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To be in. this is the hot seat. weve seen it with several ceos, and executives, we saw it with toyota, we saw it with the banks and aig. you know, this is the time where they have to answer the tough questions on capitol hill, and you know, i had mentioned this earlier today, but polls around the country show that the administration has not dealt with this well. but bp, 85 percent of the people think they havent handled it well. jane: bret, it sounds like theyre swearing tony hayward in. lets ta...

Operating procedures. >> there is nothing i have seen in the evidence so far that suggests tha -- that anyone putt ahead of safety. if there, well take action. >> if you had been physically present on that rig along with the 11 men that were killed, would you have made the same decisions kansas were made? would you have approved the decision to use only six centimeters instead of 21? would you have made the decision not to run a cement bond log if you had been standing on that deep water horizon...

Leading bps response to the spill. according to bp, these are the senior officials who were responsible for the macondo well but they, too, were apparently oblivious to what was happening. we could find no evidence that either of them received any e-mails or briefings about the deep water horizon rig or drilling activities at the well. bps corporate complacency is astonishing. the drilling engineer for the rig called macon ochdo a nightm well. other bp employees predicted the cement job would fa...

Production and the personnel leading bps response to the spill. according to bp, these are the senior officials who were responsible for the well, but they, too, were apparently oblivious to what was happening. we could find no evidence that either of them received any e-mails or briefings about the deep water horizon rig or drilling activities at the well. bps corporate complacency is astonishing. the drilling engineer for the rig a nightmare well. other bp employees predicted that the cement j...

In the wake of the spill. they say that bp chose a well design with a very limited capacity to stop the surge of methane gas that apparently ended up blowing up the deepwater horizon rig. according to federal investigators. a bp drilling engineer sent an e-mail to a colleague about deepwater saying, "this has been a nightmare well which has everyone all over the place." it was five days before it erupted into flames. according to bp document, when a bp engineer learned about a "severe gas proble...

The things you have seen are energy committee today releasing being done by bp and not by noaa internal e-mails, five days before the explosion, a bp at bps instructions, or local drilling engineer having written police at bps instructions, quote, this has been a nightmare whichever the formula is, what well in which has everyone all is the evidence that you can over the place. halliburton kept pushing for more centralizers to make sure present to support your claim? the well was centered. >> i ...

For those of you just joining us, were live tonight in mobile, alabama. weve move on to the cnn express because there are thunderstorms here. the spectacular gulf right out that way. heres what you need to know at this hour. after a seafood dinner at tacky jacks grill on the bayou in alabama, president obama is on his way to pensacola, florida. while visiting alabama and mississippi today, the president emphasized, his ed striation is i doing everything we can 24/7 to cope with the gulf oil spil...

Alabama, and is taking a ferry this evening across this bay and spending the night in pensacola, florida. by this time tomorrow, though, hell be back in washington preparing for an oval office address to the nation. bps top executives this week. today, members of the house oversight and investigation subcommittee said their investigation uncovered that five days before the deepwater horizon exploded, bps drilling engineer warned the operation was "a nightmare well." the committee also says bp ig...

Devastated a campground. teams found another body, the last known person to be missing. the floods swept the caddo river. survivors had little or no chance to escape. most campers were families sleeping in their tents when the wall of water tore apart the area. crews will continue searching the renal but the effort is more likely a recovery mission than rescue. piles of wood and rock and debris making certain areas difficult to reach. now day 56 of the national disaster in the gulf of mexico a...

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