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hill. emily schmidt has that story from washington. >> reporter: the fallout reaches from the coast -- >> it's imimpacted us greatly. >> do you solemnly swear to tell the truth -- >> reporter: to the capitol where two different congressional hearings focus on people hurt by the spill. >> i don't know a single business that has not been directly affected by this oil. >> reporter: the head of alabama's gulf coast convention and visitors bureau says hotels that are usually full this time of year are now 70% vacant. restaurant owners see it too. >> and this is not a sustainable business model. >> reporter: the u.s. travel association wants bp to earmark $500 million for a tourism marketing campaign. and in a separate hearing, witnesses called on the obama administration to reverse a deep water drilling moratorium imposed after the spill. >> we want to work. we want to be able to do our jobs, support our families, and support our local economy. >> reporter: leslie's company supplies 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in and the reward is now up to $50,000. a tearful message from kyron horman's biological mother, desiree young, as police continue to search for her missing son. >> we love you, kyron. never give up hope. we are all coming to get you to bring you home. >> reporter: we believe that kyron's disappearance involves criminal behavior because his parents have been deprived of their son for 53 days. >> reporter: the grand jury is now trying to do what investigators haven't been able to. find out who's responsible for kyron horman's disappearance. deedee speicher, terry horman's close friend and one of the women police seem to have narrowed in on, appeared before the grand jury but it was are was not questioned by them monday. >> a grand jury can be impaneled to further and enhance an investigation that has been stalled. >> reporter: while speicher has been avoiding reporters her attorneys say she has been cooperating with investigators. her family isn't giving any details. >> can anybody 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the last three months. >> so often you see this after a big natural disaster. after ka treen na, after the gulf oil spill, the country gets together and hosts a telethon. larry king took part in the most recent one. >> yeah, larry king hosted a telethon a couple of weeks ago. keep in mind he did a big one in january around haiti. and that one raised $10 million. the one he did for the gulf only raised $1.8 million. the reason why i think it only raised less than $2 million was because this is not a natural disaster, this is manmade. from all the blogs i've read and all the comments, people are blaming bp ask they say bp is one of the wealthiest companies in the world and they're the ones who should be footing the bill. >> we know new orleans is one of the country's great musical cities. coming from there to here, to new york, it is an incredible city. the musical talent coming out of there. the cityist got together to help itself out with another kind of concert. >> yes, this was spearheaded by lenny kravitz, now a resident of new orleans. lenny kravitz has been so visible. he's as visible with this cause as harry connick was during katrina. he's done the larry king telethon, he's done this benefit concert that raised $350,000, was joined on stage by most def, anita frankel, dr. john. he's been making the rounds globally, doing interviews, just trying to bring more light to the plight of what's happening to the fishermen and the marshlands around the gulf area. so a lot of kudos to lenny craf vits for what he's done. >> jimmy buffet, certainly he's a fan of the beach and a fan of the entire gulf coast, he put on a concert as well. >> oh, yes. jimmy buffet is actually -- to the gulf he is what wyclef jean is to haiti, a native son who's done so much for that region. jimmy buffet, born in mississippi, lives between alabama and florida. major concert in gulf shores, alabama, tlaekted 35,000 people. attended by the governors of alabama and florida. basically jimmy buffet's message was, everybody come on down, don't forget us, don't forget the merchants and the people here in the gulf coast. and it was a tremendous boost, shot in the arm for the residents in alabama and around the gulf coast. you know, jimmy buffet, he doesn't mince his words. he changed the lyrics of "margaret thatville." at the end he basically puts the blame on bp. ♪ some people claim that there's a woman to blame ♪ ♪ but i know it's all bp's fault ♪ >> it's all bp's fault, that's the line. he didn't mince words, he let his opinion be known on that issue. some didn't do benefit concerts directly but still try to do their part. >> dave matthews has recorded an amazing psa with sandra bullock and the girl from "gossip girl." there's talk there's going to be another major event sometime before the summer's over. once again, we go back to people saying bp is a company that's worth over -- it is worth over $116 billion. they should certainly be footing the bill. the artists who feel a connection to the land, the people, the region are the ones spearheading all the efforts. i think we're going to see a lot more in the next few months. >> bruno, we certainly appreciate you being with us this morning. it's great to see so many folks helping out at this critical time in the area of the country. thank you so much. you're welcome. >> you're watching "world news now." be back with her right after this. ♪ if you fight to sleep in the middle of the night, why go one more round ? you don't need a rematch, but a rethink. with lunesta. lunesta is thought to interact with gaba receptors associated with sleep. lunesta helps you get the restful sleep you need. lunesta has some risk of dependency. