one was shawn shadegg, the person that is still missings, he alerted dave and i that something was goingt was listing. and so three of us got out of there but i don't know if shawn went back to the cap inor what happened to him because the boat was tilted so bad i just tried to get up on top so i could just get somewhere. so right when i get up top i look and there is the whole crew with brand new life jackets on and none of the passengers had anything. >> i didn't see pete until we've got in the helicopter, so it was 14 or 15 hours before i saw pete, it was the next day before i saw warren. so each little group thought they were the only ones that survived, so -- >> it just happened so fast within a minute's time and everybody, most everybody was still in their cabins, and had no life jackets or anything, a lot of the life jackets were up on the upper deck and so you just dove out into the water hoping you could find an ice chest or anything to hang onto. >> they talked over and over about the will to survive, they talk the ones that are missing also have a will to survive. >> so intere

currently incarcerated crack cocaine the disparity has passed a lot -- cast a long and persistent shadegg. it has spawned clouds of controversy and an aura of unfairness that has shrouded nearly every federal crack cocaine sentence that was handed down pursuant to that law. in my view, that congress has taken steps to clear the air by making a significant downward adjustment to the statutory penalties for crack offenses -- there is no excuse for those serving this sentences under prior guidelines must carry on as if none of this has happened. i believe that the commission has no choice but to make this right. our failure to do so would harm not only those serving sentences pursuant to the prior guideline penalty, but all who believe in equal application of the law and the fundamental fairness of our criminal justice system. the decision we make today, which comes more than 16 years after the commission's first report to congress on crack cocaine, reminds me in many respects of an oft quoted statement from the late dr. martin luther king jr.. he said, "the ark of the moral universe is long

15 years ago, people were saying the same thing about myself and largent and coburn and salmon and shadeggy, when you were there, when that group was there, there was much more willingness to compromise at the 11th hour than there is now and much more party discipline. >> more than needed to compromise. and i think a lot of times i didn't compromise. i mean, ask tom delay, a point where they just stopped whipping me. that said, i was never in a position if a bill didn't pass by date x, there's a good chance the stock market was going to collapse. when we decided not to reopen the federal government, know, we went on "larry king" there were g guys with snowmobiles they went around national park screaming at us. that was pretty much the extent of it. but this is pretty significant. i will say that the people i mentioned, steve largent and lindsey graham and matt salmon, these people would understand. mark sanford would understand what would happen in the case of default, and so i think in that respect we would have never allowed this to come to this point. now, we would have fought like hell

cooper shadegg. he currently serves as legal adviser to goveor robert bentley of alabama. in that capacity he was elected to serve as chairman of the executive committee of the trustee council. so we get to hold him responsible for everything i suppose. but actually, i am a little concerned that i don't think any of our leaders have a lot of executive power pages have collegial power in this process. prior to joining the bentley and a station, he was practicing attorney for the firm of rose and hallwood in tuscaloosa and served as adjunct professor of law at the university of alabama school flock, one of the top law schools in america. i'm proud to say. she is a bar ommissioner for the sixth circuit selected by fellow board members and is currently the member of the alabama state bar foundation board of trustees, member of the tuscaloosa bar where he served as president previously, bachelor's degree in economics he has from georgia tech and a doctorate from alabama. he and his wife live in tuscaloosa and have four daughters. he's been an associate pastor at the united meth