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>> nobody wakes up and says, boy, i'm happy to be a junky mom. >> i couldn't quit crying. i knew it was all my fault. i'm the one that did dha to her. it really hurt. >> also tonight, making a difference. chelsea clinton goes inside a school in a juvenile prison that was once notorious for abuse and neglect, but is now turning hard cases into scholars. >> what if the kids who needed it most got the best that we had to offer? what if that was our starting point? and the great beyond. harry smith takes us to the top of the world where scientists are building something that looks straight out of star wars with an ambitious goal, to unlock the secrets of the universe. >> whoo hoo! look at this. >> it's the closest you can get to outer space without a rocket ship. >> we're asking really big questions. what's our place in the universe? why are we here? and to ask big questions, you need big technology, state of the art stuff.
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and if you've ever wondered how they fire off all that stuff, tonight we go inside the biggest and best july 4th fireworks display in the nation. >> most people think we work one day here. there is so much that goes into making this show just right. >> all that and more as "rock center" gets under way. good evening. for those of us who were reporters back in the 1980s, it was an awful new trend we were covering at the time, and it was the first time our viewers were hearing about the young, innocent infants, a generation of crack babies born addicted to drugs because of their mother's habit. sadly, a new generation has meant a new habit. prescription pain meds, oxycontin, vicodin, other powerful drugs in that same category, and now we are seeing the infants born to mothers abusing these drugs. it hasn't received that much
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attention until now, and as you watch kate snow's report, remember, these infants have no say in it and they cannot help the fact they were born that way. >> reporter: a newborn cries out in the neonatal intensive care unit, but this three-week-old girl isn't tired or hungry, she's in pain because her body wants a drug. her mother was addicted to prescription painkillers, and now this tiny baby is going through withdrawal. >> when did this little baby start going through withdrawal? >> almost immediately. >> almost immediately after being born? >> michelle is director of neonatal services in the hospital in southwest florida. she said babies were born to moms addicted to painkillers during pregnancy have tremors,
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d digestion problems and cry constantly. >> what can you do to make her feel better? >> she's on morphine. >> they treat the withdrawal by giving the baby morphine because it's a lot like the drug her mother was taking. it kaumz her down like any addict getting a fix. >> so she's still addicted to a dr right now. she's addicted to morphine at the moment. and she's three and a half weeks old. that's the part that is so crazy. >> it's hard to get your head around. >> yeah. it is. >> reporter: she'll be weaned off the morphine slowly and eventually be drug free. and she won't be alone. on the day we visited nethe neonatal unit, ten babies were being treated for withdrawal. if that sounds unusual, sadly, it's not. in hospitals across america, there is an epidemic of babies born addicted to prescription painkillers like oxycontin, oxycodone and percocet, and it's
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only getting worse. florida, with its history of pill mills and easy access to prescription drugs, is one of the hardest hit states. >> five years ago we might have admitted five or six babies a year for withdrawal, and now we're admitting between 75 and 80 babies a year for withdrawal. so that's a big jump. >> seven or eight times the number? >> right. >> this baby boy is just three days old. he can't calm himself and needs to be held nearly every waking moment. his whole body feels rigid and tense. >> you have such neck control. i remember my kids never would do that. their head would flop around. his head is like this. >> different, isn't it? >> very different. >> reporter: then it was time for his morphine. each dose lasts for about three hours and then the baby is in pain again. >> who do you blame? >> i don't blame anybody. >> it would be easy to blame the moms. >> yeah, it would be easy to blame. but you can't do that. you just have to work with them
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to take good care of their baby and to hope that they get treatment themselves and that maybe their life will get better as their child's life gets better. >> reporter: it's what 21-year-old kaitlyn yost is hoping for by getting treatment. we met her at the spring hill regional hospital north of tampa just weeks after she had given birth to her daughter annabella. kaitlyn thought she would go to college, but she tried an oxycodone pill with friends when she was just 15 and loved the way it made her feel. >> i guess it wasn't too much because i started doing it every day. then eventually i couldn't get out of bed without it. >> reporter: she told us she resorted to stealing and using fake prescriptions to get pills. and then she found out she was pregna pregnant. >> i didn't mean to get pregnant, obviously, because i was a drug addict. i didn't want to get pregnant and possibly hurt my baby.
