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Jack cafferty has been thinking about our dependency on foreign oil. heres here with the cafferty file. >> violence in the middle east is driving the price of oil higher. its time like these that our addiction to imported oil comes back to haunt us. its worse since the horrific bp spill in the gulf of mexico last spring, which killed 11 rig workers and dumped 5 million barrels of crude oil into the gulf waters. suddenly all drilling activity in water deeper than 5,000 feet was ordered stop. the ...

Heard in the moments leading up to this fire. wolf? >> tom, thanks very much. standing by. the coast guard is getting ready to have a news conference on what they know. well check in with them shortly. more than six weeks after bps well was capped, bp began removing the blowout preventer. replacing it is a final stage for the permanent fix. removal of the device must be done slowly because it may hold value as to why it failed back on april 20th. that triggeredard the explosion that killed 11 ri...

Miner responds presently. but mr. paul has a history of responding to deadly incidents by suggesting they were unavoidable and that stricter regulation would not have prevented nor mitigated them. after the deepwater horizon explosion killed 11, mr. rand said he would deny rig workers the protection of additional safety rules, comparing the blast to the dotiki coal mine collapse that killed two kentucky miners in april. criticizing washington for trying to find out why both events happened. >> w...

Down our throats. the sister of one dead kentucky miner responds presently. but mr. paul has a history of responding to deadly incidents by suggesting they were unavoidable and that stricter regulation would not have prevented nor mitigated them. after the deepwater horizon explosion killed 11, mr. rapid said he would deny rig workers the protection of additional safety rules, comparing the blast to the dotiki coal mine collapse that killed two kentucky miners in april. criticizing washington fo...

Miner responds presently. but mr. paul has a history of responding to deadly incidents by suggesting they were unavoidable and that stricter regulation would not have prevented nor mitigated them. after the deepwater horizon explosion killed 11, mr. rand said he would deny rig workers the protection of additional safety rules, comparing the blast to the dotiki coal mine collapse that killed two kentucky miners in april. criticizing washington for trying to find out why both events happened. >> w...

Something you dont ever expect to see. >> reporter: rescue swimmer kirk peterson was aboard the first coast guard helicopter sent to the scene. and on the way, reports grew more dire by the minute. >> started progressing to a rig explosion, a rig on fire. 160 people in the water with injuries and it kept growing and growing and growing. >> reporter: as they circled the blazing deepwater horizon, it was immediately apparent, peterson says, they were flying into a full-blown catastrophe. with the ...

Peterson was aboard the first coast guard helicopter sent to the scene. and on the way, reports grew more dire by the minute. >> started progressing to a rig explosion, a rig on fire. 160 people in the water with injuries and it kept growing and growing and growing. >> reporter: as they circled the blazing deepwater horizon, it was immediately apparent, peterson says, they were flying into a full-blown catastrophe. with the chopper running low on fuel, the 39-year-old father of two was hoisted d...

And on the way, reports grew more dire by the minute. >> started progressing to a rig explosion, a rig on fire. 160 people in the water with injuries and it kept growing and growing and growing. >> reporter: as they circled the blazing deepwater horizon, it was immediately apparent, peterson says, they were flying into a full-blown catastrophe. with the chopper running low on fuel, the 39-year-old father of two was hoisted down on to the nearby supply ship that had now become, by necessity, a ho...

The damage that we have done. >> hugh kaufman, senior policy analyst for the epa, thank for your insights on this tonight. >> thank you, sir. coming up, a reminder of the heroism in the early hours of the oil explosion. the story of a man who risked his life to rescue injured rig workers in the hours after the horrific end of deepwater horizon. and later, the end to the pundit palin spin. it turns out she doesnt have the midas touch when it comes to endorsing candidates. nationwide insurance...

Precautions so that we minimize the damage that we have done. >> hugh kaufman, senior policy analyst for the epa, thank for your insights on this tonight. >> thank you, sir. coming up, a reminder of the heroism in the early hours of the oil explosion. the story of a man who risked his life to rescue injured rig workers in the hours after the horrific end of deepwater horizon. and later, the end to the pundit palin spin. it turns out she doesnt have the midas touch when it comes to endorsing ...