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good evening. once again tonight, all eyes are on the gulf of mexico where we are days away from marking the fifth anniversary of katrina, where they have 90 days worth of crude oil in that water. today, the massive bp fund, $20 billion designed to make it right, as they say in their commercials, starts to get handed out. there is one man in charge of it -- a new england lawyer named kenneth feinberg. can you imagine having that job? he's the authority who will get to decide who gets what and when. the gulf region is full of people who suffered real hurt as a result of all that oil i...

good morning, everybody. it is 6 a.m., a beautiful start to a cool, cool tuesday. i'm adam may, filling in for don scott. let's begin with marty bass in the first warning weather center. >> i agree with you. it's a beautiful start to what will not be a great day, but it is a very refreshing morning, as refreshing as any 67 or 68 degrees have health all summer long. we got shower activity already out to the west. stake a look. look at the upper lefthand side of your screen. the moisture is offshore. that will define your weather this date, temperatures remaining steady in the upper 60...

and good morning. welcome to "today" on a tuesday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> and i'm ann curry in for meredith vieira. congress is asking a lot of questions about those two iowa farms that were involved in that salmonella outbreak and the recall of more than half a billion eggs. and one man is tied to both farms. >> absolutely. his name is jack decoster, labelled a habitual violator. this goes as far back as the 1990s. so why do his companies not face more rigorous inspections given the history of violations? we'll have the latest on that story coming up in just a couple of minutes....

plus, the jersey shore is ratings' gold, but is it good for the golden state? believe it or not, a new poll out on that. good tuesday morning, i'm chris jansing live from msnbc world headquarters in new york. we are waiting for a news contranco conference to begin with vilsack and shirley sherrod. she was the usda employee who was let go and decided to stay gone. some people had accused her of being racist when that speech was heard in its entire context. it was shown that she was fired prematurely. they've been trying to get her to go back to usda ever since this happened. she was...

her near-tragedy. she opens up about what happened. plus, performs live, right here, in times square. good morning, everyone. george is off. we're delighted to have david muir back with us. i told you we'd give you the keys again. >> and they worked. >> that's another thing. yes. >> great to be back with you this morning. we so often talk about racing against time in situations like these. but this is a time when it could be months in chile. >> it could be. that's why the celebrations there have been replaced by prayers. rescue workers fry to free the miners stuck nearly half a mil...