good morning everyone. welcome to today on saturday. i m lester holt. i m amy robach. so sad to hear about gary coleman. dana plato committed suicide. her son recently committed suicide. such a charming show, but a horrible history in the wake of that. a lot to tell you about. we ll talk about the scene the nation continues to watch. officials at bp say they won t know until tomorrow if their latest attempt of top kill has worked. the federal government has now closed 25% of the fishing waters in the gulf of mexico. that s more than 60,000 square miles. everyone has been looking at the video. we saw it brown earlier in the week. it looked dark to me there. i m not an expert. we ll find out what they have to say. a lot of people watching on the internet. in december, amanda knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison for the murder of her roommate. italian prosecutors are headed back to court. there s also an issue over something amanda said that the prosecutors are
a troubled childhood star whose life came to a tragic end. a troubled childhood star whose life came to a tragic end. today, saturday, may 29, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday, i m lester holt. and i m amy robach. a lot of tragedy to speak of for the cast of diff rent strokes. such a charming show, but a horrible history in the wake of that. a lot to tell you with about this morning. as the nation continues to watch, officials of bp say they won t know until tomorrow if their latest attempt to plug the oil well, the so-called top kill has worked. and the federal government has now closed 25% of the fishing waters in the gulf of mexico. that s more than 60,000 square miles. everyone s been looking at that video, we saw it brown earlier, it looked pretty dark there. i m not an expert. but a lot of people are watching from the internet that oil leaking there. and amanda knox was sentenced