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Gulf reaction to Oval Office speech
(CNN) – President Obama admits there will be more problems ahead when it comes to cleaning up the worst oil spill in American history. Last night, for the first time in his presidency, he talked to the nation from the Oval Office. But did people along the Gulf Coast hear what they needed to hear from the president? Craig Taffaro, the president of Saint Bernard Parish, and Tony Kennon, the mayor of Orange Beach, Alabama, joined us on Wednesday's American Morning for reaction to the president's address.
Battling oil with 'Cajun ingenuity'
(CNN) – President Obama says the Gulf Coast is "under assault" from the oil spill, and on that point, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal would agree. But Jindal and other local officials say the cleanup effort isn't near what it needs to be, and they're putting their own ideas to work. Our Ed Lavandera has the report.
New Orleans evaluates Obama promise
(CNN) – In a prime-time speech from the Oval Office Tuesday, President Obama vowed to unleash whatever resources may be needed to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and to keep the pressure on BP. People in Louisiana and all along the Gulf Coast are feeling the pain and evaluating the president's promises. Our Chris Lawrence has the report.
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Obama, BP set for Gulf oil showdown
(CNN) – President Obama will have his showdown on Wednesday with BP top executives and says he will tell the company it must pick up the tab for the massive oil disaster in the Gulf.
Obama vowed Tuesday to unleash whatever resources may be needed to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and to keep the pressure on BP.
"We will fight this spill with everything we've got for as long it takes," Obama said after two consecutive days surveying the Gulf Coast, which is threatened by a massive oil spill that began April 20 and continues to pump oil into the Gulf waters and worry into Gulf residents.
In a prime-time speech to a national audience, the president predicted that, "in the coming days and weeks," efforts to contain the leak "should capture up to 90 percent of the oil leaking out of the well."
Ending the leak should occur later in the summer, when a relief well being drilled by BP is slated for completion, he said. Read more
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Report: Trillion dollars of untapped minerals in Afghanistan
(CNN) – A trillion dollars worth of useful minerals is sitting under Afghanistan waiting to be tapped. But there are a lot of questions about how hard it would be to get it out of there and even some questions about the timing of the announcement. The military didn't recently discover it, the report was apparently done years ago. To help us break it all down, we were joined on Tuesday's American Morning by Joe Klein, columnist at Time magazine, and Jack Medlin, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
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