join me philippe cousteau, as we explore ecosystems, on awesome planet.

and this week on awesome planet we'll explore how they're developing clean, renewable energy for the future. (upbeat music) can you imagine a world where all our energy needs are met without polluting our atmosphere? science and technology are inching closer to making this happen. it's pretty exciting. join me, philippe cousteau, as we look at what's being done to assure a safe and healthy future on awesome planet. (upbeat music)

. - welcome to awesome planet. i'm philippe cousteau. our earth continues to evolve everyday but oftentimes in subtle ways that most of us don't even recognize. but every once in a while, a major event reminds us of the raw power of mother nature. (uptempo music) in this episode, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis. we're talking biology, we're talking geology, we're talking history. join me, philippe cousteau, as we explore our rumbling earth on awesome planet. (uptempo music)

voiceover] join me, philippe cousteau, as we explore the possibilities of extinction earth, on awesome planetanet earth provides an ideal habitat for life. the temperatures are tolerable, the air is rich in oxygen, and fresh water can be found in abundance.

and this week on awesome planet we'll explore how they're developing clean, renewable energy for theergy needs are met without polluting our atmosphere? science and technology are inching closer to making this happen. it's pretty exciting. join me, philippe cousteau, as we look at what's being done to assure a safe and healthy future on awesome planet. (upbeat music) there are about seven billion people in the world today. and most of the electricity we consume

join me, philippe cousteau, as we explore our rumbling earth on awesome planet. it's a phenomenon to behold but a volcano is how planet earth releases pressure and cools off inside.

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awesome! how does it feel like to have basically the coolest guy on the planet to say you're the coolest guy in the room? >> it was just so, like, amazing. it was really great. >> you're the coolest dude here. >> some from around the world. the first one comes from brighton in australia where a dutch tourist is in a wheelchair. this is where he starts rolling backwards. in the end, he falls into the trap. immediately, a young girl runs over to help. there is some urgency as a train was due any minute. they lifted his chair up first. they lifted him out as well. fortunately, everyone was okay. he only suffered minor neck and minor arm injuries. >> thank goodness there were other people waiting for this train. sounds like he wasn't paying attention. like he was distragted by something else. >> fortunately, everything ended up okay. a t-shape d thing. it's a meat grinder. they've actually got another version. how are we going to help this child get out? they actually get a small circular saw here and they're pouring water to keep the temperature down because the friction of the metal on the metal

awesome! >> how does it feel like to have basically the coolest guy on the planet say you're the coolest guy in the room. >> it was so like amazing. it was really great. >> you're the coolest dude here. >> these videos are coming to us from russia. the first is a dashcam of a car waiting at an intersection. you can see him waiting and the police coming towards him. the car goes by. what was that? >> that was the 22-year-old police sergeant on the front of that car. they stopped him, were going to check his documents. the guy fought him, ends up on it for half a mile before they stop him. turns out the police sergeant was okay. this request guy was banned from driving for drunk driving. he's been busted over 10 times for various driving like this. >> there's something wrong with the system. he needs to be locked up. >> they have a hold of him now. >> this is an intense car chase. going through industrial roads. almost took him out. another pedestrian right there. consider we're on the snow if this guy gets in trouble. he's taking a right hand turn. he fish tails. it's icy he keeps going. >> peop

awesome. courage. b. >> tonight on the profit... good morning, i'm marcus. >> nice to meet you. >> i go inside planet popcorn, a multimillion-dollar popcornsney contract. the problem is they don't have any real profits to show for it. you guys are in trouble. the balance sheet is hundreds of thousands of dollars wrong. mismanagement and sloppy accounting have forced the owner to ask her mother to take out a second mortgage on her home just to keep the doors open. obviously, you used the petty cash to buy lottery tickets. >> i did. >> the product is great, and if i can get sharla to listen long enough, i'll turn this unfocused organization into a national brand. my name is marcus lemonis, and i fix failing businesses. if you think that i can launch you in a direction to make you a profit, then you should do a

planet sometime after 2030. but there's lots to do and test before hand. today was only the first step. on board cameras provided a rare awesome. there's excitement from those working on this launch especially since the launch yesterday had to be scrapped. lockheed martin in sunnyvale made the 14-foot panels that protected orion's climb into space. the journey is expected to end around 8:30 this morning with an old fashioned flash down in the pacific ocean, about 600 miles west of baja california and mexico. they called this the ultimate destination of his generation. but he said his granddaughters reminded him don't get so hung up on mars there are other places to go. >> if we got to mars that would still be a pretty substantial plushment. >> mars. who cares about mars. >> the job numbers, even the most optimist being numbers didn't predict this. >> what a number it was, 321,000 jobs added montana month of november. unemployment rate generally speaking sticks at 5.8%. you can measure that in all kind of different ways by race and by age but that number will change. in general we were talking earlier that they would revise the