until after and to have all of this churning it feels like the wheels are coming off the bus. week after week. there are no calm seas at the white house. juan? tom donilon is close to rahm emanuel and he is part of the washington domestic political scene. a skilled domestic policy paper. can move paper and get the bureaucracy to work. he was heading an international council can the deputy advisors. never met foreign leaders, never been over to afghanistan. bret: he has since been to afghanistan we are told. it is true, there is no getting away from it. the question becomes exactly how does he handle things sitting on the edge for the united states and specifically afghanistan. we are supposed to pull out next year. we are going to have some kind of review. how does he work with bob gates. i think he was trying to be nice about it but i think the honest assessment was in the
until after and to have all of this churning it feels like the wheels are coming off the bus. week after week. there are no calm seas at the white house. juan? tom donilon is close to rahm emanuel and he is part of the washington domestic political scene. a skilled domestic policy paper. can move paper and get the bureaucracy to work. he was heading an international council can the deputy advisors. never met foreign leaders, never been over to afghanistan. bret: he has since been to afghanistan we are told. it is true, there is no getting away from it. the question becomes exactly how does he handle things sitting on the edge for the united states and specifically afghanistan. we are supposed to pull out next year. we are going to have some kind of review. how does he work with bob gates. i think he was trying to be nice about it but i think the
dime. this weekend it literally couldn t be better. the seas are very, very calm. the skimming operations are going on and that s what s allowing them to do these procedures. so the elements are in place. it seems picture perfect. what s the timeline here? well, you say picture perfect, but just be aware, we ve seen a lot of bumps and snags along the way. if all things remain equal, this replacement progress began yesterday, and bp has said it could take as little as four days. so by wednesday, possibly, and again, as jackie said, if the weather stays the way it has been, calm seas, less wind, we could see it in place as early as wednesday. so by wednesday, the new containment cap in place, bolted down, it s secure, and of course people want to celebrate because potentially this means the oil wouldn t be gushing out because right now thousands of barrels of oil will be gushing out as they put the new containment cap in place. but that s not necessarily the case. this is not a per
mind. so we were just blessed that we did get a call. in all, 17 were injured. three listed as critical. the search for the missing 11 is the primary mission right now. and the coast guard says there is still the probability someone could be found. search conditions are excellent. calm seas. calm wind. visibility about eight miles. under conditions like this, a life raft would be easy to spot but they don t know if any of those missing were able to get to one of those rafts. the water is 67 degrees. i asked the coast guard about hypothermia but they wouldn t speculate about that only to say there is the probe at that someone could be still out there alive, kiran. any details on what caused the explosion? no actual details on how this all started but this is looking like what the industry calls a blowout. that s when oil and gas under pressure erupts from
well, tony, what the coast guard tells me right now is that they have superb conditions for the search going on today. they ve got clear skies. they ve got calm seas. they ve got calm winds and they should be able to see through at least eight miles out there from the water itself. so they have great visibility. if these workers managed to go to a lifeboat, they would be easy to spot and they re looking for individuals in the water. 36 hours since the accident and they have still yet to find any sign of life out there. what are the chances for a large oil spill here? wow! cnn s david mattingly. thank you. still to come in the newsroom, what should you do with your old computer? we have earth tips for you next in the newsroom. i can respect.