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>> reporter: but she did hurt her baby. annabella was born addicted to opiates and was going through withdrawal while we were there. >> i couldn't quit crying the day they discharged me from the hospital and i had to go home without her, and it was all my fault. i knew it was all my fault, you know. i'm the one that did that to her. it really hurts. >> reporter: kaitlyn wants to warn other women not to do what she did and what sara ryan did. sara was 28 and five months pregnant when we met. her life had been derailed by drug addiction as these photos indicate. sara took her first vicodin at age 12. as a teen, she was using every weekend, and in her 20s, mug shots of sara who was a fu full-blown addict who was crushing up pills.
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>> reporter: people might say, why on earth did you get pregnant again? >> i didn't plan the pregnancy. >> you were high? >> sure. 90% of the time, i was high. >> reporter: when she found out she was pregnant this time, sara checked into a rehab center. d dacco runs a special program just for women. you might think the best solution would be to get them off the drugs quickly, but going cold turkey can cause pregnant women to miscarry, so doctors tell most pregnant addicts to switch to another drug, me methado methadone, which helps curb their craving and stay stable. every morning they take a dose. >> does it make you feel high? >> not at all, not at all. when i'm on the methadone, i feel nothing. i'm fanl doing it to save my
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child. >> reporter: but she can't save her baby from going through withdrawal. because methadone is similar to painkillers, there's a good chance her baby will be born addicted to that drug, a reality that scares sara. >> reporter: people may have very little sympathy for you, quite frankly. people may say you brought it on yourself. do you feel you made some bad choices? >> most definitely. did i learn from them? oh, yeah. will i make mistakes from them? no. >> most women don't wake up and say, wow, i'm happy to be a junkie mom. >> reporter: he runs the home for addicts in the heart of appalachia. >> the most common problem in this system right now is addiction. above everything else. >> reporter: he said women are especially vulnerable to get
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addicted to prescription painkillers. >> unfortunately, women become addicted harder and faster than men. once they're hooked, they're hooked. >> reporter: when a pregnant woman is addicted to opiates and taking opiates -- >> their baby is addicted as well. >> reporter: doctors are treating them with a drug different than methadone to see if it helps the withdrawal method of babies. right away they see a difference in the womb. >> normal behavior, basically. ziz s >> i see a leg and arm go. if she was on painkillers, what would be the distance? >> very still. >> reporter: he cares for the babies once they're born. this hospital treats more newborns from withdrawal of painkillers than most hospitals in america. some days can be overwhelming. >> we had a few days where we reached 65 to 70% of our patients are going through drug withdrawal.
