toni tonight on "world news," rebuke. the president has blistering words for the companies passing the blame on the oil spill. emergency. is america ready to lose 300,000 teaching jobs? or come up with more bailout money. courage. the boy who is the lone survivor of the plane crash speaks for the first time. ketchup. an american classic is changing. how will it taste? and, triumph. she did something almost impossible. she is our "person of the week." good evening. on day 25 of the oil spill in the gulf, a visibly angry president obama said he's had enough. enough of companies passing the buck on responsibility for the spill, enough of what he called the cozy relationship between the oil companies and

regulators. and it came on a day when experts are challenging the government and the companies, saying much more oil is gushing into the ocean than anyone has said. we begin our coverage tonight with jake tapper at the white house. jake? >> reporter: good evening, diane. well, that's right. we haven't seen it until today, but white house officials say president obama has been angry about the oil spill, specifically about bp's lack of any real way to deal with a worst case scenario. but today, diane, we saw that anger spill over. president obama visited the gulf almost two weeks ago, but not until today when he said the devastation he saw there made him angry. >> i saw first hand the anger and frustration felt by our neighbors in the gulf. and let me tell you, it is an anger and frustration that i share as president. >> reporter: so, why did the president choose today, 25 days after the explosion, to express his anger publicly? white house officials say it was this hearing on tuesday where executives from bp, transocean and halliburton blamed each

other for the disaster. >> i did not appreciate what i considered to be a ridiculous spectacle. >> transocean as owner and operator of the drilling rig, had responsibility for the safety of drilling operations. >> as the lease operator and the well owner, that falls on bp. >> the american people could not have been impressed with that display. and i certainly wasn't. >> reporter: the president promised the government would end the practice of taking the cheap's word for it when it claimed to be prepared. >> for too long, for a decade or more, there's been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that per milts them to drill. >> reporter: the president has also now pushed for more time for final environmental reviews for drilling projects and separation of those federal employees who collect oil company royalties from those who regulate the companies. but the president is not backing off his push for more offshore oil drilling, though it seems unlikely you will hear him make this claim as he did just days

before the bp disaster. >> it turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. they are very advanced. diane, at times today the administration sounded almost as if they didn't think they ran the federal government and had been running it for the past 16 months. vice president biden said, quote, we're finding out that the oversight was as bad as i thought it was in my career as a senator. but the white house says they have been reforming that part of the government that supervises oil drilling but obviously they say much more needs be done. diane? >> jake in a rainy washington tonight. and jake, we want to show everyone the gulf coast tonight. a map, showing where some oil already has been sighted on land. so far, small outer islands off the tip of louisiana. but coming ashore have been seeing huge tar balls. some as big as eight inches across. and as we said earlier, a fierce duel is under way about the amount of oil spilling into the gulf. jeffrey kofman spent the day

with the president's top man on the scene. >> reporter: we caught up today with the man the president has put in charge of oil spill response. as he hopscotched along the gulf coast. coast guard admiral thad allen. how does the response to this compare to other oil spills or environmental disasters in your time? >> in my view, it doesn't. this is more like working the problems associated with apollo 13. >> reporter: this video released this week has unleashed a torrent of speculation from scientists about the real volume of oil spilling out. for weeks, bp and the coast guard has said it is about 5,000 barrels a day. >> i was able to calculate the total volume of fluid leaking per day. >> reporter: this professor says his analysis found a staggering 70,000 barrels a day. >> knowing how much is coming out could potentially be important for, you know, scaling the cleanup operation, ands with ale what technologies might be applicable in plugging the leak. >> reporter: the admiral says

the fragmented part of the sl k slick. how much oil is coming out of that riser people on the bottom of the sea floor? >> frankly, i don't think anybody knows to any degree of accuracy. and the reason why is, what makes this spill so different is that there's no human access to the point of discharge. >> reporter: are you saying with the thousands of people tasked with cleaning up and managing this oil spill there isn't a single person focused on trying to figure out how much oil is coming out? >> we're putting everybody's heads together and working on it. >> reporter: would it help you to have a hard number? >> of course. but the fact i don't have a hard number is not precluding me from conducting this response. >> reporter: now, diane, to give you a sense of what this is all about, we calculate the 5,000 barrels a day would be the equivalent of 14 guardsen hoses on full blast 24/7. what the scientists are saying no, it's 140 garden hoses, full blast, 24/7. >> big differences there.

