Funding Schools and Plugging the Oil Well

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Majorities in some affluent suburbs have voted to increase taxes for schools, but not by enough to meet the two-thirds requirement. In other places they've passed. What's in store for Measure E next month in Los Angeles?  Also, the Republican candidates for Attorney General. Is LA District Attorney General Steve Cooley too liberal?  On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, BP has begun implementing "Top Kill" to plug its broken oil well.  We hear how it's supposed to work, what survivors said today about the cause of the oil-rig explosion and how far oil has seeped into the bayous of Louisiana.