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations, 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you at this time is as this flight was making its landing into the islamabad airport it lost contact with the control room and basically found itself in a very mountainous region, very close to islamabad. you can see it as very mountainous region. what we do know is that weather played some role in this crash. we're being told that it was raining at the time. again, at this hour, the death toll continues to change. the very latest has been ten people are dead, three wounded. as you can imagine right now, in this country, in this area, people are grieving, not knowing much, not being able to get much information. >> it's very early in this -- obviously it's going to be a growing tragedy throughout the day, apparently according to the latest reports we're getting, people are in the airport screening the tvs, waiting for more news about this. as you can imagine, a frightening scene out there. frantic hours for those folk arizona head of them throughout the day. getting reports that bodies are literally everywhere. some are being helicoptered out. reports the military are sending personnel in, troops and helicopters to that area, as well as rescue, if there is rescue to be done, it's under way at this hour as people sort through the wreckage and the carnage at that crash site. >> earlier today we did have a chance to speak with a producer from abc news. again he basically told us this area where this plane crash happened is very difficult to get to. he told us this route from karachi to islamabad, flown by air blue, is a very routine flight. it took off at about 7:45 a.m. their time. like we said, this crash happened just before they were set to land at islamabad national airport. i mentioned the notion of weather and what role it played in this accident. it's worthy of noting there had been heavy monsoon rains in the area for at least a couple of days. and so what we do know is as they were making that initial conversation with the control tower, basically trying to get 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frustrations and sweeping changes at bp. then, defensive democrats. >> we have to take a different approach here. >> how leaked war secrets led to a bitter battle on capitol hill. and, sleep secrets. our polkameister gets expert advice on insomnia. it's wednesday, july 28th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning. i'm vinita nair. >> i'm rob nelson. we begin with breaking news this wednesday morning. authorities say that a passenger plane crashed into the hills above islamabad. several fatalities are reported and rescue crews are having difficulty reaching the crash site, which is in a mountainous area. >> 152 passengers and the crew were on board. the airbus 320 jet crashed as it was approaching islamabad's airport after a flight from karachi. the initial reports are that it lost contact with the control tower. the plane crashed in rainy weather and wet conditions are making the rescue effort very difficult. we'll continue to follow the story. in other news now, it has been 100 days since the nation's worst environmental disaster began to unfold and the new head of bp is hoping now to turn the page. >> but the oil company faces a number of major challenges, including criminal investigations and mounting lawsuits. diana alvear is joining us from buras, louisiana. diana? >> reporter: vinita and rob, good morning. today marks the 100th day since the initial explosion. but the new man in charge of bp is wasting no time in laying out his plan of attack. >> we clean up the beaches, we restore the gulf. we'll be doing that for a long time. and that is my number one focus. >> reporter: bob dudley says he is committed to managing the crisis he inherited. now that the damaged well is close to being completely sealed the incoming ceo of bp is facing an increasingly tough task. finding the 180 million barrels of oil that have gushed into the gulf. aerial views of the spill zone reveal little oil on the surface. the vast majority of it has sunk. >> there's a lot of dispersed oil in the water and that stuff could end up in the food web. >> reporter: ask the men who fish these waters and they'll show you why they believe fishing bans should be lifted. no visible oil in these oysters. >> we have to be sure when we put these out there that they're safe for the consumer. >> reporter: the oil has kept fishermen and others who depend on the gulf to make a living no way to do so. on capitol hill, the man in charge of handling claims promised to speed up the process. >> i am working as fast as i can, as diligently as i can, full-time, to get the gulf coast claims facility up and running, to get it funded, so that these emergency claims can be made as soon as possible. >> reporter: once again, the white house promised bp will pick up the tab. >> american taxpayers will not be responsible for any costs related to the spill. >> reporter: and oil has begun to leak back into the gulf again. this after a tow boat ran into a wellhead near the spill zone. vinita, rob? >> thanks, diana. the pentagon has now identified the sailor who is believed to be a hostage of the taliban in afghanistan. petty officer jarod newlove, 25 years old, from renton, washington. the taliban claims newlove is held in a safe place. newlove and another sailor, justin mcneley, are believed to have come under attack in a