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segments of industry, and instead of trying to out-innovate, out-research, out-develop, they're choosing to do it through theft. >> stahl: john carlin is the assistant attorney general for national security with responsibility for counter-terrorism and cyber attacks. he moves the chinese government is stealing from every u.s. economy. corporate espionage is costing billions of dollars and millions of jobs. >> part of the strategy in all this was to kill us.et out to kill you? >> to kill the company. > my article should not have made this much noise. el chapo should not have beenigure to read about. >> rose: tonight the story behind sean penn's secret meeting with el chapo. why did he go? what did he learn? who is kate del castillo? and howl about the criticism of his trip? >> of course i know that there are people who don't like me out
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>> rose: you're not withoutot without controversy. fair enough. >> whitaker: los angeles and its suburbs are home to 19 the only megacity in the world where mountain lions live side by side with humans. for 13 years the national parkss been studying the animals, opening a window on their mysterious world and raising questions about their survival in the land of freewaysban sprawl. >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> >> i'm scott pelley. those stories tonight on "60 minutes." >> cbs money watch update
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>> glor: good evening. as it emerges from sanctions, iran said today its economy will gr year. china is expected to report its weakest economic growth in 25 years. and u.s. markets are closed tomorrow, but oil futures will trade.-year low on friday.
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>> stahl: if spying is the world's second oldest profession, the government of china has given it a new,sting an army of spies not to steal military secrets, but the trade secrets and intellectualompanies. it's being called "the great brain robbery of america." the justice department says thatorporate espionage is so vast, it constitutes a national security emergency, with china targeting virtually every sector of theing american companies hundreds of billions of dollars in losses and more than two million jobs. >> john carlin: they'recompanies. and it's not a fair fight.
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against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.arlin is the assistant attorney general for national security, with responsibility for counter- terrorism, cyber attacks, and espionage. >> carlin: this is a serious threat to our national security. i mean, our economy depends one. and if there's a dedicated nation state who's using its intelligence apparatus to steal, re trying to develop, that poses a serious threat to our country. >> stahl: what is their ultimate goal, the chinese government's ultimate goal? >> carlin: they want to developdustry, and instead of trying to out- innovate, out-research, out- develop, they're choosing to do it through theft.u have to do, he says, is look at the economic plans published periodically by the chinese politburo. they are, according to thisechnology research firm invent i.p., in
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industries and what companiesheft. >> carlin: we see them put out the strategic plan, and then we see actions follow that plan.ntrusion on u.s. companies. >> stahl: do you have a number of u.s. companies that have been hit? >> carlin: it's thousands ofe been hit. >> stahl: thousands of u.s. companies? >> carlin: of u.s. companies. >> stahl: but getting c.e.o.s from those companies to talk ise most of them still have business in china and don't want to be cut out of it's huge market. daniel mcgahn, the head ofr, is an exception. his firm spent years and millions of dollars developingware for wind turbines that mcgahn says china looted, nearly putting him out of business. he's talking because he wants to fight back.personally never going to give this up. too many lives were affected, too many families were damaged through this.n this.
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people. >> mcgahn: yes. >> stahl: out of how many jobs? >> mcgahn: at the time, we were almost 900. much did you lose in share value? >> mcgahn: total loss is well over a billion dollars.actory floor is largely silent, a shadow of this once thriving company. >> mcgahn: i think part of the strategyto kill us. >> stahl: they set out to kill you. >> mcgahn: to kill the company. >> stahl: how can he be so sure? well, his story begins whennergy law in 2005, calling for the creation of mega-wind farms throughout the country. hottest wind power market in the world. so, mcgahn partnered with a small chinese firm called owned by the government. sinovel made the skeletons of the turbines, and his company, american superconductor, the and
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they actually built the turbines. >> mcgahn: they make the turbine, we make the controls.d they make these turbines with your brains in them for the entire country of china? >> mcgahn: yes. >> stahl: when he went intochina was already notorious for poaching american intellectual property. so he says he did everything he could think of to protect his technology from being stolen.that any software or any pieces of the code were restricted and use... were able to be accessed only bye company. >> stahl: once they got everything over there, couldn't they reverse-engineer it? >> mcgahn: we believe that's and what they learned was this encrypted protocol was in the way. they didn't quite understand how it worked, and they couldn't reverse-engineer it.ows, if it's on the internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it. >> mcgahn: it wasn't accessible through the internet. it off the internet.
