taking a toll on the oil cleanup efforts. sandbags usually visible are covered with water and cleanup boats are being forced to dock and workers asked to evacuate. while you were sleeping, gunmen set off a car bomb and fired rocket-propelled grenades at one of the biggest nato bases in afghanistan. this was a brazen attack being claimed now by the taliban. it happened at the jilalibad airfield. they stormed the entrance killing at least 32 foreign and afghan security forces. two nato troops also hurt. the attack comes hours after attorney general eric holder made a surprise appearance in afghanistan. he s going to meet with afghan and u.s. officials to talk about efforts to fight corruption and support the rule of law in afghanistan. he s also going to focus on building better relationships between law enforcement agencies and prosecutors in the two countries. and in just three hours from now, supreme court nominee elena kagan will be back on capitol hill. lawmakers are going
now saturday s the most important thing but when all is said and done, i think i ll look back on the moment and be proud. they will face ghana on saturday at 2:00 p.m. eastern. john eisner and nicholas mahut played for ten straight hours at wimbledon, enough time to fly from new york to london. sometime soon, hopefully, isner and mahut will play again to decide the winner of the longest match in wimbledon history. the play was suspended for a second day in the row when darkness fell. the fifth and final match stands tied 59-59. it s like the beetles in 64 and david cassidy in 71 and justin bieber yesterday. a wireless rock star was screaming adoring fans. let s check in with dan simon with the guy who was the first
conspiracy trial. prosecutor glenn kirschner said we may never know who killed robert wone but with his wife sitting in the courtroom, he said the evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that ward, zaborsky and price lied and may have prevented this murder from ever being solved. defense response was there is not a single piece of evidence why they would assault mr. wone or endanger their own lives or cover up for his real killer. i m scott broom at the dupont metro station where we had broken down coolers today and in southwest washington residents of an apartment complex had it even worse. hitting a gas line is bad enough. the temperature is about 97 degrees. reporter: but getting evacuated from your apartment when a heat advisory is in effect, that makes it worse. 24 units were evacuated here due to a gas leak. they were putting in a defense. reporter: they opened a cooler adjacent to the management office. rescuers brought in at least one particularly vulnerab
two other passengers were taken to the hospital but are expected to survive. police are trying to figure out why the car lost control. we have to check on our cars out there on the roads right now and see how things are moving with jerry edwards. any problems out there? good morning to you. good morning, everyone. a lot of road work. we had additional issues to deal with at this hour. head on over to springfield. 95 southbound. this looks better than a couple of minutes ago. there is road work, as usual, 95 southbound as you head from newington to lorton. in the backup, south of springfield, there was also an sd accident there. the good news, the hov lanes are con figured for traffic. let s head to the maryland side. the beltway running slower than you might expect. the problem had been on the virginia side with a broken-down vehicle on the outer loop down around the dulles toll road. that should be out of traffic. head south from river road towards the american legio
explosive twist to the story of three american hikers witnesses say the trio never stumbled into iran. but iran came to them. plus, would you be cool with a school giving a brand spanking new condom to your first grader? yeah. we are definitely going to talk about this one. we are going to begin, though with more than a thousand prison inmates. some of them lifers getting more than $9 million from the government. people that are supposed to be paying their debt to society, getting paid by society. how does that even happen? christine romans, this is an outrage. it is. how does it happen? it happens because the tax preparer helps them get the first-time home buyer tax credit. inspector general report from the treasury department shows that thousands of these tax credits, you your taxpayer dollars, were erroneously given away to people like prisoners, totaling $26.7 million. more than 14 thousand times. in fact, this inspector general found 67 people used the very same ho