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We have to deploy, contain, clean up a spill like this. it shows in the lackadaisical, uncoordinated, unprofessional way this inept technology has been deployed by bp. beaches have been fouled. wetlands have been destroyed wildlife has been killed that should have been saved. pensacola bay in florida if properly boomed should never have been breached by oil. pedido beach, queen bess island, barataria bay, none of these areas should have been breached by oil even given the sad state of existing t...

Malfunction? >> of course, the answer is they are the fail-safe mechanism. and when problems are identified with them, theyre rectified. and i believe that is what is taking place. >> you cant have it both ways here. this accident occurs. you have a blowout preventer with 260 errors in it. you modify. you pull it in november of 2009. you see theres all kinds of problems. this accident happens. you write this editorial in the "wall street journal" saying, hey, it isnt our fault. its mechanical. m...

We have to deploy, contain, clean up a spill like this. it shows in the lackadaisical, uncoordinated, unprofessional way this inept technology has been deployed by bp. beaches have been fouled. wetlands have been destroyed wildlife has been killed that should have been saved. pensacola bay in florida if properly boomed should never have been breached by oil. pedido beach, queen bess island, barataria bay, none of these areas should have been breached by oil even given the sad state of existing t...

We need to know if its because of cutting corners and if so whats the safe ri record of the rest of the industry? >> congressman? >> we need to know is the rst of the industry safe or is it not safe? we need to know from them -- >> congressman, you mentioned -- >> sure. >> the human errors and youre right. that is one way to look at this document. >>s no necessarily human errors. human negligence. mr. waxmans report -- >> correct. human negligence. whatever you want to call it. you raise this is...

Him. i kind of felt it coming or he would have snapped my arm. he had my arm in the back of his mouth which is where all the pressure is. you can actually see where his bottom and top jaw are. he never did let go of me. an eight-foot alligator will hold on to you all day long. i basically had to rip my arm out of his mouth. thats why the damage is so bad. i was lucky to get my arm out. after i got my arm out he grabbed my thumb as you can see and i really thought he had popped my thumb off so i ...

Airbus that came out of the factory in september last year. its flown only 420 flight in aviation terms a brand-new aircraft. weather conditions. well, around tripoli at the time, perfect. no problem. the vac nick ash which caused terrible problems for aviation in europe was well to the west. im afraid at the moment they are switching to human error as a possible cause of the crash. >> damon green, a reporter in london. thank you, damon. we are just getting in images of elena kagan meeting wit...

>> they are. in such a short period of time it dropped. they are a little closer. what it seems to be, detail wes have now. theyll about hearing tomorrow. continuing to figure what happened. it doesnt look like it was human error or fat fingers as was rumored thursday. it does appear what happened is that this crisis, the greek debt crisis, starting scale er accelerating losses. when there werent traders around to buy and sell stocks because the new york stock exchange slowed trading down, compu...

To the french president nicolas sarkozy and angela merkel. its a pretty big deal. >> last thursday before the markets tumbled they were already down because of europe. but heres something interesting, kyra. greece is a country where a third of the nation is employed in some fashion by the public service. you have jobs for life, unionized place. when the different countries joined the european union they dont all play by the same rules. greece has been lagging behind and now threatened to bring t...

Europe coming out strong saying we are not going to let greeces problems continue to spread. >> it has been five days since the dow suddenly dropped to almost 1,000 points. are we any closer to knowing what caused that plunge? as you know, there is all these conspiracy types that are out there saying, okay, did somebody hack the system? was this really a human error? do we actually know, christine, the truth? >> we dont. the s.e.c. has summoned the heads of all the majors to washington. when we ...

Out at the wheel fatigued and on painkillers. human error was not believed to be involved here. new york councilman mcmahon wants to make sure this never happens again. >> we want to find out why this happened and ill take that back to washington and try to have a hearing to see if we can help the city to figure out why this happened. >> reporter: the ferry that crashed today just pass add inspection last month. a quarterly inspection. passed it yearly infection in 2009. the ferry has been taken...