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>> stahl: it sounds like you... you built a little fortress around your... your precious codes.rtainly tried. >> stahl: initially, business boomed in china for american superconductor, with salesmillion a year to nearly half a billion. >> mcgahn: we were going through exponential growth. it's what every technology get to is this high level of growth. we were there. >> stahl: then, in 2011, his engineers were testing the next- china on sinovel's turbines. the software had been programmed to shut down after the test, but the blades didn't shut down. they never stopped spinning. "why?" we didn't really know. so the team looked at the turbine and saw running on our hardware a version of softwareased yet. >> stahl: that's when you realized. >> mcgahn: realized something's wrong.
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happened. he launched an internal investigation and narrowed it down to this man, dejan karabasevic, an employee of americanstria. he was one of the few people in the company with access to its proprietary software. time in china working with sinovel. >> mcgahn: and what they did is they used cold war-era spycraft to be able to turn him...him. >> mcgahn: ...and make him into an agent for... for them. >> stahl: do you know any specifics of what they offered him? >> mcgahn: they offered him women. they offered him an apartmoney. they offered him a new life. >> stahl: the arrangement included a $1.7 million contractn emails and instant messages that mcgahn's investigation found on dejan's company computer. in this one from him to a out the quid pro quo-- "all girls need money.
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sinovel needs me."es showered him with flattery and encouragement- - you are the "best man, like superman."want the... the source codes"? >> mcgahn: it was almost like a grocery list. "can you get us 'a'? can you get us 'b'? can you get us 'c'?" >> stahl: i've seen one of thesage, in which dejan says, "i will send the full code, of course." >> mcgahn: that's the full codend turbine. >> stahl: dejan eventually confessed to authorities in austria and spent a year in jail.chinese authorities refused to investigate, so daniel mcgahn filed suit in civil court inor $1.2 billion. but he suspected that china was still spying on his company, andhed from cold war to cutting-edge espionage. so why were you brought in?
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now continued in cyberspace. >> stahl: mcgahn hired dmitri alperovitch and george kurtz, co-founders of a computerrowd strike, to investigate. they zeroed in on a suspicious email purportedly sent by ae in the company. >> alperovitch: it had an attachment. a few people clicked on an attachment and that let the chinese in.opening the front door. >> stahl: what do you mean, they were in? >> alperovitch: once they clicked on that email and they opened up the attachment, malicious codes startedhine and it beaconed out to the chinese and basically let them right into the company. from that point, they can hop tony file that they wanted from that network. >> stahl: by analyzing who the email was sent to, they were able to infer that the chineseust computer codes. >> alperovitch: they also wanted to figure out the legal strategy of the company, now that they were suing sinovel for $1.2 billion.ver
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the chinese government actually break into that company, break into the legal department andg on behind the scenes so they can better deal with that lawsuit. >> stahl: now, did you know at that time who had perpetrated the hack?e able to determine with great confidence that this was unit 61398, part of the chinese military that wasttack. >> stahl: unit 61398 is believed to be based in this nondescript building in shanghai. it's part of the people'st's charged with spying on north american corporations. >> alperovitch: we estimate thatsand people in this unit alone, this one unit. >> stahl: how active is this unit? >> kurtz: it's one of the moste've tracked coming out of the chinese government. it's unbelievable what they've been able to steal over the last decade. >> stahl: like what? scope. >> kurtz: every industry-- engineering documents, manufacturing processes, chip
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pharmaceutical. stolen. >> stahl: in 2014, five military officers in the unit wereh economic espionage by john carlin's national security division at the justice department. >> carlin: these were officersday job was to get up, go to work, log on, and steal from a range of american companies.s we put in an exhibit in the case, the activity would spike around 9:00 in the morning.rn on their computers, and start hacking into american companies. then, it calms down a little bit from about 12:00 to 1:00 where they take a lunch break. >> stahl: ( laughs ) continues until the end of the day, 5:00 or 6:00... >> stahl: and then they go home. >> carlin: ...at night. and then they go home, and it decreases till the next morning.ways denied that it conducts or condones economic espionage. but in september, during a visit to washington, president xihe first
