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good morning. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. and i m amy robach. thanks for being with us. a lot to tell you about, starting with the oil spill and bp. after getting an earful from congress and residents, ceo tony hayward is soon going to hand over day to day operations to an american executive at bp. bp s chairman said hayward will return home to the uk, but we re now waiting on a time frame. meanwhile the coast guard says an expanded containment system is burning offer more than one million gallons a day. and then we ll go live to south africa and take a look at a controversial call against the american soccer team. it cost them a win against so e slovenia. i was watching. did you watch? i was watching, yes. it was crazy. i had my horn all ready to go. by the way, how many times are you going play that today? yeah, it s it s addicting for you. there s an app for that. we re also following severe weather that has swept through chicago. thunderstorms with heavy rains and powerful winds have blown out windows at the former sears tower and knocked out power to more than 400,000 people. we ll have the latest on that. and prince william and prince harry are on their final leg of their six day african tour. it was their first joint overseas royal trip together and we will hear from them coming up. and do you know what they did yesterday? oh,ed for. s this is going to continue all day. they went to a world cup match. first let s talk about the impending departure of tony hayward. we get the story from lisa myers. reporter: hayward s boss, carl-henric svanberg, who led the bp delegation to the white house this week, said that after weeks of leading the company s response in the gulf, hayward would now be coming home. he s no longer handling the operations. reporter: he acknowledge that had hayward, dubbed by some the most hated man in america, has had more than his share of gaffes. it is clear that tony has made remarks that have upset people. reporter: including hayward s performance before congress thursday which committee members called evasive. i simply was not involved in the decision making process. reporter: asked why hayward was replaced, a source close to bp said hayward had a lot working against him with an american audience. he looked and sounded british. and the source said had said stupid things. eric specializes in crisis communications. bp probably felt they had to do something very visible, but the truth is these type of personnel moves end up accomplishing very little because you still have oil all over the place. reporter: bp said two weeks ago that another executive, bob dudley, an american from mississippi, would be taking day to day control of the response in the gulf. bp has taken full responsibility. reporter: still, hayward remained the face of the company in tv commercials. until the last few days, when he was replaced by this man. i was born and raised in louisiana. i volunteered for this assignment because this is my home. reporter: svanberg says the disaster has mushroomed in to a problem that threatens bp s reputation and finances. and that he will now be more involved in the response. which may or may not help h bp s image given the swedish chairman s own recent gaffe in trying to convey bp s concern about families on the gulf. we care about the small people. reporter: a senior administration official said the white house views this as a positive development, but he insisted the white house played no role in getting hayward sent home. for today, lisa myers, nbc news, washington. as we ve been seeing this disaster is now hitting home in so many ways, nbc s kerry sanders has the story of one small company for which the waters of the gulf were everything. he s in new orleans this morning. good morning. reporter: good morning, lester. unfortunately, the oil spill has claimed yet another business. and now those long days of work will be no longer. 5:00 a.m. and another day begins at the ameripure ter processing company. but friday was unlike any other. 15 years ago, john and pat began this business in a garage. friday, veteran employees like la toya wilson, a single mother of two, got their last paycheck. it s going to be okay. reporter: ameripure is shutting down indefinitely. the conveyor belt stopped at 9:51 a.m., the last oyster headed to a raw bar in los angeles. this is the last of it for i suppose many months to come. it s a very sad day for us. today is the last day we ll process oysters in this area. reporter: everyone here knows about the oil in the gulf. but few saw this coming. we have a hard working, dedicated group here. and we want to see you back. reporter: nicole gibson s worked this $500 a week job for 11 years. now it s gone. what are we good to go do now, how are we going to provide for our family? reporter: even with unemployment benefits and a claim against bp, there s worry about next month s rent and the owners wonder about their $20 million investment. we have a good company here and we hope to be able to get back to where we were. reporter: and that s an unknown. it s an unknown now. reporter: the owners of h this company achieved something that few others have been able to do. they branded their oysters. ameripure oysters, on the menu at more than 400 red lobsters. and now it s all gone. doubt and uncertainty, the oyster business here whether ever be what it was. the unemployed today begin looking for new jobs. the only place they say they think they can find any work will be with bp. the people they blame for taking their job. lester? you ve really put faces of those suffering because of this disaster. do these folks qualify for government assistance, as well? reporter: yes, they do. many of them on monday say that they re going to begin filing the papers for food stamps and other assistance. interestingly, they believe that while the food stamp program is run by the government, that the government should hand the bill to bp because they say bp is ultimately responsible for all of this pain. we wish them all the very best. kerry sanders, thank you. lester, thank you. two months in to this crisis, we want to get more perspective on efforts to deal with the spill itself and the broad impact it s having in the gulf region and beyond. and for that we re joined by jude i can t reed, a contributor editor at news week magazine. by sending tony hayward back across the pond and removing him from the day to day response, is bp do position the right thing, is this something they had to do at this point? i think so. if you drive around these communities like grand isle, tony hayward, you know, the graffiti about tony hayward is something i can t talk about on television. he was the face he s the running joke down here now. and it s alas not very funny. that will help bp s image, but i don t think it will make people feel too much better about what s going on down here. and part of that anger involves the cleanup. we ve been hearing reports about how much oil is gushing and apparently a lot more is being captured. the number is improving. but the cleanup is being grossly ignored many people feel. as a louisiana resident, what s your take on that? well, there s a reason why they don t like the press coming down there to the beaches because the cleanup looks like the keystone cops. you have two pronged problem here. you ve got coast guard that s not really there s no top down management of this. you ve got 16 federal agencies, they re all arguing with each other, one day the coast guard says, okay, bobby jindal, these barges that you brought in out of decembdesperation because th government is not doing a good job vacuuming up the oil, you can run them. the next day they say you don t have the permits, yyou can t. then yesterday, okay, you can new. just completely unorganized. literally like the keystone cops. so you ve got that problem where you have all these folks and they