noaa's satellite operations facility. i went to it today.om thomas o how critical that data is. especially for tracking tropical systems, hurricanes. >> this is critical for protection of property, warnings. 24/7. the first image, for example, for hurricanes that a person in the public would see to help them warn, to evacuate. the satellite data used 24/7, is used in a forecast model, hurricane models, every day models, the forects they put out every day. >> those models that he's talking about, that's the guidance we look at to put together the forecast. the beer the satellite data gets, the better our forecast will get. we're not just talking about tracking hurricanes but other thing as well. the next generation will be out very soon. satellites in ace, by the way, the size of a school bus. it takes about six years to build one of those. take a look at these satellite imges. they're looped together. this system hear, that is karl. it made landfall over the southern yucatan. it is moving to the west and will reemerge. that's igor, añlcatego

the skimmers, we are informed by noaa, i saw a flotilla of them when i flew out to the raid, succeeded in gathering up 33%. dispersants got that up to about 13. given the amount -- the enormous effort, it seems to me a very disappointing results, frankly. the consequence of a lot of things, one of which is the failure of technology. the skimmers, the booms, the dispersants to be involved and developed. we will raise some of those questions today. we will consider the use of dispersants, and we will discuss how and why they were employed in the gulf. in such quantities [unintelligible] both of which represent novel uses of dispersants and suggest there was enormous confidence

noaa troubles in virginia. headlights northbound headed to springfield. red is southbound on the way to richmond. a local all the way to clinton in the right lane. quiet across the american legion bridge. back to you. >> thank you. >>> our top story, d.c. will have a new mayor. 90% of 36 reporting, council chair vincent gray has defeated incumbent mayor adrian fenty in the democratic primary. gray came out here early this morning to declare victory. fenty's spokesman says he will concede the race. the primary victory in almost guarantees the results for greg. >> what is next for the new nominee, pamela brown? >> a busy night and busy morning at the washington corridor tel. a lot of enthusiastic supporters of vincent gray. gray has ousted mayor adrian fenty. a fenty spokesperson says that the mayor has conceded and that he will call vincent gray sometime soon. he was the youngest mayor and was a big backer of education. this was a referendum of controversial school chancellor michelle rhee, som said -- some say. vincent gray says that he wanted chancellor

noaa observes a lot of areas. the amount of moisture in the atmosphere.mperature and the level of the sea itself. all of these together support these temperature observations that together support a warming planet. >> okay. but if we go into 2011 we shouldn't expect to see the temperatures go up, because the temperatures could shift back down? >> yeah, there's going to be some noise or some chop. the long-term trend is up. the important thing is not so much -- it's not really what's the warmest. we all get wrapped up in, is this going to break a record. the important thing, you know, this is 306 consecutive months with above-normal temperature. and whether this year or next year is the warmest or the second warmest or the third warmest, you know, you really don't have to go to the worst house, touch the worst house in the neighborhood to know you're in a bad neighborhood. we're in a really warm part of history. >> helping us break it down. as we've been living through this summer we all know it's been warm across this country. thank you, sir. that's going

a noaa study last month said 75% of the oil was scooped up, burned off or evaporated. now researchers say they have a simpler answer. it sank. >> no, it's not gone. it in places where nobody looks for it. it's stuck on the bottom. a lot of it is on the bottom. >> reporter: dr. joye and her team have been taking core samples of the sea floor. she says they found a field of oil two inches thick spreading as far as 70 miles from the well head. >> we're finding it everywhere that we've looked. >> reporter: i wonder if you could pinpoint one thing for us that is most worrisome about your findings so far. >> there's nothing living in these cores other than bacteria. i have yet to see a living shrimp, a living worm, nothing. >> reporter: joye, who cautions those findings are preliminary, says if those organisms are effected, eventually larger fish and perhaps humans may also be. in a statement, the government says, it's working with academic scientists to monitor aggressively where the oil is subsurface. but that hasn't always been the case. in may, joye was part of a team fe