taliban-held area on friday. mcneley was killed. political news now. many democrats are in revolt against president obama over the war in afghanistan. a significant number of them voted no to his latest war funding request. >> it follows that huge leak of secret military documents on the war. t.j. winick joins us with the latest from washington this morning. hi, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. abc news has learned the department of justice is offering its assistance to the department of defense in prosecuting the leak case. president obama spoke publicly for the first time about the biggest intelligence leak in u.s. history. those 92,000 classified reports concerning the afghan war. >> while i'm concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don't reveal any issues that haven't already informed our public debate on afghanistan. >> reporter: the documents posted on the whistle blower website wikileaks has details about missions gone horribly wrong, civilian deaths, and being double-crossed by the isi, the intelligence service of u.s. ally pakistan, who was fed the information from a source believed to be this man, army specialist brad manning, now behind bars in kuwait, accused of document theft. >> i really am appalled by the leak, condemn the leak, and i believe that there is potential there to put american lives at risk. >> reporter: it was with these new revelations that the house passed a $33 billion bill to pay for the wars in afghanistan and iraq and debated a measure to remove u.s. troops from pakistan. >> we have to take a different approach here. >> we cannot see these other entities within the isi empowered without having civilian oversight. >> reporter: an organization that represents conscientious objectors and military deserters has set up a legal defense fund to assist private manning. rob and vinita? a suspected serial killer was indicted for the murders of a mother and daughter last year. police say former u.p.s. worker jason thomas scott is linked to at least one other mother-daughter killing. the killings took place in the washington, d.c. area. now investigators suspect scott is responsible for other unsolved crimes elsewhere. investigators have doubled the reward in the case of kyron horman. oregon police are now offering $50,000 for information leading to the whereabouts of the 7-year-old. he's been missing since june 4th. a grand jury is hearing testimony in the case. kyron's mother also made a plea for his safe return. >> we love you, kyron. never give up hope. we are all coming to get you, to bring you home. >> we believe that kyron's disappearance involves criminal behavior, because his parents have been deprived of their son for 53 days. >> the investigation has centered around kyron's stepmother, terry horman. a close friend of hers has been called to testify before that grand jury. a fast-moving brush fire is burning out of control this morning. it is spreading across a remote area of the mojave desert 70 miles north of l.a. flames have charred hundreds of acres. as many as 40 homes have been destroyed. dozens more are threatened and evacuations are under way. firefighters are not close to containing the flames and they are battling windy conditions. a severe storm that tore across south dakota may have left a tiny town with big bragging rights. as hail smashed through roofs and windshields in the town of vivian last friday, one huge hailstone may have shattered a world record. the huge chunk of ice weighs almost two pounds. it's 8 inches in diameter and nearly 19 inches around. the record still has to be confirmed by national weather experts. look at that. now here's a look at your wednesday weather. severe storms from the midwest to the northeast. gusty winds, large hail and flash flooding in des moines, chicago, detroit, and western new york. thunderstorms in the southeast, mississippi valley, over to texas. heavy rain in the northern and central rockies. >> upper 90s in boise and salt lake city. 80s in fargo, omaha, and the twin cities. boston hits 94. new york 89. and atlanta 92. okay, rob, we have to go on a field trip. >> another one. >> yes. this is on the list. lady luck is apparently hanging out in an upstate new york grocery store. >> get this. etta vier just won a million bucks. she purchased her lottery at the same syracuse store where a $26 million ticket was bought less than a month ago. etta, who is 82 years old, says she just happened to be at the store when the earlier winners 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>> i'll say this, i have great knowledge that companies will do what they can to protect their reputation, their interests, and their shareholders. >> it will be months before total cleanup but we are absolutely going to do that. >> president obama is pledging a fast response to requests for help with the oil spill. here's what the kalamazoo river looks like from above. you can see the dark oil coating the top of the river. the oil spill dumped from 800,000 to some estimates of 1 million gallons of oil into the waters in calhoun county. the company that runs the pipeline, enbridge, says they first found out about the problem because of a reading hundreds of miles away. >> our control center located up in edmonton noticed a drop in pressure on our line 6b. they contacted our local pipeline maintenance crew and asked them to do a visual inspection of the line to find out what was going on. upon that visual inspection, they noticed that there was oil released. >> according to enbridge, the line was shut down immediately after crews saw oil. isolation valves are on either side of