longer white christmas, suzanne, than they bargained for. social media has played a role huge role in the story. people were making video journals and blogging about the whole thing. we had a sense how they felt about all this. what about the rescuers? are there any stories emerging from where they are? i think for the rescuers it s been much less fun, put it this way. the passengers, the scientists, tourists on the expedition to the and and t antartic and celebrated the holiday spirit, as well. for the rescuers, it s been much more of a chag. there have been three separate attempts from ice breakers from three different countries to reach these individuals. they finally called off all attempts, abandoned all efforts to try to get to them by sea and got there by helicopter instead after the winds had died down.
communication. i can imagine that makes them feel a little bit better. they re creating video journals. you ve got a lot of folks now involved in this. how do they actually coordinate all this? well, it s been quite a feat of international cooperation. hasn t it? i mean, remember there have been three attempts using three separate ice breakers from the three different countries, china, france and australia to reach the ship over the course of the past six days. all of them have failed. but they re all in the region trying to work out with each other who can find the best route towards the ship. none of them have managed it yet. the chinese one it seems is the only one with the helicopters. that s why the russians have gone with that one as the ship to airlift the passengers off. but yes they re all coordinating very well in in moment. everybody coming together trying to figure out how to get these guys off the ship. they all seem very confident right now. i hope it all goes well.
hopes that her probation ends early. she s been in hiding ever since her acquittal and her release from prison. but she doesn t say anything else of value. she doesn t acknowledge the enormity of the story in which she was involved. she doesn t say anything about her daughter who was murdered or killed or accidentally died, depending on what you believe. she doesn t say anything about her family. the family who many claim she threw under the bus for her defense. she doesn t talk about the extraordinary media attention, the fact that she is actually in hiding. she does say she adopted a dog and she said she is hoping that her probation will be cut short. short of that though, she just talks about having a camera and a microphone and how she enjoys the fact that she owns things for the first time in a long time and that she doesn t have to give them back. and brooke, she also mentioned that this may be the first in a series of these online video journals. amazing. that was the first th
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