united states ports and they embark approximately 11.5 million passengers. the safety of these passengers and the crews which operate these vessels has been a long-standing focus of the coast guard. every year thorough examinations of the vessels to comply with all united states and international safety, security and environmental standards and insure their crews are well-trained. in my role as deputy -- i'm responsible for setting the safety, security and environmental dards for u.s. flag, foreign vessels and foreign vessels which visit our ports. conducting investigations when accidents occur. regarding the conduct of search and rescue. for all of these reasons, the recent casualty involving costa concordia is a great suppreinteo us. we're certain there will be much to learn and we're opened to the possibility that our regulations and the international regulations produced by the international maritime organization, may need to be strengthened based on the outcome of the investigation being led by the italian government. accordingly, we have offered to assist at an interested party due to the significant number of american citizens who were on board including two that re

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that's why i serve in the united states coast guard.shares my drive and commitment. we collect intelligence, guard our shores against drug smugglers, and keep our waterways safe. because our nation expects more. if you expect more, maybe you were born ready. find out at gocoastguard.com. >>> four minutes before five time 5:00 on a tuesday morning and it is starting out wet, meteorologist bernadette woods over in first warning weather. >> welcome to spring even though it has felt that way for a while. a couple of showers and even a thunderstorm or two out there this morning. all of this is sort of drifting around. we had a little bit of an issue there. well all this is drifting down to the southeast. we have are going to see rounds of this owned and off today but the big thing is the warmth. look at temperatures. starting out the day at 61 in baltimore. way above our average. highs for this time of year. we will take you in closer and tell you the entire region in the 50s to low 60s. as we head through the afternoon all of those numbers

upcoming nato conference shutting down a boat traffic miles lake michigan united states coast guard keeping more than 1 mi. away from lake michigan shoreline nato summit mccormick place for two days but the shutdown lasted a week may 16th-24. closing for mile stretch of chicago river chicago tribune wharf to loomis street coal storage slip to the locks and to water filtration plant also reported new citibank south michigan avenue closed today federal insurance corporations could not find another bank to take over access to much of $50,000 insurance limit indicted cook county commissioner william beavers vice chairman of the new city bank william beavers reportedly a small stake separately facing charges separately tax evasion denies wrongdoing. coming back from the procession to order 27,000 jobs last month third straight month solid hiring growth. candidates president obama man and 13 year- old accused of abusing animals since posted video on the internet story coming up and it returned to the 60s this weekend at steady climb to the '70s tom skilling glorious details coming up. whoa! i'd l

. >> as he said the first lady is set to head across the bay for the dedication of the united states coast guard's newest cutter. it's named after the coast guard's first commissioned female officer. as part of it the first lady has, invited part of the first generation of women to join the coast guard. she had surgery to weeks ago but plans to be out to attend tomorrow's event. >> advisa and mastercard said they have told card issuers of a security breach. the break down involves global payments incorporated. visa said it didn't involve card holders in the united states. neither company would say how many people were affected. >> stocks closed a quarter with their best three month gains in 14 years. the s&p500 has risen 12%. thehe dow was up 6%. though the nasdaq dropped three points it still is up 19% for the first quarter of the year. >> california high speed rail system going through changes. the rail authority is set to release the updated plan on monday that focuses on transportation hubs. this week officials agreed on a $1.5 million deal, billion dollar rather to improve caltrain tr

that's why i serve in the united states coast guard. train with the best, a team that shares my drive and commitment. we collect intelligence, guard our shores against drug smugglers, and keep our waterways safe. because our nation expects more. if you expect more, maybe you were born ready. find out at gocoastguard.com. . >>> big board dow jones industrial average down, 15,000, and nasdaq and s&l is also -- s&p 500 also down. >>> it looks like the angry space birds, something is attached to the tower. it was confirmed on twitter, some kind of launch is taking place but they would not say exactly what. it will be available on apple as well as pcs and macintosh computers. >>> he is accused of killing a berkeley hills man outside of a home. daniel dewitt suffers from paranoid schizophrenia according to his parents. he is charged with a beating death outside of his home. criminal proceedings were suspended so doctors could conduct those mental examinations. >>> police in san leandro suspect a man of assaulting a woman in her own home. it h

