On April 20, 2010 an explosion tore through the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig operating in the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster happened as workers were finalizing the drilling of the exploratory Macondo well, forty miles off the coast of Louisiana. It was, by any standard, a catastrophe. To investigate this catastrophe, President Barack Obama established the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and tasked the commission to produce a report that detailed the commission's findings and recommendations. The Gulf Spill site is an interactive and multimedia presentation of the report that describes the causes of the Deepwater Horizon spill, its immediate aftermath, and long term fallout.

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The co-chairs of President Obama‘s new oil spill commission, Bob Graham and William K. Reilly, join Rachel Maddow in Louisiana to talk about the spill and the commission.

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