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Demolitions and using explosives from my military experience. i used the ammonium nitrate and adding nitromethane. which is a chemical fuel. with high explosives you've got high velocity. to shatter concrete and steel you have to have a high-yield or high-powered explosive. >> the fertilizer itself is an explosive. the stuff that they steal from the querrey helps initiate that explosio explosion. the nitromethane they get makes this worse and can create the kind of destruction you see in oklahoma. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up to bring you a low-priced medicare prescript...

It. >> anything less than that, you know, might have led or probably led to a major failure of the well and the results are well known. >> back on board the deepwater horizon several weeks before the explosion, tyrone benton knew that the bop, blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. >> and it was taken care of? >> it wasn't taken care of. in order for it to be taken care of, you need to pull the whole bop, which would shut down production. from my understanding, they shut down one pod and worked off the other. >> tyrone, 11 people dead. >> yes. >> for the better part of a day, th...

Tonight an interview with a survivor of the deepwater horizon. his name is tyrone benton. he may have been the first person to see signs of a warning. his job was critical, to send down cameras and inspect the well, the rig, the blow-out preventer, checking for anything unusual. weeks before the explosion, he says he found it, a cloud in the water. it was a leak, he says. he talked to special investigations unit drew griffin about what he says he saw and what happened after the discovery was made. >> tyrone benton may well have seen the first signs that something was very, very wrong on the de...

Happened on the deepwater horizon. >> two things. o one, we're certainly pleased to see the judge's ruling. i would hope the administration would reconsider. asked the administration, listen to the eight experts they hand picked. we didn't pick them. they picked them. those eight experts met with secretary salazar, put their names on the letter saying they didn't recommend the six-month moratorium. they think drilling can be done safely, inspect the pressure, check the bops, every one of these platforms one at a time and says the six-month moratorium won't do anything to create safety in the g...

People? >> they say they do want to spend the money. this isn't charity. the average person on this program, captain of a boat gets paid $1,500 a day. that's why they're so desperate when they don't hear back from bp. >> gary, keeping them honest. still ahead, a whistleblower speaks out. he says he warned of problems with equipment on the deepwater horizon, specifically the blow-out preventer below the deepwater horizon weeks before the explosion. he says nobody listened. also lenny kravitz about the life here in new orleans. he has a long connection to this city. what he has to say about ...