captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hi, everybody. good morning. i'm thomas roberts. great to have you with us. today we begin with a plate of make it stop. frustrations are riding high where the state's governor is calling for the federal government to step in and take over. waves of toxic water are now soaking louisiana's marshlands and coating its precious wildlife, meanwhile more failure as a sted stream continues pouring into the gulf. kristen is live with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, thomas. this could be a key week in bp's efforts to stop this leak. it's now siphoned about half a million of gallons of oil but it admitted this weekend that the rate has slowed there, so that as they have now pushed back the plans for the top kill, shooting that mud and cement down into the leak until wednesday. meantime, oil is pushing ashore into 12 miles of louisiana's marshes. two major pelican nesting grounds have now been covered. the governor says the state has its own plans to begin building berms. they are still waiting for federal approval to star

any media transaction, comcast says if you, the fcc and the justice department allow us to buy nbc universal, nbc will be a stronger property that is committed to keeping it over the air. so are their -- a two-part question -- is there a way that would actually be beneficial to the public interest? and then you often have talked about transparency, while keeping in mind how can the commission make sure that interviews of the deal is as transparent as possible? >> i think we should have some hearings on it. i think we should have public hearings. it's not without precedent at the fcc we did that back with aol in the case some years ago. we had done it on other occasions, too. and i think -- i think you would really have to look. there are a lot of questions to be asked. is this going to have an impact on consumer rights and cable and have access to -- is it going to have an impact on access to the internet? what's it going to do to programming? what is it going to do to local news and all of those things? stronger in b.c.? yes, we could use a stronger in b.c. in some ways. maybe not in others

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hi, everybody. good morning, great to have you with us. i'm thomas roberts. >>> today we begin with reining in wall street and the big banks. last night congress passed the most extensive financial reform bill since the great depression and handed president obama a major policy victory. for months, they have been try mulling over details to prevent a economic meltdown like the country is recovering from. nbc's tracie potts is in washington, d.c., this morning to guide us through this one. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. it passed with 59 votes. four of those were republicans. let me tell you some of the details here, what this senate bill would do. it would police wall street, actively looking for banks and investment firms at risk. it would also shine the light on complex financial trades, part of the problem that led to the recession. a new consumer protection agency would be formed to make sure that when you go out to get a loan, that those financial products are protected and that you've go

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening, crude oil from that spill has made landfall in ten separate locations across three states in the gulf of mexico. and the beautiful wetlands of southern louisiana won't be the same for some time to come. 6 million gallons of crude has entered the waters now. many animals are turning up covered in oil, many have died. the latest attempt to stop it may have to wait until next week. jobs and lives in that region are on hold indefinitely. we'll begin here tonight with our chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson. >> reporter: as ships gather out at the leak sites to prepare for next week's attempt to plug the well, the good weather is helping skimming operations. here on the coast as more oil washes ashore, it's wearing away what little patience people have left. where there should be tourists on blankets, there's a nasty coat of oil, closing the beaches on what locals call the cajun riviera. and many cancellations for vacation cabins in grand isle. >> all these are all cancellations because of the oil. so it just goes

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. because the story out of the gulf of mexico has not changed in over a month and because there's oil spill into that water right now and every minute of every day, the anger and despair there are now taking a toll. now the oil is surging. miles up and into the marsh. more than 65 miles of some of the most beautiful coastline in the united states now affected. the damage spread across three states, louisiana, mississippi, alabama. the effort to stop it, clean it up is huge. 22,000 people are working on it just there in the spill zone. over three quarters of a million gallons of chemical dispersant have been poured into the gulf to try to break up the slick which is the size of delaware and rhode island combined. we have team coverage again starting with our chief environmental affairs correspondent, anne thompson. >> reporter: the oil giant faces potential fines and perhaps a criminal investigation. while taking a public beating from residents fed up here and a very frustrated obama adm

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. the oil slick off the coast of louisiana is getting bigger every minute, while the first sheen layer of oil has arrived onshore along the state's outer coastline. the main spill has moved itself closer to the mouth of the mississippi river. the slick is changing shape by the day. in fact, just from yesterday to today. we learned today once again the amount of oil spewing out of the earth a mile down underwater might be much more than first reported. each day that goes by adds to this disaster. the latest estimate 210,000 gallons a day right into the water. the fear is that the current is going to carry this up the eastern seaboard. we begin our reporting tonight with our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson. anne, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. they did more of those controlled burns out at the leak site today where crews ignite the oil on fire to try and burn it off. but the best chance at harnessing this leak may lie in a complex technology that n

. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening, everyone. the unrelenting flow of oil and bubbling anger over the massive spill reached a kind of critical mass today with both bp and the obama administration facing a new level of outrage. a lot of it coming from the oil-stained shore of louisiana, where that state's governor today blasted washington and demanded a greater sense of urgency and action. but even the federal government seems divided tonight on who best can handle the disaster. with one hand defending bp, the other condemning its response. but none of the finger-pointing has stopped the oil or the slow-motion destruction of the gulf coast. we have reports from louisiana and washington tonight, starting with our chief environmental affairs correspondent, anne thompson in venice. anne? >> reporter: good evening, lester. what i'm about to tell you isn't going to help. coast guard officials say bp's attempt to cap that well may slide until wednesday. and as you could imagine, that's only ratcheting up the anger here at bp'

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. for the third time in less than two months there has been a major air disaster overseas. the latest happened early today in western india, when an air india express boeing 737 filled with people careened off a hill top runway, exploding into flames and killing nearly everyone on board. and just as in recent fatal crashes in libya, and russia, this one happened during a landing attempt. as investigators from india and the u.s. begin the search for answers at the airport in mangalore, the focus is also on the flight's miracle survivors, who, tonight, are telling their stories. from london, nbc's kyra simmons has the latest. >> reporter: the boeing 737 overshot the runway, plunging into a valley, bursting into flames. the tail one of the few parts of the aircraft still recognizable. firefighters and villagers went over difficult terrain to reach the wreckage. many died still strapped to their seats. a local reporter told nbc news -- >> one family lost 16 members, one single family losing

[ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey! that's what i'm talking about. thank you very much. how you guys feeling tonight? you guys feeling good? [ cheers and applause ] monday night right here in new york city. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. so, did you guys catch the big "lost" finale last night? [ cheers ] don't worry, don't worry. i will not tell what you happened. because i have no idea what happened. [ laughter ] it's pretty hard for the fans of "lost" now that it's finally over. if people want to get their fix, they'll have follow that other group that's lost and confused in the middle of the of the ocean, you know, bp. [ light laughter ] [ scattered applause ] actually a lot of good shows are ending this week, "lost," "24" and "law & order," yeah. bad news for fans of drama, but "glee" is still on. if you're a fan of -- [ cheers ] "glee" is on if you're a fan of drama! [ light laughter ] >> steve: fan of what? >> jimmy: if you're a fan of drama, yeah! yo

[ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you? thank you, roots. thank you very, very much, everybody. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon." what a great crowd. welcome to our show. thank you for coming out. let's get right to the news, everybody. let's get right to the news. in a new interview on abc's "nightline," jesse james says he's probably the most hated man in the world, yeah, and the ceo of bp was like, "dude, don't flatter yourself." [ laughter ] yeah. today bp executive doug suttles predicted that his company will survive the gulf coast oil spill. seriously? that's like running over someone's dog and going "don't worry, my car is fine." [ laughter ] who cares? who cares if bp is fine? [ cheers and applause ] you hear what they said? bp said today -- "in worst case scenario, it would take until august to clean up the gulf coast." that's not so bad. i mean who goes in the ocean during the summer anyway, right? [ laughter ] today is national bike to work day, everybody.

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> live from studio 1a in rockefeller mraz. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on this sunday. i'm lester holt. >> and i'm jenna wolfe, and it looks like another big embarrassment for buckingham palace. a report that sarah ferguson allegedly took money, a lot of money in exchange for access to her ex prince andrew. >> a spokesperson said they would not comment on the news of the duchess of york p. and the network will let you hear what shed in just a few minute sgloos also ahead the mothers of three americans being detained in iran returned home on saturday, relieved to have seen their children, but said they were still dift wrought after having to return without their kids. no formal charges have been filed. we will speak with one of the detainees' brothers this half hour. >>> what if you're only 13? we'll bring you one teen's incredible summit story and we'll tell you who he called. i'm surprised he didn't text. >> can you imagine doing that when i was 13? i couldn't even tell you what i was doing. >> you probably didn't have the