re not being allowed to vacuum up the oil that s coming in. there s still just oil gushing toward us. it would be like if at least in katrina, there was whole lot of disorganization, but the water was receding. the oil is still coming at us. and then you ve got these cleanup guys that have been subcontracted by bp walking along the beaches, you know, taking a break every 15 minutes because it s so hot and they pick up, you know, a couple of little oil chunks of tar and some sand, handfuls of sand that s been soaked in oil. throw them in big huge plastic bags. and then they pile up. you have another crew to come get those. and then they take them off to inland just a little bit to a huge waste dump. so you ve got just it s like layers and layers of bureaucracy. they re having very little impact. totally untrained workers doing the, quote, beach cleanup on the ground. and then you ve got nobody in charge. those of us here remember with great, you know, joy the day that the general arrived literally like almost on a white horse and people were throwing flurs at his feet. that is not thad allen. there is no government, you know, management of this at all. and speaking to the federal government s response, the president has made four trips to the area himself. he obviously gave that prime time address this week speaking to the american people. he s gotten bp to create a $20 billion fund. in terms of the white house s response, what s the reaction there? well, there s just an extraordinary disconnect. we still don t feel the urgency. the $20 billion is certainly better than if we don t, but the one thing he did not do is address the cleanup. he said since the beginning, the federal government has been in control of the cleanup. well, a, that s not true. but, b, if i were him, i wouldn t have claimed credit for that. it s such a disaster. but the other thing is he said don t worry, we ll set up $100 million for it these guys, the poor guys who will have some difficulty, that s his word, you know, on these oil rigs that will be laid off for the moratorium. well, $100 million will last about six weeks for just the guys on the rigs. but that displays a fundamental misunderstanding of what the oil business is here. within a few months, we ll have 300,000 people out of work in louisiana alone. and that doesn t this there are 4,000 i go rigs out there and most of those will shut down and they ll leave for brazil and we ll lose an entire rigs outd most of those will shut down and they ll leave for brazil and we ll lose an entire we ve already lost the seafood industry. the oil business will be gone forever. it is an incredibly difficult situation. thanks for shedding some light on it. thank you so much for coming down here. it s now 12 past the hour. let s go to chicago this morning where jeff rossen has the day s other headlines. good morning. miss you guy, by the way. got stuck it? bad weather, so i ll try to get back tomorrow. got stranded with a lot of other people with traffic chaos. we ll begin this morning with those severe thunderstorms here in the midwest. they re still causing some major power problems this morning in several states. high winds more than 70 miles per hour knocked out windows at the willis tower. luckily no one was injured. a lightning strike set this building on fire just north of the city. nearly half a million people lost power in illinois, michigan and indiana and one driver was killed by a falling tree. the obama administration has decided to file a lawsuit to strike down that tough new arizona law targeting illegal immigrants. while the justice department said the matter was still being reviewed, the new york times this morning is reporting other senior administration officials, including hillary clinton, say there will be a lawsuit. the law takes effect on july 29th. at least five lawsuits have been filed against arizona. with unemployment barely bunching, president obama was talking jobs friday in hard hit ohio promoting the work created by his economic stimulus bill. with more on that, here s nbc s nora o donnell. reporter: hitting the road friday, the president visited the political swing state of ohio for the eighth time since taking office. it is great to be back in ohio. reporter: it was a quick trip to sell the idea that last year s massive $787 billion stimulus is working. as my friend, joe biden, who has done a great job overseeing the recovery act would say, this is a big [ bleep ] deal. reporter: the big deal was the ground breaking of what the white house says is the 10,000 new road project. there s still too many people here in ohio and across the country who can t find work. all right officials say there will be six times more highway projects this july than last year. from 1750 in 2009 to more than 10,700 this summer. still, americans are not convinced. it s not enough given the kinds of losses we ve endured and the shear volume of people, the number of people who are still feeling a lot of pain from the recession. reporter: the chairman of the republican national committee said americans don t want a pr campaign from their president, they want results. but this white house is adamant that the stimulus has worked and that the jobs picture they inherited was much worse than anyone initially anticipated. for today, nora o donnell, nbc news, the white house. the search continues this morning for the 7-year-old boy missing from oregon. he s been gone if more than two weeks now. police searched a pond on friday near kyron horman s school. this is where investigators say he was last seen after his stepmom dropped him off. in fact, police are now handing out flyers that include a photo of the stepmother, terry, but they re not calling her a person of interest. we ll have much more on this case coming up in our next hour. finally, we know dogs hate cats and usually cats hait dogs, but this this one takes the cake. this british westi event was feeling ill. an stray showed he ate a cat. five of them to be exact. there s the evidence on your screen before. the kitty meal was actually just ceramic in nature. it took surgery to get the cats out. and now snowy is eating a branch now? he won t give up. he s feeling much better, though. that s the news. he ll eat anything. you had me there for a second. oh, no, he didn t. it was a toy. jeff, thanks. and come back. i m on my way. i will not miss father s day, i promise. we ll send the company no, i m sorry, there will be company on your jet. i didn t read that right. bill karins is here. it s hard to believe it s still technically spring. this this will go down as probably the warmest spring we ve ever recorded. and we ll go out with a bang here. temperatures are soaring. it is mid summer heat in so many areas. we ll be around 100 degrees today in dallas, 98 near st. good morning. warm, humid conditions expected today. a front to the west may agenerate a few isolated storms to the mountains and west. our forecast a few scattered clouds and temperatures near tomorrow could be mid-90s. so be ready for that. that s a look at your weekend forecast. lester in. in south africa, the u.s. world cup team is reeling from a controversial call that stripped away a goal and resulted in a tie with slovenia. some are saying the u.s. was robbed. ian williams is there for us this morning. reporter: good morning, lester. the team is fuming this morning after that terrible refereeing decision which robbed them of victory friday. they arrived with high hopes. u.s. fans, determined to cheer their team to victory over slovenia. instead, it soon looked like an abrupt u.s. exit from the world cup two goals down by halftime. then the fight back began and what a comeback it was. donovan blasting the ball into the net from an impossible angle and the take that i issues michael bradley, son of the coach, tying the score. minutes before the end, energyized by inspiring team changes, it looked like a dream finish for the u.s. a third winning