Anchor Strike News Today

The 13-inch crack, which may have come from an anchor strike, hs marine growth on it. now back to "dateline." it happened, even as search and rescue teams were wading through that escondido pond following what might be a lead in amber dubois disappearance. 20 miles south in downtown san diego, da bonnie dumanis received a mysterious request to meet with gardners attorney. >> wouldnt discuss what it was. >> gardner had been claiming he had nothing to do with ambers disappearance. this morning, ...

Do i think that i hope that there will be a unity that comes together again? that is, i think, going to be slightly more challenging because were seeing a lot of the more, you know, divisive narratives of the big lie and were seeing some polling out there that it really is concerning about the number of people who are buying into the constant propaganda, the constant disinformation that is being pushed by leaders across the republican party, not just trump. were talking about elected officials o...

Details. can you walk us, scott, as i welcome you to the show again. walk us through this new timeline and how this spill is impacting the local community. what are you seeing? >> reporter: yeah, its definitely impacting the community, alex. theyve narrowed the beach closures a little bit from what they were a week ago, where you had, like, 20 miles of beaches closed. now, theres about ten miles of beaches where you cant go into the water. you can go on to the sand but you cant go into the water...

. today were getting some new details on that massive oil spill off the california coast. investigators now believe the anchor strike that caused the initial break in the pipeline could have happened months ago. lets go to nbcs scott cohn whos joining us from huntington beach with the latest on this. scott, whats led to this development, and how hard is it now going to be to pinpoint which ship is responsible? >> reporter: yeah, its going to be very hard, alex. the plot thickens, kind of like ...

The extensive cleanup continues from that catastrophic oil spill thildis and sea birds and shut down beaches. tonight, cbs carter evans has a close-up look view of the site of the underwater disaster. >> reporter: new underwater video shows a small crack in the pipeline just 13 inches long where the oil leak began. with huge backlogs at the ports, investigators are looking at the dozens of container ships that occupy almost every disig napted anchor area offshore. the pipeline passes within a fe...

State records now indicate the first reports of the massive oil spill came in the day before officials confirmed it the size also larger than initially reported up to 144,000 gallons of crude and now potential evidence of an anchor strike contracted divers discovering a 4,000-foot section of the nearly 18-mile pipeline was displaced by over 100 feet a 13-inch split cracking open the pipe, spewing oil. >> the pipeline has essentially been pulled like a bowstring. >> reporter: from just over the s...