houston shuts out d.c. united 2-nil the final. >> thanks, man. >> we've got justin bieber coming up, "eeny, meeny, miny, moe lover" i love that song. >> season finale. reeves northern virginia recently. we got to hang out. tomorrow at 11:00 we talk about what makes that show so addictive and i do that stupid oreo game that people do on that show for 5,000 bucks and as you can see it didn't go so well tomorrow night at 11:00. "snl" is up next and as hakem just mentioned, justin bi >>> the following is a message from the president of the united states, barack obama. [ cheers and applause ] >> ah, good evening. by now i'm sure that every american household has received this form in the mail.

we actually just blocks from each other but he went to sam houston. lived in the same apartment complex in houston without ever really running into each other. it really was like we had known each other whole lives. and we knew all the same people. but there weren't any surprises really. from either one of those. >> ever? >> there wasn't something in our background that the other didn't know about. [laughter] >> among the things that might be a surprise, the minute you got home from getting married he was running for congress. >> that is right. that was really fun. it was very fun. he was running for congress in bush's seat, the congressman i had interviewed with. [applause] >> he had taught us all where to sit on the subway at the capitol and not to get your hair blonde. [laughter] but anyway, he was retiring in 1978, so george thought, what the heck, why not try to run for it? it was a seed that it only been held by congressman bush for as long as the district had been a district. so that is what he did and we traveled up and down the panhandle of t

a week later, early on a sunday morning, george and i drove to houston to meet his.he introduced me with the news that we were getting married. after lunch at the bushes home, george's dad hauled out his pocket calendar and looked over each week and not fall. in a few minutes, we picked the wedding date. november 5, 1977, 1 day after my birthday and one day before the anniversary of that awful accident and only about three weeks away. there was no time even to order printed wedding invitations. my mother wrote and addressed all of our invitations by hand. far more nervous than either the freiburg room where chan and joey o'neill. joe and jan had dated for years before they got married. neither of them dreamed that their invitation to dinner with the dice to the altar in a mere three months. and perhaps it wouldn't have if joey had introduced us when we were growing up in midland or when george and i had lived on the opposite sides of the sprawling chÂteau dijon in houston or at any, almost any other moment prior to that night. but at that particular moment, on that w

jan had gone to lee high school and had lived with me in houston. of after spending a few years in san francisco, jan and joey had come home to live in midland. joey was working in his dad's oil business, and his childhood friend, george bush, was working as an oil land man, scouring county courthouse records for land that might be leased for drilling wells. joey talked up george every time i stopped by to visit jan. i was in no rush. i had a vague memory of george from the seventh grade, almost 20 years of before. i knew that his dad had run for senate and lost in 1970 when i first moved to houston and i assumed that george would be very interested in politics while i was not. it was late july, one of those high heat days, when come dusk, the sun would, left behind it, a spent and exhausted world. i put on a blue sun dress, drove the car around the corner, and walked up to the door of jan and joey's brown brick townhouse. even the roof was a cedar shake brown. the cicadas were droning and overlaying their vibrating wing was the steady whirl of air

and the last line says that we would send to houston for confirmation, send to houston for confirmation. i assume this refers to bp's office in houston? >> i would imagine so. >> were the test results sent to houston for confirmation before you resumed well operations on the 20th of april? >> it looks like to me. i have to examine this. it looks like to me this is after the last plug would have been set. we'd have to review this. but i don't know if it was sent to houston or not. that last plug didn't get sent. >> this e-mail sets out the procedure as i understand it for bp when you have a problem with that negative test. they indicate the things that should be done and the last one is you send it to houston. do you know whether the results were sent to houston before the well was back in operation? >> i don't believe so. i believe the explosion occurred bere number six happened. >> so you don't -- is it fair to say you don't believe the officials in houston approved the resumption of the operations of the well? >> i don't know. >> was mms involved in the discussions, to your knowledge?