a noaa study last month said 75% of the oil was scooped up, burned off or evaporated.say they have a simpler answer. it sank. >> no, it's not gone. it's in places where nobody looked for it. it's on the bottom. a lot of it is on the bottom. >> reporter: dr. joye and her team have been taking core samples. she said she found a field of oil two inches thick spreading as far as 70 miles from the well head. >> we're finding it everywhere. >> i wonder if you could pinpoint one thing for us that's most worrisome about your findings so far. >> there's nothing living here other than bacteria. i've yet to see a living shrimp, a living worm, nothing. >> reporter: joye says if those organisms are affected perhaps fish and larger fish would be. working with academy scientists to monitor the oil surface. but that hasn't always been th case. in may, joye was part of a team feature and this newscast that discovered giant underwater plumes of oil. at first the administration demanded that they stop talking about the plume. ultimately the government and bp acknowledged the plume's exis

we have, today i have 11 research vessels that we are working very closely with noaa and the scientific and academic community doing water and setment samples and sampling close to shore. more importantly, sampling for seafood safety. this is the most tested seafood anywhere in the world now. most of the areas that were closed because of the spill are now reopening. >> that's the latest on the bp oil situation in the gulf of mexico. >>> pope benedict xvi talked about the child abuse scandal that rocked the church. he met with five victims. he expressed deep sorrow to the innocent victims of the unspeakable crimes. well, this wasn't enough to persuade thousands. they gathered near hyde park. so, the role of women in the church is also a sore point for many catholics. today, catholic women are gathering in chicago for the 31st anniversary of the women's conference. they will screen "pink smoke over the vatican." they are women who are ordained as priests. joining us live the film's director, jules heart. first, let's get a small view of "pink smoke over the vatican." ♪ >> in another centu

noaa was busy forecasting the season for us.ck, the track on igor right now puts it just to the east of bermuda. see that dot? that's bermuda. we're talking about sunday to monday. but it will come pastbermuda with some hurricane force winds and they probably lash bermuda for a day to a day and a half. so they're going to get a lot of rain a the storm system swipes by at the end of the weekend. what we'll see here are some very dangerous rip currents again along the ast. luckily even with three storm until late in the season, we have not been bothered along the east coast. if you're heading to the beach, too, water temperatures at 76. air temperature right now, 77 at sterling. clinton now at 79 degrees. you folk around frederick, mount airy. people say you don't mention mount ry enough so there you go. 60 by tomorrow morning. we're going to have a lovely weekend. should be a good weekend for college football, too. no major weather systems across the nation. the weekend is great going into next week. 79 to 82. maybe a few clouds

a noaa study last month said 75% of the oil was scooped up, eyrned off, or evaporated. now researchers say they have a simpler answer. it sank. >> the oil is not gone. it's in pl it's in places where nobody's looked for it. a lot of i there's stuff on the bottom. a lot of it is on the bottom. >> reporter: dr. joye and her team h team have been taking core samples of the sea floor. sh she says they found a field of oil two inches thick spreading as far as 70 as far as 70 miles from the that we've looked. >> i won in we're finding it everywhere that we've looked. >> i wonder if you could pinpoint one thing for us that is most worrisome about your findings so far. those findings are preliminary, says >> there's nothing living in these cores other than bacteria. i have yet to see a living shrimp, a living worm. nothing. >> reporter: joye, who cautions those findings are preliminary, says if those organisms are affected eventually larger fish and perhaps humans may also be. in a statement the government scys it's "working with academic scientists to monitor aggressively wher

