tried to arrest him, triggering weeks of violence. coke is accused of leading a drug gang that killed hundreds of people. arizona firefighters are getting the upper hand against a dangerous wildfire near flagstaff. threatened neighborhoods look to be spared and 1,000 evacuees could return home today. >> reporter: some better if not good news for the people of arizona. >> we believe that we will be allowing people back into the evacuated areas. >> reporter: the coke known know county sheriff says fire conditions will be re-evaluated wednesday morning. all signs pointing towards a slow control of the blaze. roughly 1,000 homes were evacuated sunday and monday after the 14,000-acre blaze broke out. arizona governor jan brewer spoke about the fire after getting a firsthand look at the burned-out areas. a short time before she got a call from president obama who expressed his concerns about the wildfires. >> i had the conversation this morning with the president. he placed a call to my office and is also monitoring it and we will keep you posted on a regular basis. >> reporter: the governor also commented on how impressed she was with the response from the community and local levels. >> i am pleased with the cooperation from the federal level, certainly us with the state level, down to the county level, where the rubber really meets the road. >> reporter: crews will continue to work on containment lines on the south and north sides where the fire is most active. depending on the weather, firefighters are estimating two more weeks before they have this fire fully contained. brad wheelis, abc news. now here's your wednesday weather. severe storms from oklahoma into the upper midwest today. also the northeast and the mid-atlantic states. kansas city, green bay, chicago and detroit could see 80-mile-an-hour winds, flash floods and tornados. afternoon thunderstorms from houston to jacksonville. >> 90s from miami up to new york. triple digits in dallas. 94 in indianapolis. 89 in omaha. near 90 in boise, salt lake city and sacramento. and phoenix is a scorcher, 107. you know the executive mansion in north carolina is buzzing with activity and the governor herself has been as busy as a bee. >> can you get where we're going with this? governor perdue donned protective gear yesterday. she emptied 60 pounds of honey from two beehives set up outside her home this spring. >> aside from producing honey the bees pollinate crops. the governor is seeing proof of that, she says apple trees around the mansion are producing much more fruit than usual. i did a story about bee keeping. >> you did? >> yeah, i've talked about it a couple of times. the reality is you don't need those protective suits. >> if you're calm, they're calm. >> they're not going to sting you if you're calm and smoke them. >> what does the smoke do? >> sedates them, knocks them out a bit. >> good to know. we'll be right back with more "world news now." president obama observed gay pride month by hosting activities at the white house. he said more must be done to grant rights to lesbians and gays. he promised to repeal the military's don't ask, don't tell policy. south carolina republicans overwhelmingly chose nikki haley to run for govern they are fall. nikki haley went from a relatively unknown to the spotlight. to run in this fall's governor's race in south carolina. >> while we have a great victory tonight, we will have a greater victory in november. >> reporter: haley addressed a sex scandal. two men claimed to have affairs with her, charges she denies. >> we hadn't watched about tv in three weeks, no offense. we haven't read newspaper reports in three weeks. >> reporter: her heritage is also a factor. the 37-year-old mother of two was born to indian immigrants. she was raised in the sikh faith but converted to christianity. >> i think south carolina gets more of a bad rap, that we're more judgmental than we really are. >> reporter: during the attack-filled campaign, the tea party and sarah palin showed support. >> i want to thank governor s , sarah palin, who has showed the entire country -- [ applause ] >> showed the entire country what it means to use the power of your voice and she gave us the boost we needed when we needed it. >> reporter: the questions and accusations may have given the haley campaign more attention. >> at the moment the sympathy that it gets for her far outweighs the suspicions that it raises. >> reporter: a boost for haley as her campaign can now concentrate more on the november election and less on her personal background. and there is a bit more political history in south carolina. voters nominated an african-american republican to run for congress. tim scott defeated paul thurman, son of the late senator strom thurmon. a dramatic recording could be crucial in the trial of rod blagojevich. it's from wiretapped conversations between blagojevich and his former chief of staff. in it blagojevich discusses what high-level position he could be appointed to in exchange for appointing a favorite of president obama's to his former senate seat. >> what other cabinet position would be not stupid? how about u.n. ambassador? ridiculous? >> yeah, i don't think that's realistic or serious. >> right. >>blagojevich has plead the not guilty. >> everyone has been watching this case play out. they're saying if convicted he could face $6 million in fines, 415 years. >> he's never shied away from the limelight. in the courtroom he was a little bit demure because of this apparently. when we return the frightening ordeal for an olympic star. >> jo johnson's big scare as she. >> jo johnson's big scare as she. >>ed a stalker. chubby checker: hi, i'm chubby checker. a new twist in the law makes it easier than ever to save on your medicare prescription drug plan costs. so what are you