we talk about how much moisture is out there. soil moisture 150 to 175% of normal. >> i'm richelle carey, "america tonight" is next. for updates from around the world be sure to check out our website, aljazeera.com. on "america tonight" the weekend addition reliving the terror. >> i thought at this moment okay, all of us will die this night. >> correspondent sheila macvicar on the tragedy that nearly consumed this tiny canadian town, and why it casts a long shadow over the oil boom in this country. >> the rail industry has not been regulated since the '60s. we are shipping millions of gallons over the tracks. the trains roll through.

>> also - the case that brought some of the nations biggest civil rights act visits and thousands of protesters to a tiny town in louisiana. sara hoy with a look at the young men known as the jena 6. >> i don't believe justice was served in this case not at all. i believe it was resolved but not justice. >> now eight summers later their story raises questions about fairness and race and our system of crime and punishment. and, free as a bird - man's mission to protect the sacred and mighty bald eagle. good evening, thank you for joining us. i'm adam may, joie chen is off.

we begin with a one-year anniversary of one of the worst rail disasters in modern history. dozens of people died when a run away oil train sped into the center of a small canadian town. the train derailed and exploded. "america tonight"s sheila macvicar travelled to that town in quebec to see how the community is rebuilding. one year on in the center of town there's an ugly scar. a constant reminder of the night of july 6th, 2013. the six city blocks wiped out. the 47 lives lost. a peaceful hot summer night. to this. >> oh my god. >> with no warning. >> i thought at this moment okay all of us will die this night. kareem blanch et was driving when she saw a massive fireball

in her rear view mirror the explosion and again and again of the tank. the people everywhere. the sirens of police. it was just apocalyptic. >> a train with 72 tanker cars hauling 2 million gallons of oil from the field. a train with no engineer on board. when the brakes civiled the train -- failed the train rolled out of control downhill into the center of town. >> investigators awhen the train -- say when the train came down the track it was travelling at 63 k/hr. 63 miles an hour. hits this quur curve.

the cars slide. there was the cafe. >> the cafe - that's a nightclub where blanch et was supposed to work. where her friends were. >> i was in front of the disaster. i said "no, it's impossible." i want it to stop now. and rewind and never happen. >> reporter: it's so shocking. >> yes. the wait es i was supposed to switch with her, she died. so i always saw some of this and think she died at my place. it's strange to - i'm sorry. >> massive devastation. this is what we were faced with when we arrived. this was like driving into hell. it was. there was nothing comparable.

this was the 9/11 to canada. >> tim has been a professional firefighter for 35 years. he leads the volunteer force at rapingly maye -- -- rangely maine. these are never-before-seen pictures taken by one of his crew from inside the blast zone. >> we saw towers we didn't know what they were. what kind of building it was. he said it wasn't a building they were the tank ards they went in so hard they embedded and stood up and exploded from the oil. >> into the nightclub. >> into the nightclub. >> we said "were there a lot of people injured?" they said "to, there was one injury." you lived or died. >> it's so big. i lost 30 friends.

and customers in the same night, and employees, friends. it's too big. i cannot swallow it. >> reporter: even now. >> even now. >> reporter: yannick was the owner of the music cafe. one mere on, he's trying to rebuild, not just his cafe but his life. >> reporter: are there other people here? >> it's the same. it's the same. it's so small here. the tragedy is so big. we talk with someone, he knows another, he lost a friend a daughter, a son, another lost his father his mother. everyone knows everyone here. >> reporter: crude oil doesn't normally explode and burn.

this from the back-end fields did with such force that the canadian prime minister scribed it has a war zone. train wheels were blown off. tanker cars plit open like soda cans. oil igniting and exploding, blowing apart the water system. >> no one would be set up to handle a blast of the that proportion, we don't have the money oequipment. no fire department has. this reminds everyone of the disaster that almost wiped their town off the map. >> translation: it's a tragedy of unbelievable magnitude. it was the heart of the town which was somehow gone decimated. the impact of the explosion is still being felt.