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engage or knowingly support cyber-theft of intellectual property for commercial gain.he first time ever they've admitted that economic espionage should be off-limits and that they will not conduct it. unfortunately, what we saw isy, the day after they were in the rose garden shaking hands, the intrusions continued. >> stahl: wait, wait, wait, stop. the hacking has not stopped.cking has not stopped. but one of the things that has happened is that the military units that have been responsible for these hacks have actually had their mission taken awaygiven to the ministry of state security, their version of the c.i.a. so, in effect, they said, "you guys are incompetent. you got caught. we'll give it to the guys that know better."rector of the national counterintelligence and security center confirms that there is no evidence china has curtailed its economic espionage.cism out there among businessmen and some people in the government, who complain that president obama se,
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>> carlin: well i think it's important that we do take... that we do take action.like bring the indictment, then we would be a paper... a paper tiger. >> stahl: you know, if feels they're never going to be extradited. is there talk of putting any sanctions on the way we did withinto the ukraine? >> carlin: the bottom line, i think, has to be that we continue to increase the costs until the behavior changes.then we need to keep thinking of additional actions, whether they're trade actions or sanctions that change the behavior.nt of china declined our request for an interview, but sent us this comment:
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is rebuilding with much of hisindia. but adding insult to injury, sinovel is now exporting winden technology, including one purchased by the state of massachusetts using federal stimulus funds. government facilitated bringing the stolen goods into the u.s. >> stahl: and they're here now? >> mcgahn: and they're here now >> stahl: up and running? >> mcgahn: up and running. >> stahl: sinovel, using the stolen source codes, has sold wind turbines here in >> mcgahn: ...to the government of massachusetts, funded by the federal government of the united states of america. >> how china spies could be watching you at your desk. >> i'm watching you remotely. >> go to 60minutesovertime.com.
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>> charlie rose: when joaquinped out of mexico's most secure prison through a secret tunnel last july, the drug lord triggered an international manhunt.d escape from mexico's most secure prison-- military and law enforcement on
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the search. so who should find him, but oscar-winning actor and self- described "experiential, with the help of a mexican actress. the story of penn's visit with el chapo, appearing in "rollingtion. it was published after mexican marines raided guzman's sinaloa hideout and recaptured him.e first time, sean penn talked with us about his encounter with el chapo. he had a lot to say.to go to mexico to interview a drug lord who's escaped from prison with ation for doing terrible things and supplying a lot of drugs to america? what's the point?e policy of the war on drugs, which so
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seems not to change.unmovable. and it occurs to me that often, because we want to simplify theo look at a black hat and put our resources into focusing on the u- - and i understand that. i absolutely understand justice and-- and the rule of law. i call experiential journalism. i don't have to be the one that or the amount of narcotics that are brought in. i go and i spend time in the company of another human being, which everyone is.servation and try to parallel that, try to balance that with the focus that we-- that i believe we-- we tendemphasis on. so, when i understood from colleagues of mine that there
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wanted to-- >> rose: to do what, sean? i mean i don't understand that.y-- drugs are a huge problem in america. there's a huge consumption of drugs in america. it's a terrible thing in what it does to our society.g to see him going to do about it, other than somehow-- getting a lot of attention. feel complicit in the suffering that is going on, because i'm not thinking about it every day.s that are showing no progression, these rehabilitations that are not happening. so i'm looking the other way.mplicit with murders in juarez. >> rose: you think we demonize el chapo too much? >> penn: i think that there's-- any human being is-- is-- is not in our-- best self interest. like it or not, we're married to
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they're of our time.fecting us. so like a marriage, you-- you know, you might want a divorce. >> rose: okay, let me... let me... >> penn: but you've got to look at this person as a-- as a person. >> rose: okay. gonna have-- or if the-- if the argument-- if-- if all we aim to understand is that this is alet's not understand anything else. >> rose: you wanted to have a conversation about the policy of a war on drugs. >> penn: that's right.motivating factor for you-- >> penn: with-- with the reader. >> rose: with the reader. >> penn: with-- with him, i wanted to sit, observe, ask him questions.-- as an anchor into this article. >> rose: what did he say? why did he accept? ead his mind. >> rose: yeah, but you talk to him, and you know the characters involved.
