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The spill happened after an oil barge ran into a tow boat. next 66 rounds, thats how long a missouri school spelling bee lasted before they ran out of the words. they spelled all 300 words correctly. good for them. a new list is being drawn up. theyll face off next month. finally, $31.4 million, thats how much the lego movie brought in at the box office making it the number one movie in the area. meanwhile, at the daytona 500 yesterday nascars biggest star won its biggest race. >> but that...

Out there, especially by wednesday, making their way to the southeast. the other side of this, the system moving out, cold air moving in. so windy, not only is it cold, but cold and windy. that is the worst when youre trying to walk outside. and yes, if its not bad enough, by tuesday and wednesday, were going to throw in a little bit of snow up near d.c., also new york city and boston. youre welcome! >> 1.8 inches is nothing. nothing. >> no, not for 129 fethe 12 fee received in the last few week...

Trees and landscaping. it was horrible. >> you have to get it off before we get another few inches. indra, thank you. breaking overnight, a stretch of the mississippi river closed to water traffic as crews work to clean up an oil spill. coast guard officials say a barge ran into a tow boat between baton rouge and new orleans over the weekend. public drinking water intakes on the river were closed as a precaution. officials do not know how much oil was spilled. no one was hurt. all the barges h...

>> a nightmare. an absolute nightmare. please, isaac, go somewhere else. save everybody the drama in florida. moving on this morning, other news, federal health experts predict this may be the worst year ever for west nile virus. texas so far, the hardest-hit state. last night aerial spraying began in houston after similar flights over the dallas area in the past week. west nile has infected now more than 1,100 people in dozens of states. it has already killed 41 people. three northern calif...

An absolute nightmare. please, isaac, go somewhere else. save everybody the drama in florida. moving on this morning, other news, federal health experts predict this may be the worst year ever for west nile virus. texas so far is the hardest-hit state. last night aerial spraying began in houston after similar flights over the dallas area in the past week. west nile has infected now more than 1,100 people in dozens of states. it has already killed 41 people. three northern california counties...

finally, a jobs report that beats expectations. sure, expectations were low, under 100,000, but look at this official net gain for july. 163,000. thats the most new jobs since february. the unemployment rate, meanwhile, a separate survey ticked up last month to 8.3%. christine romans watching this all-important gauge of economic vitality, shall we say. would you call the july numbers vital? i would say its vital to the presidents re-election prospects and vital to every single family i...

Hey there, here is what is happening, closing arguments are over for the man accused of killing jennifer hudsons family. the families of who exchange students that died when a barge ran over their tour boat will split a settlement, and lets get back to "hardball." welcome back, a bruising loss for dick lugar of indiana.

>> lean forward at 8:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. a panel subpoenaed to get e-mails. the committee voted 14-9 along party lines to approve the subpoena of west wing correspondents. democrats on the panel said it was unnecessary because the white house already produced tens of thousands of pages of documents related to the loan. officials say they are ready to invoke privilege to protect communications. heres a look at the other news today. video shows the horrific july 2010 collision that kille...

Homes. weve now reached day 100 of the gulf oil disaster. the dubious milestone as b.p. is still trying to permanently cap the well. but theres another unrelated oil leak in the gulf. joining us now, live from grand isle, louisiana is craig boswell who has been stationed down there for sometime now. whats up? theres another spill? >> exactly. good morning to you. not as big as the b.p. oil spill but people here are wondering what in the world can happen next. what happened is a barge ran into an...

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