it's a place called amazon gold and when you walk in, there's a sign 'compro 'ro' - i buy gold. as i exchanged my money there was a little scale right in front of me that had some gold dust on it from past exchanges. but the sign was removed as soon as our camera was spotted. puerton maldonado is also a place in transition - while many of its roads are still dirt paths - the new interoceanic highway has opened the area up to the wider world. >> people come from all over the country to work the gold fields here in madre de dios. >> luis fernandez directs the carnegie amazon mercury ecosystem project. he's been studying gold mining's toxic legacy in the amazon since 2000. so now miners have better access to the remote forest, they can get their equipment there, everything's easier because of that highway. >> everything's easier it's essentially part of the perfect storm that is madre de dios. so not only do you have a brand new highway that makes transport easier you have record high gold prices and the preexisting condition of extreme poverty. >> tell me about this illegal gold m

and back in 2005-2006 when amazon started offering prime, that really became the gold standard in termsf what consumers expect, in terms of getting products in two days reliability and without additional costs. and amazon has invested considerable amounts of capital in building out their distribution zphirs they're unrivaled in terms of their deliberation capacity today. this has -- is why program has become a popular program. it is somewhere in the order of 40 million prime subscribers today and that becomes the default mechanism for people to do their shopping. they know they'll get the package in two days. and they started ending their shopping process on amazon for that reason. cory: if i were selling on amazon, i would be worried that once i got successful, amazon would just take over my category and start taking on my own. that's not a concern that ebay merchants have. does that start to get real when businesses have scale? david: it's a legitimate concern and it has happened to sellers from time to time. the flip side is that's where the consumers are shopping. so, if you don't s

and back in 2005/2006 when amazon started offer prime, that really became the gold standard in terms of what consumers expect in terms of getting products in two days reliably and without additional costs. and amazon has invested considerable amounts of capital in building out their distribution centers and they're really unrivaled in terms of their distribution cast today. this is why prime has become such a popular program. our research indicates something on the order of 40 million prime subscribers today. so that becomes the default mechanism for people to do their online shopping because they already have an account with amazon they've got prime. they know they will get the package and two days and start and end their shopping process on amazon for that reason. cory: if i were selling on amazon, i would be worried if my business is focus, i would be worried once i got successful amazon would just take over my category and start selling on their own. that's not a concern ebay merchants have. does that start to get real when the business is selling on amazon half scale? >> it's a l

gold version. >> i'd go for the bottom end, i think on that one. good news for amazon and their drone delivery projects lifting off? >> good pun. they're taking to the skies on this one again. they already got permission a long while ago from the regulator to trial these things for research purposes but the original okay from the faa, it basically took so long that it became obsolete. now the federal aviation authorities said you can do these things and get them up to 400 feet high and 100 miles an hour but they have to be away from people. there is opposition to this. they said you have to have air traffic control on these things near densely populated areas. >> a whole new frontier in retail. thank you so much. have a great weekend. >> still ahead, more trouble for the secret service. a top-ranking official accused of assaulting a female subordinate. is it time for an outsider to come in and clean house, plus we're tracking the distruktive weather and bill karins will the tell us where the storms are headed next. >> beetles, millionaires before they were 30s and no l

amazon could be ten times that. a very interesting number to watch. >> for will. bertha coombs. let's look at what gold prices are up to. we are currently down for the fourth session in five sitting at 1199. as for the others let's look at silver and platinum. copper is moving to the downside. keep in mind we do get that weak data out of china which does have an influence on that metal. as for stocks as tyler mentioned, giving up big gains. what should investors be doing in the studio with me? christina hooper is strategist and global investors. the chief investment officer of oppenheimer funds. christina, earnings are kicking into higher gear and for the first time in six years, we are expecting a decline at the same time as it seems sitting around the highest in a decade. do you see that as an impediment or priced in? >> it's largely priced in. we have to understand that we have to look valuations differently in the context of such low rates. while we had a disappointing first quarter, it's a wash. in a lot of ways it has been written off and we need to look to the second quarter. >> what do you thin