houston on top, 1-0. then in the second half. houston again, and odero scores on the one timer.ouston shuts out d.c. united. 2-0 is the final. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. >>> time is 9:26. and it's pretty comfortable outside. >> doesn't feel too bad. want to -- let me try that again. you may want to layoff the gas pedal a little bit. big brother is watching. where new speed cameras are up and running. >> and we'll try and take the cotom balls out of our mouth. >>> if you had a choice between the bed and hard ground, ice cold water or hot water, why would you rough it? some college students did. how it changed their lives. >>> we have learned the identities of a high school teenager and a father, killed in a crash. this morning we hear from family and friends as they mourn their deaths. good morning, everybody. welcome to news 4 today, i'm kimberly suiters. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. sunday, may 3, 2010. headlines in a moment. first, a quick check of the forecast. we want to welcome kim martucci to the team. helping out on the weekend for chuck. >> i'll be able to get u

the energetic and entertaining picture went 21 and 10 for the houston astros in 1999. he pitched a playoff shutout for the dodgers. one day after marilyn suffered a -- maryland suffered a loss to notre dame, the head coach retires. no chamiopnshi -- final fours since 2006. it was the first time they have not reached the final four. he talked about how much he enjoyed his time in maryland, that this year's team was favored to coach. and national church will begin immediately to find his replacement -- a national search will begin immediately to find his replacement. the segals get the win -- seagulls get the win, 14-13. this all very -- they hope to match the women. the game0-winner -- game-winner with just 5 minutes left. byron nelson classic -- an event that lord byron would have loved, but may have felt squeamish about. he finishes in a tie for 17th. the gallery going crazy. jason day -- his approach. into the water. he cannot believe it. blake adams with a golden opportunity. his approach into the water at 18. himself.rhers he wins. 10 under par. stay with us for an

his first mls goal and houston on top 1-0. here comes houston again. odero, and scored on the one-timer. houston shuts out d.c. united. 2-0 is the final. that's morning sports. i'm hakem dermish, have a great day. >>> season finale of minute to win it is right here. guy hosts that show and was in northern virginia recently and hung out with our own craig melvin. tonight at 11:00, he talks about what makes the show so addictive, plus he convinced craig -- i don't know what that is. >> oreo cookie? >> one of the contests he convinced craig to do. didn't go well for him. put it that way. tonight at 11:00 you'll see that. >> that is it. >>> there is more of news 4 today. >> "viewpoint" is up next. stay with us. >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to news 4 today. i'm kimberly suitors. >> i'm aaron gilchrist. sunday, may 23, 2010. first, a look at a wet forecast, cloudy, soggy morning. kim martucci in for chuck bell this morning. >> good morning. we're off and running with the rain drops. they got the memo everybody in on it. you put your toothbrush down fo

braves, by the way, winning handily at home over houston. 7-1 mill innings. preparing to sweep that weekend series. high in the air from helms and out of play. >> rob: the os have been playing better. 2-2 with the sox. they plugged a bunch of home runs last night against dice-k mats saca. >> bob: interesting story about hideo nomo, has been in japan and embraced by his country after they were mad at him by leaving. >> rob: this was about 25 years ago. >> bob: working as a pitching coach. >> rob: very nice. >> bob: well, he retired over there, finding a loophole to escape to the usa because his club didn't want to let him go. >> rob: right. >> bob: he wasn't happy with what he was paid. he retired and then it was sayonara. then he came over there. >> rob: they have to go ten years before they're a free agent. >> bob: he hadn't done that >> rob: right. >> bob: that's why he retired, supposedly. an interesting story and he's back working with young pitchers over there. when you mentioned matsuzaka, that reminded me of the great hideo nomo. >> rob: colby lewis of

but as fox 5's karen gray houston reports, there are restrictions. >> reporter: the new bill doesn't let just anybody smoke marijuana. you have to be sick with debilitating wrong medical conditions. >> instead of going to open air markets, they can go to licensed dispensaries that have quality control so they can get medical gauge grade can bass. >> reporter: this woman said she started smoking marijuana because she couldn't deal with the side effects of oxy codeine. >> when i started using this and tried it and said oh, my god it relieves my pain. >> reporter: the bill would require patients to have a doctor's signed permission to get the marijuana. there would be cultivation centers that would be registered with the health department. five dispensaries would be licensed to operate in the district and that's where sick people would buy their drugs. >> those dispensaries, they're not going to look like hash bars or coffee houses. in fact also included in this bill is a prohibition on use of medical marijuana at the dispensary. >> reporter: the bill's main sponsor is hopeful congress

