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>> gregg: bottom of the hour, time for top of the news, tropical storm alex is heading towards the gulf coast, forecasters watching it closely, to see how near it gets to the gushing oil well, that storm could shut down the containment process, for two weeks. violent protests at the g20 summit in toronto. protesters smashing windows, torching police cars and trying to scale a security fence at the summit. police busting more than 400 people, so far. and, the u.s. senate set to begin confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee elena kagan. opening statements from senate judiciary committee ...

The army. i think that's one of the great successes in american history. you go to korea today and realize that back in 1950 when this war began, south korea was one of the poorest countrys in the world. as late as 1960, it had the same per capita income of ghana. today after a very long 60 year relationship with the united states, it's one of the wealthier countries in the world, one of the most modern countries and an enormous success story. >> thanks to people like your dad. speaker gingrich, thanks so much. congratulations on your book. talk to you again. thank you. >> thank you. >> a docu...

Toxins in the environment as a result of that. how much of the oil actually burned by this method? is there any way of knowing that? >> reporter: i think there are numbers. i think it's something, thousands of gallons are burning. keep in mind just because bp capped one of the leaks on wednesday, that doesn't change the volume of the leakage. it's still leaking 210,000 gallons of oil each and every day. >> that is huge. quite significant. thanks so much. we are going to check back with new an hour, if not before, to find out defensively just how that capping process, that containment process i...

. that massive oil slick is now just a few miles off louisiana, and the race is on to try and stop 200,000 barrels a day from gushing into the gulf of mexico. rough seas are making it hard for crews to contain the oil slick. and now there's an urgent push to build a containment dome to cap the leak. brian todd is over at the scene of all of this. this effort is intense right now. brian, explain to our viewers how they're hoping against hope that within a week or so, they can stop this oil spill. >> you know, that's the contention of a lot of people who are observing this process, wolf. the p...