"cnn newsroom" continues right now with don lemon in for alivelshi. >> always good to see you. in for ali velshi today. i'm going to be with you for the next two hours taking every important topic a step further. i'll try to give you a level of detail to help you put your world into context. let's get started. here's the run down. one of america's iconic cities, country music capital of the world swamped by an unprecedented flood. also, how did the times square bombing suspect almost get away? now because of him every single airport in the country is on a

new alert right now. plus, is there a solution to the gulf oil mess? crews are down to their final options and a new strategy for any of this work in time? but first, but first, this is one for the history books. weekend storms spawn record flooding in the mid south killing 28 people. mostly in tennessee. flood waters are receding but the recovery is only just beginning. now we're starting to see the enormous scope of all of this damage. in nashville, pieces of american history might be washed away. the country music hall of fame is closed, grand ole opry house, gaylord opry house is submerged. famous honky tonks and restaurants in downtown nashville, many are closed due to extensive water damage. and lp field, home of the tennessee titans, also flooded by several feet of water. in all, parts of nashville received more than 13 inches of rain. that's a lot of rain. right now rescue crews are going door to door in surrounding

neighborhoods making sure folks made it out safely and alive. some people have been allowed back into that homes right now. but only to discover they have lost everything. and president barack obama has named parts of the state a disaster area. the weather has gotten better in tennessee but that only means people are getting a clearer view of the massive damage that they are facing. so joining me now by telephone from nashville is tennessee governor, his name is phil bredesen. governor bredesen, we hear there are still power outages. what's your latest assessment there, especially in the situation in nashville? >> things are getting -- things are getting back to normal. we still have some power outages around the state, really, but they're coming back under control. the cumberland river has crested. it's going back down. but this week -- this week starts the digging out process. there's an awful lot of that to do. a lot of damage. >> we know nashville provides a lot for your economy. the whole country is hurting right now. we're in an economic slump

trying to dig our way out of it. you're going to get some federal assistance right now. but this is really going to take a chunk out of your economy. >> well, it certainly -- it certainly hurts the economy. this is not news that any state would love to have in these times. but most important thing right now is the people, there are people who never even thought their homes were in danger of having flooding around it who have lost their homes. they're in shelters. they're staying with friends and neighbors and in motels and such. and right now we're trying to reach out to those people and get them all the help we possibly can. >> how many people are we talking about here? >> we still have several hundred in shelters. i have no idea how many are staying with relatives and friends and so on. but where fema has been, i would say done a good job. the president called me right away. white house has been in contact. fema has been in contact. the director was down here, the administrator, i guess he's

called, and we're getting a lot of help. and faith community here is doing a great job. churches are really reaching out and finding people and giving them some help. so, you know, it's going to take weeks and months really to get things back together. >> i was going to ask you, specifically, have they told you? you said weeks or months. do you really know how long? this is unprecedented? >> it really is. but, you know, i know that we think it's like opryland and some of those icons, it's going to take a while to get those back. certainly is in the months category. for individuals, obviously depends on the amount of damage they have. red cross is here and is handing out as they do the buckets and the scrubs and so on to help people clean up the mess where there hasn't been excessive water damage but, of course, there are houses that, you know, the water was up over the first floor. it's going to take more than a bucket and mop to fix them up. >> governor, as americans, we always come together and help. i know tennessees a will do as well.

governor phil bredesen, governor of tennessee. best of luck. >> thank you. you can find out how you can help. here's how you can make a difference to help the flood victims in tennessee. make sure you visit our impact your world page at cnn.com/impact. now is time for what we sal sound effect because sometimes pictures really don't tell the whole story. two words stand out in this clip from the streets of new york city. and i quote, nypd rocks, nypd rocks. here new yorkers and visitors talk about the terrorism in the wake of a botched car bombing and some textbook police work. >> i think it's a concern but i've lived here for 20 years. i was here through 9/11. i feel like -- i think the nypd rocks. i think new yorkers have their eyes open. if they see something, they're going to say something. >> new yorkers seem to have the guts just to do, to go on with their lives. if something happens, we'll

react to it and then we will let it go from there. >> i was a visitor to new york, are you worried about the terrorism threat in times square? >> no, not really because we saw lot of police on the streets. so we're kind of safe. >> times square turned investigation spans the globe. and so does our coverage. just ahead here on cnn, we are live in pakistan and from washington, big news from the tsa. new rules for the no-fly list. ali is off this week so i'm taking over the xyz, his xyz. people of new york, you have been through a whole lot lately. and i've got a personal message for you that you don't want to miss.

welcome back, everyone. we know what happened in times square last saturday night. and we know how the man accused of trying to set off an suv bomb was arrested. what we don't know yet is how a

high achieving pakistani-american came to shun his american dream and allegedly embrace jihad. faisal shahzad was headed back to the middle east when customs officers took him off a plane he never should allowed to board. now comes a new rule for airlines from the tsa, we're hearing. we've got live reports from both fronts. cnn is in islamabad and homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve joining us from washington. reza, tell us about the people being questioned in pakistan right now. >> well, officials are telling us several more people were picked up today in the karachi area. we don't know their names or what type of link they had with faisal shahzad. we have the names of three other people who have been arrested. his father-in-law, one of his friends, and a young man described as his associate, mohammed ranhan. these people are being questioned. they're not arrested, only being

questioned. i want to pass along very important new developments concerning the pakistani taliban that we just got in. a lot of talk about the pakistani taliban. were they involved in this attempted bombing in new york? you would have thought faisal shahzad himself said he received training in the nerve center for the pakistani taliban. but now in a phone call to cnn, the spokesperson for the pakistani taliban essentially saying we're impressed with what this man tried to do. we like what he tried to do, but he's not one of us. take a look at his statement. he says, the action of faisal shahzad was very good. we appreciate faisal shahzad but he has no link with taliban pakistan. he might have received training from other militant groups but not the taliban pakistan. there were other groups that can provide that type of training, too. there you see the pakistani taliban saying this young man is not one of us. only adds to the mystery surrounding this 30-year-old

pakistani-american. >> where you are, any word on how how changed from if a white collar american success story to a failed bomber? how did that happen? >> no, absolutely no red flags. no indications that this man was headed down this type of path. he spent a lot of time where he's from in northwest pakistan, village named pabi right outside where his father is from. his father is a retired vice marshal for the air force. we spoke to family members. they're shocked and they're reeling from this development that's obviously going to put this family under scrutiny. they say they never thought we would end up this way. some of them flat out don't believe it. no red flags, no indications that this man was going to do something like that. >> thank you. and stand by because we're going to go to jeanne meserve now and new requirements regarding airlines and no-fly list.

