village on down toward the capital beltway. joe, eun. a man police call a bandit is on the loose after avoiding police. the chase began in prince george s after a suspected robbery but ended when the police officer crashed in southeast washington. the suspect escaped. the officer suffered minor injuries but is expected to be okay. there is no word who the suspect is or what led to the chase. outrage growing in prince george s following the recent arrest of a school bus driver. scott smallwood charged with sexually abusing a young student and parents have not been given information about the incidents. some are questioning the process by which he got hired in the first place. jackie bensen reports. reporter: parents continue to react with shock and horror to news that 27-year-old scott smallwood, a prince george s county school bus driver, is charged with using his cell phone to record a sexual encounter with a 7-year-old boy. officials say smallwood passed a background
announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and meredith vieira live from this is today with matt lauer and meredith vieira live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today. a lot of hope on this latest attempt to stop this oil leak. hopefully bp is going to attempt to plug it today. it s a big question though. it s called a top kill method. we have heard a lot about it. it involves pumping heavy dri drilling mud into the leak hoping to slow it down. if that works the well would be cemented over, but bp says it only has a 60% to 70% chance of working. take a look at a live camera showing what s going on 5,000 feet below the surface of the gulf right now. we ll have much more including an interview with the ceo of bp coming up. also ahead, sarah ferguson, the duchess of york here in new york just days after she got caught trying to sell access to her ex-husband prince andrew. p
good evening. at least two major experts on the subject agree. if there is nothing to stop it, there is enough water on that reservoir under the gulf to pour out of there the rest of our lives, potentially. that is not an option. after more than a month, it s still billowing into the water every minute of every day. the live camera view of the leak, which one expert said today has grown darker and shows that more oil is coming out now and less natural gas, that camera is going to stop beaming pictures during the next attempt at a fix later this week. here is where it s projected to move over the next two days. by the way, here is how big it s gotten. the google earth projection that shows the slick big enough to cover washington, d.c., and reach into parts of five neighboring states. we also learn more today about the president s frustration. a the washington post article saying president obama pluntly told an aide in the oval office, plug the damn hole. that hasn t happe