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In the markets. after a long wait and a lot of setbacks. bp officials say that tomorrow crews will finish the permanent plug on b.p. s busted oil well in the gulf of mexico. this comes five months after the deadly rig explosion that killed 11 men and set off the worst offshore oil spill in american history. the government s point man on the spill government thad allen says the relief well has intersected the blown out well and bp says workers started pumping in the final shot of cement. kris gutierrez live tonight in new orleans. we heard during studio b today that that work had begun. yeah, shepard. some would say this procedure is nothing more than really just a formality. it s an important one, and here is why. admiral thad allen won t consider this well dead until it is sealed both the top and the bottom. remember they successfully plugged the well from the top in july. no new oil has leaked in the ....
All written down. chuck? well, kerry, let s just hope that he does somehow decide he s gotten some sort of message from somebody. kerry sanders in gainesville, florida, thanks very much. bp completed an internal investigation into the rig explosion that took 11 lives. flooded the gulf with oil. an enin their report, they re only taking a part of the blame. nbc s chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson is on duty back in venice, louisiana. no longer new orleans again behind you. reporter: right. anne, i m reminded when we saw this report, you re sitting there going, wait a minute. this is what these guys said when they testified in congress about three weeks after the explosion. reporter: yeah. there really wasn t a whole lot of news in this report, chuck. you have to look at this report as sort of a preview of the legal defense that we expect bp to put on. and that defense is going to say, yeah, we were responsible for some of this but we weren t ....
Florida. meanwhile, light rain across minnesota and wisconsin. cool in the midwest and great 62 in minneapolis. 71 in chicago. 75 in kansas city. 80s in the northeast. and 93 in atlanta. seattle hit 77. and salt lake city 86. shifting gears to other news now, no oil has seeped into the gulf of mexico following another rig explosion there. the blast took place about 200 miles west of the bp oil well. all 13 crew members were safely rescued after they jumped into the gulf. they did manage to shut down production on the rig though before evacuating. it s still unclear what sparked this explosion. early reports about a mile-long oil sheen nearby, though, have been knocked down. the fbi is revealing details of what it s calling the largest human trafficking case in u.s. history. six suspects are accused the luring 400 laborers from thailand. they apparently force them to work at sites from coast to coast. if convicted, the accused face sentences up to 70 years. ....
If you ride drunk, you will get caught. and you will get arrested. okay. we want to give you another quick update on the developing story, the breaking news from about an hour ago. we re talking about a rig explosion. still caught between whether ....
You can see that. we do not know if anyone is hurt. if they got away. the plane has just gone down. that s all i know. when we get the new information on this, context and perspective and facts we will bring it to you but i want to show you what happened although the signal is not too great from kgo. wait, one more thing no, no update. more breaking news and pictures of the rig explosion that happened in the gulf. brand new. happened today. and now to the newsroom. i have not seen video yet. reporter: we have still pictures in if we can look at them. they clearly show there was an explosion on that production platform. there was a fire. and as we reported earlier, the coast guard told us about 30 minutes ago that the fire in their words was contained but still burning. you can see that clearly. ....