>> on the horizon? don vidrine, and i have worked with murray sepulvado a week bit >> how long has don been on the red? >> i would say least six months or longer. >> gassiyev prior experience that you would become to be it -- does he have prior experience that you would be comfortable on the rig with him? >> i think don came over on the rig to relieve somebody one hitch, and that is the only time i ever worked with him before he came to the horizon the second time. >> a you have no knowledge of his experience level? >> no, other than just working with him since he has been on the horizon. before that, none. >> thank you. >> mr. skidmore, please read your right han>> raise your rigt hand. >> do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> yes, i do. >> thank you, sir. please be seated. >> mr. skidmore, for the record, could you please state your full name and spell your last name? >> ross randy skidmore. >> but w

s perspective on the "deepwater horizon" disaster.he company scheduled an interview with its c.e.o., tony hayward. and then, they cancelled, saying no one at b.p. could sit down with "60 minutes" for this report. in other interviews, hayward has said this about transocean, the owner of the "deepwater horizon." >> tony hayward: the responsibility for safety on the drilling rig is with transocean. it is their rig, their equipment, their people, their systems, their safety processes. >> pelley: when b.p.'s chief executive officer, tony hayward, says, "this is transocean's accident," what do you say? >> bea: i get sick. this kind of division in the industry is a killer. the industry is comprised of many organizations, and they all share the responsibility for successful operations. and to start placing-- we'll call it these "barriers"-- and pointing fingers at each other is totally destructive. >> pelley: who's responsible? >> bea: b.p. >> pelley: in early may, we went out to the gulf and found mats of thick floating oil. all told, about

>> on the horizon? don vidrine, and i have worked with murray sepulvado a week bit >> how long has don been on the red? >> i would say least six months or longer. >> gassiyev prior experience that you would become to be it -- does he have prior experience that you would be comfortable on the rig with him? >> i think don came over on the rig to relieve somebody one hitch, and that is the only time i ever worked with him before he came to the horizon the second time. >> a you have no knowledge of his experience level? >> no, other than just working with him since he has been on the horizon. before that, none. >> thank you. >> mr. skidmore, please read your right han>> raise your rigt hand. >> do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> yes, i do. >> thank you, sir. please be seated. >> mr. skidmore, for the record, could you please state your full name and spell your last name? >> ross randy skidmore. >> but w

>> no, sir. >> did you ever visit the deepwater horizon? >> yes, sir. >> and what was the nature of your visit? >> i would go to see the crew, see well site leaders. ory're generally was no plan a major agenda, just to go out and see how everyone is doing, how in the operation running, and do a safe to walk around to see the overall condition of the -- to a safe to walk around to see the overall condition of the note -- into a safety -- do a safety walkaround. >> one was the last time? >> february. we do what was the last time? >> february. -- what was the last time? >> february. >> do you recall if any of the safety things were related to -- >> we did go through it with the transocean people on board about any progress being made on the maintenance issues and any issues in any way we could help. >> were you satisfied with their explanations concerning progress on these eight items? >> yes, sir, i was. >> thank you, sir. i have no further questions at this point. >> you indicated that all personnel, b.p., third parties, transocean, they wer

i wasn't involved with the deepwater horizon at all. i've only become involved two days after the incident happened, i was asked to come and help with our response. i think we did try to -- when we were sent this letter, we did meet with the.m.s. and we explained to them all the changes we had alrea made before we receivedthis letter, in response to those two incidents and i think we -- i thought we successfully demonstrated that we were trying to be quite proactive to learning from events and making changes. >> okay. and in that meeting with the m.m.s., you gave a presentation and i believe we asked you to address personal competency, hazard analysis an contingency plan, is that correct? >> the -- in the meeting, what we did is we read the letter an we ld out a series of what we thought the issues were in the letter and went through and talked about what we had top for each of those. >> i want you to refer to the letter again. specifically, there was a sentence where we would like you to address the personal competency, it's the last s

horizon? >> we trust transocean to run an effective operation. we use their safety management system. they are the owners, they maintain, and we choose to operate under their safety management system because they are the experts. they have the marine group and the minutes groups. the minutes groups. to answer your question, we had faith that transocean was attempting to maintain a safe ship. >> in the military, you know, we often say that faith is not a very good business decision here. that is my point of view. >> the investigation into the oil rig explosion included testimony about the alarm system on the rate. this portion is $1.50 prada -- 1.5 hours. >> please, racial right hand. -- raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? >> i am representing mr. williams. >> thank you. >> for the record, could you please state your full name and state your last? w-i-l-l-i-a-m-s. >> thank yo sir. >> by whom are you employed? >> transocean. >> and what posit

