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Ahead but first to our new york newsroom where anita vogel is standing by the other headlines. >> reporter: work will go forward on the relief well in the gulf of mexico the word from the govenment's point man. retired coast guard admiral thad allen is not satisfied with the mud and cement plug bp installed. he believes the bottom kill relief swell needed. weather-permitting drilling should restart in four days. >> an accused serial stab leaving atlanta without a fight. elias abuelazam will allow authorities to take him back to michigan to face charges. he's accused of going on a rampage acros...

Get closer and closer. the key about intercepting this well at the bottom is then through the relief well they will put heavy mud and cement like they did during top kill. they will do it at the bottom. once that cement plug is in at the bottom of the well, national incident commander thad allen says he will consider this well killed. so they hope to intercept the well by this weekend, but it is tricky, delicate, precise work they have to do this week. chuck? >> hey, anne, does bp still own this well? >> bp still owns the well, yep. it shares it with two other companies. >> could they at any p...

Front. private employers added a very tepid 71,000 jobs in july. far below the 90,000 forecast for the month. unemployment stayed steady at 9.5%. overall the nation lost 131,000 jobs. president obama will speak live on the economy next hour, as we get the news that one of his top economic advisers is resigning. msnbc will cover the president's remarks live. the shooter in the deadliest workplace massacre in connecticut history said he had hoped to take out more of his co-workers. omar thornton's words reported in a 911 call just after his shooting rampage and just before he took his own li...

Some of the republicans wanted a promise from elena kagan that she would recuse herself from any such cases because he was solicitor general at the time the bill was signed into law and she declined to make such a promise. >> linda greenhouse, it is a pleasure to talk to you. we'll let you go back to looking at pictures on the wall there in your office. we appreciate you hopping on the line with us. >> thank you. bottom of the hour, about 20 minutes or so, we're expecting to hear from the president and elena kagan going to have a little reception at the white house. we'll bring that to you l...

Oil from the macondo well will leak into the gulf of mexico. they are going to put -- they are going to as an insurance move, they are going to pour cement, the same way they did with the mud, down the top of the well, and put a cement plug at the top of the well, however, they still have to do the relief well. thad allen has said all along even if they plug the well from the top, they have to plug it from the bottom, because it is only then that he will consider this well permanently shut-in. rachel. >> anne thompson braving the bugs and the heat and the humidity in the late hour for us. than...