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>> 70% of the babies go through withdrawal. >> yes. >> reporter: that can be not just overwhelming but expensive. treating these babies costs $50,000 and orften more. they need constant attention and they stay a long time. >> reporter: a normal delivery would be in the hospital a few days, right? >> anywhere between 48 and 72 hours. >> these babies are staying weeks? >> weeks and sometimes months. >> how many months? >> we have a few who have been here for three months. >> reporter: logan is one month old, and dr. loudon expects him to be able to leave the hospital soon. he's still stiff and cries easily. >> he's been very difficult to wean. >> reporter: his symptoms could last for months, and doctors worry about what will happen to all these babies when their mothers take them home. >> one of the reasons we keep the babies here so long is that they are difficult babies. now, there sets up a perfect storm. i've got a woman with no coping skills except to take drugs
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going home with a baby. that's very difficult to deal with. >> reporter: amber smith is logan's mother and one of dr. chapin's patients. four years ago she was prescribed painkillers and got addicted. logan is her fourth child, the second to go through withdrawal. >> reporter: do you feel -- and i ask them because i'm a mom. i would feel really guilty if i did something that i felt hurt my baby. >> i cried for days. i just wanted to hold him and tell him how sorry i was. >> reporter: the state is sending logan to live with his grandmother for three months while amber is drug tested to make sure she's still clean. >> as long as everything goes okay, i'll be able to get him back. >> reporter: logan looks okay, but there haven't been any large scale, long term studies to see if babies born addicted to painkillers will have problems later in life. >> i think about learning disabilities, i think about adhd, i think about other behavioral problems. but we don't have the kids old enough to make those
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determinations yet. >> and you worry about the babies? you worry about their future? >> very much so. i do, because we don't know what will become of that family, of that child, of that mom. and it's hard. >> reporter: in her 31 years as a nurse, michelle wadell says it's the hardest thing she's ever had to do, treating innocent babies who had no choice in their fate, and more are arriving every single day. >> as i walk through this nursery and i look at these babies suffering, it makes me sad. they take a lot of time. i'm okay with that. they take a lot of manpower. i'm okay with that. but to watch them suffer breaks my heart. i'm not okay with that. >> kate, there is nothing more innocent, and there is nothing more wrenching, and we should probably note or mirror what people are saying to themselves, to each other watching this, the
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anger people are going to feel toward these moms. >> reporter: i just want to point out that these are the moms doing the right thing, okay? these are the moms that have gotten help and are in recovery now, and they've taken the right steps so they will eventually -- their babies will recover from the withdrawal and they will eventually be better mothers because they're clean, they're sober. >> and you touch on the mystery of long-term damage. he guesses that maybe learning disabilities, adhd, but we just don't know. >> anecdotally they've seen that in five to seven-year-old kids who were born. we're talking about kids five to 10 years old now and they just haven't studied. one doctor said we don't know what the teen years look like at all. >> you chose the location you chose, but nationally everyone is feeling this. >> reporter: it's an epidemic. the prescription painkiller use is through the roof. the number of people dying from drug overdoses has tripled over the last ten years. it's higher than ever in our
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country's history. so there are states where there are bigger pockets, west virginia, florida, but it's moving across the whole country. we've seen a lot of growth in places like new mexico, kansas, utah. it's spreading everywhere and no state is immune. >> it is not a happy story but it is such an important story. kate snow, thank you, as always. up next here tonight, chelsea clinton reports on a place that has turned itself around so it can now turn kids around and make a real difference in their lives. and later, harry smith explains what the big deal is at the top of the world and what they expect to get out of it. >> what's the likelihood that there is another speck out there, something like us? >> i think it's almost inevitable. first off, there is other life out there of some kind. and i would even go further to say the fact there is intelligent life out there is almost inevitable as well. let's take a paint project from "that looks hard" to "that didn't take long".
