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About clean-up efforts and also last week's explosion on the drilling platform. >> responsibility for safety on the drilling rig is translation, it is their rig, their equipment, their people, their systems, their safety processes. >> and bp bears none of this responsibility? >> bp -- we will deal with these issues in the fullness of time. today we're focusing on the response. but as i've said, the system's processes on a drilling rig are the accountability of the drilling rig company. >> okay. contacted by cnn a spokesman for trans ocean said the company would not respond to those comments fr...

To secure not just iraq's oil, but the stability of its entire economy. this is perhaps the lifeline into iraq's economy. 95% of the country's oil wells flows through pipelines on this platform into waiting tankers. it's takes 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. any disruption to this being devastate the economy. >> oil produced in the north goes directly to turkey and only some of the revenues are channelled to baghdad. 75% to 80% of the country's gdp is dependent on the oil exported from this platform. the crude belongs to iraq's oil company or salk. >> translator: whatever comes to the platfor...

Drastic measures to try to contain a growing oil spill in the gulf of mexico. they're about to set the thickest part of the slick on fire about 50 miles or so off the louisiana coast. this is after that drilling platform exploded and sank. about 42,000 gallons of crude have been leaking into the water every day. kris gutierrez is in louisiana for us. how does a controlled burn like this work? >> reporter: jane e sen herbally what they -- essentially what they do is corral in this really as much oil as they can and light it on fire. we're told that should have started 11:00 local time so roughl...

We're following several other important stories tonight. joe johns is back with the "360 bulletin". >> sanjay, the u.s. coast guard is preparing for the worst with 42 gallons of oil leaking each day from the wreckage of a drilling platform in the gulf of mexico. if the oil slick cannot be contained, officials say it could hit land between louisiana and florida within the next three days. the view from space here, a look at the spill tonight, just off the coast of louisiana. the british government has apologized to pope benedict after an internal memo was leaked, suggesting the pontiff could ...

Regulation. republicans afraid of too much intervention, democrats want more. if the 5:00 vote doesn't go down, they don't get it. they will say the gop stands with wall street. tomorrow, guess who is p up here, goldman sachs testifying before the senate. you'll see democrats saying not ensemble is gop with wall street they are going to go aggressively after goldman tomorrow. it's going to be a wall street beatdown, shall we say, in the next few days. >> no kidding, with all the e-mails out as well. "washington post" poll finds two-thirds of american support stricter regulations. we'll see wha...