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A new MTV series profiles everything from small-town music styles to big-city slang and fashion — local talent doing hip-hop their own way. Ocean Mac Adams, vice president of MTV News, and host Sway Calloway talk about how local styles can filter up into the mainstream.

Sidney Jones is the director of the International Crisis Group's South East Asia Project. She has examined separatist conflicts, ethnic conflict, and terrorism in the region, with much of her attention focused on work in Indonesia. We discuss how the Indian Ocean tsunami has affected the already politically unstable Indonesia.

People enjoyed ocean-themed hits like "Yellow Submarine" and The Little Mermaid theme, played through waterproof speakers.Concert-goers said the music sounded bit muted.

Robert Ballard returns to explore the Titanic 19 years after he first located the world's most famous shipwreck. With new technology, including improved robotic subs, high-definition cameras and better lighting, Ballard says large sections of the sunken ocean liner are coming into view that weren't visible in his previous expeditions in the mid-1980s.

Twin terrorist attacks against Israelis took place in Kenya today. More than a dozen people were killed when suicide bombers attacked the Paradise Hotel in Kikambala, an Israeli-owned resort on the Indian Ocean. And two missiles were fired at an Israeli airliner as it took off from the airport in the city of Mombasa. The missiles missed their target. We hear from Jerusalem Post reporter Kelly Hartog who is near Mombasa, Kenya. And Jacki Lyden talks with Cathy Jenkins of the BBC, who is in Nairobi.

It has been more than seven weeks since the powerful Asian tsunami. More than 100,000 people were killed in Indonesia alone. Many more are homeless. As aid efforts continue, a plan to prohibit rebuilding close to the ocean is being disputed.

A hectic, above-normal tropical storm season could produce between four and six major hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico this year, but conditions don't appear ripe for a repeat of 2005's record activity, the National Hurricane Center predicted Monday.

A Russian mini-submarine is trapped on the Pacific Ocean floor after being snagged on a fishing net. Seven crewmembers are aboard. The U.S. Navy is sending an unmanned vehicle in an attempt to rescue the Russians.

Dial-A-Buoy has provided free weather and water info from buoys around the world. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says calls have dropped precipitously thanks to satellite imagery.

It's the season of the Polar Bear Plunge, when many Americans take a challenge to leap into icy water. If they can find cold water. In Rehoboth Beach, Del., people leaped into ocean water that was 47 degrees — the warmest on record.