>> there you go, perfect! >> ramirez hopes that providing an up close and personal experience will inspire everyone to join the effort to save the elephants. >> hi everyone, i'm john siegenthaler in new york. this is al jazeera america. crash tests, what caused today's deadly crash of a commercial rocket plane and what it could mean for the future of space tourism. the historic dual between the justice department and a city police force accused of going too far. louisiana's dilemma pitting vital welt lands against the needs for jobs. the tricks of the trade, a professional pumpkin carver shares his secrets for creating

dazzling designs. the high priced high risk push for commercial space tourism suffered a major setback in the mojave desert today. that's where virgin galactic spaceshiptwo crashed. two pilots were on board one died, one was wounded. tom ackerman reports. >> this was the second time it flew but only the first time it was supposed to reach the atmosphere, at that point the plane was supposed to separate, ignite its own rocket motor and climb to an altitude of 21,000 meters. instead the plane crashed into the mojave desert floor north of los angeles. one pilot was killed, another injured. >> i knew when other things

weren't happening it wasn't because of something did happen, it was because of what i wasn't hearing and wasn't seeing. if there was a huge explosion didn't occur i didn't see it. >> more than 700 people have paid deposits for a seat board the enterprise which would give them just a few minutes ride in space. the initial cost, $250,000. >> we're going to get through it. future rests in many ways on hard, hard days like this. but we believe we owe it to the folks who were flying these vehicles. >> the mission to the iss. >> the crash came the same week that another private commercial space mission failed. an unmanned antares was deliberately blown up shortly

after launch on the east coast, the time of the commercial rollout would be based on a safety-driven schedule. now that timetable has been driven into even more uncertainty. tom ackerman, al jazeera. >> derrick pitts joins us tonight from philadelphia. derrick, welcome. so how often do these accidents happen? >> whenever we're doing tests on flying machines there are very, very high risks that there could be anomalies of what was seen today. in early development of new vehicles this kind of thick can can -- thing can happen. it is hoped that what happen whs during the test phase is engineers are doing their best to drive the risk to zero. so if you look at any of the other space programs in any

other countries anywhere around the world including the united states, in the early days of that -- of the development of that program, we see that these kinds of things can happen. >> how big a setback is this for space exploration in general? >> well, for space explork expln in general this isn't a big setback at all. this is a program that's just beginning and again this kind of event while it's not desirable, everyone understands that there's a risk that it can happen. what it does for virgin galactic is it sets their schedule back because they have to figure out exactly what happened and try odevise a way to prevent this from happening in the future. as far as the rest of space exploration is concerned that will continue on. if you look at the record of everybody else in the space program these anomalies go on. we could actually john compare this to the development of aviation and commercial aviation as we have it now.

we find it's a very very close analog. accidents like this happened very early on in the development of aircraft. >> what kind of engine was on spaceshiptwo and tell us about it. >> the j engine on spaceshiptwoa rubber like material that when combined with the oxidizer would burn. in this particular rocket motor i believe i understand that they used a new formula in this and so there was some testing happening for that. so it had been reliable before, it had been through four test flights before. and it was not expected of course that there would be an anomaly like this. >> look i understand what you say about space exploration but there has been a lot of talk about people you know getting their seats on the first trip, the commercial trip to outer space. and i remember after the challenger disaster sort of the impact it had on nasa and maybe

the morale so can you -- are there any comparisons to draw here? i mean about the enthusiasm for programs like this and the fears? >> well, when an accident like this occurs, john, it always raises this fear. that this is something that's really going to stop the program, and it won't be able to continue, or what happens is that people who have invested in the program clearly realize that the risk exists. everyone that was on the program, the pilots that were on board spaceshiptwo today, clearly understand the risk involved. they love this business and that's why they're in it. they are the ones that push the envelope for us taking us into the future with the realization that the risk is there. they're willing to take that risk so we can move afford into the future, all the rest of us

have to understand that, there is always risk involved. >> derrick pitts thank you very much. >> thank you very much, john. >> tonight a fourth student shot by a classmate at a washington high school has died. shaylee b chuivelg has chuckuln. jaylen fryberg took his own life. a department mired with a series of officer involved shootings in albuquerque. jonathan betz reports. >> the shooting shocked the nation, caught on camera and happening far too often federal officials say.

