Via KHOU.COM

NEW ORLEANS, La—The Coast Guard is responding to a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
The explosion on Vermilion rig 380 happened around 9:30 a.m. Thursday.
A Coast Guard spokesman said 12 of the 13 people on the rig have now been rescued from the water. One person is still missing.
Seven Coast Guard choppers, two planes and four boats from New Orleans and Houston responded to the scene.
The rig located south of Louisiana’s Vermilion Bay is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy.
It is west of the site of the April BP blast that caused a massive oil spill

Arizona Cardinals outspoken defensive tackle Darnell Dockett spent time with The SportsGroove’s host Mark Gray for this edition of In Your Face where he discussed everything from their changes at quarterback, to the loss of wide receiver Anquan Boldin, and how Albert Haynesworth’s behavior has made things difficult for the next generation of defensive linemen who are in line for a big pay day to cash in.

If you missed the lastest episode of “The T.O. Show,” you missed T.O. breaking down in tears during his therapy session. The NFL star revealed he had a 3- year-old son he has never met. He admits the reason he hasn’t seen his son is due to “things that transpired between his mother and I.”Take a look:

Good Counsel junior wide receiver/defensive back Stefon Diggs earned the first SportsGroove High School Baller Of The Week after leading the Falcons to a nationally televised 21-6 victory over St. Xavier. The SportsGroove High School Baller Of The Week will honor the outstanding performer from the week that was. You can nominate your favorite high school student athlete by logging on to woldcnews.com.

Via TBD

UPDATE: Justice Department correspondent for NBC News, Pete Williams, confirms names of suspect as James Jay Lee, a longtime protester of Discovery.

ORIGINAL REPORT:

Montgomery County police have confirmed the Discovery Communications headquarters on Georgia Avenue in downtown Silver Spring has been evacuated after the report of a man possibly with explosives inside the building.

A man entered the lobby and may have fired a weapon and declared, “Nobody is going anywhere,” Montgomery County police said.

In a phone interview on ABC 7 News and TBD TV, Discovery Communication employee Lisa Lucas said the building is in lockdown, with an unknown number of employees sheltering in offices. Police have established a cordon around the building.

She said that about 1:20 p.m., “we heard, Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.”

Police have not confirmed that multiple shots were fired.

The suspect is an Asian male, police said.

Rick Sanchez referred to Barack Obama as the “cotton picking president” on CNN Monday.

Sanchez made the comment in a discussion with CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin on “Rick’s List” about the many falsehoods that have been spread about Obama, such as the claim that he is a Muslim or that he is not a citizen of the United States. His voice rising in frustration, Sanchez asked Yellin why people continued to believe the false rumors:

“He is the cotton picking president of the United States! If the president of the United States doesn’t have enough of a bully pulpit to convince people that…a lie is a lie…what the hell is going on here?”

Read more at HuffingtonPost

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The National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane watch advisory for Mid-Atlantic states, particularly North Carolina, Virginia and now DC and Maryland, for Hurricane Earl, a category 4 storm approaching the East coast. This hurricane is expected to hit right before or during Labor Day weekend.

According to the National Hurricane Center:

CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY...

A HURRICANE WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE EAST COAST OF THE UNITED
STATES FROM BOGUE INLET NORTH CAROLINA NORTHEASTWARD TO THE NORTH
CAROLINA/VIRGINIA BORDER...INCLUDING THE PAMLICO AND ALBEMARLE
SOUNDS.

THE HURRICANE WATCH HAS BEEN ADJUSTED NORTHWARD AND NOW EXTENDS FROM
THE NORTH CAROLINA/VIRGINIA BORDER NORTHWARD TO CAPE HENLOPEN
DELAWARE.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM CAPE FEAR TO WEST OF
BOGUE INLET.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT...

A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR...
* BOGUE INLET NORTH CAROLINA NORTHEASTWARD TO THE NORTH
CAROLINA/VIRGINIA BORDER INCLUDING THE PAMLICO AND ALBEMARLE
SOUNDS.

A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR...
* NORTH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA/VIRGINIA BORDER TO CAPE HENLOPEN
DELAWARE.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR...
* SAN SALVADOR ISLAND IN THE CENTRAL BAHAMAS
* FROM CAPE FEAR TO WEST OF BOGUE INLET NORTH CAROLINA.

A HURRICANE WARNING MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED
SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE WARNING AREA.  A WARNING IS TYPICALLY ISSUED
36 HOURS BEFORE THE ANTICIPATED FIRST OCCURRENCE OF
TROPICAL-STORM-FORCE WINDS...CONDITIONS THAT MAKE OUTSIDE
PREPARATIONS DIFFICULT OR DANGEROUS. PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE
AND PROPERTY SHOULD BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION.

A HURRICANE WATCH MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE
WITHIN THE WATCH AREA.  A WATCH IS TYPICALLY ISSUED 48 HOURS
BEFORE THE ANTICIPATED FIRST OCCURRENCE OF TROPICAL-STORM-FORCE
WINDS...CONDITIONS THAT MAKE OUTSIDE PREPARATIONS DIFFICULT OR
DANGEROUS.

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED SOMEWHERE WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN 36 HOURS.

INTERESTS ELSEWHERE FROM NEW JERSEY TO NEW ENGLAND SHOULD MONITOR
THE PROGRESS OF EARL.

FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA IN THE UNITED
STATES...INCLUDING POSSIBLE INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE
MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA OUTSIDE
THE UNITED STATES...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR NATIONAL
METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE.

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The Alabama Crimson Tide’s Heisman-winning tailback Mark Ingram went down with a knee injury Monday. He, Ingram is out indefinitely and certainly won’t play in ‘Bama’s season opener against San Jose State.

Nick Saban said that Ingram would be back in a “relatively short time.”

How should Alabama deal with the temporary loss of Ingram? Will it have an effect on the Tide’s success?

Read more at Bleacherreport

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Public opposition to the proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero is growing dramatically, a new Quinnipiac University poll of New York voters found.
Now more than two-thirds of local voters want developers to move the project, up significantly from the narrow majority who wanted to the mosque relocated last month.

The same number of voters – 71% – want Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to probe the funding of the project.

Read more at NYDailyNews

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Roland Martin appears in The Situation Room with CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux and Ed Rollins to discusses Glenn Beck’s efforts to “take back the civil rights movement” at a rally in Washington.

WATCH: Who Owns The Civil Rights Movement?