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Ten days, it's hurricane season, nothing is guaranteed, bp couching this expectation as saying it is, quote, unlikely. martha: what about this weather? we've seen the two vessels hoping to step up the skimming efforts. is more bad weather coming there? >> the word is today and tomorrow could be adverse. however, starting friday, there might be a 9-day window of some pretty clear weather. it's gorgeous in bell chase right now but yesterday, along the beaches around the gulf of mexico and grand isle, there was no beach cleanup happening, all the workers had the day off the weather was so bad. sk...

A top bp official tells nbc news they hope to stop that gushing well by the end of the month. now, bp managing director bob dudley spoke with nbc's kerry sanders on a rig at the site of the leak. >> the perfect charged with say we could do it within a couple weeks, toward the end of the month. but we have all seen that we had two storms in the gulf. every time it gets up around eight or ten feet, it slows us down. >> more tar balls in central florida in cocoa beach and port canaveral. it could take a dcouple more das to determine if they're from the bp leak and more tar balls are washing ashor...

Maybe two to three feet and now they're more along the lines of five, maybe at times even six feet. the good news is our tropical depression will not be a tropical storm. in fact, say about 20 minutes or so the center of that tropical depression made landfall here pretty close to south padre island. that will basically eliminate any chance that this thing could strengthen to a tropical storm. that might sound like great news, but the bad news is it didn't matter. it's the impacts. what you're seeing are a lot of storm clouds with rain. fortunately, it's not raining right now. came down at a pr...

Cornering him in that field in missouri. chris, by the way, police have just called a news conference for about an hour from now where we learn more about this bizarre, bizarre twist. >> we'll talk to you later, jeff, thank you. we know the oil is spreading farther in the gulf showing up in texas and lake pontchartrain on day 80 of the disaster. now, one parish president says it's because of the dispersepoints that they're using. kevin davis said chemicals cause tar balls to travel underwater and show up in places that were thought to be protected by barges and boom. after complaints, bp isn...

>> he wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. somebody asked me -- i have to remember over the weekend -- why does somebody a lot of money because he's black. >> who was the black person limbaugh thinks was made wealthy and big and famous and so forth only because they were black? you will not believe it. all the news and commentary now on "countdown." >> what kind of idiot am i? good evening from new york. first the news of tar balls in texas meant it was unanimous. every gulf coast state has been stained by the bp disaster. on our fifth something for ominous still for the i...