designer jeans for a prison jumpsuit. we will tell you how long she will spend in jail and an exclusive live interview with her father. early this wednesday morning, july 21st, 2010. captioning funded by cbs good wednesday morning. nice crowd developing out there in the plaza. i m erica hill. i m harry smith. good morning. lot happen thing morning. including breaking news with more information. a night forced to land in denver. 30 people injured. one of them critically after the plane hit severe turbulence and forced to land in denver. one passenger described it as a huge up and down. the woman next to her basically rose up, hit the side of the cabin, left a crack above the window from the force of being thrown. a live report on that in a couple of seconds. late developments in that story of an agriculture department employee who was forced to resign over what were thought to be racially charged remarks. cbs news chief legal correspondent jan crawford is in washingt
the long-awaiting reunion of three american hikers being held in iran and their mother. the detainees haven t seen any family members in ten months. one of the detainees said that the treatment has been decent and the loneliness is the worst part. they were arrested on the iran border with iraq last year and accused of spying. all three have maintained that they were just sightseeing. in our top story here at home, a local woman is now living in fear. she said following a brazen attack on board of a metro bus. she was beaten by a man she didn t know and she doesn t know why. this morning police are still searching for her attacker. sarah simmons joins us live from metro headquarters with the latest. sarah. reporter: well a very disturbing story, as you can imagine. and the woman said she rides the metro bus all of the time. but after this, she s not quite so sure. what angers her even more is the fact that no one even stepped in to help her out in her time of need. mo
flowing from that damaged well. jay gray begins our coverage now from louisiana. reporter: new image at the gulf today at the request of congress bp adpreed to provide live streaming video from the leak site. what you see are real-time images of a real-world disaster unfolding 5,000 feet below the surface of the gulf. reporter: pictures that critics say more than 5,000 of gallons of oil is pouring into the gulf each day. this video shows tin tensity of the blaze in the minutes just after the explosion on the deep water well. i knew this was like seeing hell on earth. i have never seen flames that gigantic before. reporter: the fire is out but now 30 days later, the fear and frustration is only growing. thick, dark crude is creeping into the louisiana marsh lands. tuesday night a sea turtle was pulled from the muck. he is being cleaned and treated at a new orleans aquarium as concerns grow about more than just the oil threatening the marine and wildlife along the coa
and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. if you re living down south this morning, you may be bracing for severe weather. apparently it is coming from the same system that spawned at least 24 tornadoes in oklahoma and kansas on wednesday. so far we are only hearing of minor injuries and scattered damage to a handful of homes and businesses. al will have the latest on all of it in a moment. also a little later on, new details about the former food network chef accused of trying to hire homeless men to kill his wife. what was the state of their marriage? were there inn warning signs? this morning, an exclusive interview with a friend of the couple who was co-authoring a new cookbook with that chef. plus, as far as we can tell, there were no party crashers at the obama s second state dinner at the white house last night. but first lady michelle obama certainly turned a few heads. we ll have more on that coming up. we begin w
this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. if you re living down south this morning, you may be bracing for severe weather. apparently it is coming from the same system that spawned at least 24 tornadoes in oklahoma and kansas on wednesday. so far we are only hearing of minor injuries and scattered damage to a handful of homes and businesses. al will have the latest on all of it in a moment. also a little later on, new details about the former food network chef accused of trying to hire homeless men to kill his wife. what was the state of their marriage? were there inn warning signs? this morning, an exclusive interview with a friend of the couple who was co-authoring a new cookbook with that chef. plus, as far as we can tell, there were no party crashers at the obama s second state dinner at the white house last night. but first lady michelle obama certainly turned a few heads. we ll have more on that coming up. we begin with those tornadoes and th