and antarctica. i'm drawn towards it my wife isn't even aware of these expeditions in the last few years. rushes expeditions to antarctica from cape town south africa while the ship stays in port for a few days the team members enjoy some time off. many of them want to take a tour to the cape of good hope. unfortunately there's not enough space on the bus so the polar explorers decide to draw lots to determine who gets to go. in the soviet era to get to antarctica it wasn't enough to just be lucky you needed relevant experience with drift ice in the arctic as well as recommendations there was no other way to reach the southernmost continent today it's enough to send your resume to the arctic and antarctic research institute along with a clean bill of health. just two days ago both the new comers and both are heading to antarctica for the first time they get to spend the whole winter together at the nova lot of gas station. did me. and i heard about it. but i just put it on the back burner at the time

to the end of a tunnel ice and snow to antarctica. the first officer will now explain the code of conduct on board there are twenty three passengers aboard the i condemn explore the rough and for some this is their first trip to the antarctic. but for one passenger it's become a familiar journey this is the twenty sixth time he's followed this route. back a nine hundred sixty four. trip we went. who was the first time i felt so acutely just how far away. ten days and nights of ocean like. this is. as you can see there is nothing there. any of the ships just icebergs. no one to relay messages except. now. much antarctic autumn winter in the southern hemisphere begins at the same time as the northern summer several times over the short summer season the academics will approach the coast of the most remote. final voyage of the year. two years worth of food and fuel to the ice stations and take away seasonal crews and aircraft. which. is a tanker or. a passenger ship. and an aircraft carrier. detailed navigational and operational plans ar

they made it off the antarctica coast into commonwealth bay.rned ugly. >> hit by a terrible blizzard and lost our communications didn't we, nicole? >> sure did. >> reporter: the ship found itself trapped in the ice. >> at least it is not snowing. turney joining us on skype from the weather nightmare. you are battling weather conditions? >> very much so. misconception over here that things move at a glacier pace. everything looked all right. sudden leap t suddenly, swung in, instead of breezes we got strong easterly winds. the captain made a decision, christmas eve. realized we needed to send out an alert to help get us out again. >> we are in the ice. all the well. happy christmas. >> reporter: the team has been chronicling the journey on social media. >> minus 15 degrees. >> reporter: capturing dramatic winds. 70 kilometers an hour. for members, it was a christmas day like no other. they were determined not to let a little or a lot wind and ice to dampen the holiday spirit. i saw the pictures of a christmas tree in a truf didne wonderland. >>

on their way to antarctica the crew of the i can to make sure that face many challenges. here you have to look out for yourself crashing on to rocks trapped in pack ice in extreme conditions anything can happen and always comes up with surprises you have to keep your eyes open because if there's always something going wrong the ship carries huge reserves of water food fuel as well as helicopters and people able to survive extreme conditions they're ready for anything even an apocalypse she's really an incredible ship calling all antarctica stations this is academic a field of radio check please respond. unexplored antarctica what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. now i only go to the dock. and enter into. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. who. but i used to be a bureaucrat. see seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where do they live what do they eat and what are they actually do

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and antarctica. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. who. i used to be a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where do they live what do they eat and what are they actually doing in antarctica . we speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little too negative angles keaton's stories. are you here. to try to teach spanish. visit. right on the scene. first for you and i think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. and instagram. to be in the. moment on. a suicide blast in the russian city of volgograd kills fourteen passengers on a bus less than a day after a deadly bombing the ripped through the city's train station. russia's president vladimir putin orders tighter security across the whole country in the wake of the bombings. the security situation in the host city of the upcoming winter olympics. our other top stories on ou

to the air to help a ship stuck at sea - the latest g way to approach the boat stuck in ice in antarctica. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> a fiery oil train collision has forced the evacuation of a small north dakota town. the accident hopped outside the town of castleden west of fargo. a train derailed monday afternoon, and another carrying crude oil ran into it, setting off a series of explosions that burnt 21 railcars. the county sheriff's office is recommending nearby residents evacuate because of thick smoke pouring from the crash site. containing the site has been challenging because of temperatures near negative 20 degrees. >> a temporary reprieve for the family of a girl declared brain dead. a judge granted an extension to keep her on life support for another week. melissa chan joins us to talk about the ongoing legal battle. >> according to the hospital jahi mcmath was dead weeks ago when she went into cardiac arrest shortly after her operation. the family disagrees and went to court. >> i have to do what's right for jahi mcmath. >> a judge granted a one-we

