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To, does it sound like a natural gas explosion to you? >> caller: our understanding is it was a natural gas production platform. whether it was natural gas that exploded or whether there could be a fire of some other kind on the rig, i think we just don't know yet. >> ben castleman is a reporter for "the wall street journal." thanks for your time. appreciate it. cnn is your hurricane headquarters and we want to get you the up-to-date information on hurricane earl. reynolds wolf is tracking it for us. give us the latest that you have. >> it's still a powerhouse there are some good signs, we'l...

Sitting on the seabed. >> is there a difference between a production platform and a, and a drilling rig? >> yes. there's quite a bit of difference. now at times a production platform can host a drilling rig. it can, a rig can set up and work on the platform. and that with appear to be what was happening here. but there are several types of drilling rigs. this could have been what we call a workover rig, where they were working 0 an existing well as opposed to trying to drill a new well. and of course, we don't know all of that. that's all speculation. but the number of people involved, my imme...

And these attacks that took place on tuesday and wednesday have put the palestinians on the defensive again. we heard the palestinian president stressing about how much they have done. the palestinian authority has done, to bolster security in the areas to guarantee to israel that there won't be more attacks on israel. so even now until now one of the reasons for the delay in the recei reassumption of the direct talks was the settlements on the west bank and in east jerusalem. the ball is in the palestinian court to prove to israelis that they can secure, they can guarantee security as the pro...

Knowledge about the numbers. i do that because everybody gets nervous if i make a comment, somehow i knew the number. >> there's an oil production platform in the gulf that's on fire. does it present any of the same problems of the bp rig? it's, obviously, not under a moratorium. do you know anything more about the accident? >> well, let me just say here's what i know before we came out here. this is, i'm told this is a production platform about 100 miles off the coast. i am told the depth of water is about 340 feet. so this is not a, this is not a deepwater facility. as i understand it, the w...

You can see that. we do not know if anyone is hurt. if they got away. the plane has just gone down. that's all i know. when we get the new information on this, context and perspective and facts we will bring it to you but i want to show you what happened although the signal is not too great from kgo. wait, one more thing -- no, no update. >> more breaking news and pictures of the rig explosion that happened in the gulf. brand new. happened today. and now to the newsroom. i have not seen video yet. >>reporter: we have still pictures in if we can look at them. they clearly show there was an expl...