of the most precious rain forests around. this is up in bolivia where pollution is starting to take its toll. it s a beautiful place, amazing people. and it looks beautiful. tell us about the gold rush. what s being done to try to mitigate it? about 600 square miles of some of the most pristine rain forest in the western amazon is just been turned into this toxic wasteland, the miners go out on the los tigres, illicit taxi companies on dirt bikes, they go into the rain forest with a diesel pump and fire hoses. they wash the sandbags down and cut all the trees down until it starts to look like desert. they take mercury barrels and stomp it in order to get the gold to amalgamate. look what it does to the amazon. who knows how many centuries it will take to bring that back. it s a difficult balance. economic prosperity versus
we ll just see what the damage is. what does things say to you about the storm, the fact that you re in charleston, came through florida, up north, you look around here and your half your community is just now the water is receding. sure. we see a lot of this with heavy rain, but i mean this, obviously, is matthew level, hurricane level, i know it was a tropical storm here, but this is one of the lowest points in charleston. you happen to be living in it, man. that s it. this is sea water right here. how much longer do you think until you finally clear out all that water? what do you think it s going to take? well, the city has been amazing. they ve put this diesel pump in here. our councilman was out here with frank, he s the head of like all the flooding in charleston, so we can t thank them enough. this will probably lower in another couple hours. the water in our house, we got that out, my wife and i got that out. you have a lot of work to do. cool boots, man. rig