oil continues billowing into the open water off the once pristine coastline of louisiana and one mile under water bp acknowledged today more oil is coming out of there than we were first led to believe. we also have new pictures from that night a month ago now when the catastrophic blow-out took place and took all those lives in an environmental disaster was born. now the oil is washing up on that beautiful shoreline of louisiana, and the frustration and anger is almost more than the folks there can bear. our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson is in venice, louisiana, again tonight. anne, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. as the oil creeps closer to venice, anger is intensifying against bp, both in the gulf coast and in washington over what many believe is a deliberate attempt to underestimate the size of this spill. the grand isles beaches brought an impassioned and desperate plea from the mayor. >> i'm asking the president of the united states to come and save our fisheries in louisiana because it's a crime. >> reporter: in a scathing letter to bp the obama administration unleashed its own frustration demanding the company make public all the information it has on the spill saying, those efforts, to date, have fallen short in both their scope and effectiveness. today's live feed of the leak added more doubt to bp's estimate of the spilling oil. now bp claims the insertion tube is capturing up to 5,000 barrels a day. the amount it once estimated was leaking. but the feed clearly shows the tube isn't getting everything. >> bp has lost all credibility. now the decisions will have to be made by others because it's clear that they have been hiding the actual consequences. >> reporter: dramatic new pictures today from national geographic of the inferno on the deep water horizon oil rig that ignite this had crisis one month ago. today the environmental protection agency reversed itself ordering bp to use a less toxic chemical dispersant to break up the oil citing the unprecedented volumes being sprayed from the air and at the leak site. meanwhile, in the maze of marsh land that makes up the southeast louisiana coast, a wide, dark band of trouble. oil now is far into the marsh as far as you can see. this is what could choke the cycle of life here in the coastal wetlands. louisiana sweet crude, threatening the first link in the food chain, fish and wildlife. walking near the oil-stained sand on grand isle, phil and laura ferris fear they'll lose their beach. >> got this reddish tint. >> it's still incredibly sticky and then when the water recedes you can see the oil sheen. >> reporter: now as for bp tonight, company spokespeople tell us that their estimates of the spill sites have always been, quote, highly uncertain and as for that epa directive they use a less toxic chemical dispersant, bp says it will do so. brian, i can tell you that's giving people here very little comfort. >> and, anne, in human terms it has been a month now. every day they wake up is like a bad dream. how are people managing their frustration and their anger? >> reporter: you know, brian, they are trying to keep it together for lack of a better phrase, in part because they know they need bp to clean up this mess, to give them an economic life line until they can fish again and there are tourists coming back again. and so they're trying to keep it all in balance, but every day that goes by it gets harder and harder. >> anne thompson on the very frustrating situation off the coast of louisiana tonight. anne, thanks. we have a big health news story for women tonight. it isn't often we have good news to report about cancer. tonight we do. it's about ovarian cancer. often called the silent killer because it's so often diagnosed late and that it's so often fatal. tonight's story is about early detection which has been really the holy grail in this fight. our report from our chief science correspondent robert bazell. >> reporter: finding ovarian cancer in its early stages when it is easily treatable is one of the most important challenges in women's health. >> it's caught at a late stage. >> reporter: a nine-year study could be the answer. >> it's very important. i think there's a huge need for it. right now 70% of ovarian cancers are caught in the later stages when cure is very, very difficu difficult. >> reporter: this woman volunteered for the study after her closest friend and college sorority sister linda taylor got ovarian cancer. >> we went through the ups and downs of lives and illnesses, losing family members. >> reporter: like many women who get ovarian cancer taylor's symptoms were vague. >> i remember her saying something about being bloated and were talking our cooking was too good. >> reporter: taylor died in 1996. for years researchers have been trying to find a way to detect the silent killer. ca-125 test produced vague results. another screening method, ultrasound, often led to false positives and doctors performed unnecessary surgery. >> we're seeing multiple cysts. >> reporter: what the latest study does is give the ca-125 test every year. if it goes up at a certain rate determined by the woman's age and family history, then she is sent for ultrasound and surgery if necessary. out of 3,200 women in the study, only 85 were sent for ultrasound and eight of those to surgery. five of the surgeries found cancer. two others benign tumors. only one was a false positive. you department find any late-stage ovarian cancer? >> we did not. we did not. >> reporter: and that's very good. >> that's very reassuring, absolutely. >> reporter: ironically liz was one who had early cancer. she is now healthy. her friend's cancer led her to the test that saved her life as it could save many more. so why not make this a routine test immediately? doctors are waiting for a much larger study of 200,000 women in the uk. those results should be in in a few years. right now, brian, this looks very promising. >> we'll take our hope in small doses. bob bazell, thank you for that. we turn to wall street where it was another one of those days. a lot of folks lost money in their retirement accounts today. persistent fear over the debt crisis in europe helped send the dow down more than 376 points, the worst day for the blue chip stocks since the market rally started