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this evening, it's not winter anymore. but tell that to the people slipping and sliding. it's a mess in a lot of places and weirdly, it is springtime. jennifer gray is tracking this. doesn't feel like the first day of spring. what's the latest on this storm? >> it certainly doesn't. we see rain and snow all across the northeast and it is chilly. we look at snow from new york city all the way up to boston. it is starting to leave the area so that's the good news. should be wrapping up in the next couple of hours, but it did dump several inches of snow across portions of new england and then we have the secondary front that's going to come through saturday throughout the day and that's going to have a really cold burst of air behind it, anderson. >> and the next couple days what should we expect? >> well we're going to see more cold air, unfortunately. it's not going to feel like spring either. that cold air is going to move in tomorrow into sunday. however, temperatures will bounce back a little bit for the most part. our friends at boston they will
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reach 40 degrees tomorrow after a high of 35 today. down to 30 on sunday but by wednesday and thursday they will finally have temperatures above average in the upper 40s. in the new york city we'll see the same trend. a bounce on saturday and then back down on sunday. but then a steady incline in those temperatures reaching 60 degrees by thursday. anderson? >> spring finally may be here in sight. how common is it to still be getting snow this far into march? >> well i don't want to be the bearer of bad news but a lot of cities in the north actually see snow in april. on average, minneapolis sees more. new york city can actually see an inch of snow and boston could see an additional 2 inches. that's average for april. >> all right. jennifer thanks very much. a world away. another terrible first for isis. first large scale attack on the arabian peninsula. striking shia masks in sana.
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a local isis affiliate claiming responsibility. bombings came during friday's prayer. at least 137 people killed hundreds more injured. a written statement reportedly from isis claims the slaughter is only the tip of the iceberg. reporting for us tonight, nick paton walsh. >> reporter: blood donations to try to treat those caught in these series of blasts. new details emerging how the first suicide bombers get into these two mosques but predominantly shia worshippers. hid the explosives to get inside the building and then the first blast, rushed to help and hit by a second wave of explosions. deeply troubling how this seems to be targeting the shias, often behind the swift recent many
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fearing it could lurch the country. >> what proof that isis is behind it? >> reporter: none really. it was deeply surprising claiming responsibility because a lot of observers, isis having a limited presence. some tried to pledge allegiance to the leader of isis that had been accepted but not a particularly big play on the block inside the chaos of yemen. al qaeda though the prime suspect for an attack like this instead issued a statement saying it was not them and they would not target crowds of people like that. so a puzzling picture where isis at this stage hadn't be thought to be capable of this but the only ones raising their hand at this stage. if they are exploring the stage, it has a deeply troubing issue for the counterterrorism operation the u.s. is waging there now, anderson. >> a sickening, sickening attack. nick paton walsh, thank you very much. be careful. joining us now to make us understand how it fits,
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terrorism analyst, paul cruickshank and michael wise author of isis army of terror. if this is isis how big a development is that? >> it's absolutely stunning development. isis a fledgling presence in yemen. this is the worst terror tack ever in yemen and that takes a lot of doing as you can imagine. i think the strategy if it was isis is similar to the isis strategy with the bombing at the golden mosque in somora. the sunnis will be driven to the embrace of the jihadis. i think that's the strategy in yemen to tip the country into civil war, increase sectarian discord over there. >> michael, any reason to believe it's not isis? >> i think it probably is for the reasons paul has given. founder of isis abu czarzarkowi, it
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was driven between the core al qaeda branch. he was the one who blew up the golden mosque conduct beheadings and going after the shia. the goal to prompt overreaction by the shia that would lead to ethnic cleansing and grounds against sunnis thereby driving sunnis into isis or iraq's embrace. if you look at what happened in iraq, the stage is set for this sectarian showdown sarkowi had. lost 6,000 fighters against 400 isis militants hold up in the city. saddam hussein's hometown. an eruption of a sunni, shia war. >> it's in isis best interest to drive between the sunni and the shia. this has really global complication implications. if they can ignite and drive a huge wedge, this is multiple
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countries in the entire region. >> absolutely. the difference is isis is saying the united states where is it blundered into a platter to iran now the united states is in league with iran for the murder and ethnic cleansing and dispossession of the sunnis. this is one of the reasons why the sunnis in iraq have yet to rise up against isis. they fear the evolutionary iran. >> it's interesting. when we think of yemen, we think of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. it's in terms of terrorism inside yemen. where did they fit in this mix? >> they've been responsible for nearly all the attacks in yemen. now the fear is isis and al qaeda in yemen try to one up each other. bigger and bigger attacks inside yemen. >> not link up. >> oh no. they hate each other's guts. a war of words is between these two groups at a regional level. al qaeda and yemen's loyalty is to al qaeda central in the afghan pac stan border region.
