overton, i appreciate your time. i don't want to take too much time away from what you are doing because it is so important for the response. when did you get your first examples? >> about a week ago this monday. we had a loose sample from the gulf and wellhead oil a couple three days later than that. >> i understand when you got that first sample you were very concerned about what was in that sample, what that said about what type of oil that was. can you show us that sample and tell us what concerned you? >> this is a subset, it has the consistency of roof tar. crude coming out of that production zone should be much more fluid and as is typical south louisiana crude. >> do you have an example of what would be south louisiana crude. >> this is a normal oil from the production zones in this area. south louisiana crude. low sulfur crude. a high-quality crude. the first samples i saw were something like this which really started to alarm us that there may be something unique about what is going on out there. >> you rec

edward overton, this has been really, really helpful. thank you for your time. get back to your work. we need you. >> i hate to go look at my answering machine. >> thank you, sir. >>> one reasonable reaction is to a horrifying out of control disaster, is to consider the possibility that the way we've been dealing with oil as a nation has problems that should be reconsidered. another possible reaction is to call for more drilling right now. it takes all kinds and we have both kinds coming up on the show next. plug in a febreze notice, it's all that people notice. i didn't even think that was possible. [ woman ] i know, but there it is. [ sniffing ] febreze you plug in to the wall. [ male announcer ] when you plug in a febreze noticeables, it's all that people notice. [ man ] wow. that is amazing. i know. imagine. [ sniffing ] febreze you plug in to the wall. [ chuckles ] [ male announcer ] from febreze comes noticeables. freshness you'll notice or your money back. it was in my sister's neighborhood. i told you it was perfect for you guys. literally across the str

color is right at the surface. >> reporter: overton is an environmental sciences professor emeritus as louisiana state university. he was one of several scientists who accompanied reporters and photographer aboard a five-boat flotilla arranged by the national wildlife federation . the trip started out from a marina in venice and the goal was to get as close to the main oil slick as possible. the weather had other ideas. thunderstorms and lightning blocked the path. >> let's follow these guys. we'll go out to the right and hopefully the weather's going to head more southeast... i mean southwest and we're going southeast. >> reporter: despite the detour, it wasn't hard to find a large patch of thick, heavy crude floating on the surface. the hulls of the boats were heavily stained within minutes. >> the thicker oil is just how the oil moves through the environment. it's not all coming up in one spot. the plume comes up and disperses out. some of it comes up pretty quick. some of it takes a longer time and it's globing up when it gets to the surface. it starts moving... not a lot of str

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caller: the moral overtone from reagan is lost, there are a lot of people trying and fake ing it best they can. and i am looking for that in a leader. there are a lot of coming ways that people seem to be putting on that fake moral overtone and trying to catch up with it in their character development. and i see it in mr. gingrich to a degree, and he's very smart and bright and it's too much for someone like me as i am trying to grow. guest: i am not quite sure what that means. i can tell you that we did a movie called, ronald reagan destiny, that's a study of reagan's life. and i agree with you about his ability and the way he dealt with things and the power he had. but i think that the deeper point you are making, when you are in a period of great difficulties, it's like a boat at sea. and the storm is overwhelming. and you want a captain of the ship that is calm and confident and knows where they are going and knows how to survive the storms. and i think that president reagan had those characteristics. and as we watch the ship getting worse and understand how serious the threat is

miss the arena, was going all over the map on this issue where she was actually ascribing to racist overtonesrepublican concerns about controlling our borders. the last job i had in the army national guard and califora is that i was the deputy j-1. i helpeplan the mission that augmented the national guard down on the border as we were helping the border control -- the border patrol get control of our borders, as we were building a double fenceith the road in between it. that worked. and now what has happened is illegal immigration has crossed over into arizona because the california border is far more secure. we know fences work. the virtual fences are virtually worthless. we must complete a physical barrier on rigid barrier on our southern border. >> decide -- despite significant rain and snowfall this winter and spring, the entire staf california still faces a severe water crisis especially in the central valley where drought and environmental regulations have crippled farming and there he been other problems. what specific action should congress take to keep the water flow into all the cit

