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Man who served his country with distinction. today bow bergdahl gets his day in court. why he says he does not believe he will get a fair trial. >> eric: its a fiery scene after the explosion in louisiana. just look at that. police say theyre still searching for one person who is still missing after that rig explosion. moving. ...and help you feel more strength and energy in just two weeks! ill take that. -yeeeeeah! ensure high protein. with 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. ensure. alwa...

Oil spill linger on. a rig explosion left 11 work withers dead and spilled crude in the gulf. environmentalist said much more needs to be done. casy ste gal live in louisiana, casy. >> reporter: yeah john, it was the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. 3 billion. billion with with a b, barrils of oil went in the gulf of mexico over the course of 87 days. no one knew how to stop. it the underwater camera caught the oil gushing from the wellhead. the federal judge rowelled that bp was neglig...

At 10:45 last night, the rig suddenly burst into flames and kept on burning. the huge out of control natural gas fed fire in that blown out well. the fire began late last night. the reason this picture looks like daylight is because it has continued to burn throughout today. officials in louisiana have spent the day not only trying to figure out how to put that fire out as the rig increasingly collapses. theyre also trying to regain control of the runaway well, something that so far they have be...

Kept on burning. the huge out of control natural gas fed fire in that blown out well. the fire began late last night. the reason this picture looks like daylight is because it has continued to burn throughout today. officials in louisiana have spent the day not only trying to figure out how to put that fire out as the rig increasingly collapses. theyre also trying to regain control of the runaway well, something that so far they have been unable to do. the latest plan is to try to set up somethi...

Uncontrollably leaking natural gas then ignited. at 10:45 last night, the rig suddenly burst into flames and kept on burning. the huge out of control natural gas fed fire in that blown out well. the fire began late last night. the reason this picture looks like daylight is because it has continued to burn throughout today. officials in louisiana have spent the day not only trying to figure out how to put that fire out as the rig increasingly collapses. theyre also trying to regain control of the...

The high-stakes civil trial between the federal government and aisle giant bp gets underway this morning nearly three years after this deadly rig explosion in the gulf of mexico that triggered the worst off shore oil spill in the nations history. casey stiegel is live outside the courthouse in new orleans for us today. what is going on? what can we expect? >> reporter: court started an hour ago at the federal courthouse here in new orleans behind me. this trial will last very long and there is a...

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Criminal charges in connection with the deepwater horizons rig explosion just off our shores two years ago. you chastised president obamas energy policy by saying it was ". subservient by-product of his radical environmental policy." but even as our fragile coast loses a football field of protective wetlands every 38 minutes, you, bobby, remain in favor of new drilling parcels, hydrofracking and the keystone xl pipeline. just who is the environmental radical. >> tell you what, if youre board dea...

The justice department accuses him of scrubbing more than 300 text messages from his iphone. some of which detailed how the top kill method of plugging the leak was not working. and the feds say he knew he was under investigation when he hit delete. a judge released him today on $100,000 bail. of course, that rig explosion killed 11 people. hurt more than a dozen others. and unleashed more than 200 million gallons of oil into the gulf of gulf. one scientists who explored that blast site after th...

Government would appreciate you please getting your stuff together. they are going to keep giving out permits for drilling rigs that only meet the old lax standards. the tougher standards for the equipment that failed in the bp disaster are coming, but drilling starts again in the meantime. so given what we found so far in our reporting on this, i am really happy the ap ran their own big long story on this today. i am hoping this will goose some more big time print coverage of drilling safety af...