primarily because i know, dennis, you've done a survey on unemployment. and if we're trying to look at where america is headed, even though everyone's head in america is over in athens right now, you see potentially a good thing on the horizon? or better thing? >> absolutely, erin. it's a good thing. gallup measures what we call underemployment. and i think you have a chart that shows our recent numbers. we interview over 20,000 people a month. and who are in the work force. what we've shown is that the number's gone down from 20.3% in march to 18.9% in april. that represents a decline of about 2 million people in the underemployment rate. so it includes both the unemployed and the people who are working part-time, wanting full-time employment. >> it's interesting when you say going from 23 to 18.9, it doesn't sound like that that much of an improvement. but when you say it's 2 million people no longer looking for full-time, when they have part-time, that does seem like a significant thing. what do you think that means for the overall employment number? d

tavis: please welcome dennis quaid to this program. the talented actor has been a powerful force in hollywood. in "breaking away" and the right stuff, and you can catch him in the new hbo film, "the special relationship." playing bill clinton. >> don't be surprised if you feel completely overwhelmed in office. all the time on the road to get that job, no one briefs you what to do when you get there. you seem a quick study, i think you will settle in fine. did anyone ask you about the moon rock? >> they did, actually. >> it's six billion years old, and sometimes when things are hectic, i hold the rock to chill. tavis: ok, how many big mac's did you have to eat to beef up? >> it was like the angus select. tavis: yeah, clinton is now the pillar of good health. >> i gained 35 pounds to play clinton. i could have worn a suit or device but i wanted to get my face fuller. and there is no way to fake that. tavis: how do you do, because he's been imitated so many times. how do you do the voice and face and not like look a character? >> yeah, i

from denny hamlin after this race. i had this race won, it was won. >> i know, bud, we were saying the same thing, bud. >> can't we just all get along? a nice prayer there. what happened there? kyle gets the garage, straight for hamlin's hauler to wait for him. drama, but you know what, they were good guys, smoothed things over, maybe need frosty or smoothie, made everybody happy. kyle's older brother, kurt, benefiting from kate jobs, wins the all star race and $1 million, then tries to rewind the odom motor by driving backwards. not really are, but a pretty cool moment last night for taylor gibbs and joe gibbs and a good race. >> thanks, buddy. >> welcome. >> thanks to you as well. big night here on nbc 4. "nbc nightly news" is next. followed by "minute to win it," then celebrity apprentice" at 9. until then that is the news. good night.

>> yeah, dennis, i think it's important for him to win. right now it's important for him and his family to take the time that they need to take to get everything organized and back to some semblance of normality. we're excited to see him back on the golf course and pursue the 18-win record that jack nicklaus holds and it will be an exciting year for tiger woods still to come. >> also challenge on the ben roethlisberger front. what is the status with nike and ben roethlisberger? >> he continues to be a nike athlete and part of the nike family and, again, we'll look forward to ben getting back on the field. >> another question out there? >> yeah, actually, darren, i have a question. at what point though, sir, given the issues surrounding tiger woods and given the issues surrounding ben roethlisberger, do you decide perhaps not to pursue relationships with those two athletes? >> well, i think we're always looking at these types of situations and understanding exactly what they mean and how they impact both our brand and our consumers. so, as

kathy dennis is here. she is nurse practitioner and one of the people when stacy was pregnant with him. [applause] >> there are some family members, stacey's parents, stacey's mom is here. stand up. stacey's sister and her nephew. we also have steve's parents. i think i got everybody. anyone who i didn't mention? not the acknowledgment. tonight is the launch of the book. where is jack? jack mcbride is in the book as well. thank you. he is the son of one of the ones with the bone marrow transplant. his daughter is mentioned in the book. tonight is the launch of a book but also a celebration of what has been a miracle of science. they did not get paid a penny to participate in this. they did it for three reasons. they want people to understand the importance of giving blood. after the presentation, while we are signing books, we will be -- and jack. they have become advocates of giving blood. they will be passing out literature on how to give blood. they would like to see a cure for anemia. you can visit the

