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Weekend. And, Steve Hartman is on the road. Hes just another friend. Glor . With a promposal that left everyone in tears. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor this is our west coast edition. And were going to begin tonight with something thats not supposed to happen at any school, never mind a middle school a student taking guns into a classroom and opening fire. This incident today was north of indianapolis. Two were hurt, a student and a teacher. Tonight, the teacher is being called a hero for stopping the shooter and potentially preventing a larger tragedy. Adriana diaz is in n...

Into flames, an inferno that killed 11 men. that's when the disaster occurred. were there signs of a disaster in the making? tie ron benton was checking for anything unusual. weeks before the blast, he says he found it. he talked to special investigations unit correspondent drew griffin. >> tyrone benton. >> we flew down to the pod and saw there was an angular fit tig that had a leak on it, what was connected to the angular fitting wasn't able to see but there was an angular fitting that did have a leak. >> it was a fluid leak on one of the two pods.

>> day after day, says benton, the fluid leak continued. day after day, bp and transocean were notified. you're the first person that's come forward that i know of that said we had this problem. there was a leak. instead of properly fixing the leak, officials from bp and transocean decided to bypass that leak. it's hard to determine, as you said, whether or not that leak had anything to do with this. but certainly the prudent thing, the most safe thing to do would have been to pull up that blow-out preventer, fix it and put it back down. is that not correct? >> yeah, you could look at it that ...

The explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous week, that the b.o.p., blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. >> and it was taken care of? >> it wasn't taken care of. in order to take care of it, you have to pull the whole b.o.p., which will shut down production. like i said, from my understanding, they just shut down one pod and worked off the other. >> tyrone, 11 people dead. >> yes. >> for the better part of a day, the leak was studied, observed, measured. the most prudent course to fix it, says benton, was ruled out. >> and so instead? >> they wen...

Horizon, several weeks before the explosion, tyrone benton knew he was looking at a potentially dangerous week, that the b.o.p., blow-out preventer, was at possible risk for failure. >> and it was taken care of? >> it wasn't taken care of. in order to take care of it, you have to pull the whole b.o.p., which will shut down production. like i said, from my understanding, they just shut down one pod and worked off the other. >> tyrone, 11 people dead. >> yes. >> for the better part of a day, the leak was studied, observed, measured. the most prudent course to fix it, says benton, was ruled out. ...