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The high-stakes civil trial between the federal government and aisle giant bp gets underway this morning nearly three years after this deadly rig explosion in the gulf of mexico that triggered the worst off shore oil spill in the nation's history. casey stiegel is live outside the courthouse in new orleans for us today. what is going on? what can we expect? >> reporter: court started an hour ago at the federal courthouse here in new orleans behind me. this trial will last very long and there is a lot of money at stake. there is the potential this could last well into the fall. it is really bro...

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Criminal charges in connection with the deepwater horizon's rig explosion just off our shores two years ago. you chastised president obama's energy policy by saying it was ". subservient by-product of his radical environmental policy." but even as our fragile coast loses a football field of protective wetlands every 38 minutes, you, bobby, remain in favor of new drilling parcels, hydrofracking and the keystone xl pipeline. just who is the environmental radical. >> tell you what, if you're board dealing with the real problems that face us in louisiana and ready to move onto the national stage, ...

The justice department accuses him of scrubbing more than 300 text messages from his iphone. some of which detailed how the top kill method of plugging the leak was not working. and the feds say he knew he was under investigation when he hit delete. a judge released him today on $100,000 bail. of course, that rig explosion killed 11 people. hurt more than a dozen others. and unleashed more than 200 million gallons of oil into the gulf of gulf. one scientists who explored that blast site after the spill said it was like a, quote, graveyard of corals. steve harrigan live in our newsroom. how imp...

Government would appreciate you please getting your stuff together. they are going to keep giving out permits for drilling rigs that only meet the old lax standards. the tougher standards for the equipment that failed in the bp disaster are coming, but drilling starts again in the meantime. so given what we found so far in our reporting on this, i am really happy the ap ran their own big long story on this today. i am hoping this will goose some more big time print coverage of drilling safety after the bp disaster. particularly with the anniversary of the bp rig explosion coming up next week.