sunday panels continue starting at 1 eastern with the environment, the great depression at 2:30, the american west at 4, and at 5:30, studying the brain. and throughout the weekend look for coverage streaming live on booktv.org today beginning at noon eastern and sunday starting at 2:30. the tucson festival of books live this weekend on c-span2 and booktv.org. booktv attended a book party for the publication of shooting from the lip: the life of senator al simpson, written by his former chief of staff, donald hard key. among those hardy. this is about 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] well, have you we re coming to you. i can t believe it. what are you doing here? well, we re here to celebrate your book. ann, hi. you re very dear to do this. it s not my book. it s the most heartbreaking you met don, the author you could still write one. oh, man, took him six years. [inaudible conversations] senator, how are you doing? jimmy. how are you?
the napier airport and runway sit right in the middle of busy shopping areas and subdivisions. the airport has been here since 1955 and there has never been a fatal accident with its planes. tonight the fact that laura and morgan mckee survived is nothing near of a relief. the 63-year-old wife maureen was the passenger. the couple was flying to pittsburgh but crashed into the roof of export fitness, the building righting in front of the plane. if the aircraft s ability to climb is compromised for some reason, the pilot s only good alternative is to maintain a straight course and try to keep the airplane flying. it sounded like it was sputtering. it was wobbling a bit. i m not sure what was going on. you could hear the engine. it sounded like it was going in and out. reporter: the plane crashed through bricks and steel. there were 280 people inside the building. no one else was hurt. i felt the building shake as if someone was dropping weights. reporter: lloyd mckee
potential for thunderstorms. we ll keep you posted through the afternoon. for now, back to you. stay with wjz for complete first warning weather coverage. for instant weather updates, log onto wjz.com. hit-and-miss. again. bp engineers latest effort to cap the oil gusher hits a snag. while on capitol hill, the president gets angry. terrell brown reports for wjz from venice, louisiana. reporter: debating the size of the oil spill is not president obama s top priority. what really matters is this. there is oil leaking. and we need to stop it. and we need to stop it as soon as possible. reporter: independent scientists say oil may be gushing out of the broken well, at a rate four or five times higher than the government s 2,000 gallon a day estimates. they remain focused on their response. they insist they ve always been treating the spill as a possible catastrophe. i think the people of this region expect to do everything they can, regardless of what that number is