an official with noaa says this finding does not necessarily contradict a government study issued sayings captured, evaporated or dispursed into the water column. the official says the oil in these samples could be part of the 25% that got away. brian todd, cnn, washington. >>> cnn is your hurricane headquarters. right now we're watching hurricane igor as it moves closer to bermuda. this is what igor looks like from space. in southern mexico, karl is causing problems. these pictures were sent to us by one of our i-reporters in boca del rio. it's dumping lots of rain on vulnerable areas. jacqui jeras is in the weather center. >> we have julia out there as well as two other tropical disturbances, so things continue to remain well above average and very active in the atlantic and we'll show you where the storms are on the big picture here. this is igor, julia. karl fizzled away here, but they have a new tropical wave and one right here. igor remains a primary concern right now. this is a powerful hurricane, a category 2. maximum sustained winds around 105 miles an hour. you've got to get up

first and foremost, listen to radio and area television reports and the noaa radio for reports of flooding actually happening in your area. be prepared to evacuate at a moment's noticent have everything prepared to head for higher ground and stay there. stay away from floodwaters. do not try to drive-thru any sort of water. keep children out of the water, be sure you are especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize a flood danger. >> since we are under a tornado watch, we want to make sure you are prepared for that. pick a safe room where you and your family can gather in the event of a tornado. this should be the lowest floor of your homes with no windows. affix your lawn furniture, anything that can be picked up by the wind. make sure you are always listening and watching for warnings. >> we'll put everything online. we are constantly updating our website. when you get there, find the information you need any time of the day. >> a massive recall from fisher price. this one is huge and has millions of parents checking their kids toys. >> coming up, what items are involved.

we're working very closely with noaa, academic, scientific community doing deep water and sediment samples and also sampling very close to shore. more importantly sampling for seafood safety. this the most tested food anywhere in the world right now. the good news is, most of these areas that were closed because of this spill are now reopening. >> you mentioned, though, admiral, you're still wondering where the oil went. what are you or crews able to do in the gulf to investigate that, then i want to ask you about that pressure test that will be taking place to be able to assure people they should feel comforted by the progress on the well. first talk to me about the investigation of where that oil went. >> okay. most people are familiar with the oil budget and it shows 26% of the oil remaining. of the 4.9 million barrels estimated to have been released. we're doing a significant amount of water sampling down to depths of 5,000 feet, sediment sampling. what we're finding are areas in the parts per million, which would not be detectible by the naked eye, to be placed in a glass of water. th

noaa scientists believe a perfect storm may really have parted the red sea, allowing moses to make aat escape of his people. the study found a wind of 63 miles per hour lasting for 12 hours would have pushed back the waters exposing mud flats, for four hours and that would have created a dry passable about two miles long and three miles wide. archaeologists, on the other hand, have found little evidence that something like that ever happened. >>> here with the sports a little taste of the sharks? >> a few days into training camp, now the games begin. can you believe? >> no i can't. >> scrimmage in the tank, tomorrow, preseason in anaheim, check in drop the puck on another season with high hopes much the niners hopes with dashed with a last-second field goal by the saints. we got a ray of hope in the aftermath. plus a ground-level look at jerry rice's number retirement ceremony coming up, while jeff has another celebration. jeff? >>> good evening, i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. we are gdansk the salsa, tasting the salsa, tell you about a ev bent this saturday plu event this sat

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there has been a sense of monitoring that has been conducted by noaa and epa. weeks ago i sent a letter to the unified area commander and directed him to come up with a comprehensive hydrocarbon monitoring plan. my goal was to take the extensive efforts and see if we can unify them into a comprehensive knowledge management based picture of the gulf of mexico as it relates to the presence of hydrocarbons in the water column. to date, there have been over 27,000 samples taken in over 182,000 square miles in the gulf of mexico. but my goal is to bring all of this together and get it into one coherent picture that both the government and the academic community can look at and understand, discussed, and draw conclusions from. to that end, the admiral is comparing implementation plan for this unified testing program. and this week we are socializing that plan with academic institutions are round of the goals. yesterday we had meetings at the university of south florida, st. petersburg. but today we are meeting of the gulf of mexico institute in biloxi, mississippi, a