>> don, he had got on that plane even though he had been put on the no-fly list. they're looking to close a loophole. it's provided to airline oons web board. they're required to update it every 24 hours. they do get fications alerting them when a priority, someone new has been put on that list. it's been up to the airlines to do this updating themselves. i'm told that many do but they're not required to. now they have to do it within two hours of getting a notification from us, someone of concern has been added to this list. you have to go back and look at this web board and put him on your list. now, fortunately there were redundant systems in place here. customs and border protection was looking not just at the no-fly list and comparing that to the manifest but looking at any number of other alerts and databases that they have access to. they're the ones who realized he

was on that flight and got him off. >> here's the interesting thing, he paid for those tickets in cash. how about the people who paid for that airline tickets in cash. is that going to change, jean? >> there's a movement afoot to do that. right now the airlines are not required to tell tsa if someone bias ticket one way with cash. but some members of congress say there should be a requirement on a cash provision, if someone pays with cash they give an alert to the airlines. emirates says it did turn and and alert security officials at tsa -- at jfk the minute they saw this person purchase a ticket with cash but i'm told by u.s. government officials that they didn't get that information until about 1:30 in the morning long after that arrest had taken place. >> jeanne meserve at our security desk, thank you very much, jeanne and reza. new york's mayor and police commissioner on capitol hill today for terrorism hearing. scheduled long before the attempted bombing in times square. ray kelly, the city's top cop,

told senators since 11 new york has been the subject of 11 terror plots. 11 plots that we know of, he says. i also want to show you a fascinating chart from the study of terrorism and responses from terrorism. from 1970 to 2007, new york was hit by, get this, 284 terror attacks. most of which occurred in the 1970s. now, remember now, these are attacks i'm showing you, not victims of all the people killed in terror attacks in new york, 98% died on september 11th, 2001. look at this map. take a look at this. we picked out the top five u.s. terrorism targets over the past four decades. miami is a distant second. with 70 attacks. san francisco had 66. washington, 59. los angeles, 54. unbelievab unbelievable. 284 in new york city. next closest, miami, with 70. trying to get a job?

trying to qualify for a student loan? it may be getting easier for you. our stephanie elam tells you why, that is straight ahead. plus, we'll also take stock of the stock market.

welcome back. we have breaking news to tell you about here on cnn. take a look at these live pictures from san antonio. what we're hearing is that this is a fire at an oil refinery, massive fire that is just southeast of downtown san antonio. here's what we're being told. there are large plumes of smoke that can be seen. this company is called age refinery. spoeshl specializes in diesel. found it back in 1981. again, no injuries just southeast of downtown san

antonio. no injuries or fatalities. we will check in on that. welcome back now to our -- this edition of the "cnn newsroom." look at the big board. we know that wall street was down yesterday. and if you look at the numbers, we're not sure exactly how it's doing today. there it is. what's why we turn to stephanie elam for the best financial advice on this. she can tell you what's going on. you can catch "your $$$$$" hosted by ali velshi, at 1:00 p.m. eastern right here. so, stephanie, how is the stock market doing today. >> don, it's one of those things where i'm pitch hitting for christine today, but if you look at the markets today, the relieving thing is we're not down as much as yesterday. yesterday the dow was off 225 points. right now it's off 30 points. a lot of it having to do with fears with the greek debt situation. so that's the situation there, don, just trying to give you up to date of what's going on with the markets.

>> on friday, right, or this morning the jobs reports number came out this morning and then ahead of friday's monthly job reports. another month of gains. is that true? >> that's true. according to adp, look at the private sector it added 32,000 jobs last month. that's the third monday in a row of an increase here. the service sector added $50,000 jobs. the most since last fall. that's good just. the service sector makes up about 80% of the u.s. workforce. manufacturing employment, it rose to 29,000, and that's third month of gains there as well. so as far as adp, cautiously optimistic this job growth will continue. but one analyst says this is not a hiring boom. employers are still nervous obviously we will get the government's big job report on friday. we are expected to see addition of 187,000 jobs. at the same time unemployment will probably is expected to

stay held -- hold steady at 9.7%. if you take a look at it, don, one sect their got hit was education. and -- >> yes, offset that layoff? is this going to offset the layoffs? hopefully? >> this is going to be part of the problem here, though, because if you look at this and this education group says 275,000 education jobs cut next years. it's not just teacher, people who work in schools. and 80% of school districts would implement these cuts and you take a look at this and you can see they're feeling the pain because of budget constraints that are going on at local levels, at the state levels as well. stimulus dollars starting to run out there as well. they're starting to feel some of the pain there in the education. that's part of the issue there, too, don, for them. >> can we continue on? college students, sallie mae, nonfederal student loans. what's that about, steph? >> it's a new program that sallie mae is coming out with today. starting next week they're going

to lower the interest rates on some of their student loans. interest rates will now fall into a range of 2.88% and 10.25%. that's about a 2 percentage point drop from now. the rules, here are the rules. the rates are variable. you must pay the interest while you're still in school and for nonfederal loans only, this is applying to, which typically lack consumer protections. sallie mae has been up against the wall so they're trying to make up lost revenue. starting this summer, students must get all of their federal loans directly from the government. that's part of the health care bill in there. that's coming from the government. and because of that change, sallie mae said that last week they're going to start cutting jobs because of that. you see they're feeling the pinch and you can see the change here on what they're doing for college students. >> boy, a lot of news coming from our stephanie elam today. we appreciate it. as always, have a good one, okay? good to see you. >> thanks, don. you, too. we're going to check our top

stories. long-time house democrat david obey announced he won't run again in november. obey's represent was constant since 1969, chair of the powerful house appropriations committee. we'll have more on that on cnn. the arrest of sometimes care bombing suspect in new york is having ripple effects across the atlantic. a group of his associates has been detained in pakistan. faisal shahzad's father-in-law and a friend are among those taken in for questioning in karachi. 30-year-old u.s. citizen from pakistan is facing wmd and terror charges after allegedly trying to set off a car bomb on saturday. federal inspectors are slamming a drug maker saying it knowingly used contaminated ingredients in some batches of children's and infant's tylenol products. fda says it found bacteria and raw material at the mcneil consumer health care plant in pennsylvania. but no contamination has been found in the finished products. still certain types of tylenol, motrin and benadryl are being

voluntarily recalled. one leak plugged, two more to go in the gulf of mexico. bp says the smallest of the three oil-spewing leaks has been patched thanks to a team of underwater robots. the coast guard says it's not slowing down the flow. today, a 40-foot steel containment dome is leaving the port headed for the site of the leak. i'll tell you about our breaking news, breaking news here coming up from near san antonio. the picture are horrific but we're being told so far no one is injured. huge fire and explosion we're going to update you on the other side of the break.

take you now on that huge mess in the gulf of mexico. before the break i told you about this containment dome, 5,000 feet down there in the gulf of mexico. pictures now of the dome being shipped out. go now to the ground. our producer watching the containment dome shipped out to sea. >> reporter: don, as you can see, the big white structure is slowly moving about to take its 12-hour -- 12-hour journey to the people on the horizon rig where the still hasn't been able

to b contained. many believe this structure which is going to be lowereded from a ship is the best hope to stop this leak and contain. what will happen is this giant 40-foot structure will be lowered down on top of the leak, almost like you put a bucket under dripping faucet or a pipe in your house. but it's going to be the opposite direction, on top of the leak. then they're going to hope it contains the oil, the oil will then go giant tubes through a ship that will be on top. the problem is that this has never been done before, don. in this deep of water they done it during katrina, during when a lot of rigs were damaged, stuff like that. it's never been done at this depth of water. so it could make a 12-hour journey. >> eric, i want to ask you quickly with the life pive pict is this the ship? can we get those pictures up? i want to make sure the viewers know what we're seeing here. is this the thing that it's being seen on?

