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This summer. this is an icebreaking ship. it breaks ice, but it also holds something called the capping stack, which would be needed as a component of the emergency spill response if shell's argument ig oil drilling resulted in a well blowout or some. shell has been poised to start drilling the arctic any day now. as it prepared to start the drilling process, this icebreaker was heading out to the drilling site where it was docked in alaska, this ship somehow sprung a three-foot leak. it had a three-foot-long hull ripped into the hull somehow, and forced it to return to shore. it happened earl...

This ship right here pulled into portland under the cover of darkness you see the lights gleaming in the darkness there. that's a shell oil icebreaking. it's key to shell's efforts to try to drill the arctic for oil this summer. this is an icebreaking ship. it breaks ice, but it also holds something called the capping stack, which would be needed as a xom uponant of the emergency spill response if shell's argument ig oil drilling resulted in a well blowout or some. shell has been poised to start drilling the arctic any day now. as it prepared to start the drilling process, this icebreaker was ...

Underway to take off that capping stack. thomas? >> anne thompson in venice, louisiana. we shift gears to talk about earl from north carolina's outer banks to new england, the east coast is bracing itself to the effects of hurricane earl. we bring you complete coverage of the storm and it's potential impact on the east coast. nbc news meteorologist bill karins is tracking that storm, the weather channel's stephanie abrams live on north carolina's outer banks. now we have got this latest information about how strong this storm is and it's just been downgraded, right? >> category 4, one of the...

People were on this platform than on the deepwater horizon where you remember over 100 were on board when it exploded. we know there's a smaller human element to this. the question is what is the environmental danger from this fire? it's just too early to know. >> i understand there's an update now about the deepwater horizon well as well. >> yes. bp through its twitter counacco put out it resumed trying to move the capping stack on top of the macondo well that caused all the problems in the deepwater horizon. it's the first in a multi-step process. the enterprise will try to lift up the cappi...

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