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welcome back. on any given day, the department of justice estimates that are 70,000 juveniles locked up. they are still teenagers and they are entitled to a hearing to go over the fence. tonight, a place that has turned itself around in order to turn young people around. chelsea clinton reports on a program making a difference. >> good morning, good morning. >> reporter: it's an ordinary day at the gleaming new maya
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angelou academy in maryland. she is greeting nft 16 teenagers who study here, and miss kirk is teaching english. but this is not an ordinary school. guards are always within arm's reach, locks are plentiful and so are cameras. because this academy is located within a juvenile correction center. this is where the nation's capitol sends young offenders for crimes like assault, auto theft and armed robbery. >> we also talk about which strategies are in place to hold accountable for your actions. >> reporter: the students are called scholars here, and one of the first people they meet is samantha, the behavioral specialist. she knows their stories because they are also hers. >> i tell them how i came from a home where there was drugs involved. i know what that venue tastes
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like and it's hard. they'll say, samantha, how do i get through it when someone has killed my brother? that's deep. >> reporter: what's also deep is a memory of how this school began. it's where samantha herself was incarcerated when she was 15 years old. >> when i first came here, it was 1996. it was dirty, unsafe, physical assaults. you get restrained. you get down in a room with shackles. >> reporter: and those detained rooms are still here as a constant reminder just down the road on the same property as the academy. oak hill was finally shut down five years ago and replaced by the maya angelou school. >> one of the neat things about this place that people don't understand -- >> reporter: it was started by david demenchi and james foreman, jr. they had different ideas about
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what a school should provide inside a prison. >> what if the kids who needed it the most got the best we had to offer? what if that was our starting point? the kids who need the most about get the best. >> reporter: they fired all the teachers, changed the culture from one of punishment and violence to one of therapy and high expectations. at first, correctional staff members were skeptical. >> they might not have thought we knew what they were doing, but we were hard workers and we weren't going to quit. >> reporter: the asked the guards not to use force if a conversation way teenager might work better. we saw it over and over. if they misbehaved, the guards stepped back. >> normally you would just hold them, and put them in cuffs. here if they do something wrong,
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you praise them and encourage them to do better. >> reporter: many are doing better. students that arrive with fourth and fifth grade reading and math levels improve their test scores. students can soon name their favorites. like 24-year-old chelsea kirk. she started here almost a year ago. >> reporter: what would you say to a critic who would wonder, why are you teaching these kids shakespeare? >> we can't lower the bar here because we have kids who may not be able to read or who are years behind their growth. if we were to say we just aren't going to incorporate texts like shakespeare or say we expect less from you. >> those high expectations extend beyond academics. principal arnetta young. >> it's a small enough pool that we can understand everyone and be responsive to their needs. some of our scholars have had some tremendous hurdles to overcome. >> reporter: the goal is to give
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scholars what many of them have had precious little of: hope. >> there's still this light in their eyes, there's still this spark. they still want to learn, they want to be successful, they want to work. >> reporter: it costs 820 tax dollars a day to house and educate an offender here. it's likely and unfortunate this might be the best public education these kids ever get. >> there are no apologies for not being in grade school. all the things we are doing out here we can, should and must do for these kids before they get here, so there is no here. >> reporter: and do you believe that because you've been able to do it here, it can be done anywhere? >> yes. if there is a right commitment of resources and there is a right leadership. >> reporter: that commitment has changed the life of scholars like marquis. he's been here almost a year. when you're here, they refer to you as a scholar? >> yeah. >> reporter: how does that make you feel?
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>> i'll do bigger and better things. >> reporter: marquis told me he dreams of owning his own company or becoming a hotel manager. and he's proud of the letter he received from virginia state university. he'll start there this fall. >> i'm actually proud of myself, and i had it laminated. >> we're saying there is another way, and we're going to prove it to you. >> our thanks to correspondent chelsea clinton. next, what makes the show go off in the hudson repeatedly and successfully. our cameras were embedded. we were there when the lights went out. we have the inside story straight ahead. >> there you go. ufos. walmart choice premium steak. but they don't know it yet. they will. it's a steakover! the steak is excellent. very tender... melts in your mouth... so delicious... tonight you're eating walmart steak. what? it's good steak. two thumbs up.