on the road in houston tonight. had that look all season long. finds the metal post. houston goes up 1-0. they win 2- 0. >>> wnba. mystics beat new york last night at home. a lot of attention paid to the off-season conviction acquisition of smith. >> i don't think it will come through one person. lindsey is a very capable scorer and will do whatever we need her to do. katy smith can score. merisa coleman has scored. it won't come through one person. >> they go for 4-0 tomorrow. >>> nba basket. celtics, magic game. rajon rondo. stripping jason williams and scores. boston wins 94-71. they lead the series three games to none. >> thank you much, guys. and some showers? >> scattered showers and thunderstorms tomorrow but scattered at that. this is good that it won't rain all day. >> good night. captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com ♪ ♪ like facebook, twitter, even access to youtube right on your tv, instead of crowding around your computer. hey -- have you seen the walking ham? walking... the ham's got boots on... i'm not sure

karen gray houston was at the ceremony where politics mixed with pride. >> reporter: the faculty and platform party marched into to the strains of pipe band music. attorney general eric holder acknowledged au's law school has come a long way. >> today i'm proud to see that more than half of today's graduates are women on this campus as well as >> reporter: for the 520 graduates the day started with a class picture with many anxious to hear what holder had to say. >> i'm honored that he's here. i think it says a lot about this school that someone of his stature in the government would come and speak to us today. >> reporter: some of the students are receiving their jury is doctor. others advanced law degrees. they have a variety of opinions of the jobber i can holder is doing as attorney general. >> i think that along with eric holder or any other leader, american leader, they are clueless on what terrorism is all about. and they look at islam as a religion. islam is a political movement. >> i personally think his decision to prosecute the 9/11 terrorists in the united states was a go

a houston teacher caught on cell phone viciously beating a 13-year-old student apologizes. >> this has been a painful situation in an incident that i truly regret. >> saying her actions were without excuse. tonight, she's without a job and her victim is here to tell us what happened in his own words. and oh, how times have changed. miss usa trades in her sash for sexy lingeriie. >> just a week since the sudden death of one of golf's rising stars. could a text message sent hours before her death be the smoking gun investigators have been looking for? we'll investigate. >> we are live and at large and starting right now with the latest on the times square terror money trade. >> commissioner kelly wants another $20 million to put radio active -- radiation detectors around manhattan to protect new york from radio active dirty bombs. the president of the united states took every penny of that away. there is not one penny in the budget for that this year. this is the height of hypocrisy and is dang obvious. for them to take this cheap shot is disgraceful. they should treat this as the life a

as karen gray houston explains, the newly minted lawyers had some strong feelings about how holder ister: the faculty and platform party marched in to the strains of pipe band music. attorney general eric holder acknowledged au's law school has come a long way. >> today, i am proud to see that more than half of today's graduates are women on this campus as well as gw. >> reporter: for the 50 graduates, the day started with a class picture with many anxious to hear what holder had to say. >> i'm honored that he is here. i think it says a lot about the school that someone of his stature in the government would come and speak to us today. >> reporter: some of these students are receiving their juris doctor, others, advanced law degrees and they have a variety of opinions of the kind of job eric holder is doing as attorney general. >> i think that, along with eric holder or any other leader, american leader, they are clueless on what this terrorism is all about and they look at islam as a religion. islam is a political movement. >> i personally think his decisions to prosecute the 9-11 te

houston deserves that. another, it would be a good feeling to be standing feet away from a retired shuttle which really went into space. another drew this picture to show how beautiful the shuttle would look in rocket park. another asked how space city can be complete without a space shuttle. and another reminded the administrator about the tragic loss meant to the houston community. the orbiter will remind them and a fitting memorial and although our nation lost 14 heroes, the people of houston lost co-workers, neighbors, friends and family members in those tragedies. and they will become the astronauts of the future. another, the daughter of an astronaut knows that if texas is the home of one of the retired space shuttles, i can remember my father's launch. the contributions of the houston area make our home a logical and appropriate steward for one of the shuttles. houston is space city u.s.a. and there's no better place for a shuttle to be. mr. speaker, i ask the administrator to hear the request of the

