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Bloomberg had to say. >> the letter was, obviously, referred to our anti-gun efforts, but theres 12,000 people that are going to get killed this year with guns and 19,000 that are going to commit suicide with guns and were not going to walk away from those efforts. >> now, police say the two letters appear to be written by the same person and sent to shreveport, louisiana, the third letter sent to the president came from the same postmark. they were intercepted at off-site sorting facilities, bu...

Dreamliners. a two-day hearing kicking off today as the national transportation safety board takes a closer look at one fire in particular just days after the faa approved boeings plan to get its fleet back in the air. dan springer is live in seattle. dan? >> reporter: yeah, jon. the faa approved the battery fix even as the company answers tough questions about the fire back in january that led to the dreamliner fleet getting grounded. the planes lithium ion battery sured a short which led to th...

They are including a redesigned battery with better insulation between the cells and a better steel containment box that engineers say wont allow for any air to fuel a fire. theyve redesigned the charge erp sore the battery doesnt have to work as hard. the faa has given approval to that fix and boeing says it could have its planes back in the air with the airlines flying customers again by the end of next week. back to you, martha. martha: thats been quite a story. dan, thank you. bill: from cap...

79 days. theyve tried a giant containment box, top kill, top hat. theyve been planning all week to hook up a third tanker to siphon off more oil. but choppy seas is stopping that from happening as well. the only real hope of a long-term solution relies on drilling relief wells and killing it. as a neuro surgeon, its annoying when someone says it isnt brain surgery, but its close. tom foreman is here with the details. tom? >> thanks, sanjay. drilling down. look at this as we dive down here and co...

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Washington post, a fourth man being held in pakistan claims to be shahzads accomplice. that suspect reportedly admitted helping shahzad travel into pakistans tribal areas for bomb training. >> and we last hour, we had said that if you were any part of this plot, id just keep my mouth shut. >> keep your head down. >> not admit it. just give the guy $35 and a pack of gum. >> yep. moving on. a lot of big stories to cover in this newscast. frustration growing in the gulf of mexico as bp says it is...

Trying to stem the leak now and i was going to give you a short laundry list of some of the things theyre trying to do. perhaps the one getting greater attention is the idea of placing a second top hat on top of the leak, this is a containment box, we saw this idea that was tried a few days ago. it failed. they want to go at it again, this time with a smaller containment box or dome, if you will, and they also think theyve come up with a way to prevent ice crystals from forming, this containment...

We had a glimpse of this in a previous bp video and had is the first full view of the leak cause the disaster in the gulf. the stream occasionally becomes lighter as natural gas mixes in with the oil. oil is spewing into the gulf at a rate of more than 200,000 gallons a day. engineers hope a new, smaller containment box will reduce the flow. cnns david mattingly joins us from grand isle, louisiana, with an update. david? >> reporter: fredericka, bp will have two shots at capping that leak of tha...

Containment box is going to go down there, this one called the top hat, its going to be in place on top of that oil well in the gulf of mexico, we hope. the first dome failed to do the trick, it got clogged by ice crystals. meanwhile it is day two in hearings in washington and in louisiana about what exactly went wrong here. lawmakers are losing patience with bp, the rig owner, transocean, and the subcontractor, halliburton, watch this: >> i hear one message and the message is dont blame me. wel...

Megyn: welcome back, bottom of the hour, a quick look at stories we are watching for you you. president obama holding a press conference with president karzai today. stressing a strategic partnership between the two nations. the latest best hope to contain the gushing oil well is nearly in position. a two ton containment box should be in place by thursday. vice-president joe bidens son beau biden is now recovering in a philadelphia hospital. the delaware attorney general suffered a mild stroke y...