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welcome back. if you were watching on nbc last night, then you saw once again why they call the macy's fourth of july spectacular the biggest and best planned annual explosion anywhere. tonight we get a very rare view from the inside. our guide will be gary sousa who designed the whole thing making him part pyro guy, part videographer and making the hudson part of our stop on the road in 2012. >> the people all along who watch it or captured and mesmerized by it, and it's the
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one time america says, wow. my name is gary sousa and i had the pleasure of working with the macy's fourth of july fireworks show for nearly 20 years. i started out as a young guy working here with my father, and now we have about three generations that come out and work on the display. back early in the 1900s, my great-grandfather came over to hawaii from portugal, and the portuguese would celebrate these holy ghost celebrations in each community. and that's what led him into fireworks. >> how's everything going? >> all good. >> most people think we work one day a year. what do you do with the rest of your life? it couldn't be further from the truth. this process is at least a year-long process. for me it actually is a year and a day. it starts while i'm watching last year's show and seeing what effects work, what colors work
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really well, and then as we go on into fall, we go out and shop. go to the manufacturers, visit their factories. we have to go out and find fireworks that are going to fit for this type of a venue. >> take it easy. >> we bring 40 pyro technicians who come out here and work with the fire department. they set out 40,000 aerial shells, run it back to 13 computers so that when this show is linked up to the music, all of these barges are going to fire in synchrony. >> i like the colors and how big they get. >> it makes me feel like a five-year-old again. >> go, ken. >> i work with the macy's team to come up with the musical score. each song has its own feeling to me. when i listen to the song, i feel something. i feel a color. i feel a dance. i feel a movement.
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>> let's give a show. ♪ >> in this year's show, there is a taylor swift song and sparks fly. we have these swimming stars in different colors. "god bless the usa," lee greenwood. multi-colored. matching all the colors of flags around the world. ♪ god bless the srusa ♪ >> the sousa trom bobones are gg off. got to have the music. that's the fireworks there. for me the favorite part of the show is the golden cascades, the golden mile, as we call it.
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"one moment in time" this year, the cascade in gold from 1,000 feet high down to the water, over a mile-long width of the river. and this time we added a little bit of a strobing kick that is so big, so dramatic, so majestic that you're just oohed and aahed out and they're done. >> there we go, baby. got 'em all. my motivation is the memory of those faces of the people around wau watching the show. looking across the river and saying, holy cow. there is a lot of people here. >> our thanks to gary sousa who gets to blow things up for a living. up next here tonight, we're going to go a bit higher and try to look at things never seen before from planet earth. [ femr kids are getting a dependable clean in the bathroom?
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>> in northern chile, there is a desert named atakawa. it is bone dry and more than a mile high. it is a place of spellbinding beauty, a desert that was once at the bottom of a sea. tourists come here to the village of san pedro. there is an allure to this place, especially at night. we brought astronomer scott ransom to us to chile as a guide to the heavens and stopped at a roadside park not far from town. >> being able to see jupiter and four moons is pretty rocking stuff. >> that's exactly where galileo made his telescope, with the four moons of jupiter. >> scientists from around the world are constructing an array of telescopes that will be able to probe deeper into space than
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ever before. but before we can look around, there is the matter of blood pressure and blood oxygen level tests. we're at 10,000 feet here, and we'll soon be ascending to 16,500 feet. altitude sickness can kill you of the the good ne. the good news? we checked out okay. this is an observatory the highest ever built. made of state of the art radio telescopes which are built in europe, japan and north america and then shipped here to be reassembled. >> they literally are rotating around. >> 15,000 pounds a dish. >> and here's what they do, spaces filled with something we cannot see. radio waves, microwaves and gamma rays. the dishes are antennas that can
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pick up those signals to the edge of the earth. our final destination. >> way up on that plateau. that's still 7,000 feet above where we are. >> 16,500 feet. with what's up here, it's the closest you can get to outer space without a rocket ship. >> what is it like to finally be here? >> it's freaking awesome. this is the state of the art observatory in the world. this is the largest, most sophisticated ground base observatory that the world has ever created. it will blow everything else out of the water. it could take weeks or months of observing to do what we'll do in a day or an hour. it's revolutionary. we started taking data in early science mode. >> we brought scott to ama because he's the top astronomer in the world, and we needed someone to explain what ama is. the largest sub-millimeter array. >> why put this in such an inhot
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pitable place? >> simple. water. if there's water in sight, water will not block the radio waves. >> water has been in space for billions and billions of years. soon there will be 16 antennas here spread out across this plateau, and they can all be pointed at the same time at a patch of outer space. >> whoo hoo! look at this! >> they're definitely doing a little dance. some are spinning one way, some another. >> this one hadn't moved before. this is radio a strstronomy bal. we were invited up inside one of them to take a closer look. >> this is like being on your own amusement park ride. >> a totally geeky amusement park right, that's right. >> so you're giving it the directions right now. i was even allowed to operate it. and brian williams, as nerdy as