waiting for? go to www.socialsecurity.gov and apply for extra help. it's easier than learning the twist. welcome back. for plenty of celebrities life at least seems to be about red carpets and exclusive parties. for most that's part of the fun of being famous. >> there's nothing fun about a fan taking it all too seriously. yunji de nies on the famous face who stalked down her stalker. >> beautiful. >> reporter: she's the american sweetheart from west des moines, winning olympic gold in beijing. >> wow. >> reporter: and the mirror ball on the dance floor. but the bright spotlight on shawn johnson also caught the attention of robert owe ryan. >> he had written me poems and letters and apparently we had been talking to the tv together and we were, as he would say, destined for each other. >> reporter: his obsession was so intense, in march of last year owe ryan drove from florida to los angeles where the teenager was filming "dancing with the stars." an alabama police officer stopped him for a traffic violation along the way. >> where are you headed with all this stuff? >> reporter: he made no effort to hide who he was afternoon. >> she's the olympic gymnast. she's on tv now. i'm meeting her there. i know it sounds a bit crazy. >> reporter: the 36-year-old owe ryan lived in this trailer park in yulee, florida, and was once an olympic hopeful himself, trying out for the u.s. rowing team. a friend says he hurt his back and became extremely depressed. the former university of florida engineering student made it all the way to the studio lot, jumping the fence before being apprehended. in his car, bless found a shotgun, a handgun hidden in a hollowed-out bible, a bullet-proof vest, and hunting supplies. when you saw the zip ties, the duct tape, the guns, the knife, what do you think his intentions were? >> seeing the duct tape and everything, it's pretty evident that he wasn't there to be nice. he wasn't there to be best friends with me. he was there to do something or anything he could to get me. >> reporter: she was forced to move, hire bodyguards, and stay out of sight. >> before this, i felt invincible. i felt like, you know, nobody could touch me. but it was definitely a rude awakening that it can happen. >> reporter: she continued the competition. but behind that megawatt smile was overwhelming fear. >> just like competition inside, you're feeling something completely different. >> reporter: owe ryan was charged with felony stalking, burglary and two concealed weapons violations. after doing everything she could to keep her distance, johnson now had to face her stalker in court. >> i didn't want to look at him. >> reporter: owe ryan was found guilty on all charges. a judge determined him legally insane at the time of the crime so he now sits in a california state mental institution where he'll remain indefinitely. >> i hate to be selfish. but i would like him to stay there. just because if it's not -- if he gets out and it's not me he's after, he's probably going to go after somebody else. just to keep him away would be great. >> forever? >> i think -- i think so. >> reporter: johnson is now back on the beam, training for another olympics, ready once again to go for gold. >> i've missed gymnastics more than anything. and i'm just ready to be able to go back out there and show the world what i'm capable of. >> reporter: but with all that confidence comes a little caution. do you worry there would be others like him? >> definitely. i don't doubt there is. on a day-to-day basis, i just constantly look over my shoulder. >> do you think that will ever stop? >> i don't think so. >> reporter: i'm yunji de nies in new york. >> it guesses a little more frightening than that. johnson told yunji also this stalker purchased gifts for her mother, wrote poetry and love letters too. >> it's so frightening. the poor thing had to face him in court as well. i can't even imagine. like she said, it's completely changed her life, always looking over her shoulder. when we return, who's poking fun at the so-called naked cowboy. >> a mother goes up for bids on e bail. a short time ago, this woman suffered from around his house. these people chose freedom over restrictions. independence over limitations. they chose mobility. they chosehe scooter store. and this is the team of mobility experts who made it all happen. ii great news, you've been approved for payment. dr. cruz, i'm calling on behalf ofmarie stanford. and they can make it happen for you. hi, i'm doug harrison, if you're living with limited mobility, call the scooter store today. i promise, no other company will work harder to make you mobile or do more to ensure your total satisfaction. i expected they'd help me file some paperwork with medicare and my insurance. i never expected them to be so nice or work so hard to get me a power chair at no cost to me. if we qualify you and medicare denies your claim for a w scooter or power chair, i'll give it to you absolutely free. that's the scooter store guarantee. we'll wo with your insurance company, even help with financing. if there's a way, we'll find it. when they delivered mom's power chair, i expected they'd show her how to use it once or twice. that man stayed for hours! whatever it takes, as long as it takes. that's our guarantee. why do we go to < uch great lengths? 