we're holding our breath that this anaconda keeps coming.each out my hand, tiny, compared to that massive body. between them, they have 40-years plus experience filming underwater. their shots are steady, calm. mine? frenzied. but the anaconda isn't. it's calm. dissolving effortlessly through the murk. and silently, the giant disappears. i'm matt gutman for "nightline," bonito, brazil. >> wow. "secret brazil" premieres sunday, september 23rd. thanks to matt and the anaconda. >>> just ahead, we hang out with the guys of green day. ♪ [ male announcer ] start with a simple idea. think. drink coffee. design something totally original. do it again. that's good. call in the engineers. call in the car guys. call in the nerds. build a prototype. mold it. shape it. love it. give it a starting price under 16 grand. take it to the track. tweak. tweak. tweak. stop. take it to the car shows. call the critics. call the marketing team. get a celebrity endorser. he's perfect. i am? [ male announcer ] yes, you are. making a groundbreaking car -- it's that ea

. >>> and we go to the wilds of brazil to search for anacondas. that's after the news. . >>> earlier this week harvard published research suggesting that jesus christ may have had a wife. the university said that it hasn't committed to publishing it's research yet. they claim that a 4th century piece of papyrus has text on it where jesus uses the word my wife. two expects have claimed it's real. they are waiting on test results to determine it. >>> the space shuttle touched down in los angeles today putting an end to the 30 year shuttle program. i'm not so sure its cool -- it looks cool here. the end of the program. that's historic. for the last three days the nearly two billion dollar shuttle was displayed from coast to coast. eventually the shuttle will sit there. california science center. >> last time we will see it fly. that's depressing. >> isn't that something? still amazing sight. >> quick check of the weather. no big changes, i think you are okay first thing tomorrow. you have morning plans, chances for showers and storms up through the a

so we prevailed in anaconda kind of, sort of. by that time we had enough power up there, to make the outcome decisive, most of whom we were fighting had expelled. one moment for me back then -- again, late february, early march, 2002 -- was particularly in the early days of the campaign. the filtration moved into ways. we were taking young afghans up who were trying to cross our lines to get on the fighting side of them, to join their compatriots in the fight from the center. that's when i thought, you know, there could be trouble down the line. what do i know? i have to go about iraq. so then, you know, hindsight is 20/20. it's always beautiful but i do remember having that concern, that as we have seen and our predecessors as western powers have seen for hundreds of years, the conflict in a given foreign country, in the eyes of our adversary hasn't even really started until we think we have gained a decisive victory. you saw in afghanistan, we saw it in iraq. the french called morocco, libya, the brits throughout the region ove

coming out of the jungle with these anacondas. >> my gosh. >> i don't believe this. >> it is huge. >> him where he got it. >> go up there to see the thing and that thing literally jumps out of the arms. i don't know how he did it. there are two guys holding it. >> oh! geez! >> man, i tell you what, i jumped faster than i jumped in my entire life. i had been bitten before. i wasn't going to let it happen again. >> it is all crooked. >> i am surprised. >> you get it from the ground and get it from the head. >> once we had seen the anaconda they realized they were not go to get it. they put it on the ground there. >> three. four. five. six. seven. eight. nine. 10. 16-17 feet. a beautiful animal, isn't it? >> beautiful. >> boy. thank you. and conda. the last stop we had, because i am interested in villages. this was a place that nobody went to. >> i know there are 10-12 families there. we have never been to this village before. we will surprise them. they will welcome you there. >> look at this. >> roberto. >> it just blew my mind how survival is something. the amazon river can rise feet

the tailings will be stored behind massive dams that could hold 20 times the waste of these at the anaconda mine in nevada. it is the byproduct of these tailings that poses the greatest threat to the environment. >> the minerals that we're trying to mine are what are called sulfide minerals. the most common sulfide mineral is iron sulfide, pyrite. and what happens when you expose pyrite to oxygen and to water is that it breaks down chemically into a weak sulfuric acid. that acid in turn will dissolve some of these other accompanying sulfide minerals that contain lead, zinc, cadmium, selenium, arsenic, and a whole host of other things. >> and now you have a problem because you have water with... with acid in it as well as metals that are in solution. and those metals in solution can be very damaging. e old name for those waters is id me drainage. >> narrator: the greatest concern is that over time, a toxic plume of these dissolved metals could eventually leach from the tailings dams into nearby rivers and lake iliamna. >> i think you design something to make sure it doesn't feed into lake il

