Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind
Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind
All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. All weekend long, American History tv joins our Time Warner Cable company in europe as christie, texas. To learn more about cities on the hour tour, visit our website. We continue with our look at the history of Corpus Christi. This is american tv on cspanfree. Born in mexico, dr. Hector garcia called Corpus Christi home. After serving in the army in world war ii, dr. Garcia founded the american g. I. Forum. We visited the library at texas a and m university in Corpus Christi to learn more about. There garcia. We have a variety of materials. He is best known as the founder of the American Gi Forum. That was established in 18 48th, not too long after his return from his service in world war ii. It was created to assist mexicanamerican veterans in their struggle to return to normal life after their war service. He is recorded as having said that he felt especially suited to do that work because he had compassion for others as a physician. He had mili
Know it by a simpler name drone. Its the hottest development in flying. You might say that the age of the drone is taking off. Joining me from texas a m University Corpus christi, are two experts on drones dr. Luis cifuentes and senior cody torno. Welcome. Hi. Hello. So, cody, so that were all on the same page, whats so special about drones . The interesting part about it is the fact that it is unmanned. So, we dont have a pilot actually inside a cockpit flying the vehicle. Its done in an exterior location, which is a safer option. So, hows it controlled . Its controlled via satellite usually or some type of external communication link, kind of like a longdistance r. C. Plane except it also can be used autonomously, which means without any kind of user input. Doctor, the military has been using drones for a while now to take out terrorists. How else can drones be used . Well, there are a tremendous number of applications. One of them is called precision agriculture. Its going to make i
Indicted on federal criminal charges according to court documents. Hastert is accused of covering up big cash withdrawals he was making allegedly to be used as hush money the pay off someone he had wronged. Congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the latest. Reporter hastert served as speaker for eight years from 1999 to 2007, but its what hes done since that caught the attention of the f. B. I. According to the federal indictment, back in 2010, John Dennis Hastert agreed to provide someone referred to only as individual a, 3. 5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct against individual a. The indictment doesnt say what that misconduct was but it notes that the two have known each other for most of individual as life and that the individual is from the same illinois town where hastert was a High School Teacher and wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981. From 2010 to 2012, hastert made 15 50,000 withdrawals of cash from his local bank in illinois and gave the