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the conversation that was had,wanted to be on the record. >> rose: how sean penn came to be on the record with el chapo is a tale.exican tv and movie star who had caught chapo's attention. kate del castillo had once played a drug lord on a telenovela. chapo was a fan. through texts and social media. last august, del castillo and penn met and she agreed tol chapo. in october, penn, del castillo and two others traveled by small plane and truck into cartel- they were escorted by one of el chapo's sons. >> penn: i was baffled at his will to see us. nonetheless-- you-- thought he might be putting himself at risk. >> penn: yeah. i mean we followed the protocols laid out by them in terms of--ions and so on, as well as travel.
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you had nothing to do, and-- and your visit had nothing to do >> penn: the things-- here's the things that we know. we know that the mexican- is-- they've been very humiliated by the original escape. >> rose: escape. >> penn: they were clearly very humiliated by the notion thatre they did. well, nobody found him before they did. than the d.e.a. or the mexican intelligence. upon which we were able to facilitate an invitation that allowed us in.now from transcripts of texts released by the mexican government is that el chapo was interested in the actress.o sean penn was. was it naive of you, naive, to believe that you could come to del castillo, and go see el chapo
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it? >> penn: i assumed they knew about it.so in the article. i was-- i was stunned-- that-- that he would risk our trip. i was stunned.l chapo met with them and he agreed to a future meeting including a formal interview with sean penn eight days later. when the manhunt grew moreace interview became too risky. instead, penn sent a list of questions and el chapo recorded his answers. confrontational. they included el chapo growing up in poverty and who he blamed for the drug problem.lot of people, a lot of people would have wanted you, in this conversation, in a sense, to see how he would react if you wantede for his life. >> penn: uh-huh. >> rose: did you-- >> penn: or-- or--
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or? means that, if somebody wants me to ask the questions that they want me to ask-- >> rose: right. >> penn: well, there's that little pro they're not me. so any experiential-- >> rose: and you had no-- but-- but just tell me this. did you have no interest?any interest in understanding how he justified, felt about, made decisions,rtel. >> penn: i have a fascination... >> rose: that is so powerful? >> penn: ...with all of that. >> rose: penn's "rolling stone"d word, sometimes rambling, often gripping account of the el chapo meeting. it was published the day after chapo was recaptured and itdline. >> penn: my article should not have made this much noise. el chapo should not have been this popular a figure to read about.a-- he was a figure that people read about and talked about before you ever went to mexico. >> penn: oh, i-- i'm-- i'm well
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>> rose: what about those who he likes being in the center of this. he's an adventurer. he thinks of himself as a writernter thompson with a kind of experiential quality to him." you accept any of that? >> penn: do i accept that people feel that way? >> rose: yeah.utely accept that they feel that way. >> rose: and are they right? >> penn: no, they're not right. when the mexican marines finally raided el chapo's hideout as seen in this video, they caught him as he attempted still another escape.questions about whether the actor and actress had been tracked and helped lead the mexican marines to the drug lord.l claimed they had been quote, "essential." do you believe that the mexican government released this becauseee you blamed, and to put you at risk?
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>> rose: they wanted tortel to put you in their crosshairs? >> penn: yes. >> rose: are you fearful for your life? >> penn: no.e the cartel wants to do harm to you because they have accepted theat you made somehow led to the recapture of el chapo? >> penn: they've been in this they've dealt with law enforcement issues for a long time. they've dealt with misinformation for a long time.onal people. and so i can't say for sure, you know, that there's no risk. >> rose: have you heard from >> penn: no. >> rose: what's it been like for you? what are your concerns? you know,
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about this., flamboyant in my words sometimes. many people can. i'm really sad about the statentry. it has been an incredible hypocrisy and an incrediblejust how much they don't know and how disserved we are. you know, the-- of course i knowwho don't like me out of the gate-- whether it's political or-- >> rose: you're not without controversy. >> penn: not without controversy. fair enough.n, journalists who want to say that i'm not a journalist. well, i want to see the license that says that they're a journalist. commit something of a mortal sin for most journalists by allowing the
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approve his story.ed for me to have the interview with el chapo was that i would finisho him, and if he said no, then that was no harm, no foul to any reader. >> rose: it would never be printed.r be printed. >> rose: it was printed and soon after, penn's article was being criticized for being sympathetice for the deaths of thousands and the biggest drug supplier in the world. >> penn: i was not present to would like to see reported on. i was not present at murders. i was not present to see narcotics. i was not present to that. i wrote. i wrote that to use it as a pillar for an article about the- - the policy of the war on drugs.ive. and you knew that if sean penn went to see a drug lord on the
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him with a mexican actress who he was smitten with, you knew that's a story. you knew that's a big story. you're not naive.u're blaming people for wanting to know more about it. >> penn: it's-- it's-- >> rose: it's inevitable. >> penn: no, no, no, no. is that they think they know more about it. let's go to the big picture of what we-- what we all want. we all want this drug problem to stop.n the moral right, or on the far left, just as many of your children are doing these drugs, just as manyisters, your mothers and fathers, the teachers at school, are doing these drugs. just as many. and how much time have they since this article came out, talking about that? one percent?rous. >> rose: you're saying there's not much dialogue about-- >> penn: my article failed. >> rose: --as a result of el chapo.