>> we are here to announce a new chapter for policing in albuquerque. >> after an exhaustive investigation the department of justice in albuquerque agreed to overhaul the city's police department. >> it is also a road map for rebuilding the trust between the community and the police. >> the 106 page agreement aims to ensure police integrity, protect officer safety and prevent the use of excessive force. since 2010, there had been at least 39 police shootings in albuquerque. including the killing of a homeless man, james boyd who was camping in the mountains. protests followed and so did a scathing report from washington. the justice department found too often albuquerque's officers were using excessive force. >> today is truly an important and historic day for apd. >> the feds will install an independent monitor to oversee

officers, the department will be trained in how to deal with mentally ill people, body cameras will be used and the offenders program will be dissolved after its members were involved in a number of shootings. >> to ensure effective policing. >> federal officials say albuquerque's changes should inspire cities across the nation struggling with excessive force. >> a bright spot for communities looking for a path forward. >> the justice department says albuquerque is not alone with these issues. working with two dozen cities and towns across the nation. but the force will be in place for two years to ensure these ee changes will hold.

>> eric frein is in custody, appeared in court today, accused of killing one state trooper and seriously wounding another. frein will face -- could face the death penalty if convicted. >> eric frein faced years as he was escorted to the court to be arraigned. a rifle and handgun inside. his capture ends a 48 day man hunt costing $10 million involving hundreds of officers searching the pocono mountains of pennsylvania, frein allegedly killed brian dixon and seriously wounding alex douglas. the police describe frein as a

weapons and survivalist, surprised when he was captured and surrendered without fight. he appeared in this booking photo with cuts on his face. for local officers, frein's capture was perm. he wore handcuffs of the person he was accused of killing. >> he was accused of killing law enforcement officers. >> for weeks they were worried that a murder suspects was hiding in the woods nearby. >> i walked up this morning the sun was shining i walked outside with the dog and i denied look over my shoulder or i wasn't worried and our town is back to normal and it felt great. >> during the man hunt, the authorities often closed roads, and schools, and trick or treating was called off.

>> he is happy to be with his friends now and trick or treating like it should be. >> roxana saberi, al jazeera. >> today new york agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a homeless man who died while in solitary confinement on rykers. jerome measure do murdo was oohs veteran. >> a nurse who treated patients in west africa won her fight to be relieved from a state mandated quarantine. a judge ruled kaci hickox should be lifted from the quarantine but should be monitored daily.

samantha power just returned from west africa, and she tweeted this picture getting her temperature taken when she landed. medical providers should wear three pairs pair of gloves. more from melissa chan in los angeles. >> california has decided its u.su.c. hospitals, training has begun, at ucla health care workers learned how to put on and stay off protective gear even roll-playing a scenario where a mock patient comes in with symptoms of ebola. >> we only have one chance to get this right and so we want to make sure now when we don't have a patient to make sure sour protocols are effective. >> reporter: while state officials have declared these hospitals ebola ready, the union representing nurses at these

five medical centers says the training has not been adequate. >> before you say this is an ebola treatment center you should have prepared it as such. you should are given the rights to the registered nurses and should have the protocols laid out to do that care. >> training takes weeks which means now hospital he top of the line ones aren't truly prepared. >> the fact is, the message that they have been given is that they're expendable. >> but at ucla they say they are doing their very best. >> everyone here, infectious disease sphecials, our nurse managers are reality working hard to do everything we can. what else can we think of we keep asking ourselves. we are all working really hard to think about how to keep those nurses safe. >> it's something that hospitals across the country will have to grapple with just how much time, training and equipment to devote in the fight against ebola.