so, currently, we're told the equivalent of 14 garden hoses but they are saying it's far more than that. thank you, jeffrey. we learned today that bp has an online sug gegs box open to anyone with an idea how to contain the spill. 4800 suggestions have come in so far today. we surveyed the internet to see soom of the kinds of ideas people have for ways to help. there's a facebook group called wax for oil spills. more than 700 users who are sure that if you pour wax on the oil and it sli if is, it will make it easy to scoop up. >> this is amazing stuff. >> reporter: at a high school in new jersey, students in this science class came one the idea of using vegetable fiber to contain the spill and make it easier to clean. >> what we're observing now is the oil pushing back away from the coastline. >> reporter: this woman says feathers from pillows are leftover from chicken farms will

block the oil. >> i cannot believe -- not a single drop. >> reporter: and before you laugh, daryl carpenter came up with the idea of using hay, and county officials think it works. they put it into their response plan. inventive americans, trying to help. and you can read other yulds and submit one of your own to bp. find a link to their sug gegs box on our website, abcnews.com. and moving on. it is not often we hear an only case secretary issue an emergency appeal. that's what we're hearing today. arn arne duncan said he needs $23 billion right away, or america will lose up to 300,000 teachers. but are americans say nothing more bailout money, even nor? we asked ron claiborne to tell us about cut-backs and the classroom. >> raise your hands. >> reporter: it was an urgent plea to save the jobs of hundreds of thousands of public school teachers. >> what we don't want is an

education catastrophe. >> reporter: right now that's exactly what is shaping up. as many as 300,000 teachers nationwide, nearly 10%, would be laid off this year. in california, 26,000. in new york state, 15,000. in ohio, 1,000. classroom sizes will almost double in many schools. summer school programs will be shut down. entire courses removed from the curriculum. in cleveland, 600 teachers out of 6,000 are being let go. and officials warn that class size could go from 25 to 45 students. casaan dra was on the hit list that came out three weeks ago. >> there's an enormous loss to the students, and that is the shame. >> reporter: in fact, because of seniority rules, all of the teachers at her magnet school are being fired. they're being replacedly teachers who have never taught there a single day. >> we'll eliminate all the progress we've made. >> reporter: states were able to avoid teacher layoffs because they got $1 billion in federal stimulus money for education.

part of which went to teacher's salaries. but that money has almost run out. which is why duncan says the $23 billion is urgently needed. >> just hundreds of thousands of layoffs around the country. it's bad for children. bad for education and bad for our economy. >> reporter: but the prospects for the money in congress are uncertain. some republicans say federal spending is out of control, and they will not approve the funding. house republican leader john boehner said late today, it simply throws more money into taxpayer funded bailouts. casaan dra agrees. it is a bailout. >> our government has bailed out banks and financial institutions and it's about time that we bail out our schools. >> reporter: ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> more tough choices in america. and "on the money" tonight also, a sharp plunge on wall street, where the dow industrials fell over 160 points over continued fear about the european debt crisis. despite today's result, the dow was up over 2% for the week.

for the first time in more than three decades, some congressional perks are under fire and on the chopping block. there are new rules which will take affect immediately. but what will they stop? our congressional watchdog jonathan karl is watching out for your money. >> reporter: it may be the costliest perk of all for members of congress and their staff. the millimeters of taxpayer dollars spent every year for luxury international travel. >> the rule is that you travel business class if you go abroad as opposed to sitting back in the voter class. >> reporter: but now, speaker of the house nancy pelosi is cracking down. under rules announced today, taxpayers won't pay for business or first class air fare unless the flights are more than 14 hours. it ends a practice abc news exposed last month when we reported that this man, a committee staffer named harlan watson, wracked up $76,000 in taxpayer funded travel in just nine months. most of it business class air fare to europe.

