Ecstasies, all of these are must easier to study. The catch 22 facing marijuana researchers why lawmakers are keeping them in a purple haze over how weed works. And getting it moving, a new burst of Political Energy will it be enough to push forward a stalled energy project. Her saying 0,000 jobs thats a lot of people thats a lot of families. Thats a lot of kids being fed. And a lot of people not on welfare, and sucking off the government. Communities in the path of the pipe line, the keystone xl extension, gearing up for a final fight. And this is america tonight, thank you for joining us the shock has not worn off. Highest alert and deepest mourning. The most iconic figure on the paris skyline, fed dark while rising in demonstrations across france an am imagine to the journalists who died daring to speak out in the their satirical journey chablis member doe. To challenge their killers the magazine has vowed to print 1 million copies more than its usual run. It is hard, but we will do it anyway because stupidity will not win. A resolute promise, Law Enforcement now warming the country side, where there has been little sign of the suspects blue reason to believe they are still very dangerous since early this morning elite units have swarmed over the country side, about 60 miles north going door to door, searching everywhere. Houses farms stopping vehicles. Looking for any possible hiding place. A search that is gripped france. Overhead Police Helicopters swarmed, and Police Vehicles raced over rural roads. It all began when a car abandoned by the two suspects brothers cherif and careef, was found nearby. A man told me they had left their car and gone into the forrest. And to avoided the forrest road. A pump attendance told police he recognized them, there were weapons on the backseat of the car. That brought the special Police Forces into this area, focusing on the area to the east. Nearly 60 square mites. There are many buildings and farms. Police helicopters searched into the night that the suspects has again slipped away. What is known in the word of frances prime minister, is that the country is facing an unprecedented terror threat, one that overnight has bubble double the number of soldiers to the streets and sites of paris, with more reinforcement on the way. And secure has been stepped up at almost every public place. A level of security, that by order has now been extended to the rural lane, 60 miles north, with late tonight Police Declare the search there over, at least until daybreak. Where are cherif and cherif kouachi, and will they strike again . One of the big concerns that has come up is there may be backlash. Yes there has been signs of that. Local towns and villages, there has been demonstrations that have turned violent. It is hard to say that there is an exact association because these are communities that are troubled anyway, but it is striking there have been this number of attacks against islamic entities in france. In just these wont four hours. Now we have learned quite a bit more, or at least the police have learned is quite a bit more about the brothers the suspects in this case. And what they left behind. Well, what they left behind is very telling. In that black car the car that we see at the site of the initial shooting at the magazine Charlie Hebdo when they crashed that car, and had to hijack another one they left behind molotov cook tates and jihaddy flags. It is also clear they left that building under their own timing. They were not forced from the building they could have stayed there and made it their final stand instead they made a deliberate effort to leave materials found in the car very strongly suggest they had Something Else planned and they may still be attempting to execute it tonight. Question are now more than 36 hour into this. And Counter Terrorism expert as well. Something that may be laying in wait for. Right now we dont have a sense of whether a Second Attack will occur but it is always a risk. You have had disruptions in the past, and when they have fred theres always they will carry out an attack. You have had attackers carry out secondary attacks. Think of the d. C. Sniper where they carried out attack after attack, in this case because they have brought down the entire wrath of the french Intelligence Security opera us the upon them, you have to think that they may have had Something Else plans right away the fact they didnt get to bring the molotov cocktails with them, that maybe they have been disrupted but if so, and they had something planned, they are probably going to try to figure out right now how is it that they can reconfigure and do Something Else dramatic. And one of the other things that has been talked about a lot is what sort of training or who might have launched this attack. Who was behind these individuals. And increasingly, the u. S. Officials are thinking that al quaida was responsible. Today they have increasingly pointed it in that direction. We do have some data points the fact that they said they are part of al quaida to the cartoonist and you have the older brother as well having spent time in yemen i wouldnt call it definitive. But there is a strong reason to point nit that direction, if so, they