anniversary of michael jackson s death. can you believe it? it s already been a year since the king of pop passed away. of and today, we re seeing remembrances and a lawsuit. plus, we go to london to meet a guy that might sound like a mad scientists, working on a refrigerator that uses goop to keep your food cold. and a washing machine that you hold in your hand. you ve got to stick around for this. but first i want to tell you about what is going on with this leak in the gulf of mexico. there are some new developments. that oil continues to leak into the gulf of mexico. but now we ve got another issue. i want to show you. every day we have been showing you that camera. of you see on the left of your screen. but this is something more important. on the right side of your screen, it s a disturbance. let s call it a disturbance. our folks in the weather department say that there s a distinction. we shouldn t call it a storm yet, because that s not what it is. but there is a d
holmes sitting in for tony harris here in the cnn newsroom. le. we are on day 67 now of this gulf oil disaster and there have been so many tolls taken on the economy and also the environment. all, it s taking more of a human toll literally. stress from the crisis being blamed for the suicide of a charter boat captain in alabama. folks say allen kruse couldn t handle losing his business and shot himself yesterday on his boat. also, bp says it spent more than $2.3 billion on the disaster, including everything from containment and relief well drilling to money bade for claims and damages. also, a storm brewing in the caribbean could exacerbate the problems in the gulf. admiral thad allen discussed an action plan. they can move to a quadrant of the storm that is less dangerous. sometimes they can take evasive action and deploy as a group to the back side of the hurricane and come in behind it. those are the normal tactics for vessels at sea. it is not a good idea to sta
he was working for bp on clean-up duty after the oil spill took away his livelihood. bp says is has now spent $2.35 billion on the oil spill response. that includes crews, cleanup, containment, the federal bill and drilling a relief well. cnn s chris lawrence is in the gulf. chris, we ve heard from a lot of people in this industry who want to see this moratorium lifted. reporter: that s right. now really for the first time bp also says that. you never thought you d see that. a lot of people here in the gulf agreeing with something that bp says. but now a bp official has come out and says he also thinks that the moratorium should be lifted. obviously there s some people here who think it should be, too. the state claiming that anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 jobs could ultimately be affected here. really when you talk to some of the workers, that is the real key and they feel that really, they are being hurt by this. we talked with one man who said his company has already s