>> translation: more than 700 lost their jobs some are under shock because they experienced it closely. >> reporter: dozens of businesses are closed, many suffer trauma there's been suicides and divorce. there's the fear of contamination, 1.5 billion gallons of fuel were burnt. the tracks in the town were never meant to transport hazardous foorls. in the last five years it increased exponentially. in 2009 there were 500 cars of crude oil. in 2013, 160,000. that's an increase of almost 32,000%. a boom echoed in the u.s. every day. rolling in carrying millions of gallons across america.

for the fire chief, the business of moving oil in mile-long traipse is a worrying trend. >> the rail industry has not been regulated since the '60s. we are shipping millions of gallons daily over the tracks going by homes, local neighbourhoods, schools, hospitals, thorough ways and people are sound asleep. the trains are rolling through at night. >> in the wake of the accident the canadian government imposed more regulations, including forcing the rail industry to update cars used to transport petroleum, standard unchanged since the cartses were introduced four -- cars were introduced four decades ago. the united states has yet do the same. >> at some point it will happen again and there'll be another new story and more fatalities and people will feel bad. we need to have the people in

charge the federal regulators those that obvious see transportation, write regulations to make sense, keeping the people safe and have the ability to enforce the regulations. there are trains rolling through, but they are carrying goods that the city is assured are safe. there are plans for a bypass but that takes time to build. meantime, there's talk of letting trains with dozens of petroleum tanker cars roll through the center of the town. that has people here reliving the worst nightmares. >> i think we are not ... >> translation: we don't deserve this with all that happened here all that we lost. >> i'm concerned the train has

to pass somewhere, but not in my town. >> the mayor acknowledges that many in the town are uneasy about the proposed resumption of shipments, but since the new rail line opener - they promise the trains will be as safe as possible and moffat the slowest possible -- move at the slowest possible speed. >> it's a small town but a lot of people will lose their home family trend and job. nothing will be the same. coming up next - bridging the gap. at the height of the summer driving seven, a warning - about the 60,000 bridges in this country in desperate need of remare. an indepth -- repair. an indepth look at crumbling america and why you may be at

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where science meets humanity. >> this is some of the best driving i've every done, even though i can't see. >> tech know. >> we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. we know a lot of you are hitting the roads this holiday weekend. every day 200 million cars cross bridges across the united states. there's cause for alarm. inspectors say one in nine are structurally deficient. federal funding to fix them has been held up in congress. i travel to three big cities to

report on the broken bridges as part of "crumbling america." >> a bridge cop l collapsed. people are all over the place. >> send everything you got. the bridge over the river fell down. there's cars all over the place. >> where, sir? >> 35w over the mississippi. there's hundreds of cars down the river. send everything you have got. lindsay was 24 in 2006 show was stuck in traffic. frustrated and anxious to get home after a long day. slowly approaching the i35w bridge. >> i got to about the middle of the bridge when i heard a clank. it was a very distinct sound of metal breaking. >> what did you see? >> my cars was in an immediate free fall going the bottom. it was full of water. >> do you remember sitting there

watching the water rise around you? >> my car went in and the water came up as quickly as the car went in. by the time the car stopped moving, i was drowning. >> to her surprise and against the odds lindsay floated reaching the surface of the water. that's when she saw the scale of the destruction. a construction worker saw me called me to a section. bridge an incline that was climable. he took a broom that had fallen and fished me out of the water and told me to sit by the median. that's where i sat for about 45 minutes. when i need to i come here. >> reporter: seven years later a memorial has been erected honouring the victims of the minnesota bridge collapse. 13 columns remembering 13 lives lost overlooks the new i35 w

bridge. lindsay's name is here with 145 others who survived. how did you get out of your car sni.d the unanswered question. i don't know. i have chalked it up to whatever else. i don't know. i accept i don't know and may never know. i did. that's the part that matters. >> reporter: a formal investigation into the collapse took more than a year. the national transportation safety board said the cause of the tragedy was a design flaw in the gusset plates metal squares connecting one beam to another. at the time of the collapse the bridge was listed as structurally deficient. engineers ruled the brim was in need of critical maintenance, but safe enough to remain open.

>> how much bridges in the country are deficient? >> we have 60,000 structurally deficient bridges, with physical problems. and to put that into perspective, one in nine bridges in this country. >> one in nine. casey is with the american society for civil engineers. >> every four years they evaluate the sit of america's infrastructure. the most recent report card gave the nation a shocking d plus. while the bridges were graded a c plus. >> how did we allow this to happen in the country to get so many deficient bridges? >> like many categories we take the things for granted. perhaps we think they'll last forever, we can defer maintenance. the reality is the trust fund - there's a trust fund supporting bridges, roadways and transit

