>> it is. >> what strikes professor bea is mike williams' description of the blowout preventer. ays that in a drilling accident four weeks before the explosion, the critical rubber gasket, called an annular, was damaged, and pieces of it started coming out of the well. according to williams, when parts of the annular start coming up onto the deck, someone from transocean says, "look, don't worry about it." what does that tell you? >> "houston, i think we have a problem." >> here's why that's so important. the annular is used to seal the well for pressure tests. and those tests determine whether dangerous gas is seeping in. so if the annular is damaged, if i understand you correctly, you can't do the pressure tests in a reliable way? >> that's correct. you may get pressure test recordings, but because you're leaking pressure, they are not reliable. >> mike williams also told us that a backup control system to the blowout preventer, called a pod, had lost some of its functions. what is the standard operating procedure if you lose one of the control pods on the b.o.p.? >> reestablis

mike said, it does take a team. our architect, you met johnson, fashion park, the entire william mcdonalds team, wsp group, sandas, and creek, thank you very much. the contractors, the builders and melanie and phillips, our land use attorney, tim ruben, the brokerage firm, elliot and english and special thanks to my partners from the corporation. jeff, our vice-president of development and construction services. carl brown, the project engineer, brandon hwang, director of development, and senior vice-president of development services, we live in a world today where there is business, there is civic responsibility, there is opportunity to create these amazing environments. the city of san francisco like any well intended entity, it will make a few mistakes here or there, but by and large, when you just as we all do as husbands and wives and parents, when you take a look at san francisco in the total context, i know of no place in this country that is this forward thinking, it's a liberal city that understand in order to have the money to do great things for citizens, it has to have a robust business climate. i can't th

william megs said if there's a reasonable chance for conviction. again that announcement is expected tomorrow. winston was named the acc player of the year. >>> the nfl has find mikeomlin $100,000 for interfering with a kickoff return during last night's game against the ravens. tomlin's action he affected a play on the field, tomlin took a step onto the field during jacoby jones return run. >> i intreas the responsibilities that come with my position and understand their repercussions from a blunder of that nature. and i embrace it. i also understand, with my position, comes the charge of preserving and protecting the integrity of the game of football. and i think probably my biggest error on thursday night is not realizing that that play jeopardized the integrity of the game from a perception standpoint. >>> now, football is not the only sport in which concussions have caused health concerns for practically everyone involved, nhl hasn't done enough to protect players, jessica taff spoke with john sinclair. >> we are seeking compensatory and punitive damages. we are asking the court to make a declaration that in fact the nhl new or should have known about the pro

joined by nbc justice correspondent pete williams and michael leiter, nbc news counter-terrorism export and former director of the national terrorism center. mike liter, y e liter, you know. how is this possible and implications. >> there is something in common with target and edward snowden. that's we as companies and governments but an enormous amount of incredibly valuable information including privacy information with credit cards in our computer systems. that means crime today affects people. when it happens to a company like target, which is so committed to public safety, anti-fraud, it's really one of the best in the nation, it shows it can happen fir. >> shopping habits have been transformed. i remember a time when you didn't want to put your personal data in, now everybody shows this way. do we have to rethink our way of living. >> it's when the card was swiped that whoever stole it was able to somehow get into the system and grab the data swiped in the hopes of selling it to people who phony up credit cards, the printing on the back of the credit cards. one thing you can do to protect yourselves, when you use the credit card insist th

william, thank you very much. >>> so did freedom of speech and religious freedom win out in the end to mike huckabee who started a facebook petition in defense of the duck dynasty stars. i heard that facebook page, 267,000 likes. >> we'll had 22 million people view the page, and 8 million -- a little over 8 million viewed the page just about cracker barrel. this thing blew up, because i think there is a point at which a lot of people, people in the south, in the midwest, people that a that are christian, they say live and let live. but we want you to just shut up and go away and people said we are going to stand with phil. that is what has happened. cracker barrel stepped in it. and they had to come back and reverse their course and finally decided they had really screwed up with their customer base. >> and that is the free market working. so you make a decision, even if it is a wrong decision, and the people tell you. kmur -- customers that are fans said reverse this. and when will this air without phil robertson in it. >> what a&e should have done, like glad, but a&e should have said, look, the opinions expre

mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. stay tuned for football night in america, followed by the chicago bears versus the philadelphia eagles. brian williamstomorrow. i'm lester holt reporting from new york for all of us here at nbc news. good night.

williams and jack kennedy. huge. >> hard to believe there is not a young mike barnacle in that. >> out of all these that stick out to you don't see joe. here's this lovely picture of my uncle joe who died. here he is, young and vivacious, filled with energy and strength and a wonderful future. it was cut short as so many people were during the war. >> your generation of your family has i think kind of a real stwlagz obviously great things are accomplished by the previous generation. your generation has done quite a bit and you have been elected office and other people have. the picture of you as youngsters are striking as well. talk about your generation and how you feel in terms of burden and possibility. >> i wouldn't call it burden. i think we were all blessed to be part of this family. as you can see from letters from my grandfather and grandmother, they said learn well, study hard, you have a responsibility. i certainly would say that i learned from my father and mother as well. we were quoted saint loouk's admonition. those who have been given much, much is expected. that has been a big part of our growing up.

. >> mike, i can understand -- i didn't understand reading books because, i mean, ted williams playedtand the fans. they just gave him hell from the outfield, would just yell at him. that would be like as an atlanta braves fan when we had nothing to cheer about, that would be like us giving hank aaron hell. i mean, he was -- he was -- we never did. we worshipped hank aaron, and ted williams was just the greatest hitter there was this side of ty cobb. >> fans are fans, though. they would do that, especially in the left field stands up in section 25, left field stands, trying to hit them. >> i love this guy. he was john wayne in real life. >> he was the real john wayne. >> he was the real john wayne. >> but they would cheer as soon as he hit a home run. before you go, if you could, quickly, ben, everybody says ted williams the greatest hitter who ever lived and joe dimaggio a great ball player, but two people could not be more different, especially as the public viewed them. >> yes. they were sort of total opposites, and ironically, you know, most athletes fade away. ted gained immense