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The serious catastrophe unfolding right now in the gulf of mexico with the deep water horizon the explosion and sinki sinking, but the atlantis platform is in far deeper water almost 1 and a half times deeper water and currently producing 200 thousand barrels of oil per day. in just two-days there could be an oil spill. this is from bp's own documents that would be greater than the exxon val disease. an explosion or a leak that would be many times larger than what we are seeing right now in the gulf of mexico. >> tell us about the whistleblower how did he come forward and how was he treated wh...

The serious catastrophe unfolding right now in the gulf of mexico with the deep water horizon the explosion and sinki sinking, but the atlantis platform is in far deeper water almost 1 and a half times deeper water and currently producing 200 thousand barrels of oil per day. in just two-days there could be an oil spill. this is from bp's own documents that would be greater than the exxon val disease. an explosion or a leak that would be many times larger than what we are seeing right now in the gulf of mexico. >> tell us about the whistleblower how did he come forward and how was he treated wh...

Decades over and over and over again with each successive oil spill, explosion and fire. prices paid in lives and land and in economies. yet at the same time every president in the modern era has paid some amount of lip service to our country's dependency on oil and other fossil fuels. on january 29, 1969, before i was born, six miles off the california coast there was a blowout at a union oil drilling platform. oil and natural gas gushed into the ocean for 11 1/2 days. 200 thousand gallons of crude killed thousands of seabirds. 35 miles of california coast were caked in tar. the next day eart...

5,000 feet under the surface. this is unique and unprecedented it could take many days to stop. as well as any resource available to stop the oil from coming ashore and mitigating the damage it could cause. bp is responsible for this lake. bp will be pay the bill. as president of the united states i am going to spare no effort to respond to this crisis for as long as it continues. we will spare no resources to clean up whatever damage is caused. >> aside from meeting and greeting the first responders the president also had a closeup look from a helicopter of the now 30 mile long oil slick ca...

More than 200 thousand gallons of crude now gushing into the gulf of mexico each and every day from the damaged wellhead. a potentially devastating slick could wash ashore by tomorrow. a governor leaving his party and a senate seat in play. florida's governor, charlie crist, will announce that he is running as an independent fort senate this fall. bringing their demands to the president's doorstep, meet some miami students who aren't just talking about immigration reform. they have collected tens of thousands of signatures and walked 1500 miles over four months from miami to washington, d....