BP's Fix Not Good Enough; Arkansas Flash Floods Kill 18
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Tonight, an ultimatum by the Obama administration, a vote of no confidence. Is it in BP? We're live for answers tonight in the Gulf where the catastrophe unfolds by the minute. Arizona front and center in another controversy over race. We're asking two artists who asked them to lighten the color -- the skin color of school kids on this mural. And the epidemic that is divorce -- and why some people are more prone to it and why some say it is contagious. We explore all of that this hour.</s>LEMON: Tonight, a message from the government to</s>BP: what you're doing to fix the oil disaster is not good enough. It has been over 54 days since the deadly oil rig explosion created a massive and catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven families lost. Each day, the oil chokes off commercial -- commerce all over the Gulf, and even with compensation checks from BP, families who depend on the Gulf for livelihood, they are hurting right now. And it may be months before the oil stops. Twice as much oil is coming out as previously thought and the containment cap lowered over the pipe is only able to capture some of it. So, the government has given BP until tomorrow to come up with a better plan. CNN's Chris Lawrence joins us now live from Grand Isle. Chris, no one seems satisfied with BP's efforts to get the handle on this catastrophe. What if BP doesn't have a better plan? What then?</s>CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's the question we're going to be asking the Coast Guard tomorrow, because tomorrow, Don, is the deadline day for BP. And you can see some of this tiger dam that's been laid out at the beach. That wasn't here just a couple weeks ago, but basically, this is the Coast Guard telling BP, look, the plan you had for what we thought was gushing out of the well, that might have been OK. And now, they were pretty sure it's a whole lot more, that plan is just not aggressive enough. I'm going to take you back. When this well first erupted, we were told first estimates, maybe 42,000 gallons a day were gushing out. Then they scrapped that estimate. No, it's more like 200,000 gallon as day coming out. Now, the best estimate is that it's between 800,000 and 1.7 million gallons gushing out every day. That's a completely different ball game. That's why the Coast Guard has told BP, you got 48 hours, tomorrow, to come up with a more aggressive plan -- Don.</s>LEMON: In the meantime, I saw, you were out earlier with the cleanup workers on the beach. You said that they weren't talking then. Did you get a chance to try to ask some of htem some questions? Are they talking now?</s>LAWRENCE: No, they absolutely are not. In fact, we said, well, maybe, you know, you don't want to make a judgment just on one area that we're in. So, we drove a mile -- a couple miles down the beach to a completely different zone, different group of workers, walked up to them and just said, hey, guys, you know, how is it going out there today? And almost immediately, it was like, hey, you can't even be this close to us. You know, no one is going to talk to you, if they want -- you know, if they still want to keep their job. And, you know, we tried to talk to them about the letter that the CEO of BP had put out, saying, look, we're not telling people not to talk, they can talk about their experiences and what's really going on here, and, you know, one worker said that was a fake e-mail and we heard about that fake e-mail. And so, I mean, asking people even to -- what did you do today? How is it going? I mean, these aren't really -- we're not -- I'm not digging into what they're doing, it's just kind of a casual, what's going on out here? And even that is getting absolutely no response, Don.</s>LEMON: Yes, you just want to know what their personal opinion and what it feels like to have to be out there working and where they grew up or where they live. So, interesting. Chris, keep on top of it for us. We appreciate your reporting tonight. And one of the greatest problems now facing BP is this oil -- in this oil disaster, is its credibility. No matter what company officials say they're doing, the public, the politicians, even the president, say they don't fully trust BP. So, CNN's John Roberts went right to the source for answers about what is being done, questions about BP's tactics. Put to the chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, on his own turf at ground zero. A CNN exclusive coming up right here on the CNN NEWSROOM. The death toll is now at least 18 in the flash floods that swept through an Arkansas campground and crews are searching right now for as many as two dozen that's still unaccounted for. Governor Mike Beebe says four people are confirmed missing, but another 20 people may have been in the area when the floods hit. The waters rushed in so fast it caught the campers off-guard there was just no time to escape for many of them. And our Casey Wian is standing by for us live in Langley, Arkansas. Casey, where does the search stand now?</s>CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Don, earlier today, the U.S. Forest Service took us along to see some of those search operations and took us to the scene of where the flood happened. And there, we met a woman named Janice McCrae, who's a survivor of the flood and also a hero who helped to rescue victims.</s>JANICE MCCRAE, FLOOD SURVIVOR: He said the river is rising so fast. He said, "I can't get out of my cabin." His cabin was built on piers, you know, probably eight feet tall. And it was already up and his cabin was moving, and while he was talking to me, there was a trailer that floated into and flashed into his cabin. As it turned out, there were people in that camper and he managed to pull them out of that camper, and get them up in his cabin and he keep them safe until the water went down. I didn't have time to think. We went down there and the river was roaring. It was just -- and the cabins that were starting to float were crashing into each other and it was all this smashing and --</s>WIAN: What was that noise like?</s>MCCRAE: Well, it was horrible.</s>WIAN: There, the examples of the power of the raging current, the wall completely sheared off of this cabin; next to it, a cabin that seems to have fared relatively well because it was up on stilts. But behind me, you see the remnants of a cabin that looks like it was hit by a bomb. It was actually knocked about 50 feet off its foundation, completely torn apart.</s>MCCRAE: This cabin, the red one with the crunched up roof, is the one where the kids were up there.</s>WIAN: Right.</s>MCCRAE: The two kids were up on the cabin screaming, "Help, help," and it went down enough eventually. It was falling pretty fast. Once it quit raining, it started falling. So grandpa starts walking out. And we got -- we just went as far as we could and grabbed him. He sat right there after -- we found that chair and he sat there until we could get grandmother. She was on the other side of that drift, how she survived I don't know.</s>WIAN: Wow.</s>MCCRAE: She was on the other side.</s>WIAN: How did you get the boys down?</s>MCCRAE: They just helped them -- you know, as the water went down, they just made them stay up there until it went down and then they helped them down.</s>WIAN: Obviously, they are still looking for people here.</s>MCCRAE: Yes.</s>WIAN: What has the loss been like? Can you describe it? Can you come to terms with it even yet?</s>MCCRAE: No. I don't want to try and come to terms with it yet. We'll all have to, though. There's still a lot -- the river hasn't given up the bodies yet. There's more.</s>WIAN: Now, back to our live picture and you can see the flag at the command post flying at half staff in honor of 18 victims so far. The local sheriff just told me that this operation has now switched from a rescue operation to a recovery operation, and it will be going on until dark tonight, Don.</s>LEMON: All right. Casey, thank you very much. We appreciate that. What the oil disaster in the Gulf is doing to wildlife, if these pictures are worth a thousand words, we'll show you how much they're worth in bringing about change to protect them. Also, in a city where racial tensions are on the rise, a mural meant to ease things has the opposite affects after the artists are pressured to lighten the skin of their subjects. And an international drama in the World Cup opener between the U.S. and England. We're going to you about that. And don't just sit there. Make sure you become part of our conversation, send me a message on Twitter and on Facebook, and check out my blog at CNN.com/Don.