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>> rose: to? >> penn: in that the ques-- in-- in-- in that everything that's spoken about is everything but what i was trying to speak about. >> rose: you regret that people- - that. >> rose: but-- but-- but you're really saying, i-- what i really regret is not anything that did. i regret that people misunderstood what i did. >> penn: that's what i'm saying, yeah. carrabba's only knows one way to do italian; fresh, made from scratch. and now we've added over 20 new dishes. that's why the entire menu is
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ou do when you cross paths with a mountain lion? it's in their nature to avoid people. attacks happen, but they're extremely rare.y if you stand tall, wave your arms, yell, but don't run, they'll back off.
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advice worth remembering.its suburbs are home to 19 million people, the only mega-city in the world where mountain lions-- alsoumas-- live side by side with humans. for 13 years, the national park service has been studying thedow on their mysterious world, and raising questions about their survival in the land of freeways and suburban sprawl.ghbors up the hill. and sometimes, they come to call. when you moved here, did youwas a mountain lion in the vicinity? >> paula archinaco: no. no, not at all. not at all. ( laughs ) >> whitaker: some view you have here. paula and jason archinaco'sa local landmark-- not just for the killer view of los angeles, but
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had one day in the crawl space under the house. he was doing some wiring when he saw something scary.co: he comes into my office terrified. and he says, "bro, you have a mountain lion in your house, bro.""a mountain lion?" and he goes, "yeah, man, a mountain lion, face to face, eye to eye. it came eye to eye with me."ified. >> whitaker: he had been eye to eye with p-22, so named by the "puma"; number 22 out of 44 they've studied, photographed here withry long stick. p-22 wears a park service tracking collar that sends gpsn, signals that were blocked this day because he was under the house. >> paula archinaco: he was justo snooze, completely just like we woke him
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>> whitaker: soon, the house was packed with cameras and reporters. already a local celebrity because of this "national geographic" picture, taken by a remote camera a mile or two from the archinacos' house.xperts finally decided to shoo everybody out after the 11:00 news, hoping p-22 might head back into the hills nearby, which he did.id he leave? how did he leave? >> paula archinaco: we don't know how. >> whitaker: they call them "ghost cats". >> paula archinaco: there you go. though they live in the shadows, in much of southern california, they're never far away. a trail camera caught this one a rooftops of suburbia. >> jeff sikich: these animals do their best to, you know, stay elusive and away from us.archers, who follow
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ever see them. >> whitaker: jeff sikich is a park service biologist, ants who holds something of a record-- he's seen and captured p-22 four times now.the animal and hits him with a tranquilizer dart. quickly, it knocks p-22 out,en. the batteries on his gps collar were running low. replacing them gives sikich anda checkup. p-22 is healthy, weighing in at 125 pounds.h knows that when the animal comes to, it's no threat-- the instinct to get away from people kicks in.roggy p-22 wakes up and stumbles back into the shadows.past eight
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traveled. >> whitaker: the gps signals from their collars tell sikich riley where the animals roam. p-22 wanders the hills of griffith park, a small enclaveted by hikers and visitors to the park's famed observatory.n't-- knock on wood-- had any major conflicts with him and people. and it shows that even a large carnivore like a mountain lioneople for many years. >> whitaker: they think p-22 migrated east across the santa0 miles or so, perhaps chased out by a bigger male. he somehow crossed the 405rld's busiest, worked his way through bel air and beverly hills, and somewhere near the hollywood bowl amphitheater, crossed ay, the 101, to griffith park.
