they narrowly escaped. we ll hear from them exclusively today, thursday, july 22nd, we ll hear from them exclusively today, thursday, july 22nd, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning, i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. it s been an interesting 48 hours for shirley sherrod. she s accepted apologies from the white house, and the secretary of agriculture. but, is she ready to take a new job within the same administration that demanded her resignation just three days ago? it is a decision that she is mulling over this morning after agriculture secretary tom vilsack admitted he should have done a better job of investigating the video that started the controversy. so is she ready to put it all behind her? does the president himself owe her a personal apology? well, she s sitting right over there. i m going to talk with shirley sherrod right ahead. also a storm brewing in the caribbean has brought effort
today, thursday, july 22nd, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning, i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. it s been an interesting 48 hours for shirley sherrod. she s accepted apologies from the without and the secretary of agriculture, but is she ready to take a new job within the same administration that demanded her resignation just three days ago? it is a decision that she is mulling over this morning after agriculture secretary tom vilsack admitted he should have done a better job of investigating the video that started the controversy. so is she ready to put it all behind her? does the president himself owe her a personal apology? well, she s sitting right over there. i m going to talk with shirley sherrod right ahead. also a storm brewing in the caribbean has brought efforts to permanently plug the busted oil well in the gulf to a near standstill. we re going to get the latest on that story and a
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. the live camera continues on this day 52, to show the unrelenting and hard to look at flow of oil right into the gulf of mexico. this oil leak now extends further towards the eastern coast of the gulf, where by the way, cleanup workers hired by bp are starting to restrict news media coverage of wildlife damage and cleanup. today at the white house, president obama met with families of the men killed when the rig exploded. the families went from there to capitol hill, where we heard the raw emotion of the father of rig worker jason anderson. we can t get our boys back. we can clean up pelicans, we can clean up fish and they will live, they will continue to live. we cannot do that for our family members we lost. we can t wipe the oil off them and wash them with soap detergent and get them back. there are also new questions being raised tonight about what some government officials knew early on about this blowout
subsequent descriptions which truly helped this case being solved quickly. reporter: jennifer says that for years she has talked about scenario was her son. if you were in a small situation and there was someone that grabbed him, i wanted him to make sure that he understood that if he just screamed, that someone would think that he would not gwhat he wanted. this is not my father or father. i don t sugar coat it. i let him know the real of how sick people can be. and, you know, i don t want to frighten him but i want i want him to know the truth. the school system responded with his this statement. mr. carl rice worked this spring as a bus driver with spotsylvania county schools for a two-week period. as of may 8 he was no longer allowed to drive as a substitute bus driver due to personnel reasons. now, investigators say along with the boy s story they confiscated evidence from rice. relatives at his home did not comment. back to you. elaine reyes. a fourth teenag
i m tamron hall. right now on msnbc, news live, an aggressive defense, live pictures right now from capitol hill where we are expecting the ceo of wall street giant goldman sachs to testify in a few hours. lloyd blankfein is ready to strongly back his company s actions in the wake of fraud charges. how will his words impact the battle in the senate on financial reform. new drama today in the saga of apple s new secret iphone prototype that ended up lost in a bar. now there s been a police raid involving hard drives, digital cameras, cell phones and around american express bill. a race against time. crews trying to maintain the oil spill off the coast of louisiana. it s gained in size and could reach the shoreline in days. you can call it politicians gone wild. this is something you certainly do not see every day, eggs and smoke bombs. one smart member came prepared with an umbrella. where did this happen? we ll give you details. politics and anger are colliding on capit