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the seaport would be locked, and no commercial ships can go there and pick up all the food. supply will be stopped. we calculated over 200,000 families would be affected, losing their livelihood, probably for a generation, 25 years. the clean up would have cost $20 billion, that s the best estimate that we received. in 1989, the exxon valdez spill leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude into the gulf of alaska, a slick that covered over 1,000 miles of coastline. even now, pockets of oil are still being discovered. yet on yemen s fso safer, four times as much oil. this is big. and i looked at the first price tag of, how are we going to raise $141; million? in the end, after two years and between 23 countries, private companies and even the general public, enough funds were raised to launch an operation to transfer the oil. an elementary school in bethesda, maryland. kids, six, seven, eight years old, heard about this and went out and raised. they sold lemonade o ....
2pm in the afternoon, a row of shops in the town of kostiantynivka. they re used to attacks here but not on this scale. in the blast s shocking aftermath, a search for the living and the dead. it s not immediately clear what kind of weapon landed here, but shrapnel tore into the road, into cars and people. translation: this is a civilian pharmacy. . at the time of the strike, civilians were here, buying medicines, and this is what happened. ukraine s president, as he has so many times before, sounded outraged. translation: we understand what they are doing, they did the same in the past. whenever there is any positive offensive step by ukraine s defence forces, russia targets civilians and civilian infrastructure. this was one of the worst attacks on ukrainian civilians since the spring. and it came as the us secretary of state, antony blinken, was here in kyiv pledging yet more support. his arrival, early this morning, was preceded once more by the sounds of war. air ....
continuing our coverage of breaking news of ongoing explosions in gaza. nbc s raf sanchez is reporting from ashdot israel, what do we know at this hour? reporter: chris, tonight is feeling different from other nights. we are hearing intensified bombing in gaza, 10 miles south of where we are. i m looking over my shoulder because just a moment ago we were seeing israeli iron dome missile interceptors in the sky, a sign of rocket fire coming, but israel s chief military spokesman is confirming that an intensified bombing campaign of gaza is underway three weeks after the october 7th hamas terrorist attack. he also says israel is expanding its ground operations inside of gaza. that s not a sign that they have launched. chris, you may be able to see over my shoulder here, this is one of these iron dome interceptors, and if you bear with us one second, you re likely to see it explode. there you go. now, that is likely a sign that it just intercepted a palestinian rocket a ....
i won t lie, i had a lot of adrenaline, so i was a lot more focused on the mission. and our other main stories here tonight: a manhunt is in its second day in the us state of maine, after the shooting dead of 18 people. police send divers into a local river. we know what you want, and who you want. hi, folks. borisjohnson here. former prime minister borisjohnson is the latest conservative to sign as a presenter with gb news. and, nearly a0 years after the first successful separation of conjoined twins at great 0rmond street hospital, some of the children it s helped meet up. like, we obviously do fight a lot. we do scream at each other a lot. we get mad at each other. but then we always have that bond that we know we ll be sisters forever, and we ll love each other forever, and we ll care for each other forever. also this hour: the mayor of london weighs in on the conflict in israel and gaza, calling for a ceasefire. we also look at the impact of the conflict on londone ....
by an anti tank missile fired by hamas. the raids were also aimed at gaining information on the whereabouts of the more than 200 hostages being held in gaza. a third convoy of more than a dozen aid trucks is at the rafah crossing from egypt, waiting for permission to head into gaza. the head of the main un agency helping palestinians in gaza says hundreds of truckloads of aid are needed every day, rather the few dozen which have been allowed in so far. the agency has called forfuel to be allowed in, with only a minimal supply left for hospitals, water desalination plants and bakeries. israel says it s not permitting fuel deliveries because they could be commandeered by hamas. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says the israeli bombardment of gaza has killed more than 5,000 people there, including 2,000 children. attacks by hamas on israel this month killed more 1,400 people. wyre davies has this report. it s a part of gaza where people should have felt relatively saf ....