huge underground drilling machine, has hit something and it can t get past it. stephanie elam has the story. reporter: no doubt, bertha is a beheem. she s the largest tunnelling machine in the world and she was put to work tunnelling in seattle for a planned highway, but bertha was oonl tenth of the way along her journey when she suddenly encountered something large enough and strong enough to stop her in her tracks. we re being really cautious. want to make sure we don t damage this $80 million machine. reporter: but what is it? g geologists point to how it was filled in by engineers. you find shoes, newspapers, there s a boat buried in downtown seattle. so, you name it. it could be down there. reporter: another theory,
fender and hood where they come together and it landed with such force that it actually bent the frames underneath, pretty much totaled it because of the damage. hours earlier, drummond, a storm chaser, begins following a violent storm that might spawn a tornado. but instead, only brings hail and lightning to west texas. there was a huge lightning strike, bigger and louder than normal. i thought that must have hit something, and shortly after that, i heard on the scanner that tones went out for the fire department. the lightning strike starts a fire at the tank facility that separates oil and gas from sea water used during drilling. the fire department arrives to find three tanks fully engulfed and more tanks that could catch fire at any moment. there were four other tanks that was in close proximity to those tanks that were actively burning, and i didn t want to lose all of the tanks. with no tornadoes to chase, drummond decides to drive to the fire and starts recording the
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what would you do? would you drive off the road at 60 miles per hour and purposely ram into something? or stay the course and risk dozens of lives in hopes that someone, somehow figures out how to safely stop you. my thoughts were just swerve off the road. hit a tree. hit something to try to get the vehicle stopped and hope for the best. while officer carroll s car races in hot pursuit, he is haunted by a fatal accident in san diego two years before. i remember a youtube video where a family of four or five, they made a phone call to the emergency dispatch 911. we re going 120. we re in trouble. there s no brakes. and it captured all the way to the scene of the crash. and everybody died. we re approaching an intersection. we re approaching an intersection. hold on. whoa! whoa! hello. it stuck in my head and it