may have received training in yemen, and syria it remains to be seen what kind of training where as we have talked about yesterday they did make errors. And that doesnt mean that they are not trained it just means they are got up to the standards of special forces. We heard from the French Justice minister, the focus was on the younger brother because he had a criminal record, for association with the jihaddy network he an association with al quaida in arrack during the time of the war. Today the menster came out and said that the elder brother had in fact been the one who had traveled to yemen and that it appears spent time with al quaida in the arabian peninsula. At this point, we dont know when french officials became aware of his travel. Was it before the attack . If thats the case, it makes the lack of surveillance, or apparent lack surveillance of the two even more puzzling. Which also is very striking because we are looking at 36 hours plus, from the initial incident, france is a big country, but not even as big of the state of texas, they have put everything that french Law Enforcement has. Into this area, and yet what we are seeing is theres one witness who may have been able to off some idea of these guys in the car. The car they were driving this morning is apparently the same car that they fled paris in 24 hours earlier. Where did they go . How did they evade cameras on highways in where did they put it overnight who helped them. And someone helping them that is a concern . Absolutely. One questions that exists here is how big does this operation go. You have had a bit of a police round up, they have certainly arrest add number of people, and they will be applying every technique they can. But is it what kind of support network existed. Do they have safe houses or people who are trying to help them. And that is the possibilities that they have, both to get away and also to regroup and carry out a Second Attack. Also, why have why did they go to the area where they were . The area where the police searched all day intensively for them. Is an area that is about 60, 70 miles north of paris. Why were they there . Were they there to head paing towards paris . Were they going someplace else were they heading to those woods . Do they this is an area they know and plan to go to. Do they know those woods. Sheila mcvicker with us, thank you very much for being here. In a moment, reconsidering the burden of proof. In our endowment look at a year on pot correspondent records on the hurdles facing marijuana scientists. How can they prove weed works. All we have to do is get the drug and study, for marry wayne that, we go into a whole other series of reviews. Why that is, and why it may prevent more bids to make medical marijuana legal thats in our next segment. Extreme shocks the face, with the wind chill went to 70 below. Its a chilling and draconian sentence. It simply cannot stand. Its disgraceful. The only crime they really committed is journalism. They are truth seekers. All they really wanna do is find out whats happening, so they can tell people. Governments around the world all united to condemn this. As you can see, its still a very much volatile situation. The government is prepared to carry out mass array. If you want free press in the new democracy let the journalists live. We hear, often about the supposed virtues of medical marijuana. Legal in two dozen states already, and if more looking to join in legalize recreational pot, you may suspect that Health Questions may have been resolved but it turns out that the data of the science is a black hole, one they have found tough to fill. A year on pot examined the hurdles facing researchers. Here is science and Technology Correspondent. Aaron hind was 18 years old, when he went to fight the iraq. A couple of times a couple people in my company got killed. As with so many others the trauma of war followed him home. I would be at a park. And all of a mud brain would Wander Around thinking what would this scene look like if a bomb dropped on it. The side effects were too debilitating then he started smoking pot. It allows me to focus on daily tasks. That i normally might be into too much agitated to be able to focus on. It allowed me to enjoy my life. He is one of 20 million american whose use marry want facing marijuana on a regular basis. Here in california where medical marry want facing marijuana has been legal since 1996 more than half a Million People are registered to use it. It is estimated for the entire country legalized there would be 2. 