steve lewis was one of the experts who appeared tea commission yesterday. this is just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everybody. and welcome to day 2 of this, the fifth meeting of the national commission on the bp deepwater horizon oil spill and offshore drilling. i'm hereby calling this order to order. i'm chris smith and i am federal official on this commission and i'm the deputy assistant secretary for natural gas at the united states department of energy. i'll be guiding us through a busy day of panels today. before we proceed i'd like to familiarize everybody with the safety procedures for this building. in case of emergency or fire, you'll see the exits to my left to your right. please proceed out and to the left and up the escalators and there will be security personnel who will escort you out to the street. and that's the procedure in case for emergency. we'd also like to ask everybody to turn your blackberries or cell phones to vibrate or silent. the preds established this bipartisan commission

steve lewis of advanced drilling technology implementation engineer, seldovia marine srvices. mr. cichon rogers smith, associate professor, department of petroleum engineer at lsu, and darryl bourgoyne director of louisiana director louisiana state university petroleum engineering research and technology transfer laboratory. mr. thomas? >> yes, sir. >> do you have an opening statement? >> commission, if i could for a moment. >> panel members here this morning, we also have charlie williams of the shell company, who will be answering questions today. is to give you a sense of what the format will be, this morning we're going to hear from five different deepwater and non-deepwater drilling experts in two separate panels. on various subjects relating to well designed and deepwater drilling issues, generally, as well as macondo and the blowt. we will be splitting the panels into too. one in the first more recession which includes the individuals, commissioner graham has just introduced. and we will then have a second panel and a second morning session. while each of the expert is focu

steve lewis of advanced drilling technology implementation engineer, seldovia marine services. mr. cichon rogers smith, associate professor, department of petroleum engineer at lsu, and darryl bourgoyne director of louisiana director louisiana state university petroleum engineering research and technology transfer laboratory. mr. thomas? >> yes, sir. >> do you have an opening statement? >> commission, if i could for a moment. >> panel members here this morning, we also have charlie williams of the shell company, who will be answering questions today. is to give you a sense of what the format will be, this morning we're going to hear from five different deepwater and non-deepwater drilling experts in two separate panels. on various subjects relating to well designed and deepwater drilling issues, generally, as well as macondo and the blowout. we will be splitting the panels into too. one in the first more recession which includes the individuals, commissioner graham has just introduced. and we will then have a second panel and a second morning session. while each of the expert is fo

charlie williams, production technology for shell andef steve lewis with 40 years of field experience in drilling operations in various places. i want to start by talking a little bit deepwater and whata makes deepwater different and special with mr. thomas. mr. thomas what do you do for a living?wh >> i'm a consulting petrophysicist. >> can you tell us a little bit about your experience in the oil industry. i have worked as a research petrophysicist.a then, management of that department. then i went to new orleans to be a field engineer and. then i served as the leader of those sections. went to head office training and taught petro physics at both beginning and intermediate and advanced sessions.er and then went to the head office to be a technical advisor to the vice president of technology. >> is your experience include deepwater experience?>> >> yes, it does.ng >> i'm going to put up againd a slide that we showeda yesterday, orienting people to what deepwater mightri actually mean. so agree generally with this picture where the boundary of deepwater would be in the gulf? i'm not

the ray lewis looked like he did in his old spice commercial to wrap this up. watch steve smith tried to bring him down. not going to happen. the head coach would have liked to have had a little less trauma in the fourth quarter, but he knows this duane counts as a wind toward the playoffs. >> there is no perfect win. it is a great question because we talk to a higher price about that. we really do. -- we talk to our guys about that. but we really do. we are still looking for the dominant game. i think we are all disappointed we did not play a dominant game, but we are happy with the wind. you have to take your victories, but by no means are we satisfied with the way we played. >> more on the ravens playing at carolina tonight at 7:30 p.m. last season, vikings head coach and brad childress stood one scoring drive away from going to the super bowl. tonight he stands from the outside looking in. the vikings are at a 3-7 record this year after childress takes his team on another brett favre comeback. frazier, one of the hottest assistant coaches in the nfl right now, takes ov

steve: did you like? >> jimmy: yes. also, one of my favorites, the hilarious comedian lewis black will be joining us. [ cheers and applause in a bad mood. he's in a bad mood backstage. he's mad. it's going to be a fun show. i love lewis black. he's pissed, yeah. hey, you guys, today's friday, and that's usually when i catch up on some personal stuff. i check my inbox, return some e-mails, and of course, send out thank-you notes. i was running a bit behind today, so i thought, if you guys wouldn't mind, can i just write out my thank-you notes right now? do you guys mind? is that cool? [ cheers and applause ] you always got to send out some thank-you notes and get it over -- just starts - - just clears my head for the weekend. roots, can i have some thank-you note writing music, please? ♪ beautiful. [ laughter ] ♪ thank you, daylight savings time, for making me feel much better when i sleep until 2:00 p.m. hey, it's only 1:00 p.m. [ laughter ] ♪ thank you, the sun, for thinking the whole world revolves around you. [ laughter ] ♪ thank you, coarse wool sweaters, for having a relationship with my nipples that could best be de

steve declined to appear on camera, but he sent us an e-mail characterizing them as rumors and lies. this the one-year anniversary of susan cox' disappearance is now less than a month away. george lewisc news, los angeles. >>> meredith, thank you, any time a president travels overseas his personal safety is always a concern. but in india, it's not just people president obama's security team is worried about. ian williams is in new delhi to tell us about that. >> reporter: security is always a big issue on these white house trips. but here in deli, authorities are grab -- in delhi they call it the monkey minutes. tens of thousands of them have invaded the city. security forces have been on prime mate alert. the main monkey invasion route lies in forests close to his hotel. we'll keep them away from the president, vowed this policeman. monkey catchers have been working flat out for a bounty of $15 a catch. they lure them into a rooftop cage, rounding them up to be released outside the city. it's a big problem, they bite the children so they can't go to school, he told me. so far it's been a pretty good morning's work, the monkeys have become a real irritant in this area, but they have