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>> it is amazing. >> there's a way to, you know, yeah. it's -- it's kind of amazing to you and not so amazing to me. what's been amazing to me is that it's taken this long but again i guess the movies i make are long, too. >> kevin, i appreciate you being with us tonight and talking about this. i can't wait to see them deployed, and there are a lot of people here who, you know, feel forgotten and feel like people aren't paying attention around the world and to know you are working on this for so long and got to be a great day for you. i know a lot of people here are going to be excited. kevin,...

Atlantis while bp gets the paper work in order? press secretary for the department said they could not comment because the matter is under litigation but in a court filing interior secretary ken salazar said the nflgs of claims about atlantis should be done by mid-september. joe johns, cnn, washington. kenneth avenue is the whistle-blower you heard in joe's report. here's what he told me. you're saying basically that the atlantis rig in the gulf, a rig producing far more oil than the deepwater horizon did is unsafe. correct? >> the drawings were not completed properly which is going to cause...

Diagrams, the drawings that show you how to put it together, you'll get a surprise. 90%, that's right, 90% of the safety documentation was missing as of the end of 2008. that's according to the advocacy group water and food watch getting the information from a bp supervisor turned whistle-blower. the group says it's an accident waiting to happen and in court seeking an injunction claiming it needs to be shut down now because in an emergency no one would know how to. >> in a production facility, there are millions of components, moving parts, that the operator needs to know where they are to tu...

The local leaders are the only ones coming up with ideas to protect the marsh and told from bp and the federal government is, no, and they just find too many ways to say no instead of having real alternatives. they don't have any alternatives. they just tell our folks, well, there's reasons not to do this and that instead of saying we want to work with you to stop the problem. here in the coast of louisiana. >> congressman, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you, anderson. up next, there's another rig sitting 122 miles off louisiana coast. a rig which one whistle-b...

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 to up to date drawings needed to run the platform safely. bp says it's done two investigations into those assertions and says it's nothing more than a minor internal process issue that has no bearing on the safe operation of the p...