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"world news now" delivers your "morning papers." >> when j-date or match.com or e-harmony won't do be try ebay. a guy has put his mom up for sale. >> not like the world's oldest profession kind of way? >> no, no, no. he is basically saying that she is in used condition, describes her as being in pretty good working order with no real defects or signs of wear and tear. >> got a few miles on her. >> yeah. she's in the collectible section of ebay and described as unboxed. >> i don't even want to go there. >> the guy says his mom's been unlucky in love for seven years, he's helping her out saying, mom, i'm going to do it. it's apparently working, 250 people have clicked on and viewed it. some people have jokingly written in and said, can i try before i buy? >> that's terrible. i can't imagine they'll let that one stick around for too long. the good folks at jibjab are always doing fun stuff. with july 4th coming up, they have initiate had they call the founding fathers rap. take a look. ♪ they call me the general i don't mean to be crass ♪ ♪ it's time to kick some british ass ♪ ♪ ♪ i shifted into fifth gear >> flashing signs. that's pretty funny. >> that is pretty good. you can put your own face in, there obviously. >> go to jibjab.com, plug your jpeg in there, have a good time. >> have you seen the naked cowboy in times square? >> i've never seen him in person. >> i've seen him several times. >> i've seen the naked cow girl. there's a lawsuit between the two of these. i think naked cow woman. she is old. this guy is basically suing the lady, he's saying if you want to dress up like me and you want to make money off of it you need to be paying me, buy into the franchise reshe's saying, no, he sent her a cease and desist letter, he says he wants her to pay something like $150,000 which he says as bargain, most people who franchise something have a local fee. i saw this woman, who's old, in her underwear, and scary. and she was trying to coers were some people into paying her after they had taken a photo. and so the way i came in at the end of the interaction when she was cursing them out. >> for not giving her -- >> for not giving up money. >> i've heard he's litigious. >> he's also won some legal endeavors before. >> i think it was eminem had a naked eminem and he beat them. >> go to jibjab. military mess. general stanley mcchrystal's critical words that could end his career. >> clearly bad judgment. >> today he goes face to face with the president. then, fuel fight. an intense battle over deep sea oil drilling and a look inside bp's critical operations. and, turn it down. or else. the warnings about your music player. it's wednesday, june 23rd. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> they can get a little too loud apparently. >> with the ear phones. you just go full-on playing. >> you've got to have the ear buds in. i don't make it loud for everybody. this can't be as dangerous if the ear buds aren't in. i'll just jam like this and it won't be a problem. >> while you're running, just holding it like that. >> exactly. we'll talk about the dangers of these things coming up this half hour. i'm jeremy hubbard. >> i'm vinita nair. the afghanistan war commander heads to the white house today with his job on the line. sources say general stanley mcchrystal is prepared to resign if he feels he's lost the president's confidence -- seemed like a good idea then, didn't it? >> it did. back to stanley mcchrystal. after mcchrystal made some commit call comments in a magazine interview. t.j. winick is in washington. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, jeremy and vinita. later today the general will attend a regular monthly meeting he usually takes part in through video conference. summoned to washington to explain himself after participating from a "rolling stone" magazine story that belittled the obama administration. >> it's clear that the article in which he and his team appeared showed a poor -- showed poor judgment. whatever decision that i make with respect to general mcchrystal is determined entirely on how i can make sure that we have a strategy that justifies the enormous courage and sacrifice that those men and women are making over there. >> reporter: in a piece entitled "runaway general," mcchrystal is described as an outsider who didn't relate well to obama and his administration and was "disappointed" after his first meeting with the president. the general was also highly critical of vice president joe biden and u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, karl eikenberry. >> clearly bad judgment. the rest of it's given him and his commander in chief. >> reporter: mcchrystal said he felt betrayed about the leak of a cable expressing doubt about president karzai. says general mcchrystal, "here's one that covers his flank for the history books, now if we fail they can say i told you so." mcchrystal has already issued a written apology calling the profile a mistake reflecting poor judgment. >> the purpose of calling him here is to see what in the world he was thinking. >> reporter: sources tell abc news intense debate is going on right now whether to fire mcchrystal. however, the white house insists no decision will be made until after the president meets with him. jeremy and vinita? >> general mcchrystal is legendary for his discipline and love of the military. few reporters know mcchrystal better than abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: if there is one record that is used to describe stan mcchrystal most often, it is disciplined. he is a west point graduate who runs seven miles a day, sleeping four hours, and eats only one meal. he made his name in special operations. those highly trained forces who work out of the spotlight. it is mcchrystal's team that captured abu mussab zarqawi and other al qaeda operatives in iraq. it is baffling he and his top aides would be so open with "rolling stone" reporter michael hastings. hastings spoke with abc's diane sawyer from kandahar. >> i think they say these things all the time in private and i just happened to sort of see them, how they acted in private. and this wasn't after a long period of time. >> reporter: in fact, hastings describes watching mcchrystal's staff in a pub in paris after the general attended meetings there, drinking beer and singing a slurred song of their own invention called "afghanistan." hastings said mcchrystal watched his team from some distance away and said, "i'd die for them and they'd die for me." this is not the first time mcchrystal has angered the president. he was called to task aboard air force one last year after publicly dismissing vice president joe biden's ideas for a new strategy in afghanistan. but he has never been very good at politics. stan mcchrystal loves the military. it is his life. he has been married for 30 years now, but some of those years he has been able to see his wife for fewer than 30 days. