huge amounts of oil by train is instead by pipelines and proponents of pipelines, specifically, of course the keystone xl oil pipeline. they right now are using these high profile recent oil train accidents to say, hey, pipelines are safer, trains are blowing up everywhere. give pipelines the green light. go keystone. undercutting that argument is, of course, the mine numbing number of pipeline spills that have also soiled recently like the pipeline explosion in may flower arkansas in march. that made the entire neighborhood uninhabitable. the one that fouled if pristine yellowstone river in montana in 2011 or the spill under the kalamazoo river in michigan a year earlier. that cleanup is still ongoing in michigan. sort of a pick your poison, right? do you want the exploding railcar behind door number one or the potentially exploding pipeline behind door number two. in texas, they are getting an extra dose of number two.
making crude oil rail shipments safer. and it s pretty clear that it needs to be made safer, just ask the poor schuylkill river with this looming ahead right now. the alternative to traveling huge amounts of oil by rain is instead by pipelines and proponents of pipelines, specifically, of course the keystone xl oil pipeline. they right now are using these high profile recent oil train accidents to say, hey, pipelines are safer, trains are blowing up everywhere. give pipelines the green light. go keystone. undercutting that argument is, of course, the mine numbing number of pipeline spills that have also spilled big swads recently like the pipeline explosion in may flower arkansas in march. that made the entire neighborhood uninhabitable. the one that fouled if pristine yellowstone river in montana in
anticipating a lot of people. we are going to talk with bill simon and terry lundgren. good morning. we are following breaking news overnight in missouri. a pipeline explosion rocked the small town of ustonia. officials say there was a rupture at a compressor. an official says there were no fatalities or injuries. the cause is still under investigation. officials promising to investigate an air strike that hit thursday in afghanistan. local officials in helmand province claim a child was killed. this is coming at a sensitive time as washington and kabul tried to determine the future role of u.s. troops in afghanistan. president karzai saying the latest strike shows that the u.s. doesn t care about civilians and that if there are more attacks, he won t sign a
we have some developing news for washington, illinois, sad news. one more person, an 82-year-old woman, has died from injuries sustained from last week s tornado. eight other people killed in that ef-4 twister that destroyed up to 500 homes. meanwhile some missouri families east of kansas city had to evacuate their homes last night after a natural gas pipeline explosion sent flames shooting into the sky. take a look at this video of the pipeline explosion. this is in pettis county, pipeline eastern power company turned the pipeline off and the fire was out in an hour and a half. nobody was injured. they aren t sure what caused the rupture. china launched planes to track u.s. to do training over controversial island claim by both china and japan. last week they claimed it maritime zone, notify china before entering the no-fly zone.
you can bet those teams, those tech teams, are working full time trying to get to that deadline. jill, thank you so very much. we have other stories we are watching. a lot of stories making headlines. rosa flores is doing the job for us. good morning. good morning to you at home. we are covering breaking news from overnight. a pipeline explosion sends shock waves to the small missouri town of hustonia. it is 75 miles west of kansas city. they say there was a rupture at a compressor. a spokeswoman says, no one was killed or injured and the cause is under investigation. nato officials promising to investigate an air strike that hit thursday in afghanistan. local officials claim a child was killed. this is coming as washington and kabul tried to determine the future role of u.s. troops in afghanistan. president hamid karzai saying that if there are more strikes,