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While Chuck Todd was reporting on the Commander in Chief and his generals, NBC's other White House correspondent Savannah Guthrie was assigned to report on her network's latest national opinion poll, conducted with The Wall Street Journal. She found Barack Obama's approval at its lowest level to date, 45%, and pointed to disapproval of his handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster as the cause of the most recent decline.
Speaking of the crude oil gushing out of the seabed, all three newscasts told us about the robot submarine that crashed into a containment pipe, shutting off a valve and interrupting the siphoning off of some of the oil. As a result an extra 27K barrels each day are now polluting the gulf waters. Anne Thompson filed for NBC; Kelly Cobiella, her boots stuck in marshland glue, for CBS; Sharyn Alfonsi, on the barrier Chandeleur Islands, for ABC.
In addition, NBC's Mark Potter had bad news from the beaches of Pensacola, where oil came ashore overnight. ABC's Matt Gutman (at the tail of the Alfonsi videostream) brought us "evidence of marine biologists' doomsday scenario"--an unusual feeding frenzy by desperate sharks that indicates that food is disappearing from the sea as plumes of oil are shut off its oxygen.
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