where that leak actually occurred. the severe storms that hit west michigan last week are now playing a role in how quickly the oil could reach lake michigan. wzzm 13 joins us from the weather center with a look at where the oil is going. >> the national weather service says it could be three to four days before the oil gets to the lake. the kalamazoo river is moving quickly. you can easily see those oil slicks. they are heading west toward lake michigan. booms placed in the river are catching some oil but much of it is getting through. the national weather service says because of thunderstorms last week, river levels are higher than normal. so there are currently flood advisories and more water means the flow is faster. >> the national transportation safety board is getting involved in the calhoun county oil spill. the agency is spending three pipeline investigators to the source of the leak in marshall. another investigator will go to enbridge's pipeline control center in edmonton, alberta, canada. the so-called go teams will investigate the pipeline accident and the oil spill. >> that again was coverage from our affiliate wzzm in grand rapids. we'll be right back with more news. ? 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control tower and crashed. as you can see in that video it is still a very active scene and rescue crews are on the way throughout the morning. we'll have the latest on this developing story so please stay with abc news. now to the newest front in the war in afghanistan, which is capitol hill. president obama is now battling his very own party. >> democrats revolted as the house debated a $33 billion bill to pay for the war. here's jonathan karl. >> reporter: democrat after democrat came forward, not just to oppose the war, but to cut off funding for it. >> wake up, america. wikileaks' release of secret war documents gave us 92,000 reasons to end the wars. >> it is wrong to be borrowing money from china, laying off american police officers, to train police officers in afghanistan. >> the costs of this war are too enormous in blood and treasure. >> reporter: last year, when the house last voted on war funding, 32 democrats voted no. more than three times as many democrats came out against funding the war. a stand they took even after a last-ditch appeal by the president to vote yes. >> ensure that our troops have the resources they need and that we're able to do what's necessary for our national security. >> reporter: but they weren't listening. >> it is a mistake to give this administration yet another blank check for this war. >> there's nowhere in the constitution that says that the president just gets to go and fight wars without the oversight of the congress. >> reporter: opposition to the war came from some of the top democrats in congress. including appropriations chairman david obey who voted in favor of the war funding last time around. >> i cannot look my constituents in the eye and say that this operation will hurt our enemies more than it hurts us. and so i will reluctantly vote no. >> reporter: in contrast, democratic supporters of the war kept a low profile and so did the democratic leadership. during the debate, neither nancy pelosi nor any other democratic house leader came forward to speak in favor of funding the war. for the most part, it was republicans that made the case for the obama administration's policy in afghanistan and gave the president the votes he needed to fund the war. jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. a young woman is under house arrest in texas, accused of trying to smuggle u.s. weapons into russia. anna fermanova was born in latvia but grew up in dallas. investigators say they found three night vision rifle sights in her luggage as she boarded a plane in new york headed for moscow. her attorney says she was taking them to her husband who works in russia. fermanova is now charged with smuggling but not espionage. president obama is promising quick action, responding to an 800,000 gallon oil spill in southern michigan. it has been leaking since monday from a broken pipeline. it carries about 8,000 gallons of oil a day from indiana to ontario. the oil flowed into a creek and then into the kalamazoo river, coating birds and fish. about 20 homes have been evacuated. now to the gulf oil spill. it has now been 100 days since the deadly deepwater horizon explosion which led to the environmental disaster. >> the chairman of bp says his priority now is to stop the leak and clean up the shores but also keep bp shareholders in mind. diana alvear has the latest now from buras, louisiana. dia diana? >> reporter: vinita and rob, good morning. today marks the 100th day since the initial explosion. but american bob dudley, the new man at bp, is wasting no time laying out his plan of attack. first of all he says they have to kill that damaged well completely. he's hoping that will take place within the next few weeks. then the focus turns completely to cleanup efforts. >> we clean up the beaches, we restore the gulf, and we'll be doing that for a long time. and that is my number one focus. >> reporter: but there are some things that are complicating those efforts. crews have to find those 180 million barrels that have gushed into the gulf. a lot of it has broken up and sunk beneath the surface of the water. >> there's a lot of dispersed oil in the water and that stuff could end up in the food web. >> reporter: researchers say the effect of this oil on the marine life is yet unknown. but fishermen tell abc news that their products are perfectly safe and they want all of the fishing bans lifted so that they can