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. now to the gulf of mexico and the future of deep water drilling. as live pictures from bp's undersea web cam show the oil continues to gush from its broken well, yesterday a federal judge struck down the six-month ban on deep water drilling imposed by the white house. but the interior secretary is calling for another moratorium. during this legal fight, 33 exploratory wells are idled in the gulf and that has put thousands of people out of work. >> this boat would be full of cargo and lots of supplies that go out to the oil rigs. >> the companies have no technology to address a blowout once it happens. >> the administration remains concerned about reports that blowout protectors fail almost half the time and that oil companies don't have adequate plans if there's another disaster. despite fierce criticism, bp remains in charge of stopping the leak and cleaning up the damage. they are in unchartered waters because no one has ever had to stop a leak at such depths. the bbc paid a visit to the company's crisis center in houston. >> reporter: a rare glimpse into the heart of bp's crisis center. this is the front line of the struggle to control the leak. >> if they get a heading -- >> reporter: the teams here are in constant touch with the ships out at sea. time after time, the attempts to stem the oil have failed. now, they're starting to capture more of it. but for this troubled company, these are very tense times. i've been asked to keep my voice down in here because this is mission control. it's where they manage the robotic vehicles, those machines down on the seabed which are the only means by which the oil leak can be contained. it's fragile, delicate, and painstaking work. another team wrestles with the challenge of coordinating the response. as more resources arrive on the scene, this emerges as a real problem. >> what this group does is, we have a tremendous number of ships out there in close proximity. you would never normally operate that. >> reporter: as many as 20 vessels clustered over the spill. two flaring gas as they collect oil. it's why bp experts say they can't rush things. they're very aware of the pressure. as an oil man when you see it gushing uncontrolled from the seabed, what do you feel? >> devastated is the first emotion i feel. it's devastating for everybody affected. but we are determined we're going to do the right thing, we're going to get this well under control, and ultimately we will kill this well. >> reporter: soon the robots will install another pipeline up to the surface. that will help. but every move has to be carefully planned. nothing about this is easy. and the leak won't be completely stopped until a relief well blocks it. and that isn't likely until august. the crisis goes on. bbc news in houston. in jamaica, a notorious drug lord surrendered to police and could soon be sent to the u.s. christopher coke is wanted in new york on drug and weapons trafficking charges. last month jamaican authorities bowed to american pressure and tried to arrest him, triggering weeks of violence in kingston. coke was apparently on his way to turn himself in when police arrested him. pakistan is not charging the colorado man who was on a mission to kill osama bin laden. gary faulkner was put on a flight to the u.s. last night after he was released from pakistani custody. faulkner was detained ten days ago. he was heavily armed. relatives say he was on a rambo-style mission to kill or capture osama bin laden. in northern arizona, a difficult battle for firefighters and an important decision for evacuees. firefighters are making progress against the fire that was started sunday by an abandoned campfire. two other wildfires are no longer a threat. but about 1,000 people remain evacuated and could find out if they can go home today. meanwhile, campfires are banned in three arizona forests. now here is a look at your wednesday weather. severe storms in the great plains and midwest. the threat moves to the east coast later on. windy with downpours, hail and a chance of tornados in green bay, chicago, st. louis, pittsburgh, and buffalo. and some afternoon thunderstorms from houston to jacksonville. >> 90s from new orleans to new york. and from kansas city to indianapolis today. 88 in detroit. 78 for the twin cities. a mild 73 in fargo. phoenix, however, they are sizzling at 107 degrees. it's 92 in albuquerque. now to a lost and found saga three decades in the making. >> a texas woman who lost her class ring 30 years ago thought she'd never see it again. thanks to a couple in her town it's right back there on her finger. 