it has nothing to do with the deep water horizon. it just dominates your time when you are at the agency. congress paid a lot of attention to it, including moving toward the royalty program. you lose your attention on issues that are more important. that is part of the history of what we experienced in the 1990 costs. i will not use all my time. i yield to my colleagues. i think it is quite obvious the agency, at the federal government need to adopt better safety requirements and develop a stronger cold church. that is so difficult to do, but i believe the industry has its own responsibility for developing a safety culture. i worry about the question of technology. what can government agencies know? it is a very difficult issue. let me note that if you do nothing else, you should make a recommendation that the 30 day requirement be changed pending legislation. that does not work. it was one of those compromises made in the amendments. i would be happy to answer any questions when the time comes. >> thank you. >> good afternoon distin

horizon? >> we trust transocean to run an effective operation.we use their safety management system. they are the owners, they maintain, and we choose to operate under their safety management system because they are the experts. they have the marine group and the minutes groups. the minutes groups. to answer your question, we had faith that transocean was attempting to maintain a safe ship. >> in the military, you know, we often say that faith is not a very good business decision here. that is my point of view. >> the investigation by the coast guard and euro of energy management into the causes of the deep water horizon will rake explosion included testimony about the alarm system. this portion is an hour and a half. >> mr. williams, please rise. >> rise. >> please raise your right hand, sir. a false statement given to a governmental agency is punishable by fine or imprisonment under the title. knowing this, do you solemnly swear that the tesitomy you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >>

. >> did you put it paid in the deepwater horizon bop your pension? >> yes, i did. >> while you selected? >> i was in the united states on business the previous week. >> did you head of the intervention aside for the bop stack operations? >> from bp's side, yes bu >> do you recall making a log book? >> yes, i do. >> is it the log book that you actually took? >> yes, this is my logbook. >> just to give me an understanding of how you are communicating with people, who were you working with within transition to address the intervention? >> several people. i do not recall all of the names. >> i was really porting. out working principally with mr. don king. >> i was aware that transition was doing that. i did not get fully involved in the end of improper for a couple of days. >> do you know what days you action got involved? >> it think it would have been around the 23rd or 24th. i have lost track of the exact time. >> i'm going to referred to in a teammate on april 25. -- referred to a note you made on april 25. do you have that in front of you? >> i cann

it's heavy mud that will be pumped down into the "deepwater horizon" well casing. >> reporter: once again, the pressure inside the well is crucial. >> what you want is the pressure to slowly decrease until it becomes zero in the well. that means the amount of mud is equal to the pressure being pushed up, but if it stops somewhere short of that, that means we may have a problem with the integrity of the casing of the wellbore. >> reporter: and that would mean big trouble again for the gulf. although there is almost no oil visible on the surface, out here at the leak site, no one is resting easy until that relief well is finished. >> so they have been trying to pick up all these small tar balls in here. >> reporter: over the weekend, touring oil-stained plaquemines parish, bp's doug suttles defended the unprecedented amount of dispersant used to break up the oil. >> the epa and others asked us to do everything we could to minimize the volumes. we worked closely with them to do it, and the volumes did go down. >> reporter: today the epa released a study showing dispersants mixed with louisia

>> i mainly work with the horizon exploration group. do you need me to name all the names or just the groups be? just a core group you worked with. >> many was john guide, rick, brian morel, mark, those are specific to macondo well but there were others on other wells. >> what was your interaction with those gentlemen? >> i worked in the office and the office on the same floor with those gentlemen. i attended morning call with him everyday and i interacted on a database with an. >> so every morning call, throughout the duration of the in seat 252 you participate in? >> that is cracked and also on the weekend and conference calls. >> and i assume other sat in the. >> the majority, yes. >> did you have any concerns about any of the personnel that you worked with on the deepwater horizon with respect to your job responsibilities, or the respect? >> as for the people in how? >> yes. >> know. i worked with them for about five years. there was no major issues. >> you recently told me you would left in june of 2010 year quest out on your own a

the desert out there is just a still life with a few landmarks on the horizon and this empty hole, the little colorado river desert, the painted desert, and we were working on a 500-room pueblo dating back to about 1400 ad. i just remember the wind just hailing down on us for days and you would be working down with trowels inside of a trench and if you stop for too long, the sand would start to fill up your hole again because it was blowing so much and everybody was turned away from the wind. so it looked like some kind of religious thing was going on here, all these people bowed to the ground for days and days tinkering with some unimaginable smallness in front of them while the wind just pushed harder and harder, sand blasting across you, filling up all the rooms that you just emptied out as if the desert is rolling back over itself. because even where trails are left, trails disappear out there. nothing stays for too long, even the footprints that last for 7 years eventually disappear. i found something out there that i'd like to read to you. it was a site, an archeological site on