that's why i serve in the united states coast guard. maybe you were born ready.ind out at gocoastguard.com. >>> i'll bet when you woke up and saw the frost on the windshield, you would never think it would be raining by the afternoon. but we've got clouds and showers, and even heavy downpours, now east of the area. pretty heavy rain going on in queen anne's county. between easton, cambridge and dorchester county. up toward the dover area, shortly. it's all moving very, very quickly. doesn't look like anybody is going to see a long, long period of any heavy rain. right now, the moderate to heavy rain, south and east, over toward denton now. heavy echoes south of the city. and lighter activity, south and west of the baltimore region. then it kind of really breaks up, south and west of us. in fact, it's very little across portions of virginia now. until we get much, much farther to the west. and we'll take a look at that radar out there. we have showers and thunderstorms breaking out over portions of ohio. that's where severe thunderstorms will be happening. we'll s

in the united states, as we heard earlier the u.s. coast guard enforces all regulatory requirements through the announced and unannounced inspections, and a rigorous annual inspection of every ship that embarks passengers in the united states. at any time the local coast guard captain can prevent any cruise ship from if a serious n of any regulation is found. because of the cruise industry's commitment to safety, supported by strict regulations and vigorous enforcement mechanisms, cruising is, as we heard from vice admiral salerno, one of the very safest forms of recreation and travel in the world. in the decade prior to the grounding of the concordia, there were a total of 28 fatalities on cruise ships related to operational casualty out of 223 million passengers and crew who sailed during those years. 22 of those fatalities involved crewmembers, and six involved passengers. now let me be very clear. not a single fatality is acceptable to our industry. and we have and will continue to work hard to prevent such incidents. we treat every one

that's why i serve in the united states coast guard. maybe you were born ready. find out at gocoastguard.com. >>> five days of first warning weather. 66 tomorrow. 62 on monday. the first day of spring, calendar spring on tuesday. 1:14 in the morning. spoil for tuesday, wednesday and thursday, with lows around 50. >>> well, as, warm winner gives way to an early spring, it is not just flowers popping up. >> yes. alex demetrick reports, that the good, the bad and the ugly or the bugs in the insect world are popping up early. >> reporter: it feels like spring to a lot of plans and for insects it is. despite what the calendar says. >> we're probably 10 days from two weeks ahead. we're getting reports already of deer takes, mosquitoes all of the guys that we love to hate. >> reporter: which means taking the usual precautions earlier than usual. ticks can pass on serious inspects like lyme disease and mosquitoes have west nile. the advice for people. >> they have to have due diligence right now. because they are active. >> reporter: of course, some insects have been act

if you put the ships off the coast of the united states, then it could do something. but that's not what the russians have complained about yet. so -- >> that's not true. we wrote a paper, was published it under the federation of american scientists. we looked ostensibly at the potential that the united states could draw the ships back off the coast and defend the country. at least in principle. i want on the clear that in practice i don't think the system is going to work at all. just another way to pump money out of your pockets to the defense industry. but the 4 kilometer interceptor on ships can easily defend the united states in theory. to argue that an adversary has a capability but won't use it because they won't choose to, the phase adaptive approach is supposed to be adaptive by putting it on ships so we can move it all over the place. i think that's in the ballistic missile defense review. so why we would not in a crisis choose to do that is -- would depend on the crisis. because it's a possibility, at least in principle, to argue that i'm only going to look