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening and well in to "dateline." i'm ann cur pep you bring a camera on the vacation to capture the good things. theyened capturing something quite different. the final hours of their ship as it sank. as far as we can tell no other sinking did be recorded by so many cameras as it happened and yet not many people even know the story of oceanos and what it tell us us about human nature. it just may be the most incredible disaster at sea you've never heard of. here's keith morrison. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> we get it right sometimes, this puny species of hours when we dream up a name for a place and this one is perfect. in south africa, the wild coast. jagged cliffs tower over fickle seed and untucked beaches shimmer in the sun light and african eden, magnificent, unspoiled. but look at beauty and beware. great white sharks prowl beneath violent storms that batter the rock-studded coast, whipping up waves so massive they swallow ships whole, spitting out their rusty hulls on nearby beaches, the wild coast is a nautical graveyard. >> th

is equally disappointed with nbc, the company where he worked most of his adult life, and with nbc universal classmates at harvard. has zucker called you? >> o'brien: no. >> kroft: you haven't talked to zucker since this offer was made to you? >> o'brien: that's right. you know, at some point, i'm sure i'm going to bump into these people. and, you know, i'm not sure we're going to be... have our arms around each other and drinking beer and singing old irish fight songs. because i don't think they know any. but... but, you know, i... i wish... this is going to sound crazy. i do wish these people well. >> kroft: jeff zucker was quoted as saying, "at the end of the day, the viewers voted." and they didn't like conan as the host of "the tonight show." >> o'brien: can i take back what i just said? >> kroft: you take issue with that. >> o'brien: in my opinion, i don't think that's fair or accurate. but he's entitled to his opinion. i think for anyone to say that the results were in after six months, that doesn't ring true to me. >> kroft: they said that the... for the first time in history, "the t

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. super tuesday 2010 unleashed a new power player within the republican party. but by week's end, rand paul, son of former presidential candidate ron paul, found the spotlight a little too hot, canceling his appearance on this program and raising doubts about his prospects for the fall. >> the next u.s. senator from kentucky, dr. rand paul. >> a political novice. kentucky ophthalmologist rand paul took on the republican establishment and won big. he won nearly 60% of the vote and put the tea party on the political map. >> i have a message, a message from the tea party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words -- we've come to take our government back. >> paul didn't mince words either. his belief in limited government prompted questions about his views on civil rights after he told the "louisville courier journal" he opposed the portion of the 1964 civil rights act prohibiting discrimination by private businesses. he was pressed further on the "the rachel maddow show."

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a saturday morning, i'm lester holt. >> we want to get right to our breaking news this morning, the crash of an air india express jet liner. >> it happened in the southern indian city of mangalore. the 737 in a flight to dubai  appears to have skidded off the run way during light rain. there are survivors, people actually thrown clear of the wreckage. >>> and then we will head to the gulf where there is growing anger over the gulf spill disaster. millions of gallons of crude oil still gushing into the gulf one month after the explosion of bp's oil platform. the plan is to pump heavy mud and cement into the well. >>> police a story of survival on the open sea. for three day days, three boaters took turns holding on to a cooler. >>> and a terrible case of bullying, five people charged with forcing a 14-year-old boy with a tattoo with offensive images and words. >>> first let's get the latest on the crash of that air liner in india. kia simmons joins us from london. >> reporter: already the loss

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> i'm meredith vieira. >>> faisal shahzad is said to be cooperating with investigators talking openly about his attempts to carry out a terror attack right here in new york. >> according to reports, shahzad told authorities he acted alone but he did say he was trained on how to make bombs during a recent trip to pakistan and why his arrest was remarkable coming just 53 hours after the attempted attack. we're now learning more about how close he came to getting away. a big question this morning -- how was a man recently placed on the no-fly list who purchased a last-minute, one-way ticket, in cash, able to board a flight to dubai before authorities caught up with him? we'll talk about that and much more with new york city's police commissioner ray kelly in a couple of minutes. >>> and the difficult recovery now under way in parts of the south following record rains and historic flooding. we're live in nashville, tennessee for

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and good morning. welcome to "today" on a friday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> i'm meredith vieira. lot of nervous eyes going to be watching wall street today following thursday's big decline, the dow closing down 376 points. >> that's right. that's even more than the overall loss during that so-called flash crash earlier this month when the dow dropped nearly 1,000 points in about 30 minutes before recouping some of those losses. so what is the turmoil mean? could we be headed for another significant downturn? we'll talk about that with cnbc's jim cramer. >>> also ahead, important news for women. a new study is revealing a potential break-through in the battle against ovarian cancer. scientists have found a way to catch the deadly disease earlier than ever before. dr. nancy snyderman will be here with details. >>> also, we've got some amazing video to show you, a man's touching reunion with a long, lost friend. this is a gorilla that he raised, then released into the wile five years earlier. it's really