we reviewed a few audits on the maintenance of the deepwater horizon. can you touch upon the pipe wrecking system -- racking system? >> yes. >> what was the condition of that? west german. >> jumpe-- junk. >> junk? >> yes. >>that was our number one downte caused. >> in some of your testimony, you said that it had been indicated that the raid had been scheduled to go to the shipyard for repairs. were you aware of that? >> yes, i was. >> were you going to be involved in that? >> my part of it would have been the complete rewiring of both pipe racking systems, top to bottom. >> who was on that to you? >> it would have come down from the electrical supervisor. >> were you aware of an audit that occurred? >> i was, but i was not a part of it. >> did anyone present those items to you? >> no, they didn't. >> e thing that the audit also mentioned was that there was a personnel retaining issue on board the deepwater horizon. is that accurate? >> yes. >> due to have any issues within your means responsibilities because of that? -- do you have any issues within yo

i wasn't involved with the deepwater horizon at all.i've only become involved two days after the incident happened, i was asked to come and help with our response. i think we did try to -- when we were sent this letter, we did meet with the m.m.s. and we explained to them all the changes we had already made before we received this letter, in response to those two incidents and i think we -- i thought we successfully demonstrated that we were trying to be quite proactive to learning from events and making changes. >> okay. and in that meeting with the m.m.s., you gave a presentation and i believe we asked you to address personal competency, hazard analysis an contingency plan, is that correct? >> the -- in the meeting, what we did is we read the letter an we laid out a series of what we thought the issues were in the letter and went through and talked about what we had top for each of those. >> i want you to refer to the letter again. specifically, there was a sentence where we would like you to address the personal competency, it's the

i'm the program director at horizons unlimited. i've had the pleasure to witness the benefit and the light changes that prevention and treatment programs have had for our youth. i have witnessed the horrible effect that alcohol-related harm has had on families, youth, and our community is. what we are asking for is a pittance in relation to the billions of dollars of profit made by alcohol. the services that this would support is vital to supporting and sustaining families and communities. i want to share some of the activities that we do which is medium messaging. on the way here, i am also educating myself, i'm looking on the billboards and i probably passed about 10 alcohol-related billboards. at the end of each of says, trent responsibly. we're asking them to act responsibly, thank you. >> i am here to represent the san francisco green party who stands in strong support of this fee to pay for services. to give some good indications, i want to bring this down to a very personal level. first of all, on a positive note toward alco

so google and horizon in return stab the customer stab the consumer stab the taxpayer in the back you know i'd like to address the founders of google i've liked i'd like your mom to take you over her knee and give you a good spanking because you kids over there at googleplex in california deserve a good spanking from your mom because you are an embarrassment and you have a shame you brought shame shame shame well actually so that continuing on the headline of the tollbooths google and horizon outlined vision for open internet they're open internet is exactly what barry diller previously described as tollbooths so with this i'm thinking google might be the next headline might explain why google is all for now introducing tollbooths and that's google chief my fear is for generation facebook so he's afraid that too many young people are giving all of their private data to facebook. willingly google has been collecting it via them and n.s.a. databases like creaming it all secretly. there's a good idea for. merkel and germany why not resurrect the old stasi an east german and take it publi

it has nothing to do with the deep water horizon. it just dominates your time when you are at the agency. congress paid a lot of attention to it, including moving toward the royalty program. you lose your attention on issues that are more important. that is part of the history of what we experienced in the 1990 costs. i will not use all my time. i yield to my colleagues. i think it is quite obvious the agency, at the federal government need to adopt better safety requirements and develop a stronger cold church. that is so difficult to do, but i believe the industry has its own responsibility for developing a safety culture. i worry about the question of technology. what can government agencies know? it is a very difficult issue. let me note that if you do nothing else, you should make a recommendation that the 30 day requirement be changed pending legislation. that does not work. it was one of those compromises made in the amendments. i would be happy to answer any questions when the time comes. >> thank you. >> good afternoon distin