and antarctica. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. who. i used to be a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where do they live what to eat and what are they actually doing in antarctica. these are the you could spend countless hours here braving the elements in order to stand up to u.s. oil giants chevron. this comes after a man. hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that some have dubbed the gulag of our times. it's an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines . and we. welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle two minute we're discussing the year that was and its major event. ok kelli i know that snowden the snowden story was your favorite one of the year but who are some of the other people i'd like to ask you other members of the panel here i mean let's say for example example m

antarctica is 720 miles from the argentinian coast.nd from their words, so close. >> you should try to go there. normally it would be way too expensive. >> a travel group sponsors tours several times a year, particularly during the six arctic summer months from october through march. >> twice a day do expeditions. so you go in the small raft. antarctica is a different world. if you haven't been there, you can't imagine what it's like. it's so beautiful, the scenery. you have all these animals you have nowhere else in the world. you have two types of moss that grow there. that's it. yeah, it's amazing. >> although the antarctica vistas are spectacular, they're set against the backdrop of frigid weather. average temperatures on the continent hover around minus 70 degrees fahrenheit. at the time of the trip it was summer and it was a bit warmer. >> it was around zero. it was really cold. the wind is really cold. the ice is really cold. a lot of layers on. jackets, scarves, hats. >> despite the bitter cold, lex and company soak in every br

on their way to antarctica the crew of the i can to make sure that if face many challenges. here you have to look out for yourself crashing on to rocks trapped in pack ice in extreme conditions anything can happen antarctica always comes up with surprises you have to keep your eyes open because there's always something going wrong the ship carries huge reserves of water food fuel as well as helicopters and people able to survive extreme conditions they're ready for anything even an apocalypse she's really an incredible ship calling all antarctica stations this is academic a field of radio check please respond. what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. alone which is why now i only go to the dock. and enter into. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other i don't know. who. i used to be a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where they live what to eat and what are they actually doing in antarctica.

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and 74 people stranded in antarctica are anxiously awaiting help. their ship completely stuck in ice. now the rescue ship is also struggling in that ice. >>> and an aboutface on duck dynasty. the reality star show is back in action after a very short suspension, too long say some, and the lgbt community is now reacting. >>> all right. we start with a frightening new development in the target credit card breach. target now says hackers did steal the p.i.n.s that you punch in when you use your debit card, but the retail giant says they are heavily encrypted and impossible to decode. alexandra field is live for us now in new york. so is that the case? does that, i guess, allay any fears? >> well, fredricka, that is the message from the retailer target wants the shoppers to feel that that information is safe and secure. target says when the p.i.n. numbers left the store, they were encrypted and should still be encrypted. but some security experts are saying there are programs out there aim to break the codes, so there's no reason that consumers shouldn'

a rescue attack to help people stranded on a ship in antarctica. >> bundle up! temperatures across a huge chunk of the u.s. are plum mmeplummet. will 2014 kick off with a deep freeze? this is the last monday of the year! i-christine romans. >> >> that cold weather will wake you up at this hour. i'm annika in for john berman. thank you for joining us on this monday, december 30th. >>> a deadly terror bombing second time in as many days. 14 people are dead in this bus explosion and it happens a month before the winter olympics in sochi and putin has promised will be the safest olympics in history. >> it's clear two attacks in the same day in the same city shows how vulnerable this entire country is to terrorist attacks. you have sochi, very, very close to the extremely north caucuses region where russia has been fighting for more than a decade. when the announcement the olympics would take place in sochi the fear was that putin would not be able to contain the terrorism in that area. another attack on friday a car bomb three people were killed on friday and anothe