>> yes, it's a slow barge. you see the giant orange straps. that's the ship that's going to take it out on its 12-hour journey and hopefully it can be lowered to stop this leak, contain it and pump the oil huh to a ship on top of it. it's never been done. they're hoping it's going to work. it's the quickest option they have right now. within a day or two this will be lowered in the water. >> and the concern is that they're running out of options. this is only going to contain it 85%. i want to thank our producer there on the ground showing the containment dome that they're going to try to lower it down 5,000 feet into the water to try to cap off that oil gush in the gulf of mexico live pictures now of it being sent out to sea and hopefully that will work. we'll get to that story. follow that for you here on cnn as well as a break news we have coming from san antonio and the situation on the times square bombing suspect.

months after the devastation in haiti hundreds of children are still at risk. this weekend soledad o'brien introduces us to haiti's orphans and the people who came to their rescue. >> reporter: he works in the guest house here at the orphanage in haiti. he is helping raise abandoned children just like himself. he was born in a rural haitian village called kaphaitian. a place with wrenching poverty. life was so desperate his father sold him and his sister to a stranger. they became child slaves, literally the creole words for stay with. were you a slave? a child slave? >> oh, okay -- >> reporter: wi? >> yeah. >> reporter: and your sister?

>> the same, yeah. >> reporter: he was 9 and his six was 6. how much money did the woman who paid your parents, how much did she pay for you? >> me and my sister? >> reporter: yeah. >> $120. >> reporter: 120 haitian dollars? >> yeah. >> reporter: this ch is $10, $12, u.s.? >> yeah. >> reporter: someone bought you for $12? did youer think about that? >> no. >> reporter: it doesn't make you mad, angry? he's not angry because he says he understands his parents' desperation. haiti had an 85% unemployment rate even before the ate quake. his path to the light house began in one of haiti's worst

slums. >> translator: this is where i used to live. >> reporter: we are looking for the woman who kept him as a slave. >> be sure that you watch "rescued" this saturday may 8th only here on cnn 8:00 p.m. eastern. chaos and death in the cradle of democracy. they square off against police. a bank is fire bombed. the latest for you. to stay in tune with life after 50,

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protests in greece have reached crisis levels. the economy is in shambles. debt out of control. taxpayers are furious. diana is in magnus but first, juror levs is tracking everything. josh, what do you have? >> this is what we're looking at. this is where the news is taking place all of the way on the other side of the world. three bank workers killed. this is the initial information. let's get right to the pictures. they've been coming in from greece throughout the day and athens. look at these photos. what you're going to see is a lot of protesters in the streets very upset over the cutbacks, measures inside greece. i want to get to diana in athens. diana, can you start off here by giving us the absolute latest. we heard three people killed. what can you tell us about

injuries in these protests today? >> reporter: these killings happened in a bank just about five minutes down the road from where i am now. three bank stopped inside the bank when demonstrators threw a bomb at that bank. we know that two om them were women, one was a man. we're hearing from the ministry of pr tekz thotection that one women was pregnant. a huge tragedy on the streets of athens. protest was really a demonstration of anger. no one here expected it to turn deadly as it has, josh. >> diane narandiana, help our v understand how things got this bad. we have massive debt in this country. what's happened in greece is the credit rating has been dropped so incredibly low. it's almost impossible for them to borrow money. can you trace us through how things got this bad in greece? >> reporter: it's quite complicated and one of those

things when you talk to people on the streets of greece they don't know how the problem has gotten this bad. years and yaes of fiscal mismanagement and a culture of tax evasion here which is across all of sectors of society. and speculation on the money markets, all of these things contributed to a massive public debt. running at 13.6% of the country's gdp. that is a big percentage of the country that -- of the debt that's running. of course now when the government tries to borrow money off the money market it's helping to borrow it at a high interest rate that sun of fobdable. just on may 19th. so in a very short space of time it's going to have to refinance some of the expiring bonds and it doesn't have the money to do that. that is why it's forced to go to the imf and eu countries and beg for money from them. >> that's what they're doing. a handful of countries got to the and providing $150 billion.

there's questions about whether that's going to happen or if that will be enough to bail it out. greece's debt valued at $400 billion. diana, as you know, it's impacting the word. in america, it hits stocks. can you tell me the impact it's happening in europe and on the euro there? >> reporter: european markets very much down as a result of what's been doing on here in greece. the markets have been hit very badly as is the euro. that's it in a nut shell. >> it's a massive drop. thank you so much for that. don, what we're seeing here are some of the photos that we're getting today. look at that. >> that's what we don't want to happen here. look another these. >> petrol bombs, you're seeing fighting in the streets. what we've not seen so far is that it's decreasing. more and more of this in this critical country in europe there. >> josh, keep watching this for us, please? rch . coming up, we're going to tell you about a star lacrosse player at the university of virginia is dead.

suspected murderer, her ex-boyfriend. and he's talking to police. it's a story that has an entire campus and community shaken to its core.

pool of blood on a pillow, fist size hole in a door. confession, these are the details that are emerging from the university of virginia. after a star lacrosse player was found dead at the hands of her

ex-boyfriend. they were chasing bright futures just weeks away from graduates from uva. and playing in the lacrosse national tournament. that all ended early on monday, a search warrant warrant says that hughley admitted to officers that he beat down the door to love's bedroom, shook her violently and banged her head against the wall over and over before leaving with her computer. now he sits in a jail cell charge with first degree murder and lawyer calls love's death an accident with a tragic outcome. this isn't his first legal trouble, i should tell the you. in november of 2008, an officer in lexington, virginia, shot with a stun gun after resisting arrest of public intoxication. police say they are checking into witness reports that she was seen drinking in the hours before he showed up here. at his ex-girlfriend's apartment. her body was found after a 911 call from love's roommate

concerned about alcohol poisoning. by the time police arrived they say love was already dead. so who exactly is george huguely and he came from an affluent family, we are told in suburban d.c. and went to the same prep school as several duke university lacrosse players involved in a sex scandal. in 2006 he spoke to the "washington post" defending them. he is quoted as saying, i sympathize for the team. they have been scrutinized so hard and that one knows a has happened yet. in this country you're supposed to be innocent until proven guil guilty. i think that's the way it should be. that's a quote from the university of virginia decided to it will compete in the ncaa lacrosse tournament later this month to honor the memory of love and the women's team on which love was a star defender. ranked fifth, number five, i should tell you. and to say that she'll be remembered fondly is really quite an understatement. she died on monday and already

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so exercise gives you energy. no big news there. thanks to scientists, big ideas can give you leelectricity. imagine that, you can have music in the heels. these have hundred any power plants. lace them up and go. let's find out about them now from the doctor, he is everyone getting power walking a whole new meaning lately. so he's an assistant professor of electrical engineering at louisiana tech and he provides the materials and technology for these super shoes. so tell us, how does this work? this is for small devices. this isn't for huge, you can't power a city like this. >> it's from polymer, you come press it and gives electric power out. the unique thing is it matches -- you can put it into shoe, into cavity where you usually have to shock absorber.

