bly. remember after the cementing operation we sealed the seal assembly. as soon as you create the negative tests and you reduce that pressure of the hydrostatic mud on the seal assembly essentially what you are doing is removing that pressure and you are going to created differential across that seal assembly. think about the 13,000 psi and you have roughly 343600 psi. sitting on top. that is the mud weight pushing down on that 13,000 psi. that results in 9500 psi acting upon the seal assembly. when you now evacuate that mud and you put seawater inside the riser, you then take off that margin and now you have a resulting pressure that is acting up that is almost 11,000 psi. that 11,000 psi is then acting on that entire seal assembly from the 22-inch all the way into the nine and 78, roughly 237 inches square for an area. if you run those calculations you are roughly looking at close to 2.5 million pounds of force that is now acting up on that seal assembly. the casing inside the 14.5-poun

bly, if b.p. had the information in the february test reports or the april test reports and had reviewed them carefully would they have allowed halliburton -- >> absolutely not. when we looked at our report, our investigation, we saw lots of evidence of the engineering team working together, working on aspect turnovers cement job, mostly -- the prudges of course is that the cement is going to be stable and is not going to have fundamental problems. these indications would say there were fundamental problems with the cement. that would change everything. that would be the precursor to the 13 points on your slide. >> do you believe the engineers were aware of the issues with nitrogen foam crement? >> no, as we look through information, they were focused on aspects over the work, the e.c.d. and things. no indication that they had been given notice or had any concerns about the stability of the foam cement. >> so we also looked through the emails here. what we see here is an email from jesse gagliano.

bly. >> no, not at this time. >> and mr. gisclair? >> no. >> and mr. bly? >> i agree. so all the parties agree that -- maybe i should correct the question. given all the indicators here, even then it was not standard cement practice to run a blog at the time. having changed the question, do you change your answer? i will take a two-minute break. is that ok? >> all right. >> all right, two-minute break. >> this weekend more than 90 soon to be members of the house began arriving in washington, d.c. tomorrow the member-elect will get instructions ethics and details on the offices. and they will go over house rules and get new lay-out of the chamber system and expected to get their official blackberry's. and on wednesday new members and their spouses will attend a welcome session. and finally on friday, they will receive a suite assignments. no roll call votes are expected until wednesday. with the first vote of the week on national gas and electric vehicles. and other possible votes include wage discrimination and food safety. you can watch live coverage on c-span-2 at 2

bly. we felt like there was going to be a channel present in the cementing operation which would allow communication for the fluids to continue to flow. >> let me interrupt to set the stage. bp concluded that there were no leaks from the reservoir either before or during the cement operation. you agree with that? >> there was no leaks. >> the hydrocarbons did not enter the well during the cement operation. >> i disagree with that. i believe they entered the well while we were doing the displacing. the well is very much in balance. we know that gas have coalesced inside the well bore. as we did the >> cement job and displaced it, it was pushing that gas up -- as we did the cement job. >> do i understand how burton's view that when the cement operation began there were hydrocarbon's here? the cement turned a corner and pushed the hydrocarbons up? >> it is my view as we begin the operation that gas and oil was present. we continue to push that up. you draw that pressure from the base all the

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bly mentioned earlier, said the foam cement was in fact unstable. halliburton, mr. vargo, do you have an opinion whether that foam-cement was likely to have been stable? >> results provided just prior to the execution of the job indicates the stability. i know there was testing done prior to that to the contrary, but as far as the results that i've reviewed prior to the operation, and i believe you showed them up there before, the 1.8 and 1.8sg on top and bottom indicates and i would say an engineer looking at that assumes that is a stable system and go ahead and execute the job. >> have you rerued all -- have you reviewed all the testing data? >> i have, sir. >> is it the same that the foam-cement would be stable in >> you put up the information back in february on the initial testing, and one thing to point out is that we are designing and testing that cement right up until the operation typically. the initial tests that are run and as you all indicated and i think i've indicated too or two goals are placement in their own stages and we do pilot testing to ascerta

bly. i take it you agree with the second to last bullet? >> yes, sir, we covered this in some detail in our report. attempts to go back and piece together every step that happened. our conclusion. there was a number of discussions between b.p. and transocean personnel. appears they were trying to do the test correctly. at the end of the day, they misinterpreted the results. >> if, under transocean's policies, even if, i am assuming this. it was b.p. that would supposed to do the primarily interpretation. if your guys, you're people to the rig had seen this. they would have said something. >> absolutely. >> do you have any reason to believe, mr. bly. that the to personnel along with your people believe the negative pressure test was a success? >> i believe they both thought the test was a success. yes. >> this is one of these areas, commissioners, where it would be useful, i supposed to sit people in a row i told you yesterday that i would try it to point out areas where having subpoena power and the ability to actually cross-examination peo