we have new video from that ship stuck in the frozen waters of antarctica. it's been four days since it got stranded, and although a rescue vessel is within sight, it's not able to get close enough to the ship. but chris turney, the expedition leader, and others on board say everything is actually going well. >> i don't think anyone's fearful. chris is the expedition leader. no one's fearful, right? >> no, people have been remarkably good, actually. morale's high, actually, at the moment. >> we have wonderful food, three meals a day. >> it doesn't seem to run out. >> they actually seem pretty excited about this adventure. so, we hope to hear more from chris turney live from that stranded ship in the next few minutes. >>> and here in the u.s., a lot of jobless americans might be considering congress the grinch that stole christmas and new year's. they won't be getting federal emergency unemployment benefits after today. the program passed during the recession ends today for 1.3 million people. last week congress failed to pass the extension as part of the bud

is underway inn antarctica to reach a group of scientists and tourists whose ship has been trapped sinceuesday. the latest reports say a chinese icebreaker is trying to reach , with over vessel 100 people on board. we will speak to a bbc reporter who was on board the ship but first, this report. >> since tuesday they have been firmly stuck here. after a change in the weather took them into heavy ice which piled around the ship and froze it in place. board, scientist a journey one century ago. the russian crew worked to create christmas spirit as they awaited help. with ampleood supplies and no danger -- danger of sinking. and help comes in the form of the chinese icebreaker, the snow dragon. vessel appeared as a speck on the horizon. heardhort while ago, we that the snow dragon is close. about 20 kilometers from where they are now, a long way from where they are trapped in the sea ice. >> the snow dragon will have to edge its way through densely packed ice, but the weather was improving and is expected to remain more favorable for two days. to continuefor them their forage what -- voyage

. >> rescue efforts to free a scientific research ship stuck in eyes off the coast of antarctica haveagain been stalled, -- in ice off the coast of antarctica have again been stalled. >> heavy fog made it impossible for an australian icebreaker to reach the expedition team that is stuck on board. the expedition team was headed home after what was a five-week research trip in antarctica when sea ice blocked their path on christmas eve. passengers and crew have been waiting six days for rescue. there are 74 people on board, but it is said that they have ample provisions and that they are safe and well. >> we want to recap our top story before we go. medical experts at a hospital in france are saying that michael schumacher's condition is currently hour by hour after he suffered a critical head injury. >> we will bring you updates on that throughout the day on dw. you can check our website any time. >> inc. you very much for watching. -- thank you very much for watching. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

on their way to antarctica the crew of the i can to make sure that if face many challenges. here you have to look out for yourself crashing onto rocks trapped in pack ice in extreme conditions anything can happen antarctica always comes up with surprises you have to keep your eyes open because if there's always something going wrong the ship carries huge reserves of water food fuel as well as helicopters and people able to survive extreme conditions they're ready for anything even an apocalypse she's really an incredible ship calling all antarctica stations this is academic a field that of radio check please respond. go to kindergarten my daughter asks me it's still dark where we going it will always be dark now i tell her the sun has gone to sleep she says i want to go home i don't want to live by the sea she thought it would be warm and sunny. through no four hundred thirty people in bennett's book including a hundred and thirty women and fifty five children no one is ever born on the island it's against the rules for pregnant women must return to the middle of. spitzberge

an ice breaker linking up with a stranded ship in antarctica and set to break it free. the crew and the passengers on board. >>> security breach at newark airport. a man dressed as a woman makes it over the security fence and onto the runway and in arizona this man running across the tarmac. is airport security up to snuff? >>> your "new day" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >>> good morning. welcome to "new day," tgif. it is friday, we made it, december 27th. 6:00 in the east. we have breaking news, a car bomb takes out a former ambassador to the u.s., a powerful explosion in beirut killed at least five people, 70 more injured. who was behind the plot to kill the official and why? mohammed jamjoom is live in istanbul with the latest. what do we know? >> reporter: well, chris, this is a very disturbing development at a time when lebanon is already on edge. this happened in the last few hours, an assassination targeted today was a former finance minister in lebanon, a former lebanese ambassador to the

. >>> help is on the way for dozens of passengers on a ship stuck in frozen waters off antarctica. how they ended up stranded in the first place and how soon they could be rescued. >> five days of "spare the air" and five straight days of near or record warmth. now the day rain be back in the forecast as the news continues right here on kpix 5. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, stocks opened at record hig this m >>> taking a live look at the dow right now, it's down about 6 points. stocks opened at record highs this morning as investors head into the home stretch of what's been a strong year for wall street. yesterday, the dow closed at a record high for the 50th time this year. >>> shares of fedex and u.p.s. are up today after a backlog prevented christmas gifts from being delivered in time for the holiday. workers are still busy trying to get deliveries back on schedule. the companies say they were caught off guard this year because the heavy volume of last-minute orders exceeded expectations. it seems more than ever, people bought christmas gifts online in the final days. >> i think i'm going

