the highway was overrun with butterflies. butterflies everywhere. one on his head.for the 45-minute journey to the top. we're going up. our trip is easy compared to the butterflies. their is one of the greatest migrations. in the fall, over 300,000 of them fly from various parts in north america to one tiny point. the trip is nearly 3,000 miles. the butterflies do it in a month. they've been going to the same exact place, every winter, for 10,000 years. but why? and how do they know how to get here? national geographic's scientists figured out that the monarch has two internal gpss that track sun and time. the latest idea, outfitting them with tracking devices. >> they're programmed to follow and respond to cues. the trick for us is to try to figure out what are the cues. >> reporter: they've dedicated their lives to figuring them out. as north america develops, the mon arnlgs are disappearing. the habitat that the graceful inse insect thrives on is dwindling. >> we're losing acres every year. an astounding amount of habitat to turn into concrete. >> reporter: the t

the butterflies do it in a month.ery winter, for 10,000 years. but why? and how do they know how to get here? "national geographic" followed scientists that figured out that the monarch has two internal gpss that track sun and time. the latest break through? outfitting the butterflies with tracking devices. >> they're programmed to follow and respond to certain physical cues. the trick for us is to try to figure out what are the cues. >> reporter: they've dedicated their lives to figuring them out. as north america develops, the monarch is in danger. milkweed, the plant they use to lay their eggs is disappearing. and the habitat they thrive on is being eliminated. >> we're losing 6,000 acres a day in this country due to development. that's 2.2 million acres a year. an astounding amount of habitat to turn into concrete. >> reporter: the threat is always present. that's why they're so protective of this sanctuary. now we have made it to the top. this is where millions of butterflies come every year. the trees up here so

you are with the butterflies. [ laughter ] >> reporter: you are in the room with the butterflies.are you able to do this? there's just the season that you do it, right? >> right. from may through september. >> reporter: but you have to have a special permit and special setup. >> from the usda. and also, from the maryland department of the environment. they allow us to import our butterflies. that can be from another state in the united states or from other countries. so when you see a butterfly that's from costa rica, it is actually from costa rica and it's come here on a plane as a chrysalis. >> reporter: the average life- span of a butterfly is two weeks? >> yes. >> reporter: one of the things you do is release the butterflies? >> these imported species are kept in a separate room to protect -- to make sure that no parasites or diseases or anything comes -- if it comes with them, it's going to stay in that room and we candice infect. any butterfly that emerges from its chrysalis gets put into a transport cage and brought into the exhibit and hopefully they will warm up here. the

there's a lot of butterflies. it's amazing. >> there's a male and a female and now another male in there. >> reporter: leah studies insects for the u.s. forest service. she says pine butterflies die shortly after laying eggs. >> last year all the ones that i saw on this forest were covered with pine butterflies. all that white color, it's all butterflies. i've not seen anything like this, at least historically. they've never lasted more than three or four years. >> reporter: pine butterflies live and die here naturally in the blue mountains. this is a butterfly only found in the pacific northwest. in a typical year, just a few flit around the tops of the ponderosa pines. but for just a few extraordinary years their numbers explode. >> the largest recorded outbreak of pine butterflies in the blue mountains ever is a continuous swarm, you know, not just around trees but all between the trees, on the highways. they're everywhere. if you look around here you will see millions right now right around us. it's some astro

now we'd like to sing a pretty little song called love is like a butterfly with miss dolly parton.se) dolly, ordinarily you'd play the guitar but -- >> i can't because my nails are too long for this particular guitar. so can you just struggle through it? >> stephen: no i cannot. (laughter) >> would you try? >> stephen: we'll start the song without guitar and i'll jump in with the guitar and good lord jesus help us. (laughter) >> pray for us. ♪ love is like a --. >> stephen: wait, wait. ♪ love is like a butterfly ♪ as soft and gentle as a sigh ♪ the multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings ♪ love makes your heart feel strange inside ♪ it flutters like soft wings in flight ♪ love is like a butterfly ♪ a rare and gentle thing ♪ i feel it when you're with me it happens when you kiss me that rare and gentle feeling ♪ that i feel inside your touch is soft and gentle ♪ your kiss is warm and tender ♪ wherever i am with you i think of butterflies note? ready? ♪ love is like a butterfly, as soft and gentle as a high, a multicolored moods of love ♪ are like its satin wings. ♪ love

