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On their website, BP released another of their instructional videos that explains sort of what they are planning, leaving out key hows and whys and throwing in just enough oil speak so as to be distracting from the otherwise good illustration.  This one, done by BP's Kent Wells, Senior Vice President of Exploration and Production (and in a Steve Jobs style mock turtle), is a short video, narrated by him, along with a recorded in-house...

The Oil Palace in Tyler, Texas, that is. Where the suckers her adoring followers paid $40 and up to hear these pearls of wisdom: "I want this most exceptional country in the nation to be free, to be prosperous, to not be beholden to the foreign countries that soon we are going to be bowing down to if we become more reliant on them to drill for us.""Government can and must play an appropriate oversight...

A new website, developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of New Hampshire Coastal Response Research Center allows for interactive tracking of environmental threats.  The website, called GeoPlatform, has a page, the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA), that is tracking the Gulf oil spill and other threats, like Tropical Storm Alex, currently coming into the western Gulf. Looking like Google Earth, it allows you to add and remove different layers...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been watching videos of the Joint Investigation by the Coast Guard and the MMS of the Horizon disaster, where many of the surviving BP and Transocean members of the Horizon crew were interviewed during May in Kenner, Louisiana.  The information is detailed and very interesting, but have highlighted some inconsistencies with others' accounts.  Much of the conflict surrounds the condition of the BOP (blowout preventer) in the days...

I was with Rachel Maddow last night talking about the moratorium on Deepwater drilling.  Have a look:Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...

Yesterday a federal judge in New Orleans refused to stay his order lifting a 6 month drilling ban on deepwater drilling that he issued on Tuesday.  Martin C. Feldman, a Reagan appointee and long term resident of New Orleans, Feldman said the moratorium caused "irreparable harm" to the businesses in the gulf that depend on drilling activity and that the President had not given sufficient basis for the pause in drilling.  The decision was met...

Here are a few pics of the trip I took with Kerry Sanders and a veteran NBC News crew to the Deepwater Horizon site the last couple of days.  I'll be writing about this trip in coming days as I gather my thoughts.Bob with Kerry Sanders and his crew.  Several of these guys were embedded with US troops during the invasion of Iraq: The disaster site, from left to right, the Enterprise with the flare...

I was on Countdown tonight talking with Keith about my trip with Kerry Sanders and a veteran NBC News team out to the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.  Have a look:Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...

Sunday, I was invited to accompany an NBC News crew, led by Kerry Sanders, to report live from the site of the Deepwater Horizon blowout site in the Gulf of Mexico.  We departed last evening, about 5:30, from Port Fourchon, Louisiana, arriving on site about 4 am today.  Our ship, the OSV (offshore service vessel) Skye Falgout, is a 236 foot service vessel that normally carries pipe and supplies to offshore rigs, but today has...

I was on Countdown tonight, live from Venice, Louisiana, talking with Lawrence O'Donnell about Tony Hayward's Congressional appearance and the progress of the relief wells.  Have a look:Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy...