a sea otter, rescued from the exxon valdez oil spill has died.e exxon valdez tanker leaked 11-million gallons of oil into prince william sound in alaska. was just a pup at the time. she was rescued, rehabilitated and eventually moved to a permanent home here in chicago at the shedd aquarium. she has been a favorite with visitors and staff at the shedd. recently, keen-eye had been suffering health problems. she was 23 years old. the average life expectancy for a sea otter is 15 to 18 years. keen-eye well exceeded that. an outreach program that aims to make life on the streets a little easier will be handing out backpacks to chicago's homeless people again tonight and tomorrow. the "citypak project" is distributing the backpacks through catholic charities.a group of tibetan monks from india will be at navy pier this weekend for a special presentation. the monks will hold chanting ceremonies as they create a mandala. a sand painting. the mandala is constructed by pouring dyed sand particles into intricate patterns to form a diagram that represents b

changed the rules after the gulf oil spill to amend the clean water act which is to require the exxon valdezd all of the money on baliles bills with the future spills into the big fund, so obviously when this catastrophic spill occurred it didn't make sense to put fines and penalties into the future split hopefully there will never be a spill of this magnitude. as a congress passed the bill restores act to say we are granted a large percentage into these effect of the gulf states as opposed to the natural resource funds which go to the restoration over time and the big controversy that you can watch on the news is whether or not the administration will try to bypass the restore act, if you will into the environmental recovery and away from the penalties by congress. this is not me speaking this is a bipartisan group of senators and congressmen across the gulf coast area who are concerned that the administration might bypass the law that they signed to avoid the law that they've passed. the first thing that we are seeing more and more in that particular case has a big impact on our state, but

congress changed the rules after the gulf oil spill to the clean water act which used to require exxon valdezin all of the money on the skills with the future spills into a big fund, so obviously when this catastrophic spill occurred it didn't make sense to put the fines are the penalties but there may never be. hopefully there will never be in this magnitude so the congress passed of restore act to say we are going to put a large percentage of these penalties into money that is when the effective to all states as opposed to the national resources which go to the restoration over time and the big controversy that you can watch a news will be whether or not the administration will try to bypass the restore act to put money into the environmental recovery. this is a bipartisan group of senators from across the gulf coast area who are concerned that the administration might bypass bowl they've recently passed and the president signed to avoid all they passed. that is the kind of thing that we are seeing more and more and that has a big impact on our state, but if it can happen there it can happe