. >> the next is sdaefrt on the horizon. i'm sure many of you have seen or heard regularly in the news. my father came from iran so every time i see those headlines and get an article in my e mail i have this moment of panic thinking about my family members in iran who might be the next victims of this terrible war administration this is, disaster on the horizon. it begins with words. daggers of men who bleed their nations of hope kill any promise. here is war, a bag full of hate posturing angry man rhetoric unleashing disaster on the horizon. war has no face like a genie it doesn't go back in the bottle. the witchary gives nothing it is a tornado that sucks up life, spits out ashes and broken minds i can feel in my bones. near as anyone who's face i see who's eyes i hold tight fixod this comp us i see the war coming breaking lose in the mouths. they are monsters who can't see the people who will weep. they're are creators of the destruction that begins on the tongue and ends in the cold eyes of tomorrow. [applause] >> last

it has nothing to do with it the broader horizon. it is the kind of issue that just dominates your time when you're at the agency. in congress has paid a lot of attention to it, including moving toward the royalty program which has its own problems in lakewood, colorado. you lose your attention on issues that probably are more important. it is sort of part of the history of what we experienced in the 1990's. let me conclude by saying i will not use all my time. i yield to my college, and maybe there will be more time for questions and answers. i think it is quite obvious that the agency, the federal government in general, need to adopt better safety requirements and develop a stronger safety culture. that is so easy to say and so difficult to do. i would also add that i believe the industry has its own responsibility for developing the safety culture. you cannot just depend on the government to do it. i do worry about the question of technology. what can government agencies know and what the industry needs to develop? it is a very di

>> on the deepwater horizon. >> no, i don't believe i did. i don't believe i had any business with them. >> do you know that they were there? >> didn't pay them any attention if they were. >> do you know any -- >> but i'm sure they would have been, because if their services would have been needed, but i didn't have any, any interest in looking them up. >> do you know anything about a cement bond log that should have been run, or was requested to have been run? >> no, i wasn't privy to any of that. i know what you're talking about, and i know -- i understand what a cement bond log is and the reasoning for it if there's any questions as far as the cement job would be, if there would have been any flags, that would have not involved in any decision-making. >> ok, thank you so much. >> thank you, sir. curt kuchta. >> yes, sir. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, mr. skidmore. my name is kyle schonekas. i represent captain kuchta. sir, was this perhaps the most harrowing experience you've ever had in your life? >> hopefully the only one. >> had you e

actual law or ruling in place for that idea it's just that it's just an idea but actually google horizon deal has some people up in arms over the details of the way these two internet powerhouses want the world wide went to work you see the deal proposes a tiered system for the internet with an open network still available to everyone but there's also going to be a second network one that's set to offer premium services which also still remains very big now these premium services would require an additional fee that will give unrestricted high speed access to your favorite web pages everything else could be accessed on the whole regular open slow network so here's a visual for it under this deal you could load a load a web page extremely fast and efficient lee with the better service while that regular open net worth would slow down taking it for ever to load a web page for the days of dial up now google ever arise and haven't said which web pages would be favored but one can only imagine how quickly you can pull of rising page in comparison to the i don't know let's say facebook profile

trabajo de los padres y el distrito escolar >> se esyreno un edificio nuevo del distrito escolar en el horizon de esto los profesores creen que podrian perder el trabajo >> hace una semana obama convirtio una propuesta donde a california le puede otorgar 1200 millones de dólares >> no se sabe si se va a tener que recortar planta de maestros >> hay temor de los profesores de que cualquier momento los despidan >> en la comunidad latina, en el colegio de santa clara, los niños están mostrando mejoras en ingles y matemáticas >> en libermon, una mujer esta enfrentado cargos criminales por tener sexo con menores >> la madre encontro en el celular de su hijo una foto desnuda de la mujer acusada >> antonio se presenta ante un juez por violar a una mujer e intentar violar a otras dos, esta vinculado por las muestras de adn >> la fiscalia de costa , esta sindiucado por matar a un hombre en rismong >> un hombre del área de la bahía teme por su vida, su familia fue masacrada en guatemala >> el tenia pensado volver a guatemal, pero toda su familia fue asesinados de manera brutal, fueron degollados y los mo

of horizon investment services. we'll also see the august unemployment numbers. plus, auto sales and chain store sales. monday, five years after hurricane katrina and now coping with the aftermath of the b.p. oil disaster, we get the outlook on new orleans' economic future. >> susie: the number of babies born in the u.s. has fallen, and there's new evidence the poor economy could be to blame. four million babies were born last year. experts think it's likely because many people can't afford to have children right now. the national center for health statistics says the drop in birth rate could also be attributed to a decline in immigration. >> tom: microsoft co-founder paul allen wants his day in court. if he gets it, it could be a big day. the billionaire is suing 11 tech giants for patent infringement. they include apple, google, ebay and facebook. notably missing from the list are amazon and microsoft. the patents owned by allen's "interval licensing" use technology to recommend products to a user based on their searches. facebook said it will fight the suit. t

