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Port. they carry hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel and jet fuel to resupply warships while theyre out at sea. unlike most other navy vessels, replenishment oilers operate with a mostly civilian crew. today, the u.s. navy announced a new fleet of the next generation of these ships about to be built. want know what the first one is going to be called? its the u.s. naval ship john lewis. its going to be named for civil rights icon john lewis. not only that, the entire class of these new sh...

Just nothing but flames. >> the disaster starts when officer randy mcadams is finishing up the night shift. a moving freight train hits a parked train at the texarcana depot, causing a derailment but not an explosion. >> could you call back and see if they can ascertain exactly which car is overturned and maybe what the contents of the car was? >> its not like a regular car accident. it can be thousands of gallons of very toxic chemicals up to maybe nothing leaking at all. kind of have to get th...

Mundane task goes bad in a flash. the situation quickly worsens when the driver panics, pulling the gas nozzle from the car, spraying gas across the vehicle and pavement. >> was dealing with one customer, and the next thing i know i see a flash in the corner of my eye. i look out and sure enough theres a car on fire. >> as trained, corey hits the emergency pump shutoff button. this prevents thousands of gallons of gas beneath the station from adding more fuel to the fire. the driver and all of h...

Transcanada wrote to the state department asking that the u.s. government suspend the application to build that massive and hugely controversial pipeline to take hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil from tar sands country up in canada all the way down to the gulf of mexico. the pipeline, of course, the subject of widespread protests and very loud political activism not to mention loud partisan taunting from the republican side throughout the obama presidency. transcanada asking the obama admi...

>> they are forced to fight the fire from the outside but that has its risks. norum is concerned the old building will not be able to withstand the heat of the fire, and the weight of the water being pumped in to fight it. >> we were providing 500 gallons per minute at these locations. which leads to the dead load in the building. >> the citys buildings department tells norm that the structure is stable because there arent any cracks or bulges in the walls but he doesnt take any chances and esta...

>> gee. >> hey, theres the van. >> van, down by the river. >> here, a car exploding in slow motion. we would look something like this. >> right. like the expendables. >> right. >> the replaceables. the disposables. >> the disposables. >> these each have ten gallons of gaseous propane at about 100 psi. >> uh-huh. >> and theyll feed into the van here. along with the pilot lights. >> thats a big pilot light. >> yeah, because when we release the propane in here, its a lot of pressure. >> right. >> s...

This mojave desert solar program. >> you mean we did. >> we put that money in there. okay. we backed them. turns out mojave desert is right in california because its subject to enormous drought. guess what? solar projects like this, use millions of gallons of watt toer cool it down. you never hear a word from the greenies about this because theyre for solar. thats whats going on. were backing a project with our money that is using millions of gallons of water -- >> about to go bankrupt. >> which...

On elm street" and developed "scream" series. wes craven died sunday at his home in los angeles. he was 76. >> you had an opportunity to get to know him. >> i went to the set of "scream 4" in ann arbor, michigan. i was watching it filmed. there were literally gallons of blood. this fake blood. gallons of fake blood. i asked him, what is the attrition rate in your films? he claimed "scream 4" was deadliest by far. he was a really nice guy. for someone who made such creepy films, i was struck by h...

Others injured. officials say there has been no environmental contamination. two weeks ago an exploigs in the city of ptiangin killed people. were learning new information about the spill that dumped millions of gallons of toxic waste into a colorado river earlier this month. internal documents show the environmental protection agency knew the gold king mine was vulnerable to catastrophic failure but they didnt have a clear plan to deal with the crisis. the epa is confessing there could be blo...

Fires. we might be able to show you a pickup of water here so ill keep my eye on that. theyre doing that and having another 200 to relieve them as well. and then what theyre asking people who have any sort of training related to these -- something that may help fight a fire -- im going to go ahead and show you this shot. go ahead and show. so what that is is a helicopter that can actually scoop up water straight from the lake and then take it and deploy it to the fire line. it is fantastic to se...