Destruction. We are talking miles of coastline completely burned. This heat, this tremendous heat. Major the urgent need for more resources as just 100 firefighters struggled to get control of the massive blaze. President biden has signed off on what will likely be a politically charged agreement with iran to bring home five imprisoned american citizens. In exchange, the Iranian Regime will gain access to billions of dollars in blocked funds. The assassination of a president ial candidate rocking the country of ecuador. This less than two weeks before an election has led to a State Of Emergency there. The new Consumer Price index or cpi for joes inflation rose for the first time in 12 months. I have to choose. It is very difficult. Major eye on america. How a Deep Diving Robot is helping electric Vehicle Manufacturers keep up with demand. Each 5 million Robotic Vehicle uses cameras and Artificial Intelligence to find rocks that contain metals, but not animal life. Bears that once exist
eye on america, cbs s ben tracy does a deep dive into how artificial intelligence is helping find those materials in a place you not expect. reporter: this underwater robot being lowered into lake huron is built by a company called impossible metals. impossible because this is hard to do? yes, very much so. reporter: that s because it s job is to mind the bottom of the ocean. deep-sea mining is the concept of pulling metals off the ocean floor. reporter: company cofounder renee grogan says parts of the ocean floor are filled with potato sized rocks containing vast amounts of cobalt, copper, and nickel, metals needed to make batteries for electric cars. how much of this stuff is down there? a lot. the second question is, how do you get it? reporter: we watched a test of the prototype, which used a retractable arm to pluck rocks off the bottom of the lake. the real thing will be three
Times larger and travel for miles down into the deep sea. each $5 million robotic vehicle uses cameras and artificial intelligence to find rocks that contain metals, but not animal life. so, the clause themselves driven by the ai and saying, take it, leave it, take it, leave it. to be able to ensure that the ecosystem on the seafloor remains intact. reporter: typical deep-sea mining uses a robot to dredge the seafloor and could soon be approved and what is known as the clarion-clipperton zone. 2 million square miles of the pacific ocean rich with mineral deposits. scientists are worried that mining here will destroy the habitat of thousands of prayer deep-sea species and spread plumes of toxic sediment. you can t try to save the planet by breaking the planet in the process. those several years of mining are going to cause centuries of damage. reporter: renee grogan says deep-sea mining can be done