goal. but the euphoria was short lived. seconds later, it was disallowed by the referee. those outraged and disbelief on the field. and from the army of stunned u.s. fans in the stands and at home. i went into tears. couldn t believe it. i think we got robbed. we were in the front row. we won that game. reporter: a verdict shared by the shell shocked u.s. team. landon donovan saying i m a little gutted to be honest. i don t know how they stole that last goal from us. you can t take away a good goal from a team at the world cup. when the u.s. players asked the referee for an explanation, donovan said he wouldn t or couldn t explain it. he was owe officiating at his first world cup match. i think it was a terrible call. there was no reason for the u.s. goal to be disallowed. the u.s. should have won the game 3-2. reporter: back home, the internet was on fire. this was a spirited fight back by the american team, but they really needed to win this match and it s given them all that much more to do when they meet algeria next week. wednesday will be the moment of truth whether the u.s. stays alive in the world cup or heads home. the u.s. coach will be urging his team to put slovenia behind them and concentrate on that crunch match against algeria. lester? they are still in it. that s good to know. ian williams, thank you very much. still to come, princes william and harry on a royal tour and they re speaking out. but first, this is today on nbc. every once in a while, a story comes along that is truly inspiring. and this morning a dream fulfilled for a young golfer in portland, oregon who overcame adversity, made it to the pros and is also making a difference. here s nbc s roger o neal. reporter: walking has always been a struggle. but with a golf club in his hands, the crutches no longer define who derrick is. good looking shot. reporter: the only handicap the 30-year-old from oregon worries about here is his score. i have a few problems, but out on the golf course, i feel like everybody else. reporter: derrick won t brag, but long time teacher and caddie mike adams will. the kid, he calls him, is better than almost everyone else. there s just no quitting the kid. none. i said, you know, kid, we don t have to do this. reporter: this was to be the first golfer with cerebral palsy to become a pga professional. determined may be derrick s middle name, always finding ways to be like other kids. but his tenacity to become a pro golfer, that was special. it wasn t easy. reporter: not once or twice, three times or four. the kid tried to finish a pga training program with a test 95% of all golfers would fail, play two rounds of golf score nothing worse than five over par each round. and walking much of the way. how many times before you pass? 19. 19 times. 19 times. why did you keep trying so hard? i just wanted i felt like i didn t want to give up. gives meaning to the phrase heart of the champion. reporter: making a difference for himself was one thing. but now the pro and the caddie have started a nonprofit golf mobility impaired association to show others what the love of a game can do. i just wanted to give back and help people with their struggles. reporter: struggles the kid throws away on the golf course. roger o neal, nbc news, portland. stoil come on today, an ivy league controversy. news this morning on a star student facing the threat of deportation. and an inheritance worth millions is left to the dogs. and we re not kidding. but first these messages. good morning. i m kerry cavanaugh. the time now is 7:25. here is a look at the morning s top stories. a howard county student is facing sexual assault charges. trey murdoch was arrested and charged with attacking one 14-year-old girl and one 16-year-old girl. it allegedly happened inside the nurse s office at mount hebron high school. the victims announced to the police separately that they were in the nurse s office and two hours apart this man approached each of them and touched them inappropriately. one girl said murdoch pulled a knife on her during the assault. broin brian joseph hill accused of pulling a gun on a police officer at a traffic stop. he faces a host of charges, including atemmed murder. attempted murder. the maryland court of appeals found overturned the conviction of two men found guilty of killing a man at his southwest home. at the time they say jamaal charles and dwayne drake were asked to leave and flew into a range rage when they were not given back their $1 cover charge. this was overturned as a result of statements the court made in front of the jury that the court found to be too suggestive, and that would mean prosecutors would have to move forward with a new trial. the court of appeals say that suggested language used during the trial. it didn t go into detail about what was said. no word on when this trial will begin. stay storyteller: hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle the cow jumped over the moon. then quickly fell back to earth, landing on the roof of a dutch colonial. luckily, geico recently helped the residents with homeowners insurance. they were able to get the roof repaired like new. they later sold the cow, because they had all become lactose intolerant. call geico and see how much you could save on homeowners insurance. taking a look at the current situation outside. humidity up, barometer falling off a bit. a southerly wind. dying storms out in the midwest. high pressure keeping us fair as far as the weather is concerned. you ll also see rain down as far as cape hatteras. more storms very well up to the great lakes. that should stay up to our north. mostly sunny, humid. rain chances minimal. out to the west and mountains, isolated. south winds at 6 to 12 miles an hour. seven-day forecast, a hot sticky day. an isolated storm wouldn t be out of the question, but only a small chance. it is father s day, so enjoy. the first day of summer is mother s day, and it looks like a good one. thank you for joining us. we ll see you back here for another update in 25 minutes. we re back on this saturday morning, june 19th, 2010, and we have a great crowd joining us on the plaza. we ll head outside in a little bit. but back inside studio 1 a, coming up, we ll have the latest on attempts to find a treatment for women who have low sex drive. a female version of the viagra, we ll tell you what an fda panel has decided about one drug that showed some promise. and we ll tell you about an ivy league student who has been caught up in the immigration debate. he goes to harvard. the problem is he came here illegally from mexico and now his past has caught up with him. we ll have the latest. plus we ll look at very lucky dogs. turns out an heiress left her dogs a trust fund worth millions of dollars. and they ve also been left a mansion in miami beach. as you can imagine, there s someone in the family probably not happy. more than one. we ll find out more about that. but first, let get a check of the weather from bill karins who is out on the plaza this morning. bill, good morning. so far so good out here. a nice little breeze. we have double trouble out here. what s your name? kyle. and is this your twin right here next to you in. uh-huh. no, over there i was pointing. what s your brother s name in. zack. do you ever fool anyone? yeah. who do you fool? do you ever fool anyone? yeah. who do you fool? zack. do you ever fool anyone? yeah. who do you fool? or teacher?fool?fool anyone? yeah. let s talk about what you ll be enjoy dag. it willing summer like and hot in so many areas. nasty storm yesterday from iowa into chicago. tomorrow we ll see the exact same areas with more severe weather. i feel bad for everyone in iowa. you ve had so much rain lately. that will continue on and off. good morning. the sun is out this morning. it is a beautiful morning this morning, and high pressure should keep all the stormy weather west of us today. our forecast calls for some humidity and warm tem vegas. the coolest