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the packed ice is too thick in the area of antarctica for them to reach it. the australians saying they are in danger of getting their own ice breaker trapped in that ice if they continued. but a decision has been taken to air-lift the majority of the 74 passengers and crew off that stranded research vessel by helicopter. they are going to be doing that as soon as they can. but as soon as they can is not any time soon because the weather conditions are so dire, they are not able to fly the helicopters in the high winds that are gusting through that region at the moment. in the meantime, members of the ship's staff, the crew and passengers on board that are stranded are on the packed ice and stomping down manuel the ice on the sea tarp to create a make-shift hel ipad for when the helicopters come and air-lift them to safety. it looks like their rescue will come eminently but when that is is not clear. >> we have heard from that crew captain that the attitude and the atmosphere aboard is rather festive despite all of these setbacks so they are keeping that posi

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they had been trapped in dense ice off antarctica since christmas eve. over my right shoulder is "snow dr dragon", it turned up an hour ago and is making steady progress. it should be alongside in the next two hours. there's a lot of relief and happy faces. >> it will be short lived. the chinese rescue vessel had to cut through 20km of sea ice. halfway through it was unable to advance, and finally turned back. it's one of three icebreakers dispatched to free the academic russian ship, which is carrying 74 people, including scientists, tourists and journalists. they are tracing the route that douglas mauson took 100 years ago, studying the environmental changes in the area over the past century. the hope lies in the powerful resupply ship "aurora aust australis." they are in no immediate danger. they have weeks of supply. they are just stuck. >> parts of moscow are lit up. natural light lasts six hours and it's later in the day since the county abandoned daylight savings. many lived their lives, morning to night, in what appears to be darkness. peter shar

lights off the coast of antarctica is more difficult than expected the eye. we begin in turkey where the country's embattled prime minister read to tie it at one has held a political rally in the southern city of money said is being seen as a baseball in the turkish leader to shul on banking in his own ranks and the opposition calls for his resignation. everyone appeared in front of thousands of cheering supporters of his ruling ak policy. so far managed to find tall as prime minister despite a major corruption scandal. three of his ministers were forced to resign up to their songs were arrested on suspicion of bribery going to construction projects and they're the one himself is accused of knowing that the d max. well corresponded under single is following developments in attack and he joins us now on the line from istanbul. i'm sure in his address to prime minister was talking to his elusive colt is the question is who does anyone have anything like majority backing in the world population. two weeks ago when it extremely popular five minutes to get one fre

breakers are speeding to rescue a ship carrying tourists and researchers trapped in thick ice in antarctica. the ship has been stuck since tuesday about 1700 miles south of new zealand. bill whitaker has more. >> reporter: passengers and crew aboard the research vessel "akademik shokalskiy" had to endure fierce antarctica conditions the last two days-- temperatures well below freezing, winds approaching 50 miles per hour. australian climate scientist chris turney is filing video updates from the distressed vessel at the bottom of the earth. >> the vessel hasn't moved for the last two days and we're surrounded by sea ice, we just can't get through. >> reporter: the ship left new zealand november 28 on a month- long scientific expedition. 74 scientists, tourists, journalists and crew studying antarctica's wildlife and waters. turney is leading the expedition. >> it's a glorious day, the fog has lifted, it's very still and calm. >> reporter: they were retracing the steps of australian explorer douglas mawson who made the trek in 1911. >> finally made it to mawson's hut. it's right here behind

narrator: during the 1950s and '60s, ambitious drilling programs in the remote ice caps of antarctica and greenland provided an impressive record of past climate, such as ice ages and warming events, going back hundreds of thousands of years. but these records only provided part of the climate's history. as a young man, thompson's interests lay outside the arctic. he set a goal -- to drill ice where no one had ever drilled before. in the polar regions at the time, there was a lot of competition, and no one was looking anywhere else. and so i'm thinking, "well, here's the rest of the world. why not?" and then, of course, if you start thinking about it, you realize that we got 6.5 billion people on the planet. 70% of them live in the tropics. and then you also realize a lot of the big weather phenomena that impact people -- el niÑo, monsoons -- those are tropical phenomena. and if you really wanted to look at the history of those, you need records from that part of the world. and i will never forget a rebuff when we proposed to drill the quelccaya ice cap. and it basically said, "the ic