across the united states, to personal cars, it would be a big, big improvement and all of that natural gas, brenda, comes from the united states. if you're buying gasoline on the east coast of the united states. that's more than not coming from nigeria and other places and finally, if we could get our large 18-wheelers on this, we could reduce, 5, 6 million barrels a day, it's absolutely the one policy that every american should be following. >> well, it's cheap now, gary b. i guess the issue about this, is it having a market support it, not the government through subsidies, huh? >> well, exactly. brenda, i'm all for everything toby said, as long as the government doesn't come in and try to manipulate it. you know, at the start of the gasoline powered automotive industry, there was no government involvement. people went to get gas stations and went to the local drug store or hardware store and picked it up. it was only when autos became popular that the oil company said, hey, you know what? there's a market here to open up gas stations and i'm hoping the same way with natural gas and the market will work or won't work and gm will have made a bad bet. i'm all for gm doing

then they want to pass the keystone pipeline bill and i say at that has to stay in the united states. off the coast of new england, florida, california. so, i have an amendment that says that oil and natural gas that has to stay inside the united states and all the republicans vote no. doesn't have to stay in the united states. can go overseas. this is a dream scenario for saudi arabia and iran and these countries. dream. it's beautiful for the american petroleum institute, okay? but anything that placates iran in terms of what the message is we're sending in terms of the amount of oil that, you know, we're going to say we don't need from them anymore. so let me ask this of you. what would that mean if there was a repeal, madam administrator, of your authority to look at how to increase the efficiency of the vehicles which we drive in the united states? >> our estimate of the savings of oil because of the national clean cars program is 12 billion barrels, mr. markey. >> and what would happen -- what would happen to -- what does the total per day -- what does that translate into in terms of per day

united states. if i increase that speed to five kilometers a second, now i can do a good job of defending the eastern part of the united states, but the west coast is a little bit out of the footprint. i haven't shown you the capability of the ft. greely up here. so five kill miters a second, the forward base site could help defend the east coast. ft. greely the west coast. but if you want to cover the entire continental united states from poland, your interceptor speed has to be up around 5 1/2 kilometers a second. much faster -- at least a kilometer second faster. now, why are the russians concerned? this chart shows you the footprint, the defended area for russian icbms launched from all the known launch locations in russia. it is high for any of the sm-3 interceptors currently being talked about. so if i put that sm-3 block 2-b in poland, which has been the source of most of russia's concerns, you really can't protect the united states. here's maine. only the ss 27s and ss 19s, you might catch them going to maine but the rest of the united states and alaska and hawaii you cannot intercept those icbm's's. to threaten russia's icbms, the launc

paranzino of the united states army, private first class kyle cutu of the united states marine core, francis altona of the united states navy, ronald a. gill jr. of the united states coast guard, sergeant michael r. whiteaman, united states army, sergeant moses jasmine, united states army, staff sergeant dale james keller jr., army national guard, sergeant brian st. germane, united states marine corps, sergeant dennis j. flanagan, united states army, sergeant matthew cutu, united states army, lance corporal lance sharett, army marine corps, lance corporal john d. vanguisen, united states marine corps, captain christopher s. cash, united states army, lance corporal matthew k.serio, united states marine corps, master sergeant richard l. ferguson, united states army, sergeant first class, curtis mancini, united states army reserve, captain matthew j. august, united states army, chief warrant officer sharon t.stofworth, united states army, specialist michael andgrave, army national guard, staff sergeant joseph camera, army national guard, all of these men and women have given their lives in the last decade in afghanistan and iraq. it is a role of honor. it is a -- it is a r

to fitin the united states, the u.s. coastguard enforces all maritime regulatory requirements unannounced inspection and a rigorous inspection of every ship that embarks passengers. at any time, the local coast guard captain can prevent any cruise ship from departing a serious violation. because of the commitment to safety is supported by strict regulation, it is one of the very safest forms of recreation and travel in the world. there were a total of 28 fatalities on cruise ships related to operational casualties out a 223 million passengers and crew who sailed during those years. 22 of those fatalities involved crewmembers. six involved passengers. let me be very clear. not a single fatality is acceptable to our industry. we have and we will continue to work hard to urban such incidents as. we treat these as a profound reminder of our duty to continuously improve our practices, procedures, and performance. the incident is the difference. almost immediately following the accident, they launched a cruise industry operational s

