make it to a lifeboat. have any of the people who came back safely are are reunited with their families, do any of them know whether they may have made it to the lifeboat? >> i've been canning the coast guard if they've been able to account for all the lifeboats and everything on that rig. they say they don't have that answer yet. when they're out there searching, they're searching not only for life rafts, but they're searching for individuals that might be in the water. and they keep saying that probability still exists, and they're going to keep that search going as long as that probability is out there. >> what about the blowout. that's what they're calling is the cause of this. what is that? >> that's when you have oil and gas under pressure underground that erupts upward. this doesn't happen very often, especially at this magnitude of these operation. these operations have equipment that are supposed to prevent explosions above the ground in this event. apparently, if this is the case, this did not happen this time. so federal authorities will be looking into this. and they can't do that until the fire's out and the leak is