to prepare for the unprecedented journey, we are told the miners have been taking aspirin to fight off blood clots. and are on a special diet to prevent nausea during the ascent. the climbers are equipped with video monitors if anything goes wrong. rescuers say several of the men expressed an interest to be the last up the shaft. so they could be listed in the world record book for the long of the type a miner has been trapped underground. and now, live from the mine in chile. steve? reporter: trace, preparations here are feverish for tuesday at midnight for first of the 33 miners underground and they could come to the surface. the latest triumph has been steel casing laid on the top 300 feet of that escape hatch, and it is used to reinforce the scratch so no rocks or dirt will
breaking news. as we told you at the top of the hour, the decision made by thad allen, operations were suspended to permanently cap the well tonight. allen has ordered most of the ships and the rigs at the site to actually move. chad myers will join us in a moment for the latest on the storm. we should tell you we are expecting an update from the national hurricane center on the storm in a few moments. by now, you would think that bp would get that transparency can only help their credibility. bp now has admitted it has posted altered photos on their website. it s a bizarre story. both pictures show engineers at work. this is the original, showed what the room actually looked like before the photo was fudged. bp initially posted this one. as you can see in that photo, all the video monitors are filled with images, unlike the original where three were blank. staff photographer made them look like they were displaying underwater shots to, quote,
want to update you on the breaking news. as we told you at the top of the hour, the decision made by thad allen, operations were suspended to permanently cap the well tonight. allen has ordered most of the ships and the rigs at the site to actually move. chad myers will join us in a moment for the latest on the storm. we should tell you we are expecting an update from the national hurricane center on the storm in a few moments. by now, you would think that bp would get that transparency can only help their credibility. bp now has admitted it has posted altered photos on their website. it s a bizarre story. both pictures show engineers at work. this is the original, showed what the room actually looked like before the photo was fudged. bp initially posted this one. as you can see in that photo, all the video monitors are filled with images, unlike the original where three were blank. staff photographer made them look like they were displaying underwater shots to, quote,
both pictures show engineers at work at the control center. this is the original, showed what the room actually looked like before the photo was fudged. bp initially posted this one. as you can see in that photo, all the video monitors are filled with images, unlike the original where three were blank. staff photographer made them look like they were displaying underwater shots to, quote, enhance the quality of the photo. they say they had no intention to mislead anybody. and the altered photo was taken off bp s website as soon as it was discovered. it is not the only time this has happened. here is another example. taken from inside a helicopter. this one has been altered. it s not clear what bp or the photographer thought the gain was in either case. the altered pictures have been removed. transparency seems to take a hit and bp s credibility does, perhaps, as well. senate foreign relations committee has asked bp s tony hayward to testify next week at a hearing in washington. scotl
meeting to discuss these matters. they hadn t shut down the video monitors in the situation room for anything since the bin laden raid. but they did it for this. because they consider it to be so sensitive and so secret. the sensitivity of the source of america s intelligence on this subject, the prospect that that source might conceivably be a human being who is in personal contact with putin, i think that drives home for us as americans just the incredible sensitivity and human dangerousness of some of what our intelligence agencies know. right. sort of makes you get viscerally why it is so important that that kind of information should never fall into the hands of anyone who, say, is beholden to russia for some reason. so, that is one of the things that the washington post unveiled today. such a sensitive thing. it is almost impossible to believe that we get to read about it in the paper. i should tell you though, the sources for the report, according to them, are quote,