system. they'll go bankrupt. congress has a challenge before it now to fix the trust fund and this has to be done by the end of the assumer. >> it sends 35 billion to states. it's a primary source of funding. it's not collecting enough rev few. it could be drained to zero by august 1st. president obama is calling on lawmakers to support $300 billion in additional funding. >> it's time for folks to stop running around saying what's wrong. roll up your sleeves, let's get to work and help america re build. that's what we should be doing. >> reporter: in the shadow of the nation's capital sits the fret rick douglas bridge designed to last 50 years, it's a critical artery into

washington d.c. and 14 years overdue for replacement. what are the problems with this bridge? >> it carries 77,000 cars per day in and out of the city. it's a critical way in. it's showing serious signs of age and wear and tear. i read a report that described parts of the steal, and under parts of the steel. it's a visual depiction. >> a state with the worse record for safety is pence vainia with one in four bridges structurally deficient. the icon yirk birmingham bridge is one of them. dan ses ner is with the department of transportation. >> there's not too many more years of rusting that that could do that would be acceptable before you have a safety issue. >> reporter: it had a scare? 2008 when a rocker beam that

supports the bridge slipped. portions of the bridge were closed for nearly a year. >> if you took this bridge out of service, 25% of capacity to cross the river would be lost a significant impact on commuters and business in the pittsburgh region, and would have a lot of impacts on people. >> with federal funding in departmenty act 89 was passed setting aside $40 million to overhaul the birmingham bridge much. >> the project is eligible for federal funds. the lack of federal fund - if we didn't have state funding we wouldn't talk about the fact we're getting ready to fix the bridge. >> while bridges can be fixed, lindsay says her mental scars will last a lifetime. she credits art with helping her cope with the drama of that day.

one of canvas the back brace she wore for months. are these some of the names? >> amazing. i have all the names of the 13 victims who passed away. and numbers and things that are kind of important to historical nature of it i wanted to capture what i remember. i remembered flames tangled beams, and the truck on fire. and the people on the island with me. the rebel. it was a cathartic process for me to really put that memory in real visible form for myself. >> lindsay says she deals with post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor's guilt. but says the biggest loss of all was to her faith. >> my world view now comes with the assumes that things will fall down. i can see the cracks and all of

things that are wrong with our infrastructure and buildings and all the different ways that we don't care for stuff like that. i don't trust that things will be safe. president obama called for action on that trust fund. looking ahead on the program - pot wars - exploring marijuana's momentum in washington statement, where the medical marijuana is getting down to business but the grand openings are facing controversy between federal and state law. correspondent lori jane gliha reports on the looming collision course that is this week on "america tonight". next in this hour - when justice falls out of balance. the explosive case of six young men facing harsh judgment in a louisiana town. correspondent sara hoy with an indepth second look at the jena six.

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>> i want to know what works what do you know works? >> conversations you won't find anywhere else. >> talk to al jazeera. >> only on al jazeera america. >> oh my! now to crime and punishment. it's been a decade since jena louisiana was thrust into the spotlight. six black teens were arrested and charged with attempted murder after beating up a white class mate. the case pitted black against white. in an exclusive sara hoy returned to find out what if anything had changed. >> robert bailey junior michael bell brian pervis theo shaw - four young men part of a group of defendants known as the jena six. a racially charged case that divided the nation.

>> it just happened. >> reporter: the teens were charged with attempted murder then battery following a 2006 schoolyard fight that left a white classmate unconscious. >> i know what i did, but when i heard the term attempted murder i'm thinking "man, attempted murder,." >> michael bell was the first of the six teens to be tried and convicted in adult court. a ruling that sparked anger across the country. what is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase the jena 6. >> anger. i won't say hate red, but a lot of pain. >> reporter: now a 24-year-old student at southern university in baton rouge, bell wants to set the record strait. >> it's important for the country to know what happened with the jenna 6, that they stood up and said they had nothing to do with it that i

did everything. it's important for everywhere to know what happened. if you had a part in it you should have stated that you had something to do with it. just not a jena 6, it's a jenna 1. released in 2007 after his conviction was overturned bell agreed it a plea deal sentenced for 18 monthless he was given credit. he attempted suicide after an unrelated arrest the following year. >> it didn't bother me but people judged. i wanted to live a normal life put that behind me. have a family. i have a daughter who is three. >> reporter: the followed months of continuation after three nooses were found hanging from a tree known as a hang out for white students only. after bell was found guilty he faced 22 years in prison.

thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of jena with al-sharpton and jesse jackson leading the charge. even then senator president obama weighed in on the controversy saying in a statement:. >> i wouldn't have known about this i didn't know about it or do nothing wrong at the center of the brawl was yourselfin barker -- justin barker, who lives near jena. eight years later he is married with a baby girl. he suffers jaw problems and doesn't know why he was attacked. >> at that time i didn't know what it was. it didn't blow up until al-sharpton and the buddies came in and the story was turned off of me getting jumped on to getting them out of trouble, you know.

