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A mayday call. they described that moment to me. you heard a mayday call on the radio? >> yes, certainly, yes. we started hearing the mayday calls from the deepwater horizon. >> it went from the fireball and it seemed like forever, but it was seconds. fire ball, mayday. >> the sound. boom. it was like a sonic boom. >> it hit your chest. >> it wasnt -- very hard to explain. >> it was muffled but you could feel it. >> like a plane flying real low, really fast. it shook the boat. we knew it was bad...

They were in their boat when they got a mayday call. they described that moment to me. you heard a mayday call on the radio? >> yes, certainly, yes. we started hearing the mayday calls from the deepwater horizon. >> it went from the fireball and it seemed like forever, but it was seconds. fire ball, mayday. >> the sound. boom. it was like a sonic boom. >> it hit your chest. >> it wasnt -- very hard to explain. >> it was muffled but you could feel it. >> like a plane flying real low, really fast....

Bang and tell us why the universe was formed the way it was. i dont understand it but michio kaku is author of the "physics of the impossible". this is supposedly a photograph of some of the oldest, what, light flying around the universe? >> this picture is a billion dollars photograph, taking 16 years of hard work, showing a picture of the baby of the universe, the infant universe when it was only 400,000 years old. this is incredible. jon: it looks like a globe. its not. thats, what, the milky...

Was mechanical failure they want to get to the bottom of that and the congressman will be having a congressional hearing. >> its interesting theyll have the hearing, other than the 2003 accident. there was one in 1995 a that was mechanical error, it was thousands of trips that it goes back and forth from manhattan to staten island and has had a fairly good safety record, but we have a lot more news to cover this hour. >> indeed we do. were learning more about the massive explosion tearing throug...

Martha: the other big story, were awaiting new details were expecting in the case of the suspected times square bomber. about an hour from now, the nations top law officer goes before a senate subcommittee, and that is where attorney general eric holder is expected to provide an update on the latest on this case of the alleged terrorist. this is what we are learning. brand new information about faisal shahzhad, the naturalized american citizen from pakistan. accused of trying to spread a fire ba...

At this point. >> right. well, its an amateur thing unless it goes off. theres lots of ways for these bombs not to go off. you know, the fact is that -- the materials were designed to do a fairly large fire ball. but making an explosive, which was the intent here, is not that easy. that does suggest that these guys may not have actually had training in the tribal area, but may have been perhaps in contact with people in that region. luckily they screwed it up this time. but one thing we should b...

Guys in jail. ideologically these groups are very similar. weve already seen these kinds of groups very recently try to do a similar kind of attack in the times square area. >> in terms of the device, though, that was used. authorities early on were saying look, this is a pretty primitive device. the fertilizener the vehicle wasnt actually explosive grade fertilizer. you know, you see the timing device there. so in terms of the expertise, it doesnt seem like they have -- whoever the group is doe...

At 11:00 a.m. eastern on "the call." 15 minutes from right now, bobby jindal will hold a news conference to give an update on cleanup efforts. the department of energy released new pictures from the deadly blast. thats what led to this massive oil leak. look at those on your screen if you havent seen it before. a gigantic fire ball. black smoke and plumes coming off that site. a board will hold its first public hearing in two weeks. in the meantime, the first political tv ad to high little the...

Up. they add the combination of the gasoline and the propane alone could have exploded with enough force to split the vehicle in two, produce a huge fire ball and at the least, break out windows and could have killed bystanders nearby. however, they are saying it would not likely have had enough force to blow up a huge structure. thats in the opinion of new york police department bomb experts, as well as other bomb experts i have spoken with from other federal agencies. thats the update about ho...

Larry, let me start with you in the sense that 24, 27 hours in, the police say they dont think its an al qaeda connection. how do you put the pieces together to be sure in. >> the confidence, whoever assembled this, to go through the effort of getting the vehicle, they had money there. erasing the vin number, they are show i showing premeditation. if they turned ton propane and filled the car with the gas and managed to ignite it, you would have had a fire ball inside the car, broken the windows...