to the french president nicolas sarkozy and angela merkel. it s a pretty big deal. last thursday before the markets tumbled they were already down because of europe. but here s something interesting, kyra. greece is a country where a third of the nation is employed in some fashion by the public service. you have jobs for life, unionized place. when the different countries joined the european union they don t all play by the same rules. greece has been lagging behind and now threatened to bring the whole operation down because they re linked. this is a problem with europe being one economic unit. a lot of advantages but this was a serious disadvantage. we still don t have a serious answer on what happened. on thursday, we still haven t had a straight answer. is it a computer error, human error, a glitch?
congressman miller, earlier today you released a list of 48 mines federal officials identified last august as having a pattern of violations. upper big branch is on that list, but the mine safety and the health administration admits a computer error prevented the upper big branch mine of being notified of those violations. and in the meantime, they re getting awards for the way they re running their mines. isn t this all proof of the current system is woefully inadequate? oh, i don t think there s any question about that. we all know, the president stated it. we ve we know it in the congress and the mine owners know it that this is a law that is full of loopholes. most of them were put there by the mining companies at their insistence and the time has come to stop that practice. the computer glitch kept the mining administration from identifying the massey mine as a problem, but the fact was the companies were engaged in a
a pattern of violations. upper big branch is on that list. but the mine safety and the health administration admits a computer error prevented the upper big branch mine from being notified of those violations. and in the meantime, they re getting awards for the way they re running their mines. isn t this all proof of the current system is woefully inadequate? oh, i don t think there s any question about that. we all know, the president stated it, we know it in the congress and the mine owners know it that this is a law that is full of loopholes. most of them were put there by the mining companies at their insistence, and the time has come to stop that practice. the computer glitch kept the mining administration from identifying the massey mine as a problem. by the but the fact was, the companies were engaged in a systematic gaming of the system by challenging every violation
mines federal officials identified last august as having a pattern of violations. upper big branch is on that list. but the mine safety and the health administration admits a computer error prevented the upper big branch mine of being notified of those violations. and in the meantime, they re getting awards for the way they re running their mines. isn t this all proof of the current system is woefully inadequate? oh, i don t think there s any question about that. we all know, the president stated it, we know it in the congress and the mine owners know it that this is a law that is full of loopholes. most of them were put there by the mining companies at their insistence and the time has come to stop that practice. the computer glitch kept the mining administration from identifying the massey mine as a problem, but the fact was the companies were engaged in a
the top of the hour, we have pole dancing to talk about as well as the space program to discuss. i m going to leave that to the two of you guys. you could not possibly leave your opinion out of pole dancing if you tried. fair and balanced. a former federal mine safety official. let s do news for you now will lead that independent investigation on last week s deadly mine explosion in west virginia. governor joe manchin says this probe will focus on what action should be taken to prevent such explosions in the future. we re learning a computer error failed to warn the mine company about safety violations and to improve the conditions in 90 days. officials say the errors did not play a role in the accident but something they need to fix. 29 mine workers died in that explosion. a second hearing in the case of the christmas day underwear bomber. hundreds of documents being shared between federal prosecutors and defense lawyers. he wasn t in court and there was no discussion of his