4 million regular medical users alone. These are huge numbers, but here is the thing, it is uniquely difficult, to study marijuana nobody can do it, and just because a couple of states have legalized has not made it any easier, a lot of people seem to feel that marijuana may have potential benefit, but right now even as the country consumes as much cannabis as it is, it is still almost impossible to know anything for sure about the long term effects of consuming it. In fact, even as states are passing world changing laws they are based on nothing but anecdote, and thats because federal law has stifled research we dont know how pot effects driving or life expectty, or really anything. We certainly dont know if the it can treat a soldiers ptsd i am dubious of the proposition that it will treat dbsd a Senior Research scientist for the department of Veterans Affairs. Vetted remembers are using it in massive numbers it feels as though it would be in their interest, to get around the restrictions and study the heck out of it. Yeah, veterans are a population for which marijuana is important to understand. And i agree with that, the va isnt really positioned to do that right now. I can go out and tell a doctor i am suffering from anxiety and bring it back to my office and use it legally but if instead i want it because i want to study it, i want to find what is its effect on the brain and body, that would take me years and thats crazy. Heroin, cocaine ecstasies all of these are must easier to study than marijuana. Brad budger works for a nonprofit working to legitimize pot nationwide as a prescription medicine. If we are studying aspirin or prozac, or lsd thats it. All we have to do is get the study drug and start the study. For marijuana we into a whole other series of reviews. To study cannabis, researchers need approval from four separate government agencies. And an open ended Public Health review, unique to pot which can stall research forever. We have been working on getting a study started for ptsd for 12 years now and that approval is just to purchase it. And the only legal supplier of marijuana well, it is the federal government. Specifically the National Institute on drug apews. Which has traditionally only authorized the study of potential harm, not benefit. It is a choke point that prevents researchers from getting thegetting the marry want they need. Simply by with holding it, they are not able to conduct it. Laws are being made across the country, and yet the marijuana is incredibly limited. Yeah, we are seeing legal medical use and legal Recreational Use and yet there is no research looking at the actual risk, and therapeutic benefits of smoked marijuana. How do you account for this and how marijuana is treated. You have to look back at the history of marijuana which has been prohibited since the 1930s. The federal government at large has seen marijuana as the lynch pin of the war on drugs. As the drug that can be demonized in an effective way we can label it as a gate way drug even though theres no evidence suggesting that people who use marry want facing marijuana are then led to go on to other druggings. The stigma of pot kept constance from using it for years. She has a rare auto immune disorder. You feel like you have a problem. But driven by crippling joint pain, she went online and read about the potential benefits of oil. She started distilling it underground. He said to me, how come you are so much better, i started shaking, i was like he is going to thing i am weird. A stoner, he is going to discount everything i tell him from now on, so i stood there shaking and i told him. I said i am afraid to tell you, but i have been experimenting with making this high thc oil for myself, it is allowing me to it is allowing me to get through the day, it is changing my life. He said oh my god everybody here needs that. Today she says they are sells her oil to 125 client as year including stage four cancer patients. The cost of a three month treatment cycle is about 7,000. We are number one in the world in cannabis oil. This tiny little operation. To date, no Clinical Trials have been conducted on the effects of the miracle oil. The few doctors that do study worries that its benefits may be exaggerated. Personally, i believe that in the test tube, and in animal models there may be some effect of highly concentrated but it pains me as an oncology for 30 years to see amazing advances, in our ability to treat cancer to keep people alive when patients come to me with a curable malignancy saying they are going to treat it with cannabis oil. He is bun of the only physicians that has received prescription. He believes that it can ease pain but is not a cure. Most of the people i have cared for for it cures canner i would have a lot more survivors. It must be hard to see your patients give money for totally unproven therapies. Right, it is all anecdote, and it is not evidence. We need to do the research, but our hans are tied because ewith cant really study it. Jobbing the regulators in washington have a cool about actual Clinical Applications of this very powerful medicine. Are you heedful in the your career things will change. I use to say now in my lifetime but now i think i shouldnt shortchange my life, we have seen so much change in the past few years that maybe we are coming to a Tipping Point the pressure right now i think is greater than it has ever been. To allow this research to go forward. In march the government finally granted Burgess Group approval to study the effects of pot, it is the first time anyone has received federal permission to study the benefiting of smoking marijuana hof researchers are still waiting for the plants to be delivered. Over half of the american voting population believes that marijuana should be legalized. Not just for medical use but legal for Recreational Use and thats setting up an opportunity for the Obama Administration