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no love lost between these two groups but al qaeda and yemen grow in strength in the country because of all this sectarian tension. they're recruiting greater numbers of sunni tribals. more resources than almost anytime before and the most active group when it comes to plots against the u.s. homeland. they have bomb makers building more and more sophisticated devices to try to target u.s. aviation. >> it's interesting. let's look at the attack in tunisia that occurred two days ago right before this attack in yemen. the two gunmen involved in this attack known to have been involved in this attack are believed to have been trained in libya and returned to tunisia as essentially a sleeper cell. does that sfriez you? >> no isis set up shop in libya. sent reports to try to recruit away from al qaeda. again there's this skiz m between former patron and now the client that have broken apart. remember libya was one of the main countries, one of the main
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fears of foreign jihadis during the u.s. occupation. >> is libya, mor rock koe? >> syria another major one and tunisia actually. tunisia cedetoday is the largest feeder of 3,000 have gone over to join syria and iraq suspected that about 500 returned to tunisia. so the fact they've been able to carry this is spectacular. if these guys came from tunisia to libya and back to carry out this deadly attack it shouldn't surprise anybody. they do have a presence. >> alarming developments. michael, thank you for being with us. paul as well. ahead, how tsa screeners overlook a convicted felon and former domestic terrorist at a security checkpoint and "360" investigation reveals airport security gap all these years after 9/11 it really seems hard to believe. you might learn who rarely gets checked for weapons before working your flight, getting access to your aircraft and what
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♪ for air travelers. it comes in a report from the tsa inspector general. among other things at the agency led a convicted felon, former domestic terrorist, no less through a security prechecked line at an airport. not only that but when a tsa officer spotted the breach the supervisor told him to just
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ignore it. from rene marsh who has seen the report. how does this happen? how is a convicted flopterrorist through? >> reporter: despite the explosives the passenger randomly picked for precheck. all coats, shoes, stay on and certain liquids and gels do not have to be removed from luggage. what's alarming this program reserved for low-risk passengers was opened up to a former domestic terror group member and essentially what it allowed for was a less stringent screening process. >> what's the satsa saying about all this? >> reporter: the traveler's name did not appear on a terror watch list. it didn't appear in a terror database. they also went on to say if authorities thought he was a threat the agency's position is
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the name would have been on something like the no-fly list. the agency went on to say they have a multi-layer approach to security and defended its screening practices but in this report the inspector general made the point just because someone is not on a watch list does not make them low risk anderson. >> have any changes been made in the wake of all this to make sure this doesn't happen again? >> reporter: we should point out, there was a tsa officer who recognized this felon, flagged the felon to a supervisor and the superior gave the ok to let the traveler get through precheck. tsa made a change that officers at a checkpoint have the power to send the passenger back for standard screening if deemed necessary. that change has come out of this report. >> pretty obvious change. thank you, rene for the update. "360" investigation and another
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glaring hole in security. baggage day after day without any screened for what they bring on the job. like the flawed passenger screening you just heard about, but when it comes to workers, there's nothing. drew griffin keeping them honest. >> reporter: 54,000 employees at los angeles international airport report to work without mandatory bag checks no body screening. and literally, hundreds of doors like this one where a badge and a code gets you right on to the tarmac. think that's scary? put yourself in the shoes of l.a.'s airport police chief, patrick gannit. >> i got to ask about the long-term scenario because what's in place with hundreds of access doors and the screening you go through, there's really, it does not appear to me to be protection against the lone wolf scenario. >> when you say lone wolf are you talking about a lone wolf that has access to the
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credential employee? >> that guy who just walked in with a backpack with a mug, we don't know what's in his back pag, what's in his mug or in his heart or head. >> that's correct. >> does that concern you? >> it concerns me all the time. with 54,000 employees, they work in a large airport like this there is no way that you are going to have the ability to screen every single person that comes to work in the airport. >> reporter: l.a. tries to minimize the risk by maximizing random checks like this one. airport workers never know exactly when or where spot checks could occur. employees also face background checks yearly updates, and a system built around everyone watching out for anyone who might seem suspicious. but chief ganit admits nothing is foolproof. >> as we've been at airports across the country, we have not really seen anything that could