weather will be in the northwest. the rest of the country is so hot, we have yet to hit 75 in seattle this spring. that s a look at your weekend forecast. amy? well, the hope was that it would be a sort of female viagra helping women who complain of low sex drive. but on friday, an advisory committee blocked the drug from moving on to the fda for approval citing too many side effects. for more on the set back, we re joined by medical editor of health magazine. doctor, good morning. so the fda advisory panel, there was no mistake, voted unanimously, 11-1, to not approve this pill. side effects were mentioned. what specifically did they not like about the pill? well, they didn t like two things. one is it just wasn t that effective. in their opinion, the studies did not show great results. they did not show that enough women really got satisfaction from the pill. and there were plenty of side effects including fatigue, depression, fainting spells. things that are significant and can really affect a woman s life. so about it doesn t work that great and has a lot of side effects, it s just thought going to get approved. we know that the little blue pill, the male version,thought to get approved. we know that the little blue pill, the male version, has baby on the market for ten years. why is it so hard, how come no one s been able to figure it out? women are a lot more complicated when it comes to sex. what are you talking about? and you know vying a bra works by increasing blood flow to the genital area. it s not that simple for women. and that s why it s really hard to come up with one drug or one pill that will help many women that have sexual dysfunction. for women, there are so many factors that go into it, psychological factor, stress, they just don t have enough time to even think about sexmulti-fa problem. how big of a problem is this? do we know how many women suffer from low sex drive? that s the million dollar question. their sex drive can ebb and flow with different times of their life, things having to do with hormones or even circumstances. some studies report about a 10% prevalence of sexual dysfunction, because lot were sponsored by drug companies that have a vested interest in creating the issue. so it s really not clear. it is true that many women do complain that they don t have enough interest in sex. some women don t have interest in sex and they don t complain in so . so do we dhaul a disorder? you mentioned all of the reasons why it is more complicated to treat women who do have this disorder. that said, is it believed that a pill could be the answer? if we re talking about psychological effects, not getting enough sleep, could a pill change that? perhaps for some. so there are some women that really do have some hormonal issues that affect their sex drive and a pill may help. and testosterone is one of the hormones that a lot of people have looked at. but there are avenues that people are exploring. i don t think a pill will be the answer for many women, but it may for a small subset. they say if men clean the bathrooms on a regular basis and do some laundry, that actually increases a woman s sex drive. so there s always that, too. doctor, thanks so much. coming up, why a top student in the ivy league was detained when he tried to board a plane. and dog days indeed for some pets who are left millions by their owner. but first these messages. chase . with finish it, you can take your balance and decide your monthly payment. or how many months you want to take to pay it off. the faster you pay it off, the more you ll save, and the more progress you ll see every month from your plan. chase what matters. i have my blueprint, do you? 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[ male announcer ] have a heart to heart with your doctor about your risk. and about lipitor. this morning the saga of a gifted student in the ivy league who found himself facing deportation to mexico because he was brought hire illeg wihere i he was just four years old. reporter: talk about a kid with the world in his hasn ts. we re talking about a star student at harvard, great friends, and a real zest for the american dream. but he s not american. and he s not here legally either. it turned in to a major federal fight and overnight, there was a big development. he is a model student with a limitless future. valedictorian of his high school class and now a sophomore at half varied, university. and he s on a full scholarship, too. being at harvard is the greatest thing that ever happened to me. reporter: but it turns out eric is an illegal immigrant. this past week he was detained trying to board a flight. eric was released, but he s been fighting a huge legal battle. i am wholeheartedly an american. and i consider this my home and this is all i ve ever known. reporter: that s true. eric has lived in the u.s. since he was four years old. but he was born in mexico. he does not remember not speaking english. he does not remember not living in the u.s. reporter: his friends have rallied around him, creating a facebook page called keep eric home. i don t know why the u.s. government is trying to get rid of people like eric that only make our country a better place. reporter: online, critics are blasts eric calling him a winer and saying harvard should give his spot to a u.s. citizen. but harvard is fully behind eric saying in a statement eric has already demonstrated the discipline and work ethic required for rigorous university work and has like so many of our undergraduates expressed an interest in making a difference in the world. the university also said it supports the dream act legislation that would provide a path to citizenship for qualified young students. people like me, they ve been here since they were young and they re americans a i consider myself an american. reporter: just hours ago, we learned the case has finally been resolved. immigration officials have now granted eric what s called a deferred action. that means basically he won t be deported. they say it s based on the merits of the case and, amy, we wish him the best of luck, of course. all right, jeff, thanks so much. and now here s lester. now to another legal case we re following this morning. the heiress who left millions to her dogs and left her son fighting mad. we get the story from peert alexander. reporter: she s one of the world s most pampered pets. who was the prized possession of the late miami h h eiress gail pozner who died three months ago. seen here in pearls and a due due and two other dogs inherited poz they re exclusive $8 million miami beach mansion and a $3 million trust fund. as for her only son, he was left with a relatively measly $1 million. he filed a lawsuit claims his mother s household aids and bodyguarded drugged and brainwashed his deeply disturbed mother who he says suffered from mental disorders, paranoid delusions and ultimately stole poz they re assets by convincing her to change her will. the suit claims $10 million went to one body guard. $5 million to another. and $2 million more to her personal trainer. sound bizarrely familiar? i ve done nothing wrong. reporter: in 2007, new york real estate tycoon leona helmsly left $12 million to her pet maltese. trouble before a judge later reduced to just $2 million. as for this dog, now at the center of one the nasty estate battle, she s being cared for back at the miami beach mansion while the case heads to court. for today, peter alexander, nbc news, miami. here to discuss the issues involved in this unusual case, dan abrams. good morning. i feel like i should say the dog didn t have a comment. what would make a court look at this sideways? when it comes to your will, you can treat your dog like a child and you can treat your child like a dog. but that doesn t mean that the courts won t look very carefully at this case. why? first of all, you ve got the changed will in 2008. second, you ve got the fact that the family members get so little