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Red blinking -- stapler with a red blinking light on top. they don't know but offered this as assessment this sounds to what is called a dead man's switch. >> it is my understanding that montgomery county police officers are talking with him. continuing for well over an hour. >> perhaps it is one of the most talented person, but misguided at the same time that i've ever met. >> suspect was shot by police officers. the device appeared to go off. we haven't confirmed that as of this time. we saw some smoke. we haven't confirm add that information yet. there were three hostages, all the hostages ...

Question, as bp suggests. what we're concerned about stopping it rather than measuring it. if you don't know the magnitude, it really suggests that you may well be hampered in getting it right. and i don't think there's any reason to sugar coat this for the american public. >> do we need to temporarily shut down and do emergency inspections on all offshore or at least deep offshore oil rigs at this point? >> i mean, i don't want to extend the drilling perimeter at all. and i think it does raise serious questions about what is going on now. if there is such fundamental lack of following the law...

Tires, golf balls, into the blowout preventer to clog it. the blowout preventer, remember, is the emergency brake on the oil flow. it's supposed to be a fail-safe system. it did not work here. and yesterday in washington, it was the focus of a lot of criticism from a house panel, particularly because bp said there was a hydraulic leak in the blowout preventer, and the battery was dead on what was supposed to be the dead man's switch. monica? >> okay. anne thompson, thanks for that update. amazing video. well, despite the devastating gulf oil spill, most americans say drill, baby, drill. that...

A, a piece of equipment which was an accoustical dead man's switch. which bp, which is required in europe, it's required in brazil. and other nations. it's used almost universally by the oil industry all over the world. but bp was not required to use it. although bp uses these on its own oil rigs in the north sea. it was not required to use it in this country. and that's, and the reason for that was because this, this agency, the minerals management agency really had simply lost, had a seamless relationship with big oil. >> you know, michael, it seems to me following up on bob's point there. i...

Work, there was a backup plan, a fail-safe to the fail-safe, a so-called dead man's switch. the dead man's switch also failed. why? because someone didn't change the battery. so to recap, the growing list of problems with the deep water horizon oil rig owned by bp, dead battery, bad wiring, leak in the so-called blowout preventer. but perhaps the most damning evidence to come out was this -- when transocean bought that blowout preventer, which was supposed to prevent the catastrophic spill that we've seen, they were told, they knew that there were 260 possible risks for failure. >> how can a d...