scanning the wrong medicine would have been immediately detected. for this technology, most hospitals won t be able to make use of it until the prices come down. and once that happens, the future of medicine looks to be safer. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. 21 minutes past the hour. a look at stories making headlines. you remember that picture don t you? one year after the deep horizon rig explosion bp is suing the manufacturer of the rig s blowout preventer because it didn t prevent a blowout. the report released last month determined the oil spill was caused by a piece of drill pipe trapped in the rig blowout preventer which is intended to stop oil from leaking into the ocean. bp claims the preventer should have cut in the pipe and sealed that well. folks got the iphones, the ipads and you are being tracked. a watchgroup site called iphonetracker says your where
to drill and there have been no changes to the blow out preventer and what we learned is, the employee out preventer did not work. so, why are we granting new licenses in the gulf of mexico when the president said they had to get to the bottom of this purse? is it politics? reporter: politics. money. who has influence. we re an energy hungry nation. that is where the oil is. the industry wants it on go back and drill in the deep water. the obama administration has given ten new permits pore deep water projects that were already underway but the real question people should ask, has the industry done enough to make all the systems more robust some you mentioned blow out preventer. what happened, the drill pipe which was stuck in the blow out preventer buckled and they did
shepard? shepard: wendell goler at the white house tonight. as you know energy prices have been rising in recent weeks while traders worry how the violence middle east and others have. today americans have not cut back on the use of gasoline even though some areas have surged above $4 a gallon. that news sent prices even higher today 78 cents in trading to settle above $105 a barrel. that is a high since 2008. new clues tonight about what caused last year s oil spill in the gulf. and there is no concern that it might happen again. according to a government report, a piece of drill pipe kept the blow out preventer from sealing properly so. it could not stop the oil rig explosion. it killed 11 workers. sent more than 200 million gallons gushing into the gulf. one outside expert s reaction, holy smoke. he says this means every blowout preventer could have the same problem. the company that makes the devices says it is working with
blowout preventer that working. don t know how that fits yet into all of the entire investigation, responsibility and all those questions, jenna, but that is just coming out. and we are nearing the anniversary, april 20th, of that disaster that killed 11 men and left at least 17 others injured. but this news now, a federal probe finding that a trapped piece of drill pipe kept the blowout preventer from properly saleing to stop the oil from gushing to those many months until the middle of july until they could get a handle on the leakage. jenna: we ll keep everyone updated on that investigation, harris. thanks. jon: there s blood in the streets of syria right now. security forces there launching brutal attacks against antigovernment protestors. this latest violence, taking place at a mosque in belrah, six in daraa, six people reportedly killed by a,
that plane landed safely without incident. and then a few minutes later about 15 minutes later, the same thing happened to a united airlines flight. again, tried to contact the tower. no one was answering them. no one responding to them at the time. there was a controller at the tower, and there are some reports out there that perhaps the controller may have been sleeping at the time. the ntsb is saying at this point only that the controller was unresponsive. the faa is now looking into this incident. we will continue to monitor this situation, and hopefully get more answers, wolf. and in other news, we have new insight also into the cause of the gulf oil disaster. a new report commissioned by the u.s. government says a piece of drill pipe buckled under pressure and got stuck inside the blowout preventer. that kept the device from stopping the flow of oil into the gulf of mexico in what became the worst oil spill in u.s. history. and the faa is investigating