i mean it's like they didn't go nothing wrong. like i wasn't worried about them jumping on mean and they were just worried what they were charged with. it was probably a little harsh, attempted murder but they still should have got charged with something, you know. >> in your opinion, do you think they should have been charged with attempted murered? >> well yes. yes. that may have been a little harsh, but somebody sits and stomps someone's head or kicks them in the ribs when they are unconscious on the ground and kicking them in the face and stomping you, i mean i don't know what else you would be trying to do. beside kill someone when they sit there laying there. >> back in 2007, protesters said the case illustrated racial bias

in the justice system. here we are in 2014, and some civil rights advocates say the trend exist. a law center in alabama helped to coordinate the defense strategy for the jena 6. >> it's a nationwide problem. louisiana leads the pack. we have the highest incarsiation rate in the country, in the world. one in 86 people in louisiana is in gaol. our incarceration is five times higher than iran. a report found that minorities especially blacks are over-represented in all phases of the juvenile justice process. although black youth are 16% of the population they make up 38% of all detained youth. >> when we look at the population of prisons, you know we see mass incarceration. i prefer hyper incarceration.

what we are looking at is concentrated populations being disproportionately represented in prison. when we look at the statistics it's absolutely disproportionate to their population within gaol. one in three black males in their lifetime is expected to be under criminal justice supervision in their lives, one in three. >> reporter: the case puts a spotlight on racial disparities in the justice system. >> african-american youth overcharged, tried as adults charged for things that should be dealt with in a school house, it's not unusual and not relegated to jenna, it happens in cities throughout the countries. >> we need to understand that race is a part of how we operate. it comes into play in different aspects of the criminal justice system. we have to look at it wholistically and see to what

extent we can make small changes in a number of areas to reduce the potential for racial bias. >> following the protest in jena charges were reduced for the remaining five teams. robert bailey junior jessie ray beard, carr win jones and theo shaw pleaded no contest to battery in 2009. >> it brings back a lot of memories. >> reporter: 25-year-old brian lives in dallas with his son, started a tort company and plans on releasing a book. >> i believe the case was resolve, i don't believe it was justice i fight for adversity. i make new routes. >> robert bailey junior lives in louisiana, near his alma'am arda, gram line university. >> there was no jena 6 he says there was a jenna 1 and feels he

was hung out. do you share a similar concern, does that make sense to you where he's coming from is he a scapegoat? >> it made sense if you are in his shoes. you know the issue. he did more time than anybody else. he didn't see what we saw, the 20,000 people on the streets. he didn't see or witness that. he didn't witness the meat of the whole case. he was incarcerated during the media. it will make you feel solitude. bailey a 24-year-old father of two, graduated in may and starts grad school this summer. he says the jena 6 case is behind him. >> i'm not mad at no one about nothing. i have no problem with nobody about anything. no beef with nobody about anything. i'm still here. >> i won't say i didn't hope i

did believe that truth would prevail. >> at the time he was arrested in 2006, theo shaw unable to afford the $130,000 bail spent a total of seven months in gaol. >> i thought my life was over i thought the system is packed against me. this community is against me. the school the students. today shaw works for the same nonprofit that helped to defend him in 2006. he's a community advocate for the southern poverty law center visiting prisons and juvenile detention centers. >> despite moments i felt hopeless i did condition to be optimistic that i would leave the gaol for a day, regardless of how long i was in there. i wouldn't have the opportunity to leave and use my voice on behalf of others. >> with his site set on law school jaw was determined to move on.

linked by their history, shaw says it doesn't define who he is. >> i didn't think i would be here without their voices. age tating the system for a just outcome. as i leave the office if i get on the street car or bike i think about the ways in which it can be a bet the colleague or person. that's "america tonight"s sara hoy. next - a scout's duty to live with honour and honesty, challenging the boy scouts to live up to their own age tating the

system for a just challenging the boy scouts to live up to their own live up to their own age tating the system for a just challenging the boy scouts to live up to their own live up to their own as i leave the office, if i get

live up to their own live up to their own motto. cheerful thrifty, brave, the boy scouts of america respected and admired here and around the world. they are also challenged by a controversial policy banning gay leaders. the scouts faced increasing

scrutiny and criticism by outside crit ucks and some from the -- critics, and some from the inside. from seattle tonya moseley brings us the story of a committed family and a divide forcing them out of the organization. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> reporter: it's monday morning, august and liam prep for the last of their high school examines. it's senior year and the two are ready to graduate. >> you guys ready for school. >> as ready as i'll be. >> they are not quite ready to separate from each other. >> bye. >> see you guys tonight. >> bye, dad. >> we have always been together as twins, so we don't really know what it would be like to not. >> yes. >> it has always been this way. >> reporter: from birth?

