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Ice keels as long as 150 feet extend down from the ice sheet. americas biggest challenge, however, comes from russia. the russian military has assembled an arc of steel along its arctic coast, comprising dozens of military bases, ports and airfields, and it is building and deploying faster, quieter and more capable subs of its zone. >> have you had specific encounters, if not in the arctic, than elsewhere with russian submarines or chinese? >> again, wed never try to speak to those specific oper...

When the battle of britain began to look for restricted itself to military targets like airfields and aviation factories. from the french coast where his bombers had taken up positions girling promised hitler that he would eradicate the royal air force the r.a.f. in two or maybe three weeks. but soon what may have been an accident would dramatically change the history of bombing. on august twenty fourth one thousand nine hundred forty a few german bombs fell on the city of london and the eastend...

Churchill was determined to fight to the end. yet the country was already in a state of high alert children were evacuated from the city is. what hitler dab on london. accu. when the battle of britain began to look for restricted itself to military targets like airfields and aviation factories. from the french coast where his bombers had taken up positions girling promised hitler that he would eradicate the royal air force the r.a.f. in two or maybe three weeks. but

Volcano that erupted in 2012. >> you actually see the whole world get cooler for a year, not just get cooler, but the productivity of plants, the ecosystem went up in that year. >> so how do we get particles into the atmosphere that will do the same thing. keith has an idea, send planes up in the air that release an aerosol to do the trick. >> the basic idea would be flying from just one or two airfields in the -- slowly reflect a tiny bit of sunlight. not to cure the problem because there is --...

Sacrifice. >> martha: take us through that morning and put us back in that moment. >> december 1941, a date which will live in infamy. >> that whole idea of the attack of pearl harbor was inaccurate. this entire island was attacked and within 15 minutes the airpower was crippled. and other airfields. they hit pearl harbor and imagine the torpedo planes headed towards the battleships where they were lined up along battleship row.

Done enough about that, that he had been consumed or distracted by the issue relating to nfl players and the flag and the anthem and not spending enough of his own capital to marshal resources and attention to puerto rico. hes talking about that more. the white house is now saying some of the specifics. were talking about how the president has waived an old shipping rule that would only allow u.s. ships to transport resources to puerto rico. 10,000 responders, more than 4.5 million meals, 4.6 mi...

If they can. i see governor scott appears to be starting his press conference now. but the helicopters are trying to scout out what the damage is, trying to see if they can establish airfields where they can run continuous helicopter operations trying to provide assistance. >> right. all right. barbara starr at the pentagon. lets listen to governor scott. >> you just pray that everybody is alive. were still having -- ive been talking to people down there, were still having in the keys issues wit...

For the keys and key west is at the end of that road. so we were again very fortunate that as the mayor said the bridges were not compromised to the point where theyre not able to handle traffic that really will help the recovery process, having the ability to have vehicles come down and not have to rely on all aircraft or sea born logistics to bring in the resources. but the recourses are starting to trickle in and we expect them to start flowing in much more tomorrow. we got three airfields th...

Of helping out for air support, landing strips and so forth. as far as the major airports, orlando international in miami international have both sent out tweets in the last 12 hours or so saint they are completely done with commercial ops and they are in the emergency ops mode only. maybe you would be able to work with those airfields, we dont know until after the storm passes is what im hearing you say. i want to concentrate on another area where people may not be aware where our united states...

Dozen helicopters on board. they will be able to go sh ship-to-shore on continuous missions. they will be able to evacuate the ill and injured. they will be able to bring ashore aid and assistance. they will have fema people that will help potentially get ports and airports back up and running. one of them already is off the virgin islands tonight and is evacuating people who are medically unable to stay in that area. in addition, we are seeing the air force begin to assemble a fleet of large ca...