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Ash, mud, sand, the army corps of engineers starred dredging that immediately after the eruption and that process went on for years after mount st. helens erupted in 1980. "the seattle times" books back today saying the amount of stuff they dredged out of the rivers was enough material to build a 12-lane highway from new york city to san francisco.3ç 12 lanes. they dredged all of that stuff to keep the rivers going. and they piled it up on the banks. next to the rivers. and the little up to of ...

World. when that earthquake happened a mile beneath mt. st. helens 35 years ago today thus started a huge volcanic eruption in the continental united states. it blew 1300 feet off the top of that mountain in washington straight. the whole north side of that mountain collapsed and quickly. that collapse was the largest landslide in recorded history. rock and searing hot gases shot sideways out of the collapsed mountain going hundreds of miles an hour. trees came down as far as 12 mile away from t...

Million tons of volcanic ash in the air. that rose in a huge vertical column that went straight up for 15 miles then started drifting. it started spreading around the globe. by lunch time the ash from the volcanic eruption was raining down in significant quantity on the city of spokane which is 250 mile as way from mount st. helens two weeks that ash cloud had traveled all of the way east across the united states. all of the way across the atlantic ocean, all of the way across asia and had start...

They had to do the dredging to try to save the down. above castle rock is a lake called spirit lake and spirit rake took a brupt of this eruption. spirit lake had so much sediment dumped into it by the mount st. helens eruption that the surface level of spirit p lake rose by 210 feet. and thats up above castle rock and so that nightmare, that potential nightmare, is looming over the town of castle rock. and it still is. they eventually built a tunnel to channel outflow from that lake so it would...

Eruption. spirit lake had so much sediment dumped into it by the mount st. helens eruption that the surface level of spirit lake rose by 210 feet. and thats up above castle rock and so that nightmare, that potential nightmare, is looming over the town of castle rock. and it still is. they eventually built a tunnel to channel outflow from that lake so it would not loom so dangerously for the town. now 35 years later they are worried now they might have to ç go in and widen that tunnel because it...

And a large earthquake is almost never a good thing but when it happens one mile beneath a huge active volcano it can be the start of something that feels a little bit like the end of the world. when that earthquake happened a mile beneath mt. st. helens 35 years ago today thus started a huge volcanic eruption in the continental united states. it blew more than 1300 feet off the top of that mountain in washington state. the whole northside of that mountain collapsed and quickly that collapse was...

Have one remarkable article. and it notes one bright spot, basically, in the mount st. helens aftermath which is about that little town of castle rock. the seattle times said the little town of castle rock decided what to do with some of that sand and ash that almost buried them 35 years ago. volcanic sand is useful in playing fields and sand traps and. and now the city of castle rock is managing the sediment pile blue selling its volcanic sand. the town is earning some money, thousands of dolla...

In a biggerland grab in ukraine. a meeting just wrapped up with secretary of state john care are to gi kerry to give the cekremlins h long, as troops remain armed and ready along the eastern border. death toll rising to 18 now. the number of missing has dropped for 30 after people called in safe. washingtons deadliest natural disaster since mount st. helens erupted. now back to media buzz. before i send you back to media buzz, ill see you at the top of the hour with a lot more news on fox. c...

Most infamous natural disaster. the 1980 eruption of mount st. helens which killed 50 people. the death toll could go as high. >> my goodness. its unbelievable when you see the mud moving so quickly. well have more details on that as we get them. coming up, the nra objecting now to the presidents pick for surgeon general. ill speak with the head of the gun rights group about their push to keep dr. murphy out of the surgeon generals office. we have breaking news in the search for the malaysia...

1980 eruption of mount st. helens which killed 57 people. some say the death toll could go as high. megyn? >> dan, thank you. unbelievable. you see the mud moving so quickly. there is no way to outline it. more details as we get them. coming up, nra objecting now to the presidents pick for surgeon general. ill speak with the head of the gun rights group. and weve got breaking developments in the search for the missing malaysia airlines jet. what were learning about a so called partial ping, a fi...