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You burn the oil off the top of the water. this was a government plan. it specifically recommends the government have fire booms on happened to stop these spills. well, the government didn't have any fire booms. eight days after the explosion, the obama administration scrambled to buy the only fire boom they could find. question number one: why are they trying to buy a fire boom when in 1994 the response plans, we should have them. why are we, why is our government buying one eight days after? why? they asked the country to patrol the countries to find them. hey, puerto rico, do you have fire ...

You burn the oil off the top of the water. this was a government plan. it specifically recommends the government have fire booms on happened to stop these spills. well, the government didn't have any fire booms. eight days after the explosion, the obama administration scrambled to buy the only fire boom they could find. question number one: why are they trying to buy a fire boom when in 1994 the response plans, we should have them. why are we, why is our government buying one eight days after? why? they asked the country to patrol the countries to find them. hey, puerto rico, do you have fire ...

Owners of the resource immediately put our response plans into action and we began what is probably going to be if not already the largest oil spill response in history. we mobilized many, many resource dozens of vessels skimers aircraft dispersements just as quickly as possible because we knew from the beginning this had the potential to be as sere -- serious as it is. so our commitment has been and continues to be we will put the full resources of bp to work here. we're working very cooperatively with the government organizations who have told us privately and publicly i would add that they ...

>> yes. as i mentioned, having 13 earthquakes since 1970, magnitude 7 or larger, is definitely a reminder of how seismically prone an area is. i personally can't comment on the response plans in chile, but i would imagine they would be more -- definitely more aware of the threat than in haiti, since in haiti it had been over 200 years since a system size earthquake. >> as we look at these images that are coming into msnbc, we're looking at a shot now, which clearly appears as though a bridge has collapsed. that clearly does not look like an on or off-ramp. we are looking at debris all oef the ...

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