last march. the nasdaq dropped 94 points losing more than 4% of its value in one day. the dow, nasdaq, s&p 500 are now down 10% from their april highs. sue herrera is with us from cnbc tonight to try to explain this. sue, is it true if you invested 10 bucks in the stock market ten years ago after all this you'd have exactly 10 bucks today? >> reporter: pretty much, brian. and that's what's so discouraging to investors. days like today certainly don't help. the worry is and the fear is that the economic crisis in europe is basically going to derail all the progress we've made in our economic recovery here at home. and so investors looking back at that ten-year period and then looking at the volatility and the big losses today simply aren't willing to take that risk anymore. they want to go into treasury bonds and they want to go into cash. and they basically don't want to have that risk in their portfolio anymore. >> all right, sue herrera from cnbc global headquarters tonight. sue, thanks. one of the bigger election results from the primaries this past tuesday night was the tea party's first big successful statewide candidate. his name is rand paul and he was nominated to run for u.s. senate from kentucky. he is the son of congressman ron paul from texas, a famous libertarian. and that same philosophy made headlines last night in a television interview in the studio right alongside of us here during last night's "rachel maddow show" on msnbc. we get the story tonight from nbc's john yang. we have come to take our government back. >> reporter: rand paul has been kentucky's republican senate nominee for less than 48 hours but he's already ignited a political firestorm questioning the government's role in ending discripple nation in privately owned businesses like restaurants and hotels. last night msnbc's rachel maddow asked him about the 1960s battle to desegregate lunch counters in the south. >> are you in favor of it? >> well, what happens it gets -- right, well, what it gets into is that if you decide that restaurants are publicly owned and not privately owned, then do you say that you should have the right to bring your gun into a restaurant? >> reporter: paul repeatedly said he opposes any racial discrimination. today he issued a statement pport any efforts to repeal not the civil rights act of 1964. democrats tried to paint paul and his supporters as out of the mainstream. >> he made himself the face and the spokesperson for the tea party movement at his victory party on tuesday night, and i think that he made it very clear to the voters of america exactly what their movement is all about. >> reporter: the flak highlights paul's lack of experience in high-stakes poll significance. he's an eye surgeon making his first campaign for any office. it also reflects his belief in limited government and greater individual freedom. >> rand paul's misstep here was the misstep of a novice, but it's also the misstep of somebody with a deeply held philosophy and passion. >> reporter: a passion that may present challenges from republicans in november. john yang, nbc news, chicago. late-breaking news from washington tonight. president obama's replacing the director of national intelligence, dennis blair. he could resign as early as tomorrow, we're told. his departure would follow some high-profile intelligence failures including the botched attempt to bomb that u.s. airliner on christmas day in detroit. sources are telling nbc news tonight the white house has been unhappy with blair's performance for some time. in iran today, three american hikers saw their mothers for the first time since being locked up ten months ago. it was an emotional reunion but also, as you'll see, a carefully staged one. still, as our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell reports, it may be a sign that iran finally will let these young people return home. >> reporter: in tehran today, hugs, laughter, kisses and tears as three young americans saw their mothers for the first time in nearly ten months. since last july they've been locked in iran's most notorious prison accused of being american spies. their only contact with their families one five-minute phone call. >> shane and josh are this the room together but i'm alone, and that's the most difficult thing for me. but i see them twice a day. >> do you have relationships with the guards to be civil? >> reporter: they chose their words carefully as did their mothers. >> our children need to come home, and we want them to come home and so this humanitarian gesture we are grateful for from the foreign ministry. >> reporter: it all began as an adventure in the scenic mountains of northern iraq until they hiked too close to iran's border and were captured. we were there for the emotional reunion and says they don't even know the charges against them or whether there will be a trial. >> reporter: and they were so closely huddled together you can't slip a piece of paper between them but it was evident to see ten months in an iranian prison had taken a physical and emotional to on the students. >> reporter: the men looked gaunt compared to home videos before their capture. today food was abundant provided by the government at a tehran hotel, a reunion broadcast on iran's english language tv. >> the mother has expressed gratitude for iran's hospitality. >> reporter: iran could be putting on a show to counter growing diplomatic pressure on another front, proposed sanctions against its nuclear program t. could help the mothers' plea to iran's government. >> please, please, please, listen to us. we love our children so much. we want them out so badly. >> reporter: prayers they hope will be answered soon. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. when we continue along the way tonight, priceless works of art stolen and something that reads like it's right out of hollywood. and later, our special "making a difference" series, the business of making music. usher is helping kids make their good ideas work for them. t comes constipation relief... miralax is the one. it's the one. the one recommended by more doctors. only miralax is clinically proven to relieve constipation with no harsh side effects. miralax is the only one. restore your body's natural rhythm with miralax. 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