although it is not uncome mom fon environmental impact studies to predict spills this one was especiallyroubling. >> it is home to numerous endangerous species. it hosts the largest con congregation of blue whales in the world. >> a lot of us took this very personally. and we were saddened and angry. >> reporter: janet wolf questions whether enough was done immediately after the spill was discovered. >> we had our firefighters who wanted to help. and it felt like there was a pushback. and i understand that there were health and safety issues but the response -- it felt like the oil was -- was coming and no one was doing anything. that's how it felt. >> reporter: and there is also the question of whether the spill could have been prevented if the pipeline had an automatic shutoff valve. >> it's a risk analysis to determine if they need valve, and where to put them. >> reporter: andrew is an independent pipeline safety consultant, he says depending on the pipeline automatic shutoff valves can sometimes do more harm than good. >> they are another point of weakness. so everywhere there's a p

that is an uncome promising statement to make about one's interlock tours as one goes out to meet them. he's essentially saying that greece's creditors are colluding with the political opposition in greece, fulling from power, and was a proausterity government in order to scuttle his government's chances of coming through with a deal. what mrs. christine lagarde objected to in the greek proposals was the fact that roughly 8 billion euros words of taxes will be raised from the syriza plan from a shrinking economy. that is moving in the wrong direction. this despite the fact that european creditors, on monday when the proposals were delivered, said they were a sep in the right direction. there was a clear sense of pan between the two european institutions. >> alexis tsipras has to go to brussels playing hard ball. he has to satisfy the audience at home and the greek public will not accept more austerity much. >> the greeks are realising that the brinkmanship has now promoted for several months has not served greek interests for a while. perhaps back in february when greece signals that i

it will become uncome forel. then, we get to the afternoon hours. the high moves out. the warm front and area of low pressure start make a move from the west. that will first turn the winds the soth and make it more and more humid. we set the stage for scattered showers and thunderstorms through the afternoon and the evening hour. more than likely evening and lighttime hours. then we could talk about potentially heavy to isolated severe thunderstorms. that is possibility for the day tomorrow. storm prediction center has placed us under a slight possibility of severe weather for tomorrow afternoon. one of the computer models guess out to early saturday morning. look at what it does as far as potential for rain fall as we get into the early hours of saturday morning. so this runs through 3:00 a.m. saturday. by that time, we could see over an inch of rain in suburbs just south and east. some areas three four inches of rain. then we got the whole day saturday into saturday night to go with foe continuationly heavy rain. this is something we'll keep an eye on. we could go f

they will evaluate uncoming conditions and move in the manner we regard is appropriate.benefit of hindsight it might have been better to raise the rates more rapidly during the 2004-2006 six crisis. you asked about the feds and the shelby bill. the shelby bill has a title in it that addresses a number of issues pertaining to the fed. i suppose i would ask what the problem is. we want to be an accountable for and transparent central bank. i think if you compared the transparency of monetary policy decisions in the federal reserve with other central banks we are one of the most transparent central banks in terms of information we provide to the public in a whole variety of ways. the feds are accountable and we work well as an institution. i am not certain what the problem is that needs to be addressed. >> thanks very much. dan from the financial times. my first question has to do with the use of the balance sheet and the suggestion that a short rate should be a hike today from the lower ground before the fed continues considering ending reinvestment. i wonder if you could