. >> of merrill dennis blair has resigned -- admiral dennis blair has resigned. am joined by our count -- the security correspondent. >> there are a few things going on here. there were some security lapses that were important. in particular, the christmas day attempted bombing. and the analysts failure to follow up information. people wonder why they have not win a whole new institution have been created beneath him. why was it not working? that is one cause for his resignation. but also, clashing with the white house. put those together and it becomes untenable. the white house decided they wanted someone new. of course you are talking about the problems with the cia -- >> you are talking about the problems with the cia. is this the biggest issue they have to deal with? >> president obama has to be seen to have a grip on national security, particularly in recent events. it is vital that he is not seen as weak or having failed to protect his country. there are these clashes with the cia. the director of the cia used to be the head of the intelligence community.

remember that level we talked about, dennis and i. 1180 in the s&p.ly significant if it closed below that. so a lot of guys are keying in depending what charts you are looking at. 1175 or 1180. right in that wheel house now. >> do you view this as a technical sell-off or do you view it as linked to the fundamentals? >> no. i'm going to go with technicals on this. i don't think it has anything to do with the dash terrorist threat. of course it is always a compone component. you can a equate for oil based on dollar movement. you will see the knee-jerk reaction with gold rallying and i don't see that today. i don't think it is a terrorist issue versus an oil issue, greece issue and whole euro zone issue. >> all right. the volatile, vix was up 20%. what is that telling you now? mine the obvious is that volatility is up and it has been up, however, for some time now. there are those that are pointing to that particular index as a reason to get out of this market this afternoon. >> i think that the due diligence would be probably to stay on the sidelines at

host: dennis, can you respond to the safety of offshore drilling? as jack referred to, of all the different types of technology that there are for developing gas and oil, is this the safest? guest: the industry has had more accidents than most people might realize. between 2001 and 2007, there were more than 1400 substantial accidents, 41 deaths, and more than 350 significant oil spills. accidents do have been in the outer continental shelf drilling operations. the risks are different at different stages. we're not advocating that production stop, but that new drilling be put on hold until we understand the implications and take steps to fix it. host: how long of a pause? guest: we do not know. first, let's understand what happened. let's take the steps to repair the system and that leaves room for this type of accident to occur. and then let's change the underlying statutes and regulations so we are really vigilant and we're not simply saying that the ruling is responsible, but how do we fix it? host: jack coleman, what about pausing until a review

. >>> also in washington, the search is on for a new national intelligence director, now that dennis blair is resigning from pressure from the white house. we're told president obama lost confidence in blair because of his inability to share intelligence in a comprehensive way. including the recent failed times square bomb plot. >>> rand paul is scrambling to clarify what some are calling a racial remark. paul is backed by the tea party. in tuesday's primary, he defeated another republican who was backed by the gop establishment. now, he's explaining his stand on civil rights. it came into focus in interviews this week, including one on msnbc. >> do you think that a private business has a right to say we don't serve black people? >> i'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form. what about freedom of speech? should we limit speech from people we find abhorrent? should we limit racists from speaking? >> paul issued a written statement yesterday saying, i believe we should work to end all racism in american society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. paul wil

dennis says he is resigning effective today. the his resignation comes more than a year on the job and multiple terrorism scares including the christmas day and the times square botched attempt. he is the first high member of the national obama's security team to leave. some argue that his resignation exposes a weakness in the system. >> these are the intelligence failures we were not expecting to see after 9/11. >> whoever his replacement is will be the 4th intelligence director in just five years. >>> off the streets and on to the internet. >>> the ways you can interact in this year's race for governor. >>> we are headed back into the 80s again today. even warmer than yester [ vrrroooooomm! ] black one! where? [ vrrroooooomm! ] black one! where? [ vrrroooooomm! ] black one! ow! where? [ male announcer ] the volkswagen tiguan. the only compact suv with a turbocharged engine, standard. [ vrrroooooomm! ] black one! where? there. [ male announcer ] lease the 2010 tiguan for just $269 a month. it's a whole new volkswagen. and a who

