Never get sick. we have some bacteria that we used. show me how we can see that. we have a black light here. these bacteria have fluorescent genes. you can see oh, it shows up. the glowing bacteria. so that s what we could be eating. yeah. we actually recovered the food, plate it out and count the bacteria and that s how we enumerate how much has been transferred. yuck. i m not going to eat anything that falls on the floor anymore. unless it s chocolate. right. you don t want to waste chocolate. what about chips? i know a lot of people you go to a party or you re sharing a bowl of chips with somebody and they double dip in the dip or the guacamo guacamole. is that okay? our students every year pick a topic of food safety and i think this came from a seinfeld episode where george was double dipping. so we set up an experiment. part of the process is to learn how to do research. we had the students either dip
Matter. that s because waste management, which owns the landfill, doesn t have to listen to what the county board says. it answers to the state. so it signed a contract with bp and started dumping the oily waste right where rockco and plenty of others feared they would. what concerns you most about this oil and the tar balls and the whole mixture going to your landfill? the long-term effects that we will have to endure if it in fact if in fact we do find that it is dangerous. like if it gets into your water. into our water table, absolutely. reporter: keeping them honest, we asked bp why it s disposing of spill waste in a county that says it s plead wed them not to. bp wouldn t comment. so we asked waste management s ken halden to take us inside the landfill so we could see for ourselves why bp, the epa and waste management all say it s safe. there are many worried that
Rebuild. this is the first time in my life that i am looking at disaster. reporter: the government insists it s doing what it can to bring relief to the victims, but in the villages two hours west of islamabad, there was no sign of help from the government or aid groups. local villagers recovered the dead themselves. on area roads entire families walked, often barefoot, with the few items they had left. looking on the tv, the government has promised us that there is aid coming from karachi. reporter: why haven t relief crews got to some of the victims? this is a big reason. this is one of the bridges on the motorway, the major highway connecting islamabad, the federal capital east, to villages west. as you can see, the floodwaters have completely demolished it. with the bridge down, traffic to the biggest nearby city was
The air is monitored and if anything goes wrong, they would know it. the epa told us bp, along with the epa, are also sampling the landfill s regularly to make sure they are safe. the agency also said it directed bp to keep its waste disposal operations, quote, fully transparent. bp must post information about the disposal of all collected waste on their website along with any community complaints. connie rockco is first in line. if it s not hazardous, why would someone be out with tibex suits and rubber gloves picking it up and taking it to the landfill. reporter: since we first told you about that, little has changed. oily waste is still being brought to the landfill. no lawsuits have been filed against bp. let s update you on the gulf oil disaster. we could soon we the raptured well sealed for good. crews expect to start moring mud and concrete into it tomorrow or
As chelsea clinton and marc mezvinsky write the next chapter of their lives together, friends and family are keeping mum about their honeymoon. the secrecy surrounding the wedding hasn t stopped people from speculating about it, though. earlier today i spoke with celebrity event planner collin cowley. i think she looks absolutely beautiful. the strapless gown, the ballroom skirt, she really looked radiant and you could see she was glowing from within. i love the belt on the dress as well. how about the cake, have you seen any pictures of it or heard much about it? i haven t seen pictures of the cake, but i believe, you know, when you think about it, the wedding cake truly is the icon of the wedding. so i m sure it was as lavish and as beautiful with everything else with a lot of attention to detail too. how much do you think the cake cost, have you heard anything on that? so many numbers floating out there. you know, it s very interesting. i mean cakes range from about $7 a s