can clean the ditch do it so. we used a back hoe. removing huge logs out of this ditch. for water pouring off and on to the land. we were cited with a felony for cleaning the ditch. a felony charge. it gave the property appearance of being a wetland. they said flood your property, then, the federal government comes to charge you with felony. so this isn t a wetland. jack was digging a well here, he had to go deep down he was down about eight feet. did not find a water table. i should repeat. a jury cleared jack of all charges. and we won but after we were home for a month, maybe, the army core of engineers saying how nice for you that you won in criminal court but we still feel it s a wetland.
to nicks the bridge. and the green advocates were thrilled. the 400 residents of a native village almost universally support the development. it would bring much-needed jobs and make them an oil hub. unemployment there right now is at 38%. it would keep oil flowing in the great alaska pipeline. the reserve has an estimated 900 million barrels of oil. coneco-phillips says it would be able to produce up to 18,000 barrels a day you talk about remote, it took us eight hours and four flights to get there from seattle, the nearest city about 200 miles away. alaska s loan congressman says drilling there should be a no-brainer. we have to start listening to the logic. there is not much logic in this body or logic from the interest groups that don t want this country to progress and go forward. reporter: and congressman young may get his wish. the army core of engineers sent a letter to lawmakers in the
no, just kidding. he was tired yesterday. we start with this. he was bent on jihad and he is no dummy. that s what the feds are saying after they arrested a man in an alleged plot to dive bomb the pentagon with remote controlled planes like these. the planes would be packed with explosi explosives. the suspect is an american muslim with a physics degree. brian todd with more on how his plot was foiled. federal authorities arrest ad 26-year-old man from ashland, massachusetts. in an affidavit he started his plot last year by buying cell phones, modifying them to act as electrical switches for ieds and giving them to people he believed to be members of al qaeda and hoped they would be used to kill u.s. soldiers overseas according to that document. but the people he was give thing equipment to were actually undercover agents from the fbi. authorities say that he then expanded his plot to use these. model planes. they say that he planned to use them like drones operated by remo
i was responsible in that the corps of engineers was going to be doing a lot of that work that they were talking about to make sure that we did not give them any advantage. do you feel like that ethos was undermined in the lead up to the iraq war and there was an expectation that good and ethical practices wouldn t be followed? it could have been that folks were thinking that whoever was going to handle this contract would just simply be asleep at the switch. look the other way. not highlight the improprieties. i was not going to do that. as a 21-year veteran, the army core of engineers, she is troubled by how car contracts are being handled. that was high dollars going to kbr. if it was a contract that was competed, once it came to an
much water pressing against those levees for so long. you mentioned one remarkable factoid, which is right now, the river is at three miles wide. right now, we are at riverside drive, a road that goes near the river but it shouldn t be in the river. that s the way it is right now. there is the mighty mississippi. what seems to be a current, the waves are flowing to the north and the main river is flowing to the south. that s the way it should be. we have a little bit of an eddy here and south winds that are pushing the water in all directions. it is kresticresting right now. that doesn t mean it is going away any too soon. it will take a full five days for this river at this point to go down one foot. that s how much water is in the river system right now. caught up with one of the army core of engineers, kerncolonel h