but this is just great. it is wonderful. great sequential thinking and management of the team on the topside. if you were to look at how much can this happen anymore quickly than it currently is? are they still attempting, you think, each time to do each retrieval faster than the one before? oh, i hope not. you certainly don t want to have that kind of mindset. that is called launch fever, in nasa speak, where you say let s go everything is perfect and you don t do the final check. so i hope they got it down to 30 to 40 minutes and i think that is just about right. discuss, if you works the days after, after the euphoria, after the reconnect iing what i the emotional fallout you are able to observe and people who have had an experience that all of us would live in absolute terror of. well, you know, write grew up, when there was a mine accident and the miners came out
gusher and b.p. is carefully trying to guide the skinny tube in the oil site to siphon the crude up to the surface. it would keep it from leaking in the oil, that s the hope anyway. the justice department is investigating the west virginia mine accident that killed 29 workers last month and they will determine if there was any willful criminal activity by the company that operated the mine, performance coal. the 9-year-old dutch boy who was sole survivor of plane crash in libya arrived home to the netherlands. three days ago his parents, brother and 100 others were killed in the crash. today is the preakness stakes. calvin borel rides super saver again today as they take the second step toward triple crown. post time is after 6:00 p.m. tonight. as you know, borel won the kentucky derby this year and last year and in 2007. his nickname his name is borel but his nickname is
the bad times and see the big picture. he s the host of war stories one of the great series you could ever see. what s this? i have a great book here. it s timely. this book by a man who is a legitimate walking talking american war hero, great read if anybody wants to know what veetd unanimous vietnam was really like. back to the big couch. all right. ollie, thank you very much. thanks for your service. and a great story as well. all right, time now for some headlines on this friday, mine safety advocates calling for tougher enforcement after another deadly mine accident in less than a month. two miners died at a mine in kentucky when a roof there collapsed. the mine does have a history of safety violations and massey energy, the owner of the west virginia mine where 29 workers were killed is now offering each family a $3 million settlement. how is this for irony? the united nations, the u.n.,
completely and abandoning the well from which we have these three leaks. right. exactly. but that could take quite a while and that s why all the assets of the federal government are now directed on the coast. rear admiral, thank you very much for joining us today live from our nation s capital. thank you. thank you. you wonder what s going to happen to oil prices after that announcement that we re going to stop drilling. you wonder what s going to happen to the politics of all this. now the obama administration has said they re going to stop after just announcing that they were going to have off-shore drilling. now they re announcing that they re not obviously in the wake of this huge disaster but many unanswered political questions now as well. let s get to the rest of your headlines. mine safety advocates calling for tougher enforcement after another deadly mine accident. two miners died at a mine in kentucky when the roof collapsed much the mine has a history of safety viol
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