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good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. and i m amy robach. it s nice to have you back, lester. were you in the gulf last weekend and part of last week. a difficult waiting game there then and it is is now for where the oil will go. and the immediate thing, thousand stop it. one of the first signs of progress in the effort to contain it. workers were able to lower a four-story container structure almost a mile down that guided it to hover just above the rep cherred well trying to repair the ground beploep we ll tell you about the next critical steps in a few minutes. and then look at a city on edge. after the latest scare in new york times square, a suspicious package not far from where the car loaded with explosives was found last weekend. the first of many false alarms. this morning a look at what some are calling the new normal. also, important health news this morning. an outbreak of potentially deadly e. coli bacte ....
In tennessee this morning, a trial is winding down that will decide the fate of a kindergarten teacher accused of molesting three young girls. the teacher is tanya kraft, and she says she is innocent. nbc s michelle kosinski lives from georgia with the details. michelle. reporter: hey, tamron. yeah, this is a small community. when you have hundreds of people, even more online, rallying behind this now fired kindergarten teacher, tonya kraft, but you also have deep feeling for three little girls who at times graphically describe what they claim she did to them. you have conflicting testimony and fragmented memories of little kids. so amid that, imagine facing the rest of your life behind bars. reporter: two years have passed since she was accused, and tonya kraft has lost her job. her home, custody of her young daughter. but to many, she is still the beloved kindergarten teacher ....
comes from. what we re interested is how do we stop this flow and how do we stop it now? nbc s mark potter joins us by phone from port sulfur, louisiana, with the latest. mark, what can you tell us is happening now? reporter: well, they re working feverishly to try to stop that well. that s really the bottom line here. they had two leaks they knew about yesterday. then they found a third. that s really not going to change the amount of oil going into the water. it s all coming out of the same pipe. if you can imagine three cuts versus two cuts in a garden hose, that s the difference. but it s that flow going through the garden hose, that flow of oil coming out, they just cannot get that stopped. and that s the big worry right now. that s why the department of defense might be consulted. that s why anybody in the industry who has an idea is being consulted. that s the big concern. and now that they re talking about the amount of oil coming out being five times greate ....