stone but they got it wrong. the new memorial to dr. martin luther king jr. needs to be fixed but how? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. dramatic new pictures of the dangerous search and rescue effort off the italian coast where a cruise ship the size of a skyscraper lies on its side half submerged. the costa concordia struck rocks on friday night with 4200 people on board. six are known dead. 16 remain unaccounted for including two americans. look at these extraordinary images showing the massive gash ripped into the ship s hull. italian prosecutors say the captain made a grave error and could face serious charges. cnn s dan rivers is on the scene. reporter: wolf, this picture says it all about how precarious, difficult and dangerous this search and rescue operation is proving to be. it s been called off for several hours after the costa concordia started shifting, all of the rescue and fire officers were wenched off in a scramble as they felt the su
exxon valdez spill every five days. thad allen said moments ago he believes it s more towards the 30 to 35,000, but it could be up to 60,000. the problem is these are all flow estimates. just looking at that live camera that continues to spew and gush oil into the gulf they are trying to extrapolate exactly how much is flowing out there. it is imprecise and it s not something that they are going to be able to nail down, however the relief wells are supposed to stop it by the first two weeks of august. we ll see if that happens. jon: let s hope something does. prayer prayer bret baier thanks we ll get back to you when the testimony resumes. jane: tony hayward should be there in the next couple of minutes or so. we were told it would be 12:05 eastern, which is about two minutes ago. as these things go these things are delayed. we invite you to go to our website. there is a bunch of interesting
we get to the bottom of this incident and understand exactly what happened. such that we can assure it never happens again. easy to say. mr. chairman, just a request, please. if mr. hayward could move the microphone a bit closer, i m having difficulty hearing. i think we all are. i just said something earlier. pull it a little closer if you could, please. mr. sullivan for questions, please. i should note, mr. upton is here from michigan, a member of the committee and so is mr. engle. if they want to ask questions they can at the appropriate time. mr. sullivan. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. hayward, according to the occupational safety and health administration, there is mounting evidence that bp is one of the worst, has one of the worst safety records of any major oil company operating in the united states. is there a deficient safety culture at bp that led to the deepwater horizon and other disasters like the
so he is absolutely responding to everything that he needs to respond to to make sure that the workers, the families, and everybody who s economically impacted by this is going to be made whole. in addition to that, bp is going to be putting up $20 billion in a fund to make sure that they are responsible and held accountable, which by the way, again, is something that the republicans are against. they are against making bp accountable. i can t say that enough. that is why this kind of display of this issue is not going to help. jon: that may be an overstatement. there was one congressman who said something that feeling that the government shouldn t be compelling bp to set up that $20 billion fund, which he felt was ex-to,ist. anyway, i want to well f. he goes down and talk to the people who have been impacted by this, clearly he hasn t talked to them and the president has. jon: we ve got to go, maria, robert, thank you both. jane: the hearing on the hill is about to resume, when
that need to be folded, and really, the federal government has a role to play in this. where were the federal regulators when they were supposed to be monitoring these rigs and monitoring the blowout predictor and monitoring the cement job and they just didn t do their job. jane: the chairman comiftie, bart stu hack stupak, said that tony hayward was going to be sliced and diced before members today. what is going to be gained in all the hours spent in this hearing today? wouldn t tony hayward s time arguablior were spent on working on how to cap that leak rather than sitting in congressional hearings all day? but people do need to hear, because it was bp executives that were in charge. they were the ones who could have called a halt to what was happening on the well that evening that it blew up. this was not an act of god. this was not something that happened in 20 seconds time. there were problems going on for months ahead of schedule, ahead of this thing s blowing, and it was