thing. it seems to me they should have had a backup system. it all comes down to greed. they are looking to save money. and we re beyond that point right now. what i would like to see bp do is come in and put our locals back to work, the people they put out of business, people them back to work. use our hotel and restaurants, let our communities continue to strive. you know, right now we re just a shut down community. nobody got no money left. everybody put all of the money into getting ready for shrimp season and we won t be able to harvest our crop because of the greed of bp. it certainly will have a devastating impact both environmentally and financially. dean blancheard and dr. louann white. we appreciate talking to you. from the ocean to dry land and the failout from the new immigration law in arizona.
point of the rules in the industry? caller: certainly after sagano we did a lot of sole searching in terms of safety and rescue and being able to sustain miners, that may be trapped in an underground mine, and, this is something that we will really scrutinize in terms of going forward, is it enough? the communications, obviously, blew apart once the explosion occurred. and, so that is an area, i think, because if we had communications with the four trapped miners we obviously would be in a lot better position. bill: you mentioned the mine from four years ago and we found in the end the supplies were not down there. and the oxygen masks were not taken in by the miners and they didn t have a backup system. are you saying we are four years later and we have corrected that. caller: we have come a long way and we didn t have rescue chambers before and our great hope is certainly, those miners are in those rescue chambers but there are a lot of issues brought forward, and, what kind
backup systems would be well separated from the main supplies so that something happens to the main supply it doesn t take out the backup system as well. so that needs to be answered. there. are certainly a lot of questions. people want some answers about what s next. right now they don t know. but we appreciate you giving us some insight. and your thoughts about how this is all playing out. thank you for your time. i d like to also take a moment. orlando, if you could pan over here, i want to give you a live look inside the airport so you can get a sense of exactly what s happening now. you can see there are some people sitting on the wheelchair there s. that s where people, some people have chosen to sleep for the night. look at the ticket counter back there. the ticket counter, there are a few officials, i think one person there speaking to customers there is a queue, a listening line of customers waiting. and that line is sure to grow. but, again, people are waiting. they re gett
have if the backup system goes out when the original system goes out? that s not a backup at all. there is questions about training. they are looking at georgia power saying it was their problem to begin with. martin, listen, we feel the pain of all the passengers who are stranded for hours, some on the plane, some on the tarmac. what s the airport and airlines doing for them today? reporter: you know, you have to remember what a power outage does in a major airport. it s not just you re sitting in the dark. all the people that are in wheelchairs are immobilized because the elevators and escalators didn t work. restaurants closed down. access to food and water was only given out by the airlines themselves or organized by firefighters. then on top of that, what happens to the unaccompanied children? if you re a parent waiting for your child at the other end and suddenly they re lost in atlanta overnight, on and on.
ad myre admiral mike rogers answering questions about cyber threats as questions arise about previous testimony from the fbi director. cnn has learned that james comey might have overstated some details about hillary clinton s infamous e-mails. and i want to talk about this now with cnn political director david chalian and cnn justice correspondent evan perez. evan, let s start with you. this seems like a big mistake that he made testifying before congress. it s definitely a mistake, and i think the fbi s now trying to figure out how to clean this up, perhaps they ll send a letter to congress. what comey should have said is that huma abedin had set up a forwarding system, a backup system, whereby her work e-mails were being sent to anthony weiner s laptop. that s her husband s laptop. in some cases, perhaps she did forward some e-mails for him to print out. the way comey said it during the congressional hearing last week, however, he said that she forwarded routinely hundreds of thou