looking at their starts this year, the most pitches he's thrown, 17 117 last two starts on the road houston and colorado, gone 91 and 8 # 1 he's on that range where he's 89 >> steve said you can tell these catchers i'm going to throw 159 pitch escorted and 120 are going to be fast balls >> 7th inning stretch time 34,886 enjoying a 4-run lead take our quesadilla explosion salad. i hand-toss it with fresh greens, corn relish, and tortilla strips. add grilled chicken, and finish it with crispy quesadilla wedges. the quesadilla explosion salad is part of our entree plus an appetizer pairings for $9.99. pick one of our 16 entrees, like baby-back ribs or honey chipotle chicken crispers. then choose an appetizer -- all for just $9.99. for a limited time, only at chili's. what's all this? big news! we have another way to help you save. oh, really? how? by bundling. if you get your homeowners and auto insurance together, we give you even more savings. ooh! big bundle. [ chuckling ] home and auto together. it's like peanut butter and jelly. oh, or like burgers and fries. or pickles and ice cream. uni

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he's a professor at sam houston state university in texas. he serves as a mentor for isi's undergraduate honors program. he lectures on campus and at major events at our recent leadership conference in indianapolis. and participates of the studies center. his book "econoclast" he has had a wonderful reception. he has become something of a press celebrity. these matters are adequately described in the program that you have tonight. but let me just conclude by telling you what larry cudlow said about it. when brian was on his show says, the book that americans need to read now as our leaders rush forward to deal with the present crisis without consulting the lessons of the past is " econocl econocl econocl econocl econoclast." >> before i continue, yeah. >> speak up. >> speak up. you might want to visit the bar before i continue because a lot of what i have to say here is kind of going to be kind of grueling. maybe you'll want to pop a pill or have a loved one present and to hold on to something might be helpful because i'm going to mainly talk

, texas, by two action that is they filed before friendly federal judges in houston, texas. e of those was filed by transocean, a limiting action in which they tried to pull in everybody to a judge in houston, texas. bp has done the same thing with a consolidation action and the problem for the states is is we don't need to be pulled into some type of a huge class action where we're just treated like another plaintiff out there and there's no respect for separate sovereign. in fact, i won't be able to plead in our state litigation if it occurs, hopefully these company also come forward and trying every way to work with them and they workith us but if there is going to be a fight, i want it to be in our state court. we're not going to recover a dime more than we're entitled. we don't want a dime more than we're entitled in state court but what happens in federal courts these federal judges get huge mass action and all their duty is to beat people into submission and that includes states and people don't recover what they're entitled to. i won't be able to plead a claim under

united, no encuentra la formula para salir del frio sotano, en su viaje el fin de semana a houston volvió fue superado 2-0 por el dynamo, con anotaciones de luis landin a los 9 minutos y mientras que dominic oduro a los 79 cerro la cuenta para la el triunfo del dynamo, esta fue la octava derrota con tan solo una victoria para d.c. united que el miércoles recibe a ac milan en partido amistoso internacional, por cierto hoy el cuadro milanes entreno en la cancha auxiliar del estadio robert f. kennedy y tenemos impresiones de protagonistas . josh willingham conectó un vuelacercas en la décima entrada y los nacionales de washington superaron el primer salvado fallido de matt capps para derrotar ayer 4-3 a los orioles de baltimore. el cerrador de los orioles, alfredo simon, salió del partido en el décimo capítulo debido a una lesión que sufrió en la pierna derecha cuando corrió hacia la primera base para cubrir un roletazo y conseguir el primer out. la victoria fue la primera para washington en cuatro partidos definidos en extra-innings en la temporada. por los orioles, los

lots of years with texas and with houston.iple a at buffalo and hit .261. marlins signed him as a free agent back on february 11th. he's always been a left-handed batter. got a couple of post season appearances. and that one is up and in from bruney 2-1 as lamb bat for hensley. pitched three scoreless innings. a hit batter and struck out seven. maybin the leadoff man, 07-3 on deck. one hopper, your guy over there. big, bad -- >> here in the seventh inning. this copy wrighted telecast presented by authority of the washington nationals and may not reproduces or retransmitted and descriptions of this game may not be des'em ated without the republican con sent of the washington nationals. former national brian sanches. without the written consent of the washington nationals. former national brian sanches. maybin two balls and a strike. >> bob: 20, 856 tonight and we're told that does include 1665 dogs. 2billion, 500 million, 687,000. >> rob: that's like the dog in "men in black." frank. >> bob: life is a movie. >> rob: my life is

