On today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: Two new species may have been discovered in the Aleutians by a federal research vessel. Repair crews are struggling to fix an undersea fiber optic cable that serves most of Northwest Alaska. And recovery efforts for a small plane that crashed in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park last month have been called off.
Midday Report September 15, 2023
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