Nightly News | April 06, 2011
Part of Transocean 'safety record' bonuses donated
The drilling company announced that executives will give $250,000 of their "safety" bonuses to families of the victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. Eleven people were killed in the incident. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
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This content comes from Closed Captioning that was broadcast along with this program.
>> you earlier this week about the oil drilling firm transocean's decision to award safety bonuses to its executives for last year, the year that its deepwater horizon oil rig blew up, killed 11 people and, of course, kicked off that bp oil disaster. now the company says the executives will donate $250,000 of that bonus money to a charity fund for the victims' families. it's about a quarter of the nearly $900,000 in bonuses the company handed out.