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NJ facility creates cleanup techniques
(CNN) – Crews are lowering a massive concrete containment dome to the ocean floor today, trying to cover a ruptured well that's spewing thousands of gallons of oil into the gulf each day. It's one of many techniques conceived and tested at a naval base in New Jersey. Cameras have never been allowed inside the "Oil Spill Research and Training Facility," until now. Our Allan Chernoff has the CNN exclusive report.
Read more: Dome lowered at Gulf oil leak site
Nashville residents survey flooding aftermath
(CNN) – Nashville offers an agonizing picture of what happens when 13 inches of rain falls in just two days. The mayor says the damage could top a billion dollars and take months to clean up. Our Martin Savidge found that, for some, the devastation is too much to bear.
Saving marine wildlife from oil spill
(CNN) – It will be ground zero for oily sea mammals all along the Gulf Coast. One of the country's top marine wildlife rehabilitation center's is bracing for a possible onslaught of injured dolphins, manatees and turtles. Our Rob Marciano got a behind-the-scenes look at the operation.
Read more: Containment dome shipped out to capture leaking oil
Flooding damages Nashville's musical landmarks
(CNN) – As flood waters recede, people across Tennessee are beginning to assess the damage, which in many cases is catastrophic. 19 people have died in Tennessee alone in some of the worst flooding the state has ever seen.
Nashville is one of the areas hardest hit. The damage there could top a billion dollars. Among the casualties of the disastrous flooding is the Grand Ole Opry, the music city's historical landmark and a mecca for country music performers and fans. Our Martin Savidge has the report from Nashville.
Read more: Nashville flood damage could top $1 billion
Times Square bomb plot blunders
(CNN) – A new picture is emerging today of a bumbling, would-be Times Square bomber. Authorities believe that the suspect, Faisal Shahzad, made a dry run the day before, in what was supposed to be his getaway car. But besides not being able to get the bomb to work, he had another problem. Our Susan Candiotti has the report.
Read more: Source: Bomb suspect made dry run
DHS changing no-fly list policy after Times Square plot
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/05/05/shahzad.3.art.jpg caption="Faisal Shahzad, 30, was arrested Monday night in connection with a car bomb parked in New York's Times Square."]
(CNN) – The Department of Homeland Security is changing its no-fly list update policies to prevent a repeat of what happened Monday, when the suspect in the Times Square attempted bombing was allowed to board a plane despite his name being on the no-fly list, a DHS official told CNN Wednesday.
The official said the Transportation Security Administration will require airlines to check the no-fly list within two hours of being electronically notified of additions or changes. Previously, airlines were required to re-check the list within 24 hours.
Faisal Shahzad, who has been charged in connection with the attempted bombing in Times Square, was able to board Emirates Flight 202 late Monday despite being put on a no-fly list earlier in the day. He made his reservation by phone as he drove to the airport just hours before the flight, investigators said. When he paid for his ticket in cash at the ticket counter, the airline had not refreshed its information so his name did not raise any red flags, a senior counterterrorism official told CNN.
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