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dennis murphy, "dateline" nbc. >> the secret life of the homecoming queen airs tonight on "dateline"t 9:00 eastern, 8:00 central right here on nbc. >>> this morning, two astronauts took what is expected to be the last spacewalk ever made from the shuttle "atlantis." replacing old batteries on the insurance space station. "atlantis" undocked from the space station on sunday for its final journey home into retirement. >>> it is now five minutes past the hour. let's go outside for a check of the weather. mr. al roker, hey. >> the script is still hanging out, hugging, taking pictures, hanging out with their fans. these guys really know how to get it done. we like them. let's check your weather, see what's happening. we've got some wet weather working its way through the gulf coast states, also on up into upper mississippi river valley, ohio river valley, wet weather stretching from detroit, chicago, minneapolis, risk of some strong storms from indiana all the way down into alabama, also out to the west. showers and mountain snows in the pacific northwest. sunny and hot throu >> hi, thin

brooks or -- >> dennis blair was a victim, i think. i think he is an enormously talented man and a great patriot. he is somebody who rose to a position of preeminence that he did in the navy, solely on ability. he's not a schmoozer,. >> he is a tough guy. >> he is a tough guy and he's not a guy who has touched all the right bases socially in that sense. and i think that this is a job. david's absolutely right, with an awful lot of responsibility and minimal authority. and are you right. we get into a fight with the cia. they have vast resources, great press relations and enormous information, resources that everybody is interested in. and i think he would have a tough battle with leon panetta early on, which was a mistake. first of all, not only the cia but leon panetta is a-- is a gifted, experienced former omb director, former white house chief of staff, one term member of congress, house chairman, you know, leon panetta knows, not simply where the bodys are but where they are buried and who buried them. i think it was tough. and the

there is wolf blitzed and dennis quaid -- wolf blitzer and dennis quaid.is all from about 90 minutes, two hours ago. there is former secretary of state madeleine albright. she is a guest of nbc's. white house press secretary robert gibbs. he is an invited guest of the white house correspondents association. nobody else invite him except the association. calvin coolidge was the first president to speak at the white house correspondents' dinner. that was in 1924. it was not until 1962, at the prodding of helen thomas, that women were allowed to attend this event. the washington hilton has the largest hotel ballroom in the city, about 3000 people can cram into there, and trust me, it is cramped. there is the white house correspondents for abc news. he got his start as the press secretary to a one-term democrat from pennsylvania. she was the one who voted for president clinton's budget and all of the republicans on the floor and waved goodbye to her. there is larry king. not sure who the woman is. is that his wife? another dinner first timer, rachael ray, with

dennis blair stepping down amid pressure from the white house. during his 16 months in the position blair dealt with various security lapses and had some spats with the cia. >>> track work will mean 30 minute delays on metro's green, orange and red lines. the nationals have home games today, tomorrow and sunday and the chili cookoff is tomorrow at rfk stadium. >> megan mcgrath has been talking about those bikes. >> reporter: look at all the activity we have here now. lots of folks biking to work. we got a number of bike companies. they are helping people out in terms of check out their bikes. make being sure they are in good shape. a lot of folks bike to work every day but this is an added fun event for them. others are trying it for the very first time. you're in the former category. you bike to work every day. how far do you go? >> nine miles every day, the i don't do that i don't do anything else. it's my only exercise every day. >> how long does it take? how far is it for you sore it pretty easy >> it was hard when i sfartsd. but now pretty r

