and the way the delays change into night and when you re literally in contact with people with whom you may have conflict and can t get away from, it s a wild card as to what will happen with any one of them. jon: i want to give our viewers some idea of exactly what rescuers have been dealing with. we have a graphic put together of some of the rescue efforts that have been made to get to these miners. here it is. now, this zigzag thing is if you were looking through the earth sideways. these are the ramps, really, that tunnel down into the mine, and then these are the drill shafts that they punched in, trying to find these miners, because they weren t sure exactly where in this long tunnel they were. they finally found them, they finally put punched a drill shaft through where the red circle is and that s where they made contact with them, so they re able to, doctor, send oxygen down, send water down, that kind of thing, but still, it s hot down there, it s humid, and they ve only go
beach with lisa jackson, the ep a administrator, visiting florida, alabama, and mississippi and louisiana and she talk to the worker, scooping up tar balls, off the surface of the sand, getting a feel for the damage here, and, we asked her about the difference between the health department saying not to get into the water and the county government not completely shutting the water down, actually, asked if she d get in the water. i haven t gone over to the water but, based on the fact the beach is. i m not going to the water today. reporter: here s the rub, now there is no federal government guideline to determine how much oil is safe to be in the water where people are swimming, that is what county leaders are waiting on and they are meeting this afternoon and lisa jackson left the interview, going over to meet with the county officials here to determine what to do down the road, long term we have the question of help and short-term the economic question as these businesses struggl
to continue that relationship with the united states. the nick clegg holds the balance of power or the d,ms take office, he s much more euro-sent trick and, indeed, one of the criticisms about him has been he would, some people say, water down, tone down, put down the trans atlantic relationship. he would focus it much more towards the european union. the big issue now and i ve got to say this because eventually you re going to face it on your side of the atlantic is as you come out of recession, how are we going to pay for the bailout costs, the tax rises, and the spending cuts? and that s been the big issue in this election tonight. you are right to say it. it s coming our way. that s for sure. richard quest in london for us. still to come in the newsroom, reports of oil reaching shore in the gulf of mexico. we re updating your top stories straight ahead for you. you re the one
i made the same pledge to these families, to these miners on the floor of the congress today. i think my record speaks for itself. it does. it does. the american people know that we ve had investigations before. commission reports. then things don t get implemented. and if labor can t push this to the legal limit with 29 dead workers, when are they going to do it? this isn t just about labor. this is about whether the congress of the united states will stop the mining companies manipulate this legislation. manipulate as we consider the legislation, water down, then manipulation the implementation and manipulate the enforcement. we see a pattern and practice that is disturbing. it looks like a conscious corporate decision to run the lines at the edge of margin of safety, subsidized by the safety of the miners and in the case of the upper branch mine those miners paid for their life
i m glad you have time for us tonight. we ve been trying to get you on. i know you had other things going on. you, i think at this point, are a real important part of this story to keep it alive. can you tell us, tonight, if the senate had passed your bill would this have been averted? would these 29 people still be alive today? what do you think? well, i know that when in the reaction to the last series of mining accidents that we had with the sago mine and darby mine and others, we passed legislation. i voted against that legislation because i thought it was it had been too watered down. we gave the senate and the house a second chance with the s-miner bill, we passed it in the house and the senate refused to take it up and couldn t wouldn t take it up. i don t know whether that would have prevented this accident from taking place. that legislation directly addressed the issues that are that are involved in this disaster. we ll have to wait and see where the investigation c