93-year-old otto schatz stumbled across the ring while watering his wife's rose garden. he noticed the ring was engraved with the owner's initials. >> the couple contacted the school and they easily tracked down patsy peebles, class of 1960. peebles says she can now wear the ring to her 50th high school reunion later this year. >> i wonder if otto can find mine. i wore it about a week, now i have no idea where it is. >> unless it's in the garden i'm guessing no. >> probably not. we'll be right back with more "world news now." you know i've been around for over 75 years, and i've been lucky. but for the last 20, 25 years i've had type 2 diabetes. but with out the love and support of my family, i'll tell you the truth, i don't know what shape i'd be in. i love you, grandpa. please be a good boy and take care of your diabetes. i will and i love you too. besides, you're still my cute little grandpa, and i love you. and i love you. now, you take care of yourself. you may have days like this in your future and you don't want to miss them. so see your doctor and call liberty medical. live a better life. diabetes, including all the brand name meters. call now and we'll send you a free meter. plus you'll get a free cookbook when you join. awake again? 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just to make him happy? >> reporter: in this and other calls blagojevich discusses getting something in return for making the senate appointment. >> how about health and human services, can i get that? >> reporter: blagojevich talks about his health care credentials and wants word sent he's interested in an obama cabinet job. >> i mean, what other cabinet position would be not stupid? how about u.n. ambassador? ridiculous? >> yeah, i don't think that's realistic or serious. >> right. that's'd that'd be cool, huh? >> reporter: in the taped conversations it's clear blagojevich realizes were he to appoint himself to the senate seat he'd be in for a firestorm of criticism. harris testified blagojevich kept it as a playable option, as well as appointing emil jones though blagojevich called that a fall-back. "the best jones could do for me is raise money for me." later on election day blagojevich talks with his wife about possibly pursuing an ambassadorship to india. >> india's good. >> you'd like that. >> look, it'd be a big change in our lives. you know, poor amy and annie. but i think it would be tremendously enriching. >> reporter: on the tapes blagojevich talks about ambassadorships, naming himself senator, even running for his old congressional seat. at one point he told harris he doesn't want to be governor. >> i'd like to get the [ bleep ] out of here. >> well, that's a whole different -- if that's the objective. >> yeah, the objective is to get a good gig over there. >> then we've got to put it on the table. >> reporter: abc news, chicago. >> certainly some damning sounding tape there. there are those who say blagojevich has appeared smug and smiley in the courtroom up to now. when this tape was played he seemed a little less smiley and he was writing feverish notes. seemed uncomfortable. >> apparently there's another part in the tape where blagojevich actually sounds annoyed. the notion he should be grateful to obama for the publicity appointing jarrett might generate. there's a lot of things heard and unheard that talk about his demeanor. warnings about hearing loss and your favorite music player. do you still have yours? >> yeah, i do. why ear buds could be blasting your eardrums and you don't even know it if i can get mine untangled. >> that's how mine always are. >> you're watching "world news >> that's how mine always are. >> you're watching "world news now." when someone gives blood, when a hand reaches out, that moment when heartbreak turns to hope, you're there through the american red cross. down the street, across the country, around the world, you help save the day, every day. your support truly matters. you can help today. visit redcross.org. welcome back. one of mcdonald's most popular items is in the middle of a bitter legal battle. >> the center for the science and the public interest, often called the food police, wants to sue the golden arches over its happy meals. >> as yunji de nies reports, the booef is over the toys included in those meals. >> reporter: a harmless little toy? or a main attraction luring children into a pattern of unhealthy eating? >> it's not just the meal. it's the technique you're using to get kids to buy a meal. >> i ordered a happy meal which comes with chocolate milk, cheeseburger, french fries and my shrek watch. this meal taken together has more than half the calories and saturated fat, three-quarters of the daily salt intake, and twice as much sugar as a kid should eat in an entire day. toys like that shrek watch are powerful. >> we go for a happy meal for our child, we go for the prize. because that's what makes the happy meal a happy meal. >> reporter: a recent study found children actually think foods branded with cartoon characters tastes better than the same foods without. even a mcdonald's logo on a bag can draw kids to one lunch over another. mcdonald's says happy meals are right-sized for kids. getting a toy is just one part of a fun family experience. they may soon have to tell that to a judge. yunji de nies, abc news, arlington, virginia. >> try breaking the news that there's no toy to the kids. >> not going to go over well. >> it will not. seems everywhere you go you can see and often hear people listening to music. on their mp3 players. >> what effect is all that noise having on our ears and hearing? we asked dr. richard besser. >> reporter: mp3 players have revolutionized the way we listen to music. but they may be causing some serious harm to our eardrums. a new study about mp3 players is raising questions about how many hours a day people are listening to these devices. and more importantly, at what volume. a safe music listening level is no more than 80 to 85 decibels. equivalent to a dial tone. or city traffic from inside a car. levels that can damage your hearing are about 100 decibels. similar to the noise of a subway train. or a lawn mower. we went out on the streets of new york with a sound level meter to give us a rough estimate