and the help gets so much and the dog gets so much. so i think it s the sort of case that you will certainly see some sort of change in the result towards the son, but i don t know that it will be a significant amount. in the suit he notes that the relationship between mother and son wasn t great in the latter years. he said it was in her, quote, sober years. but if i convince you, dan abrams, i say you should leave everything to me because i m your best buddy, if you make that decision of sound mind, does it matter that someone convinced you to change the will? no, not if i m of sound mind. and that s the key factor there h. because remember, in this case, he s saying she was not of sound mind, she was drugged, she was brainwashed. this is not effectively what she wants. but how does he prove that. it is very tough, but, again, they look at all the circumstances surrounding what happened. meaning where were they on the previous will before it was changed. how much h how long did these people know her. for example, if the body guard had just recently been hired and lo and behold suddenly these bodyguards are getting millions of dollars in her will, i think a court will look at that and be very suspicious and possibly throw it out. it was noted that in the leona helmsly, this that he reduced the amount to the dog and the rest went to charity. so it doesn t necessarily mean it goes to mr. carr. and a lot of the time courts will try to do something that is sort of good for society. and as a result, leave money to charity. she left some money to charity. they may say let s expand it. but courts want to be very careful about not saying this is how your assets should be allocated. we the courts are going to decide what s best for you. courts are really reluctant to do that. so they try as best that they can to go back into what was the intent, what was the will of this particular person when they executed it. it will be interesting to learn the outcome. dan abramss, good to have you here. thank you so much. coming up next, princes william and harry speaking out together. 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friday, prince william and harry visited patients at the red cross hospital. prince harry acknowledged this tour was influenced by his mother. i d like to think that she d be proud of what both william and i do, not only no africa, but back home, as well. reporter: and william, second in line to the thrown, said he found time to be himself. getting away from the cities, from the busyness of london. i like being anonymous in africa. reporter: it always gave them a chance to show off their charitable work. i wouldn t said treat, but it was nice to have him there and show him what i ve been trying to achieve out there. reporter: nobody asked, but everyone wonders about the future wedding plans for william and his long time girlfriend, kate middleton. he s not going to pop the question while he s here with prince harry on an official business. my feeling is that there s not going to be a wedding this year. reporter: just speculation. but back in london, book makers are already working out 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works now and works later. good morning. i m kerry cavanaugh. the time is 7:55. here is a look at this morning s top stories. a maryland man has been arrested and charged with trying to kill a carrol county police officer. police say joseph hill was taken into custody. hill is acued of pulling a accused of pulling a gun on a sheriff s deputy during a traffic stop. they say he pulled the trigger but the gun malfunctioned. he faces a host of charges including attempted murder. baltimore county sfls are trying to determine how a pedestrian was hit by a tow truck 6:00 friday night. the unidentified victim was taken to shock trauma. it is unclear if that was caused by pedestrian or driver error. the state s unemployment rate fell from 7.5 to 7.2% in pay may. it is the lowest unploim has unemployment has been since september 2009. family and friends are gathering this morning to say their final good-byes to wesley brown. he is the maryland state trooper who was shot and killed outside a prince george s county restaurant. trooper brown was 24 years old when he was shot outside an applebee s restaurant while working security earlier this month. two men in police custody charged with brown s death. the funeral will be held at the jericho city of praise church at 10:00 a.m.. the family has started a scholarship fund for the meantoring program he started called young men helping younger men. go to www.wbaltv.com and click on local good morning. the sun is out this morning. stormy weather out to the west. a big area of high pressure keeps all that stormy weather away today. some will very well to the north. the storms this morning are dying out west of us. our basic forecast today, a lot of sunshine. i mentioned the scattered clouds and warmer and more humid conditions than yesterday. not extreme, but more humid. southwest winds at 6 to 12 and upper 80 s to around 90 degrees or so. the air is stagnant during the day today. an air quality alert in effect reaching from new york state down into the maryland region west of the bay in maryland. plus parts of the delmarva. a humid day tomorrow. partly cloudy skies for father s day. an isolated storm possible. first day of summer, partly cloudy. rain mid-week. john, thank you for joining us. we ll see back here for another update in 25 minutes. he s been the face behind the bp oil spill, but now tony hayward will leave the u.s. and hand over operations in the gulf. vanished. a new appeal to the public for help in finding a 7-year-old boy who disappeared from his elementary school. the search in portland is now entering its third week. and royal wedding. it s about to begin as royals of dignitaries from around the world gather for the marriage of a princess. today, saturday, june 19th, a princess. today, saturday, june 19th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome back to today. i m lester holt. and i m amy robach here in studio 1 a. coming up, we ll have the latest on tony hayward, the bp ceo who has provoked outrage in congress and among residents along the gulf coast for some of his comments and attitude on this crisis. officials are reporting more success, though in, diverting a good deal of the oil coming out of the well. we ll have that, as well. we re also following severe weather thats has swept through chicago and much of the midwest. thunderstorms with heavy rains and powerful winds have blown out windows at the former sears tower and knocked out power to more than 400,000 people. we ll have the latest on that. and we re also going to take a closer look at the case of chiron core mkyron horman who disappeared 15 days ago. we ll tell you what investigators are doing to find him. and we ll look back to the weekend 35 years ago when the movie jaws was released. it made a name for a young director named steven spielberg and forever changed the way we think about going to the beach. i saw it my first jaws was jaws 3 in 3d but i was afraid to swim in the swimming pool after that movie. i think about it. even dolphins, i see the fin, okay, it s a dolphin. but first, the latest on the oil spill. ann thormpson is in venice. reporter: good morning. you remember tony hayward famously said he wanted his life back. well, he s getting his life back. as you said, he s being sent home to great britain. he is being replaced as bp s point man on the oil spill here in the united states. he is being replaced by managing director bob dudley who is from mississippi. this follows hayward s disastrous performance this week before congress. meanwhile, there s a war of words that has broken out between bp and one of the co-owners of the well. it accuses befo s bp of gross negligence. bp says they re just trying to get out of contributing to the claims fund that will be the economic life line so many people