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prevent what atlanta went through which was guns being smuggled on to airplanes. >> no i agree. i agree. in any airport throughout the united states and here also there is never a 100% guarantee that somebody couldn't who wanted to do something illegal or wrong couldn't make that happen. >> reporter: what happened in atlanta is causing a reaction at airports across the country. and you can see why. these are guns smuggled by one delta airline baggage handler. he took it in a backpack never screened. mode for the crime, pure profit selling the guns in northeast cities. but atlanta hartsfield-jackson's general manager, miguel softwell testified to a congressional committee, the the real danger is the threat of
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potential terrorism. >> we're excited to see that people are being recruited to engage engage. >> reporter: atlanta is moving towards full airport employee screening but it hasn't happened yet. a cnn investigation found that only two major u.s. airports miami and orlando, conduct full employee screening requiring employees to pass through metal detectors just like passengers. airports say moving toward full employee screening would simply be too costly and too time consuming for airport workers to wait in line like you and i. but some members of congress just aren't buying that demanding that the department of homeland security review employee screening policies to make sure airports aren't
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leaving a door open. to a possible disaster. anderson the department of homeland security really doesn't have an answer yet. this is a huge potential problem, but solving it by requiring all these airline employees to go through the same kind of screening passengers do would come at a huge cost. >> yeah. >> anderson? >> drew thank you very much. incredible. new trouble for congressman aaron schock. why his lavish lifestyle is the topic of investigation. and suge knight.
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can you understand why people are concerned why you sold your house? such overvalued property to a political donor. do you know why mr. bahaj bought that property overpriced? congressman, is it right at all what you've been doing? sir? just one, come on. i've been polite to you. >> that was our drew griffin
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trying to get answers from illinois congressman aaron schock. instead of answering them he decided to resign his seat. this eliminated the possibility of a house ethics probe but got bigger worries than that right now. we've learned the fbi and federal prosecutors in his home state of illinois are looking into whether his lavish spending and lax accounting broke the law. cnn's jeff selani joining us now. do we know what the feds look at? there's a whole slew of things they allegedly could be looking at. >> that's right, anderson. we're told the fbi agents from springfield, illinois traveled to washington and were handing out subpoenas and asking questions. the scope of their investigation is not entirely clear why it is but we know they're focused on the mileage reimbursements. was he double dipping on the federal taxpayers dime?
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getting mileage reimbursements from a vehicle he used with campaign funds? that's one of the questions here. was he benefiting from his office? was he flying around these trips, which he documented who is paying for the trips? that's one thing the fbi is looking into. the broad scope of it is how much was he benefitting if at all from the position of his office how much was he personally benefitting? they are going through everything i'm told. >> how unusual is this? a grand jury for a congressman. >> in illinois, it's not that unusual, actually. there are several politicians from both parties, republicans and democrats, former governors in prison member of congress former member of congress, jessiejestse jackson jr. taking profits for funds. it's not unusual but sometimes resignation hold this off or
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stem this off but perhaps that's what he was trying to do by resigning from office. keep the investigation at bay but that has not happened. so this has gone from a congressional ethics investigation which goes away because he won't be in congress. so the ethics committee can investigate. but this is a much much more serious case here with the fbi and the justice department now looking into it. >> the mileage thing, to some it may sound like small potatoes but kind of fascinating because the allegation he put in to be reimbursed by taxpayers, essentially, for driving around in his personal vehicle on campaign business i think something like more than well over 150,000 miles or something but what he sold in his vehicle, it only had 80,000 miles on it. >> and that was the sticking point here. "the chicago sun times" and a couple other news organizations found a piece of paper you have to turn in when you sell a used car and it showed he had 80,000
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miles on it he billed taxpayers for twice that. so that is a sticking point here. he's already admitted that he is going to pay back perhaps tens of thousands of dollars in mileage reimbursement. out of an abundance of caution, he is refunding the government basically all mileage reimbursements since elected to congress in '09. so it's not an admission of guilt. he say he's doing it out of abundance of caution but shows there's something to these allegations. >> fascinating. jeff thank you. former rap mogul suge knight had a bad day in court. set bail for $25 million for a fatal hit-and-run and seconds larlt the accused murderer collapsed. attorney said he hit himself on a chair. certainly a bad day in court. another strange twist in a case that started with the confrontation outside of a fast food restaurant and all caught on video. stephanie elam reports. >> reporter: suge knight's current troubles captured on