anyone in houston with either transocean or bp can get on that flight. the purpose os the vits is to acquaint midget with personnel or for management to personnel or for management to do safety audits to conduct talks about performance, plans, to reinforce messages, to a variety of things like t hat. >> was set to a first fiddle to let the? but it was that your first settled trip like that? >> it was the first scheduled trip i had made in that capacity, yes. >> you said you are going to reinforce messages stocks? >> in a broad sense, that is one of the reasons for those visits, is for leadership to reinforce messages that are delivered, goals that aboth bp and transocean have. >> who wasn that helicopters with you? >> myself, pat'brien, bp of dnc in the gulf of mexico, don winslow with transocean, buddy trehan with transocean. >> youtube a flight out of houston and did you took that flight out of his indhouston? >> those trips were out of our base in homa. the reference to houston with a service to nearly four of his leadership. usually for office leader

karen gray houston with more on what the report shows. >> reporter: it's serious issue and the d.c. water and sewer authority insists lead levels have been safe since emergency measures were instituted between 2004 and 2006. >> the question that they are debating is whether or not elevated lead levels in water is translated to elevated lead levels in blood and there seems to be disagreement among professionals about what the answer to that is. >> reporter: the house science and technology subcommittee held a hearing on reforming the cdv's public health practices and released a report saying the agency relied on incomplete, misleading blood test results at the time and downplayed the potential health impact. >> the d.c. lead crisis i was awe historic violation of the public trust by government. >> d.c. councilman jim graham who has been asking for an independent water analysis for years agrees. >> if you can't rely on the centers for disease control for this type of information, you know, who can you rely on? >> when the first reports of high lead levels surfaced in 2001, wasa began

. >>> whitney houston is coming to town for a big benefit.ls on that coming up. >>> plus, hundreds of fans line up at a bookstore to get the chance to meet former first lady laura bush. >>> alexandria residents will get hit with a double whammy of service reduction and fee increases in the coming year. >>> virginia's aclu delivers a warning to state chaplains about their prayers an the final approval to the science city development plan. these stories and more in the examiner. >>> rocker bret michaels is out of the hospital and expected to make a full recovery. he suffered a brain hemorrhage last month. experts say he is a very lucky man. david admits to his cheating ways when his mitt dress exposed his ways. they say they are working on their marriage. >>> a examiner determined corey hanes died of natural causes and not a drug overdose. the lost boys star who struggled with drug abuse died at his mother's apartment earlier this year. >>> the hill is reported whitney houston will be in dc this weekend to dance not sing. the singer plans to at

eric holder gave the commencement address and as fox 5's karen gray houston explains the newly minted lawyers had strong feelings about how he's doing his job. >> reporter: the faculty marched in to pipe music. attorney general eric holder add knowledged that au's law school has come a long way. >> i'm proud to see that half of today's graduates are women on this campus wells gw. >> reporter: for the 520 graduates today started with a class picture with many anxious to hear what holder had to say. >> i'm honored that he's here. i think it says a lot about this school that someone of his stature in the government would come and speak to us today. >> reporter: some of the students are receiving their juris doctorate. others advanced law degrees. they have a variety of opinions of the kind of job eric holder is doing as attorney general. >> i think that along with eric holder, or any other leader, american leader, they are clueless on what this terrorism is all about. and they look at islam as a religion. islam is a political movement. >> i personally think his decision to prosecute the

she is from houston tonight. the organizer of the big pro immigration rally. state rep domingo garcia on the right. debbie if i may call you that why are you proposing a bill that governor rick perry opposes. >> he has not said he opposes it. there are issues in it that we might need to look at and question. i would like to clarify something. i am not opposed and most folks were not opposed to immigration. this is the illegal immigration that we have a problem with. because we have got so many problems on the border with the drug cartels and the crime, the gangs it's like a war zone down there. i got to tell you it's something that absolutely has to be a drift. and this has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with the safety and security for the folks of texas. that's what it's about. >> domingo pretty good racial profiling the 800 pound gorilla in the room. the violence in mexico i was in juarez not so long ago they have multiple murders every day phoenix the kidnapping capitol of the world because of the problems with the mexican drug cartels. t

