because the oil makes their feathers useless. how cold is it? 60 degrees. that s cold enough. we have australia, new zealand, the north island of new zealand here on our google map. this was a well documented cargo ship coming into a very well marked channel and right there is a reef that this captain hit right there. that s why these charges are filed. it s a well-known reef coming into this area here, into this harbor and cove and that s where all of this, this pristine beach is being covered with some of that oil. there is some good news that for the next couple of hours and days, the winds will blow this direction. as we put into this motion, the winds never blew. follow these lines here, that s how the wind is blowing almost out to sea. better than the current bringing it back down to the beaches again. 100,000 gallons of oil on the water again is a lot of oil. chad myers, thank you very much. now, hour two. watch this. blackberries going out all over the world a
halfway around the world, thousands of michael jackson fans are attending a tribute concert in wales today. the pop icon s three children are attending it also. several of jackson s siblings are performing. it comes as jackson s physician stands trial for involuntary manslaughter in the singer s death. for the first time this week, we heard dr. conrad murray s interview with detectives. everything happened very quickly. just about the time i was gone and i came back. so i started immediately to perform cpr and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. testimony in the trial resumes on monday. a dramatic rescue at sea. a small plane ran out of gas while flying from monterey, california, to hawaii. the pilot notified the coast guard they was in trouble about five miles from show. a rescue team coached him how to safely land the plane right there on its body. a rescue chopper pulled the pilot to safety. archbishop desmond tutu is celebrating his 80th birthday with a lot of laughter,
dramatic day in the trial of dr. conrad murray, who s accused of causing the death of michael jackson. to ted rollins in los angeles. reporter: piers, it was a riveting day in court today, we got to listen to conrad murray, basically, this will be it for jurors, unless he takes the stand, he gets to tell his side of the story through a police interview. a two-hour audiotape that jurors heard about an hour and 40 minutes of. in it he talks about giving michael jackson propofol every single night during the two months he was taking care of the pop star, except, he said, for the few days leading up to his death. he said he was trying to help jackson break away from the addiction to propofol, he said jackson was his friend, he said he was doing everything he could to jackson and jackson was demanding he give him that, what he would call, milk. i got to sleep, dr. conrad. i have this rehearsals to perform, i must be ready for the show in england. tomorrow i will have to cancel
he also served at a.l. west xhixer. he died at the age of 82. new york mayor michael bloomberg sharply criticizing occupy wall street. he said the protest over high unemployment and corporate greed could destroy jobs in lower manhattan. national correspondent susan candiotti in new york following this movement. saturdays have seen the most activity. what s going on? reporter: that s right. well, now there is additional activity by way of a second location, because now occupy wall street has set up a second base of operations about two miles north of where they were before. that park is still full with protestors near wall street, but now they re in a historic park called washington square park up in the 1800s. it is home to street performers and street artists and chess players and people who just like to hang out on a beautiful day like this. on this day at this hour there is a rally that just started by occupy wall street. unlike the other location, they are not g
down, too. u.s. stock futures are in the red in pre trading. a lot of this comes after the federal reserve gave a cynical view of the economy. we ll talk more about this with christine romans in just a few minutes. back to troy davis now. he has been put to death. the debate over his guilt or innocence and over the death penalty itself goes on. the state of georgia executed davis last night by lethal injection for the murder of a savannah police officer in 1989. supporters claimed there was too much doubt in the case. the original prosecutor says there is no doubt. despite protests and last-minute appeals, the u.s. supreme court refused to grant a stay and his time ran out. media witnesses to the execution says just before the procedure began, davis told the victim s family he was innocent. he urged them to keep digging for the truth. he asked his family and friends to keep praying, to keep working and keep the faith. then he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who a