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and good morning. welcome to "today" on a monday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> and i'm meredith vieira. top obama administration offici officials are flying over the louisiana marshland today with the senate delegation, and they are hearing an earful from those who say bp and the government 'll talk to a top bp official about that and much more, coming up in a couple of minutes. >>> then a shocking crime we've been following, the florida teenager accused of beating and stomping a fellow teenager nearly to death all over some text messages. what were they saying to each other that set off the violent confrontation? those texts revealed for the very first time this morning. >>> we'll also catch up with rocker bret michaels, who won the "celebrity apprentice" last night after he suffered a brain hemorrhage, a stroke and also learned he has a hole in his heart. >> he has been through a lot. it had to be a pretty good moment for him last night. >>> let's begin with this gulf oil spill and whether federal offi

as you know it got extended both the miss universe and the miss usa got extended by nbc for three years whereas the miss america pageant is off television at least off network television. >> larry: the idea of doing these as best described racy layout photos, publicity reason change, what? >> i think they're art and i think we're a sign of the times. the world has progressed from the old-fashioned beauty pageant to what we have now and the photographer is a great photographer, world class photographer and this is what he wanted to do, and it really is high art, and the girls are magnificent. >> they are beautiful. what do you say to the critics who say it looks more like victoria's secret than a beauty pageant? >> well i think these girls in many respects are more beautiful than victoria's secret. the pictures are much more beautiful and they're really not very racy. there's no exposure. there's none of that. they're just very high line and this is 2010, which is a different decade from the decades we've been talking about, larry. >> larry: speaking of that, let's take a look back at wh

comments to the gentlewoman from california, i'm not taking a position for or against the comcast/nbc universalmerger, but i do think the department's job is to conduct a fair and expeditious review, apply the facts of the law and make a decision based on that analysis. i have every confidence that you and the department will do just that. >> thank you. >> we thank you. i yield back. >> i'll reclaim and yield back, madam chairman. >> gentleman yields back. we now recognize the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen, for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. general holder, we had talked about racial disparities earlier, i think, last year when you were before us, and i have a bill which i have introduced the justice integrity act recently introduced in the senate by senator biden. we've held back on the bill at the request, i believe, of justice department because you were doing an internal study, i think. have you concluded that study? >> no. the studies that we are doing are still, they are fairly close to, as i like to say coming in to a landing, and i'm starting to hear now back from the ta

nbc. >> you went to the university san diego. >> i taught there for 14 years and then i went to ucla. >> are you still teaching? >> no. >> when did you start this book and how did you go about researching it? >> i started this -- it took me two years so i started it four years ago this summer. i knew a lot about the first part. modernistorian of early europe. i had to understand the economic developments as well. and then after that, when we got into the industrial revolution i simply read what scholars did. but the interesting thing was that i never thought of it as a book fof scholars. i thought of it as a book for the general public. and that was so liberating. i did not think of all of those critics that would be arguing my thesis. i just thought that should rule readers wanting to learn about the history of capitalism. and it was fun to write. >> were you surprised -- you studied history all of your life, and if you did not know about something and you found out about capitalism. >> a lot of things. i did not know much about germany in the 19th century. and yet when i saw how both t

have been an altercation just two weeks ago before her death but the university of virginia and the charlottesville police both tell nbc that there are no reports on file of any domestic violence issues which begs the question, were there missed warning signs here? that's a question the university is looking into as well. we're told yeardley love's body is now with her family on her way back to home in maryland near baltimore to try to plan final arrangement. but once again just a sad, sad story with spiraling questions coming out of it, tamron. >> jeff, thank you very much. >>> the times square bomb suspect was just moments away from leaving this country before police nabbed him on a plane pulling out of the gate. how did he almost get away? "newsweek" magazine's michael isikoff writing about this. we'll talk about the investigation with him. >>> and we'd like to know what you think on any of the stories we're covering today. go to twitter.msnbc.com. look up my name and send us a tweet. the smell of freshly juiced wheat grass and hand pressed shirts. whatever scents fill your household, purina tidy cats scoop helps ne

. >> nbc's norah o'donnell had more from the university of virginia campus in charlottesville. >> reporteris a tragic story. two seniors just 22 years old, weeks away from graduating. they were stars on their la crosse teams. now one is dead and the other one is behind bars. we have now heard from the attorney for george huguely who's been charged with first-degree murder. his attorney saying that this was unintended, that it was an accident. that happened earlier this morning at a bond hearing. bond was not set. that was pushed back until june, until more evidence is uncovered. an autopsy already under way for 22-year-old yeardley love who police say was murdered in her bedroom. her roommates found her, thought that it was alcohol poisoning, called 911. when the police arrived they say that they turned her over and that there were obvious and serious signs of trauma. within hours they were able to focus their investigation on her former boyfriend, george huguely. he was then arrested. he is now, of course, behind bars, in jail awaiting bond and of course his lawyer saying it was an accide