houston at 93. winds coming out the gulf with cool weather.re is cooler weather trying to sneak across the canadian border. that will cause temperatures to start falling over the next few days. it will take a saturday night before the cool front to work in our direction. we have a little area we are watching across northern ohio. it is across the lake here. most of the region has a lot of sunshine and warm temperatures. that front tomorrow will rauch out of our area -- it will wash out of our area. but tomorrow will be very pleasant with a dry air coming through friday. saturday bringing some showers and cooler air by the weekend. sunshine, pleasant tomorrow. we will check at the next seven days. isolated showers in the forecast friday night and saturday morning. then cooler saturday afternoon and here is your mother's day forecast. sunshine with a high of 65 degrees. >> the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers, moving you forward. >> when are we going to see mr. strasburg. >> they are trying to slow him down. he say

united in houston. the ball in front of the ball, he turns, goal! goal! dynamo wins.al. >>> the philadelphia flyers with a stranglehold on their series, and the second against the canadiens. pronger with the pass, the flyers win, commanding 3-1 lead in the series. >>> just 16 years old, plan on the professional golf tour. 40-foot birdie putt. he is six under par, shot 67 today, just six shots behind the leader. 16 years old. >>> looks like a collision course for the celtics-lakers nba finals. boston destroyed orlando, taking the 3-0 lead in the best of seven series. the lakers took on phoenix tomorrow night. that is sports. fine >>> object of the forecast? >> heavier rain moving and, flash flood warning madison county off to the south and west. temperatures tomorrow around 73 degrees. one end of showers, but the chance of rain. grab the umbrella, clearing out late monday. sunshine tuesday through thursday. >> have a good night. ♪ ♪ like facebook, twitter, even access to youtube right on your tv, instead of crowding around your computer. hey -- have you seen the walkin

. >> this video was taken by an underwater vehicle, shot at the crisis center in houston.will be the first time this has been attempted at this depth. >> bp will get a bill for the entire cleanup and any damages. >> with that spill already leaving casualties among species of wildlife, it could go on for years. bp says if this works, it should begin suctioning out the crude- oil by monday. >> a lot of folks are rooting for that. the district has released its first ever obesity report and action plan. it finds one fifth of all d.c. residents are obese. that includes 90% of men and 16% of high-school students. the plan lays out eight bowls, including -- lays out eight gosld. -- eight goals. >> facebook has patched a bug that could spying on other people's chat. >>> an apology from elizabeth hassle back after comments she made about the costume -- elizabeth hasselback. he could avoided jail time by locking her in her costume. she called her to apologize. >> a landmark for washingtonians has reopened its doors. >> to good health and to our customers, here is to a great new stor

. >>> continental airport in houston was on high alert yesterday afternoon after employees feared a piece of luggage exploded. airline workers were unloading baggage. they first thought the baggage may have been an explosion but now they think it may be have been an aerosol can. >>> three people have been pulled uninjured from a rain- swollen creek bay. the responders pulled live preservers to the people and pulled them on the tethered line. the water was knee inform deep and the fast water rushing fall was 30 feet. >>> what an idiot. that's just an idiot to do it in a game just as important with hamels pumped up. >> for a second night in a row, a crazed fan interrupting a phillies game. the 34-year-old ran on the field in the 9th inning. it was just one day after a 17- year-old ran on to the field and he had to be tazed by police. >>> what in a a name? a lot of you asked cecil and kirby. >> you wonder who they are? >> the 5-week old baby warthogs and their names were officially announced. an online vote picked the names and yesterday was the first time the public got glance at the brothe

. >> warner: amy jaffe, how does it look to you in houston?at do you think this event is tapping into in the american public? >> well, you know, we in the american public are a big believer that there's a science and technology solution to everything. it was really amazing that the industry we were sort of running out of oil on shore and the industry was able to go out to the depths of the earth under the sea and keep us driving around in our cars. so to sit here night after night and watch all these scientists unable to close a simple pipeline, even though it's a very complex engineering problem, as a lay person when you sit here and watch the oil just spewing out of this pipene, it is. it's just this horror movie like we cannot believe that there isn't a technology to close this pipeline. we as americans believe there's a technological solution to everything. and the idea that we're going to have to wait until august for the technological solution, i think it's just got people just gripped in terror. and it gets to our fundamental core. >> w

