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Hero>> the boat was coming in for a landing and the captain realized he was going to hit the dock and he notified the crew with a red alert. thereby moving the passengers to back and center of the ship so they wouldnt get the full impact. >> reporter: im told the coast guard team of investigators here are not only helping to determine what happened with the ferry but are also trying to assess how they will move the ferry out of here if the ferry is safe. what is the condition of the ferry in the...

Baby. >> greta: shannon, who told you and what was your first thought when you found out some other woman was having your baby? >> i was horrified and shocked! the doctor told us. we had a few calls and came that the office. i thought they were just ing up appointment. a lot of questions. i thought there might be a new program or new procedure. in a million years i never would have guessed they would tell us theres been an incident your embryos have been thawed and by the way transfered into ano...

To figure that out. the heads of the nyse and nasdaq are pointing fingers at each others systems and now now its looking less like human error and more like a possible computer glitch. thats it from cnbc. now back to "hardball." welcome back to "hardball." a headline on page one of the todays "wall street journal" says in a nutshell what may have led to oil rig explosion in the gulf. oil regulators ceded oversight to the drillers. how did it come to pass? the answer may lie in the oil industry...

Prompted by a perfect storm, jitters over europes debt crisis, too many countries spending too much money, and what they say is human error basically a typo. martha: they call it the fat finger! bill: fat finger. martha: well explain. bill: good morning, im bill hemmer, lots to explain. martha: hey everybody, ill martha mcical up. there are reports that that was a proctor & gamble trade, we believe, that was supposed to be done in the millions. instead, somebody punched the wrong letter, and put...

>> yes, they have circuit breakers. it is the biggest one-day point drop in history. it was unbelievable. however, in 1987 we had a bigger percentage drop. this was not 1987. this is something were still investigating. we have not -- we have had like you call them the fat finger error, human error in the past. right now all of the futures exchanges and stock exchanges, they dont know what went wrong. >> its like terminator, the machines have taken over. >> they trade a lot of stocks fast. >> chr...

Oil. >> this is like doing open-heart surgery. at 5,000 feet. with, in the dark with robot-controlled submarine. >> british petroleum now says that they can clean things up. thats what theyre saying. dont worry, not a problem. were british petroleum, we can clean things up. have you ever been in one of their rest rooms? have you ever been in one of those -- godforsaken hell-hole restrooms? >> that was alex witt reporting, thats going to do it for us on this friday, im peter alexander, we hope yo...

Baby. >> greta: shannon, who told you and what was your first thought when you found out some other woman was having your baby? >> i was horrified and shocked! the doctor told us. we had a few calls and came that the office. i thought they were just ing up appointment. a lot of questions. i thought there might be a new program or new procedure. in a million years i never would have guessed they would tell us theres been an incident your embryos have been thawed and by the way transfered into ano...

The dow fell 700 points in just 15 minutes, then gain ed 600 points in the next 20 minutes. the financial industry is trying to figure out what happened and human error may be to blame. there are reports a trader may have typed in the letter b for billion instead of m for million. which, of course, happens all the time in washington. this, of course, was suspected to be on a regular market order, triggering the dows nose-dive. for more, let me bring in rob cox, u.s. commentary editor with reuter...

Instead i think it is accelerating the program thats in place and getting some of these barriers out of the way. the bottom line, contessa, as commissioner kelly said, 53 hours in the real world of counterterrorism from identification to apprehension is pretty spectacular. so even though weve had these small problems here, the overall performance of nypd and the fbi and dhs is something we should all be pretty happy with. >> yeah. it worksed. thats the bottom line. close call but no cigar for a ...

Of dispersed oil that settled on the bottom. the big thing is, whos going to want to eat that? how are they going to sell their catch? >> seems like -- just driving down here, coming down route 23 and seeing the industry and seeing the businesses and seeing the -- you know, whats painted on peoples trucks in terms of where they work, it sort of feels like the oil industry giveth and the oil industry taketh away. i mean, obviously its the spine of the economy here, its the fishing and oil industr...