case before the high court. with more, t.j. winick joins us from washington with more. good morning. reporter: good morning. according to the associated press president obama s second supreme court pick much like his first is a well respected legal scholar and a woman. elena kagan has spent much of her time in academia teaching the law rather than arguing cases in the courtroom as have the three federal appeals court judges she has reportedly beat out for the supreme court nomination. last month president obama told cnbc the main thing he s looking for in a justice are fidelity to the law and the constitution and somebody who has the kind of life experience so that they understand how their decisions are impacting ordinary people. reporter: the pick of the 50-year-old kagan is as much practical and political as it is philosophical. kagan considered a somewhat moderate choice will replace a liberal stalwart in john paul stevens. the white house is eager to avoid a bitt
reporter: dave ballet built this marina 25 years ago. the fishermen here are like his sons. if they were just kind of living on the money they made last season, it s probably about to run out. these guys are worried. the charter boat captains, they re worried. the phones are not ringing. reporter: and, david, that huge steel box is now waiting at the bottom of the sea floor until bp engineers can figure out what to do with it, ow to solve that problem with the crystals if they can solve it at all. meantime, only other solution is digging a relief well 18,000 feet down to plug that damaged well for good. but, david, ha could take months. month, matt guttman again tonight thanks very much. reporter: and the fishermen and bp may be getting a little involving that dome we re also learning more tonight about what caused that explosion in the first place. sending some 3 million gallons of oil and counting pouring into the gulf. it was a horrific chain of events described
that chases hundreds from their homes. and comedian in chief. it looked like the oscars had come to washington last night. the annual correspondents dinner has hollywood stars hobnobbing with d.c. insiders and the president trading politics for punch lines. good morning, america. i m bill weir. this morning, the cross roads of the world is the scene of a very intense criminal investigation. good morning, ashleigh. good morning, bill, good morning, everyone. it s sunday, may 2nd. it was a tense scene last night. thousands of new yorkers and visitors told to leave one of the most popular tourist areas in the country. one of the warmest nights of the year thus far. throngs of people did come down to dine, see a broadway show. soak up in energy. at least one person came here with something much more sinister in mind. parking an suv one block north of our times square studios. inside that vehicle, gunpowder, gasoline, three propane tanks and a timing device. it was found
hair-raising view of the fight to take back the ship. good evening. president obama will head to the gulf tomorrow morning where the news continues to worsen tonight. that huge oil slick tripling in size in just 24 hours, and tonight there are fears the oil escaping that well multiplying so quickly eventually could be carried by the currents around the keys and up the east coast. there is growing criticism over the white house response. we get to it all tonight but we ll begin with ryan owens in dauphin island, alabama. we were talking earlier, ryan, about the oil expected to come ashore within the next 24 hours there. reporter: as soon they worry as early as tomorrow morning. why? it s obvious. this wind has been howling all day bringing all of that oil ever closer to these beaches. mother nature is making this manmade disaster even worse. for a second day high winds and waves up to nine feet are crashing over the booms that snake around miles of the gulf coast. in alaba
than joan davis who lives across the street. it leaves a very empty space in the community and the household. reporter: still, the fire department says the permanent closures are a financial necessity. a message the chief is set to deliver to city council tonight. what we re talking about now is because the budget doesn t look like it s getting better quicker we may have to look at closing a few of these trucks permanently. reporter: the plan consists of three permanent closures matched with two rotating closures. it would save the department roughly $7.5 million but it too comes at a price. while regarded as one of the best response times in the nation the chief admits these closures are counting dollars while costing seconds. we ve seen an increase overall citywide. and we re talking about seconds, but seconds count. we had about a 20-second increase overall in our response time. reporter: in the three areas of permanent closures the response time could go up by