An oil production and storage vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early on Wednesday with 10 crew members on board though it was not yet clear if there were any casualties or how much crude might have spilled into the sea.
the real is struggling, their currency. they were just today reconstituted on the black list meaning they re a money laundering concern to the world. so that doesn t look good in broad scope to that regime. you can anticipate that they would then begin to push back directly. they re not going to attack an american base, they re going to use their proxies and asymmetric powers, probably resort to cyber tools as we ve seen them in the past. so we have to anticipate that. what the administration has tried to do is deter that. they have sent messages, aligned forces, deployed forces and now president trump threatened the use of force directly. the question is can you deter further escalation and can you use the things that the iranians are doing to actually isolate them further and force them to come to grips that they have to talk their way out of this as opposed to exploding things on an oil vessel or shooting down
them there was an oil rig, an oil vessel that had broken free of its anchor and been abandoned, evacuated during the storm. it was headed towards puerto rico. they were about five hours away from impact with puerto rico when they scrambled one of these black hawk helicopters. that s black hawk was able to intercept that oil rig, that oil vessel, get people on it. they secured some mooring lines and avoided a major disaster. a major ecological disaster. they avoided what could have been catastrophic. avoiding what could have been catastrophic. up next six people injured and one killed after a mass gunman opens fire at a church in tennessee. we ll have the latest including the usher who saved lives. the senate prepares for a health care vote. a new version of the health care bill was unveiled moments ago.
vladim vladimir gute is in lagos. reporter: they ve launched a search and rescue mission to try to find the two sailors abducted from their oil vessel. the ship was attacked in the oil-rich niger delta. up until 2009, this area was notorious for kidnappings like groups for the movement of the emancipation of the niger delta or mend. they became inactive when the government offered them amnesty in exchange for laying down their arms, but lately they ve claimed some connection to this recent attack. we can t verify if these are from mend, but if they are resurgent, it could be a very worrisome development in a country already struggling with a muslim insurgency group in the northeast. back to you, christi. vlad, thank you so much. finally, let s go to saudi arabia, where dozens of women climbed into the driver s seat to demand more freedom. cnn international correspondent