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Okay, fair warning. i am obsessed with this story. this is the uss guardian stuck off the coast of the philippines. a giant ship being stuck on something is never a good thing. but this one happened to get stuck specifically on a unesco world heritage site, embedding its rudders in the middle of a national park in the philippines. early on once we got stuck on it, the plan was to tow the reef off at high tide. that did not work. in fact, the mine sweeper only got more stuck. ultimately the navy ...

Ship by crane. and then the truly amazing part. preparing this 224-foot-long ship to be cut into four pieces, through the hull. to make the cuts, the supervisor of sal individual said this week, we have had to painstakingly clear about a two-foot path in the ship, removing everything in our way. they had divers using chain saws and underwater cutting tools to just cut a two-foot-wide straight line through the ship, leading ultimately to this. yes, that is a cross-section of a u.s. navy mine swee...

The ship, was lifted off the ship by crane. and then the truly amazing part. preparing this 224-foot-long ship to be cut into four pieces, through the hull. to make the cuts, the supervisor of sal individual said this week, we have had to painstakingly clear about a two-foot path in the ship, removing everything in our way. they had divers using chain saws and underwater cutting tools to just cut a two-foot-wide straight line through the ship, leading ultimately to this. yes, that is a cross-sec...

The ship, was lifted off the ship by crane. and then the truly amazing part. preparing this 224-foot-long ship to be cut into four pieces, through the hull. to make the cuts, the supervisor of salvage said this week, we have had to painstakingly clear about a two-foot path in the ship, removing everything in our way. they had divers using chain saws and underwater cutting tools to just cut a two-foot-wide straight line through the ship, leading ultimately to this. yes, that is a cross-section of...

Concerned about. >> the u.s. government is also calling this a terror attack. and this is the guy believed to be behind it all. his name is moqtar, a one-eyed veteran jihaddist with ties to al qaeda. he was apparently kicked out of the network because they say he was more interested in raising money than helping jihad. he earned the anymore neighboring the marlboro man. he also made millions of dollars from doing kidnappings of westerners and holding them ransom but he was not on a terror watch ...

Apparently he smuggled cigarettes and drugs and made millions of dollars doing that and also kidnapping westerners and then holding them for ransom. but he was not on any terror watch list. right now the u.s. and france are in talks with the algerian government to decide what kind of international force, if any, should be sent in there. again, the headline coming out of all of this is some americans have escaped. we dont know yet how many. apparently these americans have called home to their fam...

remember that, tied to the train track, helpless, her only hope is that shes rescued before she is flattened, destroyed, ripped to bits, like a penny on the train track. makes me think of the aflac ad. the government added another $60 billion to the deficit in june. so the grand total on money that weve borrowed so far this fiscal year is $904 billion. the real headline, though, is that that number confirmed that we are on solid track to hit a $1 trillion deficit for the fourth year in...

the plane land asked the passengers were taken off. a bomb squad is spongd and a delta technician has been called in to try to figure out whether the wiring is indeed suspicious. we dont know how many passengers were on board the flight but it did land safely. >> all right. and at this point in time, not to put you on the spot. do we know who did this? >> it is unclear at this time. there is some conflicting information about that. so at this time they are saying it was discovered unti...

burnett. a damsel in distress. remember that, tied to the train track, helpless, her only hope is that shes rescued before she is flattened, destroyed, ripped to bits, like a penny on the train track. makes me think of the aflac ad. the government added another $60 billion to the deficit in june. so the grand total on money that weve borrowed so far this fiscal year is $904 billion. the real headline, though, is that that number confirmed that we are on solid track to hit a $1 trillion...

Given our military presence and how crucial it is to some operations in the region, how closely should we be watching bahrain. what, if anything, should the administration do? >> we should watch very careful but its worth remembering that the stakes in bahrain for us in terms of military presence are considerable but not astronomical. we base two mine sweeper ships there. we dont have any of our big warships there. we have the headquarters of the 5th fleet with a couple thousand people. that cou...