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We are getting off of here werks are all dead. >> ed lavandera joins us live from new orleans. good morning, ed. >> reporter: good morning, ken. those hearings from washington have the potential of being rather intense today as the company officials from all of the major players in this oil rig disaster will be showing up. you have executives from trans ocean which owned the oil rig. you have b.p. which was in control of the drilling operations. you also have halliburton which really hasn't been talked about as much as the other two companies. halliburton was contracted by b.p. to put in the c...

A steering problem but told safety inspectors that there were no complaints in the u.s. and that the trucks were built differently. internal documents dispute that. toyota ended up recalling some of those same trucks in 2005. despite all the bad press and recalls, toyota announced it made a $2.2 billion profit. the gulf oil leak is at the center of a pair of capital hearings. executives from b.p., transocean and halliburton will testify before the senate committee and likely point fingers at each other. there is a public hearing going on in ket ter, louisiana, the coast guard is leading that...

You have transocean which owned the rig and you had halliburton which had done some work on the rig. what are we expecting? finger-pointing. in the testimony that we've seen, the early testimony coming from these chiefs of these corporations. we see that bp is going to be saying essentially that transocean is to blame here because their blowout preventer, a device called the blowout preventer failed to work. well, in the testimony coming from transocean which owns the rig, they're expected to say they don't even understand why people are pointing to this idea of the blowout preventer because t...

There is a 2% chance of tornadoes here today compared with a 1-4 chance yesterday. there will be some rotation likely. we will also see some hail makers. again, this won't be developing until later on today. what happened yesterday, a very dynamic situation. check out these pictures we have from storm spotters of the tornado. this was in north central oklahoma near medford. there you can see multiple vortices. they tend to happen because of the air incoming as well as a little bit of friction. this is a lot of reasons why sometimes we will see one house which is destroyed and one standing next...

Also here in texas 2005 had texas city. british petroleum where people died. british petroleum will be responsible for ten national wildlife threats of a cornucopia of wildlife, beautiful beaches, salt marshes, sandy barrier island, the home of black skinners, the largest tern colony in the united states. to not be stepping forward and talking about the wildlife cost, what's going to happen to the economy in louisiana now and do be doing the kind of statement you just read tells me that british petroleum is going to be in deeper trouble in days to come because they're not facing the consequenc...