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there's no end to your horizons. the sky is infinite, the sand is infinite. it's hard to keep your focus because you are constantly using peripheral vision looking all around you. it doesn't matter which way you walk after a while, you are just wandering. and so on the first trip out there, we didn't get to the sea because we just ended up wandering. it happens out there. you have a plan but the landscape becomes beautiful in a way that you weren't expecting and you start disappearing into it. you start forgetting why you are going in one direction. you start thinking, no, i just want to see that shadow over there and spend time there and then i want to see the next shadow and the next. it took 3 trips actually before we got to the sea. and all over at the edges of the dunes and sometimes even out in the middle of the dunes where you get into a deep hole, you will find a broken ceramic ojalla, you will find a sea shell that somebody carried in there, you will pick up the shell going what were you doing out here, why were you walking in this place, were you se

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brought shame shame well actually so that continuing on the headline of the tollbooths google and horizon outlined vision for open internet they're open internet is exactly what barry diller previously described as tollbooth so with this i'm thinking google might be the next headline might explain why google is all for now. introducing tollbooths and that's google chief my fear is for generation facebook so he's afraid that too many young people are giving all of their private data to facebook. willingly google has been collecting it via them and n.s.a. databases like creaming it all secretly here there's a good idea for a. merkel in germany why not resurrect the old stasi an east german and take it public and call google stuff you'll make a instant hundred billion dollars all right stacy arbor thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max don't go away when we come back everything digital we're going to london so stay there. right. from steve. santagati don't. welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to london and speak with richard buchanan he's got something quite

why don't we have problems with the deepwater horizon? there are well-known techniques of well control. what happened? in terms of the safety net, there were so many holes. it fell through. i am trying to explore what those are. do you understand what i am saying? nail down who to was responsible or anything like that. this is just a consultation. and not holding you accountable for your answer here -- i am not holding you accountable for your answer here. >> the way i would like to respond is that there's a lot of data that is yet to be understood out of this whole event and how it occurred, which has to incorporate everything to do with the technical side, the drilling side, the marine side, who does what, who responds to who, who does which things at which time. once all of that is available, that is the time that you can really understand what happened with regard to accountability. i do not have time data about nature -- of that nature. i do not have a thorough understanding of the chain of command sequence of events. i do not have a

few clouds on the horizon. looking at the berkeley hills.ight now clear skies over albany and berkeley. here's a look at i 80. we've temperatures right now in the '50s. around the bay area. oakland nevada 55 degrees. were cooling things down and did daly city at 52. but still clear the clouds are expected to move then later on this evening. mostly cloudy start for monday. essentially sunshine for the afternoon. seasonally cold weather system pushing down. making its way into california perry is expected to get close to the bay area for tomorrow. here's future cast. grade green rain. the rain is close to yuri can close the north. this front will site to the south throughout the day. and the showers would go as salt far south as ukiah. we will pick up some extra clotting is. but the big effect of this weather system will keep for our temperatures cold. starting on tuesday temperatures will soar. tamara just like today reading in the '70s. temperatures will almost be like exactly the same as we had today. berlin games down the tail high of 70 d

just ahead on the show days after the google horizon deal has been announced. the internet shite is now finding itself in even more hot water over privacy and anonymity writes on the web details on that straight ahead and as the islamic holy month kicks off so do a lot of anti muslim campaigns across the u.s. so we'll look into the growing problem of islamophobia as soon as we come back the . first tree removal call the clear cut. second the exclusive plans to meet. her remains are revealed in the she. wanted so. badly she's. on it. every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world join knowledge on r.g.p. . we've got a special day in history for you this evening we take you back twenty six years when the comments of then president ronald reagan caused quite a panic take a list. today about. him grabbing a minute. yeah reagan made that comment back in one thousand nine hundred eighty four walls testing a microphone before a scheduled r

also regulating the internet, that is on the horizon. fcc started to take steps to treat broadband cable connections and internet connections and review its as they do on the talk radio airwaves and regulate its. the left seizes -- seize every way in america to tax your life. every type of creation or machinery, they want to tax. and they are in the process of trying to tax the internet and get that passed. some young people may have gotten caught up in the height. we had john mccain as our presidential candidate. if you see him and barack obama, come on. john mccain, god bless his heart for what he did for this country, but he looked like he was going to die in the second. he was not passionate. he did not have any slogans that people could rally behind. we needed someone charismatic and rally young people and old people together to a common theme, freedom and liberty. you want -- eat no young person is going to say for big government. it is counter-cultural. the culture is the government. it is a sprawling barack receive. you want to m