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Horizon rig when it exploded and sank. his father keith and brother chris. >> we don't know exactly what happened to gordon. we're not certain exactly where gordon was. there was mud began shooting out of the well, which means that a blowout was about to happen. >> reporter: chris got a call shortly after the rig went down. >>. when you found out what happened, your brother was one of those killed in the rig. what was going on in your head and in your heart? >> disbelief. after a while i got into the car, drove down to the port, because i wasn't satisfied, number one, with what everybody was t...

Fuchon, because i wasn't satisfied with what everybody was telling me. >> he's been fighting to get better benefits of the families who those who perished in the rig explosion. now an invitation from president obama to the white house. do you think the president has been doing enough? iflts i do. i don't know what people expect him to do, if they expect him to clean pelicans, but i think that it the criticism of the president that i've seen is from a public relations standpoint. >> reporter: the last memories of gordon with his wife michelle and son stafford are still fresh for the family. >> ...

Written by kagan, citing presidential confidentiality. and rescuers are soon expected to reach a teenage sailor in the indian ocean whose distress signal had her family fearing the worst. abby sunderland was trying to become the youngest person to sail around the world alone when her satellite cable broke. she was located by a passenger jet whose crew was able to make radio contact. hopefully they'll get help to her fairly soon, wolf. >> many parents are asking how they could let a 16-year-old go sailing around the world on her, do you understand that? >> i was reading up on the story, and s...

Gushing into the gulf every day is an awful lot. but this terms of the the country's daily use of petroleum, it is barely a drop in the proverbial barrel. every single day america uses roughly 19.5 million barrels, or almost 819 million gallons of oil mostly for transportation according to the government's energy information administration. in comparison we're told the total amount leaked into the gulf since last month's rig explosion is 95,000 barrels, or 4 million gallons. a small fraction of a single day's consumption, still the environmental impact could be with us for many years. first,...

All right. welcome back to the "cnn newsroom." i'm tony harris. from the finger pointing to actual answers, new information is coming out of a congressional investigation into the massive oil leak in the gulf of mexico. congressional correspondent brianna keilar following today's hearings on capitol hill. brianna, what are you hearing? what are you learning? >> there has been some finger pointing, tony, but really we've been seeing this house subcommittee conducting this third bp hearing, this third oil spill hearing in two days. they're really getting to the heart of that question, what happe...