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
93 people are now known to have died, but the governor of hawaii has warned people to expect that number to rise significantly, after the worst wildfires to hit an american state in more than a century. Our North America correspondent, john sudworth, reports from the island. Vital supplies being loaded onto a boat that would normally be taking tourists whale watching. These boats are now making multiple daily trips into the Disaster Zone with a growing sense of frustration. We are all wondering why there was no help centre. Where are the resources . Why are we taking supplies on the boat instead of a helicopter . We do this because we have to. An hour into the journey and the devastation along the shoreline comes into view. We can quite clearly see the town of lahaina now and you can make out is the blackened the landscape above the town where the grass is burning and what happened with the Hurricane Blowing away to the south, the pressure brought the wind over the top of the island, p
They also saved a geko and this pet tarantula. Tonight, there are still more animals that need help. There are some animals that we are unable to get to due to the conditions. So we are through neighbors getting food and water and everything they need to keep them safe. Reporter the rescued pets are stayed here at this shelter. Far away from the flames. Some are skittish. Others have ruffled feathers. But theyre all unharmed. Theres still much more work to do. The fire is not expected to be contained until august 5th. Reporting live, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. Thank you. We want to bring you outside now to san jose. You can see the weather outside. Hazy skies oversan jose. Its been this way for a couple of days now. Lets bring in jeff ranieri. Jeff, when do you expect our air quality to improve . I think that will happen throughout the next two days. We havent seen as much smoke today as we did yesterday. Directly on the fire lines, the good news is were seeing a little sea bre
Planned by harry reid, so tomorrow the majority leader has scheduled a cloture vote, or if we go to the rule video, the only procedure by which the senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter and thereby overcome a filibuster. The procedure requires 60 votes, so now democrats will need support from 60 senators just to overcome the filibuster and schedule a vote on chuck hagel. There has never in the history of the country been a filibuster of a defense secretary nominee. Never. Chuck hagel had nothing to do with the attack in benghazi. Is that something they need to have on their resume . I filibustered one of the president s nominees. Is that what they want . Senator john mccain who once said he would oppose a filibuster of hagel because it would set a bad precedent is changing his tune. He tells Foreign Policy magazine my position right now is that i want an answer to the question. That question totally unrelated to chuck hagel as defense secretar