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Obama to address nation on oil disaster Tuesday night
(CNN) – President Barack Obama will visit the Gulf states affected by the oil spill on Monday and Tuesday and then address the nation on Tuesday night from the White House on the next steps in responding to the environmental catastrophe, his senior adviser said Sunday.
On his fourth visit to the Gulf region since the disaster began on April 20, Obama will make stops in Theodore, Alabama; Gulfport, Mississippi, and Pensacola, Florida, according to senior administration officials.
After returning from the two-day trip, Obama will make a televised statement from the Oval Office on the night before he is scheduled to meet with top BP officials.
David Axelrod, the senior adviser to Obama, said the president would push BP to create a BP-funded escrow account that will pay for damage claims from the worsening oil spill. In addition, Axelrod said, the plan would call for an independent third party to handle the claims process.
"The president will use every legal device at his disposal to make sure that this money is escrowed and that there is an independent administrator so that claims are not slow-walked, people can get the relief they need in a timely fashion and that we don't create more victims from this terrible disaster," Axelrod told reporters. Read more
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No end in sight for oil disaster?
(CNN) – The Gulf oil spill just keeps getting bigger, threatening wildlife and the livelihoods of so many along the coast. Our John Roberts went out with a Louisiana parish official on a boat ride from Jean Lafitte to Grand Isle and got a close-up look at the oil and the damage done.
Police: Van der Sloot has information about Holloway
(CNN) – Joran van der Sloot told investigators during an interrogation that he knows the location of Natalee Holloway's body, but he would neither identify the location nor say what happened to her the night of her disappearance, a Peruvian police official told CNN.
"In the interrogation done to the Dutch citizen, he says he knew the location of the corpse of the American citizen, but that he was going to explain everything to Aruban police," said Miguel Canlla, head of the homicide division of the Peruvian national police investigative unit, on Thursday.
Van der Sloot, a 22-year-old Dutch citizen, is suspected of killing a 21-year-old woman in Lima last month. Stephany Flores Ramirez was found beaten to death in a hotel room registered in van der Sloot's name. Van der Sloot was captured in Chile and returned last week to Peru, where authorities say he confessed to killing Flores. Read more
Abby Sunderland's boat adrift off Australia
(CNN) – Abby Sunderland was attempting to sail solo around the world when rough conditions forced her to make a distress call. When rescue crews last spotted her boat the mast was broken and bent over. That aside, her parents say she can survive until a rescue ship gets to her. Abby's brother Zac Sunderland, who just did a record-setting 'round-the-world trek alone last year, joined us on Friday's American Morning along with her parents Laurence and Marianne
Read more: Missing American teen sailor located
South Africa set for World Cup kickoff
(CNN) – It's the biggest sporting event in the world and the World Cup has some extra political and historical significance this year being played in a place that was once divided by racist Apartheid 20 years ago. Game one is today, between host country South Africa and Mexico and CNN's Pedro Pinto joined us on Friday's American Morning for a report from Johannesburg.
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