these are all organizations opposed to the death penalty. but what this case different from others in the past as we approach the 11th hour there are hundreds of thousands of people. you saw their signatures on those petitions that were delivered. these are people, a lot of these people may not typically be against the death penalty. these are people who are looking at the case thinking that there are doubts here and that an execution needs to be stopped. there s a lot of people pushing to have his sentence commuted and not have him set free. you don t see a lot of people coming right out and saying this man is innocent. speaking of those who do think he should be set free or at least the case looked at, some names might surprise you. the former fbi director william sessions who wrote an op-ed in the newspaper in atlanta yesterday saying, the evidence in this case consisting almost entirely of conflicting stories, testimonies an statements is inadequate to the task of co
reporter: the paper trail starts in 2007. it was that year before the drilling was about to begin in the gulf that fish and wildlife service wrote this letter, concurring and agreeing with the minerals and management service environmental assessment that drilling posed no significant risk to wildlife. don t tell that to the critically endangered kemp s ridley sea turtle or the then endangered brown pelican or the threatened loggerhead turtle. why did they not fulfill their role as a watchdog? why did the fish and wildlife service, who was supposed to be the voice of reason, the voice of caution, decide to turn the other way and let mm schs and bn rough shod? reporter: what does the government have to say for itself now that its presumed advocate for fish, wildlife and endangered species has been caught on paper playing yes man to the very agency that cleared the way for the environmental catastrophe in the gulf?
and what s interesting there are all kinds of species, 400 different species of wildlife around here. and when i lanted yesterday i was up in a helicopter taking a look at the barrier islands off of mississippi, because what i didn t realize this area off the coast is the most populous area for dolphins in the entire u.s., so a huge concern is for dolphins here and they re well-being, in addition to that the national wildlife foundation, they have found two oil-covered birds, one of which is a brown pelican which just got off the endangered species list, they ve also found a loggerhead turtle about 65 miles out, gasping for air near some of this oil sheen, so, wolf, just because the water looks like this here along the shores of the mississippi in louisiana, according to some of these wildlife experts, it doesn t mean that the water out there is very harmful, wolf? we re going to stay in close touch with you, brooke. thank you. we re also standing by right now for some new comments