dan hughes, the company that pulled out. they said they would not return our calls, but they released a statement saying that they are pulling out for economic reasons. it's confusing when there's 3 0 million -- 370 million barrels untapped. a lot of companies have had their eye on that area, waiting not the right technology. >> it is clear for us to look at the area saying it would be endangered. what are the risks. >> a lot of environmentalists say this is different to other parts of the country. the water system is very, very connected. a very porous limestone under the everglades. the watertable sits high and moves around. for example, where they do the oil drilling in the sip rushings if there were a -- cyprus, if there were a major accident the oil could get into the water system and spread. in a couple of decades of doing drilling there's not been problems. it requires big oversight. and that's been a complaint when the one well, run by the dan hughes company, they used the chemical gel. people didn't find out about i

and of the recent brouhaha between the state environmental agency and the texas wildcatter, the dan az hughescompany over they started fracking without the proper permits and without revealing what was the mechanism and what was the material that they were using to frack. now, of course, most people have heard of fracking, but we hear of it in terms of north dakota or oklahoma or texas, pennsylvania, but florida is not built on that kind of substrate that they are going in and breaking up that rock in the fracking to release oil and natural gas which has now made us such a tremendous producer of both of those domestically here in the u.s. no, florida is on a different type of substrate. it is built on a honeycomb of limestone that supports the surface by it being filled with freshwater. it's not these hard, solid rocks where the fracking for oil and gas is being done and with the high jets with chemicals breaking up that rock to release the natural gas. no, this is porous limestone, formed years ago, millions of years ago by the critters, the shelled critters that ultimately it fossilized. an

tell us with a short instagram video what you do and hughes #morningmantra. >> we learned dan's thiso, you can't hurt steel. >> that's it. >> yes, that's my motto. you can't hurt steel. >> speaking of which -- >> yes. >> can't hurt steel. >> cannot. we need to switch gears and give you great information. we'll tell you which days of the week are the very best for shopping and getting the very best deals of the there are a lot of sales happening right now so we'll get you out there. >> meanwhile, dan harris getting a head start on "weekend gma." >> we'll be back here first thing in the morning. >>> we start with a new round of wild weather. virginia beach hit hardest. 11 injured when 70-mile-an-hour winds swept in. it was powerful enough to lift this bmw and hurl it across a church parking lot where the steeple crashed down right next to it. to the north in pennsylvania floodwaters filled hershey park. nearly 3 inches falling in two hours there. >>> also breaking overnight a grim milestone in the escalating violence between israel and the palestinians. 1 roo peop-- 100 people have be

ambassador told me the other day said, we a hugh has - netanyahu has said we pay ex expand this they want to take out some of the missile sites and tunnels. dan: -- gwen: there are also dilemmas within dilemmas. the egyptians were not able to broker a deal because of their own problems, not because of the u.s. at all. >> interest ch is interesting. back in 2012 you had morsi, now deposed in prison, very close to netanyahu. he had the credibility to say to them you have to stop. there has to be a deal and he did that. now they've been battling hamas in sinai. and you have hamas engaged in a military war with israel. you had a mediator in 2012, not now. so the obama administration, less talk about meeting from behind, using proxies and allies. the allies we've used in the past are not there anymore. >> one other outgrowth of that change and the egypt contacts is that israel sees a chance to nail hamas here in a way they hope hamas may not be able to rebound from. because the tunnels have been cut off and the egyptian regime is not allowing the flow of arms in gaza. gwen: the palestinians are not crazy about what hamas is doing either. >> that's