leaders. it appears the taliban have another target in their cross hairs. afghan schoolgirls. we are getting word of a third suspected poisoning in recent days with more than 100 female students sickened. we are live in kabul with the latest. atia? reporter: the number is up to 135 different schoolgirls from different parts of the country suspected to be poisoned according to afghan government officials. these are girls that just want an education. if you remember from 1996 to 2001, during the taliban regime, they were denied an education. and since 2001, since the fall of their regime, they have been targeting various schools and various schoolgirls, particularly in the south where we see some grow testing attacks where they are trying to kill their teachers. and now up north, considering the safe part of afghanistan,
slick splashes into another, so the coast guard commander offered a different strategy. skimmers need to get fufrts offshore to collect oil not being captured above the well. we need to fight the well between the shore and the offshore well where the oil is starting 15 miles off the coast. reporter: residents and the government have been critical of bp over the past month or so as the company lurched from one effort to the other. one key is how well these backup plans work because it has to account for mechanical failures and weather and a hurricane to make sure something there if things don t go exactly according to plan. chris, thanks. the oil keeping flowing, and so does criticism of how the white house is handling the spill. right now president obama is back on his way to the gulf coast. it s his fourth trip but his first outside of louisiana and
from neighbors i think the fact that a lot of people don t have health care, and so you push to the extreme. reporter: but from police i would hope that most people would understand that is the so. reporter: a risk that for kathy myers didn t help, and authors say could have killed. when a but enters your body, there s no telling where it s going to go. a but, a trip to the er and still not a lot of help. it begs the question, how far have you gone to get health care? send us your story. it s a busy hour ahead. let s begin with chris lawrence, live in new orleans. chris? reporter: yeah, kyra. bp says it s got a brand new plan that s going to triple the amount of oil that it can capture. how, why and where this plan came from coming up at the top of the hour. and i m catherine calloway in
bear, this way. reporter: it is risky work, even for the dogs that jump in undaunted when they pick up on something. once the canines finish searching, volunteers begin cutting away debris, and that s not without risk. any time you have trees leaped over, they have a lot of pressure against them, you have to know what you are doing with a saw. reporter: this kind of work can take an emotional toll on the volunteers. they feel a strong motivation to keep going. the biggest concern is keeping everybody safe while searching. hopefully we ll be able to find the one miracle like you said, but if not, to help bring some closure to some families. reporter: katharine is joining us live from the rescue center there in langley. how is the day looking now and when can we expect an update on the search? well, they have just had their briefing this morning
well, time and time again we have brought you stories of the uninsured or underinsured taking health care into their own hands, whether it is mom taking out her kid s stitches to someone fouling or pulling out their own teeth. the cdc estimates there are more than $43 million americans under the age of 65 without health insurance. so if you didn t have coverage but needed treatment, how far would you go to get it? take a look at this and then we ll talk. this pain is unbearable. you know, it is just maddening. kathy myers says the pain is so bad she thought putting a bullet in her shoulder would help. it went in there and come out there. reporter: it began last month while she was playing with her dogs in the backyard. i grabbed him with my right hand, and he pulled it back