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ii veteran, senator ted stevens devoted his career to serving the people of alaska and fighting for our men and women in uniform. michelle and i extend our condolences to the family and those of the families that parished alongside stevens. we are hearing the weather may have played a role. topper, you are in the weather center with more on what happened. >> it is still conjecture and they will have to investigate. we are going zoom all the way up into alaska now. we do know it was c...

ago now ted stevens survived a plane crash that killed his wife. this time he did not make it out of the wreckage alive. the confirmation came this afternoon, officials say the 8-year-old former senator was among the five people killed when a small plane crashed into a mountain in alaska. reports indicate for people on that plane did survive. among them the former head of nasa and the former chancellor of lsu sean okeefe and his son. their plane crashed in the southwest part of the sta...

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And thats the one thing they have confidence in. and the guy whos out in the gulf of mexico directing the relief well operations, john wright, is a man whos drilled 40 relief wells, 40 have been successful, and theyre hoping that this, the 41st, will be successful. so, yes, theyre looking at this containment system. but the most important thing that its going to tell them today is the condition of that well. because that really is key information that they need to know. >> all right. anne, thank...

midnight last night. thank you for coming in. also in washington, ted krupp, president of the environmental defense fund. good lineup given whats been happening. >> of course, mika, over the past, my gosh, how long has it been now since the leak started? the end of april. >> the end of april. >> over the past several months there has been that gushing oil shot coming out from the bottom of the gulf of mexico. and i can tell you, things in my hometown get bleaker by the day. maybe, just...

captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening from pensacola beach, florida. we have a major storm to contend with tonight, not as a direct hit. but in ways that are already affecting us here. alex is still officially a tropical storm. its a huge sprawling storm, and while it will make landfall near the texas/mexico border, its already churned up the seas, even here in florida and thats bad news as long as the gulf remains full of oil. its already hampered the cleanup. h...

"nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening from pensacola beach, florida, we have a major storm to contend with tonight behind us in the gulf of mexico. not as a direct hit, mind you, not even close. but in ways that are already affecting us here. alex is still officially a tropical storm. its a huge, sprawling storm. while it will make landfall near the texas, mexico border, its already churned up the seas, even here in florida. and thats b...

two days after a mother and daughter disappeared in the current. thanks for joining us tonight, everyone. im shawn yancy. im brian bolter. the two vanished in the powerful current during a memorial day celebration. rescuers tonight are not saying whether it was the body of this mother or her 13-year-old daughter found. fox 5s roby chavez following the very latest in the newsroom. >> reporter: brian, it was the unexpected find that no one wanted to happen today. a helicopter involved ...

welcome to 9 news now at noon. im j.c. hayward. two metro workers were killed after a terrible accident on the red line this morning. it happened just before 2:00 a.m., just north of the rockville metro station. the accident caused a lot of problems for some red line riders. kristin fisher is live with more. we now know the names of the metro workers who lost their lives. the first is sung oh. he is 68 years old from montgomery county. the second victims name is jeffrey garrard. she ...

>> anne heller and jennifer burns offer their ideas on ayn rand. she focuses on the allies and foes and ms. heller researchers the authors childhood and upbringing. the cato institute in washington d.c. hosted our 15 minute event. >> today we are going to talk about two major new books on ein rant and the fact that they testified to the continuing impact of americas most influential novelist of ideas. in the past 66 years, more than 25 million copies of radiance books have been sold. s...