to step in, this wont require a vote or an act of congress, an executive email from president obama requiring the process so this is the dollar bill method, it is very handy if you dont know how to roll a joint. Aaron hind isnt waiting for hard science. Allky do is just shake my head and laugh at everybody trying to hold it back, when it is a beneficial drug. All that it could have negative long term consequences. If i didnt have pot as a coping mechanism if you took it away, i would have turned to alcohol i might have attorneyed to something harder i may have conflicted harm am i giving a little piece of my long term memory, or short term memory usage for evenness in my life . Definitely. Our science and Technology Correspondent joins us. There is no scientific reason that keeps that makes it difficult, more difficult to study marry want than other substances . Marijuana, though, has this unique restriction. One that has no deadline, it can stall research forever, and that is utterly unique to marijuana. So if the researchers had their way if they had access and ability to get the supplies what do they want to study . What do they want to find out . One thing that is so difficult, is doing any sort of large cohort, a big group of people using it on a long term basis right now the stigma of it make it impossible to ask anybody and get a truly honest response about how much they use how much they feel depend on it, what they do when they are on it, as a result, our sources for instance at the Veterans Affairs say that they would really love to be able to act veterans in particular who are prone to addiction for a long term sense of who it is they do. Right now you cant get an honest answer like you can about cholesterol, when you are are talking about the Long Term Health of a massive population. So if it is so difficult to know more about pot in terms of science, why are lawmakers so willing to legalize it . Well, that is the great question i mean certainly when you talk to policy makers and ask them what kinds of science have you used to undergird your decisions when i have spoken for instance to the writer of the initiative that legalized marijuana in Washington State she told me, we just had to go on the sort of basis of how few deaths we have seen. We had to go on the basis of the political will, as our source mentions in our piece over 50 of the voting public seems to be in favor of it. So it seems to be a low stakes political decision, but it is atowning certainly from a scientific perspective seeing to many laws being made, this entirely new industry being invented on the basis of no research, and it is entirely because the federal government wont let it hoop. Really interest, thank you so much, American Science and tech correspondent looking ahead, seriously buzzed. And right off the bat you pull through all that. Sometimes it will have a very definitive smell but it couldnt come through in the taste. More of our in depth look at colorados year on pot with the people who see getting stone as just part of the job. America tonights with a cannabis connoisseur a marijuana critic mom and the first news ed tore, their year on pot next week on america tonight. Ahead tonight after the break a brewing show down. In the path of the pipeline or what would be, we visit a Small Community far from the big political debate, thats hoping to welcome the keystone x. L. Pipe line. Lap [[vo]] rock star astronaut chris hadfield. Everything ive done has been fun stuff. [[vo]] mindblowing discoveries its on the edge of impossible. [[vo]] terrifying neardeath experiences if it had been higher, itd hit us. [[vo]] and an exciting future thats closer than you think. Go from being an air traveller to being a space traveller. You see it as the future. I see it as inevitable. [[vo]] every monday, join us for exclusive, revealing and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. Now a snapshot of stories making headlines. On the fourth anniversary of the shooting that nearly killed her, president obama met with former arizona congresswoman gabriel giffords. The lone gunman attacked her during a rally at a tucson shopping center. On this anniversary the president praised her fun control advocacy. A now boko haram attack has killed many, some say hundreds. Boko haram grab the words attention, when the group kid p thatted nearly 200 school girls, they are still missing. Bad weather and rough seas kept divers from reaching the boxes of the air asia flight they hope the lift the tail section where the boxes should be on friday. The area the flight disappears with 162 people on board. In much of this country, it is a brutal cold, thats taken over not just january cold, but a frigid front thats led even communities that dont normally do it, to send their kids home from school. Why that is, and where it is most miserable from america tonight, who is in vermont it is very cold out here. I have wool soxes on, so thats it. And avoided going outside if you can, it is so cold, the National Weather service warned that frostbite are real risks across much of the country. Temperatures plummeted to single digit digits. Mix in the wind and it feels much worse. Even here in vermont where you expect cold weather