Ice Cutters News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Two more US Coast Guard ice cutters en route to St. Clair River in relief and last updated 2021-02-06 22:22:10-05 ST. CLAIR, Mich. (WXYZ) — Operation Coal Shovel, as it’s called by the U.S. Coast Guard, is now underway in the St Clair River. A number of U.S. and Canadian ice breakers are traveling up and down the river breaking up ice jams, but not before they caused massive flooding. Some neighborhoods from Algonac to Port Huron are covered in sheets of ice, some homes filled with freezing cold water. The flooding is still not over yet. The massive amount of ice is creating uncerta...

The fix for south carolina which has bipartisan bicameral support. just a word on the agreement that we will be voting on later today, in addition to the pieces on homeland security which are very important, by the way, the homeland security budget is a big budget. it's not just ant the mexico border. it's about ice cutters in off of alaska and other parts of our border are that are not necessarily just the southern part and i'm pleased that some long-advocated for pieces are now in that budget as well so when you talk about the size of the budget it's broader than the u.s./mexico border. but ...

Line as possible against transnational criminals. last year we were with partner agencies and international partners stem 491,000 pounds of cocaine kept that from american shores. that's the same illicit narcotics that fuels the immigration from hu honduras, guatemala el salvador. show up at our southwest border. >> martha: you are very busy. in terms of the north part of the globe and to the south, too. the ice cutters that you need to function. tell me a little bit about what you need that perhaps you don't have and we will look at the action of these ice cutters on the screen how do we pres...

>> crunch, crunch, can you hear it? >> i hear it. >> 75% of all the heating oil used in this country is imported through this area, new england, new york, and new jersey, and 90% is delivered right through this ice. but there's also another purpose to this painstaking, and we learned today. security, including at neighboring ports and they all keep an eye on the water to make sure that we're safe, these ice cutters are true experts. their working also be life saving because they have trained personnel keeping an eye for vessels that might be in distress. can you imagine being in the ice in the...

Lot of businesses have already, you know, started to cave in. shoveling, it's not much fun anymore. because i don't like ladder, i'm shoveling out the window and we're trying to get this heavy load off before the rained next snow. >> reporter: that gentleman knows what he's talking about, as if 18 feet isn't enough, another 4-10 inches is expected soon. that's like a dusting compared to what folks in cordova had been dealing with. check out these pictures, this is the high school we're going to show you, and the snow literally piled up to the roof. look at that! and here is a home in cordova, ...