here desperately need. on the 61st day of this cry circumstance finally good news from the bottom of the gulf. two containment systems collecting almost 25,000 barrels of oil thursday. the most so far. this is a significant improvement, however, we though because of the new flow rate numbers that we need to increase capacity. reporter: scientists say the well is spewing up to 60,000 barrels a day. the best way to stop the ever growing spill is a relief well. two are under way and the first one is ahead of schedule. it started a half mile from the spill source. the relief well is drilled vertically, then diagonally. now it is within 200 feeft leaking well, but bp says it must dig another 2,000 feet down before intersecting with the problem well and inserting a plug, an incredibly difficult job more than three miles below the water s surface. it s a little bit like driving a car from the back seat. you can reach the steering wheel, but it s a little hard to control. reporter: in the water, more signs of serious trouble. john kessler tells robert bazell the oil contains high levels of methane, a gas that can deplete oxygen and create ted zones. the bottom waters are way more concentrated with their natural gas than we could have imagined. a million times more is a tremendous amount more methane and natural gas. reporter: friday, west of the mississippi, louisiana s vacuum barges went back to work. these barges are lining up to protect the bay, waters vital to louisiana s seafood industry. in sets of three, the barns will form a barrier to collect any incoming oil. some of the sheen is starting to collect alongside the barge. and we ll put some boom out on the other side over here to make some natural collection zones as the tide comes in and out. and the vacuum trucks will take it out of the collection points. reporter: now, the federal government wants oil comes to start thinking about the worst that could happen before it happens. and to that end, late yesterday, the department of interior issued a directive requiring any oil company filing for a new drilling permit must also file a blowout prevention plan. one of the big headlines was the $20 billion that bp was going to put in this claims fund. how long will it take for this claim fund to get up and running and for people to have their claims processed? reporter: well, ken pine bfe hopes to get it up and running very quickly. he said that once people have filed their claims, completely filed their claims, he expects to be able to make a ruling on that and get payment out to them within 30 to 60 days. so speed is key here to help the people meet their bills and also to keep the anger tamp down here. ann thompson, thank you. let s head now to chicago where jeff rossen has this morning s other headlines. jeff, good morning. good morning once again. we begin with severe storms packing hurricane force winds here in the midwest. air travel was a mess. trust me, it s the reason i m still here this morning. and it s still causing power problems, as well. high winds of more than 70-mile-an-hour knocked out windows at the will husband tower, better known as the sears tower. luckily no one was injured from the flying glass. also lightning strike set this building on fire just north of the city. nearly half a million people lost power in illinois, michigan and indiana. and one driver was killed by a falling tree. chances are by now you ve seen that video of the police officer in seattle punching a teenager. well, now that teenager has apologized to the officer. the apology happened during a private meeting friday set up by the urban league. the punch happened after the teenager got involved in her friend s arrest for jay walking. on the video, you can see her pushing the cop. officer ian walsh then punched her. he has accepted her apology. still, an internal police investigation is underway. finally, president obama kicking off his father s day weekend with a ball game. the president and his daughters made a surprise appearance at the nationals game. after all, the president s hometown team was playing the chicago white sox. by the way, they ended up winning the game. he looks happy. nice father s day gift spending it with the girl about that thousand back to lester and amy. bill karins is out on the plaza with a check of the weather. beautiful day here so far. we have three 13-year-old birth days. our cousin is in bed. she s already rebelling. and also a 16th birthday here. and you are already spending all my daddy s money. good luck, daddy. just the beginning. let s talk about what s going to happen in your weekend forecast. the heat and humidity will be really incredible today. we re already off to a very hot start. look at this, 99 in little rock. i was looking at the forecast for memphis. you should be near 100 degrees for at least the next four or five days in a row. so this will be quite an early season heat wave from dallas all the way down to the w good morning. warm, humid conditions expected today. a front to the west may agenerate a few isolated storms to the mountains and west. our forecast a few scattered clouds and temperatures near portland. and as warm as it s been in the eastern half, it s been amazingly cool in the pacific northwest. still yet to hit 75 in seattle this spring. that s a look at a very steamy weekend forecast. bill, thank you. in oregon, the search for missing second grader chiron who are kyron horman has entered its third week. reporter: the search for 7-year-old kyron horman continued in a pond not far from his port land elementary school where he was last seen alive 15 days ago.land elementary school where he was last seen alive 15 days ago. this picture was snapped just hours before he was reported missing. investigators are now circulating it along with a photo of his stepmom and her white pickup tricuck. the sheriff s department hasn t named any suspects and the family is cooperating. we re not in a position to talk about people of interest. she was soeskted because she was the last person to see kyron. reporter: his disappearance has generated national attention. his photo on the first doncover people magazine. and tonight america s most wanted will feature his story. it comes after search teams have combed field, forests and farms for the 7-year-old. although the once massive search effort has been scaled back, the effort to it find kyron continued in to a third week. a great hope to this community and to kyron s family. reporter: lieu it all, a hometown holds out hope. we re all incredibly heartbroken and have yet at the same time hope that kyron will be returned to his family safe and sound. reporter: kyron s family has remained mostly out of the public eye, holding just one joint press conference with investigators. they ve asked the focus of the case remain on finding their little boy. kyron, we miss you, we love you, and we need you home right now. reporter: a family praying for a homecoming in time for father s day. for today, nbc news, los angeles. and for more, we re joined by former fbi profile clint van zan. good morning. police say they don t have a suspect or person of interest. as miguel reported, they are now sending out questionnaires to teacher, student, friends. what are they hoping to find? they re starting to retrace their steps.friends. what are they hoping to find? they re starting to retrace their steps.friends. what are they hoping to find? they re starting to retrace their steps. it s been 15 days now, so i think they re circling back, going back to the last time kyron was seen, going to the last person he was seen with. and trying to validate the time lines that they have created. see if it they ve missed anything at this point. and authorities have said publicly now that members of kyron s family including his stepmother have been cooperative. how important is working with the family at this point and their level of cooperation obviously being detailed to the press because