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and no leads in that cocaine mystery at the white house. the secret service just briefing lawmakers on their investigation. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin with that update on the cocaine discovered at the white house. nbc s ryan nobles is up on capitol hill, where it looks hot and the heat was on those investigators. what did they tell those lawmakers? reporter: not very much. at least when you talk to republicans, chris, they seemed very unhappy with the information that the secret service was able to provide both the oversight committee and homeland security committee. republicans believe that this is something that secret service should be able to figure out, that they shobe t narrow down the list of suspects, question those suspects and come up with an answer. they were given the strong impression from secret service officials today that when the investigation concludes, they ll not ultimately come to that answ ....
around that time, scientists learned something extraordinary. whales were communicating with each other. sometimes by song over long distances. in part, because of that discovery, scientists and conservationists rallied to enact laws to protect the whales and it worked. the humpback whale population has made a remarkable comeback. now they face a host of new threats. global warming is killing off their food source and human activity is causing thousands of whale deaths a year from the stress of underwater construction noise to fishing entang amments and ship collisions. in the next hour, cnn s bill weir takes us to antarctica, a place very few get to visit to study these remarkable creatures and show us why saving the whales may also be saving the planet. because they are one of our best partners in battling climate change. reporter: those are the songs of humpback whales, flying about 15 billion miles away from earth, on the off chance intelligent life out there wa ....
50 years ago humpback whales were considered an endangered species after decades of commercial whaling decimated the population. around that same time scientists learned something extraordinary. whales were communicating with each other, sometimes by song over long distances. in part because of that discovery scientists and conservationists rallied to enact laws to protect the whales, and it worked. the humpback whale population has made a remarkable comeback. but now they face a host of new threats. global warming is killing off their food source, and human activity is causing thousands of whale deaths a year. from the stress of underwater construction noise to fishing entanglements and ship collisions. in the next hour cnn s bill weir takes us to antarctica, a place very few people get to visit, to study these remarkable creatures and show us why saving the whales may also be saving the planet. because they are one of our best partners in battling climate change. re ....
freedom is not free. the united states and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom of which they died, must endure and prosper. their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. it has a cost. it imposes a burden and just as they whom we commemorate willing to sacrifice so to must we. in the last final less heroic way willing to give of ourselves. yeah i remember him. americans coast to coast will commemorate more than 1 pngts 1 million brave men and women who have died defending our country solemn occasion dates back to deadliest conflict ever the civil war originally named decoration day it was first observed on may 30th, 1868 the peaceful date chosen because it was not associated with battle now 100 years later congress passed the uniform monday holiday act officially making memorial day a federal holiday only the last monday in may creating a three-day weekend which we re going to experience now. so while you enjoy next couple of days and you should w ....
freedom is not free. the united states and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom of which they died, must endure and prosper. their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. it has a cost. it imposes a burden and just as they whom we commemorate willing to sacrifice so to must we. in the last final less heroic way willing to give of ourselves. yeah i remember him. americans coast to coast will commemorate more than 1 pngts 1 million brave men and women who have died defending our country solemn occasion dates back to deadliest conflict ever the civil war originally named decoration day it was first observed on may 30th, 1868 the peaceful date chosen because it was not associated with battle now 100 years later congress passed the uniform monday holiday act officially making memorial day a federal holiday only the last monday in may creating a three-day weekend which we re going to experience now. so while you enjoy next couple of days and you should w ....