people were shopped it is one of the coldest days in ten years, 20 below zero, and over in maine even colder, some parts sow 30 below when you add in the the chill, it is bone chilling, imagine this, 60 to seven degrees below zero this led to an unusual move for new england especially in january some School Districts had to shut down out of concerns that exposed skin could freeze on contact. You get the pins and theseles and the numbness, and then you can get pain which is the nerve endings getting injured. Wind chills currently feels like nine, in omaha lets go to the northeast where it feels like 17 below zero for cleveland. And the cold snap extended far south in houston, they are just not accustom to this type of cold. It is supposed to get down to 20 degrees i think. Tonight. Faucet protectors are flying off the shelves of this Hardware Store as people try to protect their homes. This will protect your faucets and it will keep you from having any freeze, and this is the way you put it on, and then you close it and you are done. Nobody wants to get out in the cold weather. Back in new york, omar is facing the temperatures with a little bit of optimism. I like to you know, hope for warm waver to come soon, not in may, but late march, i am ready. Waiting for you. He could always relocate to somewhere warm which right now means alaska where the temperature topped out at 26 degrees. Adam may, al jazeera, stowe vermont. 26, just about balmy. Here in the nations capitol the heat is on, and the battle over the keystone xl pipeline extension, new congress both controlled by republicans aimed to take up construction on the pipeline extension. The april could reach the full senate next week. President obama has said he would veto any keystone measures sending out the first big battle between the white house, and the g. O. P. Controlled congress. The pipeline in question would much Tar Sands Oil and much has been made about the economic effects of the pipeline. But what about people who live in its path . America tonight visited a tiny prairie town, steel city nebraska to find out what they think. Steel city nebraska, the signs says 84 residents. The actual number, is closer to 50. The Elementary School is closed. Only three kids live in town. The baptist church, closed. This used to be a froesery store, abandoned. A building there the Old Town Hall that was built in about 1915, the beer garden fence there, there was a hospital there, i was born in that hospital. That was 70 years ago. Build sheely is now steels and runs the post office. There was a barbershop, a little cafe, two hotels and it is just gradually people moving out. Trains roll through every 15 minutes or so. But they dont stop. Not any more. Steel city near the line, was founded in 1873, after decades of decline the tiny village is now back on the map took can thats proposed pipeline would pump to a facility just outside of town. I hope they pass it, yeah, everybody in town does. The original Keystone Pipeline built in 2010, moved crude from can do to steel city east to illinois, and south to oklahoma and texas. The proposed 36inch diameter ski tonexl pipeline would replace the original with a more direct rout, residents expect that would mean a hand full of permanent jobs drive through this tiny village and you wont see anything for or against the keystone x. L. Pipeline. The minor thinks the fear of environmental damage is overblown. It is such a big deal now why wasnt it back in the 50s when they put pipelines through here. The landscape around steel city, is dotted with markers for underground pipelines. On my hand, i own this 40 different lines. And i have never had any problems at all sold some of his farmland to trance cans da the ever the pipeline pumping station. The more oil that comes by rail gives me a concern because i consider the pipeline a lot safer than the railroads. Steel city residencies the pipeline will create jobs nationalry. And in steel city especially during construction. It will help it out a lot in the meantime you have people coming through and they are saying 40,000 jobs thats a lot of people thats a lot of families a lot of kids being fed. But dont leak for an economic turn around in steel city say the old timer whose have watched the towns decline. I have lived here all my life and things just do down. People move away, and they die and thats what happens. Even so, banna happen is relishes the moment in the spotlight. I cant believe that steel city has been on the map in the world news. And things like that, but it happened. And were kind of enjoying that part of it. Real good. Michael can al jazeera. Later this hour, the flow of troubled waters. There are people drinking contaminated water from the lake every day. They are getting sick, and possibly dying from this. And they have no alternative source of drinking water. A Central American nation, home to one of the great treasures, but a view that may be loved to death. A new twist in the broing debate over the right to die at physician assisted suicide one of the nations most outspoken advocates has lost his medical license. America tonight adam may met the former leader of a bold group, nowening thats antisuicide laws. A couple of