dying. the government couldn t contain the disaster or control the message. it is hard to look at these heartbreaking new pictures coming in from the gulf coast. we lost the narrative with cnn. it was it was an oil piligan every single day. we knew that was coming. we just hadn t prepared everyone for it. for months bp engineers tried every day, trying and failing to stop the oil. underwater operations involving huge caps and huge risks, delicately put in motion. there was a real risk that it would cause an explosion within the reservoir and leave this uncontrolled spill. they are watching with just just holding their breath. finally, on the 87th day of the spill, the oil stopped and the cap held. a successful seal, bp said it has permanently plugged the well in the gulf.
the deepwater horizon, a premier vessel, drilling deep into the ocean floor. shelly anderson s husband, jason, helped supervise the drilling. it is the best. he loved it. it was in his blood and he didn t want to do anything else. that is where the oil companies put their best and brightest. keith jones son, gordon, was a murder engineer on the horizon. the deeper it goes, the more talented and able they want the crews to be. more talented to handle the rigorous and ambitious work. for more than two months, they had been drilling the macondo well, the reservoir of millions of barrels of oil and natural gas three miles below the ocean floor. the well belonged to bp, transocean owned the rig that was drilling the well and
new developments in the is for two girls who disappeared after leaving their grandmother s home. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett and out front tonight, it s time, mitt. time to put them on the table. we all know what it is. your taxes. here are the romney tax returns. this is 2010 and it s very thick as you can see. here is 2010, this is estimated as you can see, my pink stickies are yellowed from the sun because we ve had them out labeled ready to go for a long time. waiting for the other years. aside from killing trees, there really isn t a need to hold back on releasing more. and i m going to explain why in a moment. but first today mitt romney made the case for non-disclosure again on fox. john mccain ran for president and released two years of tax returns. john kerry ran for president, his wife who has hundreds of millions of dollars, she never released her tax returns. somehow this wasn t an issue. it is an issue for mitt romney. it is not his wife s money. an
navy drills as the country tries to put on a show of power and confidence. more on this developing story and what it would mean for the united states if iran succeeded in this threat. up later. well, the deepwater horizon explosion killed 11 people and caused one of the worst environmental disasters in american history, but was it a crime? the wall street journal now reporting that the justice department is preparing to file criminal charges that could land bp employees behind bars. fox business network s elizabeth macdonald is lye with the very latest. hey, liz. reporter: hey, megyn. you re right, this is possibly the first set of criminal charges that may be leveled against engineers in houston and also a supervisor according to this report. basically, alleging that these workers at bp did not adequately oversee the risks involved in drilling at the macondo well in april when it exploded in 2010.
well and also the riskiness of the continuing to drill into the well and here s the issue. bp is not responding and it is declining to comment. we reached out to bp for comment on this report that possible criminal charges could be filed against a number of supervisors and engineers at the company as early as next year, jon. bp though did say in regulatory filings that there are other companies to blame here. it is pointing the fingers at halliburton for example. halliburton was responsible for cementing the macondo well. it is also citing inadequate communication between bp, halliburton and transocean. transocean and halliburton were the contractors on the macondo well, jon. this possible criminal charges coming early next year would come in advance of lawsuits that are going to go to trial in february by the state of new york and ohio pension fund there. and also the state of louisiana is moving against bp in court. so criminal charges could come against these