no tsunami warnings have been issued for the united states west coast. last night's quake hit one area that was affected by last year's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami. >>> an afghan intelligence officer is dead after a bomb exploded today in southern afghanistan. investigators say that the bomb was hidden in a motorcycle in kandahar. it was just 600 yards away from a meeting where a delegation was investigating the murders of 16 civilians. a u.s. soldier remains in custody suspected of sunday's shooting spree. >>> and there is reportedly surveillance video which shows that u.s. soldier walking up to his base and surrendering. the video hasn't been made public according to an afghan official who spoke with the ap. he said though that u.s. authorities showed that video it afghan investigators to prove that only one perpetrate wares involved in the shootings. some victims' relatives suggested at least two u.s. soldiers were involved. the u.s. is still trying to determine where to hold legal proceedings for the 38-year-old staff sergeant. >>> 5:07. san

operation torch, and basically operation torch is three landings along the north coast of africa to get the united states involved in the war in europe. and patton's only attack is on the far west coast in morocco, is purely american. it's going to leave in the united states and arrive in moroc morocco. during the planning stage, the british tell patton, we think your landing is irrelevant. patton would get furious. he was stationed in washington at the time. he got so mad one day he came home to his house, and he picked up a small statue, that his wife had purchased in hawaii, it was a lava carving. they named it charlie. it was a war god. and it was supposed to bring warriors good luck. patton takes charlie out into the backyard and throws it into the pond and says, this is such a mess, i'm so angry. so patton takes this ship onto shore, and the first thing he sees is a british officer in an american uniform walking up to him holding charlie. that's charlie right there. the british officer is robert enri quez. patton said, what's going on? and he tells him, listen, wife gave this to me. she went and fi

captain grant is retiring after a distinguished career with the united states coast guard reserves. his selfless work has included support to operation desert shield and desert storm and assisting in relief efforts in haiti and building strong bonds between the coast guard through dead cailted public outreach. in his capacity as a congressional liaison, he was combating maritime threats. he has received numerous awards and capping a career that included united states air force reserve and treasury department. i can't thank captain grant for his friendship over the years. i speak for my staff and the greater florida community and captain grant we are proud of your career, your accomplishments and you will be missed. thank you for your service. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: are there further requests for one-minute speeches? the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. davis for today after 4:00 p.m. and the balance of the week and ms. moore of wisconsin for today and the balance of the

refineries on the east coast of the united states and what contribution that made. the trainer refinery, and maybe philadelphia, as raw material feed stock is the largest component of gasoline prices the increase in crude prices as dan and howard said is necessarily reflected in the price we pay at the pump. but concerns about deliverability give at any refinery closures on the east coast and elsewhere were also factors. given time, i believe that product imports from europe, the middle east and asia, our shipments from the gulf will but prices given transportation costs are likely higher until we find lower cost logistical alternatives and they become readily available. shipments from the gulf which is pad 3 are an option but deliverability will be influenced by the availability of jones act vessels or possibly waiver from the jones act. docking and storage facilities and regional and local pipe line capacity. the good news and this is figure 3, is that absent a massive global disruption or market tightening beyond what we foresee today f shift any guide, so this i

think that speaks to the level of commitment the coast guard has to this mission. >> how many of the captains of the cruise vessels that call on the united stateses. >> the four men fled cruise ships are almost exclusively captained by masters but they do take international standards that helped develop. >> so i guess that's what leads to my next question and my last question the captains who are not licensed by the u.s. coast guard what review do you conduct of their licensing or fitness for duty? >> we certainly check the credentials issued by their home governments, and then as we go through our inspections, and particularly with five-year and lifeboat drills that is our ability to assess their competence. and every inspection, we question the crew as to their knowledge as to safety requirements, security requirements and environmental, and we make some judgments based on that. we have held the ships in the u.s. when we have come to the conclusion that people in sensitive safety positions on board did not do their duties. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. cummings. ms. matsui? >> thank you, mr. chairman and for allowing me to be a

