[applause] ♪ ♪ oh, go bop ♪ go bop, bop, go bop, bop, go , go bop ♪ ♪ go jingle bop ♪ go bop >> the slotntlemen! >> thank you. >> is everybody ready? is everybody ready? to announce the amateur third place category in 2009. tom sweeney. third place, amateur category. tom? >> third place winner goes to kblx. let's hear it for kblx. right. congratulations. congratulations. thanks, tom. >> go away. now second place, ladies and gentlemen. from triple-a. matt newcomer. all right, matt, who is our second place winner in the amateur category? >> our second place winner is the team from abc 7. >> abc 7 come and get it! couple of words? >> thank you so much. if you watch abc 7 at 3:00 p.m. um see this trophy on tv. >> ok, excellent. all right. and to announce the first place winner, mr. wes tyler of union square. wes? big mystery. who's the winner. >> by the process of elimination, it's koit! >> koit. mr. scotty bastopol for the third year in a row. love this city. thank you. >> runners up. the 47th not -- annual cable car bell ringing competition, no particular order, mr. trini whitaker. sulliva

that will that would cause us to question why bop wasn't activated earlier. we don't have any knowledge maybe it didn't work. we're missing that piece. so we're working off in effect, we're working off the data to make sure it couldn't recur and we want to not just look at that but broaden it to all of r operations. we don't want to solve this problem and have another one pop up. with our experience in the north sea where we developed safety cases where you review all of your operations this came out of the piper alpha incident in the north sea, we find that's an excellent tool and we're applying that standard in a number of things around the world to make sure we're comfortable. so i think that needs to happen. obviously, this shouldn't be okay, we've done it. somebody needs to look over what needs to happen. i think there needs to be big changes. as my testimony indicated, i'm very concerned if we shut down for six months or more, there won't be much of a u.s. industry left. now and certainly as it evolves into the future to be able to reserve that. i would

that will that would cause us to question why bop wasn't activated earlier. we don't have any knowledge maybe it didn't work. we're missing that piece. so we're working off in effect, we're working off the data to make sure it couldn't recur and we want to not just look at that but broaden it to all of our operations. we don't want to solve this problem and have another one pop . with our experience in the north sea wheree developed safety cases where you review all of your operations this came out of the piper alpha incident in the north sea, we find that's an excellent tool and we're applying that standard in a number of things around the world to make sure we're comfortable. so i think that needs to happen. obviously, this shouldn't b okay, we've done it. somebody needs to look over what needs to happen. i think there needs to be big changes. as my testimony indicated, i'm very concerned if we shut down for six months or ore, there won't be much of a u.s. industry left. now and certainly as it evolves into the future to be able to reserve that. i would lik

people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jack's tavern. that's another world that i was intrigued by and the fact that there were neisei jazz musicians. also the no no boys, which i'm not sure if you are aware of, but one of the story lines in the play is about the character called chet monkawa and he was what was known as a no no boy. at some point everyone in the internment camp was asked to do this questionnaire and there were two questions, question 27 and 28, which basically said you were foreswear allegiance to japan and the emperor and will swear allegiance to america and that you will serve in the armed forces. and for young neisei men in their late teens and 20's, if you signed that, by and large the sense was you could be drafted. and what came about was a certain amount of controversy over those two questions because a lot of things were floating around. one of the arguments, and that's my character, we're locked up. we're in prison and then i'm asked to sort of go out and sort of, like, def

in particular, bop stacks. the suspension, the moratorium is directed at sub-surface blowout preventers which are much more complex control systems than surface bop's and are much less accessible for intervention. the second category is bop's on floating devices. in that case, the risks are that there are high pressure risings and casings that stretch from the sea floor to the rape and can be exposed -- this can lead to uncontrolled flow below the surface. those are the two categories, technology to which the moratorium applies. it is roughly common ground with the original moratorium. we thought it was important to be precise and specific and talk about the technology's or rather than distance spread in terms of duration, the new suspensions will apply through november 30, 2010. but, the secretary has said he will remain open to the possibility of adjusting that suspension period based on additional information that is developed between them and a man. the secretary will continue to solicit and review informat

your five-day-forecast temperatures continue to cool off for wednesday, then minor bop p on thursday and into friday. another forecast update just minutes away. >> 6:50 is the time. volkswagen of america is moving out of approximately 0 alto but the electronics lab is not moving far, up to belmont. it needs nor space to build prototypes for new vehicles including all electric cars. >>> checking on wall street the numbers are headed lower their morning partly because of earnings reports coming in that disappointed analysts. goldman sachs revenues were bound, ibm also in this morning. johnson and johnson posted higher soaked quarter net income but that was despite some recalls that effected things. right now taking a live look at the big board on the new york stock exchange the dow jones down 116 points. the nasdaq and s&p 500 also down. the nasdaq down 1.5%. >>> amazon.com reports sales of its kendall e reader has boomed since the price was cut. company executives say when it cut the price tag from $259 to $189 kendall sales, reached a tipping point. amazon has never released any sale

