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That what is crucial in this investigation is the nature of that confrontation, what was going on there, and thats when investigators are focusing on today. kate? >> they want to get to the bottom of it, ed, but that comes with getting the story from the officers involved. i guess they have not been interviewed yet. when will they be? >> reporter: well, they werent interviewed initially. we are told it is standard procedure to give the officers a couple of days before they give their official st...

Down in training. christian taylor is shown moments before being shot and killed after kicking in a windshield at a car dealership in texas. they are looking into why rookie officer brad miller fired shots into taylor and his partner only used a taser against him. >> you know what i mean, you train to take down men with your hands. you have your tasers or clubs and hes unarmed, an 18-year-old, and you shoot the kid? >> ed levendara is following this story for us. it sure seems like a tragedy. >>...

Ocean floor but after that happens there is a series of technical things that need to happen, the pipes that need to be inserted and that sort of thing so they can start killing off the well. that will take some time as well so its not like the moment that they crack into that well that everything shuts down completely so were really looking at early to mid august before the wells are killed off completely if that first relief well is able to work all by itself. >> these are critical hours right...

Now the u.s. is offering to help. and a sons dna leads police to find and arrest his father. an exclusive look at the technology that cracked the grim sleeper killings over two decades later. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." look at these live pictures from the gulf of mexico. at any moment we could see a new cap lowered into place over the leaking bp oil well. this is a critical step that could possibly, possibly seal off the gusher, at least temporarily for the first time in 84 ...

Will happen over the next 48 hours as soon as that cap is in place. they will begin a series of what they describe as integrity testing to determine whether or not that cap will essentially be able to do what they hope it does. essentially, that is one of two things, whether it will be able to cap and hold all of the oil inside of it or if that doesnt work whether they will be able to continue siphoning up what they suspect might be all of the oil into vessels on the surface of the water. so wer...

Were to continue to 2015 it could mean the loss of a million jobs or so for the oil industry, wolf. big deal. >> we know the first lady is visiting the gulf coast today. she is going to be speaking later this hour. were all over that part of the story. but does the president have any new plans to return to the region any time soon? >> no. they have nothing on the books. they say the president does want to go back soon. hes been there several times as you noted but this is the first time that fir...