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>> so theres a rat that came, theres a rat that came and ran across the street and ive never seen that before. its like hes the pied piper. >> bees that swarm the white house. >> and now flies are following him everywhere. >> flies are -- >> may i? >> sure. >> did you see the -- did you see amitiville horror? im just saying. >> heres glenn beck who is -- had his jacket torn off by frenzied female fans before he came in here. >> you know, didnt know jacket was required. i didnt know we were at la...

But pistole wont be comfortable until they get it all. >> we know that terrorists are looking for opportunities to exploit any vulnerabilities, any weaknesses we have, any gaps in our layered security. >> reporter: a security gap which today is narrower than ever but still far from closed. lisa stark, abc news, dulles, virginia. >> its a little scary almost a decade after 9/11, not all that cargo is still being screened. >> absolutely. i guess shippers can even get in on it now. tsa is saying th...

Posts" dan balz. jeff, let me start with you. there seems to be a little bit of evidence in national polling, a lot more evidence in state by state and district by district polling that republicans dont have this healthy lead anymore in a lot of the swing districts or senate races, that the gaps closed. whats going on here? is it just sort of summer vacation, odd ball polling? or are democrats coming home, or is something else going on? >> i think quite frankly we dont know the answer to that qu...

Catastrophe. allen chernoff, cnn, new york. as you know, bp has faced blistering criticism for months along the gulf coast. but today environmental activists launched a new campaign on its home turf. cnns zane vergy has the details from london. at 5:30 this morning, green peace activists launched a covert operation, small teams fanned around central london, and they hit almost 50 bp pet role stations, just like this one here. look what they did, they put their banner over bps logo and put on...

Miles from miami itself. strongest winds we recorded at least onshore near pompano beach is 28 miles per hour but we have sustained winds at 40, gusting to 50 miles per hour. where is it going next? lets minimize this, get it out of the way and take this one and tell you what we expect from the national hurricane center. it comes across florida, through the florida straits, by key west and late saturday afternoon and by sunday if it follows this path and holds strew, expected to remain a tropica...

>> shepard: just getting word from the gulf of mexico in the incident commander for the oil spill, former coast guard admiral thad allen who says under all circumstances with the tropical storm headed there, the cap will remain on the oil flow if ships evacuate the gulf due to the tropical storm. they hoped they would be able to do this, keep the thing capped during the tropical storm and it appears they will. thats not to say there wont be oil problems as a result of this as there are tens of m...

Concern leaving the white house and b p at ads. bp wants to keep the cap closed, the government is in fave of pumping oil into tankers. the major concern now, if theyre opening the cap, if they reopen it, it leaves open the possibility of making the oil spill even worse, and then of course harder to fix. phil keating in gulf port, mississippi. we talked about this yesterday. how serious is this seep and the methane that may be coming out of it? reporter error its critically important and it is a...

>> reporter: well, what were going to find out in the coming days as they continue to look at the test results that come back and to find out if there are, indeed, no leaks here, that theyre going to make decisions one way or the other. right now, bp being surprisingly optimistic at their technical briefing this morning actually suggesting after two full days of testing with no leaks, no surprises, that its possible that they could continue this test all the way up to the time they drill that re...

When that gauge begins to go up, they want it to stay up. they want it to stay at five, six, seven, eight, as they continue to turn these valves closed, closed, closed, the pressure will go up, up, up. if that gauge goes from 7,000 to 3,000, something broke somewhere. and thats when they say, this is over, hook the hoses back up, were going to suck all this oil back out, something is broken. dont want that obviously. they want it to get to a point, 7,000, 8,000 psi, pounds per square inch, press...

Its still the cap, but they have now shut off with the valve the main flow. now, that may seem irrelevant, but its not irrelevant, because now with this new plume of oil, which looks like smoke, you can now turn the valve slowly enough to bring up the pressure to the blowout preventer, which is below it, and also, of course, that stack that goes all the way down in the drill hole that goes all the way down to the bottom of the ocean, and then another 12,000 to 14,000 feet below that. as they bri...