today, memorial day, monday, died, serving our nation today, memorial day, monday, may 31st, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on this monday morning, memorial day. i m lester holt. and i m natalie morales. matt and meredith are enjoying the day off. the biggest environmental disaster our country has ever faced. as you can see, oil is still spewing into the gulf after the weekend failure of that so-called top kill operation. it was such a promising operation, looked like it was progressing at one point. bp now trying another maneuver to contain the spill. they ll use remote operated robots to control the leak and then put a cap on top. here is the rub until that cap is in place, the flow of oil could actually increase by as much as 20%. we ll get a lot more on that in such a moment. such bad news. so many problem there is already. also ahead, an unexpected solution to a big problem, voracious asian c