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They are explosives or just dummies. he described them as two pipe bombs. and he said there were four propane-type cannisters on the vest and said it was not a gas i recognized but a type of gas that was used for welding and he was familiar with this because he is an engineer and there were cannisters on the back of the vest and he said lee was holding what looked like a stapler with a red, blinking light on top. also, the engineer told me --. >>shepard: a stapler with a red blinking light? >>re...

Any updates from you? go ahead. i know we have a big delay. >>reporter: the streets are blocked off as far as you can see. to my left and up to the right and on this one stretch of the road there are a dozen cop cars. i want to go back to flesh out the details from what has come to be an important eyewitness account of what happened in the building. i interviewed an engineer with discovery as i made my way up to the location. we are on foot because everyone is blocked and the suspect was identif...

Top to bottom. that wasnt the engineers problem. he ran it. he cemented and they -- >> larry: pushed the wrong button? >> no, i think that he was in a hurry. and halliburton recommended they run 22 centralizers, and they ran four. and that caused him a problem because the tapered string of casing is seven inch, the bottom part of it was probably against the wall of the hole, and when they cemented, they didnt get a cement job all the way around the casing. he didnt know that. i dont understand w...

>> no, i dont see the federal government is not -- i think they were slow getting the skimmers in there, and that part, they were slow making some decisions. but i dont think the government owes anybody anything. >> larry: did we refuse help from other countries? >> i think we did. >> larry: was that a mistake? >> probably. >> larry: why do you think we would refuse someone -- >> i dont know. i dont understand it. we should have taken the help. >> larry: the original april 20th explosion, we cov...

Time and time again when money was at stake. internal documents that appear to show bp put profits and costs over safety. they were released today by a congressional committee investigating the disaster. theyre preliminary, but they show that bp took measures to cut costs in the weeks and days before the rig blew up, as it faced one problem after another. in one e-mail, the engineer described the doom rig as a nightmare well, five days before the well exploded. according to the documents, bp cho...

Garage, the young man working inside, pretty badly burned, the garage gets engulfed in flames, the house is just about to catch fire as well. so what happens? the family dog runs to get help. it actually happened in alaska. about three weeks ago today. buddy, the hero dog is to be recognized. part of the amazing rescue caught on tape by a state troopers dash cam. look at buddy, you can see him leading the trooper down the road. the trooper was trying to find where the fire was burning but the gp...

And calexico sits along the u.s.-mexico border, 120 miles east of san diego and that is one of the hardest-hit areas where most of the damage has been done, where it is really concentrated. we have seen lots of video, coming in, from video... from viewers, from youtube, things of that nature and parking structures, collapsing and bricks falling from buildings and a lot of broken glass and a lot of stuff rocked off of the store shelves. two deaths have been reported inside mexico, and new informa...

Hurricanes, being in coastal florida. its -- its hard to imagine at the moment given what we know just what may have contributed to this collapse. i know there have been a lot of reports out there and news coverage. but we really just dont have the evidence. and because there hasnt been an investigation yet. >> yeah. >> so thats -- we need to wait and make sure thats tended to carefully. >> thats critical. and under way. we have learned about this 2018 report where an engineer warned of major st...

>> telling me why this all happened. >> but then he shut down. even so, detectives thought they had enough evidence linking him to the crime. they arrested him and charged him with murder. then, an amazing turn of events. after his steadfast denials, the engineer admitted that, yes, he was the shooter. but he said he was not guilty of the crime because he had been insane when he pulled the trigger. a little more than a year after his arrest, hemy neumans trial for murder began and the prosecutor...

>> telling you what? >> telling me why this all happened. >> but then he shut down. even so, detectives thought they had enough evidence linking him to the crime. they arrested him and charged him with murder. then, an amazing turn of events. after his steadfast denials, the engineer admitted that, yes, he was the shooter. but he said he was not guilty of the crime because he had been insane when he pulled the trigger. a little more than a year after his arrest, hemy neumans trial for murder beg...