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Newsroom, jamie counter, hes with trip advisers. what do you think, does this thing get approved? does the justice department say, yeah, go ahead? >> yeah, i think it will be approved. there probably will be certain provisions, and the d.o.t. will take a look at it. i do think itll go through, and theres not that much of an overlap, so it does make sense from a network perspective. jon: northwest is gone, they were a big overseas player, now youve got united and continental, basically youve got ...

Continues to spill, what the daily rate of flow is, but the coast guards going with the estimate of about 210,000 gallons a day which would make it at least two million gallons of sweet crude in the gulf of mexico. jon: any hope of kind of kinking the pipeline to shut it down? >> reporter: bp continues to hope that maybe today is the day they actually have some success. theyre using remotely operated vehicles, basically robotic claws 5,000 feet below the surface controlled by humans up top. and ...

Nuclear weapon, no diplomacy is going to stop them, sanctions are too late, the possibility of regime change wont come in time. so absent preemptive military force by someone, and it wont be the obama administration, the most likely outcome, the near certain outcome, is that iran gets nuclear weapons. thats going to be extremely damaging for american interests in the region and for peace and security there and around the world. jane: that is the view from john bolton, former ambassador to the u....

Jon: this just into fox news room, the new york police department is now speaking to the registered owner of the suv used in that times square bombing attempt. as police look to speak with a man seen near the vehicle, shortly before a homemade bottom inside the car began smoking and making popping noises. it ultimately did not go off. the guy in the video, seen here, is described as a white male, in his 40s, hes seen stopping to take off a sweatshirt, and hes looking back in the direction of the...

Security, theyre going to try to digitalize this guy and bring out his features right now, theyre going to do everything possible to try to identify who left that vehicle and in which direction did he head, and is he trying to escape the country or is he just hunkered down at this point. jon: the fact that it didnt go off, everyone from the police commissioner on down has said we were very fortunate here. >> well, we were. but this guy chose the wrong device. this was the nightmare scenario were...

Way into the marshes, it will get trapped and youve got all that wildlife in there, and they wont be able to clean this stuff out, so now the fishermen who cannot fish because commercial fishing in the gulf has been shut down, theyre going out, theyre working with bp, using cotton booms to try and protect the marshland on the outside of these areas. one more line of defense. and if the weather clears later on today, jon, well get some flames up in the air and were going to get -- planes up in th...

Each gets a different amount of rain and youve got to do the mathematical mod tell figure out how high its going to go. >> fortunately we have the services, we have the forecast for cumberland, obviously its way over flood stages in a lot of places but there in chartsville, cartage and nashville, were hoping that the crest will taper off to what theyve predicted and of course were going to have to wait for that to go dhiewnd wont happen until sometime wednesday. jon scwn what are you looking at?...

Hour of "happening now," im jane skinner along with jon scott. my in new york city and the fbi are working this failed bombing in times square case very hard. jon: you can see the crude gasoline and propane device is actually smoking inside that nissan pathfinder there in the distance. jane: later, you can see a man changing his shirt. there he is. its not far from where this vehicle is. the nypd is searching for a white male believed to be in his 40s. the department of homeland security is sayi...

11 people confirmed dead in your state, and you thought that there might be another one whose body had not been located. >> we actually have -- we actually do the official confirmations from the state emergency operation center, we have eight confirmed fatalities now, thats because the conformation has to come through the health department and the state medical examiners office and have i that representative here in the emergency operation center, so theyre gathering that information. what happe...

Jon: right now, tennessee is bracing for more major flooding. weekend thunderstorms killed at least 19 people in tennessee, mississippi and kentucky. now, tennessee officials fear there could be more deaths, with the cumberland river reaching record levels, about to crest in nashville sometime this afternoon. joining us now, jeremy hite of the tennessee emergency management agency. its my understanding that youre not really even sure how high this river is going to go. >> well, weve gotten the f...