She goes to the streets of seattle and santa cruz for a look at how science might stop crime before it happens. Lindsay is an excia operator. Tonight she shows us how mushrooms might one day replace styrofoam packages. Im phil torres and im an entomologist. I study insects in the rain forests of peru. Thats our team. Now, lets do some science. It has been another fantastic week of science on the road. Weve got crystal, lindsay and rita here. Were going to start with you. You were basically a very hightech firefighter for a week. Tell me about this. Thats right. I was on a story that followed how we use Unmanned Aircraft to fight the rim fire at yosemite. Let me show you. Here it is. Its a very unusuallooking piece of technology. It almost looks like an alien insect, and they have it in a hangar. Essentially they fly it up to yosemite, and its eyes in the sky following the rim fire and generating information for action on the ground. So lets check it out. The size and scope of the Massi
Crystal is a molecular neuroscience. She goes to the streets of seattle and santa cruz for a look at how science might stop crime before it happens. Lindsay is an excia operator. Tonight she shows us how mushrooms might one day replace styrofoam packages. Im phil torres and im an entomologist. I study insects in the rain forests of peru. Thats our team. Now, lets do some science. It has been another fantastic week of science on the road. Weve got crystal, lindsay and rita here. Were going to start with you. You were basically a very hightech firefighter for a week. Tell me about this. Thats right. I was on a story that followed how we use Unmanned Aircraft to fight the rim fire at yosemite. Let me show you. Here it is. Its a very unusuallooking piece of technology. It almost looks like an alien insect, and they have it in a hangar. Essentially they fly it up to yosemite, and its eyes in the sky following the rim fire and generating information for action on the ground. So lets check it
The White House Briefing now under way. White House Press Secretary saying the president Congratulates Congress on the deal that was just reached. It happened 11 years before the debt ceiling deadline. Senate leaders unveiling a bipartisan plan to a void a default. Wall street relieved that the situation is almost over. Its just off its high off 200plus points. But the plan contains few specifics to address the the nations nearly 17 trilliondollar debt, once again kicking the can down the road. We have libby casey, but well go to jay carney talking about the deal that was just reached. Again, applauds the leaders for the senate for coming together and working out a bipartisan solution. Is there any concern even with this deal being made that a down grade from some of the rating agencies would be spending. I would refer you to the treasury for those kinds of assessments. We talk about the things that we can control which is calling on congress to quickly act on this compromise agreement
Of International Weapons inspectors. Today an explosion outside damascus. It left 16 government soldiers dead and others wounded. It happened after a group of lebanese hostages had been freed, after being held captive for a year. Omar saleh is live. Tell us about what you know about who is claiming responsibility for this. What we know is that at least five rebel groups, including nusra and a group affiliated to al qaeda launched a joint operation against a Government Army complex. The attack the offensive started with a suicide car bombing at the entrance of the complex. It killed. And it appears as they we just lost omaral sala. Its difficult to keep connections. Well keep more information shortly. In the meantime chemical weapons inspectors report progress on the ground in syria. They say they have checked 14 of more than 20 sites on the list so far. Syrian state tv released a video of inspectors checking one such site. The organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons says s
Jazeera america. As transit workers continue to strike in san francisco, a tragic development. Two Bay Area Rapid workers were killed by a train north of sap. It happened between two suburban bart stations. Two employees were hit and killed by a bart train as they checked out a report of a dip in the rails. An Agency Spokesman said one works for bart and one a contractor. Standard procedure calls for one to inspect the tracks while the other watches for trains. Bart says both people had extensive experience working around moving trains. The agency says the train was on a routine maintenance run with an experienced operator at the controls and at the time of the accident the train was run in automatic mode under computer control. Investigators are trying to learn what led to the accident that stunned an agency scrambling to cope with a strike and 200,000 frustrated riders. The florida manhunt is over. Authorities have arrested fugitives Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins on saturday. The