exxon. exxonmobil leaves everybody else in the dust. all of those company, when they go to sleep at night, they dream about becoming exxonmobil when they grow up. big numbers are hard to get your head around but to see how rich exxonmobil is, consider this. wal-mart, google, mcdonald s, american express and goldman sachs, you have to put them all together to equal one exxonmobil. yeah, combined. exxonmobil is doing fine. who is not fine is those who live above exxon s pegasus pipeline. residents are still evacuated from their homes. one of the incredible things we learned is that many of the residents who live over the pipeline did not know the pipeline was there until it burst. supposed to be a 20-inch
neighborhoods. we were the first to show this yesterday morning. arkansas s attorney general opened an investigation into the case. the department of transportation issued an order presenting the company from restarting the pegasus pipeline until they are satisfied with repairs. nearly two dozen families have been evacuated as they work to remove the oil from their properties. many never realized there was a pipeline near their homes. if we wanted to, we couldn t go back. if we wanted to stay in our home, we could nlt. i was there ten minutes max grabbing items. my head began to hurt from the fumes. i wouldn t dare take my children into that. exxon will pay for the clean up. the age of the pipeline does not determine the integrity. the company is up to code when it comes to checking it. exxon was fined three years ago for not inspecting another section of the pipeline
the keystone pipeline which will be running through oklahoma and nebraska. are you connected and if you are, why? certainly we are connecting the two because this is a great example of what could happen if the keystone xl pipeline is built. what happens happening in mayflower is not a simple crude oil spill. what s flowing through there is oil from canada. this is viscous, nasty stuff that s dangerous. the same that the keystone supplie to bring from canada. the dangers are analogous. we think it s work togethering about the risks, especially work talking about the risks, especially because the pipeline is located in their back yard. we need to let them know this is not okay. in fairness, the pegasus pipeline that runs through amber s neighborhood is 850-mooild mil850 850-miles long. some say old pipelines are
reducing gun violence. it comes as a paperwork error allowed a violent convict to be released from prison in january. that was four years earlier than originally intended. that man s name is evan ebel. he s suspected of killing the state s corrections chief and a pizza delivery driver last month when ebel should have still been behind bars. state officials say ebel was supposed to serve another four years after completing an eight-year sentence. but that information never made it into the court records and the suspected gunman was let go. ebel was killed in a shootout with police in texas two days after investigators believe that he shot and killed prison official tom clements in colora colorado. clean up efforts under way where barrels of oil spilled. pegasus pipeline as it s called ruptured on monday near mayflower. these are some of the first
somewhere upstream, if you will, there was still a lot of oil flowing down the street. reporter:. the pegasus pipeline can carry more than 90,000 barrels of heavy crude oil per day from illinois to texas. exxon did not put a hard estimate on the number of barrels of oils that spilled except to say it was a few thousand. the cause of the pipeline rupture is still under investigation. we are working as rapidly as possible to get this klein ecle and get people s lives back to normal. we will allow people in when the state agrees that it is safe and appropriate for people to come back and occupy their homes again. there are 160,000 miles of pipeline crisscrossing the united states. the arkansas oil spill comes as president obama is weighing whether to approve a new keystone xl pipeline, 1700 miles of pipeline carrying 700,000 barrels of crude a day stretching through the country s heartland. the keystone pipeline carries a