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"all in" the investigation into practicing at massy is very much ongoing and one of the highest if not the highest priority of this office. upper big branch explosion was not the first time miners were killed at a massey facility. company and its chief officer faced lawsuits from widows in 2006. cited a memo the ceo sent to mine superintendents telling them to ignore requests to do anything other than run coal including building ventilation controls called overcast designed to keep mines safe. the author of that memo, don blankenship, former massey ceo. who has long loomed large in west virgin...

Said, wait a minute, i don't want to graduate with six-figure debt. >> so they're choosing the state school. >> oh, how things change. i remember eight-millimeter film was big. checking our top stories now, as we cross the half-hour, teams exploring the west virginia mine where 29 men died in april say they found a crack in the floor that could have allowed a methane leak before the explosion. massey energy, the observer of the mine says that crack has not been examined yet and they aren't sure if it was the source of the methane explosion. later today in san francisco, closing arguments w...

The oil into one spot. then they would bring in these vacuum barges and just start sucking owl the oil from those much smaller spots. they say kind of concentrating the oil in one place they would think would be a much more effective way of trying to collect as much as they can. >> sounds like a logical plan. ed lavendera for us this morning in new orleans, thank you. that brings us to the half-hour. time for this morning's top stories. president obama preparing for a meeting at the white house this morning with top executives from bp. last night, at a nationally televised speech, he promi...

They had a methane explosion like this. just as bad, the surface could also become as this gas was released an unstable mass of water mixed with bubbles of gas. and it could become so unstable, no kidding, that a ship like this could simply be unable to float and be swallowed by the sea. some scientists genuinely think this could be an explanation for those supposedly mysterious ship disappearances in the bermuda triangle. >> so there is another option we're hearing about called a junk shot. >> that's the last possible option we're talking about. to put it in simple term, what we're talking ab...

And erupting toward the surface. that means, for instance, if you had a ship right up here, you could have the gas coming up like this. if it went to the top and was ignited, you could have a massive explosion up here. but there is another possibility and that could even be worse. this is one of the theories of what happened in the original rig explosion. they had a methane explosion like this. just as bad, the surface could also become as this gas was released an unstable mass of water mixed with bubbles of gas. and it could become so unstable, no kidding, that a ship like this could simply b...