the existence of this letter in the first place. has the company said anything about this spill? they have. and they had a press conference today and it s funny, you know, listening to pat daniel, the elm bridge ceo, seems like he was paying close attention to the bp ceo: he is cooking the exact opposite. he came out today and he said we made a mess, we re sorry. we re going to do mess clean up this vacuums, all sorts of things to try to fix this situation but violations, shep, and more about warnings that came months ago. that this could have been presented then this guy could face some serious problems as well. shepard: yeah, it wouldn t surprise me. rick, thank you. sure. shepard: here is one unbelievable. a woman admitted now that she got pregnant, delivered the babies and killed them over and over and over again. top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds.
this oil is floating further than anybody wants to see. a little bit of good news both the company and the feds say no additional oil is leaking into the water, shep. and the e.p.a., as you mentioned, saying that there really is a only slim chance of the oil making its way to lake michigan. but this is still bad. imagine a walled off football field and sheet of oil end zone to end zone 2 feet high. that s what we re talking about. shepard: that s a lot of oil. this company got some warnings of some kind, right? we re learning now that they did. there is a federal agency that monitors pipelines and apparently back in january of this year, that agency wrote elm bridge, the company saying they weren t happy with the way that they were monitoring some of the pipelines along this route that we are looking at right now where this spill is. they were told that they had got to fix this problem. they didn t meet code and we don t know if elm bridge did anything as a result of letters, she