the skimmers, we are informed by noaa, i saw a flotilla of them when i flew out to the raid, succeeded in gathering up 33%. dispersants got that up to about 13. given the amount -- the enormous effort, it seems to me a very disappointing results, frankly. the consequence of a lot of things, one of which is the failure of technology. the skimmers, the booms, the dispersants to be involved and developed. we will raise some of those questions today. we will consider the use of dispersants, and we will discuss how and why they were employed in the gulf. in such quantities [unintelligible] both of which represent novel uses of dispersants and suggest there was enormous confidence placed in dispersants, more confidence than i allowed in prince william sound where the dispersants were more troublesome and more toxic than they are today. we will learn more about that. looking at the quality of specific decisions, i think it is important and this is what is a fundamental question. how did we get here? how did we get into a situation where the need to improvise was so great? in many cases, the r

the skimmers, we are informed by noaa, i saw a flotilla of them when i flew out to the raid, succeeded in gathering up 33%. dispersants got that up to about 13. given the amount -- the enormous effort, it seems to me a very disappointing results, frankly. the consequence of a lot of things, one of which is the failure of technology. the skimmers, the booms, the dispersants to be involved and developed. we will raise some of those questions today. we will consider the use of dispersants, and we will discuss how and why they were employed in the gulf. in such quantities [unintelligible] both of which represent novel uses of dispersants and suggest there was enormous confidence placed in dispersants, more confidence than i allowed in prince william sound where the dispersants were more troublesome and more toxic than they are today. we will learn more about that. looking at the quality of specific decisions, i think it is important and this is what is a fundamental question. how did we get here? how did we get into a situation where the need to improvise was so great? in many cases, the r

a lot of people are questioning whether the fda and noaa is doing a good job.t i would like on opening day of season is for you to come down and go fishing with us and enjoy some red snapper. that will be a wait for our community to tell the nation that we are open for business. >> i cannot think of a better invitation. unless there is something that i cannot get an out of, i will be there with you on opening day. i promise you i will not only eat it, i will enjoy it. >> we look forward to being able to do this. anything that you can do to help this issue along because we are concerned about it. >> you know, captain, you are concerned because you have seen what this has done to the economy, to your business, to your colleagues, friends, neighbors and one of the concerns that i have to your point is that i think the seafood is safe. you can look at me and tell that i have not pushed away from the food. i think that the seafood is safe, but there is a concern. in the minds of a residence across the country there is a little confidence in government right now. how

an official with noaa tells cnn this finding does not necessarily contradict a government study issuedut 75% of the oil from the spill was either captured, evaporated naturally or dispersed into the water column in microscopic droplets. they say this could be part of the 25% that got away. brian todd, washington. >>> a triple threat swirling around in the atlantic. the latest is tropical storm karl, and then there are hurricanes julia and igor, both powerful category 4 storms. jacqui jeras is tracking that. busy woman you are? >> it's been a busy season. typically throughout an entire season we would see 11 named storms, and karl is number 11. we are only halfway done. yes, things have been very, very busy. karl has made landfall about an hour or so ago on the yucatan peninsula, bringing torrential downpours, 3 to 5 inches with isolated amounts of 8 inches. it will move across the peninsula and make it's way back into open waters into the bay of campeche. it will weaken as it moves over land as it typically does but it gets over that energy source, basically that warm water, and ramps

because when we look at hurricanes from weather service, noaa satellite, we're talking 22,000 miles instation only 200 miles or so in space. so the pictures are really, really clean. hey, ali, tell me how fast -- i know this is a rhetorical question. how fast dow think the space station is moving right now? how fast? just give me a number. randomly. >> i couldn't even venture a guess. >> i know. it's impossible to put your hand around this. 17,000 miles an hour. it rotates around the earth every 91 minutes. so every time it goes by, we get new pictures of these storms. as a matter of fact, we even have pictures from julia but they're not as impressive. >> good thing i didn't guess because i wouldn't be close. >> remember how the shuttle has to catch up to the thing to be able to dock to it. they're going 17,000 miles an hour in tandem and then they dock. that's pretty cool. that's good driving. >> i complain about having to parallel park. chad, good to see you. thanks very much for keeping me posted. >> bring me up there sometime. >> wherever i am you are welcome at least virtually on

