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) â Operation Coal Shovel, as itâs 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 uncertainty on when it will all clear, while the arctic air coming into the region only makes matters worse.
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 the bill that is we will be passing is a long overdue pay
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 pressure up with what other countries have for this capability? absolutely, martha. so the coast guard isvel relevant in what we call the high lat attitudes or polar regions up in the artic. we are operating the sole
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 these temperatures? i can barely imagine being outside. thank you. good stuff. appreciate it. thank you. we all know weed is now legal in colorado. but some pot vendors say they are scared for their safety because they re forced to conduct their transactions in cash. making their shops a real target for robbers. now the attorney general eric
ship that s been stuck in the ice near antarctica? it s pretty darn cold. the vessel carrying 74 people, many scientists, some tourists, it s been stranded since christmas eve. and now russian authorities say the passengers are going to be air lifted out, boy, did they try everything otherwise. jonathan hunt is live in our new york newsroom. they sent these ice cutters in specifically they re supposed to cut ice. and they couldn t, jonathan. it s been beset by difficulties this entire rescue operation and the idea of a helicopter going in to evacuate those on board is anything but certain. the russians are saying they are considering it. this is not decided by any means because of the bad weather in the area. the helicopter from the chinese ice breaker, the snow dragon, did a fly past of the stricken research ship yesterday. it would have been trying to check out areas of ice where it would be stable enough to land. then they d have to get everybody off of the ship or most of them