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Many say this could be obamas katrina. coast guarded th ed tha thad al this head on. >> this is no katrina. one were levees and this is a wellhead on the ocean floor. after that, no comparison. >> youre satisfied with the federal response from minute one to where we are now? >> not only am i satisfied im accountable. we have been there saving peoples lives. >> reporter: environmentalists in general agree. >> the immediate response to stop the leaks were handled well. i think the president focuss...

Aggressively. and of course, jon, we all have to reporter, the first response was search and rescue. eleven rig workers, missing, presumed dead, and to put out the fire on that exploratory deep sea rig. all those things took a couple, three days, then there was the initial estimate of how much oil was leaking, that turned out to be inaccurate, now the administration is scrambling to suggest in every visual way possible its on the case, on the job, even as that oil gets ever closer to the gulf co...

Step up those efforts. officials here think they think they can step it up to capture between 500 and 1,000 barrels of oil at a time, so thats one effort theyll try to undertake to step up the efforts to try to prevent it from getting to the louisiana shoreline. in the meantime were getting new inside accounts of what happened on board that rig relayed to us from rig workers who were there. they experienced the violent and chaos of this blast firsthand. many of them still cannot speak publicly a...

Disposal, including potentially the department of defense to address the incident. >> shepard: an incident of national significance as the president technically put it today. team fox coverage now rick reichmuth is track the weather conditions from the extreme weather center. first get to senior white house correspondent major garrett live on the north lawn today. sum up with the government is doing thus far. >> shepard, this is, of course, a human tragedy, 11 rig workers missing, presumed dead....

And we are going to start with war games in the persian gulf right on iraqs doorstep and the u.s. is just a spectator. actually, these are games for iran, just iran. theyre showing off some new military hardware in the oil lane. in particular, something being described as a super fast speed boat armed to the teeth. a search in the gulf of mexico. here are new i-report pictures of what were talking about. an oil rig exploded and its still on fire. 11 people are missing. the coast guard is out t...

In other words, not a danger of a fire set that they couldnt control that would, then, cause an explosion. because generally speaking rig workers can handle a fire? >> rig workers can handle a fire on a rig. but what happens in this case, when the hydrocarbons, the oil and the gas, reach the surface, what they try to do is contain that, and they will do measures to contain that. but if theyre unsuccessful, theres a lot of hydrocarbon vapor around looking for an ignition source. when it finds tha...

Megyn: depending upon the nominee. thank you very much, shannon. breg news on the fate of the oil rig burning off the louisiana coast and the fate of a dozen missing rig workers. remember this, conflicting reports about the status of these folks. were going to update you. and what happens when you flip on a buzz saw, but the blade is not attached to the motor? wow! thats what happens. the unexpected, and dramatic extreme makeover home edition, next.

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737 set to land behind a cargo plane. what have we learned? good day, im andrea mitchell live in washington. one year ago today, an explosion ripped through the deep water horizon well, killing 11 rig workers. the world saw the first pictures of what would become the nations worst oil disaster the following afternoon. developing this hour right now on "andrea mitchell reports," look at those pictures. helicopters and boats searching for any sign of 12 people now missing after an explosion on a...

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