meanwhile nurses across at least 15 states and the district of columbia have declared a strike on november 12th. melissa chan, al jazeera, san francisco. the fight against i.s.i.l. intensified in northern iraq. where the country's largest oil refinery is located. this is exclusive video of government forces battling i.s.i.l. fighters just outside the key i.s.i.l. command center, the battle for bejee has been underway for two weeks now. iraqi military leaders say they have taken back much of the territory. now to the middle east where there has been an eruption of violence in the west bank. since the end of the israeli gaza war this center, now dispute over holy site in jerusalem. the temple mount and the al-aqsa mosque were reopened, the site was closed on thursday for the

first time in over a decade. that's when the palestinian killed an israeli man. earlier i spoke with zachary politicman, a professor at new york university, i asked him about the palestinian response to the death of the israeli activists and the potential role of the u.s. >> these plfnians, this is part of the state of israel although no one in the world including the u.s. government have recognized this, have plifd under israeli rule for 47 years now. it is not surprising that in these circumstances some people resort to violence however unproductive that is. >> in the past people turn to the u.s. to try to resolve conflicts like this. is it possible that u.s. has leverage? >> i don't know if that leverage can be exercised.

secretary kerry failed and the obama administration is busy with other clashe issues. >> is this a clash of personalities or much, much deeper than that? >> i don't believe it is a clash of personality. a two state solution, a palestinian state and west bank and gaza with east jerusalem as its capital, every government has rejected that, the united states endorses that consensus so there's a gap between the two parties. the united states supports israel, giving it a blank check essentially. the israelis are not stupid, they pay attention to what the united states does rather than what the united states says. there is a gap in the obama administration and the previous administration, doesn't want to invest the capital to make something happen. >> zachary lockman, thank you for joining us.

>> my segment. >> a subject of my saturday segment, a deeper look. coming up president obama hits the campaign trail in alaska, campaign push, control of the senate is at stake. what a republican led senate would mean for u.s. policy. plus the national guard moving in to protect people from the volcanic lava in hawaii. >> you are going to determine whether i'm going to be the next senator from iowa >> the candidates last chance to convince voters they're the one... they will stop at nothing to get your vote >> david young, how are you? >> run for congress >> it's important to be out here talking to voters >> director aj schnack's unprecedented series concludes >> it's certainly something that doesn't exist in politics on television >> america votes 2014 midterms only on al jazeera america

>> president obama made a final pitch to voters in rhode island

today. the president hammered away at some core democratic issues. he pledged to do more for women like supporting paid family leave and equal pay. the president also called on congress to raise the minimum wage. >> nobody who works full time in america should be below the poverty line. they should not be raising their kids below the poverty line. i'm not going to give up this fight, and we need republicans in congress to stop blocking a minimum wage increase and give america a raise. >> the president's push comes just five days ahead of the mid term elections. republicans is been campaigning furiously for weeks. patty cul hawaii ha hull hawaii. >> it's all about bark the other candidate and not really the issues. >> that's been especially true in television ads. one featuring a beg you burpinkk

>> i grew up castrating hogs. >> that's right, castrating hogs. candidates win from members of their party, the people who subscribe to their belief, now calling themselves independent, more than the 25% who call them sestledthemselves democrats. democrats say they are for empowering the lower and middle classes with social programs. and over the last several years both parties have all but refused to compromise on pretty much anything. >> that's absurdity and i will not yield to you.

>> what they do not agree upon is reforming the tax code. that's much more likely to happen if republicans win control of the senate. >> unbending uncompromising, obstructionist, the creators of gridlock, the party of no. republicans have incentive over the next couple of years to demonstrate that they can say more than no, that they can be a governing party. >> this is an election marked by candidates representing a party promising to govern. there's one thing americans seem to agree on, the government is as prone as the building they work in. patty culhane, al jazeera, washington. >> michael schor joins us. welcome. what is at stake? >> everything is at stake pretty much john.

one of the ways you should go with this is mitch mcconnell said when the filibuster passed, democrats are going to regret the filibuster and they're going to regret it much sooner than they think and that could be tuesday. >> saying the congress ought to pass the minimum wage, can i see a lot more speeches in the future --ic see lot more speeches in the future. >> he is stuck a little bit but what he has done that bears mentioning he has two supreme court justices. >> that was my next point. to appoint less judges. >> that's the thing they can hold up with a filibuster. it's appointments, it's judges, it's not just appointments to the bench, it's appointments the his administration. >> they have accused of being obstructionist of blocking things. now they're in charge, can they continue to block things?