and these butterflies may be on to something bigger than even massachusetts.get the story tonight from our chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson. >> reporter: in this lush garden of verbena, butterflies that have long called massachusetts home -- >> three american ladies. >> reporter: -- are making way for an influx of butterflies from the south, like fiery skippers. until recently, more likely to light in florida and texas than new england. >> we call them accidentals. in the old days, you would see perhaps one or two fiery skippers, and now you see dozens. >> reporter: the shift of southern butterflies to the increasingly warmer north is detailed in the journal nature. harvard professor greg breed is the study's lead scientist. >> we see the species that are more adapted to warmer clients are increasing, and species that are adapting to colder climates are decreasing. it seems sensible to infer that this is some climate driven pattern. >> reporter: is it climate change? >> that would be the most logical inference. >> reporter: the study is

>> you mean the butterfly effect? nah. [ thunder rumbles ] >> a butterfly flapping its wings in china causing a hurricane over florida might be a stretch, but mathematically, well, as we've seen, anything's possible. and maybe that butterfly is the right metaphor for mathematics and mathematicians. small discoveries over time as well as the big ones, amplified through history, done by some of the greatest thinkers of all time: pythagoras to euclid, newton, poincare, lorenz, and countless others wse journeys travel amazing intellectual trajectories through history. and with chaos, we've just begun to explore the unpredictable, on our way to perhaps discovering other superhighways of knowledge that might someday lead us to the end of the unknown. captions by lns captioning portland, oregon www.lnscaptioning.com >> for information about this and other annenberg media programs, call... and visit us at...

. >> and monarch butterflies on the move in the bay area. the news continues in one minute. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> westbound highway 24 blocked well into the afternoon. it happened when a truck carrying scrap metal jackknifed around 1:30. traffic crawled alngt shoulder. there are no reports of any major injuries. the cause of the accident is under investigation. >> jerry hill introduced new bills designed to improve the safety of gas pipelines. one requiring utility companies to implement all recommendations in the wake of the deadly disaster. and enough to establish a program for employees who disclose public safety concerns and the third would. >> they were gambling with public safety. less money spent on safety inspections meant more money for profits. this culture of profits over safety needs to chaimpblgt. >> the lij slaigs is in response to two exowe plogss blamed on pg&e. first a blast so huge, killing eight people in september, 2010. natural gas line explosion destroying a town house in cuperti

death of the butterfly catcher, butterfly flies away. so is god it. beginning, and, title, will ball of? i love to write. i'm very passionate about it. but the main reason i write books for kids and i have a bunch of serious about some kids who fly and hopefully universal is going to make a movie. they have a script a great producer. who knows. write them a letter. that's universal studios -- tell them what a great amusement park ride it will be. who would want to go on not? and middle-school, the worst years of my life, if you have kids or grandkids or nieces and whatever, it's a really good series for kids i say may be seven to 13 or so. it's funny and they're illustrated and i'm really proud of those books. this december of another book of middle-school age called unfunny. it's also illustrated in it's about a kid who decides he wants to be a standup comedian so he memorizes every joke in the history mankind and studies every comedian and it's a pretty fun book. the reason i write books for kids is as individuals coming in no come as individuals we

it has twice the allowed level of radioactivity. >> we are studying how radiation affects butterflies. they have life cycles of just one month so we can quickly determine how the effects of radiation are passed from generation to generation. >> the japanese island of okinawa, 2,000 kilometers south of fukushima. here at the university, the team of butterfly researchers are completing their data. >> the malformed wings standout as to the feelers, legs, and eyes. >> half of all butterflies showed genetic damage, but they're cautious about drawing connections to the population. there is only one course of action. >> no one should underestimate the risks which are irreversible. >> the scientists also read the butterflies in their laboratory and made a remarkable discovery. they became more resistant to radiation from generation to generation. that's positive news, but the long-term effects for humans are still on known. -- unknown. >> this is said to be the fastest time. >> a victory would put the defending world champ ahead of fernand go alonso. the for our rig driver leads by four point