. >> you better keep me away from dennis hamlin after the race. >> when kyle gets to the garage, lookis. he storms out of his car. doesn't even take off his driver safety gear. goes into a holler. joe gibbs follows him. here's what denny hamlin says afterwards. >> to want to go for the win, that's all we can ask for. >> i'm so confident that one of the two of rus going to win that 600, it's good. i think it's two guys teammates that happened to be teammates going for a race win right there. >> teammates battling. payback is you know what. >> spin. >> exciting, fun stuff. >> when we come back, the duchess of york making an apology after she was caught trying to sell acces >>> an undercover video released by a british tabloid is stirring up all kinds of questions abc britain's royal family. it appears to show duchess sarah ferguson accepting money in exchange for success to her ex-husband prince andrew. buckingham ballast denies the prince has anything to do with it. the trap set, duchess sarah ferguson fell right in. >> the hand shake seals the deal. per ghee sells access to her ex-hus

and we salute firefighter dennis o'brien who jumped in.well, georgia, fire department, our salutations to you. there's already been three rescues near that dam just this year and summer's just begun. you heard mr. swoops there, how stupid it was, get away from the dam. it could have cost someone their lives. >>> all right, parents, this one's for you. new information about a major children's medicine recall. we're talking about over 40 products here. tylen tylenol, motrin, benadryl. calling the conditions at the plant unacceptable. so this is the place where they're making medicine for our kids and it's unacceptable? that is unbelievable. >>> plus this, airlines changing their no-fly policy after that near bomb attack in time square. @@@@@@@@ >>> welcome back to "prime news" on hln. all right. identical twins have fun switching places to fool the friends. but you wouldn't think they'd pull a swap in front of a judge. but two twins did. 40-year-old twin brothers. matthew facing fraud charges. he's flying into florida from indiana. he calls

why wouldn't he say, i was at denny's having a grand slam? i was at mcdonald's having an egg mcmuffin? i mean, why couldn't he tell us that? >> one doesn't exclude the other. you don't have to not hire a lawyer to find your children. certainly when you are the person that's going to be looked at, when you have this family violence issue and you are the sole suspect you need a lawyer. >> alan ripka, to me that's all the more reason you want to put it out there and rule yourself out immediately so cops can focus on the correct perpetrator. >> well nancy, what's amazing here, the person who did this would have had to have been outside the house surveying the house. it's unlikely that her husband would be out there for hours hoping she walked out to the mailbox just in time to kidnap her. >> really? >> more likely someone driving by. >> you think so? >> yeah. >> because ellie jostad, what exactly did the neighbor see? >> well, nancy, there was a neighbor who said -- and this is a neighbor who lives about 1,000 feet away from the home where she wa

there was an admission from dennis blair that that still is not happening. why? >> these are 16 entrenched bureaucracies, each of them with their own players and sources and each of them battling within the political world. without question, according to officials, things have gotten better than they were on 9/11, but they are not where they need to be. admiral blair admitted that in a statement he issued earlier this week. things are still not working as he wants them to. so there is going to be a new leader of the national intelligence organization. >> you wrote in your exclusive story that the meeting that took place between the president and dennis blair -- can you imagine what the tenor of the discussion was light between the two? >> i think both president obama and admiral blair are professionals. i do not have more details than i reported. they discussed the best way forward, and ultimately, admiral blair offer to resign as soon as tomorrow, and president obama said he would accept that resignation. i doubt it was a particularly emotional one. these are pr

dennis blair is resigning possibly as early as tomorrow.hank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> of next, a house panel holds a hearing on toyota's unintended acceleration problems and subsequent recalls. after that, the head of the sec talks about the market dropped two weeks ago. later, president obama on the senate finance regulations bill. tomorrow, the regulation bill that passed the senate. after that, former house speaker newt gingrich, whose new book is "to save america." also, jonathan alter on his book on the first year of the obama administration. that is at 7:00 a.m. eastern. later, a discussion on national security focusing on the u.s. president. the u.s. presence and the world's oceans. live coverage starts at 10:00 eastern. >> on june 28, supreme court justice nominee elena kagan testified before the senate judiciary committee. find all the moments from and in scalea to sonia sotomayor online at the c-span video library. every video since 1987, washington your way. now the house hearing on the toyota automobile recalls. what

