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BP 'confident' in cleanup
(CNN) – Cleanup and containment efforts in the Gulf of Mexico are now a race against time. BP says it's doing everything it can to try and bottle up the disastrous oil spill and minimize the damage.
Doug Suttles is the company's chief operating officer for exploration and production. He spoke to us on Wednesday's American Morning, saying he's confident in the company's efforts.
Oil slick threatens wildlife
(CNN) – For crews trying to clean up the oil slick in the gulf, the time to act is now. Calm winds and waves are preventing the worst of the oil from drifting ashore. And while officials say the slick should remain at sea for at least the next two days, already marine life is paying the price. Our David Mattingly saw first hand the impact this oil is having on the wildlife.
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Questions surface over Times Square investigation
(CNN) – Questions remained in the days following the dramatic arrest of the Times Square bombing suspect, who was captured only minutes before his plane was due to take off for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Faisal Shahzad was able to board Emirates Flight 202 late Monday despite being put on a no-fly list earlier in the day, but at the time of his ticket purchase, the airline had not refreshed its information so his name did not raise any red flags, a senior counterterrorism official said.
Authorities had tailed Shahzad throughout the day, but lost him before he arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, where he was ultimately arrested, the official said.
However, an FBI official responded that surveillance operations are designed with redundancies in place, and that agents had to avoid tipping off Shahzad that he was being followed. Read more
Children's medicine recall
If your kids have a cold or allergy right now, listen up. The Food and Drug Administration is slamming conditions at a factory that recalled Children's Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl. So just how safe is the medicine in your cabinet? We'll talk to a retired FDA consumer safety officer this morning. Read more
Make everyone an organ donor?
Every year in New York, 500 people die waiting for an organ transplant. One of our guests this morning is lucky she wasn't one of them. She was saved not once, but twice by donors. And her father hopes to save more lives by proposing a bill in the state assembly that would switch the organ donor system from "opt-in" to "opt-out." And that's creating quite a controversy.
Sound off: We want to hear from you this morning. Add your comments to the LIVE blog below and we'll read some of them on the show.
The legacy of Kent State: A mother's wisdom
By Ronni Berke and Carol Costello, CNN
(CNN) – May 4, 1970: a turning point in America's Vietnam legacy.
That day, Elaine Holstein's son, Jeff Miller, was one of four students killed when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State University. Holstein is still haunted. "The nightmare is 40-years-old," she says.
Tensions were high. President Richard Nixon had just announced the Vietnam War had expanded into Cambodia and every family with a young man like Jeff had to grapple with the possibility he might be drafted into combat.
Her son, who would have turned 60 this month, had called her before going to the demonstration. "He said 'don't worry about it. I might get arrested, but I won't get my head broken.'"
Later, when she heard about the shootings on the radio, she tried calling Jeff at his apartment. Another student answered. "He's dead," he told her.
That moment marked the end of Holstein's innocence, she says.
Times Square suspect caught
New York (CNN) – Authorities hunting for the suspect in the botched Times Square bombing dramatically beat the clock overnight, seizing a Pakistani-American citizen moments before he began a long trip to his strife-torn homeland.
Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested around 11:45 p.m. ET Monday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, said Attorney General Eric Holder.
Shahzad will appear sometime after 2 p.m. ET Tuesday in federal court, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan said.
The suspect is set to go before Magistrate Judge Kevin Fox. Charges will be read against the defendant, and the judge will determine if a bail will be set.
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