when it is a butterfly, is it knowns a spice bush swallow tail butterfly. >> absolutely.he mimicry doesn't stop as a caterpillar. it resemble as a pipe vine swallow tail butterfly. the spice bush swallow tail butt are fly is perfectly good to eat. but a pipe vine swallow tail is a nasty tasting butt are fly. so any bird that will have taste ad pipe vine swallow tail butterfly first would never touch a spice bush swallow tail butterfly so really cool stuff here. >> that is really great. we love having you on. you have some great information and great stuff. dr.jim fredericks, thank you very much for joining us once again and i'm sure we will talk to you again. great information. >> it was great fun. i hook forward to talking to you guys again. >> dr. jim. and jasmine, thank you for the question and the picture. that helped a lot. >> if you have a question you want answered, go to myfoxdc.com and click on the weather tab. there you have it. >> very good. >> let's check in with julie wright and get the latest on traffic. >> okay. creepy crawly bugs. >> but amazing. >> all ri

that's how we teach them to look at butterflies. because there are a bunch of legs, watch the execution. >> you hit it when you said you're threading the needle here. one thing about butterflies, and dan has used these effectively in the past. this is longer dated. the longer dated they are, the less likely it's going to run right to the full maximizing value of that butterfly. that's one of the trickier elements. the other quick thing i would say is i don't think the issue on trading profits has been fully resolved yet. i think they have challenges trying to restore that in terms of their revenue stream. i'm a bit skeptical there. that said, the stock is still trading at less than one times. that has been a great time to buy. just not lately. there's been two periods of time when you haven't been able to own the stock there. this is one of them. >> dan, would you consider the structure for another stock that has had a tremendous run. >> i think b that's a great idea. maybe i would look to a butterfly with these other guys. goldman'

butterflies. >> that is ten times the year before? >> more than we've had in the past ten years. >> it's possible last year's rainfall caused a spike in the growth of milk weed plant where they lay eggs. this will hatch in a caterpillar that will eat nonstop for 15 days. >> you have whole put butterfly in that tiny space. >> most only live in few weeks but one generation will live for six months my grating across the country. they have come as far east as the rocky mountains and as far north as british columbia. >> they need trees that shielded from the wind. they don't go looking for it. they seem to know where it is. >> they have never been here before. they've never seen any butterflies coming here but they find their way. >> they come from all over the it tells a story far bigger. >> monarch butterfly is an indicator of a healthy environment. it shows that things are going well. >> reporter: in february they will head back out across the country to lay their eggs and let the cycle begin again. >> they will not return here bul retu

which included butterfly smuggling of endangered butterfly species and thousands of dollars changing hands. that's why i have this butterfly pin on my lapel, because that evening here at village books changed my life. i wrote the book, "the dangerous world of butterflies," which opened up the world of strange things that go on with animals to me. and followed it with a book that i -- and came back here and talked about it, and then followed it with a book about so-called exotic pets. and i was here last year talking about that book, "forbidden creatures." and learned about the kinds of people that, well, i'm sure many of you remember just a few weeks ago the case in ohio where one of these types of people that find it appropriate and valuable to them for some reason and reasons that i had learned about collecting, obsessive collecting, a desire to attempt the to show that they're able to control something that could potentially kill them, scare others as in the case with drug dealers. often these drug kingpins will have private zoos, but also moguls in business. will yang randolph he

real.mmtant butterflies are on the loose.butterflies with wings. scientist discovered these creatures on the east coast of japan.they're believed to be created from the radiation of the fukushima nuclear power plant . the plant was slammed 17 months ago by a giant tsunami that devastated the coast. researcher joji otaki says there shouldn't be any concern about mutations in humans. otaki adds that humans should be faa more resistant to radiation, but that's what you'd expect them to say... and a final update for ur dish customers. still... no agreement ...at this hour ... between our parent company... p sinclair broadcast group ... and... dish network..../ sinclair... which... owns this station... and... dish network ... have been negotiating... a new contract ... to... give dish... the right... to broadcast our programming....//. the... current deal... expires tonight at 2am...//. if... no deal's... reached.../ our... signal on dish... will go dark...//. dish... customers... do have other options./..you... can watch our signal free... over availab