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. >> dennis blair, director of national intelligence -- why did the president lose faith in him, nina? >> by the time we appoint another one, there will let if you are directors of national intelligence over five years. -- there will have been four directors of national intelligence over five years. within i/11 commission recommended this, they envisioned a small, lean and mean operation. a few hundred people, not 1500 or something like that. the commission does not have but the purse strings. you cannot run at this in the intelligence committee if you do not have power of the purse. >> it is a perfect example of why in financial regulations you are dealing with on known -- unknowns. everybody thought at the time that he would have this great theoretical structure, and the dots would connect in the real world, that is not how it worked out. it is an extra layer of bureaucracy that did not have authority. the cia was in the struggle with dni and in the end with a wind. it created unbelievable publications. in the same way that homeland security was going to solve our problems and it ha

missing from that trip, national intelligence director dennis player. yesterday, the retired navy admiral announced he would step down, which was rumored for months. >> i think a lot of folks at the white house are saying that is something the united states should have known about if we are connecting the dots -- connecting the dots that appear in the plot should never have got as far as they did. >> belair's office oversees 16 federal agencies, including the fbi, cia, and homeland security. reportedly, several candidates are being interviewed for the job. reporting in the satellite center, mike conneen, abc 7 news. >>> oil giant bp admits that the oil spill in the gulf of mexico is far worse than initially thought. new underwater video shows the size and scope of the leak. bp says 5,000 barrels were leaking out every day. now some say it could be as much as 100,000 barrels, and today the epa is raising concerns about the chemical used to disperse the oil as well. >>> and obama is ordering federal agencies to work up national mileage and emission standa

. >> dennis blair, chair of national intelligence -- why did the president lose faith in him, nina? >> by the time to appoint another one, there will have been four directors of national intelligence in five years. when the 9/11 commission recommended it, it envisioned a small, lean and mean operation to oversee things. a few hundred people, not 1000 or 1500. the position does not have budget purse strings. you cannot run and oversee an order priorities in the intelligence community if you do not have the power of the purse. this is a position, i think, that does not work very well. >> it is a perfect example of why in financial regulation you are dealing with announced. everybody imagined at the time that we are going to have this great theoretical structure -- dni will be in charge of 16 agencies and the dots will connect to it in the real world, that is not how it works out, because the extra layer of bureaucracy that did not have authority. the cia was in a struggle with dni at in the end they wind. created complications, in the same way that homeland security was going to solve

admiral dennis blair, the director of national intelligence is resigning and craig bosswell has the news edge. >> reporter: after 16 months on the j the director of national intelligence admiral blair is stepping down. the white house said several candidates are being interviewed for the job which oversees the nation's 16 intelligence agency. >> the president believes that it was time to transition to a different director of national intelligence. >> reporter: blair has been under fire for a series of security lapses including the failed christmas day underwear bombing. the resignation comes days after a nal report outlining intelligence failures, even though president obama himself accepted responsibility for the lack of intelligence sharing sow roundo surrounding the attempted bombing. >> the president decided to make a change. >> reporter: some lawmakers believe that blair is getting a raw deal. >> think he's being made a scapegoat and the real problem is the department of justice under general holder running too much of the intelligence activities. >> reporter: in a written statement

. >>> under pressure from the white house, national intelligence director dennis blair is resigning. the retired navy admiral's 16-month tenure has been marked by intelligence failures and spy agency turf wars. sources say the president had clearly lost confidence in blair and had several replacement candidates already been interviewed. the national intelligence director, a position created in response to the september 11th terrorist attacks, oversees the nation's 16 intelligence agencies. >>> and now here's a look at some of the other stories making news "early today" in america. in california, officials are investigating the cause of a fire which gutted a school bus carrying third graders on an l.a. highway. look at this. passing motorists stopped to help evacuate approximately two dozen kids and chaperones. two children were treated for minor smoke inhalation and released. >>> in ohio, a woman suffering from a seizure lost control of her car and crashed into a medical building. luckily for her, dozens of doctors and nurses who were in a conference room next to the crash site rushe

