roll along. what have you seen so far? i mean typically has this thing gone pretty much according to plan from the point of view of the members of the committee? yeah, they ve all had their opening statements. now we are getting into the meat of it with all the questioning. first you ll see henry waxman the overall committee chairman and he ll start the questioning and it will continue in a series of order that you saw the opening statements. you know, this could get kind of technical as they refer back to these emails and documents, thousands of them pointing to what bp executives knew about the risk that was associated with this kind of drilling, and whether they cut corners. there was a guardian pickup article back in september of 2007 that quoted tony hayward and the title of the article was hayward oil company too
committee, i m tony hayward, chief executive of bp. the explosion of fire aboard the deepwater horizon and the results oil spill in the gulf of mexico excuse me, mr. hayward, could we ask you to pull that up? some of the members are having trouble hearing. probably over the clicking of the cameras. if you could pull it closer. thanks. the explosion and fire aboard the deepwater horizon and the resulting oil spill in the gulf of mexico never should have happened. and i m deeply sorry that it did. when i learned that 11 men had lost their lives, i was personally devastated. three weeks ago, i attended a memorial service for those men, and it was a shattering moment. i want to offer my sincere condolences to their friends and families. i can only begin to imagine their sorrow. i understand how serious this situation is. it is a tragedy. i want to speak directly to
the members of the committee have to go to the floor of the house of representatives and cast votes on an item that is up for consideration. you heard there the opening statement from one of the men most reviled in america right now, tony hayward, the ceo of bp, the company formerly known as british petroleum, started in that company, as jane told you, as an engineer pretty much straight out of college and rose all the way to the top to become a $6 million a year ceo. bret baier, host of special report is watching this with us from washington. bret, i hate to give too much attention to the protestors because that s of course what they re looking for but do we have any word on who that woman was, who was taken out of the hearing, or what the specific issue was? it sounded like she was protesting bp and the oil spill. definitely, and i think there were some marks on her like she was trying to cover herself in oil. but listen, you rightly pointed out there may be
this law now doesn t take effect immediately. we will have time to revisit it. there is probably some things that we will find out next month, next year that we need to work on. and our committee of energy and commerce committee in the house helped draft a barbecuing bash great deal of the legislation so these oversight hearings will continue. whether they be with these four companies or any one else. neil: you don t look at this as a threatening letter? not at all. just you made this decision, tell the members of congress who have some authority to change that law if there is going to be such damage. neil: congressman, thank you for taking the time to talk with us. we appreciate that. thank you, neil. neil: the movie about a kid painting a dragon is all the rage. so where is the rage against all the ads in theaters thatdrr preceded that movie? in the south. i ll never forget. it used one tank of petrol and i had to refill it twice with oil. a new car today has 95% lower em
answered by engineering at these major auto companies. i think we can do it, i think we should do it, and i m going to be very interested to see whether ray la hood is prepared to execute on that in a timely fashion, but that s what will make already safer cars that much safer for americans. jon: congressman darrell issa is a ranking member of the energy and commerce committee in the house. they will be having their own toyota hearing tomorrow. congressman, thank you. jon, government oversight, but i appreciate the plug for congress. jane: back to sacramento where a man is under seige in his own home, his house has been broken into three times in the past year, twice in the past month. you re looking at surveillance video capturing the burglars in the act. one time they broke a window with a rock, another time the guy takes off with the security camera. all this is happening within blocks of a police station. the victim here doesn t want his identity released. he says he feels the po