>> monarch butterflies, they are here in record numbers.onathan bloom explains the big surge and why they are one of nature's great mysteries. >> at first glance they look like clumps of trees. >> there is a cluster there. there is right one above us there. >> look close think you will see the biggest population of monarch butterflies. >> we had 4188 butterflies. >> that is ten times the year before? >> right and more than we've had in the past ten years. >> they say last year's rainfall caused a spike of milk weed plant. >> this is eaten away. >> they will eat nonstop for 15 days. >> you have a whole butterfly in that tiny space. >> most only live a few weeks but one generation will live for six months, migrating across the country to where the climate is just right. they have come from as far east as iraqi mountains. >> they need a ring of trees that is shielded from the wind but just enough sunlight. they don't go looking for it but they seem to know where it is. >> they've never been here before. they've never seen any butterflies comin

months after the fukushima disaster scientists collected more than one hundred butterflies around the site and studies now show that twelve percent of them had abnormalities or mutations when those butterflies mated the mutation rate of their offspring rose to eighteen percent and when the offspring mated with healthy butterflies the abnormal abnormality rate rose to thirty four percent six months after the disaster researchers collected more butterflies showing an abnormality rate of fifty two percent of that group's offspring you can insert a joke here but seriously more troubling is that butterflies weren't the only species hanging around fukushima when it went into crisis humans were too and in the coming years and decades we could witness the human toll that this nuclear crisis has taken in the nation of japan we need to begin building a new world a world free from nuclear power no nukes. and now it's time for tonight's the good the bad and the very very lucrative lucrative ugly the good governor pat quinn while conservatives like paul ryan are working hard to tear apart unions a

and being relocated but that the letter not to wipe pregnant butterfat butterflies the direction our homes and set up somewhere else. >>> i wanted to share with you those clouds on sunset tonight there are increasing across the horizon because those types of clouds are indicative of an approaching storm. the rain and the timing as eyewitness news continues. third neighbors don't like the sign cell in martinez lawn could be forced to take it down. some people don't like seeing the words slice or laos are in the salon signs and banners for they also don't like seeing images of the insect said tonight the city council is looking over a plan to permanently remove those words and images use among cars are the bay area's special license plates for keeping tall green or supporting fire fighters. now a special place for place for pet lovers is closer to approval 7500 e. to be sold before the dmv and it makes an official actor pierce brosnan and tvs the dog whisper all appeared today at texas stores to promote the plates and new programs. an expansion of that program was cut to explain how wo

it brings butterflies around.bees and stuff like that. it just gives you something nice to come outside to look at instead of just the barbed wires all the time. i love flowers because my mother raised me up like always digging up in her yard and planting flowers. it stuck with me right there. these make me feel good about myself even though i'm incarcerated that i'm still doing some of the things i enjoy doing. flowers are a sign of life. got such a good smell to it. i just love that. >> life on the inside can change in an instant. ♪ and you spread your wings >> when we last saw anthony patterson, his musical corroboration was suddenly interrupted by an apparent bad decision, directed at our producer. >> he accused me of rule 38, that's indecent exposure. >> she didn't see it. he saw it. >> you had your penis out indecently exposed. you were urinating. >> i was coming back up on "d" side, i observed patterson masturbating on you, after you were standing there talking to him five minutes earlier. you don't have to

effect. >> first butterfly of the season. kind of warms your heart, don't you think? hey, did i ever tell you about how chaos theory's connected to heart dynamics? >> think it's going to rain? >> feels humid, all right. good air for a knuckleball. >> that wouldn't have anything to do with turbulence, would it? >> well, a ball that spins, say, a fastball, if thrown correct, can take a more predictable, uh, newtonian path as it moves through the air. >> but a ball that doesn't spin? >> well, that's where celestial mechanics meets chaos theory. >> baseball and mathematics, two great american pastimes. so we're here today with steve strogatz, author of the book nonlinear dynamics in chaos and also a professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at cornell university. and steve's going to help us make sense out of chaos on the baseball field. steve, ready? >> hey, you know, your friends pops and red are having a pretty interesting conversation out there. >> they're quite the grizzled old philosophers. >> so the thing about a knuc

did you have a favorite butterfly? >> no. >> reporter: just like them all flying around, right, it was pretty cool. all right, what but? >> the butterflies. they're all different times. >> can you show us the hula hoop? >> reporter: come out on family day on saturday, it's free. bring canned food items or non- perishable food items to donate to a local charity. we'll have more "fox 5 morning news" when we come back. you go, man. i like it. this messa ge. tt romney's position on women's health...it's dangerous. vo:mitt romney and paul ryan would get rid of planned parenthood funding. and allow employers to deny coverage for cancer screenings and birth control. we can't afford to let him take away our choices... to take away basic health care. vo: both backed proposals to outlaw abortions...even in cases of rape and incest. i don't think that women's health issues have faced a crisis like this in decades. head north, to someplace pristine tional park. there is nothing like the parks this time of year. the falling leaves,