an official from noaa says this is maybe from the 25% that got away.s working with academic scientists to monitor aggressively where the oil is subsurface from the near shore to the seafloor. wolf? >> but they found more oil in the shallower water? >> yes, and dr. joy says that is ominous as well. because if oil resurges from the sediment that would be suspended in the water again, and kill some fish when it seems to be killing source lower in the food chain closer to the sediment. >>> and there may be a civil complaint against bp. they say it is likely, and the justice department says that the government may seek compensation for the cost of removing oil or for the cost of increased public services and loss of tax revenue and for the destruction of natural resource. bp says it has no comment. >>> he gurricane igor is pickinp steam, and we will find out where it is likely to hit. >>> and also, the push to rescue 33 men in the chilean mine, and are efforts slowing to reach them? stay with us. a lot of news is happening today in "the situation room." kee

on the noaa forecast, so far we're a little light to the forecast. we have 2 1/2 months left. we have one system on the board. that's igor. igor at this point is forecast to move on a southern path to move towards the islands in the southern part of the u.s. we'll see if it makes its curve into the atlantic and becomes a problem. on the west coast, in the area of san francisco and san bruno. normally in the bay area, we have 25-mile-per-hour winds on a day like this. we'll have 20 to 25 there. watch the remnants of what was hermine move into the middle of the country. there's some powerful thunderstorms. 10 inches of rain in a lot of the locations, wherever the moisture goes. me >> all of america's -- wow. all of america's weather coming up on this friday in just a minute. george and robin? >> you are happy the weekend is upon us. >> i am. >> thank you, sam. >>> after a year in iranian prison, one of the american hikers set to be released tomorrow. what does that mean for the other two hikers still being held? >>> and later, are your pants lying to you? why your pants size may

an official with noaa says this doesn't necessarily contradict a study last month saying 75% of the oilll captured, evaporated naturally or went into the water column. they say the oil in these samples could be part of the 25% that got away. brian todd, washington. >>> it is they award for college football players, so why is one winner giving the trophy back? [ male announcer ] where are people with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis going? they're discovering the first self-injectable ra medicine you take just once a month. it's simponi™, and taken with methotrexate, it helps relieve the pain, stiffness, and swelling of ra with one dose a month. visit 4simponi.com to see if you qualify for a full year of cost support. simponi™ can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious and sometimes fatal events can occur, such as infections, cancer in children and adults, heart failure, nervous system disorders, liver or blood problems, and allergic reactions. before starting simponi™, your doctor should test you for tb and assess your risk of infections, includin

this is the noaa map. it is now, just 13% of all federal waters.t the high, during the oil spill, 37% of those federal waters were off limits. so now 87% is perfectly fine. the federal government keeps reminding everybody that the seafood is perhaps most inspected in the world right now and it is safe to eat. at joe patty's seafood, a legendary fish wholesaler in pensacola, florida, they are dealing with a public that nine out of 10 customers still want to know and they're asking, did this come from the gulf of mexico and did it come from the deepwater horizon-bp oil pollution zone? so they have now put on every sign, exactly where that fish or shrimp came from and this is the first time they have done this in 80 years. >> we've people didn't ask where it come from but now today they do. ever since the spill they want to know where it come from. >> and louisiana seafood association which really represents 70% of all fishing and selling of fish products in the gulf of mexico, they met with bp earlier this week trying to get bp to give them more mone

