale is likely to come from algae. exxon has invested $600 million with craig venter in, the individual who decoded the genome. we're working with an australian company that seems to have some pretty good technology to make jet fuel feedstock out of algae produced in bio reactors. algae is prolific both in the sea and in static water