with us former congressman from tennessee, democrat harold ford. congressman from indiana and the chairman of the house republican office, mike pence. vanity fair s national editor and nbc s andrea mitchell. captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news in washington, meet the press with david gregory. it s been 111 days since the explosion of the deep water horizon oil rig in the gulf of mexico. the leak has been plugged, but many questions remain. here live this morning in an exclusive interview is carol browner. welcome back. thank you. the split screen, before and after, is striking. we ll put it up on the screen now. when the oim was gushing this is what it looked like on the left and now it s been plugged on the right. the headline in the times picayune new orleans begs the question end in sight as cement pugs into the rouge well. is the crisis over? the first phase is over in that the well is not leaking since july 15th. obviously the relief
marriage, the war in afghanistan and the choice in november. when you want to go forward, what do you put thear in? d. when you want to be go backward what do you do? you put it in r. with us former congressman from tennessee, democrat harold ford. congressman from indiana and the chairman of the house republican office, mike pence. vanity fair s national editor and nbc s andrea mitchell. captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news in washington, meet the press with david gregory. it s been 111 days since the explosion of the deep water horizon oil rig in the gulf of mexico. the leak has been plugged, but many questions remain. here live this morning in an exclusive interview is carol browner. welcome back. thank you. the split screen, before and after, is striking. we ll put it up on the screen now. when the oim was gushing this is what it looked like on the left and now it s been plugged on the right. the headline in the times picayune new orle
what do you put thear in? d. when you want to be go backward what do you do? you put it in r. with us former congressman from tennessee, democrat harold ford. congressman from indiana and the chairman of the house republican office, mike pence. vanity fair s national editor and nbc s andrea mitchell. captions paid for by nbc-universal television from nbc news in washington, meet the press with david gregory. it s been 111 days since the explosion of the deep water horizon oil rig in the gulf of mexico. the leak has been plugged, but many questions remain. here live this morning in an exclusive interview is carol browner. welcome back. thank you. the split screen, before and after, is striking. we ll put it up on the screen now. when the oim was gushing this is what it looked like on the left and now it s been plugged on the right. the headline in the times picayune new orleans begs the question end in sight as cement pugs into the rouge well. is the crisis over?
testing done before they were used. obviously this is a difficult decision. are you talking about oil which is highly toxic in the environment. epa looked at this issue. a decision was made to use dispersants. then a decision was made to dramatically reduce the amount of dispersants being used. a 72% reduction. we re going to continue to monitor, continue to test. right now there s no anomalies. toxicity levels are not above what you might normally see in the gulf but we need to remain vij leapt and we will. is the seafood safe to eat? we ve been opening fisheries. they go through rigorous testing before they are reopened. we ll continue that testing. i m going to 234r0rd latflorida today. i look forward to eating florida seafood. i think the public can eat sea fo food with confidence because we only reopen these fisheries after extensive testing with the fish. we re delighted to see the light at the end of the tunnel with this natural disaster. carol browning, thank you. . a b
conflicting reports over what the device was a homemade grenade or a large firecracker. reporter: john, there are some conflicting reports. the latest reports are coming from perhaps the most credible sources in iran and that s iran s state funded press tv. those reports deny that this was an assassination attempt. they re saying this was not a grenade and it was a firecracker that exploded near the president s convoy. but about an hour ago you had two government linked websites that say indeed this was an assassination attempt, that the president had just arrived in the city in central iran, he arrived at the airport, got in his convoy, was heading to a city sports stadium where he was scheduled to make an appearance and all of a sudden a grenade, according to these reports, exploded near the convoy. he wasn t hurt but several people were. the report says the grenade exploded near a vehicle carrying journalists. those reports also saying whoever tossed this explosive dev