quite plastic the soup of the north is so regular there's the soup. scientists have shown that there is no untouched zone left on this planet every square mile of version contains tens of thousands of bits of plastic the result of our consumption two hundred twenty pounds a year there in competent. we will not change the evolution of the society we are using less and less time to prepare the food for the luncheon for the dinner and as well there we. move and we have the habits to eat outside of the house so more and more we will use products which are much more decades and ready to be consumed for the drinks or for the food then we were used to use in the past in the first ten years of the current century since two thousand we produced as much plastic as we produced in this entire century that preceded way using at the moment in excess of two hundred sixty million tons of plastic every year worldwide now around about a third of that is used for single use items for items of packaging that are used once and then discarded so it's a material that lasts f

it was the soup of the north are so very good there's the soup. your project all these things you know if you go through. your soul shopping you're no good but it's . just it's the first place to cold in the stomach of the if you translate that to human body size this would be to the fruits in the stomach. so in the past five minutes here in the constant creek i took a little walk around to see how many styrofoam cups i can pick up in five minutes what you see here is what six people would consume in one week of drinking coffee every day so many people think that their individual actions don't really have an impact but if you multiply this by the millions and millions of people that drink coffee in los angeles alone you can start to understand how we see something like this in every single river every single creek everest single stream and los angeles behind me is compton creek it's one of the many streams that drains the los angeles area now this stream will go into the los angeles river and then out to the civic ocean the purpose of this boat is

of the soviet past. back in. one thousand miles from the north pole. is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen entrepreneur ago. where twenty years after the us was sars the soup between life is still going strong. with the world's. statue of lenin presides over and those. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war nostalgia. the close up special edition an arche. line. well one one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of. napalm. chemicals. whether it's hard sonic. mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or iraq or straw. for planning purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that shall be taken in war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage to the united states. although it is accepted that almost all of the previous protocol has taken exception to that. in a passion to address palestinian president mahmoud abbas is vowed to seek full state recognition of the un security council next week but since

commemorated the national day of service and remembrance first with a visit to the arlington national cemetery and a stop at a soup kitchen where they helped prepare food for those in need. north carolina -- >> i wanted to do something to really show that these guys will always be remembered and never forgotten. >> reporter: new jersey. >> we remember the 2,974 americans who died that day. >> reporter: and in new york, a touching note of love and admiration from the other 9/11 victims, those left without husbands, wives, daughters, sons, mothers and fathers. >> dear dad, i just miss you. you died on september 11th 2001 and i was born 26 days later on october 7th. >> back out live, one of the reflecting pools. that's where the south tower once stood. you can see the waterfall has been turned off at this point, probably to be restarted in the morning. this memorial will be open only to the victims on sunday, family members of the victims. it will be open to the general public on monday but that's going to be by reservation only. back to you. >> a bipartisan effort will help complete the flight 93 national memorial. speaking at the unveiling today, bill clinton announced he and h

of the levees and it is like a soup bowl, water stays in. we don't have that this time. we were able to keep the water out of the area and areas without levees, this northmorning we'll give the okay for people to start coming back in. >> mayor kerner, thank you. have a good weekend. >>> one american couple trying to make the best of these tough economic times has made it work and they've done so for seven years and over 1,000 miles apart. >> reporter: in palm bay, florida, sharon is juggling her own business and four boys between the ages of 8 and 16. >> they have four different personalities, four different sets of things going on -- swimming, band, soccer. it has been difficult. >> reporter: making things even more difficult, for the last several years, her husband benny has difd 1,200 miles away in new york city. benny told us he can't leave his job as a mechanic for united airlines in these tough economic times. >> no jobs in florida. >> yep. i have to work because i have to support my family. there's no way that i can let my family starve just because i want to be there. >> reporter: according to the census, 3.4 million married couples in the u.s.