there was some questions about how much they were coming forward and how much they were a part of this case. i think it s very critical. you always run a parallel investigation. one of the things you have to do is verify the whereabouts and activities of those closest to the victim. in this case, we know the stepmother was the last person to be seen with him in school. when she dropped help off, he allegedly disappeared after that. so they have to verify her story as well as the story of anybody else in the family as to what their activities were the day the victim disappeared, while at the same time, they re looking at other people in the school, they re looking at known sexual predators. so there is multiple tracks. and these are the type cases that individuals, bloggers, jump on and they start to develop an opinion, a theory, and i think we pretty much need to wait for law enforcement. they ve got the inside facts. they ve conducted the interviews. and no matter how much any of us may want to speculate, it s the police, the fbi s job to investigate and that s how the case will be solved. anding to that speculation that perhaps a family member was involved or somebody specifically targeting kyron, police have said that the chances of another kidnapping happening in that area are low. well, if a child disappears out of his school that s an interesting comment. it s also an interesting balance. law enforcement on one hand is trying to assure the community that there is a strong law enforcement presence. should there have been a predator in this area, a child predator, we re here to make sure it doesn t happen again. but you couple that with the statement of it s not going to happen again, i think many grab from that statement that law enforcement has a theory, they believe perhaps that kyron has been specifically targeted and that, therefore, no other child would be at risk. that s an interesting balance they have to maintain and i think an entire community still feels threatened. it s summertime, our kids are out and about. many parents are working and their child s a latchkey kid, so i think this this needs to be solved not only for chiron s family, but the entire community. thanks so much. thank you. still to come, we will go to europe for the biggest royal wedding in years. but next, a summer we ll never forget. jaws 35 years later. right after these messages. 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my dad would be so proud if he could see what me and my family have done to this bakery. and we re preaching what we believe in. family values, hard work, and good product. and that s what can i try some? dig in, please. this puff pastry creation, that was your dad s recipe is this. this was my dad s. a friend of his brought a liquor over from italy and said you have to make a cake with this and he create this hd this mast. what are you planning for the celebration? we re having a huge block party in hokoken. everybody s invited to come down from 10:00 to 20:00 and we :00, of fun. for those who haven t watched the show, you have made life sized cakes. life sized of my wife. has there ever been an idea that you said you can t to it? cake boss don t back down for nothing. let s get bill karins involved so we can start eating again. i m concerned there won t be any left for me. we have to say hi to our friends. you re all seniors? we re all a mix. all high school. first time in new york for how many people? just a couple. a lot of experienced people here. let s talk about your weekend forecast. the big story is the heat and humidity in so many places. we will have some severe weather out there. we ll see strong storms in nebraska, also western new york. the heat, though, 100 degree heat from dallas to memphis, also look at sunday. the heat really baking. we ll be around 93 to 95 here in new york city on sunday. we ll sizzle in the southwest. and severe storms to the north of that. so a lot of active weekend. in is o this is our last spring weekend. that s a look at your national forecast. good morning. warm, humid conditions expected today. a front to the west may agenerate a few isolated storms to the mountains and west. our forecast a few scattered clouds and temperatures near a lot of people from ohio here, too. lester, back to you. bill, thanks. now to europe for a royal wedding that s going on this morning in sweden. nbc s jim maceda is following all the pomp and circumstance. reporter: well, there s nothing quite like an extravagant royal we had to go cast aside all your worrieses about the future ups, of course, you have it pay for it. and this royal wedding is smaping up to smap i shaping up to be quite a classic. all the king s horses and men are poised. the sweet cakes are baked. and royal wedding fever has spread across the country. for today, sweden is a stage. victoria marry her prince with a twist. the great, great granddaughter of queen victoria has chosen a commoner to be her con sort. he was her gym instructor nine years ago, but today he becomes a duke and a prince for life. i love his sense of humor, she said recently. he has a big heart and we share a great deal of interests. in a country with few celebrities, the royal romance and wedding have captivated the nation. princesses don t marry every day, so that s a lot of fun, says this swed. and it could rifle the last royal nuptials almost 0 years ago. the ceremony will be followed by a grand procession through the old city where hundreds of thousands are expected. then the couple will sail by barge to the royal castle for a banquet and ball fit for a future queen. the invited guests of who s who of international royalty. but the cost, some 3 million taxpayer dollar, has left many critical of such a lavish wedding in a time deep recession. still, most swed is say the spectacle is worth it. very much a time where the swedish people can use this opportunity to celebrate despite economic difficulties. reporter: few will be prouder that be the six thousand from his hometown where his mother worked in the post office. or king gustav himself. while rumors still swirl about a possible engagement of britain s prince william and girlfriend kate middleton and walk down the aisle, his daughter s wedding has been sweden on the map. at least for the day. lester, royal watchers say that behind all this pomp and pageantry, the fairy tale wedding is grounded in a long deep friendship and that gives this rather odd royal couple every chance to live happily ever after. jim, you very much. alan adler, thanks for being with us. we ve been watching the pictures. it looks like know a lot of mon put into this. how big a deal is this for the swedish people? well, we do two things very well in sweden. we complain and we consume. and the figure of $3 million is about right, but you have to get that this perspective and remember that they spend more than twice that amount a week on solariums. and i think i d rather see a royal wedding than a bunch of slightly sun tanned sweds. and she s been compared to princess could i anna. how is she regarded in the country? well, very respected. she s had a few problems. she s come through some bad patches and so has daniel. so they have the people behind them. people want them to be happy. they want them to be, you know, to be content and so forth. in fact, victoria came to the usa in the 90s. she was suffering from anorexia. and the one place in the world that the sweds felt she could be alone and recuperate and get over her illness was the usa. and she went to yale, studied there for a year, and thanks to you guys, she s fine now. you re welcome. a debt of gratitude. and you are in london, so you re familiar with all things royal over there. there s been a lot of talk about prince william and kate middleton getting engaged. what are you hearing about their intentions and perhaps the timing of that? well, i spoke to my contact this morning. and she told me that there s absolutely no news