the second phase will determine how many barrels of oil spilled into the gulf. bp said the number is 2.5 million barrels. the u.s. government said it's $4.2 million. >> dawn, thank you. >>> we have the weather including the aftermath of the pacific snort west. stay with us. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton here are your headlines. we're less than 12 hours away from a government shutdown. the senate is expected to reject the version of the bill this afternoon. >>> the u.n. international team is expected to begin work in syria to destroy the chemical weapons by the november 1st deadline set by the u.n. security council. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is meeting with the president at the house. he is expected to express concerns over iran and that they should not be trusted. >> meteorologist: the second of two huge storms is pounding with near hurricane force winds. the first of this weekend's storms have brought a month's worth of rain. we'll continue to deal with that heavy rain today. take are a look behind me. you can see the tempera

many companies are planning to vest and expand their presence in the gulf. shell, chevron, just some of the companies that have commissioned new deep water oil platforms. it's all part of big oil's vestment in the gulf three years after the bp oil spill. >> we've been very fortunate here. it's been not only a busy summer but a busy year. >> chevron is one of the companies investing in new gulf coast production. with two new platforms, targeting first oil by the end of 2014, including this one, called jack saint melo. the helideck of this platform is 30 stories high. upon completion it's going to take about ten days to get it 300 miles off the coast of louisiana, and it has to travel through this channel. the company's engineers are working on new technologies, including seismic processing, letting them see deeper below the earth's surface. innovation that just ten years ago seemed unthinkable. >> years ago we could not see the reservoirs below salt. now for jack saint melo we're able to understand what's below the salt, determine the size of the reservoirs a

many companies are planning to vest and expand their presence in the gulf. shell, chevron, just some of the companies that have commissioned new deep water oil platforms. it's all part of big oil's vestment in the gulf three years after the bp oil spill. >> we've been very fortunate here. it's been not only a busy summer but a busy year. >> chevron is one of the companies investing in new gulf coast production. with two new platforms, targeting first oil by the end of 2014, including this one, called jack saint melo. the helideck of this platform is 30 stories high. upon completion it's going to take about ten days to get it 300 miles off the coast of louisiana, and it has to travel through this channel. the company's engineers are working on new technologies, including seismic processing, letting them see deeper below the earth's surface. innovation that just ten years ago seemed unthinkable. >> years ago we could not see the reservoirs below salt. now for jack saint melo we're able to understand what's below the salt, determine the size of the reservoirs a

in the gulf of tonkin just off the coast of vietnam. president johnson said there had been open aggression on the high seas against the united states of america and that the united states of america needed to respond to that aggression. it was a compelling case made in a very serious way. now, in the long run it turned out we got snookered. turns out the whole gulf of tonkin thing didn't happen the way lbj said it happened at all. when he said it back in august 1964, congress fell in line. as soon as the president gave that speech, his own party in the senate rallied to his side. the number two democrat in the senate came out almost immediately after lbj's speech and said he supported the president and supported what lbj wanted to do in vietnam. >> i, for one, want to say that i don't think you can be a great power and assume the responsibilities that we do as a free nation for the cause of freedom and run every time somebody starts to draw a bead on you. i think what president johnson demonstrated last night was the kind of calm resolu

robert ray traveled to the gulf in louisiana and has this report. >> on the gulf coast shrimping boats and crab baskets are a common sight. inside the bustling fish markets these are a tasty demand. in louisiana alone, the crab and shrimp industry has a $1.5 billion a year economic impact. >> we have regular customers that come most every day now they're coming twice a week, three times a week. >> because there's a shimple and crab shortage, hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. >> all this marsh along here this was like trees. >> commercial fisher mantim garrica says this has been caught in a perfect storm. >> you got the oil in there you had people trampling through all this grass. >> three years have passed since the gulf oil spill and many fishermen like garrica are seeing remnants of oil, passing through the grassy marshes. >> if something turns it it's going to bubble up. >> according to the national oceanographic administration, among other environmental factors that is hurting the system. >> one of the reasons for these empty crab trabs scientists say is the citizen --