like a regular shock absorber. and it will act like a rel sole. you will not feel a difference but gives you power out. coming from the great work of -- when you come press it gives you self electric power. >> you wear it in your shoe. you have to have a device like on your phone or your computer or whatever you have? >> right. >> do you wire it to yourself? >> yeah, we are putting right now looking at putting wireless inserts in the sole like locator beacon, gps, medical devices. the question you are asking, how to power up a cell phone in your hand? that's the future, might have a smart glow that powers up devices that you carry out with you. but first device is in the shoe. >> interesting. i understand that there are other people, peers who are working on this. you like the competition, the competitive aspect of it because you think it makes you better, makes them better and help with energy? >> certainly, there's been a lot

of energy harvesting that device in there and people are constantly coming up with new ideas. they have good talent coming up with a polymer type of device that is more robust and user friendly than say putting ceramics in the shoe or putting a crank wheel motor that you will have to -- >> like you had on your bicycle, people pedal for energy. let's look at the tape again and sort of demonstrate to our viewers because i'm interested in this. i want to see, demonstrate to the viewers how this works. according to the doctor here, you put it in your shoe, go walking and running and it powers everything. here is the interesting thing we're going to talk about. i alluded to it in the first question to the doctor whether or not this can happen on a bigger level whether it can be used to power a room. don't answer that, doctor, because after the break we're going to continue this very interesting conversation. this is a new way. we're walking into power here. and we're going to tell you this could be the start of something

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♪ i got the power i like that song. so, continuing my conversation right now with dr. ville kaajakari on the power of walking. we're talking about the power of walking a whole new meaning. he's an assistant professor of electrical engineering at louisiana tech. a new device here that powers -- this powers your personal devices like maybe your phone or

your ipod or your walkman, whatever you have -- i shouldn't say walkman, showing my age here. but, again, show us how it works. you put it in your shoe and just by the walking that you do or the running, it creates energy. >> that's right. so, whenever you step on your heel, you have this compressive device in the shoe and every step you take, you get some power that goes into the battery or whatever you want to power up. >> people are going to be concerned, oh, how do i use it, is it going to be cumbersome, is it going to hurt me in my shoe, is it small enough that it won't be felt inside of the shoe? >> yeah. that's right. that's something we did well. it actually fits right where you have the regular shoe filling. it feels like a regular shoe filling, it goes in and usually you will not feel any difference. it's taking so little power that you don't feel a difference. >> how much have you tested? and has it been approved yet? that's what i'm trying to get to. >> approved for -- >> yeah. >> yes. we have had some interesting discussion on different people trying to power up a sensors

like gps, emergency locator beacon, but it's not a large-scale market applications yet. >> is it something -- we talked about the competition here, what you are doing, what your peers are doing and your competitors, i should say, and i think that people think it could be used on a bigger level, maybe people walking around the city or just walking every day can help to, you know, power rooms, homes, buildings, make even a city one day. >> yeah. i do not see short-term or even long-term how human power is going to power up so much devices without affecting the user. powering up just a lightbulb, it's hard work, but on a smaller scale, it's the saving the batteries on your pda device, not having disposable batteries, it's going to have an ecological impact for our environment. >> i want to talk to you about the users. that was one of my next questions. you don't see how you can do it on a large scale without

affecting the user, even on the small scale people can be concerned about the side effects, they say that cell phones sometimes they can cause injuries, what have you. what are the risks here, if any, because you know people will be thinking about it, doctor? >> i don't see a risk here. it's a simple plastic polymer that gives very little power. we are not talking about a big power plant in your shoe. it's just a -- it's feeling like a regular battery type of power levels. >> dr. ville kaajakari, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> yeah, it's good to talk to you about this. let us know what happens, okay? good luck. >> all right. thank you. some brand-new changes for airports all across the nation when it comes to their no-fly list and it is all because of the attempted car bombing in times square. we'll explain straight ahead here on cnn. ♪ [ woman ] nine iron, it's almost tee-time. time for new zyrtec® liquid gels. they work fast. so i can get relief from the pollen that used to make me sneeze, my eyes water. with new zyrtec® liquid gels,

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all right. so, here's the question, what good is a list if nobody looks at it? in the wake of faisal shahzad's near getaway on the plane he shouldn't have been allowed to board. the tsa is tightening the rules. let's get the details from cnn's homeland security correspondent, jeanne meserve. she joins us from washington. what good is a list if nobody pays attention to it? >> good question. it's a no-fly list, shahzad has been put on the list and a notification has been sent out to the airlines but there was no obligation that they update their list quickly. they're supposed to, and many of them do check when they get one

of these notifications, but they weren't required to do so, they could wait for the automatic update in 24 hours. now tsa is saying you've got to get on it. you have two hours once you get a notification from us to go to our web board and get that new information and check names against it. meanwhile, at the white house today, there were questions about all of this. here's a bit of what robert gibbs had to say -- >> the reason there are redundancies in the system is to allow for -- is to ensure that there are many -- many mechanisms that would allow you to prevent somebody from flying, which is what happened in this case. the cbp takes a locked manifest. it's required to be filed 30 minutes before a flight with people that are on the plane. that was checked against that list and the individual was removed from the plane. >> and some new details about

the arrest. when officers showed up, shahzad said, according to officials, i was expecting you. are you nypd or fbi? the agent, then, showed his badge and said cbp. that stands for customs and border protection. they are the ones that actually took into custody, don? >> aren't flags raised when people are paying with cash? >> no, at the moment airlines are not required to inform anybody if they pay cash for ticket or buys it at the last minute. there's a change afoot in congress to make sure that the airlines notify about cash purchases. emirates airlines said it did, that it immediately turned around and informed officials at jfk that this happened. but i'm told by administration officials they didn't get the notification from the airlines until about 1:30 in the morning after that arrest had been made. >> all right. i'm sure they're looking in to all of this, jeanne meserve, how they'll fix this and tweak all of it to keep us safer.

jeanne meserve doing a great job working the story. thank you very much for your efforts, jeanne. >> thanks. let's kick off the next hour on cnn. here's the rundown for you. the oil is still gushing in the gulf right now. moving toward precious shores. if today's latest strategy doesn't work, what then? plus, austerity measures, austerity measures, a complicated terms with consequences. just ask anyone in europe. this hour or "word play" puts it in layman's terms for you. and my "xyz" on the personal toll of terror on each of us, how if we realize it or not we instinctually protect what some want to destroy. hello, everyone, i'm don lemon. it is new and it's big and it's never been tried before, at least not 5,000 feet below the ocean. we're talking about a four-story, 100-ton concrete-and-steel box. it's now one giant unit and the best short-term solution to containing the disastrous oil spill threatening sea life and livelihoods all along the gulf

coast. here's what this complicated, this completed box looks like. right now, a barge is hauling it 50 miles offshore to the site of the blown-out undersea well. once in place, the box will be lowered 5,000 feet to a position just over the ruptured oil pipe. if all goes according to plan, it will sifon some of the more than 200,000 gallons of oil that has been spewing into the gulf each day since the big oil rig exploded and sank back on april 20th. to visualize this, imagine an upside down funnel. an upside down funnel. if it works, and it's a big if, bp plans to lower a second smaller container to deal with a second leak in the pipe. you'll recall the pipe originally had three leaks. and last night a victory, of sorts, in this battle. bp succeeded in capping one of those leaks. now, that didn't cut the flow of oil, but bp says it makes it easier to deal with the other two. so, joining us now on the

