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>> keep going. >> reporter: with the attack coming from three different directions, special forces spread out across open farmland. >> right on back side. right on the back side. >> reporter: their only cover in this fertile valley, low-lying ditches and sparse undergrowth. >> all right. this is what we're going to do. we're going to continue up this [ bleep ] riverbed until we get to the left side. we want it with us, okay? straight there. let's roll. >> reporter: for a brief moment, they pause. a special forces operator targets the enemy firing position with a 40 millimeter grenade launcher....

We will continue to do throughout the hour. stay with us right here. and this is a fox news alert. it's a breaking news from outer space, as nasa just revealing the idea of ancient martians could actually have been a reality. all right, trace, what's the story? >> reporter: look, i've got to tell you, he megyn, evmegyn, ev you're not a space geek. this is a big deal. what happened is curiosity rover actually dug a sample of bed rock in what they believe to be an old martian stream or river bed, if you will. and that's it right there. and first showed the rock multiple periods of wet conditions...

Look at the rocks we have here. it is broken pavement here. it is like broken pavement. can it is the type of sedimentary rock . we rook at the next image which is a close up of the foreground. all of the rocks are smooth and round and pebbles are on the grown. we are convinced it is an old river bed when you think of the mars being a wet planet. it goes back to ancient time. how ancient at the moment? >> we are talking about three and half to four billion when mars was a warm and wet planet not unlike earth and standing waters and salty marshes and

Because the water flow has slowed down, it's allowed salt water to start creeping up in new orleans, toward new orleans, and they're worried about the drinking water supply in new orleans. the army corps of engineers is going to start work hopefully today on an underwater barrier to stop that salt water but here today, we're seeing another effect of the low water. we're on the army corps of engineers dredge in the mississippi river. this is essentially a giant vacuum cleaner, sucking up sediment from the river bed and spewing it out into the center of the river, sort of letting it disperse wit...

Up, how to shake it loose from the bottom of the river bed so they could wipe it up on the surface with the old bad technology. the name of the company that owned the pipeline is enbridge. the federal government fined them more than $3 million, which is roughly lunch money for a company with annual revenue in the hundreds of millions. two years after enbridge's disaster on the kalamazoo river, two years almost to the day, look at what's happened now. another enbridge pipe has burst. this time in wisconsin. the spill happened on friday in a field. the milwaukee journal sentinel reporting, quote...