>> two years ahead of the republican administration, almost out of spite, not do anything about the minimum wage, clear they won't, now when they hit the trail in 2015, 2016, say this president did nothing about the minimum wage, this is a party that can do something for you, may not be the minimum wage but they can hold the situation hostage. >> otherwise the democrats will come in and say they've had it for two years and didn't do anything. >> yes and no. a lot of the republican base, just stopping this president specifically is enough. it's not about doing anything proactive. it's about keeping the obama agenda what they see as the obama agenda from happening. >> mitch mcconnell says he's not going to necessarily repeal obamacare right away if he becomes majority leader in the senate. but there are aplenty of senate

members who want just that. >> the reality is it's not going to go away. but what they can do is play with the mandates in obamacare, the basic right to insurance probably will not go away. >> what kind of majority leader will mitch mcconnell be? >> that's hard to say, he is somebody that has to keep his coalition, right now ted cruz and mike lee, these federalist idealogues, will be, he's going to have to balance some of the old guard with the new guard. >> the new guard wants control. they feel they've waited long enough and even for these moderate republicans, a lot of them have left. >> you have to remember, they can't go too far. they do want the white house, if they're seen as too extreme, as

giving too many ground to mike lee and ted cruz and some of those midwest republicans, it's going to be a problem on the campaign trail. the things that are getting done is not something america as a whole want. >> a lot of ifs and we won't know until tuesday night. >> this lame duck session if it changes hands, is going to be a fascinating lame duck section. >> thank you. if you share frustrations you can let us know. take a picture holding a sign that says #dear congress i want, tell us what you want. or e-mail to us, at dear congress@algeorgialjazeera.net. coming up. a spaceshiptwo crash.

and labeled foods with genetically modified ingredients or not. or not.

>> this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. coming up, why the wetlands are a double edged sword for people in louisiana. plus the importance of giving. even in small amounts. pulitzer price winning journalist nicholas kristof and his wife explain why. getting in the halloween spirit by carving up pumpkins, thousands of them. the world's first suborbital rocket plane scheduled for passenger travel has crashed. one pilot was killed, another injured during a test flight. it is the second commercial spacecraft disaster this week. it went down over the mojave

dessert. for more of what happened, we return to our science and technology editor jacob ward. >> nine would be willing to exchange as much as $250,000 to fly with five other passengers to 68 miles above the earth for a few minutes of weightlessness. much of its design issues were about safety and that makes this even the more explosive. you obviously have to build one huge bomb and the risk of building that kind of bomb became apparent this week with the explosion of the antares rocket this week. the company at a designed spaceship 2 came up with the idea of releasing the plane from the rocket at 50,000 feet, you avoid the danger of a full-on rocket launch from the ground. but the proudest safety

development the one that virgin galactic are touts very highly is the special rocket, the one they fired up, tonal fourth powered flight for ship ever. so to burn fuel for thrust you need oxygen or some other oxidizer for campus chun. you don't have any rks or combustion. you have no oxidizer up that high, you have to carry it on board with you. an oxidizer in a liquid state it is also worth noting that the company has updated its solid fuel from a rubber formulation to a solid formulation. other rockets use solid rocket motors, where the fuel is in a long candle until it burns out. this is supposed to be more controllable. the company talks about being

able to close it and glide back to earth. that is one that everyone will be looking at the issue here. the speed of travel 2500 miles per hour, twice the speed of sound, the altitude, the dangers, these are all risks we've never subjected civilian passengers to before. when things go wrong they go very, very i don't think, that is the risk that are engineers and are pilots and professionals accept. but the question is whether paying passengers civilians will accept that type of risk as well, john. >> thank you, jake. oil and gas industry industry in louisiana, a dli dia for lawmakers and families.