phone from robert, louisiana, to tell us more about the giant box, its construction, and just how it will hopefully work, the man's name is john curry. he's the director of external affairs for bp. so, welcome to the show. thank you very much. we saw live pictures just a short time ago of the containment box being sent out. how long did it take to build this contraption, and the what are the chances of it working, sir? >> well, hi, don. it's good to be here today. the design and the implementation and the engineering and the fabrication of that -- of that containment system really was, as you can imagine, moved forward very quickly. we started -- the fabrication yard started building that containment system a week ago, a week ago monday. they finished it yesterday. we loaded it on the ship. as you say, it will sail out to the location, where we will lower it down over the major source of the leak underground, on the seafloor, and hopefully can funnel that well to the

surface and help mitigate any impact to the environment. >> you said it funnels oil to the surface, basically it sucks it up and then what? where does the oil go? >> well, they'll be a drill ship on the surface, and the containment system will be connected with a pipe from the containment system all the way to the drill ship, where the oil will be taken off and put onto the ship and collected and captured there. so, it will help to, you know, it will help to minimize the impact into the ocean. >> how much at one time can it handle? >> the drill ship i think is capable of -- has storage capacity of 130-some-odd thousand barrels. has -- has a containment -- is capable of containing 139,000 barrels. >> 139,000 barrels. i have to ask you this real quick. what if it doesn't work? >> well, we are continuing to do whatever we can to make sure it does work. we have the rovs on the seabed that are preparing the seabed so when the system comes down, it

will enhance our chances for success. and our engineers are continuing to look at all different options. we continue, of course, to try to activate that blowout preventer. we continue to try to mitigate the impact with the environment with some dispersents through skimming. this is one -- this is one option that we think will have a very good chance of success. >> well, we hope it is successful, john curry, everyone, the entire country really praying it works. the direct ich of external affairs for bp, john curry, please come back and update it, okay? >> we will, thanks. today, "sound effects" mayor bloomberg almost pleaded with congress to make it tougher for people on terrorism watch lists to buy guns. listen -- >> our founding fathers did not write the second amendment to empower people who wanted to terrorize a free state. they wrote it to protect people who could defend the security of a free state.

today, the security of our free state is being tested by terrorists. and i urge you to take the commonsense -- commonsense steps in this law to strengthen law enforcement, including closing the terror gap and to protect the american people from more atta attacks. and guess what? that hearing was on the books before the times square bomb attempt, which new york's police commissioner points out, was the 11th known terror plot targeting new york since 9/11. boy, oh, boy. birds, fish, jobs, people's livelihoods, all could be victims of this disastrous spill. we'll look at the potential impacts, straight ahead right here on cnn. determine if a car is a best buy? first they drive it in the real world. and put it through its paces. they rate its fit and finish. and the amenities inside. they factor in purchase price and operating costs, fuel economy and resale value. in short, they do what you do to test its quality.

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let me tell you a little bit more now on the growing gulf oil spill in the gulf of mexico. as we told you, a barge right now is hauling a giant 100-ton concrete-and-steel box out to the site of that spill. the game plan is to lower the box five feet to just -- just, just -- below off the well. just below the well, and to suck out the gushing oil from that ruptured pipe. bp said it is the best short-term solution to containing that spill. the best one so far. last night bp capped off three of those leaks. the latest satellite images indicate the oil has reached the mississippi delta and nearby islands off the coast of louisiana.

now, what's not clear right now is whether the oil is on the shore, but one official says it is very close. the images also show the oil drifting south toward the luke current. scientists say the current, well, it could carry it toward florida and the florida keys. boy, what is mess if that happens. officials say that the long-term effects of the spill on wildlife are not even clear yet, but dead and endangered turtles have been washing up on gulf coast beaches, but they have no sign of oil. that's very interesting part of the story. federal officials are checking to see if aggressive shrimpers may have killed them. meantime, the efforts are full speed right now, full speed ahead by the containment effort by volunteers. the coast guard is planning to corral some oil and set on it fire. and local shrimpers are planning to use their boats to put down more boom in that area. in all about 9,700 people are working to protect the shoreline and wildlife and some 170 boats are also helping with the

cleanup. we want to get back to breaking news we told you about last hour in cnn. it's a refinery fire just southeast of downtown san antonio, look at the big plume of smoke here. cnn has confirmed two people have been injured in this blast. the fire started at the age refinalry, age refinery. this refinery handles petroleum products, jet fuel, diesel. founded back in 1991. again, two injuries here. it's a massive fire just southeast of san antonio. it's an oil refinery. age refinery. we'll continue to update you on this breaking story here on cnn, so make sure you stay with us. finding fresh food in the middle of one of america's biggest cities.

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high-rises, a garden of greens, turnips, broccoli, and something called calu, or jamaican spinach. so, you cook them or what? >> what we do -- >> reporter: you put them in a salad? >> no, we cook them. >> reporter: really? >> in a salad, too. >> reporter: here, too, once a week on wednesdays, small family farmers sell their produce. >> you don't have to go to canada for greenhouse cucumbers anymore. you can go right to homestead. >> it's absolutely delicious. >> reporter: this is overtown, smack in the middle of downtown miami. a supermarket? not around here. in a unique way this farmers' market fills that void. here eddie stewart can use cash or his ebt card, known as food stamps, to fill his bag with fruits and vegetables. >> homegrown, fresh, more fresher than anything else. you can't -- you can't beat that. >> reporter: and you can't beat the prices. for every dollar in food stamps -- >> 21 good? >> 21 is good.

>> reporter: -- you get $2 worth of produce, even exotic fruits like loquats. i don't know, what does it taste like, you're the chef. the subsidized market is the brainchild of this chef michelle. there are more than 100 open around the country. funded by donations and money from his foundation. the idea? give small family formers an outlet for their locally grown produce. try tamarind. >> you're eating the flesh which is around the seed. >> think worcester. >> reporter: most importantly this market provides fresh food at an affordable price to communities where access to groceries is limited. >> when you provide the access and the resources, both, miracles happen. it's pretty cool. >> reporter: you can pick up the overtown cookbook here, too. >> here we have a dessert. this is a mango banana smoothie.

>> reporter: ooh. >> with granola. >> reporter: oh, i like that a lot. students at the neighborhood booker t. washington high produced the book using recipes at home but substituted healthy ingredients. >> instead of using molasses, you can use things like honey, apple juice. >> reporter: in this neighborhood, the seeds of healthy heating have definitely taken root. john zarella, cnn, miami. >> all right. john. the tsa is tightening up its rules for its no-fly list, after the suspect in that failed times square bombing boarded a plane and nearly slipped across the atlantic. until now airlines have had 24 hours to check the list once it's updated, now they have two. faisal shahzad is facing wmd and terror charges here in the u.s. and several of his associates have been detained in pakistan. a series of jobs report released today show that the unemployment picture may be getting brighter. 32,000 jobs were added to the private-sector payrolls last month according to adp employer

services. and another firm says planned job cuts in april dropped to the lowest level in nearly four years. all of this hints at good news that the government report due at the end of the week. and argentina's lower house of congress has approved a law allowing same-sex marriage. government-run media reports that the bill passed the chamber of deputies earlier today by about 15 votes. the argentinean senate will have to pass the measure before it becomes law. it's back. ash from the icelandic volcano is causing more headaches for travelers. airports in scotland, ireland, and northern ireland are closed right now. what is going on? it's the second straight day of restrictions there. we'll be on this story for you when we go "off the radar," roinle. everyone.

