the nasdaq fell 78. the manhunt for federal fugitive brian laundrie in a florida wilderness area is entering another week. meanwhile, investigators are looking for other materials at other material as they build a case against the boyfriend of the now deceased gabby petino. correspondent jonathan serrie has our update from the north point, florida tonight. police continue the search for brian laundrie in florida s rugged carlton reserve. they say effort is likely to be scaled down from last week. and more targeted based on any information they may receive. but a nearby cattle rancher says it would be difficult for anyone to survive in the harsh conditions in the park. i don t see anybody can make it out here for 10 days, five days. there s no water supply. there is no fresh springs. there is no stores available unless did you go 12 miles either direction. we want to bring closure to the petino family. protesters shout outside the nearby home of brian s parents
The grey wolf was once nearly hunted to extinction in the U.S. until the federal government put it on the endangered species list in 1974. 20 years later, it was successfully reintroduced to Idaho and Yellowstone. As pack numbers grew, the gray wolf was taken off the list. But more than 50 wildlife groups are worried it may face endangerment again from expanded hunting. William Brangham reports.
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The reintroduction of the gray wolf in America is considered one of the great conservation victories of recent decades.
But now more than 50 wildlife groups are asking the federal government to put the wolves back on the endangered species list.
rancher bill martin here and candidate in a runoff election for texas s sixth congressional district jake elsie. thanks to you for being here. first question to you. before we get to the vice president s trip, to challenge illegal immigrants post to you as a cattle rancher. this isn t anything new. it has going on for decades but in the last year this is probably 10 times worse than it has ever been. we have issues with break ins, vehicle stolen. the illegals picked up by the coyotes in the second stage of their journeys, we ve had bailout situations, county deputies, border patrol agents the drive the vehicles into the brush. it looks like clowns coming out
low amounts of rain and snowfall. we have the story of how one rancher was trying to cope. living in southern utah, cattle rancher tj atkin is used to dry conditions. i can t control mother nature. but the current dryness is more punishing than everything he has ever seen. you had long has it been since you ve had any meaningful rain here. the last 15 months, combined, we re barely at three inches of precipitation in 15 months. and what would you normally see? our annual for 12 months is nine inches. for generations, his family has raised cattle on the same 210,000 acres in northwestern arizona. i either got to haul water, or i ve got to, i ll take them to town and feed them for the next three months. atkin drove us out to the rugged arid terrain of his ranch. with temperatures well above 100 degrees, there were just a few
one of those people is a cattle rancher in southern utah, largest operation in northern arizona and we went to go see him to see what his conditions look like right now. take a listen to how t.j. atkin explains the water situation on his ranch. we have about 200 reservoirs and every one of them is dry right now. like dry? dry, not we don t have a drop in any one of them. reporter: now he does say that if during the monsoon season that s coming up here this summer it is possible that one good deluge of water could change things around because so much water falls at that time but after a year or two like this, he s gone through two, and he s saying a third year would be unbearable at this point. he s had to move cows and to sell some of them, when you look at the colorado river which makes its way here to lake mead, it is going to affect all of us because this drought is so large and so punishing and the temperatures are so hot, ana.