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Five times the problem with the deepwater. >> when did you first bring the problems to bp and what did they say, how did they respond? >> anderson, what really bothers me is i have seen, you know, i tried for a year and a half to get the problem fixed. i knew from my experience as a project controls engineer that this was a deadly recipe for problems and for catastrophic errors, and it just didn't happen. the management tone there was, you know, let's take the short cut. let's do teng nearing as fast as we can and forget about the normal things you should do. >> this rig is still operating the...

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Answer. >> let me bring in our joe johns, he is in d.c. tonight. joe, a group of offshore oil companies are suing in federal court. the case will go to court here on monday in new orleans. they call the moratorium abuse of discretion. how, joe, will they make the case since the government is saying it's not so bad. 33 rigs. won't be able to drill and thousands, something like 3,600 other platforms oil and gas platforms that they can still employ these people. >> reporter: yeah. absolutely right. that is very tough situation and so many peoples' hearts go out to the people in the gulf, includin...

Companies are suing in federal court. the case will go to court on monday here in new orleans. they call the moratorium abuse of discretion. how, joe, will they make the case since the government is saying it's not so bad? there's 33 rigs. won't be able to drill and thousands, something like 3,600 other platforms, oil and gas platforms out there that they can still employ these people. >> reporter: yeah. absolutely right. that is very tough situation and so many peoples' hearts go out to the people in the gulf, including the people who actually can't work right now who were supposed to be work...

And it is outrageous that 90% of the safety documentation is missing. >> reporter: last month, two dozen members of congress sent a letter to the administration asking for the rig to be shut down. >> why can't you just go out to the rig, look around and see if everything is in order or snot. >> well, for one thing, the bp atlantis goes 7,000 feet into the sea and then even deeper into where the oil is, so a lot of these components aren't visible from the platform. >> reporter: bp says reports claiming the operating with incomplete or inaccurate documents aren't true and operators have access t...