You ready for me, mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Roe, we have your statement. It will be included in the record in its entirety. And under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety or summarize, either way. Ill just sort of summarize it. Ill here to provide a frank response to questions regarding Exxon Valdez Oil spill, and to describe our continuing to efforts to deal with its consequences. Before this, i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on beha of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred. And we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and particularly those in the Prince William sound area. Thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this, we take full responsibility, and weve done so from the beginning. Well continue doi
Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg
Reporter as you can imagine, neighbors are in shock. Some of them say that the gun fire woke them up and later they learned the absolutely terrible news that the two people who were shot were just 11 and 14 years old. And Union City Police say the two were confronted by someone who opened fire. Last night about 1 27, i woke up to gun shots. There was probably 15 to 20. A neighbor near Sherman Drive says gun fire rocked him out of his sleep. Then he heard sirens and police in the street. They were barricading the road off. I lived here 35 years. No, this is a quiet neighborhood. Police say an 11 and 14yearold boy were sitting in a van in a parking lot when they were confronted. There were several gun shots. We are confident that the incident that there were no other areas involved. Reporter both victims died. People gathered in the parking lot to remember the victims today but did not want to talk. Police say they are looking for a motive but have not ruled out the possibility it was ga
Any injuries . I havent heard of any injuries at this time. What can you tell us about nustar . I cant tell you a lot about nustar at this time. I dont know if theyve had significant incidents. There was a vegetation fire up interstate 80 a little west of here last summer. But i dont think it was associated with the refinerys operation. Im unaware of any other incidents in the refinery itself. Are you confident that another tank is not going to eplode . I am not confident of that. I know theyre doing a lot of what theyre doing right now to prevent that from occurring. Youre attacking that hillside pretty aggressively with water drops and so forth. Why is that . Are you concerned about it spreading to other tanks up above . It could be that. It could be that the vegetation on that side is a little bit thicker. It looks like theres more brush and trees as opposed to the grass you see on this side. They may be concerned about fire spreading to the vegetation and to the tanks at the top of
Full of fuel. People driving right by the fire. The freeway just feet away and now the freeway is shut down. Massive black smoke coming out of the facility t. Contra costa county sheriff declaring it a Hazardous Materials emergency. A quake felt here in the bay area as nerves were already rattled. That one big enough to cause two refineries to malfunction. Breaking news in san francisco. The vote to ban private cars on a major thoroughfare. Actress Felicity Huffman reports to prison for her role in the College Admissions scandal. Former official is sayg about club fed. Whats happened is we have at least two tanks with failure releasing chemicals that are now burning. Those chemicals are from this fire in Contra Costa County. Shelterinplace advisories issued for crockett and rodeo. That means thousand of people are being told to stay inside in order to stay safe, shelterinplace. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze. That fire is still burning at the Nustar Energy facility in rode