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Of ties to terror organizations. for senator durbin he offers no apologies for visiting the mosque foundation. a statement from his spokesman says many other illinois officials have also met with the same individual. the statement goes on to say people who would deny fundamental rights to muslim are trying to discredit tomorrow's hearing with baseless smears and innuendo. >> bret: thank you. a texas college student from saudi arabia accused in a bomb plot pleaded not guilty. he allegedly tried to buy chemicals to build weapon of mass destruction and planned attack various targets including new...

Africa. in washington, catherine herridge, fox news. the coalition minority government led by steven harper fell today and lost historic no confidence vote requiring new elections that will likely be held may 2. it will be the fourth election in seven years. reports suggest against conventional wisdom he may be hoping to win majority faring better relative to other western economies. new threats at the japan stricken nuclear plant. possible breach at the reactor there, which would mean radioactive contamination is more serious than thought. reporter dominic dinatali is in osaka, japan, wit...

Herridge, fox news. the coalition minority government led by steven harper fell today and lost historic no confidence vote requiring new elections that will likely be held may 2. it will be the fourth election in seven years. reports suggest against conventional wisdom he may be hoping to win majority faring better relative to other western economies. new threats at the japan stricken nuclear plant. possible breach at the reactor there, which would mean radioactive contamination is more serious than thought. reporter dominic dinatali is in osaka, japan, with the latest. hello. >> we're har...

5,000. a delicate process, 60 to 90 feet at a time before stopping to recalculate. >> we're all working in the gulf of mexico and this all depends -- our livelihood depends on stopping this leak. i've been working in the gulf for 29 years and i've never experienced anything such as this. >> reporter: on deck, workers assemble a steel casing more than 2,000 feet high. they will eventually be lowered over the relief well, helping to stop the flow. milissa rehberger, nbc news, new york. >> they begin drilling for the first relief on may 2, the second on may 16. both relief wells are progressing o...

Supposed to be an exercise in transparency. 325 layers of data from the incident command structure as well as federal, state and local agencies. if you look at the website information here, you'll see how this works. the blue lines and yellow lines along the coast, that's the impacted shoreline, like here in mobile. the green patch, that's the oil slick, where it's been mapped out today. the red border shows fisheries closures, again, as of today. yellow dots show the location of the bp claims and processing points all across the gulf coast. green dots show staging areas for the response team....