Live Breaking News & Updates on Petroleum Oil Rig Site

Newsroom. let s just talk a little about what we actually know at this time. reporter: all right, let s concentrate on the elements that the coast guard is putting together right now. they are responding basically with everything they have. i just got off the phone with them, they say they re working on putting out a statement because they want to make sure they get some things right here. there are reports that some 13 or 14 people were on that rig, so they want to make sure they have all their duck necessary a row when they tell us exactly what they re dealing with here. seven helicopters, two airplanes, four boats, enroute to the site, and when i just got off the phone i was not given any indication that that has changed. it s 80 miles south of vermillion bay along the central louisiana coast. this is an off shore oil rig that has exploded in the gulf of mexico. we re told it is west of the british petroleum oil rig site where the deep water horizon was located. so we don t know h ....

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