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Away. it's not good. martha: no, not good. phil, thank you so much, phil keating reporting from belle chasse, louisiana. gregg: a new poll out showing the mood of a crucial voting bloc ahead of this november. it does not bode well for democrats. according to a new fox news opinion dynamics poll, take a look at that, 55 percent of independents are likely to vote for a republican congressional candidate in the mid-term elections to put a check on democratic control of congress and the white house. and a couple of "wall street journal" opsaids -- op-eds today pointing out that few democrats are a...

Sometime next week using a containment dome which, frankly, may or may not work. the feds say they have inspected 30 offshore drilling rigs in the gulf since the explosion happened and found no urgent cause for concern. that's their language. tonight, we're getting a look at what life is really like on one of those rigs. adam housley is streaming live tonight from bell chase, louisiana. adam? >> shepard, getting on those rigs is no easy task. physically it takes a boat road or helicopter ride of a significant distance. the industry is skeptical of the distance. even the men on the rig themselv...

Us. thanks very much. by the way, both chris dodd and richard shelby negotiating are going to be david gregory's exclusive guests on sunday. search and rescue efforts continue for the 11 workers missing after that oil rig explosion off the coast of louisiana as authorities there try to assess the environmental impact of the explosion that sunk the rig into the gulf of mexico. ron allen is at naval air station in bell chase, louisiana for us this morning. number one, where do search and rescue efforts stand, and number two, is there a concern about leaking oil into the gulf of mexico? >> yeah...

Has sunk. 11 people are missing and feared dead. now a lawsuit has been filed on behalf of one of the workers. it claims the companies involved were negligent. meanwhile we're getting reaction from the first responders at that scene. >> this is my 28th year in the coast guard. never seen anything like it. >> it was just surreal. i mean, you could see the flames with the naked eye 40 miles away over the horizon. got on scene and the rig was fully engulfed, flames about 300 feet in the air. >> nbc's jay gray joins us live from bell chase, louisiana naval air station where the search and rescue m...