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Bring salt to northern illinois. after the delivery headed up north to lake michigan and south on lake huron before getting stuck. this coast guard vessel has literally created a watery path blazing a trail so jackman can follow us and get home safely. a short time after, it got stuck. hollyhock had to go back. but now safe. two of 367 ships the hollyhock assisted this winter and aiding $300 million worth of cargo. >> knowing what we can do to assist the movement of the commercial vessels and th...

1500 miles from where im standing, its been the biggest air search so far. a total of six countries in that search. there are airplanes going down there, small commercial jets with a dozen or so spotters on them. they have not reported anything back. were still waiting for the search coordinators answers. maritime authorities, here in australia to release the latest information about what theyve seen down there. we have before this hour, its now 4:30 in previous days, known that theyve seen anyt...

When people are wondering whether the airplanes can see the debris. >> this is in one of the remotest parts of the world. in fact, chinese warships are on the way including the snow dragon. thats a ship that breaks up the ice. the ice breaker part gets to me, miles, because it means theyll perhaps search closer to the south pole and it cant be easy to find things through ice. >> well, i suppose, that if wreck kachblg did land on top of the ice, that would ease the efforts. if youre talking about...

Plane. theyre breaking the ice apart, not using the ships and ice breakers. but 20 bombs. >> you got to love china. nothing a few munitions, a couple of explosives cant fix. >> or break. >> but no cloud seeding from china at this point? >> not today. not yet. >>ing o, thank you for that. see you tomorrow. >> yep. >> that does it for this hour of cnn news room. for our viewers in the united states, stay with us. "early start" is coming up next. for everyone else, stay with us here.

Create paths, and in some cases create circular areas where the huge ships can actually turn around in small places. its a monsterous task. theyre getting ready to start it this week. it is so imperative to get ships moving. >> ted, you remember the story about the russian trip, the scientists. they were trying to get ice breakers there. it was so difficult. we learned about the ships that do the work. theyre not that sophisticated. what are they finding on the lakes? how difficult is it for ice...

We shot this incredible aerial footage last week from above you can see how much work is ahead for the coast guards fleet of ice breakers as the great lake shipping season begins. the best way to get through the ice is to ram into it with the mobile bays 670 tons of weight. >> you combine horsepower and weight and force yourself on the ice and try to break the ice and force yourself through. >> reporter: it takes several hours but eventually the mobile bay is able to cut a new path to lake michi...

Weather locks up the shipping lanes on the great lakes commerce locked up as well so the nation depends on the ice breakers with the u.s. coast guard. with ice on the great lakes nearing record levels, the crew of the ice breaker biscayn ebay finds themselves close to chicago. you can see it from the satellites. great lakes are nearly 80% frozen. usually the normal tugs can handle the ice but this year its getting a little too thick for them so the coast grd had to bring in an ice breaker to hel...

This stuff and this is what they need the coast guard out here to break. when it gets thick like this, all the ice breaker can do is ram the ice, back up, ram it again until they carve a path. >> sometimes that takes several hours to get through a field like this. >> home heating oil, coal, building supplies all come to the state over the gret lakes, something in great demand. road salt would be locked up in the ice if they werent out breaking the ice. well probably be depending on the crew of t...

Weather, of course. they actually got on the russian vessel on the 28th of november and have been at sea that entire time. they ran foo trouble on christmas eve, as you said. they were then stuck in thick ice and treacherous conditions and had to wait eight days to be rescued by a helicopter which was on board a chinese ice breaker. that was after three failed rescue attempts from ice breakers from france, china, and they couldnt even break through the thick ice. the helicopter rescue mission wa...

Taking my gutters off my garage. >> reporter: youve already seen this incredible video of strong winds, wiping out homes under construction in raleigh, north carolina. but we now know the winds at citys airport clocked in at a record 86 miles per hour on saturday. in ohio ice jams caused a river to overflow. residents had to be rescued. pets, too. >> it was a bad situation. we just had to help them get out of there. >> reporter: in western new york, crews using boats, even a bulldozer, to free d...