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Investigated three similar deadly accidents. and one of the things they'll be looking at closely here is the maintenance of these boats. the coast guard is actually the administrative body that signs off on these boats. and they tell us that annually these boats are inspected. they couldn't say for sure whether this boat had been inspected recently or not. now the ntsb comes in, they'll be investigating that process and determining whether maintenance was a factor in this accident. >> all right. stephanie goss, thank you for the update. economic headlines, in the nation's job situation conti...

Difficult because you have, you know, economic woes. you also have the concern about, you know, the wars in afghanistan and iraq. but here's where i think the democrats have an opportunity. the republicans have not offered any alternative vision. the reality is, democrats have gone out there and had to deal with incredibly tough problems that they inherited and made incredibly tough decisions and now i think it is up to the voters to decide. but this is where the steele issue does, i think, pose a real problem for them because it makes it impossible for them or difficult for them to really mak...

A massage therapist's claims that former vice president are al gore made unwanted schedule advances toward her four years ago. 54-year-old molly haggerty claims gore groped her during a massage session at an upscale portland hotel in october, 2006 but police did not file charges because they say there was not enough evidence to move forward. police will not say why they reopened the case now a spokesman for the former vice president tells nbc news that gore unequivocally and emphatically denies that accusation. a federal grand jury in alabama has indicted joran van der sloot on charges he tr...

Not to mention all the shallow water drilling. these rigs are not going to sit out in the gulf of mexico for six months it costs them $500,000 a day. so they are going to leave. they are going to go to brazil. they are going to go to indonesia. we not only lose the energy, we lose hundreds of thousands of jobs. in 2005 we had a bp explosion here in texas city at a refinery. we closed that refinery down but we didn't close all the refineries in the united states. so investigate bp but don't make a blanket moratorium on all the other individuals, independents and the other oil companies that are...

And in my "playbook" there wasn't of blame to go around during today's hearings on the oil spill in gulf of mexico. ron wyden of oregon hammered bp for failing to address a history of safety problems. >> we understand that the specific cause for the deep water horizon disaster isn't known, but this sure fits, in my view, a pattern, a pattern of serious safety and environmental problems at bp. >> what i'm telling you is i have not been aware of or seized deficiencies in the gulf of mexico systems. >> and i'm still not clear what changes have been made after tony hayward said there are going to ...