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this surveillance video obtained in january by tmz. knight in the red pickup after an argument with two associates stone and terry carter. the argument continues as knight begins to drive and watch what happens. the truck reverses striking sloane before changing directions and running over the man again. the truck then hits terry carter and leaves the scene. >> suge knight turn around to go to his car. back this car up and put it in drive and then carter. >> reporter: knight's attorney said he was acting in self-defense. >> there are witnesses that indicate that mr. knight was being attacked by a number of men, that they were beating him through the car window. that he was making an effort to leave. >> reporter: when knight arrived for questioning and ultimately booked on suts pigs of murder he seemed cool and collected. even stopping to put out a cigar before entering the los angeles county sheriff's department but since been in custody, knight's
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persona lost some swagger. collapsed in court not once but two separate occasions. first time february 3rd after he pleaded not guilty. the 49-year-old was taken to the hospital complaining of chest pains. while in court another time, knight said he's blind in one eye and hads only 15% vision in the other. blindness in his left eye a result of glaucoma put the victims in his blind spot. the second time he collapsed today after a judge set his bail. >> great potential to flee and currently has so in the past. this court's opinion, $25 million is reasonable. >> reporter: $25 million to get free on bond. several minutes after hearing that knight dropped to the floor. >> mr. knight literally fell like someone pulled the switch and head on the way down. he was unconscious. >> reporter: charges of violence nothing new for knight who went to jail in the late 1990s and
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again in 2003 for violating probation and assault charges. >> strange case. stephanie elam joining us from los angeles. you've been talking to knight's legal team with how they plan to defend him. what do thebds? >> reporter: right, anderson. i talked to knight's lawyer a few minutes ago. they say first of all, they believe it was an act and the condition of his left eye, in which he's blind and remember that video on the left-hand side that the two men were standing. they're saying he was trying to get away from the scene but because he was blind in that left eye, he could not see exactly where they were so they're saying that you can't target to kill somebody when you don't even know they're there, anderson. >> has anyone known he was blind in the left eye before or even allowed to drive if that's true? >> reporter: that's the next question we want to find out. how well. know he's had a change in lawyers here. some of the questions, we did not get answers to but he's said this in court.
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we've heard him mumbling about something in court. heard knight saying he's got 15% vision in one eye and saying he's got full blindness in the other one but seems to me you have legal problems driving if that was known. >> that's for sure. stephanie, appreciate the reporting. thank you. coming up next in light of the place shooting that took the life of a mentally ill man in dallas we look at a unique training tool that lets officers experience the world that those with schizophrenia do. when you can't stop the voices in your head. you put iphone with people talking to you as if simulating voices in your head. it's certainly not easy, i tried it. we'll show you. >> back up. stand up now. 30, 40 stand up now. walk away.
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tonight at how police officers decide whether to use deadly force specifically with people who might be suffering with serious mental illness. the recent killing of a man, jason harrison underscores the issue. shot and killed by police at home holding a screwdriver in front of his mother who called them for help getting him to the hospital. police body cam captured what happened. fortunately, we should warn you, the video is very graphic and disturbing to watch. all happens very quickly but a highlight just how quickly a police call can turn deadly. critics say how much more officers need to learn about the kinds of situations you're about to see. >> hello. >> how you doing, what's going
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on? >> who's that? >> bipolar, skizo. jay! jay! [ shooting ] >> mother requested officers trained to deal with the mentally ill answer his call. the attorney for these officers tell us they did have the training. they said the man lunged at him with the screwdriver. the video calls a perfect example of whatnot not to do. some learn to experience the world the way many people with skriz schizophrenia do. a clinical psychologist who lives with schizophrenia. for three quarters of an hour, you listen to voices through headphones while trying to do puzzles to simply interacting with the street. i tried myself last summer when we first reported and it's a fascinating experiment.