commentator and author of how to survive the crisis and prosper in the process in bucharest we have bly he is a professor at brown university and in washington we crossed a role in a more he is an executive director of oppenheimer and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger mark i have to go to you first i mean first of all there's a lot of conflicting numbers out there what the u.s. debt level is it's thirteen point seven billion or is one economist at boston university says it's almost two hundred i'm sorry thirteen point seven trillion up to two hundred trillion a year in europe right now and the eurozone is in very bad shape we have everyone's talking about ireland this time before it was greece spain is on the radar of portugal's on the radar there's an enormous amount of debt out there and everyone's trying to drive it down is that possible and will we ever be able to pay off these debts these enormous debts. one of the things you have to consider here is that while it makes sense for any one country or even individual or household or form to try and clean the ball and

for this afternoon mostly sunny and cool with temperatures still unseason bly cool inland breezy forhe bay and coast winds up to 20 miles an hour for the afternoon and highs in the upper 50s to the mid-60s. here's what's going on now. cold front came through the bay area not a lot of activity in the bay area currently. and we can see some snow showers in parts of the sierra for the morning. our forecast for today, some sunshine for the afternoon. temperatures again still unseasonably cool. lower 60s from concord to fairfield to napa to vallejo. 60 degrees today in san francisco. 59 in pacifica. and 63 in san jose. today we are cooler than average but just take a look at the next couple of days. we do warm up steadily but surely. thursday and friday temperatures moving up a bit and then saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday, the 70s. they're back, yeah. nice mild weekend expected as we warm up. veterans day it is tomorrow, and just in case you're wonder, you have an outdoor event, you are in luck! sunshine, seasonal temperatures, 62 to 67 degrees. that's a look at your weather. back up

in responding to the panel's questions mark bly, b.p.'s chief of safety, disputed that claim. >> the reason i've taken an exception to it is it's making a judgment about a very small change in risk that i think is not, you know, wasn't a causal factor in this. >> reporter: the investigators said they could not yet reach any conclusions about one critical component of the well, the blow-out preventer or b.o.p., which serves as the last line of defense against a well going out of control. for their part, representatives of transocean, the device's owner insisted the enormous set of valves and pipes had functioned properly. >> we do believe the b.o.p.worked within its design limits from the evidence we've seen so far. >> reporter: the commission holds a second day of hearings tomorrow and is expected to deliver its final report in january. >> woodruff: and for more, we turn now to joel achenbach of the "washington post," who was at today's hearing. good to have you with us again. >> great to be here, judy. >> woodruff: remind us again, joel,

they say trains should be noticeable bly better in the coming months. >>> 7:37. we want to check in once again with sal. first there were problems with 580, now problems with 880. >> there's a multi vehicle blocking the two left lanes, 880 northbound at high street. it's additional to the 23rd accident where we had the nine-car pileup, so the traffic is at a stand still on 880. it's backing up into hayward so, again, we haven't had days like this and we come in on a monday, we have the livermore commute implode and now we have 880 where we have an accident that's going to be there until 8:15. are you kidding me? this is a really bad commute. 580 is your alternate but 580 is getting crowded. it appears the traffic gods are trying to keep you from going to work on this monday. as a result the bay bridge is lighter because people aren't getting through. there is a little bit of a backup. if you look over to the left, the 880 ramps are not having a lot of cars come through. i wonder why that is? and traffic is going to be light. this might be your opportunity to get

first of all to help a balance package where the bills facing families are not going up excess bly, but second, i want to make sure thing government didn't reach for was counsel tax which would have been initially a temptation, so that why i think the freeze is a good public policy. >> actually then it's a check is a way to describe it because it's trying to make sure that, if i'm right on cutting taxes, i'm going not going to just -- >> you know, for all of us, i had to focus on the hard decisions, and as i said, parliament had to focus on this and i think in local counsels, they need to look to their own budget. i think a lot of very good local governments out there have been preparing for this, there's a lot of work, and enormous amount of thought into this and less well prepared counsels. there's shared services and shared chief executives for example, and there's many, many innovations taking place in local government under counsels of all different political persuasions, and the best need to look at what the rest are doing. >> thank you very much. >> chancellor, when you were -- [

so, when i have a problem in the united states house of representatives, i will be calling bly l thetry my very best, seeing local missourians, and wherever i was, they all said the same thing. where are the private sector jobs? why is the government spending so much money? why would an energy plan double our utility bills? why do they want to raise everybody's taxes? what about the stimulus plan that clearly has not where to? what about getting back to common sense government? there was a guy about three months ago talking about the stimulus package. he did not have a ph.d. in economics, but apparently he had a ph.d. in common sense. this is a plan that would double our utility bill in missouri in a decade, 80% in the first decade and even more after that. he said, if my utility bill doubles, that is a bad thing. he said, if my mother's utility bill doubles, that is the worst thing. but the utility bill the work -- and my job goes away, the other two bills do not matter anyway, because i cannot pay my utility bill and my mother cannot pay hers. that is the kind of common sense misso