publications have called you the new dr. Death, made comparisons to Jack Kavorkian whats the difference . Well, he likes the publicity, i think this is a private thing. He is among the most controversial figures in the right to die movement. He says he has helped more than 100 people end their lives. Now, one year after this candid conversation with america tonight the state of maryland has revoked his medical license. Finding he broke state laws by helping six people commit suicide he shows us what he uses to help people die modified turkey cooking baggings filled with tubes that hook up to helium tanks. What is that process like. The person breathing it doesnt feel any pain, discomfort, at all and they just go to sleep. You hold their hand. Yeah. How many times have you held someones hand for their final moments in. About 100. Its an honor. An honmore is a good way to put it. From the small unassuming row house, he was the medical director of the final exit network, a group that not only believed in physician assisted suicide, but traveled the country, offing hands on guidance. It says this is waya guy does, it discusses with you, sometimes ad nauseam we do a lot of talking. That you know darn well what you are doing and even then, that you are going to put the bag of helium on, you sure you are going to do this, i have had people get mad and say doctor, i have said that 50 times. But thats the idea, so no one ever dream of accusing of talking to something about they hadnt thought about. I know it is there whoever i need it. But the right to die started a national debate, when brettny maynard an ended her life. They watched as the 20 fineyearold became an advocate and publicly lived out a bucket list, planning her death and then ending her life. Legally in the state of oregon. My goal of course, is to influence this policy for positive change and i would like to see allamericans have access to the same healthcare rights. Legislatures in three states have legalized physician assisted suicide. At a court ruling in montana decriminalized it, that means it is still illegal in 46 other states including minnesota. Thats where dr. Larry egging bert continues fighting a multiyear legal battle. In 2013, charges that he illegally helped a suburban woman kill herself were thrown out. The states law that bans giving suicidal advice, was ruled unconstitutional. Violating free speech. But he now faces new charges. He tells us the suicide was done in secret, leaving the family angry. The women did not want her husband to know about this. So she was faking her husband out on this. Attacked for operating in the shadows he has also faced criticism that he will help anyone die. Regardless of the severity of their medical problems. I do not take termny ill is a reasonable criteria, i think it is bet tore say that a person has a choice to think about what to do with their life. For exampling, i have a man who has called me up, he is 94, he is totally deaf, he says what is this living . I dont want to do this any more. He wants to go. He wants to go. Do you think he should have that choice. Yes i do. You have a choice right now. You go down buy a rifle and blow your brains out now why not have a physician advise you how to do this in a way thats considerably more dignified. But in the end it is someone pulling a helium balloon over their head, and people would not say thats very dignified. It depends on what you mean by dignity, you dont have is to do it that way you can save up the pills thats up to you. He is pulling balloons over peoples heads i think it is creepy. Teri is against all forms she wants to repeal, vermonts new death with dignity law. I think it is the exception not the rule. They want to think the only way to make it pretty is to plan it and take a pill for it. And i just dont believe that power nature is really that cruel. How old were your mother . She was 90. 90 years old, she had a good life. Handy says she is motivated by family experiences. She sat at her mothers side as she died a natural death. I think in my moms case, i think she sort of like belligerently refused to really acknowledge that she was dieing and that was kind of good in a way. What is your concern. I want to make sure i have the option, i dont want an environment in our future where people are pressures into ending their life prematurely it is a real threat if they have a foothold, they are hopefully we can do something about it. In vermont the new physician assisted suicide law has run into major problems. Few doctors are willing to participate. But in 2013, when vermonts governor signed death with dignity into law, there was at least one enthusiastic doctor in the crowd. Dr. Larry egbert. You think there will be a day where this will be available to allamericans in. What should be made available is the right to say this is my body, andly do with it as i wish. And i have no right to tell you what to do with your body. Polls show it is a position shared by a growing number, but still illegal for the vast majority. Adam may, al jazeera. Dr. Egbert plans to appeal the medical board ruling and to try to get his license reinstated. In our final segment this hour, loch ness . How one of the most beautiful lakes in the