his deputy thurman higginbotham refused to even answer most questions, invoking the 5th amendment. the army launched its own criminal investigation, even as it promises to restore the dignity owed to the nation's fallen. in still one more story out of the army tonight, pentagon officials tell nbc news that 22-year-old private first class bradley manning, suspected of leaking a classified video to wikileaks, is on his way tonight from kuwait to washington, d.c. where he's expected to face court martial for mishandling of classified material. manning is also considered a person of interest in this latest wikileaks story. pentagon officials say that essentially manning has been placed under suicide watch out of fear that he may harm himself. brian? >> jim miklaszewski on duty for us at the pentagon to start things off for us tonight. jim, thanks. >>> there is sad news to report about the second u.s. sailor missing in afghanistan since last friday. today the pentagon confirmed the body of 25-year-old petty officer third class jarod newlove from washington state has been recovered. this

. >> sreenivasan: metzler's former deputy, thurman higginbotham, generally blamed out-moded record keeping. >> it was always conceptual that anything done by hand for 140- plus years that there would have to be some errors somewhere. >> sreenivasan: higginbotham refused to answer most other questions, citing his right against self-incrimination. the estimate on how much oil has spilled into michigan's kalamazoo river rose sharply today. the environmental protection agency said more than one million gallons of oil may have leaked from a pipeline since monday. the oil could reach lake michigan, 80 miles downstream. and, in new orleans, the government point man on the gulf oil spill, thad allen, said the effort to plug the blown well could begin by this weekend. on wall street today, the dow jones industrial average lost more than 30 points to close at 10,467. the nasdaq fell nearly 13 points to close at 2,251. toyota has announced yet another recall in north america. 400,000 vehicles in the u.s. and canada may have steering problems. the recall is mostly for avalons from the 2000 to 2004 mod

metzler and thurman higginbotham. we will do seven-minute rounds of questions and we will after this panel we have a second panel of officials that will testify and it is the custom of this committee that we have our witnesses sworn in and so if you all would stand and i will administer the oath. do you swear that the testimony that you will give before the subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> mr. metzler is the former superintendent, thank you, gentlemen. you may be seated. john metzler is the former superintendent of arlington national cemetery and thurman higginbotham is the former deputy superintendent of arlington national cemetery. and we will defer to you all for your opening statements. >> good morning, madam chairman. members of the committee. as the committee is well aware i was the superintendent of arlington national cemetery for the last 19 years. prior to arlington i had 17 years' experience with the department of veterans affairs and thei