UPDATED 6:45 p.m.

Executives from the various companies with a hand in the Deepwater Horizon disaster told members of Congress today that a worst-case scenario could conceivably mean crude oil gushing from the well 8 times faster than it is now.  We're keeping an eye on the day-to-day changes on the southeastern coast, but tomorrow we're planning to talk about other gargantuan oil disasters and what, if anything, we can learn from them.

Information about the alleged Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, has kept rolling in over the afternoon; we've been considering a couple of ways to go with the story. Obviously Shahzad is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and just as obviously, there was an awful lot of very quick work involved in law enforcement agencies tracking him to a taxiing plane before getting out of the country. We'll be looking at where Shahzad's been in recent years and try to understand his history.

Posted: 11:41 a.m. Anna Sale here on the day shift.

We moved quickly to follow the breaking news this morning about the arrest of Faisal Shahzad in the Times Square bomb attempt. We are in touch with reporters here at WNYC, The New York Times, and the BBC as we learn more about the arrest and the investigation. We will be watching Attorney General Eric Holder's press conference at 1 p.m. (streamed here). Tomorrow, we'll tell you more about Faisal Shahzad's biography and how his United States citizenship will affect his interrogation and trial.

Later in the week, we'll look at our attitudes to toward public surveillance cameras in the wake of this arrest, but we're starting the conversation now online. Are you more comfortable with more surveillance and cameras in your town or city if it helps law enforcement catch suspected terrorists? Let us know.

We will also continue our coverage of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. This story in The New York Times this morning got us wondering how we know what we know so far about its potential damage, so we will pull back tomorrow and check in with ecologists about the expected damage at this point and what areas will be most hard hit. 

And the Tony nominations are out this morning, and "Fela!" and "La Cage Aux Folles" topped the pack with 11 nominations each. Tomorrow, we'll hear about "Fela!" and best choreography nominee Bill T. Jones from WNYC's Terrance McKnight, who just recorded a two-hour interview with Jones.