>> yes. we've always been together. >> reporter: they are identical twins born four minutes apart, side by side as honour students athletes and boy scouts. living the scout oath. their lives so intertwined friends joke the two are one and the same. but there is one difference. august is straight liam is gay. he's known since he was 14. >> i remember being in our room and being like so august i think i like guys. i think i'm gay. he's like, "okay" turns off the light and goes to bed. >> reporter: liam ways embraced by high school friends and family. his father had his own fears. >> my main concern was for his

welfare, on what position this would put him in or what risky position it is would put him in based on other people's foouds towards his sexual orientation. >> there was a reason for his concern. three-quarters of all buoy scout troops are church sponsored. at the time the boy scouts of america did not allow gay boy scouts. >> reporter: when liam spoke out about the boy scouts policy he took a big risk. >> definitely. when he was ready to have his photograph on page 1, my student editors contacted him and said are you sure you want to do this. and i said "yes i'm ready itself. >> reporter: in a written statement it was said that the boy scouts does not ask about sexual approaches saying don't ask don't tell policy embraced by the military. >> it's complex. >> reporter: in jan, after a

contentious debate the official policy changed. >> the membership standard for adults are different. they file a new application, they subject themselves to a criminal background check and realise that the leadership role is different. >> reporter: scouts can be openly anyway leader cannot. leaders planned to continue on as scout leaders. >> it's not right. my - i look up to my brother in so many ways. he's a moral person. >> reporter: the ruling is difficult for the twin's father who at 14 gave up his own scouting deal when his mother died. >> from the moment that he joined i was determined to put them on a path to eagle. >> reporter: eagle scout is the highest and elite rank a boy

scout could achieve. >> congratulations to both of you. >> reporter: seven years and 21 merit badges liam and august were awarded the eagle scout badge at a sermon ni in may, their father by their side. joining the ranks of leaders like neil armstrong, gerry ford ath light and u.s. senator bill bradley and explorer steve faucet. >> it takes a long time. you can't just wake up and say "i'll do my eagle scout in a year." you have to decide you want it and daily grind. >> i like it. we like it a lot. >> reporter: august will have the occupation of going on to -- occupation of going on to become a -- option of going on to become a scout leader.

>> it's like they are saying to me in one day, all of the things i learnt my morals changed and developing into a gay adult somehow i will be significantly different, act significantly different than i did as a gay youth. it's confusing and ridiculous. >> reporter: former scout leader jeff mcgrath is confused. he grew up in scouting and earned the honour of eagle scout. after talking about his sexuality to a tv reporter the openly gay leader says he received a phone call from the boy scouts of america. >> the question was are you an open and avowed homosexual? and i said that is a rude question and i won't answer it. but if you're asking if i'm gay, the own is yes. he said, "based on that information" that my membership was revoked.

>> reporter: mcgrath was expelled and his church-sponsored droop was expanded in april. it was a painful moment for mcgrath who says he tries to live by the scout oath. >> i don't always live up to the highest participation. but i want to. it's because those ideals are inside me. >> reporter: the debate over this issue has taken a toll on the boy scouts of america. scouts from both sides are leaving the organizations, membership down 6% and corporate sponsors have withdrawn. >> i can't see a reason to be in the boy scouts. i hope there's a new organization that pops up that takes its place. >> reporter: does it hurt you to say that? >> yes. it's hard for me to say that. we love the boy scouts. >> we put in so much time and effort. >> the policy is ridiculous. everything else about the boy scouts is incredible.

