The UN has acquired a tanker to replace a rusting oil storage vessel

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The United Nations has purchased an oil tanker to replace a rusting storage vessel off the coast of Yemen that could leak up to a million barrels of oil into the Red Sea. Host Carol Hills has an update. 

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