more from jonathan martin. >> delta blue's musician have been a product of louisiana's bayou country. the biggest small town between new orleans and the gulf of mexico. almost all of its 34,000 residents have some tie to the energy industry. working with oil companies made ben wa's father a millionaire. >> i was up in the air, why is this going on? >> what's happening to louisiana's coast? >> we are technically about 15, 16 miles from the gulf. the gulf is getting closer every day. >> thousands of miles of canals dredged by the oil industry more than 70 years ago allow tankers and shipping vessels quicker

passage to the gulf, but that allows entry of saltwater, killing the vegetation. >> meanwhile we're sacrificing the entire delta of the nops do so. >> the state of louisiana has developed a 50 year, $50 billion master plan to rebuild the coast. that includes plugging canals that the oil companies are required by haw to fill. but while the oil industry accepts a third of the responsibility for lost land, they think the taxpayer should provide the solution for lost land. higher price tag for taxpayers across the country. the government spent $120 billion rebuilding after hurricane katrina. >> not only an issue around here becomes the biggest flood we've ever had. >> it is a struggle between jobs and economic growth and the environment and what issue

resonates more deeply with voters. a job means being able to support your family today. >> people will overlook those dying trees to go to work. >> reporter: the energy industry pays the bills for 30 300,000 and pays into the economy every year. generations including benwa and his father. >> if i was talking about anything on the environmental situation i was talking against him and the oil industry and everybody involved and that's not true. that's from the old school mentality that they came from. >> reporter: and louisiana's politicians have to appeal to both sides of the debate or risk alienating voters. >> particularly if you are raising it in the right communities and the right type of voters, that becomes very powerful. when it comes time to legislate

that bks very costly. >> we see group of dead cypress trees. >> politicians says, look how we fixed this, and all i see is dead trees and bald eagles looking to build a nest. >> reporter: jonathan martin, houma, louisiana. >> this tuesday oregon voters will decide whether they have a right to know what's going into the food they buy. allen schauffler has more on this controversial ballot initiative. >> we're seeing historic levels of spending in oregon on this initiative. $25 million and counting with opponents of initiative 92 outspending 2 to 1, that is a pattern we saw in california two years ago and washington last year. these two sides have squared off, know each other well and don't like each other much.

this food fight has been aput before, in vermont, the state approved a labeling law. some polls suggest oregon could be different. i'm with dave rosen feld a supporter of the initiative and we'll do some shopping. >> people in favor of new labeling say genetickic engineering could proud health risks. opponents say there's no proof of that. >> is every banana going to have to be individually labeled? >> no. this is very important. you could see a label on the bin, would you have a couple of two words here that would say, genetically engineered. >> most of the foods would have to be relabeled. >> 80 items tested their dna and they found virtually everything

that was labeled natural all had significantly different levels of genetic materials. >> anything labeled canola oil, soy, would need to be repackaged, or food packaged to go even some food derived from animals raised on genetically modified feed. >> i'm getting hungry. >> the yes sides coming from the organic food, organic farming or health products industry. the nos funded by farming giants like monsanto and general mills. >> they have gotten cute with the language but it's still the flawed measure. >> partially genetically engineered really tell us. >> here is one that survived the

herbicide treatment. this is a genetically engineered plant. >> toby who are genetically engineers plants daily, says we all eat plants, not process, the product. >> i personally think that type of information should be available to consumers. but it's not useful unless you know what has been put in. >> spaghetti. >> pumpkin pie. >> should have gotten some for steak. >> in recent weeks that support has eroded, that is also a familiar pattern that we saw in california and in washington where both initiatives went down by just a couple of points. it's expected to be a close race in oregon as well. allen schauffler al jazeera, seattle. >> and be sure to tune in to al jazeera america on election night, our coverage starts at 7:00 erin, 4 pacific time.

