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On tuesday, we told you about how activists affiliated with greenpeace used climbing equipment to board and set up camp on a drill rig, that's being hauled across the specific ocean, in an effort to draw attention to shell's plans to use the rig to drill for oil in the arctic later this summer. the company has not drilled in the arctic since 2012. the rig, which the activist boarded three days ago is now northeast of hawaii en route to seattle, where shell hopes to base its arctic drilling staging ground. the company has now filed a complaint in federal court in alaska against greenpeace seeki...

Dop y do you need to be doing that at night? danger like that but also you're working on creating a mine there that's really close to another one. you've got to think there are people that are keeping an eye on how much gold is being mined and may want to rob you or compete with you because you're taking maybe part of what they believe should be coming from their mine but you're now excavating there. you're facing a lot of issues. >> we have to take into consideration all of those elements. making sure that we're keeping up the schedule we need on mining side and in that instance we were doing...

Drive on this bridge if we thought there were any concerns whatsoever. >> so, as i understand it, and you are going to have to clear this up for me if you could, kirk. although we are not establishing any cause officially right now as i understand it, there was an accident and there was a truck that did crash into part of the structure of the bridge. can you sort of round that out and give me the real pick? >> yes. about 7:00 last night, we had a semi that was traveling southbound on i-5, a flatbed semi. it was carrying a very large oversize load basically, equipment casing form for a drill ri...

Think the iranians have any illusion that in a major confrontation with the united states, they would come out of this anything other than a huge loser. uma: well the stakes remain quite high in this regard. certainly something we'll watch very closely. thank you so much for joining us with your insights today. >> always a pleasure. uma: thank you. jon: from oil troubles in the middle east to oil production troubles in alaska. a shell oil drill rig in trouble in the gulf of alaska. that now unmanned rig became stranded in a fierce storm. it was being towed back to port when the cable snapped. ...

it is deadly. the u.s. agriculture department announced that a case of mad cow disease has been confirmed -- confirmed in a dairy cow out in central california. let's bring in lisa sylvester. she's working this story for us. lisa, what is the department of agriculture saying. what's going on? >> reporter: wolf, the usda just released information within the last hour and what we know is that it is a dairy cow from central california that has tested positive for bse or commonly known or referred to as mad cow disease, and wolf, this is only the fourth case ever detected in the united s...