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take a look. we put these earphones. i try to do a series of tests. so now hearing some whispers and voices in my head and the first test is some number puzzles. >> you suck and they know it. did you get this right? >> okay. so i did this test for three minutes and i did not get a single one. it's very hard to concentrate when if it's like music or something constant it's easy but. people talking to you is very difficult. so now i'll be asked a series of questions by our producer who's in and these are basically a series of questions that person would be asked in and they would be admitted to a hospital. >> can you tell me what day it is? >> yeah. it's sunday june i don't know like 7th?
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>> so i'm going to say five numbers and then repeat them after i'm done. five 23 67 2, 76. >> 5, 23 67 something, 76. >> i'm going to say five words. you don't have to repeat them. listen to them. cat. look. cigar. damage. and rain. can you name the last four presidents of the united states? >> barack obama, george bush. bill clinton. and george bush. >> say the five words i said before. can you remember them? >> no. it's hard when because sometimes the voices are like whispering and sometimes they're aggressive and sometimes they're kind of comforting. and with people talking to you all the time it's -- it's hard.
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>> it's okay don't worry. >> try to make a boot. origami following these instructions. >> you'll be okay. [ >> shut up. shut up. >> i want to talk back to the voices but it's really distracting. >> not do it. do not touch that stuff. pipe down. you suck. >> what are you looking at? this is easy. you want to touch that? >> i can't do this. >> hand down, keep your eyes down. just do it. filthy mind. leave it alone. >> it's also frustrating because they're telling me i can't do it. so i didn't do a very good job
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with the boat but it's really hard to focus when kind of people whispering to you and talking to you. [ whispering ] >> just come near. come near to me. come near for help. >> hey, do you have yesterday's paper? yesterday's "new york times"? no, okay. it's really incredibly distracting on the street to have somebody talking in kbrouryour head and makes you feel isolated from everyone around you and don't want to engage with conversation. you want to find yourself engage in conversation with the voice in your head. it's constantly really negative and talking to you and everything they're saying relates to things you're doing. criticizing things you're doing. like you have a chorus watching
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you and commenting on what you're doing. and you can't help but, i literally find myself wanting to respond to them and tell them to be quiet and it's incredibly unpleasant. very unpleasant experiment. it's really it's showing you what other people must be going through who deal with this on a regular basis. but also like i can not wait to take these headphones off because it's really depressing. it's very negative. it makes you feel very, very negative. yeah. it's very creepy. i want it to stop. >> stand up now. i'll cut you off. 20 30 40 stand up now. walk away. doing okay. walk now. >> walk past them. past the cars.
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past the cars all the way to make it home. >> very disturbing and isolating experience. pat deegan designed the experiment to show what kind of experience schizophrenias. urged to enter a halfway house and retire she decide instead to become a clinical psychologist work to change the mental health system. we had her on the program and i spoke to her again yesterday. pat, i know you've seen the video from dallas. i'm wondering what your reaction is. there was a former dallas officer who said he's trained officers in that department and believes the officers in the video acted perfectly and actually used that tape to his students as an example of what to do. what did you think when you saw it? >> i wept and i was horrified that this man was killed with deadly force.
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he was a man who was unwell. mr. hatherson. he needed help not a gun in his face. >> the argument is that the officers had just seconds to assess the situation. a weapon present, the screwdriver considered a deadly weapon by police and allegedly lunged at them and no other choice but to shoot. >> i just think the escalation the suddenness with which they began shouting and threatening this man was completely uncalled for. >> what do you think should have happened nothing is ideal, obviously, but, you know, obviously there were things that could have happened before the police were even called in terms of a treatment plan for him, you know support so he stays on medication. but once the police had been called are there concrete steps you think that could have been taken that would have avoided the situation? because the 9-1-1 dispatcher
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mentioned that the man was schizophrenic. >> right. so the 9-1-1 dispatcher should have had a system in place where a team of specially trained officers would have gone to the house to support and encounter this gentleman in a way that gave him space and at the same time spoke to him, established some rapport, and made a human connection with him. he was not a criminal. he was unwell. and unfortunately, these are the kinds of consequences we see when services are not available. we know how to help people recover and get their lives back in order. we have lacked the will and frankly, the budgets to be able to make that happen. >> pat deegan i appreciate you being on. thank you so much.
