In California, Aaron Vargas is pleading no contest to charges that he killed his former neighbor, the man who he claims sexually abused him. Many in the community have rallied in his support. His sister, Mindy Galliani, speaks with TODAY about the case.
congress advocating immigration reform. now he s become a part of the story. igor has been reporting on vargas from near the border. and christina jimenez. igor, you have been doing the reporting on this. i want to show you the tweet that jose antonio vargas sent out before he attempted to go to it the airport. he sent out a tweet saying he was about to go through security at mcallen airport. i don t know what s going to happen, he says, but for update, he gives you a couple of people you can follow to watch his whereabouts. did jose antonio vargas go down to the border with the purpose of getting arrested in order to further his advocacy on immigration reform? i can t speak to the fact whether he went down there to get arrested. what i can say and what he told me this weekend is that he felt motivated to go down there and really lend his voice to these undocumented minors who he felt
in tonight s state of our nation, tomorrow there will be a hearing that could put aaron vargas behind bars for up to ten years. vargas pleaded no contest to shooting this man to death, darrel mcneal. vargas says mcneal molested him and stalked him for almost two decades. since then, others say they, too, were molested by mcneal, and now thousands of others are asking that vargas receive no prison time. it is a plea vargas sister was leading. darryl mcneil was coming around offering to baby sit aaron s new daughter, bringing diapersing asking to see her, so aaron felt that his child was in danger. aaron knew that darrel was still raping other kids in the community and he had learned about that in the days prior to the shooting. so i think it was just a lot of events that just transpired and it just he hit his breaking point, is what happened.
tomorrow and so far nothing from the oil giant. the biggest environmental catastrophe in u.s. history has been dragging on for 55 days now, and dragging the administration down with it. so the president will head back to the gulf coast in the morning for his fourth visit, and he s hoping bp has some good news for him. the containment cap is catching some, but not much of the oil. and since learning that double of the amount of the oil is gushing out than first thought, well, late today, bp, at the government s request, placed high-tech sensors a to the site to begin gathering some accurate data. we have team coverage for you tonight. chris lawrence is in new orleans, following the developments from the scene. dan lothian is in southern alabama, covering the president s visit. and our senior political editor, mark preston sb in washington tonight. we start with chris lawrence. chris, any word from bp about tonight s deadline? reporter: yeah, don, we just got off the phone wi
tomorrow and so far nothing from the oil giant. the biggest environmental catastrophe in u.s. history has been dragging on for 55 days now, and dragging the administration down with it. so the president will head back to the gulf coast in the morning for his fourth visit and he s hoping bp has good news for him. the containment cap is catching some but not much of the oil. since learning that double the amount of the oil is gushing out than first thought, late today bp at government s request placed high-tech sensors to gather accurate data. chris lawrence is in new orleans. dan lothian in southern alabama covering the president s visit and our senior political editor mark preston is in washington tonight. we start with chris lawrence. any word from bp about tonight s deadline? reporter: yeah, don. we just got off the phone with the joint information command. our team did. what we re hearing is it s possible coast guard admiral may have already received the letter. we re to