there have been suggestions that we should deploy a ground based intercepter on the east coast of the united states to defend the homeland against a possible future long-range iranian missile threat. you are the combat ant commander that establishes the requirements for homeland defense capability. is there a requirement for deploying an east coast gbi site and are you seeking to deploy such a site on the east coast? >> today's threats do not require an east coast field, and we have no plans to do that. >> thank you, senator mccain. >> general jacoby. as you well know, nearly 50,000 mexican citizen have lost their lives, nearly 13,000 last year alone, which shows an increasing trend according to those numbers. what is your and i note that recently the state department issued a traveller's advisory and literally everyone of the northern sats of mexico, what is your assessment of the current security situation in mexico? >> senator, i concur with the numbers that you mentioned, violence went up again in 2011. it began to trail off as the concluded. but i do not think there's conclusions yet to be dra

get ahead of potential security requirements and to that end, working closely with the coast guard, united states navy, other partners in the department of defense and the department of homeland security, and also staying tied close thrly to the canadians is right framework to be working in now. >> one statistic i'll use, i think it came from the coast guard alaska, and that is a few years ago you would maybe see 50 ships moving through the bering sea and now close to 1,000. with the arctic, i think seven last year, now 34. in one year alone. so it's moving in a rapid pace of activity up there. we know our friends from china and russia are very interested, china in our land, as i would say, curious about their efforts and so again, your gap analysis, will that also then be utilized as you moved forward in your long-term budget planning of how these pieces fit in and where you need to allocate assets? >> yes, senator. i think that's an important first step with our closest partners to look at the gaps and particularly in how you communicate, how you see and understand what infrastructure we may ne

chairman, this is the greatest injustice to the gulf coast of this united states, and i hope nobody puts a revenue sharing bill anywhere around this committee, because this senator will fight to the end, no state is going to be treated like our state, and we've been treated like this since 1920. >> do we have senators that haven't had the first round? i don't think so. so let me start with the second round. mr. secretary let me pass out and give to you some few charts that are from previous hearings we've had, and some that we've developed ourselves, and i'll go through the three charts, and then ask for any comment. is someone passing those out? >> yes. >> the first of these charts mr. burke of cambridge university provided to us at our hearing about a month ago and he entitled it "the great revival of u.s. oil production." it says "the great revival of u.s. oil production has made the united states a leader in global

suggestions by some in congress we could deploy a ground based interceptor on the east coast of the united states to defend the homeland against a possible future long-range iranian missile threat. you're the combatant commander that establishes the requirement for homeland missile defense capability. is there a requirement for deploying an east coast gbi site, and are you seeking to deploy such a site on the east coast? >> chairman, today's threats do not require an east coast missile field, and we do not have plans to do so. >> thank you. senator mccain. >> thank you, mr. xharm chairman, and thanks to the witnesses. general jacoby, as you know nearly 50,000 mexican citizens have lost their lives as a result of drug-related violence since 2006, nearly 13,000 last year alone, which shows an increasing trend according to those numbers. what is your -- i note that recently the state department issued a traveler's advisory and literally every one of the northern states of mexico. what's your assessment of the current security situation in mexico. >> nor, i concur with the numbers you mentioned and v

and successful, it could demonstrate that it can reach hawaii and alaska if not the west coast of the united states, and president obama is taking the opportunity to have over 50 meters there to look at how they can prevent it. >> about north korea, it is not even on the agenda. >> no. the agenda, as you said, it is about the raw materials and securing them. but the side bilateral summits that they place whenever you have a multi natural -- multinational gathering, alternately this and iran of the two key issues on the agenda. >> using foreign policy, the domestic election issue. >> i think during an election year, you cannot say that there is not anything the president uses that is not for domestic politics. i think there is always an element for it, but i think the concerns are quite genuine, and the conversations that took place are quite genuine, not just -- places like china to stop the test, but looking at what the u.n. security council should do if they go ahead and launch dismissal sometime next month. >> thank you very much for coming in to speak with us. that was nuclear security. let's n