a butterfly once listed as endangered in the bay area making a comeback with a little bit of help from humans. naturalists are helping the move from the san bruno mountain to sentences was 26. patrick is here with how this should help replenish the population. >> this is a species that was recognized as endangered in the '70s. >> the mission blue butterfly moving back to 26. with a little help from sf parks. >> we're looking for pregnant females to bring it to 26. and then when they arrive in 2010 it will deposit their eggs. >> there were discovered in san fransisco but over time the endangered species has depleted. so they're imported. >> we're trying to capture butterflies from the san bruno mountain and bring them to san fransisco, 26, or they used to occur in a large population. >> what happened to them? a multitude of modern-day threats have taken their toll. >> it is a combination of loss of habitat, development, to some extent other fungal pathogens and other things that affect butterflies. >> they will be out here five or six more times over the next few weeks. today's fall was

. >> reporter: god was there he says and he soared on the wing of a butterfly with a beautiful young woman as his companion and the young woman gave him a message to take back from heaven. >> you are loved. you are cherished. there is nothing you have to fear. there is nothing you can do wrong. >> reporter: it's a beautiful vision. but heaven? >> a lot of people are going to say, doctor, it was a hallucination. your brain was zapped by this disease. all the wires got crossed and you saw a girl on a butterfly wing and spinning up in a melody. >> i know this was not a hallucination, not a dream, not what we call a con fablation. i know it really occurred and it occurred outside of my brain. >> reporter: but how? how can he even suggest that much lest complain claim that his experience is proof of heaven as he has called his new book. he showed us his brain scan. >> it was no it leaving any part of my cortex unaffected. >> reporter: so your conclusion is because all of this outer area which is the higher functioning was covered with the infection, what you experienced in the coma wasn't

>> butterflies are everywhere in nab bark cough's book. >> he caught butterflies. in one of his lectures he talks about the passion of the scientist and the precision of a poet. he says do i make a mistake is it the precision of the scientist and passion of the poet? he says no. i don't. books of great science and literature have to be precise and passionate. >> you are quite passionate in your obvious fascination with him and did you read ada? >> that was the first book i read. >> did you understand that book? >> you know, i like unlike anybody else, i read that book as a fairytale. i was very young when i read ada in the 70s and one of the first people i fell in love gave it to me. >> you think it's as difficult to understand as joyce you'll lille sees -- ulises? >> not as difficult but it has so many layers and allusions. >> you have something in common with my wife because she's fascinated by nab barb cough and add da. >> -- ada works on so many levels. on one level it's very deceptive because it's fairy tale -- fairy tale lish. >> do you think nab bark cough w

they're removing the evidence put in grasslands for insects and butterflies. they're destroying the habitat that is currently in place for our animals now live. at the glen park improvement meetings, the consensus was that we wanted our park kept while. instead, they are removing the wild and creating a sarsgaard and landscape, reducing the wildness that we said we wanted. these occurred -- the so-called habitat restoration is deceptive. with these terms involve is a tree and forced and thicket removal to become grasslands. in the process of this destruction, they're using more and more toxic pesticides. usage has increased 300%. unknown to most people to maintain the butterfly habitat, it requires the use of this parade on toxic chemicals over four months. recent butterfly count was only 17. thank you. >> betsy and newton. >> good morning. my name is tim. i am a citizen of san francisco. i pay property taxes, and i vote. i am here to express my concern about the bond measure. i have always voted for every bond measure for recreation and parks since i have bee

>> butterflies are everywhere in nab bark cough's book. >> he caught butterflies. in one of his lectures he talks about the passion of the scientist and the precision of a poet. he says do i make a mistake is it the precision of the scientist and passion of the poet? he says no. i don't. books of great science and literature have to be precise and passionate. >> you are quite passionate in your obvious fascination with him and did you read ada? >> that was the first book i read. >> did you understand that book? >> you know, i like unlike anybody else, i read that book as a fairytale. i was very young when i read ada in the 70s and one of the first people i fell in love gave it to me. >> you think it's as difficult to understand as joyce you'll lille sees -- ulises? >> not as difficult but it has so many layers and allusions. >> you have something in common with my wife because she's fascinated by nab barb cough and add da. >> -- ada works on so many levels. on one level it's very deceptive because it's fairy tale -- fairy tale lish. >> do you think nab bark cough w