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welcome. great to have you here. >> great to see you, ali, good morning. up first, the growing penn state sex abuse scandal's. the university is vowing to find out who or who else failed the victims. right now in state college p.a. they are bracing for game day. the last home game of the year, the first in a half century without legendary coach joe paterno. the small college town swells to the largest on game day and given what we saw on campus two nights ago, police are under intense pressure to maintain control. our jason carroll is live in state college this morning and, jason, ...

First responders ask ourselves all the time which is why la has a state of the art emergency operation center which is why we collaborate with local and state and federal partners in the way that we do them. >> i mean, mr. mayor we hear in japan that many lives have been saved by the fact that there was at least some fact given to the people ian if it was just 30 seconds or so. do you have that kind of fail

People of japan and the -- the japanese american community that lives here in los angeles, the largest in the united states, and yes, that's a question that any chief executive and that our first responders ask ourselves all the time. which is why l.a. has a stofrt emergency operations -- a state of the art emergency operations center, why we collaborate with partners in the way that we do. and why we participate in the largest preparedness exercise in the united states of america. it started here. it's called the great california shakeout. it -- businesses, schools, first responders participa...

That's the one we have in deep water horizon. how can we write an editorial saying this is the ultimate system, and even your own engineer said there's 260 different ways it can fail. then you add more to it. >> the blowout preventer is designed to be the fail-safe mechanism. >> correct. >> that the case since, since blowout preventers were created. >> but you're a ceo. you've been the head of exploration and drilling and all o this. does it make sense to you that this is the ultimate fail-safe system when there's 260 different ways it can go wrong. plus your company modifies it, to increase t...

Increasing the contractor's risk pro tile. profile. so what does that mean, bp, that you reduce the build built-in redundancy to increase your risk? you ask for modifications, which limit the redundancy and limit your risk, right? bp did. >> i haven't seen this document previously. what i do know is modifications were made to the blowout preventer. in particular a test boar ram was added. it was not a subtraction. it was an addition no the blowout preventer, was my understanding. >> here's our problem. the ultimate fail safe. we find out it's modified. we ask your representative, mr. mckay. he...