nonus islands where we helped during a window of operational safety between jose and irma. this has been a large event and you ll hear positive stories from it. control expectations and we have a long road ahead of us to bring electrical power back online and we have flotillas, a total of nine large ships and i ll just cut right to the oak hill, wasp, mclean and abraham lincoln and iwo jima, and the ferrigate in new york. that is an aircraft carrier and large platforms of helicopters, that is an operation, for most americans has never been mobilized for this type of emergency response effort inn or history. to the extent it meets the need, we re saving hundreds if not
before hurricane harvey hit and the house appropriations committee spokesman tells nbc news given the current situation the committee is reassessing the issue and remains fully committed to providing what is necessary for relief and recovery. skblienchts let s talk business. the main pipeline carrying fuel from texas to the east coast is temporarily shut down because of refinery outages related to hurricane harvey. cnbc s gemma atkin joins us live from london. good to have you with us. what will the impact be here as a result of this shutdown? it s an enormous impact. more than one-fifth of u.s. oil refining capacity has been knocked out by this storm. what we are hearing here in london specifically from a report by the financial times is there s a big surge in cargo ships set to come out to the u.s. around 40 cargos have set to be booked this week, which needless to say, is substantially higher than regular volume. those flotillas getting set to
after seven years and $7 billion and a couple of spectacular rig disasters and several flotillas of protesting kayaks and people rappelling off a bridge and the rest of it, shell did finally get up to the arctic, and they drilled in the arctic. and what they found was bubkes. a couple of weeks ago shell announced that the company, having found bubkes, was going to give up. after all this time and all that money they were giving up their arctic drilling effort. what they found up there was not worth it. quote, this is a clearly disappointing exploration outcome. shell will now cease further exploration activity in offshore alaska for the foreseeable future. operations will continue to safely demobilize people and equipment from the chukchi sea. the well will be sealed and abandoned in accordance with u.s. regulations. shell got permission to go drill the arctic from the obama administration but shell couldn t pull it off. they didn t get what they needed out there. and that was a co
he became the first sitting president to travel above the arctic circle. he went there specifically to highlight the effects of climate change and to talk about his administration s efforts to combat it. but he did that right after approving drilling the arctic for oil. here s the thing. after seven years and $7 billion and a couple of spectacular rig disasters and several flotillas of protesting kayaks and people rappelling off a bridge and the rest of it, shell did finally get up to the arctic, and they drilled in the arctic. and what they found was bubkes. a couple of weeks ago shell announced that the company, having found bubkes, was going to give up. after all this time and all that money they were giving up their arctic drilling effort. what they found up there was not worth it. quote, this is a clearly disappointing exploration outcome. shell will now cease further exploration activity in offshore alaska for the foreseeable future. operations will continue to safely demobil
amir. you know what, greta? the message has to be sent. right this minute we have flotillas that we are worried about. going to start escorting our ships through the canal. we have soldiers that are serving on there. they are looking at the news and they are saying to themselves eggs could you say me. if something goes awry and i end up being held in another country, are you going it turn your back on me while i m defending your democracy? that s a question that we all have to ask. big question. montel, thank you for joining us, welcome to washington. next time i hope it s with your brother-in-law. thank you. and to the viewers at home. keep tweeting with #free amir now because we want to get him home. just ahead, on the record goes back to the streets of baltimore as our breaking news coverage of the protest continues. that s next.