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The offshore supply vessel, crystal clear, recovered all 13 survivors from the water and transported them to the closest platform in vermillion block 371. a civilian air ambulance helicopter and three coast guard helicopters transported survivors to terrabone medical hospital for attention. all survivors arrived between 2:30 and 3:30 this afternoon. mariner energy, the owner of the platform, has followed their fire response plan, and the fire is now extinguished. the coast guard cutter skip jack is on scene and has assumed on-scene commander duties and continues to monitor the situation. that'...

From captain peter troedsson from the u.s. coast guard, basically saying the 13 folks working on this platform is okay. the fire is out. he insists there are no reports of a visible sheen, meaning oil, on the surface of the gulf of mexico, but they are monitoring it. they are taking a closer look. they are investigating certainly the cause of this explosion that caused the fire and this incident, this second incident of this oil platform exploding in the gulf of mexico. we'll stay on top of this for you and update you when we get more information. certainly a lot of folks in the gulf of mexico...

We will get the latest right now on the fire that was burning in the gulf of mexico today. an offshore oil and natural gas platform went up in flames and 13 people were thrown into the sea. brian todd is following these developments for us. brian, all 13 of the folks have been accounted for? >> all 13 are accounted for according to the coast guard and mariner energy, the owner of the platform. we have dramatic new pictures of this from the tv station from lafayette, louisiana. and in one of the pictures you can see that one of the 13 workers are waiting in the water to be picked up. none of th...

We will get you the latest coming up. and also, breaking news off of the gulf of mexico. a fire on an oil and gas platform, and workers are forced to leap for their lives into the water. we have new details this hour. major afghan bank on the verge of collapse. it is threatening to take the country's fragile economy with it. and now the brother of the afghan president wants a bank bailout from the united states of america. we want to welcome the viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, and you are in i'm wolf blitzer, and you are in "the situation room." -- c...

[ inaudible question [. >> the company now reports it has been shut down, and, of course, we continue to monitor that to make double sure and quadruple sure that that's the case. we'll continue to monitor it. they tell us right now that it has been shut down. >> this platform is connected to separate wells? are you checking the connections to the wells underwater? >> again, that's something that i would rather not speculate on at this point. the company monitors each of those wells, and so their data showed that there's no flow through them. >> what were they doing on the well? what kind of wo...