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hey, a much-needed dry spell is on tap for much of tennessee. boy, oh, boy, chad myers, they certainly need it. they've gotten bombarded, right? >> they really have. you know, the rain is up to the north and so is the severe weather around buffalo, new york, and the rocky mountains, everyone else doing okay. two big stories, the oil thing in the gulf of mexico, how is that affected by the weather? because it's been affected by the weather the past five days. wednesday into thursday, things are finally getting better and the winds are calming down which means the oil is not getting mixed up as much, which means you can actually harness the oil, run around it with a boom, get it smaller and more compact and burn it off. >> that's good news at first they thought because of the weather and other conditions, it was fait accompli, they couldn't contain and there was nothing to

do but they are making progress and the weather is helping. >> i believe they are spraying so many dispersants on this thing and that's we haven't seen it wash onshore. it's blowing one way and the other way and it's one clump out here. because the wind is dying off, today will be a big day to contain it and move it into the skimmers. have you seen the skipper thing? have you seen how the skimmers work? you put the boat here and a boat here and the skipper boat behind it and connect the two boats -- the three boats with booms. these all drive this way. this guy drives this way. it sucks all of the oil in this here and it collects in this funnel and that boat skims it off. >> it's just like skiing. if you had a boat here, it's like you're skiing. >> that's exactly right. you're the skier behind two ropes. okay, stop it. >> you're talking about winds here. winds aren't just an issue. this is helping. you want to go "off the radar"? >> the winds is what they needed and they've approved a fire today. the fire to burn off the oil? it's been approved and i know it

looks like it's making a -- >> as a louisianan it worries me, it's been said on the shows, you have the oil spill and now you have a big ball of fire coming. >> way better, because you disperse it in the air and it doesn't affect the wildlife that much, however bad the oil is smoke is less bad than oil. ash is less bad than oil. >> that's what i wanted to talk about, the winds. let's go iceland, "off the radar." >> wait for it. >> there you go. there's the volcano, here's the ash. it's back! all the way -- >> wow. >> i know. all the way from here, from the volcano down to scotland and ireland and back through the uk and maybe down to the northeasten tnortheast ern tip of france, and it was a major change in the wind direction that we've had and now the wind direction is blowing it in the direction of europe where the past couple of weeks when we stopped talking about it was blowing it off to the -- >> we don't want what we had the

past couple weeks because that really threw a moanky wrench as they say into travel not only this area but everywhere. >> this could be on and off for two years. >> yeah. i like hanging out over here with you. >> come on by. >> do the rest of the show and chad and i will talk. thank you very much. endless campaigning? fiery debates? gaffers? controversies? well, welcome to the democratic process. talking about britain. britain is about to choose a pm, prime minister, we're talking about and we're about to go "globe trekking" next.

this is a really a disturbing we have to tell you about, a pool of blood on a pillow, a fist-sized hole in the bedroom door and an alleged murder confession. these are the details that are emerging from the university of virginia right now after a star lacrosse player was found dead, allegedly at the hands of her ex-boyfriend. both yeardley love and george huguely were chasing bright futures just weeks away from graduating from uva and playing in the lacrosse national tournament. but that all ended early on monday. a search warrant says that huguely admitted to officers that he beat down the door to love's bedroom, shook her violently and banged her head against the wall over and over before leaving with her computer. now, huguely sits in a jail cell charged with first-degree murder, and his lawyer calls love's death an accident with a tragic outcome.

this isn't huguely's first legal trouble. in november of 2008, an officer in lexington, virginia, shocked him with a stun gun after resisting arrest for public intoxication. and police are checking in to witness reports that huguely was seen drinking in the hours before he showed up here at his ex-girlfriend's apartment. her body was found after a 911 call from love's roommates concerned about alcohol poisoning. but by the time police arrived, they say love was already dead. so, who exactly is george huguely? he came from an affluent family in suburban d.c., and he went to the same prep school as several of these duke university lacrosse players involved in a sex scandal, remember? well, in 2006 huguely actually spoke to "the washington post" defending them. now, he's quoted as saying, here it is, "i sympathize for the team. they've been scrutinized so hard, and no one knows what has happened yet. in this country you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. i think that's the way it should be."

all charges were eventually dropped in that case. and the university of virginia has decided that it will compete in the ncaa lacrosse tournament later this month to honor the memory of yeardley love. the women's team which love was a star defender is ranked fifth. and to say that she will be remembered fondly is really an understatement. love died monday, and already more than 16,000 people have signed up for a facebook page in her memory. it is "globe trekking" here on cnn and time is running out for the men who want to lead britain to win friends and influence voters. tomorrow's election day there, and cnn's josh levs joins me now to check across the pond. what do you have? how are you getting over there? you walking? running? flying, what are you doing? >> i'll do it any which way. i love it over there. except for the weather. do you know something, we have some very crazy election times in this country and what we'll tell you about, folks, is maybe unlike anything you've ever seen. let's go "globe trekking." we talked to you about greece last hour and right now we're

talking to you about the uk. they've got the closest general election in nearly two decades and that is scratching the surface. let's show you the pictures. i want to talk to you about the situation there. what you have or three men in such an incredibly tight race that there might be the first what's called a hung parliament in nearly 40 years. more than 35 years. and no one knows this story better than our robin oakley, who is going to join us right now. robin, talking about this, can you just start off helping our viewers understand why is it that now things are so tight in that election? >> reporter: because the british public has been yearning for change after a corrupt parliament which was dominated by mps' expenses scandals. they were look for change. they weren't quite convinced, many of them, that david cameron, the leader of the main opposition conservative party, was quite what they were looking for, and suddenly we have the first round of tv leadership debates in the british election ever between gordon brown, the

prime minister, david cameron, and nick clegg, the leader of the liberal democrats and he was undoubtedly the star of the first two debates. normally he gets howled down in the house of commons because there aren't so liberal democrat mps. he came through in the first two debates and people began to say, oh, maybe this is the change we want. and it's become as you were explaining a three-horse race. >> and, robin, you know, in the united states we can look back to the nixon era at the time that tv debates began the way it changed politic ns this country, changed the way presidential election works, and what we're seeing across the pond our friends there are having similar changes as a result of the introduction of the tv debates in a major role. i want to show everyone on the screen behind me, we have information, from cnn.com, we talk to you about specifics who all these are. can you tell me, robin, what happened if, as a lot of people expect, tomorrow this race takes place and there is not a winner? what happens to the government there? >> reporter: everything depends on the arithmetic really.

