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We are getting off of here werks are all dead. >> ed lavandera joins us live from new orleans. good morning, ed. >> reporter: good morning, ken. those hearings from washington have the potential of being rather intense today as the company officials from all of the major players in this oil rig disaster will be showing up. you have executives from trans ocean which owned the oil rig. you have b.p. which was in control of the drilling operations. you also have halliburton which really hasnt been ...

A steering problem but told safety inspectors that there were no complaints in the u.s. and that the trucks were built differently. internal documents dispute that. toyota ended up recalling some of those same trucks in 2005. despite all the bad press and recalls, toyota announced it made a $2.2 billion profit. the gulf oil leak is at the center of a pair of capital hearings. executives from b.p., transocean and halliburton will testify before the senate committee and likely point fingers at e...

You have transocean which owned the rig and you had halliburton which had done some work on the rig. what are we expecting? finger-pointing. in the testimony that weve seen, the early testimony coming from these chiefs of these corporations. we see that bp is going to be saying essentially that transocean is to blame here because their blowout preventer, a device called the blowout preventer failed to work. well, in the testimony coming from transocean which owns the rig, theyre expected to say ...

There is a 2% chance of tornadoes here today compared with a 1-4 chance yesterday. there will be some rotation likely. we will also see some hail makers. again, this wont be developing until later on today. what happened yesterday, a very dynamic situation. check out these pictures we have from storm spotters of the tornado. this was in north central oklahoma near medford. there you can see multiple vortices. they tend to happen because of the air incoming as well as a little bit of friction. th...

Also here in texas 2005 had texas city. british petroleum where people died. british petroleum will be responsible for ten national wildlife threats of a cornucopia of wildlife, beautiful beaches, salt marshes, sandy barrier island, the home of black skinners, the largest tern colony in the united states. to not be stepping forward and talking about the wildlife cost, whats going to happen to the economy in louisiana now and do be doing the kind of statement you just read tells me that british p...

Explosion. there was no indication beforehand that there was any problem on the rig. >> reporter: new orleans attorney bernie strauss has been approached for legal advice by civ several workers. hes close to taking on the case of two workers which will likely filed a lawsuit. neither of those worker nor others we approached would speak directly us to. they told strauss there wasnt just one explosion by several. anded -- >> they knew how to evacuate the rig but in a situation like this, it was fa...

You know, its an inherently dangerous business that they do, and, you know, the coast guard helps them make sure their safety procedures are in place, and theres 30,000 of these workers every day that go out to the gulf to do this work, and theyre well trained and they work to try not to have these accidents, but on this day something went wrong, and now, you know, were working with bp and transocean to try to find the cause. were working on that investigation and were going to -- so, you know, ...

Has now sunk. this was a concern. we are getting more information about this. youre looking at pictures. these are taped pictures earlier of the battle to try and get that under control. but the deep water horizon, the name of the rig, operated by trans ocean been on behalf of bp, deep water horizon has sunk in the gulf of mexico. this is in modern times outside of a hurricane, lately, almost unheard of. there have been accidents, there have been fires, there have been some fatalities over the y...

More offshore oil drilling. is there something about rig wes should know about? >> obviously complicated pieces of equipment that are working in very dangerous environments. this particular rig is one of the newer ones and certainly the company trans ocean, the biggest driller and theyve got a pretty good record of safety. the rigs themselves, its dangerous, dirty work. theyre working in extreme conditions with extreme pressure. any time you stick a pipe into the earth thousands of feet, youre d...

This. thank you for great input on that. well be back with bob and peter in the next hour. there really are remarkable issues. in the meantime, send me your comments on twitter and facebook. the questions you want those guys to answer so that you can understand this better because its going to come to a vote. it may pass. this may become the law of the land. you need to know about it. i want to bring you back to a major news story, breaking news that that oil rig in the gulf of mexico that wev...