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Way into the marshes, it will get trapped and you've got all that wildlife in there, and they won't be able to clean this stuff out, so now the fishermen who cannot fish because commercial fishing in the gulf has been shut down, they're going out, they're working with bp, using cotton booms to try and protect the marshland on the outside of these areas. one more line of defense. and if the weather clears later on today, jon, we'll get some flames up in the air and we're going to get -- planes up in the air and we'll get a better look at exactly what this oil slick looks like. it's hemmaging at...

Each gets a different amount of rain and you've got to do the mathematical mod tell figure out how high it's going to go. >> fortunately we have the services, we have the forecast for cumberland, obviously it's way over flood stages in a lot of places but there in chartsville, cartage and nashville, we're hoping that the crest will taper off to what they've predicted and of course we're going to have to wait for that to go dhiewnd won't happen until sometime wednesday. jon scwn what are you looking at? >> the crest for the cumberland and nashville is 51 1/2 feet. flood stage is 40 feet so ther...

Hour of "happening now," i'm jane skinner along with jon scott. my in new york city and the fbi are working this failed bombing in times square case very hard. jon: you can see the crude gasoline and propane device is actually smoking inside that nissan pathfinder there in the distance. jane: later, you can see a man changing his shirt. there he is. it's not far from where this vehicle is. the nypd is searching for a white male believed to be in his 40s. the department of homeland security is saying investigators haven't ruled out anybody, any suspects including foreign terrorist organizations...

11 people confirmed dead in your state, and you thought that there might be another one whose body had not been located. >> we actually have -- we actually do the official confirmations from the state emergency operation center, we have eight confirmed fatalities now, that's because the conformation has to come through the health department and the state medical examiner's office and have i that representative here in the emergency operation center, so they're gathering that information. what happens is each jurisdiction reports their information in and sometimes those reports get out ahead of...

Jon: right now, tennessee is bracing for more major flooding. weekend thunderstorms killed at least 19 people in tennessee, mississippi and kentucky. now, tennessee officials fear there could be more deaths, with the cumberland river reaching record levels, about to crest in nashville sometime this afternoon. joining us now, jeremy hite of the tennessee emergency management agency. it's my understanding that you're not really even sure how high this river is going to go. >> well, we've gotten the forecast from the weather service. now, that's always with a grain of salt because the runoff we'r...