there are 650 members of the house of commons. to get an overall majority, therefore, you need 326 seats. now, if a party -- if the conservatives, who are in the lead in the polls, fail to get that 326, then there is a possibility, say the liberal democrats come through with 70, 80, 90 seats, that if the combination of the conservatives and the liberal democrats would give a majority, then they could combine in a coalition or in a working arrangement. but, of course, they could -- the liberal democrats could also possibly combine with labn labo were not too far behind, and they could end up with more seats than the conservatives and the liberal democrats. >> even i need a flowchart to follow this. let me do this, we've got an american audience and i want to talk among the three men, gordon brown, david cameron, nick

clegg, is one of them a bigger friend to the united states? what impact will we see to america based on what may happen in this race if one of them does get a victory? >> reporter: gordon brown has always been an instinctive ally of the united states. he always used to take his holidays in cape cod, for example, he's got lots of friends in the american political circles. david cameron, it's a little bit difficult to say at the moment. he's an unknown quantity in terms of foreign affairs, foreign relations, but he's very euro skeptic. he wouldn't find it easy working with the european union and american leaders these days want a british prime minister who can work effectively with the european union and perhaps be a bit of a bridge for them as tony blair was. nick clegg liberal democrat, again not an awful lot known about him. americans might be worried that he's prepared to put britain trident nuclear system into a defense review which the other two parties are saying they wouldn't do.

>> wow, fascinating, relevant values to the united states. really quickly before i let you go, you've been covering this for a long time, you've been in the uk. have you ever seen anything like what you're facing today? >> reporter: no. we just haven't had this kind of three-horse race, and it's really genuinely exciting. >> it is fascinating. robin oakley, thank you so much. before we go, i want to see if we can zoom the camera way in. can we do that? i want everyone to see how carefully cnn is breaking down this race for you. notten are we talking about who the candidates are, we're talking to you about their major policy positions on certain things. where they stood on the iraq war, for instance? and also some of their major policies they would enact if they ultimately get power, including where they stand on the environment, all sorts of major issues to talk about. it's a fascinating race for us to follow on cnn. and i encourage you to follow it with us. don, this is a heck of a day to go "globe trekking" when we're seeing an historic race in a neighbor across the pond for the

first time with the tv debates is now seeing a race unlike any before, don. >> after listening to robin oakley, i thought you would come back with a british accent. >> after i've been there for a few weeks, it does happen. but i didn't want to sound like madonna. >> thank you, josh levs, very interesting. for a lot of people that are homeless, better days ahead can seem impossible. we'll see someone who has taken that on on as his mission possible. the gmc sierra hybrid. the most fuel-efficient full-size pickup on the road. may the best truck win. we go to great lengths to exceed your expectations.

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i want to give you some of your top stories right now. a lot of people are wondering how a suspect in the botched times square car bomb was able to board a plane headed out of the country even though he was on a no-fly list. the department of homeland security is now changing its know fly policies to prevent that from happening again. faisal shahzad was arrested monday before the plane took off and allegedly has claimed responsibility. other suspects have been arrested in pakistan, but there aren't many details about them yet. and in tennessee, record floods have claimed 18 lives. water levels are slowly coming down in nashville, half of the deaths or most of the damage occurred there. in all the weekend storms killed 28 people across 3 states. and in the gulf of mexico, bp has started hauling out a giant box meant to contain the growing oil spill. the company plans to put the container under water by about 5,000 feet. above the ruptured pipe that continues to leak hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude

each day. take a look at this. live pictures now of that going out. it is going out now and they hope to contain most of it. it's only going to be about 85% containment once they do it, but, again, it is hopeful that this will work, and if they are able to do that, then that continues to full containment, we hope. they've also been spraying dispersant chemicals. you heard our chad myers talking about that. live pictures, we'll keep you updated on what happens in the gulf coast, everyone. along with our new studio here, you see it? very nice. we're launching new segments here to help you as a viewer. we put you first here. we call the next segment "mission possible" okay? we want to introduce you to people who aren't in the limelight but deserve to be in the limelight, who are changing lives and often saving them. today's "mission possible" heads up a group called, what, "mission possible" so it is

apropos he's here. brian joins us from vancouver. good to see you, sir, thank you for joining us. listen, mission possible, how did it come about? >> we started 20 years ago with providing basic street-level care for people experiencing homelessness and poverty in vancouver's downtown east side. but over the last couple years we've begun developing some social entrepreneurial kinds of programs. we just started a property maintenance company this last year. it's providing flexible supportive work for people experiencing barriers to traditional employment. >> often when you see homeless people, you see people on the street, you think that they are, you know, unthought about, uncared for, that no one cares. so for you, did you -- how did this place on your heart, you feel, to go out and help people who were essentially voiceless? >> yeah, do you know what, i think in my own life experience, opportunities from people and at times felt like i'm on the margins myself, but have

experienced transformation in my life, and i see people on the street in vancouver, some people look and say they really don't have -- they have some challenges, some difficulties, but those are people with assets, abilities, capacities. they just need to be cultivated out, and people have a lot to give, even those who are on the margins. >> you know, you see -- when you see people on the street, when you see homeless people, a lot of people shy away from them, some of them don't want to talk. you see them asking for money or what have you, most people don't have as close interaction with the homeless. what do you want people to know about them? and do you want to change their minds? i'm sure. >> yeah. totally. you know, i think the stereotype is someone who's homeless or on the street doesn't want to work, but i got to tell you from my own personal experience, people are knocking down my door every day. they want a job. they may not be able to work a full-time job. they may be a disability issue or a mental health issue that

presents a particular challenge, but people want to work. people want to contribute. people want to give back. people want to have a sense of purpose and meaning in life, to have a sense of dignity. and so i think that we as individuals who maybe have resources need to begin to find creative ways to offer those opportunities to folks. so, you know, go down to your -- your local homeless shelter and volunteer. maybe you're out of work yourself. spend some time volunteering, and what we find is that people experience a real sense of transformation and they begin to give back. >> you know, i was just going to say that. i hear your pillars are someone, somewhere, something. and that's what your three pillars, really your mission. but, you know, i find that -- and most people will say and i've experienced it myself, when you give or help someone yourself, usually you end up or get more out of it i find than the person you're trying to help. >> definitely, definitely, yeah. we have stories over and over again where people come down,

and maybe they start, they just start simply serving a meal to someone who is hungry, but they recognize the humanity in the person they're serving, that could be miy sister, my mother, my brother, and they sense the transformation and we close the social distance between those who are supposedly in need and those who supposedly have everything going for themselves, and we recognize the humanity in one another and i think that's where real social change begins to happen. >> somewhere, something, someone. and brian is the head of mission possible, and we hope your message will catch on. thank you, sir, best of luck to you. >> thank you. coming up next, cinco de mayo. there he is, ed henry, wave at us. >> reporter: me? >> yeah, you. cinco de mayo, the white house weighing in. you see ed henry, he's got the lowdown in our "the ed henry

