ducks right now. reporter: steven paul is a st. louis private inspector. last year the current owners of the ride the ducks hired him to inspect the vessels. in his report, he said he warned them that design flaws made the boats more susceptible to sinking and harder to escape in an emergency. one issue is that the canopy on the ducks as well as the curtains that come down the sides, when the curtains are down, there s no way for the people to escape. it becomes a people catcher. reporter: the owner of the duck boetd company insists safety is their number one priority. investigators are hoping video will shed more light. we have some fairly sophisticated means to dry them out, retrieve the data that s on there before we have a chance to see what s on the video. clues in the search for answers as loved ones seek to understand what went wrong. not knowing what they went through in those last few minutes, it is horrific. recovery efforts are set to
according to officials on the ground, eight vehicles were trapped under that bridge, but back to the investigation because when people hear this bridge was erected, just on saturday, and we re not talking about an issue of ageing infrastructure, the only question people have now, is how in the world could this happen, and that s what the ntsb will figure out. the investigators want to figure out the structural integrity of this bridge, how was it constructed, were there any design flaws, perhaps, that may have crickontributed to this. these are all things they want to know, and it looks like you know, the officials are here, and starting to walk up to the microphones. jake, let s listen in. listening in to the officials.
this is what senator dick durbin had to say about that. take a listen. you know, i hear this phrase, death spiral, it s in a death spiral because the republicans have their hands around its throat. so is that in a death spiral they have their hands around its throat. who s right on this one? it s kind of like saying that democrats were at fault for the way the bush administration prosecuted the iraq war. it was drafted by democrats. it was passed by demi yats and the design flaws in the bill were the problems of exactly what democrats drafted. so i think they have to own up for their responsibility in that. but i don t think the house bill can honestly say that. i think there s big problems
lending, unquote, during the housing crisis. an investor group that you headed folder by reformed indy mac, a failed institution, responsible for many low and no-doc mortgage loans into a viable constitutiinstitution ca west, which you ve described here, which offered loan modifications above and beyond what other institutions were doing to more than 100,000 borrowers, at least that s the way it looks to me. meanwhile, during all of the foreclosure turmoil, obama administration officials set up a national loan modification program called hamp. many members of congress from both sides of the aisle and others have repeatedly fallen far short of its goals and it had significant design flaws. in testimony before congress, the special inspector general
of doing their job. and what i m learning from the scene, is that the design of this particular device, especially the device left at the center, with the yellow car in front of it, there were some major design flaws. i ve spent a career, 20 years where i examine exhibits, reports, photographs and the physical evidence to render opinions about devices. and all we have here is a photograph. so to go on. but what i m being told and from the photograph, there s some major design flaws with this device and most likely this device never would have worked. but that s as far as i want to go with that for some obvious reasons. for intelligence reasons. the second photograph, and these photographs, by the way, are being captured by the robot from