get back out on the water and make a living. >> we have to be sure that when we put these out there, that they're safe for the consumer. >> reporter: on capitol hill, the man in charge of handling claims promised to speed up the process. >> i am working as fast as i can, as diligently as i can, full-time, to get the gulf coast claims facility up and running, to get it funded, so that these emergency claims can be made as soon as possible. >> reporter: meanwhile, officials have to worry about yet another leak in the gulf. this time, a tow boat ran into a wellhead near the spill 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police departments ready their jails and themselves for a surge in arrests. this video is now mandatory viewing, giving guidance on the new fine line between enforcement and profiling. >> diplomacy may be the greatest asset in these days to come. >> meanwhile, latino activists are encouraging their community to check their tail lights, not travel in big groups, and even remove the catholic rosary beads from their rear-view mirrors. all the better to avoid suspicion. law student daniel rodriguez, undocumented since his mother brought him at age 6, tells of all the parents giving power of attorney to neighbors in case they're deported without their american-born children. >> kids will be placed in child protective services and may not see their parents again for a long time. >> reporter: beefed-up patrols and the recession have actually made american borders more secure than any time in decades. but anger is still high in the state. and while this law may add another deterrent, it is 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available. we now move to the chilling story of a 27-year-old man in maryland that police call a suspect in a series of mother-daughter murders. >> capturing jason thomas scott and cracking the case was quite a challenge for investigators near washington, d.c. pierre thomas reports. >> reporter: the horror began at this home on january 26th, 2009, as an intruder neutralized the alarm system and slipped in. karen lofton, a 45-year-old nurse, was fatally shot as she tried to hide in this corner. her 16-year-old daughter was repeatedly shot as she frantically dialed 911 from her bed. police were perplexed. the doors were locked. no signs of forced entry. neighbors were terrified. two months later, the bodies of dolores dewitt, 42, and her 20-year-old daughter, ebony, were found in a burning car. less than a mile away from the loftons' home. another nurse and a daughter killed. >> i will tell you mr. scott presented us with a very challenging ability to identify him as a suspect. >> reporter: this man, jason thomas scott, was charged in the murders of the dewitts and the chief of police here is convinced he's responsible for more. >> here's a mother and a daughter in a very quiet community where we don't see violence. yes, we've had some burglaries here. but again, they're saying the way the crime scene is left very troublesome. it does not tell us so much about what's occurring. there's things that don't make any sense in the crime scene. we're beginning to wonder what we have here. >> reporter: there were similarities in the crime scenes but also stark differences. the loftons were murdered in their home in what appeared to be a controlled, planned execution. the dewitts may have been killed in a random act of violence, perhaps a carjacking. and then there was vilma butler. killed and left in this burning house. five murders in nine months. the police got a break when thomas was arrested last july in this u.p.s. parking lot after atf received a tip he was selling weapons out of the trunk of his car. he was charged with selling stolen weapons, including assault rifles and silencers. the investigation eventually led police to this vacant mansion that they suspect has served as the thieves' lair. it was there investigators found evidence linking thomas to the murders of the loftons and dewitts. scott is 27 years old. he's a college graduate and is pursuing a master's degree in computer science. he also worked at the u.p.s. and law enforcement sources say he may have used the company's database to help select victims. >> again, he utilizes employment to methodically identify his victims. so again, he had inside information. he knew a lot about his victims. he studied our response, the way we investigated crimes. so he managed to actually throw us off and disguise the crime scene based on his knowledge of police investigations. >> reporter: scott allegedly used bleach to clean his crime scenes. arson to destroy evidence. and changed the location of bodies to confuse police. he also studied other serial killers. neighbors who have known scott for years say there were hints early on that he might be a predator. >> most of the problem started when he was around 10. started him being a peeping tom, leading to videotaping people, breaking and entering. you'd never have known he was going to commit murder. >> reporter: police worry scott might be responsible for other unsolved homicides in d.c., texas and florida. other locations he's known to have frequented. there are about 40 unsolved murders in his home county which will also be looked at again. >> i'm looking at these -- the number of crimes associated with this individual. in my experience, 30 years of policing, i've not seen, never seen such type of criminal in our midst. >> reporter: rosa smith, dolores dewitt's mother, still can't understand. >> to do this without knowing a person. you can be so evil, knowing a person -- not knowing a person and you're going to do this, that's