that winter storm is dpienlly exiting the eastern coast of the united states. high pressure will then be dominating the area. snow showers in the mid-atlantic area that's going to be tapering off. one goes away another comes in from the pacific northwest. the system is going to be impact aing majority of the country. the system as of now will be descending from the pacific northwest from california to the next couple of days with gusts reaching up to 100 kilometres per hour. sustained wind as much as 50 kilometres per hour plus some snow accumulation in the valleys. five centimeters and up in the mountains about 15 centimeters. that combined will bring you blowing snow reduced visibility, very hazardous for driving conditions. also some heavy dumps of snow all the way towards manitoba. some places you can see 20 centimeters of snow accumulation there. vancouver and seattle a pair of 7 degrees. los angeles at 24. oklahoma city very windy at 21 degrees and toronto minus 1 looks frigid out there. you'll be having a lot of sunny spells. let's head over to europe. w

in the united states, the u.s. coast guard enforces all maritime regulatory requirements through the announced and unannounced inspection and a rigorous inspection of every ship that embarks passengers. at any time, the local coast guard captain can prevent any cruise ship from departing a serious violation. because of the commitment to safety is supported by strict regulation, it is one of the very safest forms of recreation and travel in the world. there were a total of 28 fatalities on cruise ships related to operational casualties out a 223 million passengers and crew who sailed during those years. 22 of those fatalities involved crewmembers. six involved passengers. let me be very clear. not a single fatality is acceptable to our industry. we have and we will continue to work hard to urban such incidents as. we treat these as a profound reminder of our duty to continuously improve our practices, procedures, and performance. the incident is the difference. almost immediately following the accident, they launched a cr

santorum but the northern part of the united states is seemingly favoring romney and the southern states are favoring santorum. >> yeah, romney has done well on the coast. he has done well in some parts -- well, some people would not consider florida the south but did well there. santorum has done well in the midwest except for a few states like michigan and ohio and we will see what happens here. listen, mitt romney has pulled out all the stops i think you could say. romney's campaign and independent super pac have outspent him in this state, 7-1 on campaign commercials. >> wow. >> saw a similar thing play out in ohio and michigan. where is newt gingrich? not here, ashleigh. spending today straight through saturday campaigning in louisiana, they have the next contest. >> 7-1. that's just unbelievable. you kind of wonder when is that money going to run out or might it ever? paul, stick around. thank you. >> 6 minutes past the hour. the deadly at a jewish school in france has people across the country on high alert. they were gunned down outside the school in toulouse, france. the killer approached on a motor scooter and just opened fire. france's inter

appreciate the opportunity to testify on some of the work we are doing in coordination with the united states coast guard to strengthen security. the transportation credential program is an important security measure designed to ensure that individuals who pose a threat to security do not gain on escorted access. prior to this program, there was no standard verification or background check for entrance to reports. -- a port. the identity verification requirements of the program supports the multi layer approach to protecting the nation's transportation systems and enhance security at airports. several key objectives were met during the initial rollout of the program in october of 2007. these include milestones for implementing enrollment sides, conducting assessments. on april 15, 2009, u.s. coast guard regulation implemented the requirement for all unescorted workers in secure areas and all mariners to possess a valid. almost 2 million transportation workers have received them. this past february, holders -- when applying for a hazardous material endorsement on a state issued commercial driver's l

united states. saint george bermuda, nassau, c them to a port nearer to the united states. saint george bermuda, nassau, bahamas, and havana, north coast of cuba. there the cargos would be transferred from the big fat merchant ships into sleek, narrow, specially designed blockade runners. many modeled after the clyde river steamers. so-called, so-called, clyde steamers. low, fast, side wheeled or propeller driven vls once under way from one of these interim ports, they become subject to capture from the moment they left british or spanish waters. every spec on the horizon was a potential foe. blockade runners moved to avoid discovery. they also tried to time their voyages so they appeared just over the horizon offshore at dusk. so they could make that run into the final port at night. thomas taylor, served as a super cargo or what was the owner's agent on board the english built steel hulled blockade runner ban see banshee, which i think i showed you earlier and have a picture here. this is it. he is making the run into wilmington, north carolina, he wrote "nothing i have ever experienced can compare with it. hunting, pig sticking, ste

