the 24-year-old is actually related to vlad, the impaler. he of course is the the link. vlad is distant cousins with william and harry. that s one family tree i don t want to be on. this morning s top stories just minutes away, including trying to fix the biggest environmental disaster ever in the middle of a massive storm. it sounds like a problem. not just for the folks in the gulf but for everybody. hurricane season is starting. we ll talk to the man in charge of the recovery for the government, admiral thad allen. go to our blog, cnn d.com/amfix. it is still not clear how a lethal amount of propofol got into michael jackson s system. obama versus gaga.
for three days in meetings with world leaders in canada at g 8 and g-20 summits. the global economic crisis sure to be high on the agenda. plus one year ago today the world lost the king of pop. who gave michael jackson a fatal dose of the powerful drug propofol? prosecutors say all signs point to his former doctor, conrad murray. but murray s attorney tells a different story. that s ahead here on the most news in the morning. but first, a major development to tell but in the gulf oil spill. that s now day 67 of the disaster and the battle continues between the locals and leaders in washington. the obama administration has lost its appeal to keep the ban on offshore drilling in place. the judge didn t budge citing the local economy and the nation s need for domestic energy. so many gulf residents also stunned by the tragic news this morning that a charter boat captain from alabama took his own life. allen cruz was working for bp on clean-up duty after the oil
and loved the waters where he worked. it s the rookie s final voyage carrying a cargo of uncertainty and sorrow. reporter: and this is cruz s boat right here behind me. everyone expecting this spot to become a memorial here in orange beach, alabama. david, is there help for people out there with these issues? reporter: well, the cdc did put out a warning. it was in a lot of the information that was given out to the workers out here, warning them that fatigue and stress could lead to problems like post traumatic stress. but friends of cruz say they knew he was upset, they knew he was under stress but they didn t see anything like this coming. such a sad story. what a shame. david mattingly, thanks this morning. the obama administration loses another effort to put a moratorium on drilling in the gulf but does lifting the ban serve our nation s best interests?
president obama leaves for canada where he will spend the weekend hunkered down with other world leaders at the g-8 and g-20 summit. security is intense in toronto. homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is live in toronto this morning. good morning. reporter: hi, jim, carom. you can get a flavor for the secure behind me and you can see the police, fencing and jersey barriers that are falling into place here in downtown toronto. thus far things have been fairly calm. there are a couple of people who have been arrested on weapons and explosives charges. then there was a 53-year-old man who caused quite the security scare in downtown toronto yesterday. a car outfitted with a makeshift roof carrier is pulled over in downtown toronto. inside the police find a loaded cross bow, pellet guns, chair saw, sledgehammer, jugs of gasoline and more. it turned out not to be a threat to the g-20 but police were more than ready to respond.
cruz s friends tell me he felt overwhelmed by the enormity of the disaster and they re all under stress. this has been a long-term situation. this started in 2004, with a direct hit from hurricane ivan. then the next year was katrina. then skyrocketing fuel prices. fishing regulations. and then an oil spill. this has been six years that this area has really suffered a lot of stress. stress that his friends believe finally became too much for cruz. and now they re worried about others. are you afraid that maybe one of your other friends out there might be thinking about something extreme? sure. we worry about that. of. we worry about that every day. what are you going to do about it? that s why we re trying to get the word out. reporter: as a gesture to the community now grieving for him, cruz s family thought it would be best for his boat to be brought back here to home port in orange beach. and here it is right now. the rookie. his friends say that there is really