hand grenades. we have a dramatic dispatch from the birthplace of the taliban. announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, martin bashir and cynthia mcfadden in new york city, this is nightline, july 7th, 2010. good evening. i m cynthia mcfadden. we begin tonight with the sweltering summer weather, which, again, cooked much of the east coast today, pushing triple digits and record highs in philadelphia, washington, and right here in new york city. and leaving everyone asking the same question how hot was it? so hot, that today in washington, zoo keepers were keeping the baby pandas hydrated with frozen fruit popsicles. and in philadelphia, the polar bears were eating their fish unthat youed. like the ice cream truck came by. reporter: in boston, lions got a special kind of treat. blood popsicles are a big favorite with a lot of the carnivores. reporter: in staten island, tom ford told us his block had a power outage every day since sund
detailed proposal, 88 pages, $8.4 million to implement. as you guessed it, still nothing. bear in mind, it s 1500ths of a percent that bp earned in the quarter before the spill. it s about 2.5 hundredths of a percent sandra bernstein estimated the spill would cost bp. i spoke about it earlier with dr. ira lifer. dr. leifer, it s been more than three weeks since congressman ed markey asked bp to give your group the green light to do this kind of testing to measure the flow rate, to measure the impact overall of the oil on the ecosystem. you ve heard nothing from bp is my understanding. why do you think that is? i really don t know. i wish they would pick up a phone and just give me a call so i can walk them through the proposal. the experiment is very important, i ve gotten very good feedback from scientists within the government and so on. i m hoping having the full technical proposal for their consideration they ll, too, recognize its importance and actually give me a call
the lockerbie bomber was supposed to be dead months ago. not only is he still alive. he might be with us another ten more years. how could compassion backfire like that? we begin with breaking news. it had the intrigue like a 007 movie mystery. sultry female and russian connection. a spy ring case that is still moving fast. the ten alleged secret agents are in a new york federal courtroom today for arraign many and we learned the ten spy suspects are in plea talks right now. they could be deported as soon as tonight. susan candiotti joining us live by phone with more. susan? reporter: certainly the case moved around along so quickly since it first came on the radar. just within the last couple of weeks. now we are learning that from a source with detailed knowledge of what s been going on involved in the investigation that not only are the plea talks under way in this spy case as we have been reporting, but things are moving so rapidly that pleas are expected today at t
we re going to start with this. we ll start with the terror suspects that have been arrested, some charged, some still not in custody. the ones arrested norway. the feds charge an alleged al qaeda operative with helping to mastermind the new york subway plot. and another terror suspect is arrested in britain, all examples of what authorities say is al qaeda s global reach. and continued determination to kill americans and their allies. here s what we know now. three suspects were arrested today, two in norway, one in germany, and one of them is a norwegian uighur. an al qaeda iraqi, who is an uzbek. we want to go to cnn s paula newton with the latest. it seems like when summer is heating up right about now, and also these arrests and information about alleged terror suspects as well. haas going on, paula? it s been interesting, you know, this is an investigation that s gone on now for 18 months. it involves the new york city plot to bomb the subway system there. this is all