of who might be damaging their hearing. this man told us he listens to his music loudly five to six hours a day. so that's coming in at around 100 decibels. which is pretty high. that's about the level of a power tool. this runner listens to her music too loud as well. do you use the volume limiter on there ever? >> yeah. >> yeah? >> not to blow out my speakers. >> what about to not blow out your ears? >> probably that too. >> reporter: hearing loss dangers aren't always going in one ear and out the other. >> if i'm on the subway and you'll sit next to me you can't hear that i'm listening. i don't blow myself out like that. >> reporter: dr. richard besser, abc news, new york. ♪ >> oh, yeah. i wasn't paying attention, i was listening to my music. >> what? >> don't give me that. >> huh, what? >> don't you hate it when you're on the subway and people have their ear buds and you can still hear their music? you can make out every word. it's really annoying. >> when i use mine to run i often have a headache afterwards. i've known for a while i've been listening to it too loud. >> you can always tell when it's too loud. you can always just take the ear buds out -- >> what are you listening to? >> i've got some pit bull here. >> i thought that would work better in my head. we'll be back. a fi finally thishalf hour, a man who spent a majority of his life in the ice and snow of the arctic. >> he has seen much of that ice and snow melt away and it worries him. >> bill blakemore introduces us to national geographic's premier polar photographer paul nicklen. >> reporter: beauty and science and a dangerously warming world have all become one in the life and work of biologist-turned-photographer paul nicklen. >> i call myself an interpreter and a translator. i translate what the scientists are telling me. >> reporter: he's lived in the arctic since he was 4. >> where i grew up we had no telephone, no radio, no television, we had no distractions. the snow and the ice were my sand box. i graduated from university, got my marine biology degree, went back to the arctic. >> reporter: he used his camera to reveal the nature of a world melting away under human-induced global warming. >> they're going to lose the entire extent of sea ice in the summertime in the arctic in the next seven to 15 years. it's going to have such catastrophic effects before the temperatures level off. if we lose ice we stand to lose an entire ecosystem. ice is like the soil in the garden. stuff cannot survive without sea ice. you realize through my photography i hope how interconnected these species are to ice. >> reporter: nicklen wants the world's city people to see deeply into a world their greenhouse emissions are changing. >> i see all these species as friends. not as a species that's below me but as brethren, as friends. >> reporter: he prefers photos to video. >> a picture's always sitting there in front of you. i think it just takes one image to get someone's attention. >> reporter: polar bear tracks in vanishing snows. >> i will spend sometimes 24, 48, 72 hours sitting on an ice pan with a group of walrus. i'll get to know these walrus to the point they get so relaxed with me that i can rest my head against the walrus and fall asleep with them on the ice. then one of them slips into the water and it won't feel threatened by me, i can slip into the water with it and get a couple of shots. >> reporter: camera under water, the cover of his book of photos a bear reflected on the underside of the surface. a big-brained beluga, like a white torpedo. a bear feasting on a beluga. reality. raw in tooth and claw. natural, mysterious, beautiful. >> i think we need to let people know what's at stake. hopefully things will change. and in my dream world, things will survive. >> reporter: bill blakemore, abc news. >> stunning photos. certainly an interesting commentary on what's going on. >> you can appreciate it more when you hear how long he must >> you can appreciate it more when you hear how long he must sit on those chunks of ice i man on radio: mission is a go. you are good to go. so, have you made your decision yet? 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[ flippers slapping ] on the line. general stanley mcchrystal's job is in jeopardy. will the president demand his resignation today? then, gulf milestone. day 64 of the oil disaster and today's progress report on the cleanup. >> that's a new record for us. >> and the new fight over deep sea drilling. and, secrets revealed about chelsea clinton's wedding plans. it's wednesday, june 23rd. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> jeremy's making fun of me because i do like to hear about the wedding plans, in england and here. it's interesting. >> you're about to hear a bunch. apparently a july wedding we're hearing. >> good weather. >> also huge. >> no. they have lots of friends? >> like 400, 500 people they're saying. >> wow. >> that rivals your big shindig. >> oh, please. good morning and thanks for being with us. i'm vinita nair. >> i'm jeremy hubbard. general stanley mcchrystal meets with president obama today. he's prepared to resign as the commander of troops in afghanistan. >> the general's job is in jeopardy after critical comments he made in a magazine interview. our coverage begins this morning with jake tapper. >> reporter: president obama criticized general mcchrystal for participating in a magazine story that belittled the administration. >> i think it's clear that the article in which he and his team appeared showed a poor -- showed poor judgment. >> reporter: but the president also said this. >> whatever decision that i make with respect to general mcchrystal is determined entirely on how i can make sure that we have a strategy that justifies the enormous courage and sacrifice that those