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millions at stake. good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. thanks so much for starting your day with us. we start in london, where the olympic games are under way right now. a 23-year-old chinese woman nicknamed shooting beauty competing in the 10-meter air rifle competition has won the first gold medal in london. meantime, u.s. swimmer michael phelps will compete against ryan lochte in the 400 individual medley tonight, but phelps narrowly qualified after a slow finish this morning. but it was queen elizabeth who almost certainly ...

Of the gulf of mexico. the government stopped all deep water drilling after the spill and the moratorium was lifted in october but new permits were not issued until february and, today, the debate over safety continues. the images of oil soaked wetlands and benches will never fade from the memories of those who live and work on the gulf coast. >> not a matter of what, but when there is another accident. >> communities have been following the cleanup efforts. and some say it is too early for the government to issue new drilling permits in the gulf of mexico. >> i am concerned about another b.p....

System to put in place and we'll build it in the next 12 to 18 months. >> neil: the moratorium is making sure we don't have another incident. what do you think of that? >> well, it's understandable why there's a moratorium. when we look at the incident, i think we'll find after the investigation is complete that the incident was preventible. the other thing we found is that the -- >> neil: what was preventible? bp botched it. >> that it was preventible. a number of decisions were made, judgments were made we'll find -- >> neil: they botched it. >> the other situation from the incident is the r...

Representing to the american government that there is a response capability to protect the people of the united states and its oceans in the event of an accident, in my opinion, merits the opening of a criminal investigation. they do not have the capacity. they would all be relying upon the same boom. they would all be relying upon the same skimmers. they would all be relying upon a prayer and hope that somehow or other a solution would be found to a problem after it had already unfolded. >> are you satisfied with this $20 billion escrow account or roughly $20 billion and the man who will be o...

That upper estimate, it seems that the numbers are made up and stupak is saying he believes they did just make up numbers for regulators. if that's true, isn't that illegal? >> bp does not stand for be prepared. they were making it up. they had no response plan. each of the oil companies yesterday said they would have had no better response than bp has. representing to the american government that there is a response capability to protect the people of the united states and its oceans in the event of an accident, in my opinion, merits the opening of a criminal investigation. they do not have t...