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don't have to be a good science geek but it helps. a solar eclipse with the vernal equinox with the super moon thrown in for good measure. also the first day of spring. earlier this week a sight in the sky of aurora borealis. i would tell you what it means but i know neil degrasse tyson thankfully joins me tonight. there's a lot i want to ask and they're all dumb because my knowledge of science is virtually, but before i get to those, how can you tell when there's an eclipse? >> it's physics. >> which i never took. >> it's a cheap answer. >> but you can tell the date of the next eclipse a couple years from now. >> in physics and astro physics, we're the best predictors of the
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future there ever was, perhaps ever will be because we're armed, we're equipped with our utility valid math and formulas and -- >> turn to a liberal arts major. >> it's profound. we can write down an equation and tell you the future behavior of the sun, moon planets and stars. >> so this is do you really get behind blind with an eclipse? >> the reason these warnings go out is there might be a reason for you. >> next i'm going to ask you who between super man and bat man. >> so can go there. i could so go there. iron man would be the winner. so with an eclipse, if you have an urge to look at the sun then, saying no. don't look unless you have proper filters, that would be true for every day. except you don't waste people's time when they wake up oh don't look at the sun today.
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but now there's an eclipse. so people are associate extra danger with an eclipse. >> nothing extra danger. >> no just don't look at the sun unless you have filter no matter what the sun is doing, okay? >> that was probably the stupidest question i'm going to ask. >> no you were fine. you were fine. >> now this super moon we're not able to see -- >> don't get me started about the super moon. new york you got pizza. one month of those moon not calling a super moon was 16.1 inches. sorry, 15.9. one tenth. so you're not, i rather reserve the word super for like super man. super mario. super nova. super duper, but not super moon. it's an overplay concept. >> i know you're still talking about but all i'm thinking about is pizza. >> that's good. food and the universe go together. >> the northern lights which i've never seen in person. they look i mean in the video just incredible. one of the things i want to see,
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does that have anything to do with the equinox? >> great question. no. flat out no. we had northern lights just a few nights ago. might continue tonight. it has to be clear to see them these are, it's a light show basically brought to you by the universe. particles from the sun stream from the sun to earth and come with such high energy as they near earth, they collide with the atmosphere and kick the molecules up in their energy levels and then that energy gets rereleased as these beautiful curtains of life. >> i'm still thinking about pizza. >> still thinking about pizza. >> sorry. >> pizza good. thank you, neil. >> anderson. >> always great to have him. up next make you smile. the ridiculist. stick around.
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time now for the ridiculist. we have a civics lesson from new hampshire where fourth graders tried to get the red tailed hawk designated as state toe see how becomes a law. took a field trip to watch from the gallery as lawmakers debated and then voted on their bill. you might think the representatives quickly did the bill a sense of accomplishment and a great impression of how
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our government works. well you would be wrong. here is just some of the debate that proceeded the vote and remember, the kids watching and listening to it all. >> we already have a state bird but now do we need a state raptor? isn't that a bird? isn't that an animal? >> so are we going to have flightless birds, water fowl pet birds, garden birds, wild birds? how many of these bills do we need to have? >> only one other state has a state raptor. why do we need a state rafter? >> if we bring in more of these bills and bills forward, that really i feel we shouldn't have in front of us we'll be picking a state hot dog next. >> must we designate one state raptor? is a raptor found everywhere in the country symbolize new hampshire? >> they could have just popped on the bill in front of the
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kids. in a way probably the most accurate interpretation a group of fourth graders could have. an innocuous idea not controversial in the slightest, spend 18 minutes talking about what a waste of time it is while simultaneously nitpicking its details. honestly the only thing that could have made it worse is if someone tried to inject abortion in the debate. >> it's phone for extremely strong and strong talons which it grasped the prey but with the talons and uses it razor sharp beak to rip the victims to shreds and basically tear apart limb by limb. and i guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for planned parenthood. >> that was state representative warren garon who stands by his comments. bill was defeated and i guess so were the fourth graders as they returned home to wonder what in the world just happened and what
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planned parenthood is and what does it do with the red tailed hawk? that's how a bill does not become a law in real life and on the ridiculist. basically, this is rest of your life is going to be like, kids. enjoy. the wonder list with bill weir starts now. i'm bill weir. i knew we had to start with some of the beautiful islands i'd ever seen. just a few months after my visit to vanuatu, those are in the aftermath of destructive cyclones in recent times. so tonight, we like to take you back to vanuatu before the storm and share ways you can help out. i remember one tribe that lived so simply telling me we have everything we need. well tonight, they need us more
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