captioning funded by cbs a good thursday morning to everybody and welcome to the early show. morning, maggie. julie will be here in our second hour. also in our second hour, we ll have the latest on a missing boy in oregon. it s been nearly a week now since 7-year-old kyron horman disappeared from school and investigators now admit that the clock is ticking. we ll be speaking to the sheriff leading the investigation. but we begin as we have begun so many mornings with the latest disaster in the gulf. a bp stock selloff that started on wall street yesterday continues in london this morning as the company starts to bring more heavy equipment to the gulf to capture more oil from that blownout well. mark strassmann is in grand isle, louisiana with the latest on the spill. mark, good morning. reporter: good morning, harry. it s not just people on the coast now who are frustrated with bp and its response here. the coast guard has now given the company 72 hours to outlin
young girl s mother about the growing controversy early this tuesday morning, june 8th, 2010. growing controversy early this tuesday morning, june 8th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs good morning. this morning we re marking a milestone that no one hoped we would reach. day 50 in the gulf oil disaster. i m maggie rodriguez in new york. julie will join us in our second hour. and harry is in grand isle, louisiana this morning. harry, good morning. reporter: maggie, we re down here on the louisiana gulf coast and seeing is believing. we were out on a bobby jindal, looking at the cleanup effort. it is a war going on and enemy is still gushing oil at thousands and perhaps tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of gallons a day. you re looking at that picture. we saw the result of that oil pouring out in what is turning in to an environmental catastrophe of epic proportions. we ll show it all to you in just a little bit. but we begin here in new york with some breaking
clear blue skies on this wednesday morning here in new york city. hope your day s off to a good start. good morning and welcome to the early show. harry is off today, so we welcome chris this morning. thank you very much, maggie. julie will be along in just a bit. coming up this morning, if you re ever a kid on the play ground and had that ooh, ouch moment and sit on a slide and things are way too hot. we have an exclusive early show investigation into a hidden danger at play grounds. the hot summer sun can heat up those slides and severely burn your child. the slide she was playing on was more than 160 degrees. she suffered second degree burns. our susan koeppen has that story for us in just a moment. so parents stay tuned. first this morning, bp trying yet another risky move to plug that massive oil leak. and pressure is mounting on company officials, now that the obama administration has launched civil and criminal investigations. cbs news correspondent mark strass
we hope you all had a good weekend. time to get back to work. good morning. julie will h join us in our next hour, but we begin with breaking news. in what promises to an severe blow to al qaeda, the terrorist network says its number three official has been killed. and cbs news confirms that al-yazid and members of his family were killed last month. he played a key role in al qaeda s day to day operations. to talk more about that in washington is cbs news national security analyst juan zarate. reporter: good morning. so who is this person and what was his role in al qaeda? reporter: shake al-masro is probably the most important leader you ve never heard of dating back to the egyptians. he s al qaeda s accountant. the chief financial operator for bin laden. and over the last couple of years has served a more operational role leading efforts in afghanistan and in central asia. this is one of the most important leaders that al qaeda has had. an important get for the unit
and good morning from new york city where we re looking at what this memorial day is all about. the statute of liberty in new york harbor, a symbol of our freedom. and today, a day to honor those who have died fighting to preserve that freedom. good morning, everyone. and welcome to the early show. julie off today. also this morning we have breaking news from the middle east, the so-called freedom flotil flotilla. it was a means of bringing food and supplies. it was to an peace mission, a political mission. israeli commandos ended up boarding a ship there. blood has been shed. and we ll get to that story in our news block. but we begin with more bad news from the gulf. after yet another failed attempt at plugging the leak, there are new concerns this morning as hurricane season is set to get under way. don teague is in grand isle, louisiana with the latest from down there. good morning, don. reporter: good morning, harry. and as you mentioned that oil is still gushing i