what does your mom think of this? she passed but she loved it. i m sorry to hear that. long string of bad ideas. [laughter] or good ideas. if you can brave it out here in this weather, you can brave it anywhere, my friend. i had to maximize my utility in the world. i was worried all day. i wore out myself and now i feel like i can go to another hour. naked cowboy. happy new year. appreciate it. we will go back to talk the bryan llenas and find out what s going on. hey, doing well, guys, really interesting thing that they are doing now. this is a beautiful retriever here. the vapor wake dog specially trained retrievers that are specifically trained to be able to sniff out bombs in the air and on people. why is this important? it s not just a bomb-sniffing
a trail, a trail of vapors in the air that smelled like a bomb. vapors that only a specially trained dog could detect. stay. stay. stay. reporter: a dog like these now being trained at auburn university. researchers here call them vapor wake dogs. the point of a vapor wake dog is to detect the vapor of the bomb, if you will, before it s actually placed somewhere where it might explode, catch it before that. that is exactly correct. your standard bomb dog, your explosive detector dog is primed on looking at an object, a backpack that s placed somewhere. a vapor wake dog s ability is to detect the odor coming off of that backpack on the back of someone as they carry it. reporter: amazing. and to follow that plume of vapor. reporter: auburn university professor jim floyd says vapor wake dogs are the ultimate
vapor wake dog in boston, they might have detected the suspects before they were able to place those backpacks down? had one of our dogs been in place on that corner with those two guys walking there with those backpacks, i think they would have alerted on them. their training starts early, even as early as these puppies, which are just about three weeks old. at this time, they re held a lot and socialized, and then by the time their formal training starts, when they re about a year old, they re used to people and loud noises, and they don t get spooked so easily. auburn has its own breeding program for bomb-sniffing dogs. they rarely use shepherds and traditional breeds but lean more on labradors and spaniels. paul hamm beyoond, whose compan working with auburn to train and deploy vapor wake dogs explains why. we need a dog that fits into the public profile, that the
bomb-sniffing dog. they can follow a plume or bomb vapor stretching several football fields, a skill so unique, the university hopes to patent it. this video from the university shows a vapor wake dog in action. once he catches the odor in the air, he never lets up. we did our own experiment at this alabama mall with the help of auburn s canine handlers. they give the man in the red shirt a nknappsack loaded with explosives inside a pressure cooker, just like the bombers in boston. watch as the dog catches a whiff. and just like he s trained to do, when the suspect stops, the dog stops, too, then sits down, alerting his handler to the bad guy. in a crowded mall or on a city street, this technique is crucial. these dogs can potentially stop a would be bomber before it s too late. you think that if you had a
boston marathon, bomb-sniffing dogs swept the area twice according to the boston globe. the type of bombs used in boston, though, could have been hard to detect but at alabama s auburn university, researchers are training what are being called the ultimate bomb-sniffing dogs. randi kaye went there to report. reporter: imagine if the boston bombing suspects had left a trail, a trail of vapors in the air that smelled like a bomb. vapors that only a specially trained dog could detect. stay. stay. stay. reporter: a dog like these, now being trained at auburn university. researchers here call them vapor wake dogs. the point of a vapor wake dog is to detect the vapor of the bomb before it s placed somewhere before it might explode, catch it before that? exactly correct. your standard bomb dog, your explosive detector dog, is primed on looking at an object, a backpack, that s placed