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This bad weather when they hope the bad weather passes through. >> steve harrigan in louisiana tonight. steve, thanks. and there's another b.p. story that will not go away and that is the question of whether b.p. attempted to help win the freedom of a convicted terrorist who murdered more than 100 americans to get an oil deal. a lobbying for the release of the lockerbie bomber. tonight, the senators who represent many of those victims say they may have had a breakthrough with the british prime minister. we'll hear from them and a man who lost his son on pan am flight 103. that's next. from the...

Child to a nearby hospital where doctors released most of them. they are looking into what happened calling it a front burner item while the people who lived through it say they're counting their blessings. >> it was scary. it was crazy and i'm just glad to be home right now. >> who wouldn't be? investigators say they've down loaded information from the plane's flight data recorder to try to figure out exactly what happened out -- up there. this, by the way, was the third united airlines flight this year in which severe turbulence hurt passengers. buckle up. more police officers are dying in t...

Been making that case, and i find greater receptivity to it, but we're still having to really make it strongly. >> speaking of poisonous snakes, you received a letter from the foreign secretary william hague. the uk rejecting any suggestion that bp was at fault or did anything improper regarding the release of megrahi, the convicted killer and bomber of pan am flight 103. does that end it? does that assertion by the british that they see nothing wrong, it was a mistake, they say, by the previous government, but that there was nothing wrong in the way the scottish courts handled this release, d...

But you see, this -- the people are saying things were are not true. >> the victims' families were outraged over the lockerbie bomber's release. as our susan candiotti tells us, the latest developments are only prolonging the pain. >> sorry about that. >> reporter: for brian flynn, whose brother j.p. was among the 270 killed on pan am flight 103, last year's release of the only person convicted in the terrorist bombing was too much to bear. >> actually, that was one of the moments where you thought, 20 years of hard work, had completely been worthless. it was tough. >> reporter: even tougher t...

Bombing of pan am flight 103. that attack killing 270 people in 1988. remember that last year a judge released the suspect from prison on humanitarian grounds. after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. 11 months later and al-megrahi is still alive and kicking in libya. adding insult to injury, the doctor who treated him said he could have lived for another ten years. why was he free? did b.p. play a part. capitol hill, they demand answers. on the telephone is republican member of the senate, wasso, which is planning a hearing on this on july 29. welcome this morning. something smells. >> it...