joining us on the phone, roxanne coming to us from "of the hill." -- from "the hill."hat do you expect to come out of today's hearing? caller: good to be with you. i would expect more of the same line of questioning and concerned, but the senate hearing this morning and later on in the house. the main areas of concern are the 2011 deadlines to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan and a date to study the conditions in afghanistan. both democrats and republicans are starting to become significantly concerned with u.s. strategy in afghanistan and are going to ask a lot of questions

it is roxanne. welcome.nderstand there right now, you guys are on alert because the oil may be heading your way. >> it is here. it is here now. >> sad. >> we're from the new orleans area and we came over here to vacation and we took a walk this morning and we saw part balls coming in all on the coast line right in dolphin islands. we tried to talk to the police and get some action and hours have gone by and they are out there looking at it, but nobody is doing anything to clean it up. >> bp is more worried about the photo opportunity. if you are living along the rest of the gulf coast, they will do the same. they will bring an armada of people out to look like they are doing their job. at the end of the day, it is about a hurry up and wait. that is a sad thing, roxanne. down along the golden, in emerald coast of florida and the mississippi gulf coast. you are going to start dealing with what we are dealing with. no disrespect to the people who live on the rest of the gulf coast. once this oil gets into our e