the one place we might see showers is along the gulf coast where we have access to the gulf moistureat could help pick out some of those scattered showers. a lot of the region staying dry, so you can see some of that moisture that we could be getting a lot of it light to moderate. the one region of the country we have been suffering lately into the northwest, not only the rain, and the snow for the higher elevations, but a lot of what you see here in the advisories, those are for high winds, especially as this strong system comes through the mountains, a dramatic pressure change means it funnels those winds and you get them in the mountain passes, could see went gusts of 70 miles an hour. >> baseball's final day is proving to be an important one. >> years ago, they said the wildcard was a bad idea. i think that's been proven to be false. it was a high stakes final day of the regular season in major league baseball for the indians, rays and rangers vying for a mere two wildcard playoff spots. the indians knew a win over the twins would put in my in. nick swisher and the indians riding

bases to support this policy of protecting the flow of persian gulf oil. and then wars were fought as well in line with that policy. >> east and west are united in pioneering and new frontier of progress. serving the interests of the saudi arabs, serving the interests of the united states, and demonstrating the vitality of the american system of free enterprise. a system which, from this new frontier, is pumping into the trade of the world oil. one of the materials making us -- making a truly great contribution to our modern civilization. >> the reasons -- the reason in fact, the primary reason for the intervention in iraq is to ensure u.s. control over the major energy resources in the world. being built in baghdad, it is like a city. embassy in the city in iraq and the huge bases are around it -- they are building with the intention to maintain control. >> we are not in the process of building the bases in the middle east. there will be an american base. right now, it occupies the whole area. there will remain something there. we are not going to divulge

gulf war one was a stunning victory by u.s. and coalition forces in the midst of such overwhelming success however reporters at the pentagon began to hear rumors about friendly fire washington post pentagon correspondent barton gellman was the first journalist to thoroughly cover rumors about friendly fire so it took about six months after the war for us to find enough people find enough data pieced together enough information from the public records and the spaces inside them that we could do the story and the story was stunning frankly. the army and marines agreed and the army up held it to the letter that they would tell no family. about a friendly fire casualty and until they could tell all of them in a synchronized matter that was intended to set up the press conference the next day so it was decreed that always felt five pm would be the time that thirty five casualty officers would show up on the doorsteps of thirty five next of kin and tell them that their loved ones had been killed by american forces and no one was to b

the second phase focuses on how much oil spewed into the gulf of mexico. the estimate is 2.45 million barrels from bp or 4.5 million barrels the u.s. government estimates. >> do we know when fines might be assessed following the trial? >> reporter: that would happen in phase three of the trial, if there is a phase free -- three and the fines don't settle. the fines come under the clean water act and could be $1100 per barrel. if the court finds that bp was orderly negligent in this case. there's a range of fines anywhere from $2.7 billion to $18 billion in this case, thomas. >> dawn is following the trial in new orleans. thank you. >>> apple is now the most valuable brand in the world according to the latest best global brands report from inner brand. the tech giant took a number one spot from coca-cola boasting a value of $98.3 billion versus coke's $79.2 billion. this is the first time they have done a report that coke hasn't been at the top falling to third place for 2013. taking a look at the rest of the top five. google is number two with a value of m

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what if china put their navy in the gulf of mexico and said, "we are going to occupy the gulf of mexico." >> if i was killed by my neighbours or government, i may be happy if anyone comes to help me. >> that may be true, but there's no justification for it, to do that. that makes the problem that much worse. so i don't see any justification whatsoever for us to be involved when we aren't threatened. to argue that there would be more enemies if we did that - the opposite is true. after 9/11 the explanation was that they want to kill us because we are free and prosperous. we have a good economy, we are free and that's why the radicals hate us. there's no evidence to that. the people from the middle east who would like to kill us are sick and tired of us getting involved. i mean, if we send a drone missile over there, targetting a bad guy, how do we know who the bad guy is, who gave us the evidence. be do it on an -- we do it on an american citizen. what happens if there's an accident and we kill someone at a wedding. how many is dead, five people, thousands - they'll all have a resentment