men and women are making. >> reporter: white house officials would not rule out the possibility general mcchrystal might be fired. >> i would say all options are on the table. i think our efforts in afghanistan are bigger than one person. >> reporter: general mcchrystal and his aides spent a month with "rolling stone" reporter michael hastings and they let almost no top administration official go uninsulted. first the commander in chief described by an adviser as looking uncomfortable and intimidated when he first met the general. it was a ten-minute photo op. >> mcchrystal advises that obama clearly didn't know anything about mcchrystal when they first met. here's someone who's going to run the f'ing war. he didn't seem very engaged. was pretty disappointed. >> he'll have his undivided attention tomorrow. >> reporter: vice president biden. who's that, mcchrystal jokes. says an adviser, biden? did you say bite me? national security adviser general jim jones. a mcchrystal aide calls him a clown stuck in 1985. special representative to afghanistan richard holbrooke. oh, no, not another e-mail from holbrooke, mcchrystal groans. i don't even want to open it. u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, karl eikenberry. mcchrystal says he felt betrayed by the leak of an eikenberry cable expressing doubt about avenue began president karzai. says general mcchrystal, here's one that covers his flank for the history books. now if we fail, they can say i told you so. defense secretary robert gates, normally a champion of the general, said general mcchrystal made a significant mistake and exercised poor judgment. white house press secretary robert gibbs said the parents of more than 90,000 soldiers in afghanistan need to have confidence in the general. >> they need to know that the structure where they're sending their children is one that is capable and mature enough. >> reporter: and general mcchrystal offered a paper statement saying that he was extending his sincerest apology, he made a mistake reflecting poor judgment, and he has enormous respect and admiration for president obama and the obama administration. jake tapper, abc news, the white house. >> general mcchrystal is known for his discipline and his devotion to the military. >> so how are his comments playing among military personnel he commands in afghanistan? nick schifrin covers the war and he's in islamabad this morning. nick? >> reporter: good morning, jeremy. good morning, vinita. i think it's important to note that not all the nearly now 100,000 american troops in afghanistan have appreciated general mcchrystal's new strategy since he came in about a year ago. that strategy calls them to hold their fire pretty often when it's in any way possible that there will be any kind of civilian casualties. a lot of those troops, mostly low-level troops, have grumbled about that policy and we heard that in the "rolling stone" article. there's a lot of mostly higher-level military in afghanistan who do appreciate what mcchrystal has been trying to do, do agree with the notion that any kind of civilian casualties, if at all possible, should be avoided. if that means that you let a few terrorists go, that's okay. the question is for the white house right now and for the military, in afghanistan, is that strategy about one man? as robert gibbs asked from the white house podium, is it that when mcchrystal leaves the strategy has to change? or is there a larger strategy that president obama is behind and has sent 30,000 troops to really back up? is that strategy able to continue if mcchrystal leaves? and of course, that is up to the white house. that is up to the commander in chief to decide. >> so nick, if he does leave i think the question a lot of us would be left asking is who would take over at this point in the war effort? >> reporter: there are a few obvious people who might take over. one of them is mcchrystal's deputy. that's three-star general david rodriguez. he's in charge of the war day to day. there's a few less known names. the head of the marine corps is an obvious one of those. the fact is that some in the military do believe that it will be disruptive. even if the strategy continues with another general, the fact is changing a war-time general is extremely rare. the last time it's happened actually is in afghanistan, obama has already done it. before that it's been at least 50 years. truman fired his general in korea. that's simply because it's very disruptive, the military believes, to change the general in midstream. jeremy and vinita? >> the mcchrystal story is what everyone is talking about this morning. nick schifrin, thank you. michael hastings is the journalist who interviewed general mcchrystal for "rolling stone." he told diane sawyer he wasn't sure why he was granted so much access to the commander. >> why did he say these things to you, and why did he allow his aides to say them to you? >> i think they were frustrated with how the policy was going. and i think there was an intent on their part to get a message out about that frustration. >> there is much more from diane sawyer's interview with michael hastings on abcnews.com. stay with abc news throughout the morning as we cover every angle of the mcchrystal controversy. the white house is promising a new moratorium on deep water drilling after a federal judge overturned the first one. the administration says the oil industry must prove safeguards are in place before drilling can resume. as emily schmidt reports, many people along the gulf disagree. >> reporter: more than one month after the deepwater horizon oil rig explosion, the obama administration said no more deep water offshore drilling for six months. tuesday, a federal judge blocked the moratorium. to the relief of oil companies and louisiana's