international envoys into two nuclear plants. it will show support before new talks with world powers. soldiers and police exchanging fire yesterday. the president of the north african nation fled the country in tunisia. and intense manhunt in new jersey for a teen who they say shot and killed a 27-year-old police officer in lakewood. the gunman fired off three rounds killing officer christopher matlof execution style on friday. gregg: imagine being told you are not allowed to feed a hungry person in need. believe the are not it happened to a houston couple who has spent the last year feeding hundreds of homeless people. the reason, they need a permit. julie banderas is live in the newsroom with important on this. believe it or not, it s actually a law in houston, texas
we re told four firefighters actually lost their homes in this area. the big worry about this fire was a wind-driven fire yesterday. gusts here topped 40 miles per hour. it actually grounded air tankers for several hours. on the flip side this morning there s good news weatherwise. the gusts we re told is the wind is very low. 45 miles per hour, which is a good thing for crews who will be able to quickly get up in the air. there was a press conference a short time ago. no major updates. crews did talk about the acreage. let s hear that. 3500 acres are burned or are involved. that hasn t changed much from yesterday. the reason being, we had minimal growth of the fire around the perimeter. reporter: that, of course, is good news. but there s always concern for more what they call torching of debris and just the heavy fuels that are in this area. behind me is a relatively steep mountainside. it s in the foothills of
the storm s path and a lot of you on the east coast want to do that, find everything on weather.msnbc.com. the debate of offshore drilling heating up again after a fire in the gulf of mexico forced 13 crew members overboard. 200 miles west of the bp deepwater horizon site. a federal investigation is under way. platform owned by mariner energy incorporated and caught fire yesterday. 13 crew members forced into the water. there s the picture of them floating there with their life jackets around their necks. they were rescued and brought to shore. unlike the april 20th bp blast, no one was killed, no crude gushed into the ocean and the platforms are very different. bp said today it s spent $8 billion so far responding to the disaster in the gulf. yesterday, engineers removed a temporary cap from bp s blown out well. next, they ll retrieve the well s failed blowout preventer to help investigators figure out why the explosion happened back
the hour. during the easter mass the vatican pope benedict made no reference to the church sex abuse scandal but a senior cardinal praised the pontiff at the service. within minutes today in baghdad three suicide car bombings killed 32 people and juried more than 100. it aoccurred during the embassies of iran and egypt. john paul stevens says he ll surely retire while obama is in office. police in los angeles are looking for a gunman what opened fire yesterday in a restaurant, four were killed and another wound. and riz river is expected too recede below flood stage later tonight. those are ravaged by the worst flooding there in 200 years. those are your fast five headlines. with recent polls showing that voter are more fed up with washington thannen, it s no
a bidding with. a building just north of pittsburgh was destroyed in a fire yesterday. investigators believe the fire started in the workshop. no one was hurt. they made ashtrays for the hindenburg. word this weekend apple s ipad will now go on sale april 3 3rd. other models will be released later on in the month. it will cost between $499 and $829 depending on the model. but even before the ipad hits those store shelves next month, it is facing competition from joojoo. it is a tablet that was all the rage on gadget blogs several months ago. good morning. let s compare joojoo and ipad?