savannah. miguel almaguer in anchorage, alaska, this morning for us. thank you. and president obama called senator stevens widow and reached out to the family of sean o keeffe already. it is something alaska is definitely mourning the loss of the man they call uncle ted. in colorado the president s hand-picked candidate michael bennet managed to buck the anti-establishment trend setting up a showdown with a tea party candidate. kelly o connell is live with the latest. reporter: we spent time with the victor here, but he did appreciate the president s help, but he doesn t believe it was a factor one way or the other. we certainly noticed when they were making their phone calls they were using the same script. the obama for america volunteer team had used it trying to elect the president. they scratched out barack obama s name and writing in senator michael bennet.
he remembers being in the plane, flying along, everything was normal. and then all of a sudden they just stopped flying. his next memory then is after the crash. he talked to a second survivor who said he d fallen asleep in his seat right next to the pilot and then he woke up after everything had happened. he remembers hearing planes in the sky. another passenger was trying to find a radio, which he ended up not being able to find. so they re going to have to use those accounts, you know, as sparse as they are to try to figure out what exactly did happen. and so far, the evidence seems to indicate that the engine was functioning normally on impact. and if that is the case, and that s not definite by any means right now, that would lead them to look more than at the weather potentially or some pilot error that caused this terrible crash, alex. all right, michelle kosinski in anchorage, thanks so much. still ahead, caught on tape. the tale of another tornado
certainly in the federal courts in louisiana, and possibly even in the state and federal government. so, yeah, it s it s a real concern that moratorium needs to be in place. there s a lot of bad rigs out there in the deep water. the industry says that themselves. marine conservationist, rick steiner in anchorage. as always, thank you, rick. thanks, keith. the gulf could be worse. we could be assigning clean-up contracts to blackwater. before you laugh, the bomb administration has handed out its second military contract to blackwater, now renamed z. and its founder says the company is the real victim here, the victim of a kind of project totaling exam brought on by some in congress. for $149.99 at sears optical, with progressive lenses for just $25 more per pair. hurry in to sears optical today and don t miss a thing.
path forward, and joe barton has given them that. but more broadly for democrats, this is a terrible scenario for them. and it s not just about bp. the general economy is really what s driving this. but bp surely doesn t help. richard wolf, msnbc, thundershower author of renegade. thanks. let s turn now to rick steiner, who joins us again from anchorage. rick, good evening. hi, keith. how are you? more discouraged than usual on this. this new, untested drilling method, frequent gas kicks, puts extra pressure on pipes, extra pressure on well casings. does that sound like a kind of drilling that s already happening all over the world? well, yeah. the extended reach drilling has gone on in various places throughout the world. there s no question about that. but just because there hasn t been a catastrophic blowout from one of these ultra extended