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on whether british petroleum's attempt to cap the spill on the gulf of mexico is a success. the top cat could be in place as early as today. nbc's kristen dahlgren is in venice, louisiana, with the latest, kristen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, thomas. the two-ton top hat is sitting next to the leak and engineers hope to lower it down over the leak sometime later today but it could be several days after that before we know whether or not it's working, whether it's siphoning the oil up to the surface. and we want to show you why they're so desperate to get a fix for this. t...

with bruises on her stomach, arms, neck and face. police say andrew jackson, her boyfriend, confessed to the ground. we reached her mother by phone and illinois. course i never felt so angry or hateful in my life. i did not know i could fill this with. >> adding to the banker is a nagging question, should he been -- should he have been in jail when the murder occurred? he wanted jackson picked up for violating his probation. >> the agent described to the judge not only the new charges but that he was a public safety risk and asked that he be held on a nobel and a warrant be issued fo...

plus, running one marathon, that's a lot. but some people want to run 21 marathons in 21 days. can you imagine? first, though, the midwest could be in for another round of heavy storms today. >> here comes one right there. look at them. they're allover. >> deadly tornadoes hammered oklahoma and kansas yesterday. they toppled cars, power poles. ten are in critical or serious condition. rescuers are searching 30 square miles now looking for any victims. >> tomorrow our response will look a little different. we'll be actually moving into communities with our emergency response vehicle...

thought really the big inning for guthrie in this game was in the bottom of the third because the orioles had scored two to tie the game at 2 and then guthrie came up and oh, did he dominate that inning. tell us about that third? >> he really d orlando hudson comes up and this is what they've had trouble giving up runs. right back up the middle again, very good play by izturis, covers the ball well up the middle. gets the runner at 1st base. look at the pitch on justin morneau. this is where he really started to make good pitches. they score some rains at the same time. jeremy guthri...

hit tonight off of logan kensing, and that kid had a heck of a night tonight, bob. >> he deserved the curtain call so the two lead-off guys go a combined 7-9. lots of total bases, especially mccutchen, and nyjer morgan also walked once. he was on base four times and hitting over .400 as a nat. >> it is hard to believe if these guys are still together, nyjer morgan would be in left field and mccutchen and we'd still have last last, but my point being the pirates didn't want to spend the money. our gain is their loss. but you sometimes think nate mclouth, mccutchen and morgan in your o...