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Swiss authorities will announce whether oscar winning director roman polanski is going to be extradited to the u.s. he faces child sex charges here in los angeles. in 1977, he pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl. polanski infamously fled to europe before he could be sentenced. we'll bring that news conference to you live as it happens coming up at the top of the hour. right now there is nothing keeping the crude from gushing out of bp's broken oil well in the gulf. the oil giant removed a containment cap and then they are replacing that with a tighter fitting cap and it coul...

1 american, nate hen, visiting for a few months on the facebook page before he left the usa, he said he was looking forward to working with them and he said he loved the country. several other americans believed to have been wounded in those attacks. chuck, savannah, back to you guys. >> all right. tom aspell in london this morning, thank you. >> disturbing. big day in the gulf. a turning point perhaps. work is you should way for a new tighter fitting cap on the leak one that holds the promise of capturing most if not all of the oil gushing into the gulf. nbc chief environmental affairs corr...

Down at white house today, thank you major. >> reporter: sure. jon: it is day 84 of the national disaster in the gulf, and the president's bipartisan commission is holding its first public meeting on the spill in new orleans right now. we're also learning the president is planning to issue a new moratorium on deep water drilling. all this as bp engineers are using robots to try to install a tighter fitting cap over the gushing oil leak. bp expects to have that cap in place today, but even this is not a permanent solution for this devastating spill. our jonathan serrie is live in new orleans fo...

. hello, i'm fredricka. we're still checking today's top stories. a mile under the gulf surface, bp is trying to install a new containment cap on that busted well. bp potentially removed the old containment cap yesterday. now it hopes to bolt down a better fitting cap. if successful, this could contain the oil gusher. relief wells are still considered the permanent solution. and police say teen fugitive co colton harris moore known as the barefoot bandit is behind bars today. he acquired a cult following on facebook by touting his ex ploits. he is wanted in connection with a string of thef...

There when that happens with all the details on how they tracked him down. a new cap for the gushing oil leak has o outpaced expectations so far. jonathan serrie is live with the latest. hi, jonathan. >> hi, caroline. the officials involved with the spill tell us that more than 570 skimmers a record number are conducting oil recovery operations in the gulf of mexico. 46 of those skimmers located at the immediate site of the leaking oil well in anticipation of additional amounts of oil resulting from yesterday's removal of the cap on top of that oil well. it is estimated that as much as 5 mil...