we saw just how profoundly impressed of the armed forces of the united states, soldiers, airmen, marines and coast guard's and family members like all of you here tonight, and those i have known through the years proudly represent, because you and those who did not come home with us, and those who return forever changed really made it possible what we were able to accomplish in iraq. it was your courage, resilience, and sheer resolve to take care of each other, defend our nation, and to provide the iraqi people with a choice for their own future. even in it, and maybe even i would say -- i would say especially in the toughest of times, your character and those to represent here tonight shine through, and it mattered. mr. president, this is obama, thank you for recognizing the service and sacrifice of the military family in this very special way. i really appreciate it. we really appreciate the support that you and the vice-president and dr. biden and your wife and those they have found together in the joint forces initiative and the nation provide us. i know we all share a commencement to keep fai

that stretched all way across the entire east coast of the united states. that is pushing through.that we have the core of into downir spilling throughout the day. a northwesterly wind is pushing in the cold air. will notice gusty winds periodically. witty asot be as yesterday, but very breezy. northwesterly at 10-20, gusting 30.to about we were gusting up to about 35 yesterday. are gusting to about 25 miles an hour, rather. hagerstown, 41. cooler air northwest of town. 39 in cumberland. oakland, 28. quantico, 52. lexington park, 50. 57, partly cloudy, breezy this afternoon. mostly sunny and even cooler tomorrow, upper 40's. a leveraged. sunday, as the of the weekend, highs in the low 60's and near 70 most of next week. >> what is it like? everything is pretty decent this morning no major problems to report as far as interstate travel, travel. 95 and across the wilson bridge, giving you the green light. maryland on 50 301 and kenilworth ave. no incidents on 95 or 66. 214 coming out of beverly well stay might as where you are. hit a utility pole on central avenue. you will not able

appreciate the opportunity to testify on some of the work we are doing in coordination with the united states coast guard to strengthen security. the transportation credential program is an important security measure designed to ensure that individuals who pose a threat to security do not gain on escorted access. prior to this program, there was no standard verification or background check for entrance to a port. the identity verification requirements of the program supports the multi layer approach to protecting the nation's transportation systems and enhance security at airports. several key objectives were met during the initial rollout of the program in october of 2007. these include milestones for implementing enrollment sides, conducting assessments. on april 15, 2009, u.s. coast guard regulation implemented the requirement for all unescorted workers in secure areas and all mariners to possess a valid. almost 2 million transportation workers have received them when applying for a hazardous material endorsement on a state issued commercial driver's license. hazmat applicants do not need to go

understand that the twic exemption has been estimated by the coast guard to apply to potentially 60,000 of the 210,000 licensed mariners in the united states. is that correct? >> that is correct. and to day we've only had 69 take advantage of that provision. >> why do you think that is? >> for some they see the twic as an employment opportunity. if an employer asked why do you not have a twic? they see that as advantageous to security inspections each year. >> now, section 809 of the coast guard authorization act who do not need access to secure area of a vessel from a requirement that they obtain a twic. coast guard policy letter 1115 still requires a visit to an enrollment center, essentially, to complete the enrollment process and pay the enrollment fee. i understand that the twic exemption has been estimated by the coast guard to apply to potentially 60,000 of the 210,000 licensed mariners in the united states. is that correct? >> that is correct. and to date we've only had approximately 68 take advantage of that 809 provision. >> why do you think that is. >> for some it's a great employment opportunity and so if an employer asks why d

