You ready for me, mr. Chairman . Yes, mr. Roe, we have your statement. It will be included in the record in its entirety. And under the circumstances, you can deliver it in its entirety or summarize, either way. Ill just sort of summarize it. Ill here to provide a frank response to questions regarding Exxon Valdez Oil spill, and to describe our continuing to efforts to deal with its consequences. Before this, i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on beha of myself. I really cant tell you how sorry we are this disaster occurred. And we are particularly sympathetic to the impacts on the residents of alaska and particularly those in the Prince William sound area. Thats where the difficulty is really creating a great deal of problems for those people. As has been said many times this morning and by us earlier than this, we take full responsibility, and weve done so from the beginning. Well continue doi
Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg
The last time in early 2019 saw a month of widespread disruption to the Worlds Largest economy. Erin delmore reports from new york the clock is ticking on capitol hill. The democrat led senate and the republican led house will need to agree on a deal to fund the federal government past september 30th. Right now, the senate has bipartisan support on a stopgap bill that would extend funding until november 17th. But House Republicans have rejected it. Theyre fighting over Government Spending levels with hard line conservatives calling for deeper cuts and tying any Government Funding Bill to the ongoing issue of immigration and security at the us s southern border. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy has a handful of holdouts in his Republican Caucus who have said theyll oppose any short term funding bill. Several are threatening to oust mccarthy from his post if he doesnt meet their demands. Any shutdown would impact hundreds of thousands of federal workers, many of whom would be out of work wit
D. R. E. A. M. Ers. And a noshow at harvard. Im very sorry to have to announce that the cia director will not be speaking here tonight. Protess over a designated Chelsea Manning forces the school to withdraw her invitation. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york, good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with breaking news out of london. Police are responding to an incident at a subway station after reports of an explosion. Several passengers reportedly sustained facial burns. A Hazardous Response Team has been sent to the area. It happened at the par son green station in west london and the rail service has been stopped along that line. And now to the latest act of defiance by north korea. For the second time in less than a month, it fired an intermediaterange missile over japan. It passed over the japanese island of hokkaido. South korea says it traveled about 2,300 miles, landing in the pacific ocean. Hena doba is here in new york
Impact of social media on roles about fairness in court. We will discuss what this means and how it affects us. Vulnerable people in some parts of the country are being helped by charities funded by the police. Senior officers deny this is policing on the cheap and that it is a way of stopping resources being diverted away from fighting crime. We have a special report. Some breaking news, there are reports of an explosion at a London Underground station in south west london. We can show you this picture taken bya we can show you this picture taken by a commuter. The metro newspaper says people suffered facial burns after a white container exploded on the District Line at Parsons Green. Police and the London Ambulance service are currently at the scene. We will bring you up to date with the latest developments on the breaking story throughout the programme. People are posting photographs on social media, reporting a huge stampede at Parsons Green. Some photos have been circulating on so