>> in the fall liam will head to separate colleges on the east coast. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> one day i will come back with kids. so boy scouts better get their act together. >> reporter: for now the twins are committed to each other and the scouting tradition. >> scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful friendly courteous, kind obedient. >> reporter: even if the institution they love divided them. well the new president of the boy scouts former defense secretary robert gates said he will not revisit the policy banning gay leaders for at least the next two years. ahead in the final thoughts - a day at the beach.

the artist's vision may be for moments in the sand. catch it before it washes away - nst. -- away - next.

t's events a smarter start to your day. mornings on al jazeera america at one time the bald eagle, the national bird of the united states was on the brink of extinction. but efforts to save the eagle led to a dramatic overhaul. in 2007 eagles were removed from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife. now there is a new threat - humans are moving into their

habitat, causing combat injuries as eels are fighting over each -- eagles are fighting over each other's territory. we go to an ooel sanctuary yea where the -- eagle sanctuary where the u.s. army spent millions to protect the eels. >> the water is where the eagles like to hang out. the ground has been able to co-exist because we have so much territory. we have tens of thousands of acres of shore line supported by the water resources nearby. potentially the largest concentration of eagles on the eastern united states and the largest concentration on a military installation. >> after world war ii ddt was introduced as an insecticide for agricultural crops. it didn't outright kill the eagles but interfered with

their absorption of cal sillium and -- calcium and resulted in them laying thin-shelled eggs. and when they sat to incubate the eggs they cracked and didn't hatch. they were to the point of extinction. as the population increases, they are territorial. if too many are in one space they fight: we found some on the ground with talon injuries. we found a number of eagles that have flown into power lines. we have undertaken a number of measures to protect the bald eagle. mows sisiblely that you see are flight diverters, flappers so the lines are visible to the

eel. the eagle sees the reflector and diverts the flight up over the line. also where we can, we ferried the powerlines. any injured eagle we find. if we can safely capture it we do so and drive it to a clinic that specialises in birds and bird rescue. a facility is tristate in newark delaware. the eagle in the came was brought to us from maryland. we suspect it was injured in a territorial dispute with another eagle. she had a significant lassarating injury towards the end of her right wing. when i saw her out in the cage i thought "i don't know she's not using the wing very well." now she's flying from one end of the cage to the other. we are optimistic that we'll be

able to release her soon. the best part of rehabilitation is when we return them to the wild. a lot of hours go into rehabilitating each patient and to open the hatch and have the birds fly out or open the carrier and have the bird go into its natural habitat is the biggest reward there is. >> it's a great day when we return a bird to the wild. it's a good day. yes, it is beautiful, beautiful birds there. finally from us on this 4th of july holiday weekend as many of you are probably beaching it with family and friends, we dig into the sands of time and meet an artist that embraces the notion that nothing lasts

forever. >> i call myself an earth escape art. >>. i go to natural areas and work with natural materials to create my work. what i do is brink my equipment to the beach and work with the wet sand during the low tide. it's changing texture and colour, and i use it as my paint. when i come to an election i assess it. what is possible. i see the beach i have to work with. i didn't have much beech, it was narrow. perfect for the sick. i started with my first stroke to set the line and needed to figure out the next time to keep it even. >> i do a line down the middle. you do a rake. i was putting a message inside the artwork. this one has an aztec

inspiration. i created an alphabet and did crack lines, making it feel like it was an old piece of lock kafbed and cracking. sand is very tactile. i can feel it with the whole body. i can hear the sound of the rake going through the sand. it makes a nice sound. i love working with the beach. i get so much canvas and i listen to the ocean at my side. i get to walk bare foot in the sand and release my concerns and cares. i love that. one of the benefits of working on the beach is that i can leave my mess and the next high tide will wash it away. when it comes back i have a fresh canvas. i draw my inspiration for the

designs around me. i look at things with an eye towards how can this look on the batch. when i see something cool it could be an interesting pattern, crack lines in the rock clouds. i'm drawn to japanese and chinese and other cultural depictions of the elements. and i really love pattern. when i first started to do the artwork i did geometric ones. they look like crop circles. that was the only way to make a large thing and get it to look right. when i was designing it i was creative and putting things toot. there was a -- things together. there was a flow. on the beach i translate it and follow steps and make it happen. it's fun. doing it is fun. the ephemeral nature of the art connected me to the awareness that life itself is ephemeral.

this will not last more than a few hours, maybe a few minutes. from the bigger scope, anything i do will in the last. a wave could wipe out half of it. it's happened many times. i feel blessed to have the life i live right now. i get to make a living doing what i love to do where i love to do it engaging with people who love what i'm doing, i can't imagine how things would be better i feel such gratitude for that. it's interesting. that's it for us here on "america tonight". join us this week for pot wars. lori jane gliha explores marijuana's momentum in a state that is anticipating a legislative battle on the cusp of marijuana dispensaries opening. her report on "america tonight". remember if you would like to extent on the stories you have seep together.

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