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millions at stake. good morning, everyone. im randi kaye. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. thanks so much for starting your day with us. we start in london, where the olympic games are under way right now. a 23-year-old chinese woman nicknamed shooting beauty competing in the 10-meter air rifle competition has won the first gold medal in london. meantime, u.s. swimmer michael phelps will compete against ryan lochte in the 400 individual medley tonight, but phelps na...

Of the gulf of mexico. the government stopped all deep water drilling after the spill and the moratorium was lifted in october but new permits were not issued until february and, today, the debate over safety continues. the images of oil soaked wetlands and benches will never fade from the memories of those who live and work on the gulf coast. >> not a matter of what, but when there is another accident. >> communities have been following the cleanup efforts. and some say it is too early for the ...

System to put in place and well build it in the next 12 to 18 months. >> neil: the moratorium is making sure we dont have another incident. what do you think of that? >> well, its understandable why theres a moratorium. when we look at the incident, i think well find after the investigation is complete that the incident was preventible. the other thing we found is that the -- >> neil: what was preventible? bp botched it. >> that it was preventible. a number of decisions were made, judgments were...

Representing to the american government that there is a response capability to protect the people of the united states and its oceans in the event of an accident, in my opinion, merits the opening of a criminal investigation. they do not have the capacity. they would all be relying upon the same boom. they would all be relying upon the same skimmers. they would all be relying upon a prayer and hope that somehow or other a solution would be found to a problem after it had already unfolded. >> are...

That upper estimate, it seems that the numbers are made up and stupak is saying he believes they did just make up numbers for regulators. if thats true, isnt that illegal? >> bp does not stand for be prepared. they were making it up. they had no response plan. each of the oil companies yesterday said they would have had no better response than bp has. representing to the american government that there is a response capability to protect the people of the united states and its oceans in the event...

They would have no better response than bp has. representing to the american government that there is a response capability to protect the people of the united states and its oceans in the event of an accident, in my opinion, merits the opening of a criminal investigation. they do not have the capacity. they would all be relying upon the same boom. they would all be relying upon the same skimmers. they would all be relying upon a prayer and hope that somehow or other a solution would be found to...

This well is leaking less than that amount. bp is struggling to contain it and has been criticized by the government. i asked if they overestimated their ability to respond? >> what youre seeing from our response capability, this is huge, not just bp, there are federal agencies and state agencies here with us. i think it speaks well that we were able to manage, to get resources to quickly in these areas and really start a pro active response effort. >> reporter: robert thomas teaches journalism ...

Noaa and only meant to start a dialogue, but mms wont say whether they changed their plan after the criticism. >> weve really had problems with mms for over a decade recognizing this is an agency that really thinks of the oil and gas industry as their partner or client rather than as an industry they should be regulating. >> reporter: despite several calls and e-mails from us, mms did not respond to that. records also show that before this accident, bp was confident it could handle this kind of ...

Jim kim jong-un that they are off shore. if he engages in provocations, look at what happened in syria. this could be a president that responds. does this carrier group really have that kind of response capability? the carrier actually, the "u.s.s. carl vincent," huge asset, aircraft on board but not terribly useful against the north korean threat. those aircraft arent likely to go anywhere. there are missile ships along the carrier out there. they can shoot down missile launches. if it gets to ...