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you are, i know you have reached your peak of human jealousy at this exact moment. >> god, look at the mountains back there. talk about desert. geez. >> we should say at 16,500 feet, we've been up here for a couple of hours. >> yep. >> how do you feel? >> i'm a little punchy. >> time, then, for a hit of oxygen. installing all this technology up here was described to us as second only in difficulty to building in antarctica. example. how do you move a 115-ton anten antenna? with something that could only be designed to move a 115-ton antenna. >> are you driving it? he's got the controls for this gigantic machine and he's driving it. it will come in and pick this thing up. that is very cool. >> it takes more than six hours to move one of these from base
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camp to the plateau. >> when you're around this for a day or so, it's almost hard to comprehend just how much technology is involved in putting these things together and making it all work correctly. >> we're asking really big questions, you know, deep questions about what's our place in the universe? why are we here? how are stars made? why do they have planets? how are those planets forming? and to ask big questions, you need big technology, big engineering, state of the art stuff, so that's what we've got here. you need it and that's what ama has. >> scott ransom is based at the radio astronomy observatory in charlottesville. he's also a professor at the university of virginia. ransom graduated from west point, served as an artillery officer and got a phd from harvard. he first fell in love with space when he saw "cosmos in outer
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space." he shared his love with us. >> this is my first impression that humankind ever created. this is known as the hubble ult tra deep field. the stunning thing is on the screen right now, there is a total ful oof one star. that's this little guy right here with the cross. everything else in this image is a gallon kaxy. >> this is the only star. every other representation is a galaxy. and the galaxy is like the milky way. >> billions of stars. hundreds of billions of stars. >> this is aimed at a chunk of the sky. is can't be the whole sky. >> no, it's a tiny, tiny chunk of the sky. and the cool thing is ama is going to do this. >> what all telescopes can do is see in the dark. if you can see in the dark, you can see how stars are born. to create its first test
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pictures, ama pointed at two galaxies collided in space. ama detected these bright yellow areas for the first time where stars are actually forming. and as carl sagan taught us all those decades ago, the earth and every living thing are made of star stuff. >> they process and make carbon, oxygen, nitrogen that's in the air, the iron that's in your blood. we are star stuff. every single atom in your body has gone through the life cycle of many generations, several generations, of stars. which is really mind blowing to think about. >> just some nutty stuff going on. >> there are. and i get to do this every day. i love my job. z >> what's the likelihood there is another speck out there,
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something like us? >> first of all, there is other life out there of some kind. i would even go so far as to say that there is intelligent life out there is inevitable as well. we all know that many, many stars, the majority of stars in our galaxy have planets around them. there are hundreds of billions of planets just in our own galaxy. there has to be life, in my opinion. >> in "the adventures of huckleberry finn," they used to lie on their backs and discuss whether they were made or just happened. >> why is it important to understand the universe? >> well, on a day-to-day basis, it's not. you can be born, live your whole life and die without knowing anything about what a star is, what a galaxy is, even stars travel around and you would be
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fine. but we want to know what is our place? how do we fit in? what makes this whole thing tick? how does it change over time? i can't believe people aren't curious and dying to know why we're here. >> the telescopes high in the chilean desert is in a place called chak man dor. people used to come here to pray to the earth mother. this is the place where their dreams and prayers took flight. so socrates said man must rise above the earth and beyond, for only then will he fully understand the world in which he lives. >> from where i'm from, you say pochamama, you better be ready for a fight. were you half the space geek when you were young that i was? >> i did watch all the space flights and was locked onto walter cronkite, wallly sheraw. we all memorized all the
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astronauts' names and all that stuff. this is a geeks' paradise. >> clearly. and just a beautiful spot on earth. a couple brass tacks questions. who is putting up this money? would the money exist if they started today, and when will we start to see something? >> we're getting data already. it started about a year ago. this was started by the europeans, us, a lot of money by japan and the chileans. >> where he real hopeful the benefits will be forthcoming? >> the thing about this is it's reaching. we can't stop reaching. it goes back to galileo again. 500 years ago or so, he put together a couple telescopes and said, guess what? the earth is not the center of the universe. there is still a lot of things to learn out there. >> why do i feel like you're trying to sell me a telescope? i envy all the places you get to go. there is much more of harry's
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travels along way taste of what all this might reveal about our universe, and we have placed it on our website, landlocked as it is here on earth. up next here this evening, do we really need to hear this? how it is that tennis turned from a quiet, sedate sport into a festival of grunting, and is it part of the game for good?