i hadn't talked to anybody if houston got them or not. i mean, it was on the deepwater horizon. >> would the records and maintenance for the b.o.p. be kept both on the rig, itself, and in houston? >> i don't know. >> thank you very much. really appreciate your testimony, sir. >> thank you. >> thank you, sir. mr. pleasant, thank you for coming here today to give us your testimony. are there any questions we didn't ask you or any information we should ab ware of that has relevance to this investigation u would like to tell us? >> i have no information. i mean, i gave you everything i knew today. >> yes, sir. thank you. in the future if we need additional information from you would you make yourself ailable to the bod? >> available 24/7. >> thank you, sir. you're dismissed. appreciate it. we'll go ahead and take a break and reconvene at 11:30. >> "washington journal" begins live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. today on "america and the courts" talk about the u.s. administrative conference, a federal independent agent si and advisory committe

. >> the best scientists in the world have been brought here to houston to focus on this problem. >> reporter: a problem that now stretches to an island along the southern edge of louisiana. you can see the oil down past the boom. >> reporter: and into a delicate nesting ground for hundreds of seabirds. >> several pelicans on this island, will go further, coated with oil. >> reporter: creeping further to the small vil. >> as. >> this rips my heart out. >> reporter: threatens to tear away everything they've had. >> looking at retirement home and life savings that could be in a big pudsdle of oil in the next couple of week a puddle growing along the coast. jay gray. >>> back here, tomorrow's commute on the chain bridge will not be what some drivers are hoping for. ddot expected to finish work. all of the rain over the weekend delayed crews. commuters will be able to get on the bridge at 6:30 but one lane opened in each direction. all lanes expected to open by wednesday. >> a royal scandal. the duchess of york caught on tape selling access to the royal family. we'll talk about that. >>>

karen grey houston takes a closer look. >> the defense department is keeping a close eye on the roboticsing on here at the ajames clark school of engineering. these are baby submarines they are working with. about three feet long, equipped with digital cameras. >> the camera is on the program bottom. when you see on top is the basic control system that allows the submarine to wiggle its rudder and turn on the propeller. >> he and his students are testing the subs. sometimes with transmitters to guide them. sometimes allowing them to navigate on their own. these experiments with unmanned submarines are being conducted under controlled conditions in a clearwater tank. but these young scientists say there are some unbelievable practical applications. unmanned robots could be helpful in the wake of that gulf coast oil rig explosion. hailey and his students say a system like theirs could monitor the extent of the oil spill. >> right now most of the observes are from satellites or aircraft. but these underwater systems could actually collect measurements regarding the growth and the spread of

guest: he's referring to transsession which did move from houston to switzerland. there are implications for a lot of this. the with drilling rig was flagged in another country with a different inspection procedures. there's a lot of interest in looking at kind of the foreign issues that he raises. host: next up is wisconsin. justin on our line for republicans. go ahead. caller: good morning. hopefully they'll get this spill and this mess cleaned up in a timely manner. as they always do get it cleaned up, hopefully not too much damage done. and i pray the eco system doesn't take too much of a hit and they'll learn from their mistakes not to let something like this happen as easily. my question is, do you think this drilling, this offshore drilling is more for domestic consumption or more for international sales? with this oil coming out here. guest: well, it is true that 30% of the oil produced domestically comes from the gulf of mexico. so obviously this is a region that provides a great deal of or significant chunk of what the u.s. is producing and using from wit

>> i'm sorry, did you say fly out of houston? >> yes, sir. i think you said you had a specifically helicopter allocated to you or anybody from transocean to make the flight from houston. >> those trips were out of our shore base in homa. the reference to houston was that it was generally for office leadership. >> understood. >> normally, who from b.p. goes on such trips to discuss safety audits and performance plans? >> normally it is a wide range of leadership from wells team leaders up through vice presidents. >> is it typical for mr. o'brien to go out there? >> it would be typical for his position. he had not been in that job very long, and so this was his first trip, his personally first trip to the horizon, but other directors in b.p. went on those trips. >> you may not know this, but do you know when he actually took over his position as vice president of drilling completion ? >> it was early, very early in '10 or late '09. >> do you know who was in that position prior to him? >> that would have been kevin lacy. >> lacy? >> lacy. >> lac

