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But i must admit that the -- one of the problems they'll face is not just a bone-headed mistake on putting out an incorrect alert, but their systems didn't work. there were no in hotel what do you do? there was no all clear for over 40 minutes inside of our hotel complex which is thousands of people. so you wonder if the police, the fire department, the hospitals, do they have the sop's in place to do something coherent that makes sense. my guess is no. it is a good wake-up call. we ought to think through to what extent civil defense can help and by the way, i underscore if you are in the dire...

Individuals hitting the activation switch, which actually occurred, to things like when the blowout preventer loses communication with the rig it is supposed to close in and i don't know why the systems didn't work and i want to know why but that is not my focus, it is to minimize the impact and this thing stopped and cleaned up and keep people informed. bill: there is a congressman in louisiana, dave vitter and he was quoted a few moments ago, saying bp is spread too thin. are you at this point. >> we have tremendous resources deployed and we're over 4,000 people, and -- >> that is enough. >>...

Command sergeant major michael hall thank you for your time. it is an honor to have you here. >> it is good to be here. >> let me ask you about the friendly fire incident richard was just talking about. i'm not a military expert. it seems there are a bunch of different simple things to try to prevent friendly fire incidents, reflective patches and tape, gps beacons, that sort of thing. how is it these afghan troops weren't identified as friendlies. >> we sent a team to find out what happened. the systems didn't work, obviously, because we killed some friendly troops. we'll relook at the system...