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Weekend. And, Steve Hartman is on the road. Hes just another friend. Glor . With a promposal that left everyone in tears. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor this is our west coast edition. And were going to begin tonight with something thats not supposed to happen at any school, never mind a middle school a student taking guns into a classroom and opening fire. This incident today was north of indianapolis. Two were hurt, a student and a teacher. Tonight, the teacher is being call...

Into flames, an inferno that killed 11 men. thats when the disaster occurred. were there signs of a disaster in the making? tie ron benton was checking for anything unusual. weeks before the blast, he says he found it. he talked to special investigations unit correspondent drew griffin. >> tyrone benton. >> we flew down to the pod and saw there was an angular fit tig that had a leak on it, what was connected to the angular fitting wasnt able to see but there was an angular fitting that did have ...

>> day after day, says benton, the fluid leak continued. day after day, bp and transocean were notified. youre the first person thats come forward that i know of that said we had this problem. there was a leak. instead of properly fixing the leak, officials from bp and transocean decided to bypass that leak. its hard to determine, as you said, whether or not that leak had anything to do with this. but certainly the prudent thing, the most safe thing to do would have been to pull up that blow-out...

The explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous week, that the b.o.p., blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. >> and it was taken care of? >> it wasnt taken care of. in order to take care of it, you have to pull the whole b.o.p., which will shut down production. like i said, from my understanding, they just shut down one pod and worked off the other. >> tyrone, 11 people dead. >> yes. >> for the better part of a day, the leak was studied, observed, meas...

Horizon, several weeks before the explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous week, that the b.o.p., blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. >> and it was taken care of? >> it wasnt taken care of. in order to take care of it, you have to pull the whole b.o.p., which will shut down production. like i said, from my understanding, they just shut down one pod and worked off the other. >> tyrone, 11 people dead. >> yes. >> for the better part of a day, the le...

As he scrambled to find his flashlight. it was pitch black. >> panic on board, screaming? >> panic, screaming. people jumping overboard. it was completely chaos. and i could hear my supervisor telling everybody, lets go. lets go. lets get in the lifeboats. weve got to go of the weve got to go. he kept his head. he kept his cool. most of us were panicking and wanted to go like right then, but we had to wait for everybody. so, we sat on that rig as long as we possibly could for everyone to be acco...

Flashlight. it was pitch black. >> panic on board, screaming? >> panic, screaming. people jumping overboard. it was completely chaos. and i could hear my supervisor telling everybody, lets go. lets go. lets get in the lifeboats. weve got to go of the weve got to go. he kept his head. he kept his cool. most of us were panicking and wanted to go like right then, but we had to wait for everybody. so, we sat on that rig as long as we possibly could for everyone to be accounted for. >> not everybody ...

government ready if the storm moves toward the oil slick? this morning, admiral thad allen, the national incident coordinator said there is no, quote, playbook. later he had this to say. >> we have a very robust con contingency plan. >> so, is there a plan or not? thats the question. ahead, my interview with florida senator bill nelson, who is demanding an answer. his state could get hit by this weather system. first, tom foreman joins us. what is the latest on where this might be head...

government ready if the storm moves toward the oil slick? this morning, admiral thad allen, the national incident coordinator said there is no, quote, playbook. later he had this to say. >> we have a very robust con continuingency plan. >> so, is there a plan or not? thats the question. ahead, my interview with florida senator bill nelson, who is demanding an answer. his state could get hit by this weather system. first, tom foreman joins us. what is the latest on where this might be h...

From my understanding, they shut down one pod and worked off the other. >> tyrone, 11 people dead. >> yes. >> for the better part of a day, the leak was studied, observed, measured. the most prudent course to fix it, says benton, was ruled out. so, instead? >> they went ahead and shut down that yellow pod and started working off the other pod. >> you liken that to shutting off one engine of a twin engine plane. >> thats correct. >> you can do it? >> yes. >> but not ideal. >> if you have to, you ...