a secret two-year effort by iran to keep close tabs on this woman, masih alinejad at her house in brooklyn with the goal of kidnapping her. i m an iranian journalist, activist but to be honest, the government in iran have different names for me. reporter: she is an outspoken critic especially its treatment of women, an author with a big profile on social media. federal prosecutors say these four men in iran, operatives of its intelligence service, hatched a plot to snatch her off the street, hiring private investigators to watch and photograph her house, falsely telling them she owed money to a client in the middle east the fbi says it found this screen shot showing that one of the iranian men even researched ways to spirit her away by boat u.s. authorities were so concerned, they moved her to safe houses for eight months a fifth person, a woman in california is charged with helping move nearly half a million dollars here from iran to finance the plot iran s foreign ministry tonigh
it really is unprecedented. reporter: lake mead, only a third full is lower than it s been since the 1930s. it s one of several depleted reservoirs across the southwest climate change has a very strong fingerprint on exactly what we re seeing right now at lake mead. reporter: this weekend, authorities plan to close this boat ramp on the nevada side of lake tahoe, citing low water levels and danger to boaters. without enough water in lakes and reservoirs, vegetation dries out and becomes ready fuel it s like a stocked fireplace, tinder-packed, ready to go up. reporter: symptoms of climate change, fuelling the fires this fire season is about six weeks ahead of schedule. outbreaks behaving like they typically would in august or even september jake, are firefighters doing anything differently to prepare for this year? well, lester, they re preparing not only to fight fires overnight to avoid heat exhaustion in the triple-digit temperatures we re already seeing, they re also gra
it takes a month or a month and a half to present with symptoms. this is one of the things where who knows who you got it from and you do not present for a month and a half, it is frightening. guest: it is frightening. if people leave the national parks, particularly yellowstone and become sick, they should tell their doctor they have been had and they could have been supposed to hantavirus. trace: now we are reading there are 1,600 cases of west mile and 66 people have died. it surprises me but you are saying the numbers do not surprise you. why? guest: well, west nile is always a surprise because it is a new virus in this hemisphere. it is complex ecosystem. the virus is in the birds, it gets in the mosquitoes and the mosquitoes boat us. the interaction of the birds and mosquitoes determine how much west nile we are going do have and in what parts of the country. the drought may have made it