is the jet stream, a clipper, that skirts along canada and dips in to the united states, goes back around and up off the east coast to canada, that never dipped this year did it? >>guest: at times but not long. scenely, you get a blocking pattern, a big area of high pressure that sets up over green land and the storms try to go off the coast and they cannot because the high pressure is blocking it and the cold stays cross the united states and the high pressure never set up across green land so any kind of cold we had, quickly moved off show and we did not have sustained periods in the united states. they had that in southern canada the last number of welcomes. >>shepard: lots of watch boxes and warnings out there. and now where the storms are happening, our storm chaser is on the line with us now, west of louisville, kentucky, in the area of a watch box. what do you see? do we lose contact? jeff? jeff? >>shepard: rick we will work to get back in to with him. the storm chasers have been showing us patterns all along and in the box areas you were showing us the winds come and go. it will be sunny and the clouds dro

it is fairly typical this time of year, with the water temperatures warm along the east coast of the united statesegin to move from south to north and head into warmer waters. and, of course, humans are doing the same thing. tass gets warmer to the north, more people enter the sea. we can sort of watch the progress of the sharks as they move from florida all the way up the east coast, but sort of follow some of the small bites we get. >> okay, so types of sharks, what are we talking about here? >> in this case, probably mostly black tip and spinner sharks, species that get to about 6 feet in length and are primarily fish eaters. so these are probably cases of mistaken identity in most situations. >> isn't that usually the case? a lot of shark experts like to -- you're not really going for humans, they just mistake them sometimes. >> yeah. i would say most of the attacks are probably that and probably be better called bikes than attacks because they're the equivalent of a dog bite in injury. there are some attacks, true attacks, by large sharks that do occur on occasion. but the majority of these k

if this bill had been opposed on the west coast of the united states it would have gone from the topte all the way down to san diego were. this was huge. and what i have to say about the $2.5 billion cleanup, the tax write-off is that it didn't work and in the initial days that it mattered to get the oil off the water the fishermen picked up more oil in the bucket than exxon did. and because of the failed initial cleanup, half of the oil that spilled from the beaches of prince william sound, and a lot of it is still there. this is with the beaches look like today and this is from 2006. i take high school students out now to the beaches and maybe 6 inches, a foot and focus on the lower right-hand corner, this is what happens. they get upset -- dig a pit. >> [inaudible] >> this is 17 years after the exxon valdez grounded. this left a toxic legacy on the beaches. back we go now to 1989. the scientists are telling us it would only be short-term harm but the fishermen worried about that and the native people because we knew that the salmon and the hearing spawned in prince william sound t

basically talking about slow down and the east coast and the united states, so when everybody learnedtheir bonuses were going to be capped or going to be in paper i think really the consumer sentiment came in especially at the high end and sales dropped off a cliff, now that the u.s. has somewhat stabilized, i think some of that sentiment is coming back, some of the traffic is coming back in the store. you want to take advantage of tiffany when the stock has take a hit, which it has. >> makes sense. courtney what are they buying here? i remember in 2008, we were all in the middle of the financial crisis you it was that white collar male part of the population that actual lives under pressure, losing jobs, spending less, things have really changed. they really have. a lot of the folks that we talked to look at the spending in the luxury goods market as an investment. they are not actually spending frivolously. they are taking very careful consideration to what they are buying, where they are putting that money and then they place a lot of loyalty in those brands going forward. coach is

they're going to send that to the gulf coast of the united states. they're going to do there because we're a net exporter of gasoline. they've been storing oil very quietly in rotterdam and elsewhere in europe, trying to plan for a supply problem. and finally, they're going into some very old oil fields and trying to revitalize them, some of which, again, they haven't touched in 30 years. and all of this points to a deluge of crude that they're going to put on this marketplace in order to try and bring prices down. unfortunately, i kind of see it the opposite way. and to me, what it is, it's the saudis trying to plan for something that they feel is inevitable, and that is, real supply shocks that are going to be coming in the next couple of weeks or month or two, most notably from iran, but not just iran. there is, of course, sudan that's out there, libya, we're not sure of, egypt, seera. i could go on and on. >> israel, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. >> exactly. >> pete? >> dan, how did you stand right now, sticking with the commodity space but lo