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unexplored antarctica what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. now i only go to the dock. and enter into. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. who. i used to be a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where to live what to eat and want to be actually doing in antarctica. right on the scene. first for you and i think that you're. on a reporter's twitter. and instead. of being the old. a suicide loss in the russian city of volgograd kills fourteen passengers on a bus less than a day outside deadly bombing ripped through the city's train station. russia's president vladimir putin orders trying to secure is to close the whole country in the wake of the bombings also investigate the security situation in sochi the host city of the upcoming winter in the state games. and other top stories this hour also official intelligence and u.s. government tankers are routinely bugging computer

. >>> and a second rescue ship attempting to reach a russian vessel stranded in antarctica is turned back by severe weather. captioning funded by cbs captionided cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, december 30th, 2013. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, a second deadly terror attack in less than 24 hours is raising new safety concerns in russia just 39 days before it hosts the olympics. a bomb ripped through a bus in volgograd this morning, killing at least 14 people and injuring others. on sunday a suicide bomber killed at least 17 at a train station. volgograd is about 400 miles from sochi where the winter games are being held in february. susan mcginnis has the latest. in washington. susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. the death toll for both of these bombings could still rise from here. there is said to be widespread panic in volgograd and large worries about the upcoming olympic games with a rebel cheh chen leader calling specifically for attacks at the olympics. a burned out shell is all that's left after a bomb ripped th

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the academic show kosky has been immobilized off the coast of antarctica some twenty eight hundred km south of the australian island of tasmania. help is on the way three ships with ice breaking capabilities are trying to reach the stranded research it. the expedition leader believes the chinese icebreaker will arrive first with just a debate on a sock but it's the check in on the revised ten. avoca is making steady progress giving her it's about nine or the law and the vessel so that he said somebody set them up voting for them to do so quite here yet but to at least we can see it now which is so acute that it improved the prospects that few hours ago. all passengers on board including a number of tourists welcome the good news. they help they can head home to friends and family soon. when christmas has come and gone and the coupon on the receipts some unwanted gifts but don't despair because you can catch an entire week gifting your eye news presents. here's how locals lined up for the mild case of jones faces auction well before it opened up a role too keen to get rid of that unwan

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i'm talking about antarctica. with 74 people on board has been stuck since before christmas. they are stuck in the ice. that's only one part of this frozen story. a ship sent to rescue them can't get close because, well, you guessed it, because of the ice. cnn's issa suarez is watching from london. >> help is so close yet so far. chinese ice breaker came within sight of the stranded vessel. others cheer help is near. >> ice breaker coming to rescue us. >> brilliant. >> but their relief doesn't last long. thick ice forced the chinese ice breaker, snow dragon, to come to a halt. >> he was about six nautical miles away. when that decision was made that the ice was too thick. it was beyond the vessel's capacity and he turned around and went back through the channel that he had created to open water. >> a french rescue vessel also failed to penetrate the ice and has been turned back. but reinforcements are on the way. the australian ship is on route and is expected to arrive sunday evening. the australian vessel is str

stranded in the ice, a russian ship trapped in frozen seas off the coast of antarctica and rescue is almost impossible. ground breaking pilot, women who flew critical missions during world war ii. ♪ welcome to al jazeera america, i'm stephanie and there has been a bombing in the russian city of volgograd and 14 people were killed overnight on an attack on a trolley bus. the blast comes just one day after 18 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a train station in the same city. the city has one million people and 600 miles south of moscow and 400 miles north of sochi where the winter olympics will be held in six week, the third fat fatal attack in since months and stands with russia against terrorism and peter sharp is in moscow on the latest on the train station bombing. >> reporter: the aftermath of the attack in a railroad station in volgograd and a body on the ground as emergency services scramble to treat survivors and a woman set off explosives at the entrance to the main station and the blast captured on camera and it was packed with people leaving on christmas holidays.

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