university. >>> still to come tonight, one local hospital is taking the guess work out of emergency room waiting time. >>> a member of the nbcamily has won the mega millions jackpot, and then showed up for work. >>> plus, veronica's back to >>> when you have to go to a hospital emergency room, the average waiting time is about an hour. you may have spent much longer than that waiting for medical care. the one local hospital is letting patients know about wait times before they arrive. >> the first thing you think about when you go to a hospital is, i'm going to have to wait. >> mike came to the emergency room at restin emergency center because his eye was burning and tearing. he didn't want to spend his whole day at the er. >> that's half the battle of coming to the hospital, you just don't know. >> a new program lets you know the wait time in advance. you send a text message with the letters er to 23,000, and you'll get a text back asking for your zip code. the hospital replies with the wait time on that moment. on this day, the wait is 14 minutes, meaning it will take 14 minutes between the time you walk into the hospital

nbc's jeff rossen on the ground for us today at the campus at the university of virginia in charlottesville stunning admission. all this coming out in the new court documents. >> yeah, real bombshell, peter, in these court documents. bombshell admission that puts the suspect, george huguely right at the scene of the crime. as you mentioned, kicked that door down. we'll get into the details in a minute. what's disturbing this could be all over a bad breakup, peter. in fact, he now says after kicking the door down, george huguely told police he knocked her head against the wall over and over again. it was inside this campus bar at a post exam party where 22-year-old yeardley love would spend her final hours sunday. police say when this stunning star lacrosse player went home, her life would end. according to new court papers, her on again, lately off again boyfriend george huguely, a player on the men's lacrosse team was about to pay a visit, admitting to police he kicked his right foot through the door that leads to love's bedroom. he went on confessing he was involved in an altercation with

nbc news, venice, louisiana. >> the crude has now entered currents that will carry it up the atlantic ocean and up the east coast. today a university of maryland researcher, however, said barring a hurricane or strong storm, maryland, delaware, and virginia beaches should be safe from the oil. atlantic currents are expected to keep most of it out at sea. it's predicted that the worst thing mid-atlantic beachgoers will likely encounter would be a few sandy tar balls. the eruption activity in ice land's volcano is slowing today. as of yesterday, the volcano has only been producing steam. no more magma, no more ash like the massive cloud tham shut down air traffic in europe for six days back in april. meteorologists say it's too soon to say whether the volcanic eruption is over, but for now they say it's quiet. >> this afternoon, police say road rage led to a shooting on the baltimore-washington parkway. this happened last night just south of route 198 in laurel. the parkway was shut down for several hours. investigators say it all appeared to stem from a fender bender. >> the 911 call came in just before 11:30 last night. reports of

university of virginia la crosse star is talking now to police. george huguely told authorities his ex-girlfriend's bedroom. then he admitted to grabbing yeardley love and shaking her. but it didn't end there. nbc'ssen is on the charlottesville campus right now. jeff, what are you learning about how things went down? >> reporter: it really is a bomb shell admission, will end up being a big kind of breaking point and turning point in this case. police are now painting a picture of sort of a toucurbule relationship. they were together, had sort of an on and off relationship for two years. friends say it often got physical, especially lately being that they broke up just a week ago. but no one reported it. there were no reports to the university of any kind of domestic violence. so the question becomes, of course, were there some missed warning signs here? as you mentioned, the bombshell admission from george huguely when he was being interrogated by police, within hours of yeardley's death, was that they told him, you can have a lawyer. you can stop talk ing. he waved his rights and kept on talking. i'm quoting here from the court documents. he says he kicked his right foot through the door that le

nbc news, washington. >>> the suspect in this case apparently had ties to the washington area. faisal shahzad attended southeastern university in d.c. more than 10 years ago according to "the wall street journal." seu closed last year, the grad yat school now controls the records. it says it has not released information on shahzad. >>> metro is stepping up security in response to that failed attack in new york. police officers will be setting up extra patrols outside a number of metro stations. increased presence was seen outside nationals park. metro says there is no information that leads it to believe there is a threat in washington, however, it will remain vigilant and increase patrols. >> it's time to look at our forecast for today. see what kind of a day we're going to have. a beautiful day yesterday. gosh, that was you lovely. >> more today. if you like that here it comes. we're starting off beautifully. right now 61 in washington, and in the cool 50s in prince george's county, arlington, in the mid-50s, the upper 40s to near 50 around the blue ridge, shenandoah valley. to the south in southern maryland in charles cal