>> at about the same time of the inadvertent stick movement, and there was an issue with the bop control panel purge system. how that system works is the dog house is purged, so it is positive pressure and the panel inside the dog shaq is also purged, so that you have two purged systems working simultaneously. another tool pusher had held the back door open to the doghouse for an extended period of time in the drilling shaft lost purge. -- and the drilling shaft lost purge. during this extended time frame of him having that door open, someone had opened both of the glass access doors to the b of the control panel, and it lost purge. i got a call from the ad on tower which was also one of the deceased, dawn clark. i was told that i was needed to the record immediately, that the panel was dead. buy it -- before i got up there, marquette already arrived -- mark had already arrived. i informed him that i had worked on that system on the last rig moved and that i had discovered what the issue was with it. i told him i could get it started an automatic so it would work properly. -- in automati

>> at about the same time of the inadvertent stick movement, and there was an issue with the bop control panel purge system. how that system works is the dog house is purged, so it is positive pressure and the panel inside the dog shaq is also purged, so that you have two purged systems working simultaneously. another tool pusher had held the back door open to the doghouse for an extended period of time in the drilling shaft lost purge. -- and the drilling shaft lost purge. during this extended time frame of him having that door open, someone had opened both of the glass access doors to the b of the control panel, and it lost purge. i got a call from the ad on tower which was also one of the deceased, dawn clark. i was told that i was needed to the record immediately, that the panel was dead. buy it -- before i got up there, marquette already arrived -- mark had already arrived. i informed him that i had worked on that system on the last rig moved and that i had discovered what the issue was with it. i told him i could get it started an automatic so it would work properly. -- in automati

improve these inspection practices and what specific improvements do you anticipate making to make the bop test effective and what are your thoughts about having these types of tests certified by independent third party inspectors selected by federal regulators and not the oil companies? >> congresswoman chu, it is a very good question and something which we have been working on that relates to two parts, the reforms within the ocs and the first of those is having the right standards in place and many of those standards were set forth in the 30-day report which president obama directed they deliver to him. many of those standards are being implemented with respect to the notice that director bromwich spoke about a little bit earlier and then finally with respect to the enforcement of those standards there needs to be a significantly beefed up effort with respect to the agency's inspection capabilities because right now it is a fool's errand to think that 60 inspectors can essentially come out and inspect all of the different ocs facilities including production facilities that are out there

>> at about the same time of the inadvertent stick movement, and there was an issue with the bop control panel purge system. how that system works is the dog house is purged, so it is positive pressure and the panel inside the dog shaq is also purged, so that you have two purged systems working simultaneously. another tool pusher had held the back door open to the doghouse for an extended period of time in the drilling shaft lost purge. -- and the drilling shaft lost purge. during this extended time frame of him having that door open, someone had opened both of the glass access doors to the b of the control panel, and it lost purge. i got a call from the ad on tower which was also one of the deceased, dawn clark. i was told that i was needed to the record immediately, that the panel was dead. buy it -- before i got up there, marquette already arrived -- mark had already arrived. i informed him that i had worked on that system on the last rig moved and that i had discovered what the issue was with it. i told him i could get it started an automatic so it would work properly. -- in automati

improve these inspection practices and what specific improvements do you anticipate making to make the bop test effective and what are your thoughts about having these types of tests certified by independent third party inspectors selected by federal regulators and not the oil companies? >> congresswoman chu, it is a very good question and something which we have been working on that relates to two parts, the reforms within the ocs and the first of those is having the right standards in place and many of those standards were set forth in the 30-day report which president obama directed they deliver to him. many of those standards are being implemented with respect to the notice that director bromwich spoke about a little bit earlier and then finally with respect to the enforcement of those standards there needs to be a significantly beefed up effort with respect to the agency's inspection capabilities because right now it is a fool's errand to think that 60 inspectors can essentially come out and inspect all of the different ocs facilities including production facilities that are out there

improve these inspection practices and what specific improvements do you anticipate making to make the bop test effective and what are your thoughts about having these types of tests certified by independent third party inspectors selected by federal regulators and not the oil companies? >> congresswoman chu, it is a very good question and something which we have been working on that relates to two parts, the reforms within the ocs and the first of those is having the right standards in place and many of those standards were set forth in the 30-day report which president obama directedhey deliver to him. many of those standards are being implemented with respect to the notice that director bromwich spoke about a little bit earlier and then finally with respect to the enforcement of those standards there needs to be a significantly beefed up effort with respect to the agency's inspection capabilities because right now it is a fool's errand to think that inspectors can essentially come out and inspect all of the different ocs facilities including production facilities that are out there. >>