we tried to ask mr. watson's boss, republican jim sensenbrenner about it -- do you have a problem with spending $76,000 traveling to european capitals over the course of just nine months? i mean, $9,000 on air fare from one trip to spain? in just two weeks, taxpayers spent $20,000 for democratic congressman bart gordon to travel to london and italy. his round trip ticket to london alone cost $9,950. >> by the way, i'm a taxpayer, too, so, you can find cheaper tickets, let me know. >> reporter: you can fly to europe a lot cheaper if you book the flights yourselves. take a look at these flights from washington to london. any number of flights for $700. $730. it's really hard to find a flight that actually costs $10,000. members are given cash for flood and incidentals of up to $200 a day. until now, they could spend it

any way they liked. and, none of this affects the much costlier trips congress takes on military jets. and finally, there are no new rules for the senate, where members and staff can still fly in style. jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. and, something to take a look at now. the last time you can see this. >> three, two, one. liftoff of space shuttle "atlantis." >> reporter: picture perfect at the kennedy space center this afternoon at the shuttle blasted off on its 32nd and final journey a 12-day mission to the international space station. the first flight for "atlantis," 25 years ago, october 3rd, 1985. nasa has only two more shuttle flights to go. and still ahead on "world news," the first words from the little boy who lived through the plane crash. and now knows his parents and brother were lost. and, the young woman who says she learned how to believe

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finally tonight, our "person of the week." earlier this week, first lady michelle obama gave the commentment speech at the university of arkansas at pine bluff, a historically black college. and she brought one graduate to tears by singling her out, for what she says about the way serving others can keep you believing in yourself. >> consider the journey of keanne childress, who is graduating today with a degree in buy yog. . >> when i was a little girl, what i wanted to be when i grew up was a doctor. >> reporter: a dream that seemed

nearly impossible for keanna childress, in a family fighting deep poverty in arkansas. >> sometimes i would go to bed ungry. >> reporter: to support herself and her family, the 16-year-old trained as a nursing assistant. she worked after school, but her home was falling apart. >> i guess my mother felt like it was too much for her. she would tell me that she was leaving and that i needed to find a place to stay. >> reporter: so, at 16, keanna was homeless. she slept in the only thing she had. an old used pontiac. >> it was scary. the first time, i couldn't really sleep. eventually i just learned to just pray and close my eyes. >> reporter: she tried to keep working, even taking on a second job, and for school, she got up to study at 3:00 in the morning. >> i just wanted a roof over my head to be able to go to school,

play basketball and just live a normal, or what i would consider a normal life. >> reporter: answer sy ty and depression took such a toll on her health, she was ready to give it all up, quit school, work at whatever she could find. >> keanna thought for a moment, and she thought not about her own struggles, she thought about those of her patients. >> that if i gave up, i would give up on them and myself, too. and i felt like they needed more more than i needed to give up on hope. >> reporter: she decided to ask for help, calling relatives in little rock, miles and miles away. they said she could come. she rededicated. to the dream of what she always hoped to be. >> if keanna childress can go from being homeless to graduating with the highest gpa, not just in the biology department but in the entire school of arts and sciences, then surely i can overcome whatever adversity i might face in my own life.

>> what people with learn from my story is that there are a lot of ways. if you focus on helping others, then, you can make it through. i think helping people teams us. >> reporter: and so we choose quiana childress, who is moving ahead with her plans. she's applying to medical school. reminding everyone to dream big dreams. that's "world news" for tonight. david muir will be in this chair tomorrow night. we'll see you monday. good night.