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Celebrating a major breakthrough after years of drilling under very harsh conditions near the south pole. they finally have reached a giant lake buried under miles of ice. some are comparing the difficulty of what they have accomplished to reaching another planet. tom jones is a former astronaut for nasa and a fox news contributor, we'll be talking with him. but first, let's talk with robin bell, with the earth observatory, she joins us on the phone from london. so this lake was, i guess, only discovered in the last 20 years or so. it's the size of lake ontario, but it's buried under two miles...

Truck and a public transit bus left the truck's driver dead. and almost a dozen people injured. the collision was so forceful that both drivers had to be cut out of their vehicles. in tennessee, three miners had to be rescued after a fire trapped them 800 feet underground. the fire broke out yesterday afternoon on a drill rig in a zinc mine near knoxville. the trapped miners were in contact with officials, but thick smoke prevented them from leaving a safe area. it took rescuers about three hours to get them out safely. now to the story we teased, a tech savvy georgia family turning to soc...

The u.s. than we did in the last 7 years. we have to stop having the partisan conversations and give credit where credit is due. the department of energy, that was dictated by the administration. he wants to do this in a safe way because we don't want to see what happened with bp. >> reporter: he took credit for oil pro duck on the rise. does anyone know how long it takes for a permit to go through the permitting process. and get a drill rig out and producing oil? it's under george bush's watch who was the first to pull the moratorium. megyn: he said oil production reached its highest level ev...

Than off a floating rig. but environmentalists say it's a clever way of gaming the federal permit system. rebecca noblin represents half a dozen environmental groups. >> if there were an oil spill, that oil is going into the ocean. it's not on land. so, this really is -- this is drilling in water. >> reporter: that's the heart of the debate. does putting the massive drill rig on a 32-acre pile of gravel mean bp's liberty island project should be subject to federal rules for drilling on land or should it be subject to the more rigorous rules of offshore drilling? the fact is, three years ago, b...

Groups. >> if anything were to go wrong, if there were an oil spill that oil is going into the ocean. it's not on land. so this is really, you know, drilling in water. >> reporter: that is the heart of the debate. does putting the massive drill rig on a 32 mile pile of gravel mean bp's island project should be subject to the federal rules for drilling on land or the more rigorous rules of offshore drilling? the fact is, three years ago, bp succeeded in getting a land-based drilling permit. in an e-mail to cnn, a bp spokesman says the company carefully followed the state and federal permitting ...