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this is the high season for tennis people, the folks who like playing it and the fans who like watching it on tv. and watching it with the sound up is an entirely different experience than it was just a generation ago. it's because of grunting, that guttural, primal grunting as if the athlete is involved in a life or death struggle when, in fact, they're just swinging an incredibly lightweight racket as an oncoming, fuzzy ball. it's hard to pinpoint exactly when it started, but we can say this. whoever that first person was who felt the need to grunt when hitting a moderately difficult tennis shot, well, they ended up a game changer, even a visionary, but not like the good kind of visionary. >> every shot you hit, you go
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uh, uh. you make this disgusting noise. >> i didn't even know i was doing it. >> you grunt at every shot, it's really annoying and it's throwing me off. >> it even recently reached the level of the kardashians. >> uh! >> tennis spectators and viewers at home took years to get used to what sounded like hard labor in prison. at least, the kind of prison where they demand you wear white. and a heads up about the olympics. we already know shot putters don't putt quietly. they're really loud. the harm throwers aren't a gentle bunch, either. but now we've heard hurdlers grunting when they start off their blocks. there are some smart folks who study our society who think this grunting is part of something
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larger, the celebration of self, the individual comes first. you are the star of whatever you're doing and go ahead and express yourself and please don't worry about us. and to be fair, it's not just the olympians. it can also be that guy alongside you that you're forced to work out with at your gym who is apparently anxious to let everyone in on just how hard his weight training really is. thankfully, there is a new movement by the women's tennis association to drag excess grunting out of the sport. at the tennis academy, they are trying to teach the grunting out of their athletes. the women's professional tour is developing electronic devices that will limit the acceptable amount of noise coming out of these players. of course, that might lead to some heated battles with the umpires and those -- >> it's a question, jerk! >> -- will not be the subject of any sound restrictions.
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our attempt to take stock of a big development in the world of sports over the years. and that is our broadcast for this week. next week harry smith continues his reporting on the cruise ship that ran aground off of italy, killing 32 people. he was there after it happened six months ago, and next week he'll report on some gaps in the safeguards you might think are in place but aren't. >> cruise ships are registered in foreign countries which provide enormous tax advantages to the owners. that also puts the ships outside u.s. jurisdiction once they're a few miles offshore. >> once you step on board, you have entered a you nation. i call it the nation of carnival. the only people that are responsible, then, for you, is carnival. >> what we have learned is it's a totally different world out there as far as your rights are concerned. >> the cruise industry is a large stindustry and plays a lo of people, and they have a lot
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of sway in washington. >> that is next week on "rock center" and thank you for joining us this week. i'm brian williams. good night from new york. your local news begins now. [ male announcer ] if paula ebert had her way, she would help her child. go! goooo! [ male announcer ] with everything. but instead she gives him capri sun super-v. with one combined serving of fruits and vegetables. new capri sun super-v.
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