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Guard may have to shut down shipping traffic on the river. with 12,000 ships carrying 500 million tons of cargo annually and 700,000 cruise passengers, new orleans is one of the busiest ports. closing the mississippi would be costly. >> every day that this river is closed, its detrimental economic consequence not to new orleans but to the entire united states. its $295 million a day, and it grows exponentially after the fourth day. >> reporter: the mississippi was last closed in 2008 when a fuel...

Conducting surveillance off the coast of korea. korean claimed the ship crossed into its waters. they took all the officers and crew into custody, where many were said to be tortured. the captain reluctantly signed a document that confessed to spying, then they released the crewmen bus never gave back the peb he, which sits in a river there to this day. but think u.s. sailors tasted freedom, 41 years ago today. thats the fox report for this christmas eva longoria, wednesday, december 23, 2009, i...