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>> it is amazing. >> theres a way to, you know, yeah. its -- its kind of amazing to you and not so amazing to me. whats been amazing to me is that its taken this long but again i guess the movies i make are long, too. >> kevin, i appreciate you being with us tonight and talking about this. i cant wait to see them deployed, and there are a lot of people here who, you know, feel forgotten and feel like people arent paying attention around the world and to know you are working on this for so long a...

Atlantis while bp gets the paper work in order? press secretary for the department said they could not comment because the matter is under litigation but in a court filing interior secretary ken salazar said the nflgs of claims about atlantis should be done by mid-september. joe johns, cnn, washington. kenneth avenue is the whistle-blower you heard in joes report. heres what he told me. youre saying basically that the atlantis rig in the gulf, a rig producing far more oil than the deepwater ho...

Diagrams, the drawings that show you how to put it together, youll get a surprise. 90%, thats right, 90% of the safety documentation was missing as of the end of 2008. thats according to the advocacy group water and food watch getting the information from a bp supervisor turned whistle-blower. the group says its an accident waiting to happen and in court seeking an injunction claiming it needs to be shut down now because in an emergency no one would know how to. >> in a production facility, ther...

The local leaders are the only ones coming up with ideas to protect the marsh and told from bp and the federal government is, no, and they just find too many ways to say no instead of having real alternatives. they dont have any alternatives. they just tell our folks, well, theres reasons not to do this and that instead of saying we want to work with you to stop the problem. here in the coast of louisiana. >> congressman, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you, anderso...

The rig, look around and see if everything is in order or snot. >> well, for one thing, the bp atlantis goes 7,000 feet into the sea and then even deeper into where the oil is, so a lot of these components arent visible from the platform. >> reporter: bp says reports claiming the operating with incomplete or inaccurate documents arent true and operators have access to up to date drawings needed to run the platform safely. bp says its done two investigations into those assertions and says its not...

Factors that were going on in the gulf. you have dead people. you have a rig at the bottom of the gulf. you have injury to the fisheries. you have all kinds of things happening there. a catastrophe and the administration simply says, look, we needed to have a six-month time-out here to do that so tough for these folks to go into court and force the hand, get rid of the moratorium by saying the government did something wrong. >> yeah. and this is something the president wants so do you see this m...

A catastrophe and the administration simply says, look, we needed to have a six-month time-out here to do that so tough for these folks to go into court and force the hand, get rid of the moratorium by saying the government did something wrong. >> yeah. and this is something the president wants so do you see this moratorium getting overturned? >> reporter: you know, this is sort of more of a political issue right now in a lot of ways and there are people on capitol hill who were talking about wa...

Operators being able to operate the rig safely. on an ongoing basis. and because of the size of the atlantis, four to five times the output of the deepwater, any fall your there would be four to five times the problem with the deepwater. >> when did you first bring the problems to bp and what did they say, how did they respond? >> anderson, what really bothers me is i have seen, you know, i tried for a year and a half to get the problem fixed. i knew from my experience as a project controls engi...

Into this disaster. and you still have this problem on the ground where our local leaders, and i mean, look, anderson, one of the big frustration is the local leaders are the only ones coming up with ideas to protect the marsh from the oil and told from bp and the federal government is, no, and they just find too many ways to say no instead of having real alternatives. they dont have any alternatives. all they do is tell our folks, well, theres reasons we dont want to do this or that instead of ...

To what one official called catastrophic operator errors because they would assume they were correct. and why doesnt the interior department step in and shut down atlantis while bp gets the paper work in order? press secretary for the department said they could not comment because the matter is under litigation, but in a court filing, interior secretary ken salazar said the investigation of claims about atlantis should be done by mid-september. joe johns, cnn, washington. kenneth abbott is the...