thank you, secretary ken salazar for being here with us today. i remember at our last meeting, you committed to coming to massachusetts, and i'm going to follow-up with you at some point begin our great national park there. i was pleased to see your announcement earlier this week names james watson as the new director of the bureau of safety and vieferltal en-- environmental enforcement, and i know he previously served as a deputy commander of the coast guard atlantic area command and was designated as a federal on-scene coordinator for the all of government response to the deepwater horizon disaster. i trust that he has the experience and leadership to ensure that offshore drilling is done in a safe and secure way. i also want to commend the didn't's commitment to thorough and comprehensive oil spill response plan reviews and enforcement. i know this administration shares my view that we cannot allow risky drilling to take place in our public waterways. without oil companies, clearly demonstrating their ability to prevent, mitigate, or clean up

. >>> and secretary of the interior ken salazar will join local leaders today to talk about the anacostiaverwalk t rail. they hope to expand access to the waterfront. >>> okay, time to answer the question of morning now. thanksgiving less than three weeks away right? >> make sure you have plenty of gravy because the answer is b., dry turkey. >> one more check of traffic and weather and a little more music too when 9news now returns. >>> welcome back. 6:58. we are looking at some showers down to our south this morning. we'll see sunshine returning later on. highs in the upper 50s and please. cool this morning -- breezy. cool this weekend and nice monday, tuesday and wednesday back in the 60s. just a quick look at 66 only only the inbound side solid from route 50 to the beltway because of an earlier accident. jessica? >> our thanks to pizza paradios and celebrating the 20th anniversary. thanks for feeding us this morning. >> "the early show" is coming up next, they are going to have monika and howard will be back in 25 minutes with more weather and traffic. >> right now more music from kind

attorney general and now senator blumenthal from connecticut has joined us for this colloquy, and ken salazar was the attorney general of colorado, an attorney general with both of us, and ken grew up in a farm in colorado that, until his generation, didn't have running water and didn't have electricity. his generation was the first generation to go to college. when i got here, he was a united states senator, his brother was a united states congressman, and it never would have happened if it hadn't been for the pell grant. wait was the pell grant that allowed those boys from a far-away corner of colorado, to be the first generation that got their foothold in a college and were able to propel themselves from that to remarkable leadership of our country. it shows when ordinary americans are capable of when the pell grant gives them that launching pad. and i really appreciate that you brought up the effects on indian country as well. and senator blumenthal i know wanted to say a few word. mr. blumenthal: yes, madam president, i want to thank my colleague from rhode island for organizing this col

interior secretary, ken salazar says the government will hold 15 lease sales for areas in the gulf.se sales for alaska, they will be the first -- they will be the first since 2008. the drilling plans are on a smaller scale than what republicans say is needed to create jobs and also reduce america's dependence on foreign supplies. last time you sold us -- you told us traffic was slow in oakland. we're looking at the commute in contra costa county, the south bay, kind of hitting all over the place. we have slow traffic everywhere. we're gonna start in san francisco, because northbound 101 is uncharacteristically slow coming up up to the split -- coming up to the split. traffic is moving along well on the 2 0 extension. i would say bet -- 280 extension, i would say better than the 101. i would say the morning commute is gonna be slow at the bay bridge toll plaza. 880 and 580 a lot of work to get to this point. this morning's commute has been slow in contra costa county. highway slow still very slow from antioch. gets better in pittsburg and bay point. 880 southbound slows from about a

by ken salazar and the department of interior with obama's blessing variant host: let's go to orlandoa., independent. what is your reaction and your thoughts about the future of u.s.-pakistan relations? caller: everything that has happened over there, it has been shrouded in mystery. from the cia agent and everything that has happened, you see part of the story and i think there is a lot more. my thought is that this is also so shrouded in mystery. we will probably not hear the whole story about everything host: what does that mean to you? caller: if you have two kids and they are fighting, you don't know what they are fighting about almost. we basically know the reason but we don't know the exact reason when it breaks down host: thank you for calling. back to " the new york times" -- the relationship is on a slippery slope and this is as close as you can get to a rupture. fort lauderdale, fla., republican, good morning. caller: i asked why they don't have a conservative line but you have every other line. do you know where that is? host: are breaking them down by party in this case t

and one of the first things he did in the energy area with his secretary of interior ken salazar was to throw that plan out the window almost immediate hreufpl this was well -- immediately. this was well before the b.p. disaster. taxpayer wasn't in reaction to that disaster or anything else specific. they threw that five-year plan out the window n. this new five year lease-plan, their first in the obama administration they're releasing today, instead of 30 areas, there are about 15. they've moved backwards cutting in half the number of lease-sales that were planned in the five-year plan. put another way, instead of having about six lease-sales per year, there are only going to be three. now, as any fourth grader can tell you doing that simple math, that's moving backwards by a lot. that's going from about 30 lease-sales to half that number -- 15. that's going from about six-year to, half that number: three. our energy needs are not moving backwards. our desire and need for increased energy independence is not moving backwards. yet our effort and our ability to access our own domestic

they care can enter a secretary ken salazar on oil and natural gas development on federal lands. >> forse who say, my friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, i say to them, we are 172 years late. [cheers and applause] to those who say -- of those who say that the civil rights program as an infringement on spaceflight, ice age is and the time has arrived in america for the democratic party to get out of the shadows of spaceflight and to walk forthrightly into the sunshine of human rights. the mac >> next, a hearing on the future of human space exploration. nasa administrator charles bolden testifies about the international space station, technology development and potential commercial products. the chairman of the science subcommittee is florida senator and former astronaut, bill nelson. this hearing is an hour and 50 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. well, nasa is cranky now. we've got -- you think back a year ago. in the years since the massive bill, the massive bill was about the only thing that passed the 13 appropriations bills con