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down by a man dressed as a police officer. also developing today in washington d.c., we have now just over a week until the government wont be able to pay all of its bills and president obama says he has been left at the altar. yesterday was an extraordinary day in washington d.c. the president and the house speaker in the day by calling each other out in news conferences. also in washington d.c., congress failed to authorize funding for the federal aviation administration. you kno...

In maine is one of your favorite memories out of all the things youve done. >> cant beat it. oprah: cant beat it. >> cant beat it. oprah: i understand youre also a basketball coach. [applause] >> i was--i was a consultant and assistant basketball coach to sashas team this year. reggie love, who played at duke, my assistant, we decided to have some clinics for the girls, and so every sunday, we would bring sasha and teammates--joe bidens granddaughter maisy is a terrific basketball player. >> way...

The crowd that gathered outside the white house last night as the president announced killing of bin laden. the commander and chief says it goes to show you that as a nation there is nothing we cant do. >> our country has kept its commitment to see that justice is done. the world is safer. it is a better place because of the death of osama bin laden. >> shepard: tonight, were told the president is planning to visit here at the world trade center site behind me later this week, thursday, actually...

Horribly wrong in the plant and the core. >> yes, and officials say it could be several months before the cooling situation at the plant is brought under control. several months. so this story is going nowhere and for these people wholey around there, nerve wracking. >> thank you, michael holmes. turning to mexico. we have reported about the deadly and savage struggle of the country with the drug cartels to turn over the trade to the united states. in times, travellers have been caught in the ...

Wales just before the grandmother the queen stopping by for a visit. royal watcher neil shawn keeping an eye on the prince. how are you doing, my friend? >> not bad, richard. prince william, needs to man up. talking about having knocking knees and being really nervous. i think its going to be far worse for kate middle on tton. come on, william. be a man. you know? >> i found a visit with grandma is comforting but why was the queen there to see prince william? >> well, she was there, youre rightl...

Amazing. >> heather: that night, was it spoken, did anyone talk about the significance of that moment? >> oh, sure. sure. it was actually nerve wracking. we picked her up in a plane that was sort of a secret deal. we got one of our supporters who had a private airplane and sent him out to pick her up quietly and bring her to minnesota and we got away with it up until a few hours before the convention. we wanted to surprise the convention. but i remember when she walked off that plane and came in...

Is going on around here. the evacuations that were set in effect on thursday, friday. a lot of people didnt heed the warning, so you can imagine how dangerous it is if cow were trying to enter or exit one of the many homes here. if you want to push off the street, off to my right, look at the front driveway here of this house right down the street where i am. its covered up to the windows in floodwaters. the situation is very dangerous here. as you mentioned, thousands of people evacuated. the f...

Dumping more coolant, more water into the reactor, thats slowly boiling off and being released which gives you minor releases, and they need electricity to run the valves, to monitor the system, et cetera they dont need a lot of electricity, theyve got other reactors at the site, other diesel generators. they made it to get some form of generation running. i heard one report that they have an emergency generator they brought into the site. they have a good chance of getting this up and running b...

Inevitable meltdown? >> at this point, a meltdown is not inevitable. but its a little hard to say -- each of these plants is designed a little differently. the company has been issuing frequent updates but hasnt said how long they can keep going in the stopgap method. what theyre doing now is they have a pump that runs on steam, not electricity. as long as youre making heat, you have steam, the pump is dumping more coolant, more water into the reactor, thats slowly boiling off and being released...

And they need electricity to run the valves, to monitor the system, et cetera they dont need a lot of electricity, theyve got other reactors at the site, other diesel generators. they made it to get some form of generation running. i heard one report that they have an emergency generator they brought into the site. they have a good chance of getting this up and running before they have significant damage, but its kind of nerve wracking. >> professor lester, you obviously have seen many such situ...