sad to be so evil. >> reporter: the question is whether there are more victims and more evil. i'm pierre thomas in prince george's county, maryland. coming up, who is suing "american idol" producers for, get this, $300 million? >> and what brought a former secretary of state and the queen of soul together onstage. it's next in "the skinny." kind of a slow "skinny" on this wednesday. >> not too much juicy stuff. >> we need celebrities to pull another mel gibson or do something lindsay lohan-esque to lighten things up. >> it's almost the weekend, give them some time. >> we start with daniel xraig who has been cast to star in that movie "the girl with the dragon cat due." it was a huge best-selling mystery novel. now he has been cast to play the grubby journalist. this really couldn't be better timing for daniel craig in the sense that there's supposed to be the production of a 23rd installment to 007. apparently mbm is out of cash to the tune of $4 billion in debt. >> just 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outrageous, to gay it up, he says he was exploiting his sexual orientation, dane got upset after the mike episode, kind of threatens him, now this young man ian says he has suffered emotionally injuries and loss. take a look at what he said. >> "american idol" is rampant homophobia, what goes behind the scenes nobody sees. i was treated disgustingly. and i was just really violated and i'm really hurt. >> so hurt he wants 300 million buck bucks. saying producers took advantage of him and caused a scene on "american idol." >> the first lawsuit, "britain's got talent," simon cowell's other show. >> okay. >> they seem so similar, it's easy to confuse the two of them. i don't know that this is a sign of good things for the stock exchange. take a look at who they decided to allow to ring the opening bell. can you see? can you tell who that is? >> that's right. from my home state, the cast of what, everyone's favorite reality show, "the jersey shore." >> the train wreck that it is. ringing the new york stock exchange, people are saying that the floor was the most crowded it's really ever been. people were coming from all over the place and they basically just wanted to get a signature, they wanted to get something, maybe a fist bump, maybe learn how to do the hair from snooki. >> oh, man. they said tanning salon stock soared yesterday. maybe that's why. who makes that call? who decides, so-and-so rings the bell? i wonder who does that? last but not least, aretha franklin and condoleezza rice are performing "the diplomat and the diva." "good morning america" will have a lot of stuff. they're covering this intensely. she'll be singing, condoleezza rice will be on the piano. >> a classically trained pianist, should be a good show. hó [ female announcer ] fact. when pain keeps you up, nothing is proven to help you fall asleep faster than advil pm liqui-gels. rushing real liquid relief to ease you to sleep fast. for nighttime pain, make advil pm your #1 choice. here are some stories to watch today on abc news. we are following a breaking story in islamabad, pakistan. the fatal airline jet crash in a hilly area there during a rainstorm. the control tower lost track of the crew as it approached the airport. also, jurors in the rod blagojevich corruption trial get their deliberation instructions today from the judge in the case. the former illinois governor is accused of trying to sell president obama's former seat in the u.s. senate. and new york public health experts plan to launch a new attack on a bedbug outbreak in the city. the mayor may appoint a so-called bedbug czar. i had no idea when i moved here that was a huge problem in new york. >> every time i get a bump or an itch i'll like, it's a bedbug! finally this half hour, the countdown to the next summer olympics. in two years the 2012 games in london will be under way. >> as the bbc's james pierce reports things seem to be right on track and people in london are ready for action. >> reporter: the opening of the bridge that in 2012 will be the gateway to the olympic park. a collection of athletes, children, tv presenters, and builders the first to take a walk that in two years' time, hundreds of thousands more will follow. inside the velodrome, a little piece of history. chris hoy became the first to ride a bike at the venue where he hopes to add to his gold medal collection in 2012. >> just watching there, get the fans going, just to realize that's the venue where the olympic games are taking place, potentially to be standing on the top step of the podium to receive a gold medal, it was inspirational stuff. >> reporter: another first, the main stadium where a special track had been laid for the former olympic champion michael johnson. it is all very relaxed, light-hearted. still hugely symbolic. with the olympics two years away it's already possible to sprint inside the stadium. >> three, two, one! >> reporter: less of a sprint, more of a jog for michael johnson. but it will go down as the venue's first race. just as this was the first action in the basketball arena. plenty of progress for one of the men at the heart of london's original bid to reflect on. >> it's already making a difference economically. but more than that, when it happened, it is going to be the single biggest showcase this country has had for -- for as long as anyone can remember. >> reporter: as plenty of opportunity for the unexpected, no doubt, as well. like london mayor boris johnson's decision to do his own lap at the velodrome. he was using the same bike as chris hoy. there, the similarity ended. james pierce, bbc news, at the olympic park.