judge dennis sweeney, the same judge who presided over former mayor sheila dixon is corruption trial will also hear the case against holton. >> if you ride home to queue near interstate 97 today, you likely felt the effect of an afternoon truck fire. we were over i-97 around 2:30 p.m. today. traffic was backed up after a truck packed with cardboard caught fire. flames jumped into the nearby brush. amazingly, the fire was contained without incident and no reports of any injuries. >> francisco -- friends of mr. gonzales rallied tonight. anyone with information on the accident is asked to call baltimore city police on the hit-and-run. >> parents in northwest baltimore say they are out red sooutraged. they say a bus driver stranded there students on the way home from school. >> i was hysterical by then. >> anger still lingers over her daughter's bus ride home. she is still trying to get answers after she found the bus involved in an accident and the 4-year-old blocks away, walking home. >> she said that the kids got off and walk home. >> this happen wednesday afternoon. love first became

the move comes after admiral dennis blair announced he's resigning. he had lost the confidence of the president. kathryn brown has the latest from washington. >> po

. >> there was word late today dennis layer will resigns ahead of national intelligence. a number of reports say he could make the report tomorrow. he is the third person to serve as dni overseeing the nation's intelligence agencies. he drew criticism over the handling of the airlining bombing attempt over detroit last yis-- christmas. the senate moved to clear the way for final passage of financial regulation reform. democrats got the 60 votes they needed to wind down debate. that sets up a final vote on the most sweeping rewrite of financial rules since the great depression. this afternoon president obama welcomed the outcome. >> over the last year, the financial industry has repeatedly tried to end this reform with hoards of lobbyists and millions of dollars in ads. an when they couldn't kill it, they tried to water it down with special interest loopholes and -- -- undermining real change. today i think it is fair to say that these efforts have failed. >> the bill would make it easier to liquidate large firms that fail and it would create a new consumer protection agen

. >> chris: the big news, this week, was the firing of the director of national intelligence, dennisell you about the president's administration and the way it's handling national security? >> i think it tells us more about the fact that the job probably isn't structured very well. it's a job you're supposed to be coordinating a lot of people who frankly don't want to be coordinated. he got into a spat, turf battle with leon panetta. >> chris: you're talking about dennis blair. >> yes. who is much more powerful than he is. and the president needs to look at the job and congress needs to look at the job and decide if it makes sense and needs to be something perhaps a little more lower level coordination, because he is clearly not able to be successful, you know, as brit talked about, the terrorist attacks that were not thwarted. they just, we were just lucky. i think that they need to find a way to connect the jobs which is what the job was supposed to do. >> there is an ideological -- not ideological. a fundamental split in the administration between the intelligence agencies on the

. >>> the obama administration's intelligence director, dennis blair, is resigning. blair, a retired navy admiral, was criticized after failing to prevent the attempted jetliner bombing on christmas day. sources say he learned at the white house yesterday he no longer has the president's confidence. >>> now to iran where the mothers of those three american hikers are remaining in hopes they can convince the tehran regime to free their children from prison. they enjoyed a reunion yesterday. elizabeth palmer has the report >> reporter: proof at last that after 9 1/2 months wait, their children are alive and apparently well. iranian state television filmed the emotional reunion for broadcasts around the world. this visit was always going to be a public spectacle. and the mothers, aware of the stakes, stayed firmly on message. >> gratitude is the biggest word. gratitude to the iranian authorities for allowing us to come and visit our children. >> reporter: at a press conference, the young american hikers brought from their cells to a luxury hotel spoke about their impris

