Disaster, engineers holding the failed 300 ton pulling the blowout preventer from the deep water horizon rig examining what may have caused the gulf catastrophe. gregg: a show in southern germany crashes to the ground, one person was killed, 33 were injured. the pilot was not harmed. gregg: mexican leaders claiming a major victory in the ongoing war against their country s vicious drug lords, it came last week with a capture of this man, he s the accused texas born drug lord, edgar valdez via real, also moan as la barbie and authorities hope he ll want to cut a deal and lead them to his comrades and if this is so, could valdez s capture signal the end for mexico s infamous drug cartel? let s ask former chief of operations for the u.s. drug enforcement administration. michael thanks for talking to
Us. i ll call it for what it is, when people see that picture, that doesn t necessarily look like what most of us consider looks likes a mexican drug lord, and it tells you a lot about how difficult the war on drug trafficking is, considering, you cannot look at a man and say, yep, that person is definitely let s say mexican or an illegal mexican or parts of some sort of gang. but, how big of a break is this on the war on mexican drugs? well, it is a major break. and, it is a major win, frankly for the president and his administration and with that said, the president and his key security advisors and security leaders in the country have already come out and said they realize they have a long road ahead of them, before they turn the eyed but, suffice it to say, that the apprehension of edgar valdez via real is a major one for president calderon, and,