that means the civilians among us, e parents, the community leaders, elected officia, business leaders, we have a role to play. we cannot simply leave it to those in uniform to defend this country. we have to make sure that america is building on its strengths. [applause] as we build these economic sourceof our strength, the second thing we must do is interpret the capabilities that can advance our interests and common interests of human beings around the world. america's armed forces are adapting to changing tim, but your efforts have to be complemented. we will need the renewed engagement of our diplomats from grand capitals to dangerous outposts. we need experts who can suppo afghan agriculture and help africans build pastures to feed themselves. we need intelligence agencies that work seamlessly with counterparts to one rebel plot that run from pakistan to our cities. we need law-enforcement that can strengthen judicial systems abroad and protect us here at home. we need first responders who can act swiftly in the event of earthquakes and storms, disee. the burdens of this century

officia-e at the dcasartment of pu &ic works say cold spring lane will most likely remain closed untilrning. that's where a main broke leaving more than a dozen ritar jents without water. >> speculation continues to grow that the bp leak is larger than thought. now the company is accused of t transparency. we'll have the latest backlash against bp sn. >> this morning cloa hy slatees clouds a little thicker than they were yesterday. yesterday they were filtering the sunshine. we have mild temperatures this utorning. the radar is showing that some of those clouds above us are trying to pro"ece some raiead the air is really dry. we have had a really dry air utass the past couple days so this stuff is hung up in the alloa hs. it is not making it to the ground. those aren't false echos. this. are radar is seeing several throw feet up in the air in the atmoho here. there is real rain. a few sprinkles out west of hagerstown. that's it. also shower activity out near wheeling west vioudinia in southern ohio. let's look at our situation outs gooe rstruht now. there's the first lstruht of da. ove

we asked the cameron officia about the cutting capacity of the blowout preventer on the deepwater horizon. he confirmed that it is not powerful enough to cut through the joints in the drill pipe. he told us that this was another possible explanation for the failure of the blowout preventer to seal the well. and, fourth, we learned that the emergency controls on a blowout preventer may have failed. the blowout preventer has two emergency control, one called the emergency disconnect system or eds. bp told us the eds was activated on the drill rig before the rig was evacuated. but the cameron official said they doubted the signals ever reached the blowout preventer on the seabed. cameron officials believe it destroyed the communications link before the emergency sequence could be completed. in other words, the emergency controls may have failed because explosion that caused the emergency also disabled communications to the blowout preventer. still, the blowout preventer has a dead man switch which is supposed to activate the blowout preventer when all else fails but according to cameron ther