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We've been reporting a lot of bp's safety record, leak in the trans-alaska pipeline it co-manages. as drew griffin reported last night, continuing allegations of safety problems on that pipeline. given that record, you would expect that regulators would be giving bp extra scrutiny when it comes to risky projects. it turns out that bp, with the government's okay, is about to finish a rig that critics say combines the risk of offshore drilling with the looser oversight of drilling on dry land. drew griffin is keeping them honest. >> three miles out to sea off the north slope of alaska. take a lo...

Louisiana. bob dudley will be the new ceo. what happens now that he is transitioning into the top job? >> yeah, dudley took over from hayward after a series of gaffs in may and june. dudley is well respected here, he's from mississippi, he lives in houston, he's been around the gulf coast, people know him here and they seem to trust him, at least more than they did hayward at the time. as you mentioned, dudley is replacing hayward, hayward was asked about how he felt about the oil spill, given that when he took office in 2007 as the ceo, he promised to focus like a laser beam on safety problem...

Tea with his wife in the afternoons, and watch cricket and to travel to visit his children and grandchildren, and that is a nice way for retirement. wolf? >> i hope he enjoys his retirement. he deserves it. he's worked hard for many, many years. thanks very much, lisa, for that. safety problems aboard the deepwater horizon oil rig revealed. cnn obtained some portions of a confidential study of conditions before the rig disaster. also, was the u.s. duped by an iranian scientist who may have been working as a double agent? i'll talk about that and a lot more with the former cia insider. the ou...

Wicked weather picks up steam in the caribbean. a storm which could become a tropical depression in the next 48 hours is still hundreds of miles from the spill site but because it takes so long to clear out ships and equipment, they had to put a hold on efforts. meanwhile on capitol hill, the political rangliwrangling continues with lawmakers holding a hearing on how to restructure the agency that controls deep water drilling. a controversial survey shows workers aboard the deepwater horizon worried about safety problems before the explosion and they complained about old equipment on that ...

Hearing. >> so today the fda will decide over this course of two-day hearing avandia's fate. you published a study back in 2007 that started a lot of this, people who took avandia said, according to your research, you say they face 43% higher risk of heart attacks yet the fda kept it on the market. what could change today? >> well, there is a problem. the fda has a structural problem. the people that approve drugs in the first place are the ones that have the authority to take them off the market. and they just have a terrible time looking back and saying, gee, we made a mistake, this drug we ...