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Not competent to handle it, they need to get out of the way. >> reporter: and some of those bills that have been introduced would do just that. the interior department permits drilling operation necessary other parts of the country, for example, in the gulf of mexico, where a permit, just like the one that shell was trying to get in the volford sea, would take about 45 days in the gulf. jenna: sounds better than the five-year time frame you're mentioning. what a story. dan springer, thank you. jon: all right. you think there's political intrigue in this country? check out russia. russian premi...

Nobody sells more real estate . visit remax.com today. >> greta: there's much more ahead but first to our new york newsroom with ainsley earhardt. >> reporter: new developments surrounding the plight of those 33 miners. work is finally underway on a rescue shaft. the drilling operation could take months. rescuers have managed to get solid food down to the men through a small hole. nasa team onsite to help the miners cope with isolation similar they say to being in space. >> zsa zsa gabor is back in the hospital her husband calling for help after finding her unresponsive. the 93-year-old has be...

I came here to bring my husband home." she sent a letter down to her husband. he wrote back, "you know that the words that you sent me made me cry. well, i don't know how to tell you that they're always with me. god left us alive by a miracle and with a purpose." "this kind of pain is much easier to tolerate," she says, "than the pain of not knowing." it's terrible, she remembers, the days after the collapse. like the whole world has toppled down on top of you. the mine collapsed on august 5th. immediately in this country that has some of the biggest mines in the world, teams of engineers and ...

Having one of their own in charge now? >> reporter: they are looking at this as an opportunity for bp to essentially change its image to improve its standing in the world community, as far as the standing here, actions will speak much louder than words. they want to make sure the compensation is done to their liking and make sure that the cleanup is done to their liking and those acts are going to speak louder than any change at the top of the company. >> a backup plan for huge drilling operation. if something were to go wrong, did hayward have a plan in place? >> reporter: that -- i had a con...

Coming out here and is now poisoning the gulf of mexico. what kind of oversight did you have on that drilling operation? >> we had the sort of oversight that an architect has on a building site. it is the way the industry works. it is the industry structure so we had oversight of the -- we had the design, they were doing the building. >> so they had the design. bp had the design. transocean was doing the building along with halliburton and other subcontractors as well. but when it comes for having an emergency plan for such a huge drilling operation, if something were to go wrong, did they hav...