holders of the stock. they made about $20 million yesterday. i think the stock has pulled back late bit today. that is an indication that people want to take the profits from a huge run up yesterday or they know somebody. i think lebron james can be considered the one-man sometime must plan for the city and state of new york with the budget issues they are having there. it s hard to understand what this one guy can mean from advertising and sponsorships. the new york nicks are owned by cablevision which is a publicly held company. on one day the dolans took in $20 million, that s great that s one year of his salary. at the end of the day when you look at what he means in terms of the financial impact it s incredible. being in new york rather than miami or cleveland is going to expose him to a lot more opportunities. martha: if he really wanted to go to the best state of all he would play for the nets in new jersey. they are moving to brooklyn.
water oil drilling, plus the wall street journal reporting that bp pushing to fix that gushing oil well by july 27th. that would be almost a month ahead of schedule. nearing completion of those relief wells that we heard so much about. but the oil giant is also preparing what the government is calling a backup to the backup plan, including linking that busted well to existing pipelines in two nearby oil and gas spills. phil keating is watching this as he has been throughout this entire disaster, in bell chase, louisiana with more for us. it appears bp is being i guess cautiously optimistic now about the efforts to get this thing done soon. reporter: martha, part of that is public relations i m here in the canal and it s quite loud as the ships are coming through. they re being cautiously optimistic because of all the other problems that have happened here, plans, great optimism, great expectations, but things in the end did not work out. on the 27th of july, that is
into the restaurant. incredibly nobody especially the little girl was seriously hurt. i don t know how that is possible but thank goodness. martha: thank goodness is right. this is a story that we are keeping a close eye on right now, and let s see the jobs numbers first. here is a look at the jobless claims numbers taking an unexpected dip right now dropping 21,000 to 454,000. economists say that this is still far from signaling strong job creation. president obama calling this the summer of recovery as he campaigns for democrats out there. the president is set to depart for missouri where he will stump for a senate candidate. he will go to heaven help to campaign for senate majority reid. major garrett is live where he is following this story for us. talk to us a little bit about
them in doing work for the department of justice and working to bring in those kinds of people. what do you think about that? reporter: you no, mr. you know, mr. west is at such a level, it s not a presidential appointment but it could not be made without the president s knowledge and consent. obviously this is who he wants running this part of the justice department. the branch is the civil part. they don t prosecute people, they file civil lawsuits who they think has violated the government. they filed a civil lawsuit against the governor of arizona saying we don t want you to enforce the law because we think it violates the constitution. martha: all attorneys make choices about who they are going to represent. reporter: and the happiest attorneys are those that don t practice law. [laughter] martha: so when you look at this situation and you look at who he s chosen to represent in the past john walker lindh, a lot of
ten days, it s hurricane season, nothing is guaranteed, bp couching this expectation as saying it is, quote, unlikely. martha: what about this weather? we ve seen the two vessels hoping to step up the skimming efforts. is more bad weather coming there? the word is today and tomorrow could be adverse. however, starting friday, there might be a 9-day window of some pretty clear weather. it s gorgeous in bell chase right now but yesterday, along the beaches around the gulf of mexico and grand isle, there was no beach cleanup happening, all the workers had the day off the weather was so bad. skimming operations were zero yesterday, the day before, 218 barrels were skimmed but tonight, dealing with the heat in pensacola, florida, while beach korean-up crews are working at night, using flashlights and lighting rigs on the trucks, scooping up the oily tar balls there, and of course, just yesterday outside of new orleans, lake pontchartrain, 100 pounds of additional tore balls were found and