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epic cleanup. several senate lawmakers are at the border right now getting a close-up look at the real crisis, looking for real answers. im harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." one group, a bipartisan delegation led by texas republican john cornyn, and arizona independent kyrsten sinema making stops in their home states focused on finding solutions. >> what is happening now is happening on our doorstep and we need to work together to try to address it in the best way we...

queen elizabeth ii dead. her son, prince charles, is now king charles iii, officially. we learned queen elizabeths doctors were quote, concerned about her health this morning. it was at the time, an extraordinary statement from a notoriously private buckingham palace. those words sent news outlets like ours into rolling wait and see coverage and thousands of well wishers to buckingham palace itself, watching those railings. that fencing. where all the royals most significant news is so...

Ship upright. the biden administrations war on fossil fuels is coming for your kitchen, jason. do you like to cook with gas? many people do. i do. it is reportedly considering a ban on gas stoves. the very stoves and cook tops found in 40% of american homes except for year in new york where theyve made the edict you cant have anything but an electric now. the consumer safety commission cites concerns over pollution emitted by appliances. research links them to asthma and other problems. industry...

Court. hes facing charges that could put him in prison for more than 20 years if convicted. >> reporter: the former captain is finally getting his day in court. nearly three years after the cruise liner ran aground off the italian coast. he is facing charges that include multiple manslaughter, causing a maritime disaster and abandoning ship. the trial started last july, but this is the first time hell get to testify. the costa concordia struck rocks in italy in 2012, killing 42 of the people on ...

Unbalancing the ship. it never recovered, sinking fast. i tried to get the ship upright, but the equipment wouldnt work. he and six others have been charged with negligence. four more are being questioned. prosecutors say the company lied about the weight of the cargo on the ship, and theyre investigating whether the company also bribed government safety inspectors to give the ship the all-clear. the passengers paid for what prosecutors say was criminal negligence with their lives. the number of...

Was swept away. hundreds more are missing and unaccounted for. nearly 12,000 people have been evacuated. after 20 months on its side, the "costa concordia" is now upright. check this out. look, these are live pictures for you right now. celebrations were breaking out after a technical team successfully used massive pulleys, cables and steel tanks to move that 114,000 ton ship upright. a robotic submarine will survey the damage in order to begin the process of refloating that ship. it isnt expe...

For now they say theyre cautiously optimistic. lifting a ship the size of the costa concordia from its side has never been tried before. more than 100,000 tons of water-logged wreckage now slowly being pulled upright. engineers monitor the vessels every move. there is, after all, a very real risk the ship could break apart. >> shes a massive ship, thats what im thai saying. weve added to the slopes and the two reeves that shes balanced on and it takes the whole project into a different scale. >>...

Floatation devices attached to the ships side are designed to help it cruise athe way to a neighbor port. under water december still floats along the seabed, an ominous reminder of the toxic stew still inside the vessel, a disaster if the salvage operation is not successful. removeing the ship is depositing nearly $800 million and the people are praying that the deteriorating costa concordia will soon be floating again. if officials are successful, if they are able to rotate this massive ship up...

Its a graveyard, folks. two victims are believed to be inside. its like a mini battery thats urjd water. now, take a look at this animation. the crew will be using a method called par buckling. all is that means, folks, is th theyre going to roll the ship upright. there are a lot of riszings here, associated with this because hear this, the ship has. >> reporter: settled in 14 feet into the rock. now, its been in salt and water. and so the metal has been deteriorating for months. now, this par b...

Ship upright. and a series of enormous flotation devices attached to the ships sides will help the cruise liner float away to a nearby port, hopefully all in one piece. >> roundabout the 20th of august, all the grouting and the mattresses should be underneath the bed of the "concordia." >> reporter: what makes the maneuver so risky, engineers behind the project say they only have one shot to make the deteriorating "costa concordia" float again. >> all right, that was erin mclaughlin reporting an...