world became one of the most endangered after a break. Lap we consider a place so loved it is also endangers. Guatemalas lake has been called the most beautiful in the world but now it is considered to be one of the most threatened. The government promised to protect one of the top Tourist Attractions but has it . David mercer traveled to guatemala to fish for answers here is what he found. He is been fishing these waters for as long as he can remember. For years he could support his family using only a hook, a line and some bait. But that was back when fish were plentiful, before changing to the lake saw his catch getting smaller and smaller. This is the size of the fish that we catch these days. Normally people buy fish that weigh at least half a pound, they dont want one that doesnt have any meat on it. He has seen a day he considered himself lucky. He is found other work locally, unemployment, has driven other fisherman away. Many of my friends have migrated to countries like the united states, to find work in order to support their families. Pass quell and hundreds of others are on the front line of a crisis threatens one of the worlds most beautiful lakes. For decades raw sewage from the towns ringing the lake, and agriculture run off have grown into the lake, but with no outlet the contaminants have had nowhere to go. Finally it struck back, a tyne of algae turns the waters into a foul smelling soup. Shocked by the ale jim cooley bloom, lake residents tried to remove the scum, using whatever tools they had. But it took months for it to sink back, and even longer for people to forget what they had seen. I felt sick. Just it was just horrible to look at it. Margaret has been studying the lake for decades. She is one of the key scientists investigating why it is happening and how to stop them, but question spite having sounded the alarm the contamination has only gotten worse. So the lake has not inch proved, sewage keeps coming in p, the population keeps increasing the amounts of nutrients are increasing which means that the possibility of blooms in the future is even creasing. Scientists now feel the bacteria could mutate and produce toxins. Threatening the health of tens of thousand whose live around the lake. But the former head of the Government Agency charged with protecting the lake, says dangerous path agains in the water already pose a major risk. There are people drinking contaminated water every day they are getting sick, and they have no alternative source. It is not right that people get sick in a place with abundant resources. A project he proposed despite a 2 million price tasker the plant only treats half of the homes and businesses. As elsewhere the rest of the human wastes ends up many the lake. The governments here do whatever they want, there are laws and resources their institutions there are people who are legally obliged to find solutions but nobody does anything people continue to get sick. The lake deteriorates. And the situation is becoming fatal. But the contamination of the lake has other consequences as one of the top tourist destinations visitors bring tens of millions of dollars into the communities that dot the lake shore, it is a lifeline in one of the countrys poorest ren joes. But the bacteria is bad for business, when the last big bloom hit, tourism plummeted. But these days the group struggles to keep their store open something rosalyn da blames on the pollution. We have had big problems because there isnt as many vitors we live off our craft the women here bring money into the house to pay for our school. Stories like this give an added urgency to the trips Margaret Dickson and her students make every month. The wattser measures for things like oxygen content but the visual tests can be the most revealing. The dots are micro cysts. Theres probably a lot of plankton in there as well. This tells us we have a lot of sign of bacteria in the lake. It is helping them understand what activities damage the lake the most. Whether its deforrest station, clandestine garbage or the overuse of agricultural chemicals stopping the pollution, is proving difficult. Its the threat of fines and businesses that can also help the lake recover. I cant tell you whether we will be successful or not it depends on the effectiveness of the justice system, but we will keep at it until we get results. Some residents have grown tired of waiting for the government to make good on their promises and are working from the bottom up. A a member of a group that once with called it the belly button on the world, he believes the only way to claim the lake is but reclaims the spirituality and reclaiming the knowledge. We have a serious problem with the lake. She is dying. We aim to work with the law of attraction to heal the lake, as mayan people we have seen many bad things. Colonialism, and now globalization, what sustained us is our spirituality. It is very clear that the learn are the future, be uh that children must start now. After the ceremony, the children celebrate and in juans words plays with the lake. Proof that there is still a chance for one of the words most beautiful lakes. David mercer, al jazeera guatemala. 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