recalling nissan cars because of exploding air bags. nissan has recalled 14 million cars in recent years because of similar issues. the faulty air bag will explode in a crash and shoot out pieces of metal. the village of pahoa, 83 troops will arrive by thursday, as the community will prepare for evacuation. adam may reports. >> 2,000°, creeping at ten miles per hour. this river of lava headed straight for pahoa on the big island. >> basically the lava will come down this hill here and bisect

pahoa. >> christine hill is around 10,000 people who cal pahoa home. >> in our neighborhood, it is a waiting game until the lava speeds up and comes down the hill. >> the tice family moved here from connecticut, five years ago. family gave them this house because they were struggling financially. christine is a college student studying pharmacology. her husband, a cashier at walmart. >> we actually don't have insurance, our situation is we don't have a mortgage so we weren't required to purchase insurance and boy, are we regretting that now. >> i would imagine losing this house would be really tough on you guys. >> we have no way of recouping that lost. >> this type of lava is called pahoihoi. it breaks out into individual

fingers. it is very erratic. it is a challenge to forecast its behavior. >> matt patrick is a researcher at the u.s. geological survey. we met him at the edge of kilauea active for hundreds of thousands of years. >> that magma chamber below us about a mile or so, supplies the eruption at the summit, that's a lava lake that's consistently churning. >> there's a lava lake that's back there? >> yes. >> the island of hawaii has six volcanos, some of these lava flows are 80 feet deep, wiped out 200 homes and cost tens of millions of dollars in damages. this time the lava is charting

an entirely new course. for the first time in recent history heading towards a densely populated area. pahoa. >> we have long term eruptions at the summit and at the east rift zone. the activity is really dynamic. we see changes day-to-day. >> what is your plan? >> our plan is just to pray that it kind of goes around us. you know. and that we don't lose too much access. >> adam may, al jazeera, on the big island of hawaii. >> and coming up, the act of giving. it means more than you realize. it's the focus of journalist nicholas kristof's new book. and the birth of a new litter of cheetah.

>> nicholas kristof is a

columnist for the new york times, his wife sheryl wudunn, and he have written a book together. i asked them about the inspiration of the book. >> we call it the path of tears, about how to make a change, there are solutions but we need to actually focus on the solutions rather than just focusing on the problem. >> we're going to get to some of those solutions. you were frustrated because you covered darfur and you were frustrated because people were not paying enough attention. >> it was how i learned how we connect to causes. i write columns that seem to disappear without a trace and at the same time there were these two hawks here in new york city that had been kicked out of their nests and all of the city were up in arms about them being

kicked out and i couldn't generate the same interest in the cause, and what connects us to a cause is basically about two things about individual stories and about a emotional pathway not a rational pathway, and a story about an arc of hope. if you say how all of something is, people tune out, you have to say there can be an impact if you get involved. >> in many ways some of the inspiration i got about when you started with rachel the nine-year-old who was trying to raise money for charity water, why was this story so important that you we'v we've through boo? >> here is an eight-year-old, nine-year-old who made a huge egg difference. she went to charity water and when she heard that people don't get clean water. the birthday present, she said donate that to my birthday fund

raiser. i will donate that money to charity water and get them into wells. she got into a car accident and she didn't make it but as the friends and family heard about this they wanted to somehow recognize what her life was. >> so people started giving money. >> they started giving money. and they raised $1.2 million. >> enough to provide water for 30,000 people. and look, nothing is going to solve the pain for the parents of losing a nine-year-old girl but in a sense it did provide a way to commemorate this incredibly big hearted girl, a way to provide a sense of purpose, in other ways that seemed perfectly tragic and random. >> i read in your book that the poorest 20% donate more than the richest 20%. how is that possible? >> i think it has to do with the empathy gap in this country.

not that the affluent americans are less emppathetic or less tragic, if you are wealthy today, you live in a neighborhood that are not particularly needy, but if you are poor you confront people every day who are needier than you and when you are confronted you do respond. >> how you say we fail at early intervention and why it's important to invest in early intervention programs. why is that critical? >> i think that's one of the things i learned from the path of tears. we often thought kids are resilient, and if we screw up, they can recover. i think brain science population research has clearly shown that even what happens in utero have far reaching effects in terms of physical health and that there is a limit to that resiliency.

