after seven years and $7 billion and a couple of spectacular rig disasters and several flotillas of protesting kayaks and people rappelling off a bridge and the rest of it, shell did finally get up to the arctic, and they drilled in the arctic. and what they found was bubkes. a couple of weeks ago shell announced that the company, having found bubkes, was going to give up. after all this time and all that money they were giving up their arctic drilling effort. what they found up there was not worth it. quote, this is a clearly disappointing exploration outcome. shell will now cease further exploration activity in offshore alaska for the foreseeable future. operations will continue to safely demobilize people and equipment from the chukchi sea. the well will be sealed and abandoned in accordance with u.s. regulations. shell got permission to go drill the arctic from the obama administration but shell couldn t pull it off. they didn t get what they needed out there. and that was a co
equipment from the chukchi sea. the well will be sealed and abandoned in accordance with u.s. regulations. shell got permission to go drill the arctic from the obama administration but shell couldn t pull it off. they didn t get what they needed out there. and that was a couple of weeks ago that shell announced they were pulling out. and now tonight the white house has just pulled the plug on the whole thing for everyone because tonight the obama administration has announced that it will not renew any current drilling leases in arctic waters and they will not sell any more of them either. wow. this was the response from greenpeace to this announcement tonight. and i quote directly, greenpeace collectively waves its kayak paddles in thanks to the president for ensuring this arctic protection. this is big news today. we knew shell was pulling out. but they had been given permission. was somebody else going it follow them and try to pull off what shell wasn t able to do? no. we now know
perhaps led by the saudis ue and egyptians, iranians may be more inclined to test the waters to see if they can actually get to yemen if that is ultimately their objective. but i think it s going to come down as jim miklaszewski was reporting, it really depends on who takes the lead in trying to impose this block and i had off the coast of yemen and to what extent iran will try to challenge that block and i had. we had a front line reporter here last week that was insistent that this had nothing to do with the sectarian warfare, that this was not about the shiites, this was about an oppressed group. you sure as hell couldn t convince most of the world of that looking in from the outside. doesn t this look like a standard shiite versus sunni split? a lot of things in the middle east start on the political front and then take a sectarian twist, if you will, a sectarian flavor. but there is no doubt if you take a look at the conflict in
behind me here, i don t think you can probably see it but there s a hell couldn t they re came off the top of the hospital hehospita hospital helicopter that came off the top of the hospital and i haven t heard yet if was an f 4 or f 5 and it was the 12th most deadly i mean the fourth most deadly the country has ever seen. the death toll is 116 and expect that to rise. told it was an f 4, a powerful, powerful tornado. folks got word that joplin had a tornado moving in that direction. did the early warning system work the way it was supposed to work? i think that it did and it saved a lot of lives and also being sunday afternoon saved a lot of lives. just think what if they would have been the high school full of students and middle school full of students instead of being on a sunday afternoon. but we get warnings we are
territory. but we thought who better to talk to than retired general wesley clark. good to have you become on. thank you, brooke. i know you are not an aviator but you have commanded plenty of them, plenty of rescue units, hearing about this downed f-15, must be among the worst news a commander can get. it is. it really messes up your day when you hear it. but we have been practicing rescue for years, we have got there is a play on this, aircraft standing by, there is a package that can go in, not only the hell couldn t they re does the pickup or the v-22 osprey in one case but it is also the escort aircraft, the jamming aircraft, everything that s needed to go in and get that pilot. the pilots are trained, they should have communications from the ground with hand-held radios when they go in and they are told where to go and how to meet, there are recognition signals and link-up signals they he know what ber doing, we worked. this during the kosovo campaign we lost two aircraft