whatsoever. none of the staff, the household, or even relatives know what s going on. the only two people who know would might happen are will and kate themselves. and i think what the british people are thinking is that we ve seen kate wear 593 hats. how we want to see some kids wear some hats. their kids preferably. and in order for them to get kids, they have to get married. in order for them to get married, will has to propose to kate. so i think the british people are saying whatever you ve got to do, get on with it. and time is getting on. all right, alan adler, it was a pleasure to talk to you this morning. thanks for spending some time with us. nice talking to you, lester. up next here on today, a star of little house on the prairie on what it was really hike. but first these messages. is hidden between teeth, where inter-dental stains can form? that s why aquafresh created iso-active whitening. a breakthrough gel that transforms into an active foam. it not only helps prevent cavities, it whitens 33% better between teeth. whiten beyond toothpaste. try triple protection iso-active whitening from aquafresh. amazing. for you to get a home loan. we ve got a way for you to check the status of your loan online. securely, any time, anywhere. our e signature technology lets you sign. your documents from home, at your convenience. we ve helped over three-quarters of a million families. refinance or purchase their home. it s how we ve done things at quicken loans for 25 years now. - that s why i love. - i love. i love being a home loan expert. and we love rollbacks. the new game that everybody is talking about is here. super mario galaxy 2. this kid s a natural! mario s got all these new powers.new tricks. it s rated e for everyone. even yoshi s back! 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you were only 11. right, a kid. i always liked villains, so i did embrace the role right away. it was really fun. it was much more fun on that really whole system show to be the bad girl than laura or mary. we really were like a family. we had our differences and absolutely there were personality clashes right and left, but yet we would all get back together the next more than and do morning and do it all depend. you were best friends on and off camera with melissa gilbert. something about rolling around together in the mud that cement as friendship for life. you get your fights out in the script. you also speak of michael landon and you are your admiration for him and you say when he died, you were upset that he was portrayed as this saint. right, he was a real person. he was very much a really fun crazy creative, fascinating person with a whacky sense of humor. he smoke and he drank, but he was directing, he was writing, an absolute genius. it s interesting because you talk about this great familial feeling on the set and yet off camera you were going through hell. and you write about it in your book. i do. you were sexually molested by a family member. i was. and that was happening leading up to your days? it was right before little house. and that s what s so strange is that i had all these problems and i was very shy and i was but then i got the part of nelly olson and here i am playing this girl who people are afraid of. and so suddenly i learned to have confidence. and of course because you had felt like a victim up until then. and the people were so supportive and they kept saying don t be so shy. and it was through that that i really was able to sort of come into my own and learn to be the tough prairie b i am now. you also experienced something sad. your husband on the show, percy, played by steve tracy, passed away of aids back in 1986. he was one of your choest frienfrien closest friends in the world you say. what would you like to say about him? very brave man. he went public with his diagnosis when absolutely no one did that. there was virtually no medications then. he was taking experimental drugs in the hopes that he would help other people. and he was an enormous inspiration to me because he was willing to put himself out there to help others. well, the book is fascinating. thank you. and i love the title even though we can t say it here on national television. i m getting a lot of people and people are really enjoying it. well, thank you so much for sharing. coming up next, surviving the summer barbeque. we re just a couple day from the official start of summer. take means it s time to break out the grill. and here to answer some of the top grilling questions is andrew knowlton. thanks for being here. we have important questions for you. the first one, this is a good one from emily in charleston. wants to know which is better to use, lighter fluid or a chimney when lighting charcoal. this is a chimney starter. probably the greatest barbeque gadget in the past 50 years. now it s essential. you would just take your news paper or your charcoal in this, stuff the newspaper up here, and then light it and as they say set it and forget it. and then you pour those charcoalshe grates. you get none of those chemical flavors on your food. so if you re a charcoal griller, must have one of these. we have another e-mail from debbie. she writes what is the easiest way to clean a charcoal grill grate? i m ready to throw ours out. with a steam cleaner work? i think she should try that and get back to us. i m not so sure about that. people don t clean their grills enough. when you go to your buddy s house and you lift it up and it s how about my house. it enhances the flavor. at least that s the myth. so the key is right after you re done cooking, you want a nice brush like this, make sure the coals are really hot, so anything that falls down, the food burns off. so really, really scrape very hard. and then i always like to while it s hot. so no short cut. you got to get in there. but a clean grill, food won t si stick the next time. let s walk down to the grill. this next question from belgium. he says every time i grill, flames keep sprouting up because of the fat that drips on the fire. how can i prevent that? a lot of people tell you to use a skirt bottle just with water to tame the flames. but you ll see when i do that, you get that plume of all that and that goes on your food. so you don t want that. so what i do is i build basically a three-tiered fire so you have a lot of heat here, a little heat here, and nothing here. so if you do get a flare-up, you move your meat over to the cool part over here so there s none of that flare. so a multitiered fire. and we ll move over to this gas grill here because people ask the question which is better, gas or charcoal. goes either way. convenience wise, gas, but i think people like charcoal flavor. a lot of times people like to grill vegetables and you get all difference kinds of you need better flame control when you do vegetables. absolutely. and a great thing is to cook at the same temperature because a tomato will cook a lot quicker than an onion. and you can buy the great gadgets so nothing falls through. a lot of grilling tools that you can use. well, a pleasure to have you on. thanks so much. happy grilling. happy father s day. thank you very much. we ll be back after this. just to get out of bed. then.well, i have to keep winding myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack of energy. 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[captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org welcome. i am lisa robinson. i am kerry cavanaugh. let s get to our top stories, but first, a look at outside. as the morning warms up, we have noticed the humidity is up just a little bit from yesterday. yesterday was just a perfect day. today, will be just fine, but we will have to get used to the heat. summertime is, in essence, already here, but tactically arrives on monday. the weather will cooperate. the mid atlantic monday will come in. we are not threatened by rain. you do see some of thunderstorm activity remnants of big