secretary of the interior ken salazar will take part in the groundbreaking of a new solar power stationproject is expected to generate enough electricity to power 750,000 homes. >>> steven colbert will give the commencement speech at northwestern university. he graduated from northwestern in 1986, and he also will receive an honor rather degree. >>> today marks the 236th anniversary of the battle of bunker hill. the american revolution's first major battle that was actually fought on breed's hill. >>> all day long can you stay on top of the developments on those stories and others on msnbc, and be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." and finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. the latest on the resignation of congressman anthony weiner and a teacher who claims to have an on-line relationship with him speaks out. >>> country music star kenny chesney takes the stage for the "today" summer concert series. keep it on this channel for local news, weather, sports and much more. i'm veronica de la cruz. thank you for joining us on "ea

ken salazar, the guy, you know he will go down in history -- you wants to keep the boot, his boot on the heel on the deck of ep and so the boot is, when you look into the history of the boot, it turns out that secretary salazar, there was virtually no greater champion of expanding drilling in the gulf ben ken salazar and an interesting look at how someone's station in life, their political station might change things. one president obama was a senator he had an excellent record on offshore oil drilling. he opposed it fervently as to joe biden, as did rahm emanuel. they all voted against expanding offshore oil drilling in the gulf and then a few years later the situation is different. now they have got some different calculations to make and they come out on the other side. so just very disappointing in that regard. so i am going to wrap it up but i just want to let folks know that we fully intend on continuing to track this issue and doing everything we possibly can to try and made sure this never, ever happens again. please take a look at our web site and see our policy recommendati

ken salazar says this will protect the colorado risker watershed from being contaminated.illions of people in the southwest get their drinking water from the river. >>> three kentucky miners are waking up at home. they were trapped underground. all of this happened as part of the mine's entrance collapsed. the miners were able to walk out on their own, almost 14 hours after this ordeal begin. state and federal regulators closed the money while they inspect for damage. >>> court is now in session. the new development in the trial of a mother accused of a horrible crime. >>> and we're hearing spiderman won't live past thursday. why that super-hero is about to meet its demise. man: we need a sofa. something i can stretch out on! woman: ooh... that will go with those lamps my mother gave us. or we could get some new lamps. or we could get no sofa. negotiating, eh? you got it! óf@ >>> happening right now in orlando, florida, we're back in the courtroom. there's at the -- there is the judge there. this is the murder trial of casey anthony. the proceed something underway again. w

and i had him along with secretary ken salazar, secretary of the interior, in my office. we talked at some length about some of these things. he has made a compliment to come out of oklahoma and see what a hardship this would be. so i think it would be an excellent idea to find some vehicle, and this vehicle seems to be the one that's being used right now to put such legislation on that would have precluded them from listing the lesser prairie chicken. the private investment in oklahoma wind power is one -- of course we're one of the top states. we're number 13 of all 50 states in terms of wind. it could be significantly curtailed. state senator bryce march let marlet noticed the investment. we want to protect oklahoma gas and electric, recently announcing the construction of a pie-power line from oklahoma city to woodward. then eventually going into gymon all the way through what used to be called no man's land in the panhandle of oklahoma. these would be multimultimillion-dollar investments. it could be severely challenged by the listing of the lesser prairie chicken. s

it would be like the city of alamosa in my state in the valley where ken salazar, my predecessor, came from. it would be like the mayor saying we can't agree on on $20,000, so we're going to shut the government down, we'll not pick up your trash, we'll not educate your kids. the american people should know that was what that debate was about. now we come to the debt ceiling debate where people are saying we're not going to vote to raise the debt ceiling, and somebody in the town hall said to me the other day, michael, don't you know that me and my neighbor are having to figure out how to pay as we go? we're having to figure out how to pull in our purse strings to make sure that we can afford to do what we need to do? and i said i absolutely agree with you. they said well, why aren't you guys showing the same restraint? i said we need to show the same restraint, but it's -- that's not about the debt ceiling. the debt ceiling is about bills we have already in-- incurred. it's not about cutting up your credit card. it would be great if it were. that's not what it's about. it's not about s

most of our national resources, a good deal of public lands, which ken salazar will speak about a fewinutes are located in these rural communities and discounts to look at the same opportunity to highlight the benefits and also to be able to remind folks of the economic opportunity they represent. i'm excited about this effort. i appreciate the president's direction, his commitment to those folks who live and raise a family in small towns. obviously the agricultural economy is in better shape than ever parts of the country. we are seeing record income levels, but we obviously have to expand that to other parts of the rural economy, which this council is going to focus on. i appreciate sean bean here, who will be integral parts of this council appeared with that, i will turn it over to ken. >> thank you, tom. for those of us from rural america, we understand the people in rural america really are the earth of this country and the president has given his cabinet the direction to make sure we're doing everything we can to help rural america address the challenges it faces. the rest of th