containment center? yes, that is what they would do. of course, i m not there and watching their control panels. but that would be the procedure they would use. walnu once it built up inside the dome, they ve got to let it out somewhere. the realty is is that the levels that they have let out now even though it sounds like a lot, 1,000 times is one report, i m not sure if that s accurate, but even if it was 1,000 times background, it still wouldn t reach health-related levels. however, they ve got do something. they really haven t got another choice. professor, we want to avoid oversimplistic comparisons. but you were involved in the investigation at chernobyl. the ones that stick, nuclear incident that s stick in our mind are chernobyl and three mile island. does this have the potential to reach those kind of disasters? i would say this will not reach the level of chernobyl. chernobyl, there was a lot of radioactivity. 100 times hiroshima and nagasaki
special agents with homeland security are cleaning house. or maybe i should say the skies. smugglers are using commercial flights to transport drugs along with other forms of contraband into the u.s. agents work round-the-clock conducting intense cargo inspections and are screening airline employees who are often accomplices. deborah feyerick pull back the layers to see how the cartels use the system to smuggle in their drugs. reporter: it s in crew seats, food carts, control panels, toilets. drug traffickers using commercial planes to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars of narcotics into the united states from places like south america and the caribbean. this is all the flight controls, flight computers. we ve discovered narcotics underneath the floor in here. reporter: these special agents are with homeland
battery in one of those control panels that should have a battery, that should have operated the dead man trigger. tamron? all right, anne thompson live for news louisiana. thank you, anne. and singer hip-hop star kanye west goes on a tweeting frenzy, apologizing to taylor swift for his unruly outburst last year at the mtv video music awards. let s get the scoop from todayshow.com pop culture columnist. is this the first time he s apologizing to her? this is relevant because the mtv video awards are right around the corner. the first time he s come out and said, taylor, i am sorry. that was his tweet, it starts with this and a separate tweet came saying i m sorry, taylor. and it was an interesting flurry, stream of consciousness, if you will, because he said, you know, really, maybe i should have said something to justin timberlake. i thought about that because i thought sexy back was so good and then he goes back to not apologize but to thank the
looking at. what is that? they are sort of like large doughnuts that grip the drill bit or the drill pipe when you re drilling it s the way we control, it s called the angular preventers. we use them when we do normal drilling processes so they can replace them when they wear out. they may have been worn out a little bit during some of the critical tests. they want to look at that. they will also be looking at all the hydraulic lines, accumulators that forced the rams closed and a lot of the mechanical parts of that nature and then they will be looking at the control panels in great detail, there s two control panels up in the lower marine riser package, the upper part of the blowout preventer. the science is one thing trying to figure out what happened but the other part of this story is this thing is now in the possession of the department of justice, the fbi