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Of individual fire and gas alarms on the rig, and each could potentially set off the general alarm. silencing that general alarm was the company's way of preventing false alarms. meantime, bonnie, downgraded to a tropical depression, still headed for the gulf and expected to make landfall late tomorrow. with response vessels moved out of harm's way, it looks like the sealed well cap a mile below the surface could be left unattended for about 48 hours. it's a big setback for response workers, but national incident commander thad allen says pulling back was necessary to keep people and equipme...

Engineering technician's testimony rocked a federal hearing here in new orleans. the technician work and bp's ruptured well and told the panel investigating the disaster that an alarm system on the transocean rig had been silenced about year before the april explosion. silenced. what's more, he said, supervisors were aware the alarm was disabled. according to transocean, he's right. 's in a statement, the company said the dit abling was intention and "conforms to accepted maritime practice." because according to transocean, there were hundreds of individual fire and gas alarms on the rig. each...

An engineering technician's testimony rocked a federal hearing here in new orleans. the technician work and bp's ruptured well and told the panel investigating the disaster that an alarm system on the transocean rig had been silenced foyer about year before the april explosion. silenced. what's more, he said, supervisors were aware the alarm had been disabled. according to transocean, he's right. in a statement, the company said the disabling was intentional and "conforms to accepted maritime practice." that's because according to transocean, there were hundreds of individual fire and gas alar...

These were under lock and key, more than the latest estimate which in turn suggests the latest estimate was, like all that went before it, an exxon valdez, noaa did the infuriating lowball. in a letter to the coast guard, collection, a federal agency. bp is outlining it's revised here what we see are people -- plan to increase its ability to capture the oil from the well. i've got some pictures of bp but the company expects this is raking up bird carcasses, separating heads from bodies. a capture number 20,000 to 40,000 barrels a day by the supposedly noaa is saying the end of the month and po...

You can't autopsy a head removed from the body. in my opinion there's a very strong attempt not only to control and minimize how much oil was spilling, but now to control the evidence of the damage, the appearance of carcasses. you have sick wildlife and workers. it's the oil that's making this problem. we need obama to stand up and order respirators on all the response workers now to avert a human tragedy. >> on the premises that all this is being done and you're certain the things you've seen are being done by bp and not by noaa at bp's instructions or local police at bp's instructions, whic...