governor. >> this moratorium is arbitrary and capricious. >> reporter: the judge said the agency's moratorium couldn't justify the effect on oil companies and local economies. the administration plans an immediate appeal. >> continuing to drill at these depths without knowing what happened is -- does not make any sense. >> reporter: in london, greenpeace protesters interrupted a bp executive speaking at an oil conference. tony hayward backed out of the conference citing his commitments in the gulf. the company says it has spent $2 billion fighting the spill, which shows more damage every day. >> you can see quite clearly these are sharks five to six feet long. >> reporter: an alabama reporter recorded two dozen sharks clustered in shallow waters where there is less oil, more oxygen. >> everything in the lower section of the water 20 feet and down is dead. >> reporter: signs of progress as the coast guard reports bp collected 26,000 barrels of oil in the past 24 hours. >> that is a new record for us. we continue to make progress in optimizing the capacity out of the wellhead there. >> reporter: a bp spokesman says tony hayward is handing over day-to-day control of the oil spill to the company's managing director, and in london bp stock hit its lowest point in 13 years. emily schmidt, abc news, washington. now to the weather. severe rainstorms were too much for a dam west of indianapolis. after 5 inches of rain, part of the dam in avon collapsed yesterday. 50 homes were evacuated. crews are scrambling to reinforce the dam and pump water from the lake. there are concerns about more rain which could cause the rest of the dam to buckle. that storm system triggered nearly 50 tornados since monday, including a powerful twister that hit southeast wisconsin. the governor tours the damage today after declaring a state of emergency. warning sirens failed to go off and storm damage buried some survivors. nearly 50,000 people lost power. here's a look at your forecast. another day of severe weather from oklahoma up to wisconsin and all the way to the east coast. large hail, tornados and flooding in wichita, detroit, indianapolis and pittsburgh. thunderstorms along much of the gulf coast and some showers in northern washington. >> 75 in seattle. upper 80s in sacramento, salt lake city and boise as well. dallas climbs to 101. kansas city 94. 86 in boston. 90s for most of the east coast. they have come a long way, baby. and they are going to new heights to get other women to do the same. >> more than 100 women took off from ft. myers, florida, for the annual air race classic. this is a nine-state cross country air derby. the women pilots range in age from 18 to 92. >> wow. the competition though is not all about speed. the main goal is to get more women involved in aviation. >> would you become a pilot like that? 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"jimmy kimmel live." we'll be back in two minutes. i am jimmy kimmel and we're having a technical problem tonight so -- um, all right. >> jimmy shot the entire show on his mac book with the web cam. >> i was wondering is that a stick? >> it's his mac book. there's some precedent here. apparently craig ferguson had the power go out last year and he used a flashlight and the show went on as well. so now we know what to do if god forbid they forget to pay the power bill on the overnight show. >> that is kind of cool. kind of makes you feel you're getting a behind the scenes. even though it's not. >> we shouldn't give them any ideas either. if abc can figure out they can shoot entire shows on a web cam, forget about it. >> you're looking at the future. yesterday we were talking about jake and vienna, the guy, the bachelor, they split up. 24 hours later she's been spotted with a new man. >> that was quick. >> didn't take long. according to her they've been broken up for a while. you can see it right there. the new boyfriend. you might recognize his face. he's on the show "geek." 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where will she do it? what will she wear? >> have you found that dress yet? >> i don't have a dress yet, chelsea doesn't either. we're working on it. >> reporter: now we're getting brand new details. >> the actual date is july 31st. we know it's going to be somewhere within two to three hours' drive of new york city. >> reporter: sources close to the wedding reveal the ceremony will be likely held at a private estate in upstate new york. >> all the guests who have been invited are going to be notified a week before the wedding by the wedding planner as to where the wedding is. >> reporter: the guest list is reportedly limited to people chelsea knows personally, with a cap of 400 to 500. that's less than half the so-called close family friends bill clinton had invited to stay in the lincoln bedroom during his first term as president. likely on the list, everyone from heads of state to friends of dad's. then there's chelsea and mark's own family and friends. >> which is harder, middle east peace or negotiating this wedding? >> well, i'd probably call it a draw about now. >> reporter: with larger than life parents and high-profile guests, the biggest challenge will be keeping the spotlight on the bride. >> so people are pulling out their maps trying to figure where is this, if it's going to be a two or three-hour drive of new york city? probably not the hamptons we're hearing. perhaps upstate new york, maybe westchester or duchess county. >> i remember when the engagement was first announced she said to bill clinton, i want you to lose weight to be in perfect health. we'll have to see if in fact he lost the weight. she was smart enough not to tell the mom that. you never, ever tell your mom that. >> no, you don't. and you hope nobody says that about the bride too.