big role in this as well. our casey stegall a live and warm i hope in the west coast news hub, casey? talk about a voyage, the ship left russia by the way in the middle of december and picked up diesel in south korea and making his way about 300 miles through the ice of the bering sea, ever since, all of this of course with the help of the u.s. coast guard cutter healy. just for perspective. take a look at the map. nome alaska is very, very small, only about 3500 people or so way up there on the northwestern part of alaska. it missed its pre-winter delivery of fuel after a storm swept through months ago. now we should tell you tonight that the tanker and the cutter are situated less than a half mile off the coast of nome and crews are ready to begin piecing together a huge segmented pipe that will actually lay on top of the ice