nice shot of the washington monument right here in washington. mary snow is monitoring the other top stories in the situation room right now, and including the latest on last year s shooting on the army s largest base. what is going on, mary? the accused fort hood shooter is refusing to participate in a psychiatric evaluation of himself. he says that he has instructed his client not to talk to anybody involved in a so-called sanity review. he says that some experts on the panel may not be objective and he says that the army s investigation is ongoing, and he is charged with 15 counts of murder in the shooting. and now the toxic sludge has killed seven people. the deadly red sludge came from an aluminum plant reservoir monday that covered three
underneath. it s very hard to separate the two. coming in, when you come around here, take a look at it. you get an idea of how devastated this village is. look at the yards here. look at that red sludge. sitting in there. just completely contaminating the whole area. when you come up here a little more, these are the police lines. right here, the police have set up lines so looters can t get in. they re patrolling them on policemen, patrolling the village, keeping out anyone that wants to come in and steal things. it s hard to imagine, thou, how anyone would want to come into this village to take anything away. it s all so contaminated. unbelievable. thank you, nic. you know, one family member going to war can be a lot to handle. but imagine if your spouse and four children after the call of
hungary that has the potential to grow in leaps and bounds. now that the dangerous chemical sludge has reached the denube river. earlier this week, a wave of highly toxic mud broke out in an aluminum plant, devastating the area. four people are dead, and it is so bad that this one town they aren t just evacuating, they are abandoning it. the nearby markol river is already ruined. disaster officials say the fish there are all dead. let s look at the danube. if the sludge isn t neutralized, it could float all the way to the black sea. mr. nick robinson joins us from the disaster zone in western hungary. i don t remember seeing anything like this, nick roberts. take us inside. it s all too real for the people here. we ve been inside some of the houses today, the houses hardest hit by this tide of red sludge
seriously. hungary is cleaning up what one official calls ab ecological catastrophe. a wall burst releasing a flood of toxic red sludge into three communities and a nearby river. at least four people are dead, six missing. more than 100 injured. a report by a panel investigating the bp oil spill accuses the white house of severely underestimating the amount of oil that spilled into the gulf of mexico and refusing back in april to publicly release the possible worst case scenario of more than 100,000 barrels leaking every day. in response, the obama administration says the public was adequately warned of worse case scenarios. a washington state man has survived a black bear attack. he was walking the family dog when he was mauled in the face and upper body last month at his vacation home. he lost his left eye in that attack.
reservoir. four people sadly have died. senior national correspondent nic robertson shows us what it s like inside this toxic zone. reporter: this is one of the villages affected. you can see where the red kinds of sludge got to. right here, a yard that s green and further downhill, you have the red sludge. right behind me, you can see these cleaning trucks going through the village, cleaning off the road, trying to keep the roads clean. but that s only a small part of the cleaning process. if you come down the hill further into the area, the red sludge, this toxic sludge hit, you can begin to see how the level rises against the side of the building. over here, everywhere you look in the village, the cleanup is going on. people coming out, gathering whatever possessions they can get. this stuff here looks like flooring from inside the house right here. and look at the line, the red