carts so presumably the offloading of passengers and their luggage is imminent. greta: jonathan, you ve mentioned the fact that they re flying a foreign country flag, they don t usually fly an american country flag. so i assume there s less sort of monitoring or regulation or control of the ships than perhaps the airline industry n.t.s.b. monitoring it. is anyone going to investigate this outside of carnival? and that s a very good question. we in fact spoke with maritime lawyer, jim walker, who said that he is hoping that this will lead to a lengthy congressional investigation, that will look into this type of regulation, increased regulation by the u.s. government, but as you pointed out, greta, these cruise ships fly foreign flags, generally
the house could pass what they call a resolution of disapproval over the president s request to raise the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion. a debt clock ticking away. right now 15.2 trillion. such a lovely sight. the vote mostly symbolic because the senate widely expected to shoot down the resolution that makes the debt ceiling go up. much more in a live report on the hill coming up next hour. a lot of that settled back in august you remember. martha: indeed it was. how about relief coming for this ice-bound town we ve been talking about this week? a russian tanker and crew offloading more than a million gallons of fuel to nome, alaska, one of the most remote places on earth. after a 5,000 mile journey through rough seas and ice eight feet thick, can you imagine? bill: nope. martha: eight feet thick ice they had to cut their way to get there a ice breaker hoped to clear the path. look at astonishing pictures from alaska. because of a massive storm,
weapons and ammunition supplies during thinks eight-month massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators, intelligence says he is running out of critcat items, hence the ammunition air bridge, loading planes from tehran international airport and flying with unsuspecting passengers to damascus where planes taxi to a military facility for unloading. it is a last-ditch effort by the iranians to cover their tracks as turkey recently intercepted a number of arms shipments using iranian cargo planes and since banned it from its airspace. there are about seven of these flights a week that head from tehran into damascus. we can tell you, jon, it is not just a couple of crates of ammunition they are offloading. from first-hand accounts passed to us by these intelligence sources we are now learning it is taking an hour and a half to two hours for them to unload these planes of all the weapons coming in there to syria. jon, back to you. jon: iran helping prop up bashar assad s regime?