could be mexico or anywhere in the gulf. so i'll try to pinpoint it in the days ahead, but right now, you have to have your hurricane preparations already done anyway, but if you're florida to texas, pay attention. >>> coming up at the top of the hour, the president responds to critics who say he was tone death when he made a speech on the economy hours after a gun man opened fire at the washington navy yard. the round table will discuss if his explanation holds up. when we come back here, of course we huddle away the cooler. jimmy kimmel analyzes the needed i can't coverage of the miley cyrus/helmsworth break skrup. here is a hint. it's not really twerking out for them. run, go, go! did he just fumble? "i" formation! "i" formation! we have got to get the three-technique block! i'm not angry. i'm not yellin'. nobody's tackling anybody! we got absolutely... i don't think this was such a good idea. i'm on it. if we can't secure the quarterback center exchange... you're doing a great job, coach. well they're coming along better

hurricanes develop over the warm waters of the atlantic, caribbean and gulf of mexico.plus the eastern pacific ocean. once you cross the international date line in the pacific a similar storm would be called a typhoon. the hurricane becomes aor hurricane when wind speeds reach 111 mph. while 150 mph what we call a category 4 hurricane in the atlantic is the wind speed needed to call a typhoon a super typhoon. they had hurricanes and typhoons, the same thing and cyclones spin around the indian ocean and australia. >> encouraging news it's weakening, but category one. >> it's still a hurricane. it's not nearly as strong, but a hurricane. >> it's not for the faint of heart. a swedish aerial acrobattists featuring 200 air performance teams from more than 20 countries including france, britain, and the u.s. >>> students at the milwaukee school of engineering put their skills and love for the greenbay packers to the test. they used more than 130,000 lego blocks to create a replica of lambeau field. it took six months to complete. it was on display until friday when it was mov

it's phase 2 in a civil trial of a petroleum company responsible for the largest oil spill in the gulf of mexico. conversation new orleans maconda conversation barbier conversation >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm david shuster in new york. tomorrow, the second phase of the bp trial begins in new orleans. it is on trial for the 2010 deepwater horizon, killing 11 rig workers, dumping millions of barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico. we look at what is at stake for the oil company and the people of the gulf coast. >> this family louisiana has raised oysters since 1904. mitch runs the business his grandfather started. >> we grew from a 14 acre lease to roughly 15,000 acres. >> when he is not attending his oyster beds he's keeping an eye on the marsh. >> you see oil on the mud. >> 3.5 years ago the marshes were covered in oil pouring into the gulf of mexico for 86 days after the explosion of the deepwater horizon rig. the water is difficult to find but you can smell it. according to the state 200 miles of shower line has oil. 14 are considered moderate to severe oiling. oyster

. >> reporter: 80% of clean water act fines will be spent on restoring the gulf coast. stephanie boswell, al jazeera, louisiana. >> the vatican announces a day for the sainthood of two popes. we'll explain why there will be a dual cano canonization. now he's claiming for the first time that they've carried out attacks and chemical weapons that were supplied by regional governments and by western governments. there were familiar lines in the speech that we heard from the syrian government many times before. he even compared what's going on inside syria with the events here 12 years ago in new york. during 9:11. >> what can you tell us-- >> ladies and gentlemen, this is not a civil war. there is no civil war in syria, but it is a war agains that rece no, sir values, no justice no, equality, thi my country requirs the international community to act in accordance with relevant resolutions and counterterrorismism. >> other important developments, following that chemical weapons resolution passed by the security council on friday, there is some hope now that with the agreemen

but they provide no stability in the gulf i mean the the goal is basically to control the in energy supplies in the in the middle east and and this cannot be good for the rest of the world when the energy supplies in the middle east are going to be controlled by one bloc of powers and can therefore threaten the rest of the world with by cutting them off on the energy supplies so therefore this is something that is actually dangerous for the rest of the world and. ok i mean i think we all agree that saudi arabia is an important any supplier but jason. what about the fact that. the united states in all three of us on this program agree about energy but so he really looks at it through religious prism ok sunni against shia in isn't that going to drag the united states into making choices that we you've already agreed to that are not convenient choices based on our values. peter it's an extremely messy world and it's a very messy region and the united states has very difficult options and sometimes very problematic friends but i think that given this very complicated equation that the u