s darkened operations center in houston, texas, engineers continue trying to guide deep-sea robots to shut off the flow of oil at the wellhead. so far, they've managed to close just one small leak. on the surface, calm seas have allowed for more controlled burns, skimming, and chemical dispersal efforts. yesterday, 18 flights dropped 150,000 gallons of those chemicals. >> with time, this dispersant breaks it up and it will take care of itself. that's where nature kicks in and takes care of it. >> reporter: frantic efforts also continue to keep oil from reaching the louisiana coastline, home to nearly 40% of the country's wetlands. but the associated press reported today seeing pinkish oily residue along the shore at new harbor island. the uninhabited barrier island is part of the chandeleur islands, a national wildlife refuge. here in south alabama, booms are still being deployed in mobile bay. governor bob riley has approved a plan to string booms across the entrances to the entire bay. two "swinging doors" operated by tugboats would allow ship traffic to pass. that's more than five

this weekend in houston, he sat down with our public broadcasting partner joeseph shapiro of nationalo. >> reporter: describe a little bit of what it's like to be on the rig in the middle of the water. >> it's different than anything else you ever do in your life. it's just, you know, a big, big box out in the water floating around. it's hot, cold... you know, there's no shade anywhere. you know, it's... most of the time it's pretty hard work and, i mean, it can get lonely at times. >> brown: on the night of the 20th, choy said he finished his 12-hour shift, talked to his wife on the phone, and settled in for some sleep. >> and then when i woke up to... i could hear something. i was out of it. i was so tired. i woke up; i could hear the gas coming through the riser. but i didn't know what it was. it sounded like somebody pressure-washing the outside of my room. and then i heard an explosion, but i didn't know it was an explosion. i just heard a loud boom. >> brown: it was the first in a series of explosions that set the rig aflame, claiming 11 lives and spurring the most disastrous oi

he joins us tonight from houston. greg mccormack, welcome. >> thank you for inviting me. >> lehrer: it's just after 6:00 eastern time now, mr. mccormack. and that means this operation, this top kill thing has been under way now for four hours or so. does the fact that it's still going after four hours mean anything? >> i don't think you can read anything into the fact that the well is still flowing. we would be able to kill this well a lot quicker if the blow-out preventers were functioning properly. but with them not functioning properly, we're losing a lot of mud out to the blow-out preventer. >> lehrer: in other words, the mud is being blown out by the oil itself, right? >> that's correct. the pressure of the oil and gas flowing through the blow-out preventer is going to carry some of the mud out into the riser. >> lehrer: i assume-- have you been watching these live pictures from-- from the water, from the sea bed? >> when i could receive them, i've been watching them. >> lehrer: what should we look for? a lot of

. >>> now to houston where the three run bomb in the first was plenty.nez held the astros to one hit for a 4-0 victory becoming the season's first eight game winner. >>> in the american league, toronto at seattle, the mariners' josh bard hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth to tie it and ken griffey jr. came off the bench to smack a single for a 4-3 walkoff win. >>> and in boston, kevin youkilis hit a three run homer in the third and later added an rbi double. and jon lester struck out nine in a complete game red sox win over the twins 6-2. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories. and newly minted tea party star rand paul in the middle of a firestorm over controversial comments. mments. (woman) dear cat. your hair mixes with pollen and dust. i get congested. but now with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breathe freer, so i can love the air™. (announcer) zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed. patience, son. ah! [ female announcer ] sometimes,

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. >> this is a miss to the football writers to voted brian cushing of the houston texans to the ap defensive rookie of the year award. a revote after the news came out that he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. a four game suspension, this is not a crime against humanity, but shouldn't be throwing a party and giving him an award. a wrong message for the kids. >> paul: james. >> mr. president obama as we campaigned about 24/7 media environment with ipods and ipads and xbox and playstations and too much information is distraction. he was senator obama was young, hip. and president obama remind me of "saturday night live," what are they doing with the newfangled things and-- >> i must be a grumpy old man, too, i think i agree with him on the gadgets. >> you never got 70% of the youth vote, did you paul. >> paul: no, never have. believe me (laughter) >> all right, thank you. that's it for this week's edition of the journal editorial report. thanks to my palm and to all of you for