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The search for 12 missing oil rig workers off the coast of louisiana. look at these brand new photos, just in from this horizon rig, where an overnight explosion sent seven people to the hospital oh my goodness, would you look at that! helicopters and airplanes, and a boat, are now scouring the waters of the gulf coast for the dozens of workers -- the dozen workers i should say, not seen since this blast. the coast guard is now drilling -- the drilling platform is tilting badly, they say it may topple over, and more than 100 workers did manage to escape, are headed to safety now, but we worry ...

>> how about the new increased mileage standards that the administration claimed today is going to sieve a bill eigion ei about nine days of consumption. does that mitigate against what you see as a bad day? >> that's a really good proposal he made and we're highly supportive of it. why do we have to have these two linked? this is a proposal to make cars more efficient and cleaner, and something that we should be doing regardless of oil and gas drilling or nuclear power. and so we support it. kind of questioning why he's packaged all this together, because this is a very green victory when we ...

Enormous oil reserves here and has penetrated further north than anyone else so far . to manage is on his way to the heart of the rig the drilling platform. all of them is appears that this is just a small use of the light that's what does the whole job and it's all it's all going to say the end of the plot all the engineering is all around this more thing sticking out and doing a lot of. no other all over again the well this is well protected against the cold it can operate at temperatures as low as minus twenty degrees centigrade many areas at the rake off the metric a sealed to keep out the...

Climb up to 110 degrees, maybe even hotter than that. we'll be watching for that as well. looking at gulf coast, i wanted to mention the latest upindict bonnie, the storm. it's now remnant area of low pressure. meaning that it's no longer a depression. it's just a little bit of thunderstorm activity kind of rolling through the gulf right now. >> bon year, thank you very much. i'm glad that you mentioned the gulf of mexico, because down in the gulf of mexico, about a dozen chips are working on the bp oil disaster. they're expected back on site by tomorrow. they had retreated from the area due t...

Got hit with more than seven inches of rain, flooding streets and interstates, knocking out power to thousands and cab selling airline flights. rescue teams in several suburban towns used boats and even helicopters to search for people stranded by the rising water. in the gulf of mexico the storm danger has passed and ships are now back at the site of the bp oil well. cnn's david mattingly has the latest. david, good evening to you. when will all the boats be back on site, back to work? >> reporter: they're all back on their way right now. in fact, the drilling platform that handles the relief...