Fox Information’ Invoice Hemmer heads north — method north — for take a look at U.S. army preparedness

NEW YORK — Fox Information anchor Invoice Hemmer wanted a sequence noticed to finish one among his newest assignments.
Hemmer traveled north for “Battle for the Arctic,” a documentary on the Fox Nation streaming service concerning the U.S. Navy’s preparedness within the area, the place he took a short experience on a nuclear submarine. The sub surfaced on an enormous ice floe northeast of Alaska the place the Navy had a camp. It took greater than an hour for a sequence noticed to chop by the ice and allow Hemmer to stroll down the hatch for his go to.
“It isn’t fairly impenetrable,” Hemmer mentioned. “However it’s shut.”
Hemmer famous that eight nations have land inside the Arctic Circle, seven of them members of NATO. The exception is Russia, and the U.S. army is watching intently — the aim of his journey.
His particular, at the moment streaming, doubles as a travelogue into an countless expanse of white.
“The whole lot you see is one thing that you’ve by no means seen earlier than in your life as a result of so few individuals have been right here,” he mentioned. “It is a exceptional web site.”
Aware of loyal Fox followers, Hemmer skirts one challenge — local weather change. “Why Arctic ice is receding, how briskly and what it means,” he mentioned. “All of these items are factors of debate.”