impact as democrats try to preserve their majority in congress. tara mergener is in washington with the latest details. good morning, tara. good morning, michelle. well, the battle lines were certainly drawn yesterday in key races. some of the big winners, gop women. arkansas senator blanche lincoln dodged defeat, barely. many expected her to fall victim to the anti-establishment hype that claimed former pennsylvania senator arlen specter last month. instead she ll face republican john boosman in november. your message is loud and clear that washington, washington needs to work for us. reporter: in california, a pair of female former ceos coasted to victory. billionaire and ex-ebay executive meg whitman dug into her own fortune to bag the republican nomination for governor. while carly fiorina, the former hewlett-packard chief, won the right to challenge senator barbara boxer in the fall. california will now be offered two candidates at the top of our ticket, who have
rolled across the country prevailed in yesterday s balloting. democratic and republican voters chose candidates in 12 states. votes that will have a powerful impact as democrats try to preserve their majority in congress. tara mergener is in washington with the latest details. good morning, tara. good morning, michelle. well, the battle lines were certainly drawn yesterday in key races. some of the big winners, gop women. arkansas senator blanche lincoln dodged defeat, barely. many expected her to fall victim to the anti-establishment hype that claimed former pennsylvania senator arlen specter last month. instead she ll face republican john boozman in november. your message is loud and clear that washington, washington needs to work for us. reporter: in california, a pair of female former ceos coasted to victory. billionaire and ex-ebay executive meg whitman dug into her own fortune to bag the republican nomination for governor. while carly fiorina, the former hewlett-p
for dads and grads. and you ve seen him in everything from the perfect storm to chicago to stepbrothers, john c reilly will join us to talk about his new film called sirous in the next hour. i love him. he s funny and just the best. gwen tolbert is here with a look at today s forecast which looks to be glamorous. what a great choice of words. gwen, glamorous and weather. let s talk about today s forecast. it s going to be a gorgeous day. another g-word for you. ridge of high pressure building in. no shortage of sunshine. and if you liked yesterday, you are going to love today. i ll take all of the credit i can take for this forecast. nice day today, plenty of sunshine. here is a look at yesterday s high. 78 at national airport, 75 at dulles and 78 at baltimore. we re going to be slightly warmer today as the ridge of high pressure builds in and we re starting out this morning with 62 degrees in the district, 54 at gaithersburg. it s 59 at baltimore. dulles at 56 degr
washington. tara, good morning. reporter: good morning, michelle. well, hopefully this fix is finally the one that slows down this gusher. today president obama heads back to the gulf to check progress. this is what president obama could see when he visits the gulf coast today. birds drowning in thick black crude. this is not only heartbreaking, but it ticks us off. again you see these birds trapped in this oil. this shows you what s at risk along our coast. reporter: overnight, bp crews used robotic submarines to position a lid over the ruptured well so oil can be siphoned to the surface. the gushing crude made it difficult to tell whether the fix was actually working. it may be a day or two before bp knows for sure. we can t afford to wait any longer. every day, every day they wait is another day more oil is coming in to our coast, coming in to our wetlands. that s another day that maybe another pelican gets oil. reporter: critics on the gulf coast and in washingt
pipe. what does that mean? we re going to put the big question to bp in a minute. talk to doug suttles, the coo. new other overnight developments, president obama has canceled a trip to indonesia and australia, and will head back to the gulf today. the second time he s canceled that trip to asia. we re seeing the pictures. this isn t what we wanted to see. look at the pelicans dripping in oil there. the louisiana state bird. it s just so sad. they seem so helpless. in a moment, we re going to talk to bp s coffee operating officer. and we ll also ask florida governor, charlie crist, about how his state will deal with the oil. we re going to go to sam champion on the coast, pensacola, florida. good morning, sam. good morning, robin. pensacola. now, 140 miles of the gulf coast has been oil-slicked. we re concerned about what we re seeing on the beach this morning in pensacola. look at my foot here. and look at what we re finding on the beach. these globs of what appe