for example, at age three and a half, maternal attachment to a child is better predictor of high school graduation rates than a child's i.q. rate is. has to do with the way a child is raised early, whether a child develops verbal skills, that will shape that child throughout the rest of their life and if you miss that sweet spot it is not that there's no hope but it's harder. >> we talked about success by six in this country, head start, we named these programs after the idea that if we could just get to them by a certain age or at a certain age. but i think what you say had this book is if you don't get to them much earlier or if you don't get to the parents earlier you know you may be asking for trouble. >> oh absolutely. if you invest one dollar in these programs, in these very early programs, you will get $7 back in savings. >> i wonder if liberals like

myself don't talk enough about inequality and not enough about opportunity. >> what's the difference? the way you look at it? >> yeah, inequality to conservatives suggest inequality of outcomes. opportunity suggest more inequality at the starting gate. they are concerned with more inequality at the time start of life. >> what do you want people to take away sheryl? >> first of all, being compassionate is good for your health, you can live longer and you can really make a difference, you don't have to feel that you have to change the world at large the global world or even this entire country but you can make a huge difference in someone else's life. >> it's a wonderful book, the path of tears. thank you for sharing the book and your time. nicholas kristof and sheryl

wudunn. next up, making a career carving jack o lanterns.

>> in a previous story tonight about an air bag recall in nissan vehicles we misstated that the company had called back 14 million cars in recent years. that number was wrong. the number involves 11 auto makers and dates back to 2008. we regret the error. there are only a recorded number of king cheetahs, but this story has a good report. >> nice siblings, wrestling, jumping and still getting the hang of being the fastest mammals on earth. these are part of a litter of eight, born to a rare king cheetah. >> her name is mona lisa, and she's believed to be only about 30 king cheetahs, in the world.

she's a first time mother and doing really, really really, really well. >> now home to hundreds of animals. from penguins to injury afters to ostriches. because the center limits visitors and focuses on providing large quiet spaces for animals to breathe leone says she has welcomed plenty of babies but the birth of these cubs are extra special. cheetahs are extremely difficult to breed in captivity and the wild population has dwindled 90% over the past century. habitat loss has left the species extremely vulnerable. there are less than 7500 cheetahs in the wild. >> cheetahs need up to 57 square miles, this is lapping the boundaries of our nature preserves. and when they come into contact

with humans, we are competing for same land. they both wand that savannah land. to the people that live the that's perfect for grazing land for cattle and goats. >> leone says the center's program is focused on creating genetickigenetic diversity. thanks to a new program in the wild as well.when two of the cubs are a year old they will be sent to a center of conserves in south africa. >> cheetahs are being captive bred then they're being through a very careful long process released out into the wild, they're monitored with collars and in this program two cheetahs have actually reproduced in the wild. so there is hope. >> these cubs are a hope for a

specious. >> hudson valley's jack o lantern blaze. we talk to a professional pumpkin carver. >> i'm michael anthony natielo. the great jack o lantern blaze, each year we carve over the course of the whole event, several thousands of pumpkins. each week, we carve about a thousand fresh punch cins to replenish the rotten pumpkins that expire over the course of the run of the show. one of the many unique things about the blaze is although we have several thousand individually carved pumpkins, we create large things, dinosaurs out of several individually carved pumpkins.

for example if i were to make a dinosaur, i would carve one bone, another bone and put them together. our pumpkins come from nu paltz, they grow tens of thousands of pumpkins for us each year. some inspirations come from classic halloween themes like spiders, skeletons. monsters. i might pay a couple of minutes attention or several hours attention to carving. i've been carving pumpkins since i was five or six with my parents when i was a kid. when i tell people i carve pumpkins i get sort of the look of disbelief. not quite understanding or realizing that it's a viable

career fat now. one of the most popular installations at the place is the dinosaur, the your as jurask installation. this is an art nonetheless, it requires some amount of skill and training and practice. it is awesome to see basically a year's worth of work come together. create something that is awe-inspiring and that many enjoy. i get a lot of pleasure to that bringing visual joy the other people. >> and that's our broadcast. thanks for watching. i'm john siegenthaler. happy halloween. our original series mid terms is up next.

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