it is larger than all of new york city combined. over 340 square miles. unbelievable. that is absolutely remarkable. thank you. you are welcome, becky. you ve probably heard of carrier pij i don t knows. pigeon. what about a narco pigeon. it was smuggling cocaine and marijuana into a prison. it was groomed by an inmate who trained it to ak as a courier. brazil braces for round three of massive anti government protests. why some protesters are demanding the country s
of the press and just this month it outlawed media leaks of course it s letting julian assange stay in embassy in london. ecuador s president has accused our president obama of leading a witch-hunt against assange. analysts say president rafael may be trying to take over for hugo chavez as america s top critic in latin america. president correa went to school here in the united states and his father did time as an american prisoner for smuggling cocaine. the white house says the u.s. is in touch with ecuador and other countries where snowden just may be headed. ed henry is live at the white house on the top story at the bottom of the hour. tough talk for china as well, ed. that s right, shep. tonight, white house officials are telling us they first started talking to hong kong s government on june 10th about arresting snowden. they got acknowledgment of that request on june 17th. then this past friday hong kong authorities asked for more evidence and the u.s.
here s your thursday forecast. gusty wind, hail, flash floods around grand rapids, chicago, indianapolis, st. louis, tulsa. showers, oklahoma city, north texas, gulf coast. thunderstorms in the southwest. heating in the pacific northwest. weather music is always serene and peaceful. 89, seattle. 96 in portland. 90s, albuquerque, 80s in the northeast. fall-like from fargo to minneapolis. in the 60s. i love fall. my favorite season. football season. football season, too. absolutely. get this, the newest star of the chilean minor league soccer team is a prison inmate from russia. the man they call el russo, serving time for smuggling cocaine. a minor league player in russia. he impressed the warden so much that the local team heard about him. el russo, is let out every morning to practice with a guard though he could return to russia, under an amnesty program. he decide to stay just so he can play soccer with his new team. pretty interesting there. his real name is maxim
the parade route. 20 people were hurt, five in critical condition including two children. ecuadorian authorities working with the u.s., actually dea agents that have seized what they say is a fully functional submarine built just for smuggling cocaine. they ve also arrested one man. that sub is being held near the border of ecuador and colombia. investigators trying to find the group responsible for assembling it. a developing story now about our veterans. our warriors and the quality of medical care that they ve earned and deserve versus what they re actually getting. all last week we told you about the hundreds of veterans in st. louis possibly exposed to hiv and hepatitis because of dirty dental equipment. that s just the most recent case. don t forget last year hundreds of vets may have been exposed to hiv and hepatitis thanks to dirty colonoscopy equipment at va clinics in tennessee and florida. also there were faulty prostate cancer screenings in philly.
submarine built for smuggling cocaine. do you see this thing? they also arrested a man. the stuff is being held in the border of ebbing kwa door and columbia. they re trying to find the group responsible for putting this thing together. also, e.p.a. add more in the gulf, they re monitoring the agent s response to the oil disaster. the police spent saturday in pensacola checking out the situation there and listening to local officials that raise a few eyebrows when she said that she wouldn t go into that water because the beach is oily. also, michael steele working the phones trying to rally some support for himself from high-profile republicans. he said the war in afghanistan was a war of obama s choogt and also suggested america can t win. he made the comments at a fundraiser many connecticut and they were then post odd youtube. as we said, it is our independence day here in the