you have shrimping boats not going out on the water, shrimping and sitting there in the marinas and noaaanic and atmospheric administration reopened, repeatedly more and more federal waters from a high of 37% of federal gulf waters off limits, it is now down to 13%. but fish wholesalers like the joe patty's seafood of pence coal la, sales for this year are down to date more than 50% from this point last year. their issue is a demand issue, for months, the nation watched tv news and oily waters and animals and the source of everything for sale at the counter, exactly where it was caught, is now clearly marked for all customers. >> people didn't ask where it came from and now, today they do, and ever since the spill they want to know where it comes from. >> reporter: what is happening is much of the public still prefers eating seafood that was caught out of the deep water horizon pollution zone. the reason pensacola seafood festival brought out a lot of locals to support their local fishermen, the local comfort was gulf shrimp and fish and is not widespread nationally, despite repeated rem

there has been testing with the noaa oceanographic vehicles. a lot of people have been working on this very hard since the start of the spill. with the well head under control, the shifting concern to hydrocarbons is the prudent thing to do at this point. we are anxious to unify the technology effort in support of understanding better. i would be glad to take any questions you have for me. please, go ahead. [unintelligible] what are you hoping it will tell you about the explosion and how happen? >> it will be in the purview of what we call the joint investigation team. the team has been holding hearings not only in new orleans but here. that was the body that issued the subpoenas for the blowout preventer, so there'll be a chain of custody to make sure we know exactly the condition and that there is continuous monitoring. a ultimately it will be taken to a point somewhere on land where everything we have put together with the other debris and pieces that have been recovered from the rig itself. a lot of this is currently at the coast guard stat

combat forces from iraq with an adviser to the iraqi parliament, noaa feldman, and ben cardin.eries on electoral politics continues with the affect of third-party candidates. we will be joined by richard winger. washington journalists live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. homeland security secretary spoke this evening. her 20 minutes speech concluded a forum on airline security. >> @ thank you for that kind introduction. it is wonderful to be here. it is a great honor to bear project to appear before you this evening. let me begin by thanking alpa and the nation's airline pilots for the work that you do every day to ensure that millions of travelers reach their destinations safely and securely. you literally keep our nation's airline industry flying and global air cargo moving. every day we can trust you with the safety of our families, the whole of the ones, our friends. the weight of the responsibility that you carry it is not lost on us at the department of homeland security. you remained one of our most important partners, not only in protecting our aviation system

during that day, all of votes on the house floor, i have two committees that i am on noaa serve on those committees and we will have hearings, meetings for hours on end. is the system perfect? absolutely not. can it be improved? of course. it has a 12% approval rating and there is a long way to go. but the heart of europe constructive -- criticism is made in a constructive way. i will tell you that in my view, most of you will not think i am shooting straight with you but i think most members of congress to the same thing i do. i think that they are good, honest, honorable people who serve their community but the same conviction that i tried to serve mine. and yet when you get to washington, say spent too much time in washington and forget what is happening in real america. and this is real america, the beltway is not. so thank you for your constructive comments. i will give you my word that as your representative, i will do everything i can as one person to try to give you a reason to believe one day that the message got through and that you can have confidence again in your government,

i've been working really word with the administrator of noaa to put together a massive testing plan foro analysis on the sea floor to see if there's a issues resting down there. we have a lot of anecdotal reports coming out from these research institutions. what we need to do is aggregate our efforts together and try to take a collective look at the gulf of mexico. that's what we're planning on right now. >> if this happened tomorrow, admiral, hopefully no fatalities. if it happens tomorrow, do you think now this -- there's a system in place to cap it quickly and pretend to -- and stop a catastrophe like this from happening again? >> well, a system has been developed and was successfully deployed on the 15th of july to shut the well down. there's extensive conversation going on now between the oil companies including b.p. to capture the engineering that was done that had not been created in the gulf of mexico before this event for future recovery and response operations. it will be a shame not to lose all the technical work that went into these recovery systems and not have them availab