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On tuesday, we told you about how activists affiliated with greenpeace used climbing equipment to board and set up camp on a drill rig, thats being hauled across the specific ocean, in an effort to draw attention to shells plans to use the rig to drill for oil in the arctic later this summer. the company has not drilled in the arctic since 2012. the rig, which the activist boarded three days ago is now northeast of hawaii en route to seattle, where shell hopes to base its arctic drilling staging...

Dop y do you need to be doing that at night? danger like that but also youre working on creating a mine there thats really close to another one. youve got to think there are people that are keeping an eye on how much gold is being mined and may want to rob you or compete with you because youre taking maybe part of what they believe should be coming from their mine but youre now excavating there. youre facing a lot of issues. >> we have to take into consideration all of those elements. making sur...

Drive on this bridge if we thought there were any concerns whatsoever. >> so, as i understand it, and you are going to have to clear this up for me if you could, kirk. although we are not establishing any cause officially right now as i understand it, there was an accident and there was a truck that did crash into part of the structure of the bridge. can you sort of round that out and give me the real pick? >> yes. about 7:00 last night, we had a semi that was traveling southbound on i-5, a flat...

Think the iranians have any illusion that in a major confrontation with the united states, they would come out of this anything other than a huge loser. uma: well the stakes remain quite high in this regard. certainly something well watch very closely. thank you so much for joining us with your insights today. >> always a pleasure. uma: thank you. jon: from oil troubles in the middle east to oil production troubles in alaska. a shell oil drill rig in trouble in the gulf of alaska. that now unman...

it is deadly. the u.s. agriculture department announced that a case of mad cow disease has been confirmed -- confirmed in a dairy cow out in central california. lets bring in lisa sylvester. shes working this story for us. lisa, what is the department of agriculture saying. whats going on? >> reporter: wolf, the usda just released information within the last hour and what we know is that it is a dairy cow from central california that has tested positive for bse or commonly known or ref...

Celebrating a major breakthrough after years of drilling under very harsh conditions near the south pole. they finally have reached a giant lake buried under miles of ice. some are comparing the difficulty of what they have accomplished to reaching another planet. tom jones is a former astronaut for nasa and a fox news contributor, well be talking with him. but first, lets talk with robin bell, with the earth observatory, she joins us on the phone from london. so this lake was, i guess, only dis...

Truck and a public transit bus left the trucks driver dead. and almost a dozen people injured. the collision was so forceful that both drivers had to be cut out of their vehicles. in tennessee, three miners had to be rescued after a fire trapped them 800 feet underground. the fire broke out yesterday afternoon on a drill rig in a zinc mine near knoxville. the trapped miners were in contact with officials, but thick smoke prevented them from leaving a safe area. it took rescuers about three hou...

The u.s. than we did in the last 7 years. we have to stop having the partisan conversations and give credit where credit is due. the department of energy, that was dictated by the administration. he wants to do this in a safe way because we dont want to see what happened with bp. >> reporter: he took credit for oil pro duck on the rise. does anyone know how long it takes for a permit to go through the permitting process. and get a drill rig out and producing oil? its under george bushs watch who...

Than off a floating rig. but environmentalists say its a clever way of gaming the federal permit system. rebecca noblin represents half a dozen environmental groups. >> if there were an oil spill, that oil is going into the ocean. its not on land. so, this really is -- this is drilling in water. >> reporter: thats the heart of the debate. does putting the massive drill rig on a 32-acre pile of gravel mean bps liberty island project should be subject to federal rules for drilling on land or shoul...

Groups. >> if anything were to go wrong, if there were an oil spill that oil is going into the ocean. its not on land. so this is really, you know, drilling in water. >> reporter: that is the heart of the debate. does putting the massive drill rig on a 32 mile pile of gravel mean bps island project should be subject to the federal rules for drilling on land or the more rigorous rules of offshore drilling? the fact is, three years ago, bp succeeded in getting a land-based drilling permit. in an e...