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Next target after successfully ousting a senatorial candidate and backlash developing against facebook as it pertains to privacy. bp scrambles to find a plan b to cap that deep water oil leak in the gulf of mexico. bp's massive containment dome failed to plug the leak over the weekend. the company now considering two other options plugging the leak with debris or stopping it with another smaller containment box they would jam in the hole so to speak amid fears that the spill continues to move east after balls of tar washed up on an island three miles off of the alabama coast. so far 3.5 mill...

Damaged well. and efforts to cap it with a larger containment box failed this weekend. phil, what's the story with the new plan? >> reporter: they are look at everything because we are three weeks into this environmental disaster. and the oil continues rising to the surface at 5,000 barrels a day. take a look at this. this is brought in from just off the shore here. the one on your left was 30 miles offshore here in venice, louisiana. the white cap closest to me was 10 miles away. clearly this is not pretty and that is why right now there is a massive line of defense underway in the state of l...

World. bill: in the meantime, congress is asking for quers of what caused the oil spill in the gulf. our representatives from bp and halliburton and transocean scheduled to appear, other witnesses will talk about the effect the spill is having on the local economy, wildlife and the environment. meanwhile, bp is looking at other containment options after the big containment box failed over the weekend. maybe a second one, a smaller one, perhaps that can do the job. but so far, as of 9:11 a.m. eastern time on a monday, they have not found the right solution yet. they're working it. martha. marth...

>> good morning everybody. it's sunday, may 9th. mother's day, we start with a fox news alert for you. is there a plan b. gallons of oil spilling into the gulf of mexico after a containment box fails to stop the enormous leak. what does it mean for emergency recovery efforts. >> and a state on the verge of allowing guns at the airport. in spite of recent home grown terror scares like the times square bombing, we report, you decide. >> a veteran told a teacher she can't give students a grade lower than a d. no matter how they perform. she's so mad she's suing the school. >> cindy from new jerse...

Spilling into the gulf of mexico. after a containment box failed to stop the enormous leak. is there a plan b? a live report in moments. >> dave: and the south, trying to dry out after deadly flooding, devastates the region. historic places like the grand ol opry, damaged by the waters, and we'll hear from country singer julie roberts about the destruction in nashville. >> clayton: and a third grader given detention because she brought a jolly rancher to school, the girl and her mother as reaction, coming up and our slogan comes from bunk, to remember to call today, i wrote on it my palm, enjo...