. >>> and joining us now is ed overton, professor of environmental scientists at the university of louisiana at baton rouge. we know that oil has made landfall in ten different areas across three states, do we know just how big this is going to get and how far this oil may spread? >> well, no, not entirely, we know that the oil is still coming in so the end of the spill is not in sight yet and may not be in sight if this top kill doesn't work for several months. so the magnitude of the spill is still unclr, we know it's coming in at some rate and it's taking various amounts of paths for the oil to get to the surface. the spill has been going on for about a month and just in the last couple of days or several days we have actually seen shoreline impact. so it's starting to come onshore and it will continue doing that over the next months until we can stop the spill and let the environment assimilate all the oil that's already there. it will be spread around. >> we're not just talking about tar balls, we're talking about liquid oil. >> that's right, initially they were tar balls and now the oi

my name is keith overton and chief operating for trade winds island resorts. our company is anchored by two world class resorts with 796 guest rooms, 25 acres situated on gulf of mexico in st. pete beach, florida. we employ 750 people. we are all about entrepreneurialism through tourism. and that has become a brand name within florida and we have done this through our own sales and marketing efforts because we do operate independently. and we have a precise understanding as a result of that of where our business comes from and most importantly what influencees tourism in florida as well as to our destination. as chairman of the board for the florida restaurant and lodging association, i'm going to provide you a perspective that our members share regarding this threat to florida. hospitality in florida represents a $57 billion industry, 20% of florida's economy, $3.4 billion in sales tax revenue and more than 900,000 employees are employed there, the largest employer in the state of florida. tourism in florida is clearly more important to florida than the benef

miss the arena, was going all over the map on this issue where she was actually ascribing to racist overtoneserns about controlling our borders. the last job i had in the army national guard and california is that i was the deputy j-1. i helped plan the mission that augmented the national ard down on the border as we were helping the border control -- the border patrol get control of our borders, as we were building a double fence with the road in between it. that worked. and now what has happened is illegal immigration has crossed over into arizona because the california border is far more secure. we know fences wk. thvirtual fences are virtually worthless. we must complete a physical barrier on rigid barrier on our southern border. >> decide -- despite significant rain and snowfall this winr and spring, the entire state of california still faces a severe water crisis especially in the central valley where drought and environmental regulations have crippled farming and there have been other problems. what specific action should congress take to keep the water flow into all the cities and the

. >> we particularly wanted to avoid any political overtones.since the beginning days of nasa, its support has come from traditionally bipartisan politics. it has transcended our political differences. we have recently heard a lot of eloquent verbage about the exploration of space, landing on an asteroid, circling mars, and someday maybe even landing on the red planet. there is talk about a decision yet to come about building a large booster which might ultimately someday almost take us to the far reaches of this universe. there are, however, no details, no specific challenge and no commitment as to where or specifically when this exploration might come to pass. when one examines in detail the 2011 budget, nowhere can be found not one penny allocated to the support of space exploration. yes, there has been much rhetoric about transformative technology, heavy lift propulsion, research, robotic precurser missions. nowhere do we find any mention of human space exploration. nowhere do we find a commitment in dollars to support this national endeavor

we particularly wanted to avoid any political overtones because cents the beginning days of nasa, its support has come from the traditionally by partisan politics and transcended our political differences. we've recently heard a lot of verbiage about the exploration of space landing on an asteroid, circling mars and someday maybe even landing on a red planet. the talk about a decision yet to come about building a large booster which might ultimately someday almost take us to the far reaches of the universe. there are however no details, no specific challenge and no commitment as to where or specifically when this exploration might come to pass. and when one examines in detail the 2011 budget, know where kanaby found 1 penny allocated to the sort of space exploration. there had been worth about transformative technology heavy lift, research, robotic precursor missions and these are all worthwhile endeavors yet know where do we find any mention of human space exploration and know where we find a commitment in dollars to support this national endeavor. the general and i have come to the

she was subscribing to racist overtones about controlling our border. the last job i had in the army national guard in california was the deputy in j-1. i helped plan the mission that augmented the national guard down on the border as we were helping the border patrol get control of our borders. we were building a double fence with a road in between. that worked. now what has happened is illegal immigration has crossed to arizona because our border is more secure. the virtual fence is worthless. we must complete a physical barrier on our southern border. >> back to you, mr. armstrong. >> despite significant rain and snowfall this winter and spring, the state of california still faces a severe water crisis in the central valley where it has crippled farming. there have been other problems there ago what specific actions should congress take to keep the water flowing to the farms and still protect the ecosystem of the delta at? >> there is nothing more important than to get our greatest industry, agriculture, back moving again. in the short term, we need