team of researchers who are using science to save the macaws why study because our very special anna monica there and mary intelligent and yet they face a lot of threats and their habitats today's mission takes is deep into the reserves for those threads are constantly mad play where in the middle of the breeding season tumbled. potter is essentially a giant laboratory in the wild six species of macaws inhabited this thousand plus where miles of rain forest rain is a constant in winter but too much rain can be a problem. today we're going to see how a pair of two week old mccutcheon acts are fairing the odds are against both of them survived examining the chicks is a delicate and daring operation. one lead veterinarian elizabeth pore through gives lou you know presents for the chick exams on the ground any hawkinson gets ready to climb to their nest above i don't like heights but with nest close to one hundred feet up the team has no choice but to cause i'm. because like deep cavities high up in old growth trees those spots are hard to come by even in a protective force like. this scarcity

i'm monica in new yo anna cabre. these images coming out of syria right now are heartbreaking. adults and children dead and dying. the victims of what witnesses with calling a poisonous gas or chemical attack that happened today just outside of the capital, damascus. we're about to show you some very horrific images. let me warn you, they are very graphic. this is in the town of duma, a suburb of damascus. people we are in contact with there say those still alive after the attack, including women and children, are paralyzed, convulsing and showing signs of being exposed to chemical agents. this is a residential area, not a battlefield, and the victims are innocent civilians. let's go tolive right now to frederik pleitigen. how far are you from the scene of this horror? what happened? >> reporter: we're about, i'd say, eight miles away from where this all took place earlier this evening. in fact, we've actually been seeing some air strikes that have been going down in that duma area, just outside of damascus, earlier today. what we're hearing from there, apparently, around 8:22

i'm monica in new yo anna cabre. these images coming out of syria right now are heartbreaking.and dying. the victims of what witnesses with calling a poisonous gas or chemical attack that happened today just outside of the capital, damascus. we're about to show you some very horrific images. let me warn you, they are very