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no competition. no other adult males in griffith park. prey for him. >> whitaker: he's been in griffith park for three years now-- all alone, looking forplaces. >> sikich: yeah, you know, still hanging out there, which is pretty surprising. left looking for a potential mate.the mating urge overwhelms him, he could take his chances crossing the freeways again to find a female, why not move him? >> sikich: usually, it doesn't work moving lions.his animal, this adult male, into another adult male's territory. and that usually results in the death of one of them.go mountains, a small range overlooking the san fernando valley, there's another lonely lion.never thought one would actually come
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and he was right next to our bedroom window, and then he'd continue up this way.cy vandermey and eric barkalow moved here to be close to wildlife. and got their wish, in the formed p-41, who seems to love their backyard deck. so he's right out here where we are. >> vandermey: exactly where we are. ( laughs )r: he has come to visit at least ten times, triggering security cameras taking both video and still pictures.ugar canyon"-- what else? >> eric barkalow: here, he's just literally made a loop around our house for some reason.parents with baby pictures, they show off their video scrapbook. >> barkalow: and let me point out how his paws are on the wood and not on the gravel, so thatnoise as possible. they want to be silent at all times. >> whitaker: camera technology way
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animals are studied. johanna turner is a sound effects editor for universal studios. she's one of several citizen scientists, as they're called, who put remote cameras up in the wild, hoping . how do you know where to look?ll look for tracks and we'll look for signs of them. and we look for deer, because that's their food source.he lions into camera range, she'll sprinkle catnip, vanilla extract, even men's cologne on a branch.s, they love it. the holy grail is a shot like this one of p-41.ch bobcats, coyotes, foxes and
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that a bear has, you know, turned the camera sideways or licked the lens or something.y. >> whitaker: what's the most amazing thing you've seen? >> turner: my favorite is a video of a female mountain lionens, and they're nursing on her. i still can't believe that happened, that she decided to lay downe camera. >> whitaker: science is learning much more about what happens when the lions are penned in by freeways and houses. mountain range is about 200 square miles, the area usually staked out by just one male mountain lion.mix of a dozen or so males and females. >> bob wayne: it's a family you wouldn't want to belong to. >> whitaker: bob wayne is anlogist at ucla. using dna from the blood samples
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mountains, his scientists have built a family tree, unlocking some strange and deadly secrets.fe with incestuous matings. it's not a healthy situation. >> whitaker: the dna shows malesown offspring. and killing them, as well. sometimes, even killing their mates. and that doesn't happen in the wild normally? >> wayne: rarely.ncest and this excessive amount of strife are very unusual. >> whitaker: you think that is all because of this limited amount of space they have? >> wayne: it is. on some primal level, they long for more space. at least 13 have been killed in traffic in recent years, trying to move on.ged sword-- being penned in, the lions can't get out to the wide-open spaces away from the city; and thewill only get worse if lions from the wilderness can't get in to mate
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but there is a possible solution.s plan to build the animals an overpass on the 101 freeway to open up a migration route.ewhere in the world- this one crosses the trans-canada highway in banff national park.n the 101, the freeway is ten lanes wide, traveled by 175,000 cars a day.ted, costly project. >> riley: it would be an amazing statement to say, "okay, we care this much in southern californiawild animals that we would do this, and make a place for animals to get back and forth. >> whitahope? >> sikich: pretty much for our santa monica mountain lion population, yes. >> whitaker: and what about future generations?etty good signal. ( radio collar beeping
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coming from a collared female lion, p-35.think she might have a newborn kitten or two at one gps location where she's been spending a lot of time.p-35 is a safe distance away from the spot, jeff sikich moves in, intuition, looking for a needle in a haystack. and he finds it-- a feistye-and-a-half week old female, p-44. ( p-44 growls ) e to amber in a few months, the spots that camouflage her will disappear. his crew work in
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within earshot.identify her on trail camera pictures. she appears healthy. but given the danger she facesation, her future is a question mark. >> sikich: all right, time to go back. can do is put her back where he found her, to take her chancesity. r cbs sports update is brought to you by the lincoln motor company. i'm james brown with scores from nfl divisional playoffs. in the n.f.c., jonathan stewart ran for two scores as the. in the a.f.c., denver's c.j. anderson scored the game-winning touchdown from one yard out the beat pittsburgh.
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