gouging the american lance xaid rscape for whatever they could and continually insult these six parish presidents ant it s governor like they did the other day is unacceptable. we still don t have a good bp spokesman. suttles turned out to be a bad player. yeah. and disabling an emergency alarm to prevent false alarms has a lot of us still shaking our heads. thank you both very much. ahead tonight, anderson examining how the shirley sherrod story played out this week. a week that ended with a moving reunion. shirley sherrod, the former usda employee forced to resign monday visited today with roger and eleanor spoon e, the georgia couple that jumped to her defense when the story broke. they hadn t seen each other in decades. the spooners of the couple sherrod talk about in a speech that was misrepresented as racist. they credit sherrod with helping them save their family farm. shep says they changed the way they shot about race. roger spooner said there s a lesson in the ugly episod
engineering technician s testimony rocked a federal hearing here in new orleans. the technician work and bp s ruptured well and told the panel investigating the disaster that an alarm system on the transocean rig had been silenced about year before the april explosion. silenced. what s more, he said, supervisors were aware the alarm was disabled. according to transocean, he s right. s in a statement, the company said the dit abling was intention and conforms to accepted maritime practice. because according to transocean, there were hundreds of individual fire and gas alarms on the rig. each could potentially set off the general alarm. silencing that general alarm was the company s way of preventing false alarms. meantime, bonnie, downgraded to a tropical depression, still heading for the gump and expected to make landfall late tomorrow. with response vessels moved ouch harm s way, it looks like the sealed well cap a mile below the surface could be left unattended for about
of individual fire and gas alarms on the rig, and each could potentially set off the general alarm. silencing that general alarm was the company s way of preventing false alarms. meantime, bonnie, downgraded to a tropical depression, still headed for the gulf and expected to make landfall late tomorrow. with response vessels moved out of harm s way, it looks like the sealed well cap a mile below the surface could be left unattended for about 48 hours. it s a big setback for response workers, but national incident commander thad allen says pulling back was necessary to keep people and equipment safe. well, not everyone agrees with thad allen. many people in the gulf are angry that booms and barges are being moved. yesterday a parish president issued an executive order prohibiting order of any protective equipment without parish consent. he joins me with douglas brinkley. kevin, let s start with you. you actually had to threaten arrest. that s correct. reporter: before th
this comes on top of news that five more u.s. troops so been killed in afghanistan. we begin with breaking news out of eastern iowa as well. a dam in eastern iowa dam break force evacuation of nearby residents in a matter of minutes. it all just came down. the dam failed as a result of excessive rain. massive amounts of water quickly flooded homes and businesses in the town of hop kinton, just north of seddar rapids. and severe weather brings parts of chicago to a standstill. up to a half foot of rain has fallen and tens of thousands are still without power tonight. the once tropical storm bonnie is now nothing more than an area of low pressure. about a dozen ships working on the bp oil disaster are expected back on the site tomorrow. officials say the storm set them back about a week. their efforts are to permanently seal that well. and monitoring here a developing situation, it is in north korea. pyongyang is threatening if the uls and south korea go forward with joint
about talking about bringing the farmer to a white attorney because he would take care of his own kind, that makes people uncomfortable. that s the way i was trying to convey how i felt 24 years ago when finally working with this farmer it finally dawned on me that some of the things that happen to black farmers also happen to white farmers. prior to that, i didn t think that. i thought white farmers had all of the advantages and black farmers none of them. as you know, black farmers were losing a lot of land, the very department of agriculture was discriminating against them. my own father faced that. many farmers that i worked with through the years faced that. and when i worked with this when this white farmer came to me, when mr. spooner came to me,