saying. we ll talk to one of them tonight. later, new developments in the case of the spies who loved us. a suspected russian secret agent in her own words tonight. we got a lot of ground to cover here. we re going to begin with our number one story. hurricane alex and the disaster in the gulf. the storm could make landfall in mexico anytime now. it has been wreaking havoc in the gulf all day. we want to go right to chad myers in the weather center. chad, just moments ago, upgraded to a category 2 storm. the path is still due west, right into mexico tonight, literally in this hour, the western eye wall should make landfall here right along the coast of mexico. it s 100 miles from brownsville. but we ve already had a tornado on the ground in the city of brownsville. as these bands come on shore. we re not so much worried about the bands for our oil problems across parts of the northern gulf. 624 miles. that s the number from the center of the eye, right to the center of th
It s not particularly damaging. i mean, we don t want it to come ashore in mississippi but it s manageable. so manageable being the key word there. the oil is in mississippi now. give me your overall assessment of how governor barbour has responded to all this. i would have liked to have seen him have a greater sense of urgency right from the beginning. of course it s important we don t want to scare our citizens or drive off our tourism industry. certainly we shouldn t have been made to feel guilty for having a sense of urgency and certainly we were alarmed. we wanted to be prepared. all of our elected officials along the mississippi gulf coast went through katrina. we know what to do for hurricanes, oil spill, this is new for us. we don t like sitting on our hands and doing nothing. right. mayor, thank to you. i want to bring in cory johnson down in louisiana for us. cory, just give us your sense of the latest a little bit on the
what are chances we ll actually learn something about the president s supreme court nominee? russian spies among us sounds like a hollywood thriller. fbi arrested ten people today accusing them of being deep cover secret agents. so what secrets, if any, did that pass along to moscow? lots of news to get to tonight. we begin with the number one story tonight. the fears of everyone living and working in mississippi have been realized over these last two months it appeared that much of the state may very well dodge the worst of the oil spill, which seemed to be heading toward the florida panhandle but look at the change. this is just the last week. the winds and current now pushing the oil into the mississippi sound and for the first time since the spill began, the oil is now hitting the mississippi mainland. ed lavandera has been covering the spill for weeks and is in new orleans for us tonight with the latest on that. hi, ed. reporter: hi, campbell. significant as you talk
yesterday with highs expects in the 90s. it s now 81-degree downtown. overnight lows in the upper 70s downtown and we re off to a steamy start. 78 in winchester, 70 is the cool spot in ocean city. better down at boardwalk. 80 at patuxent naval air station and 78 in fredericksberg. waking up with a mix of sunshine and a little bit of cloudiness across the area and that haze, which will kind of burn off during the course of the day, could be a few afternoon storms. we have a weak cold front across its region and as that pushes south we ll see a gradual improvement in the forecast overnight and particularly tomorrow and wednesday. so cooler conditions on the way. but for today, a lot of heat and humidity. partly sunny skies and a scattered afternoon thunderstorm a possibility. 91 degrees for the afternoon high. winds shifting out of the north and west. more details in your five-day forecast coming up. back to you. our top story this morning, oil giant bp has released a new pla
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