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. >>> dennis blare is stepping down. the retired navy admiral announced he is resigning may 28th. his departure is two days after a senate report criticized his office and other intelligence agencies for recent failures. >>> president obama is preparing to ask congress to provide more money for nuclear power. yesterday an aide said the president will ask congress to provide $9 billion in additional loan guarantees for the nuclear energy industry. the money is part of a renewed push by the obama white house for increased use of nuclear power. the request would be partnered with one that $9 billion be provide for renewable energy such as wind and solar. >>> the head of massey energy, the company that operates the west virginia mine where 29 workers were killed last month faced tough questions in a senate panel. west virginia senator robert birth said his firm has an alarming record of serious infractions. lawmakers accuse massey of sacrificing safety for more money and profit. >>> a brown ooze is now coating marshy grass land along the louisiana coast and the affects of the oil spil

c-span: you have a code in here written by dennis lee curtis, h and this is not that old, inawrt 1992, the stick-up man's code.k and there are a bunch of points here -- let's see -- eight of them: 'i will not kill anyone unless i have to,' 'i will take cash and food stamps, noks. checks,' 'i will rob only aty a night,' 'i will not wear a mask,' 'i will not rob minimarto or 7-elven stores,' 'if chasedtr by cops on foot, i will get11 st away,' 'if chased by a vehicle, i will not put the lives of innocent civilians on the line,c seven, 'i will rob only sevent months out of the year,' andh eight, 'i will enjoy robbingel r from the poor to give to theben poor.'m why'd you put that in here? >> guest: well, this is the kin of thing -- i found it, not myt father, but this is the kind oft thing i know that if he had come upon it, he would have clipped this out of this magazine, hee, would have mailed it to me andsi it would have said at the top 'for the book.'tpook. i put it in there not only because it's -- in its way, it's kind of charming, if you can set aside the actual context of it.f but

judge dennis sweeney, who presided over mayor sheila dixon's trial, will also hear the hearing. cold and is currently chairman. >> and eight-year-old is dead after being found in a strain. the boy is identified as justin williams. rescue workers responded before it o'clock last night. two boys had been playing in a strain. he was in cardiac arrest when the medics arrived. a firefighter described the effort it took to locate the boy wants decrees reached his neighborhood. >> they were directed to a wooded area. they had to travers' a wooded area about a half mile behind the residence. >> there is no indication that the other boy was injured. >> traffic is moving after a truck caught fire in anne arundel county. we were over interstate 97 around 2:30 on friday afternoon. a truck packed with cardboard found -- caught fire. the fire was contained without incident and there were no reports of injuries. another accident killed one person just over midnight friday. police say a vehicle caught fire. police are withholding the victim's name. the cause of the accident remains under invest

retired admiral dennis blair resigned the post under pressure, yesterday, after just 16 months. he'd been criticized over the airliner bombing attempt over detroit last christmas and the times square bomb plot in new york. presidential spokesman robert gibbs. >> there is no doubt that we continue to have as a result, and we saw this, that the president identified on the attempted christmas day bombing. there are still coordination issues that we have to work through. the president simply believed that it was time to transition to a different director of national intelligence. >> sreenivasan: gibbs also commended blair for his service in overseeing the nation's 16 intelligence agencies. big rigs and other work trucks in the u.s. will have to start meeting gas mileage and emissions standards. president obama signed a directive today, ordering federal agencies to develop the standards. they'd be phased in over four years, starting in 2014. cars and light trucks are already under a mandate to increase gas mileage nearly ten miles a gallon by 2016. those are some of the day's major s

. >> reporter: that's what happened this past winter when a storm threw dennis clemons out of his sailboat the beacon brought rescuers. >> they flew right to my position, that diver came down, navy, u.s. navy, he came down into that storm for me. that is the bravest thing i've ever seen anybody do in my life. >> reporter: first developed at the goderd space center, they think there was a way to provide near instant service. >> time should not be a factor. >> reporter: groups of four would exactly pinpoint a distressed beacon in a kind of reverse gps. >> right out of the box, we'll have a good location to head right straightforward. instead of going into a general direction. >> reporter: not only will the new system find people faster, it'll find them any where on earth. >> complete global coverage, expect under ground and under water. >> reporter: the first ground station for the first station is already at goddard, the next step is tacking equipment to a weather system. >> it's something that could take up to 10 years to build and launch. >>> the u.s.s. duvall is back home. this is the fe