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take a look now at live pictures from president buchon in louisiana. we're looking at the containment vessel that we told you about that's going to be lowered down 5,000 feet to the ocean floor to try to cap off that gushing well that has been spewing oil in the gulf of mexico for days and days and days now, and you've seen the oil all across the party. these are live pictures. we actually have a crew out on a boat taking pictures and you see it going on out to sea. we spoke with a representative from bp earlier on cnn, and, you know, he said they're pretty sure it's going to work. he said he's pretty sure, nothing is 100%, but folks especially down in the gulf of mexico are hoping it works because they're concerned about wildlife, of course, they're concerned about seafood, really, their livelihoods and if it gets into the rivers and tributaries, it will cause a whole much bigger mess. let's hope they do it. live pictures coming from the gulf of mexico. we'll stay on top of this story.

why don't we go live to washington, d.c., right now, politics and basketball. we know the president likes basketball, they don't always mix, politics and basketball. but the phoenix suns are throwing themselves into the immigration debate and now the president might weigh in? ed henry, what's that all about, sir? >> reporter: you're right, don, the phoenix suns have uniforms that say low suns they'll wear them for cinco de mayo and their play-off game. robert gibbs was asked about it a moment ago at the daily briefing. he thought it was a good idea people want to speak out in protest of this new immigration law out in arizona, and he, in fact, said that he thinks the president may have a little more to say about it a little later this afternoon. he's having a cinco de mayo celebration here at the white house. what's significant is that, as you know, the president's already called for comprehensive immigration reform, saying this arizona law shows you can't have a patchwork system, each state stepping up and doing different things. but also right now, the justice

department is weighing a legal challenge to the arizona law. we have an extraordinary battle here between the u.s. justice department and the state of arizona in the weeks ahead, don. >> yeah, yeah. this has been amazing to watch this story turn and change and that, i'm sure, ed, obviously we haven't heard the last of this. a lot of people have been protesting this as well. listen, i know the white house is keeping a close watch of this. we showed you the live pictures of the oil, that containment vessel going out. the white house keeping close watch on that as well as the situation in times square. if you want to talk about out in the gulf, you can. but i wanted to ask you about the no-fly list. >> reporter: sure. it was interesting we saw earlier today, democratic senators, chuck schumer of new york, came out and said they think there are loopholes in the who no-fly list because the suspect was able to get on the plane. he was stopped from actually flying to dubai, but when it comes after a separate issue with another terror watch list, that the underwear bomber was on, on christmas day, but yet he

was able to get on that plane, these senators are saying they want the president to pass a -- sign an executive order to close some of the loopholes in the no-fly list. now, robert gibbs said, look, something like that might be a help. they'll take a look. but they think in the end the system works because even though the suspect got on the plane, he was eventually border patrol got to him, prevented him from flying. >> redundancy, that's what everyone is saying. i heard the police commissioner ray kelly admitting on television this morning this guy got away from us for a while and, you know, i'm concerned about that as an american, but imagine being on the plane and you're on a plane with someone accused of terror. that bothers me a bit. >> reporter: it does. and like today, robert gibbs was saying, look, in the end the system did here work, in contrast to december 25th when he said there was a systemic failure. think back to what happened the days after the christmas bomber. janet napolitano, the homeland

security secretary, said the system worked, and everybody got angry and she said after it worked. they are saying months later there was a systemic failure on christmas day. they stopped him at the end after the fact and made sure he didn't fly to dubai, but there are clearly loopholes they need to work on. >> okay. it's going to get a little weird here, how do i say that, bromance? i don't know, ali may have a reason to be jealous here. >> reporter: it's funny ali is out in california or somewhere vacationing and i think he's upset. i saw him tweeting, saying it was disturbing to him the budding bromance he saw on the air the last two days with me and t.j. holmes. he seems to be getting jealous. and i notice that t.j. holmes is not in the anchor chair, it's you, don. did they pull the hook last night or was it scheduled? >> no, everyone deserves a day off. t.j. needs a day off. ali has a vacation. >> reporter: i wanted to make sure that ali wasn't phoning in. >> you two have the bromance

going on and he may have said, is don there tomorrow, make sure it's don. but, ali, i got to tell you, i'm digging -- i'm going to walk over here and freak you out, i'm digging the shirt-and-tie combo here. >> reporter: i don't have a monitor so i can't see what you're doing right here. i can only imagine. >> did you pick it out? or was it your mom or your girl friend? >> reporter: i bought it myself the other day and i got it on sale, so it's a good deal. >> i love you, man. >> reporter: maybe it looks cheap, i don't know. don't make ali mad. >> ali and i have a bromance, too. more on that later. it's getting really weird. always great to see you. >> reporter: see you, man. it is a term that has set off deadly riots and have much of europe shaking we'll clue you in in today's "word play." total. with 100% of the daily value of 11 essential vitamins and minerals, juicy raisins and crunchy whole grain flakes. guess it's all about what kind of crunch you like. how are you getting 100%?

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♪ it's all about the word play all right we've been telling you about the new studio and the new segments here. some of them you saw earlier in the segment. one we'll be doing every day at this time called "word play," the idea is to take a term popping up in the headlines that might be unfamiliar to a lot of people and we want to explain it to you. yesterday we gave you the quick and dirty on clean skin. well, today we've got austerity measures. allstarity measures. it sounds ominous, doesn't it? and for good reason it sounds ominous. austerity is economic lingo for what we might call belt

tightening when the government cuts spending and hikes user fees aka taxes to increase. sometimes they are required by lenders or organizations like the international monetary fund under pressure from the european union. cash-strapped greece just announced toughs atarity measures including a 10% cut in public sector wages and spending and a higher retirement age and higher gas prices. that has set off ongoing street riots in athens that left at least three people dead. our josh levs told us about that just a little while ago. you know, i have been anchoring in new york for the past three days, right? and i was there when the attempted times square bombing went down. actually, i was here. i was there when the person was taken into custody. the incident was frightening all the way around. the response of new yorkers amazing and inspiring. you've got to pay attention. coming up, i want you to please listen to my "xyz" on all of

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the giant crater the explosion left, it has hard to believe more people hadn't died. six people were killed. the same number killed later that year in the long island railroad massacre. remember colin ferguson? he was the gunman who said he felt wronged by white people. carolyn mccarthy lost her husband in the massacre. her son was severely wounded. the incident inspired her to run for congress. then two years later in 1995, the oklahoma city bombing. timothy mcveigh felt wronged by the government so he covered 168 people. i just covered the anniversary just a couple weeks ago. then came 9/11 and we all know what happened there. and then this. all this misery and headache because someone felt wronged. the truth is that's not how we're supposed to do it in this country. that's not what a democracy is all about. if you feel something is wrong, you're free to speak out about it, and you are encouraged to. you can run for office, become an activist. it's more powerful than a gun or bomb. after covering the latest terror

incident it came full circle, every head on the plane craned to the left to look at manhattan. the sun was setting on that great city. you could hear peoplesight of t to the guy next to it, it's beautiful, isn't it? and without missing a beat, he said, i never get tired of look ing at it. how could anyone want to destroy such a place? built out of nothing and now an example to the world that it can withstand anything and a city that people will protect. that's "the xyz of it." time now for my good friend rick sanchez and "rick's list." >> all right, don, here's what we're going to be doing, we'll be following the containment cone. it's apparently ready to go. it's heading out to the gulf of mexico hoping upon hope that it can avert some kind of ecological catastrophe out therthere that's where we start "the list." here's what's making "the list" this