they can prepare the documents as they arise, give those to the grand jury over time, let them make that decision. but from what we ve seen it at least calls for the grand jury at this point to at least start looking for the information as it develops. and from what i ve seen so far i think it s already there p again, what we saw in the bp care, all of the same things bp did in this case, they did many times over in the texas city explosion, and even though we and the victims asked over and over to see some kind of criminal indictment against individuals in executive positions that were the ones that made these decisions that resulted in all these lost lives we lost 15 people in that refinery, just like we lost 11 rig workers. and again, there just was no pressure on these individuals. if you don t have pressure on these individuals, they re not going to change their ways. that they can always buy their way out by just doing a fine. that s what they ll do. it s like drunk drivers. if
bp is concerned. gregg: rig workers died on the deep water horizon platform. and what safety procedures are in place to protect employees on board these kinds of rigs? adam housely brings us a first hand look on board a platform, off of the louisiana coastline. reporter: a rig, 303 here, 40 miles or so off the coast of louisiana. they do prospecting and that there are 45 men on the rig and as you go through the rig there are safety aspect, security reminders everywhere including shut off involves, wherever you go up and down a set of stairs and if something happened and if there was an accident people could hit the valves and shut down operations on the rig and they come over here to life boat number 2, 28 people can fit inside, there is water, food, life vests and has its own motor and sprinkler system inside in case there is a fire and you can bet people are talking about safety and security though it only happens in extreme situations. we have drills, constantly out here, we h
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for you, we re learning more about the oil rig explosion in the gulf of mexico. many workers say that methane gas is to blame for the deadly blowout and officials are now taking new measures to try to contain the leaking oil. chris gutierrez joins us live from venice, louisiana. and what do they think? have they gotten to the root of the cause. no, they haven t and one thing we should point out. coming from an ap report and they looked at several the documents relating to the investigation and bp says this is not the official root cause of what happened nearly three weeks ago. but it s something that rig workers told investigators they think happened. make sure we clarify it s definitely something that bp is looking into. work continues 5,000 feet below the surface and remember the huge massive containment dome, a four-story 100 ton structure built out a concrete and steel. 5,000 feet bee lot surface and this is b p s hope of a
so much for the burns. reynolds, keeping an eye on this and other weather around the country. snow, too. yes. snow, folks. all right. we ll check back with you. great explanation, guys. while workers try to put that dome on the leak, we re trying to figure out what happened, what caused that blast, that rig to blow up. the associated press is reporting a bubble of methane gas shot up the drill column. the gas expanded so fast that it blew through seals and barriers and just exploded. this is coming from interviews with surviving rig workers taken during bp s internal investigation. they re not commenting on the support. at least publicly just focusing on containing the spill. we are proceeding with a lot of caution to ensure that we don t make what s clearly a very bad situation worse. and how could that be made worse that you do some damage to the pipes? somehow do some damage to the pipes. this needs to be done with a