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Now they will attempt an unprecedented scientific e ssion. the crew will sail close to the north pole, cut the engine, and wait for water to freeze around the vessel. they will then simply drift with the ice flow. markus rex is the expedition leader. >> in the u.s. in the beginning of this year, when the snowstorms and blizzards went down to florida, that is all driven by climate change in the arctic. we need to understand that to understand how our extreme weather in the future wi >> reporter: mental fortitude is cienrmidable challenge. ghe scientists are bracing themselves for long periods o...

Tonight. world leaders are weighs in on the chants and how the president is dealing with it? >> reporter: indeed. and references the president's racist tweet, justin saying the comments were hurtful and prong. and the german prime minister angela merckel says she stands in solidarity with the four congress women. david. >> thank you. the u.s. military is monitoring a container ship traveling through the strait of hormuz. let's go to martha raddatz. what do we know about the seized ships? >> reporter: iran had seized 23 violated kreerp rules. the british foreign secretary saying he is extreme...

About the seizure, calling it unacceptable. david, this is a series escalation. >> martha, in the meantime, the u.s. saying it destroyed an iranian drone, and iran is showing video they claim proves it. >> reporter: that's right. they aired video they claim came from the drone the u.s. says it destroyed. the video has a time stamp that would be after the hour the drone went down. there is no proof that the time stamp is accurate. and the white house today said there is very clear evidence the iranian drone was destroyed by the u.s. military. >> all right, martha, thank you. tonight, an ameri...

From the hull. >> reporter: that convinced president trump iranians planted the mines that disabled both tankers. >> reporter: american experts are now on board the japanese tanker as it is being towed to port and have found pieces of the magnet which held the mine to the ship still stuck to the hull. the other tanker, the norwegian- owned "front altair," also needs to be towed, but a u.s. defense official says the iranian navy has been preventing commercial tugs from tying up to it. the "front altair" was hit by three explosions and burned for hours. a cargo ship which picked up the crew sent...

Tensions here have been escalating for weeks. just last month, four tankers were targeted in these same seas in a coordinated series of explosions that crippled the ships. the u.s. blamed iran for those attacks, too, accusations tehran has vehemently denied. the united arab emirates' foreign minister called the attacks "a worrying and dangerous escalation." they all took place near the strait of hormuz, where almost a third of the world's oil supplies shipped by sea pass through the narrow waterway that skirts the coast of iran, and a potential flash point between the u.s. navy's fifth fleet a...