Oil Platform Exploding News Today

More washington gridlock. no, its worse -- look, our taxes are about to go up. not the taxes on our dividends though, right? thats a big part of our retirement. oh, no, its dividends, too. the rate on our dividends would more than double. but we depend on our dividends to help pay our bills. we worked hard to save. well, the president and congress have got to work together to stop this dividend tax hike. before its too late. we are back now with more on breaking news we went to break with abou...

From captain peter troedsson from the u.s. coast guard, basically saying the 13 folks working on this platform is okay. the fire is out. he insists there are no reports of a visible sheen, meaning oil, on the surface of the gulf of mexico, but they are monitoring it. they are taking a closer look. they are investigating certainly the cause of this explosion that caused the fire and this incident, this second incident of this oil platform exploding in the gulf of mexico. well stay on top of this ...

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Preventer. the blowout preventer failed to work on that rig. its a key piece of evidence in the criminal investigation as to what happened on april 20th. once the seas are calm, and they need seas of three feet or less, they will begin to lift out the blowout preventer. it is a big and heavy lift. it is more than 1 million pounds. theyve got to bring it up a mile through the water. eventually it will be barged to an evidence collection site in new orleans. then the development driller two will p...