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Managing director, congressman ed marky from louisiana. plus, the latest on terror with pete williams and steven hadley, the former national security advisor to president bush. and next week's primary battles with nbc's chuck todd. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. bp changes strategy again. scientists suggest the spill may be ten times worse than the government estimated and could have already surpassed the size of the "exxon valdez" disaster. let's go to anne thompson live in venice, louisiana. a lot breaking. tell us first of all, the latest attempts where you are to try to ste...

Spill, says the senator whose own state is staring down the barrel of 4 million gallons of coastal oil and counting. joining us now live from venice, louisiana, is nbc news chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson. ann, thank you so much for your time tonight. what can you tell us about the very latest on the effort to cap this well. >> well, rachel, they're pursuing something called the top hat, a smaller containment dome on the sea floor. over the next 24 hours or so, engineers hope to actually move it over the biggest leak there. and what they're hoping is this time they have ...

Downloading and file sharing. >> forget all that. that's all a smokescreen. we could talk about it all day long, that's a smokescreen. the court ruling yesterday was about a legal technicality which, by the way, the legislature is going to have to deal with. now, let's talk about the spirit of net neutrality. >> right. >> what that is. >> all right, what is it? >> it started by saying, hey, there's a big pipe, that's a nice way to describe the internet. think about it a little differently. there are roads that go all across america, we have an internet highway system and some of the roads have...

Geography to solve than many of those countries and many of the rankings are per capita, where we have large households in the united states to connect to. but the short answer is we need to stimulate private investment to a greater degree than we have, and the public policy has not been harm onized to get the free market to move forward. >> in basic terms, what's going to have to happen? because i know people who have much better broadband access than i have, i'm limited by the service i have to whatever it is i get. but some people can get better service and we'd like people to get a lot mor...

Spill, says the senator whose own state is staring down the barrel of 4 million gallons of coastal oil and counting. joining us now live from venice, louisiana, is nbc news chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson. thank you so much for your time tonight. what can you tell us about the effort to cap this well? >> well, rachel, they're pursuing something called the top hat, a smaller containment dome on the sea floor. over the next 24 hours or so, engineers hope to actually move it over the biggest leak there. and what they're hoping is this time they have solved the problem of th...