neutrons to start a nuclear explosion ripped they're working on building internet continental -- anaconda choke ballistic missile but they're not doing it to deliver medical supplies 5000 miles. and there are various other components, specialty components that are identified as nuclear weapons why would you want a high altitude trigger, and electrical trigger that works at high altitudes. the kind of things use a nuclear device. so we should conclude, and nevermind it's about whether the other weapons capability, a nuclear capability could be the device that goes in a truck. they are working on it on every evidence that we can see. and, therefore, we need to act very soon. if they don't i think israel, 50/50 will act and probably before the election. [inaudible] >> that's very soon. and the reason, israel is likely to is because of what i call the to hand and so the schizophrenic policy of this administration. obama's people point all the time look at the unprecedented cooperation and missile defense and other things, and it is unprecedented. well, it's president because the bush administ

i was present for operation anaconda. you can mention that to your counselor when you see him about the geneva talks. that was our first large-scale effort to mop up the taliban and al qaeda rents in the mountainous east. the general have lots of advice from every echelon above him. lots of advice, lots of it -- lots of superior commanders, most of whom were not in his chain of command, but that did not slow him down. very few forces. what we found in anaconda is we have a much larger, much better armed and prepared and tenacious and me than we thought we did. we also did not have some of those useful things like tanks, not a good idea to carry out major ground operations if you don't have armor. just a civilian, but what do i know? we had to borrow tanks from the northern alliance. unless theyn't much are against an adversary doesn't have anything. they seemed useful and my job was to negotiate their passage through's 2-controlled areas with supporting crews to support us on anaconda. that almost did not happen because t

but what they would do at bucket shops is they'd say you should buy anaconda copper or something.and it was designed that it was going to crash. it was going to go down. but they would never buy the stock. and then they would, they would pretend to buy it and then sell it back or just give you part of the proceeds. and rothstein would be involved in protecting these things which were protected, also, by tammany hall, which were protected by tom foley who was the patron of al smith and one of the big ball club owners, horace stoneham's father was a big bucket shop operator. >> host: roger, you had a follow up? >> caller: yes, if i may. i wonder, also, what role did organized crime play in the '60s election? my sense has been they really backed both sides to protect their cuban interests. >> guest: i haven't heard of organized crime being involved with the nixon campaign in any way, shape or form. the kennedy thing, there's a lot of stories about them bringing money into west virginia which i tend to diount simply because joe kennedy didn't need money. [laughter] he doesn't need 50,

but what they would do at bucket shops is they'd say you should buy anaconda copper or something. and it was designed that it was going to crash. it was going to go down. but they would never buy the stock. and then they would, they would pretend to buy it and then sell it back or just give you part of the proceeds. and rothstein would be involved in protecting these things which were protected, also, by tammany hall, which were protected by tom foley who was the patron of al smith and one of the big ball club owners, horace stoneham's father was a big bucket shop operator. >> host: roger, you had a follow up? >> caller: yes, if i may. i wonder, also, what role did organized crime play in the '60s election? my sense has been they really backed both sides to protect their cuban interests. >> guest: i haven't heard of organized crime being involved with the nixon campaign in any way, shape or form. the kennedy thing, there's a lot of stories about them bringing money into west virginia which i tend to discount simply because joe kennedy didn't need money. [laughter] he doesn't need

i grew up in anaconda, montana. it is in the heart of the state 's mining country.ed at the copper smelters. it was a tough and dangerous place where copper would boil at 1200 degrees. workers like my dad would throw their number in bucket as they arrived for their shift, and at the end of the day, they would hang it on a pegboard so their bodies would know they made it out safely. -- so there buddies would know they may get out safely. every day my dad threw that in the bucket, he did for his family, he did for his co- workers, he did it for his community, he did for his country. he passed away when i was in my 20's, before i decided to run for public office. with methat brass paieg through every campaign in montana. this number symbolizes the value of hard work and opportunity, and the importance of sticking together. we are ready to do the hard work. we are ready to work together. we are ready to reelect president barack obama. [cheers and applause] we must do it, because women deserve to make their own choices, and deserve to determine the course of their own li