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The gushing out it will transfer to the leaks below like a leaky garden hose with a nozzle on it. when you open it up, it doesnt leak so bad. you close the nozzle it and it leaks real bad. the blowout preventer will tip over if they do not run supports to it. its a race now, a race to drill the relief wells and take our last chance at killing this monster before the whole weakened, worry out and leaking and failing system gives up its last gasp in a horrific crescendo. the beachfront at pensacol...

News anchor scott walker who was prevented from speaking to cleanup workers will join me in a moment. you will recall that bp is trying to stop its own cleanup workers, many of them fishermen, from wearing protective gear as the executive director of the louisiana environmental action network told us this week. >> when our folks, our fishermen folks had their respirators on they were told to take them off, that they would be fired if they used them. i think that perhaps theyre afraid theyll admi...

Fragile marking areas that we know is oil. the impact all this is happening on their livelihood is definitely going on today. there was a large rally in nearby town, a group protested the offshore drilling moratorium that have impacted hundreds of thousands of residents. they hope their voices will carry to a u.s. district judge on monday who will hear arguments about the moratorium. workers say they want a lift on at least part of this area. operations continue tonight after a brief shut down o...

That the chairman was misunderstood and he is very much in charge until the leak is stopped. the company is taking another round of criticism that it put profit ahead of safety with a key operating safety called a long string. we have a picture for you. its a pipe that goes to the well but they say its very dangerous to use that method in high pressure situations or above pressure wells. if the company had put a liner system which is the other system which provides more protection and safeguards...

Eventually they called the jefferson parish sheriffs office on us. we didnt call the sheriffs office. they called them to intervene. the sheriffs office basically said its a public beach. they can go where they want to go so we eventually got over to that tent which was my goal in the beginning was just to get to the tent with the cleanup workers. didnt really expect them to talk but wanted the opportunity to ask them if they had anything to say. >> when you got to them were you able to ask some...

Provided they were told by bp representatives they would be terminated from employment if they worth and had to get rid of them. >> and our next guest sparred with bps on-site supervisor on grand isle, louisiana over access to parts of the beach cleanup workers. >> every security guard here has been given instructions to every single news crew you can be outside of a hundred yards of the workers along the boom. >> who is saying that? because nobody can tell me unless youre the jefferson parish s...

So bp has whats known in the trade as a pr debacle on its hands. as in, they are responsible for pretty much destroying the gulf of mexico in reckless pursuit of some of the greatest profit margins in the history of the world. we have a flower for our logo. does that help you not hate us? in the 59 days since their private spigot of money became the american publics toxic underwater volcano, bp has done two things to manage press coverage. the first was to try to keep the news media from cover...

Interviewing cleanup workers. bp did this in part by hiring private security firms like the menacingly named talon security to block media access. bps coo said the charges were untrue but then we shot this footage. >> if theres something on break, im interfering with his job? >> yes. sir, you cannot talk to anybody there. >> can i yell from a distance? >> no. sir, you cannot interview the workers. >> the other is less obviously threatening and would be hi layerous if not for the environmental ar...

So guard right on the risk/reward occasion. mr. chairman, the comments of our witness today reveal little sorrow for the events that have occurred and here he said, the gulf of mexico is a very big ocean. the amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting in is tiny in relation to the total water volume, and, then, the environmental impact of the disaster is likely to be very, very modest. i wonder if he wishes to stand on that statement today. when mr. hayward responded to the claims tha...

Lot of our areas impacted by oil. >> corey, our folks have been down there from cnn trying to get cleanup workers to open up a little bit, to talk about them and i tried to ask the representative from bp about this a little earlier, not with much success. but that -- you know, what we are hearing is there is nothing, frankly. and it feels like this gag order has been put on anybody sort of involved in the cleanup in anyway. people are being extraordinarily cautious. are you, because you are ther...