in its own country but it is an important strategic partner of the united states in defending the gulf and defending other interests i wouldn't go beyond that i there is truth in some of what george is saying about the danger that has been posed by that country but it is an important relationship for the united states well george i mean at the end there's ability in that and that region and it's a vitally important energy supplier let's not forget that all we all know that but i mean values are applied for some people and values that applied not applied for others i mean this is that one of the reasons why the i'm going to go to georgia this is one of the reasons why america is reputation in the middle east has plummeted it's just it's duplicitous it's apocryphally all of the time all of the time george. yes exactly because the allies of the united states in this in this current conflict in syria before that in libya are saudi arabia qatar the various gulf states which are the worst regimes in the world and. which actually you know repress. political movements when they're inconvenient

states and qatar was right to describe sharon burrows or us a slave state it's not the only one the gulf states or very frequently constructed on the basis of slavery there is their five through institutionalization of slavery right across southeast asia particularly india pakistan until those things are changed. the western communities governments which pay lip service at least human rights until they start saying this is are not acceptable ways in which constructor economies then you know that is one thing that can be done via the international community interfering into this but what about the workers themselves i mean despite the horrible working conditions they do go to qatar to work for world cup. i mean you're talking about some of the poorest most vulnerable workers in the world and those coming from the paul we've interviewed folk have said well we know what the choice between the frying pan and the fire they're staying in the hall or going to the gulf but we don't really know which is which we're talking about people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and their

gulf coast residents and businesses are suing bp claiming the spill cost them money.hase two of the trial covers what methods bp explored to cap the spill and how much oil spilled into the gulf from the blownout well. the first phase ended in april and focused on the causes of the blowout. >>> time to focus on the weather outside. that's a live, socked-in look at the golden gate bridge. tough to see anything other than those low-hanging clouds. we could just see the road there. trust us, though. our weather map says that's where it's at. >> meteorologist christina loren. >> is that what it says, jon kelly? >> i'm just trying to lead into you as gracefully as possible. >> i thought that was pretty graceful. good monday morning to you. nothing can be perfectly graceful on a monday no matter how hard you try. these showers coming through mostly north of the golden gate bridge. we have the steady drizzle over the bay bridge and the golden gate bridge. you just saw the reason why. area of low pressure is coming through, not impacting us all that much here in the south bay.

in its own country but it is an important strategic partner of the united states in defending the gulf and in defending other interests i wouldn't go beyond that i there is truth in some of what george is saying about the danger that has been posed by that country but it is an important relationship for the united states well george i mean at the end there's an ability and that and that region and it's a vitally important energy supplier let's not forget that only all know that but i mean the values that are applied for some people and values and applied not applied for others i mean this is that one of the reasons why the and i'm going to go to georgia this is one of the reasons why americans reputation in the middle east has plummeted it's just it's duplicitous it's apocrypha see all of the time all of the time george. yes exactly because the allies of the united states in this in this current conflict in syria before that in libya are saudi arabia qatar the various gulf states which are the worst regimes in the world and. which actually you know repress. political movements when the

awhen we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, where experts watch over all drilling activity twenty-four-seven. and we're sharing what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger. some brokerage firms are. but way too many aren't. why? because selling their funds makes them more money. which makes you wonder -- isn't that a conflict? search "proprietary mutual funds." yikes! then go to e-trade. we've got over 8,000 mutual funds, and not one of them has our name on it. we're in the business of finding the right investments for you. e-trade. less for us. more for you. the fund's prospectus contains its investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other important information and should be read and considered carefully before investing. for a current prospectus, vi

. ♪ help the gulf when we made recover and learn the gulf, bp from what happened so we could be a better energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, where experts watch over all drilling activity twenty-four-seven. and we're sharing what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger. >>> i reiterated to president rowhani what i said in new york, while there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward and success is by no means guaranteed, i believe we can reach a comprehensive solution. >> so what is behind the recent actions of the iranian president? joining me now, our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, and former adviser to president obama on arms control and wmd, one of the few who met with rowhani while he was in new york, welcome to both of you, what i am fascinated by, what brought you to this moment? >> i think the answer is very simple, it is pressure, the econom