commander hatfield in a recent link-up with earth. the question for you from the bbc. reporter: and asked him what he saw. the region, isle of white. northern regions. they just have a perspective that maybe didn t exist for them in the regular two-dimensional way that we see things. this is ground control to major tom reporter: david bowie said this is probably the most poignant version of space odyssey ever created and definitely recorded in the right place. danny savage, bb news. the voice was really good. the video was really cool. he is a renaissance man. yeah. kind of like john. can you sing like david bowie? let s hear it. ground control to major tom very good. just need your guitar. i will strum a fake guitar. you need that really good that s a good moment. right after the commercial. who needs a guitar. i just go
want to point out these lines. they are saying in some spots tornadoes were on the ground nearly continuously for 25 and 30 miles. you see pockets of homes where there would be half a dozen homes destroyed or damaged and other areas where 20 and 30 homes, hundreds of homes, all across the state. take a look at this incredible time lapse photography from a tower cam. don, this is amazing. this is a period of time during the evening when this rain-wrapped tornado just kind of progressed its way across downtown raleigh and moved across this balcony area that it looks like. we had reports coming out of north carolina that some of these tornadoes were ef-3s. if they were at top of that scale, the winds would have been around 165 miles per hour. then we want to take you to virginia, gloucester county. this is along the southeastern coastal regions, also dinwitty, isle of white. here you see school buses topped
always seeking ways to forge ahead, but, clearly, bill as you said, there have been so many gaffes, it has been in the eyes of most people around the world, a complete public relations disaster, and there are some who believe that it has been unfair that tony hayward has been the fall guy for everyone when other people are involved but at the end of the day, if you are a ceo, the buck needs to stop somewhere, and, clearly, he has had to take responsibility for all of that. but he has also been lambasted for what is perceived as stonewalling on congressional hearings, being on his yacht on the isle of white, while this is going on and bob dudley, widely expected to be the successor, kept a much lower profile and he has been charge of the cleanup operations since june but, he so far has not put his foot in his mouth or made any of these gaffes, that have sin been so des truck tiff to tony hayward. bill: amy kellogg records there
oil disaster with the head of the company back out on the water, but nowhere near the gulf of mexico. today tony hayward hobnobbed with the super wealthy at a yachting event in england. hard to see, but there he is in the middle. his quarter-million-dollar yacht went around the isle of white. people down south are furious. he offered a brief statement saying, the company chief is spending time with his family this weekend off the isle of white in england. hayward attended a yachting event today. those words and the sight of hayward out gallivanting did not sit well with rahm emanuel. they immediately recalled another hayward gaffe, wanting his life back. to quote tony hayward, he s got his life back. as he would say. i think we can all conclude that tony hayward is not going to have a second career in pr consulting. this has just been a long line
a time of economic austerity. when we thought that the unfavorable view here in the u.s. of bp s boss couldn t get worse, he makes this terrible gaffe. what was he doing on the yacht yesterday? well, that s the $64 million question, really, didn t it, chris? a lot of people have been wondering what he was doing, allowing himself to be photographed sailing around britain s pristine waters, so many thousands of miles away from one of the world s worst oil slick disasters we ve seen in living history. hayward spotted sailing his $270,000 yacht around the isle of white, this is a public race. it s one which attracts a lot of affluent people. just to put it into context, on the other side the atlantic, i suppose it would be fair to say it s like taking part in martha s vineyards around the island race. if you re trying to lay low in