in panama, on barro colorado island, an ecological preserve created through the making of the panama canal, stuart davies hopes to uncover somef the mysteries of a complex ecosystem -- the rainforest. man: i'm the director of the center for tropical forest science, which is a group who study the rainforests of the world. and we work together as one very large network to try to understand how rainforests function and how they're gonna change in the future. narrator: tropical rainforests are believed to be the oldest terrestrial ecosystems on earth. they are home to over 5 million known species of plants, animals, and insects, with millions more yet to be discovered. and trees play an essential role in the diversity of these intricate ecosystems. dr. davies: one famous ecologist said trees in tropical rainforests are like -- he called them the ecosystem engineers. what he meant by that is that they provide the habitat on which all these other organisms depend. so monkeys that live up in canopies of trees go extinct if you take the trees away. ants and termites -- they're gonna be absen

msnbc contributor josh barro.hanks for coming by. >>> the latest in conservatives' fight against obamacare, they're now trying to cancel health insurance plans for more than 100,000 americans in arkansas. and they might just be able to do it. next. >>> for many people, a cancelation notice means more than the loss of an insurance policy. it means losing access to the trusted doctors, pediatricians, nurses who care for their families. >> millions of americans across the country are receiving cancelation letters just like this one. >> they like their plan. some washington politicians shouldn't be able to say, i don't think it's good enough, so i'm going to take it from you. >> remember a few months ago when the republican party, the right-wing media and movement conservatives were apoplectic about people having their private insurance plans canceled? in the early days of obamacare implementation, private insurance companies were sending out letters telling people their plans didn't comply with the affordable care ac

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of cocktails have become a common sight in the hands of rioters medieval weapons like catapult and barros have also made a comeback they were badly growing death toll surged to one radicals got their hands on real firearms snipers and gunmen now this center of the capital in their sights but all this evidence of violence by the rise is not enough to sway western politicians the u.s. state department puts all the responsibility on the authorities imposing travel bans sanctions on some officials this follows similar statements from the e.u.'s high ranking officials however russia's foreign minister lavrov says they are forces have done all they can to prevent bloodshed. the ukrainian government has repeatedly shown its goodwill they offered compromises in deals like when they agreed to free those detained during the riots if the protesters vacated the administrative buildings they captured the government filled its obligations all the opposition eventually just ruptured the process. western countries are seeking to weaken the government in kiev by blaming it for violence and imposing sancti

now we're joined by josh barro. welcome. i want to pick up on that point. for putin, the games are a chance for him to reassert his international status. russia's a world power. but there's also plenty of, i think warranted scrutiny on his record at home. for example, human rights watch which says the kremlin treats foreign funded independent groups, lgbt people and migrants as though they were enemies of russia. russian authorities should acknowledge their contributions to society." so josh, how does putin walk this line and get what he wants out of this while a lot of the rest of the world wants to use this moment understandably as a chance to improve human rights in russia? >> i think he's going to try to talk about that as little as possible. i think that's why you get this line not just from the ioc, but also from the russians that this is supposed to be about sports and about the olympics and don't worry about these things. and there's a long tradition of these things. the soviets hosted the olympics in 1980. so it's not a new problem to figure out th

degree.r and mrs she very purposely moved into a part of austin which is still the barro of the eastide and taught at a middle east's -- at a mainly spanish-speaking school. can have impact on children helping them learn to read and exposing them to what they were not getting. that is a part that is really important. how yout to tell you could be involved with the program. three ways. we have a conversation going on facebook. using the picture of laura bush and you can join the conversation. you can tweet us. ts as we in as many twee can. or you can call. there are two phone lines. a question from twitter. i have a question about laura bush. was she out with a republican? -- i was a republican? >> i will say i'm not a fan of the muppets. no. i think she supported eugene mccarthy. she was a card-carrying democrat for many years and she married into republican family. she loves her husband and has great faith in him and his judgment. and supporting its platform. no, she is not a natural republican. set of relationships that his character throughout her lifetime is a group of girlfriend

. >>> detroit free press in addition to becoming the first female ceo of an automaker, mary barro newlyretired. gm released the figure ahead of schedule to dispel false report that is barra would be underpaid. >> i saw a tweet with a bunch of women holding chocolate hearts and saying for valentine's day they don't want chocolate. they want equal pay. >> equal pay. >> look at the bottom line. right? >> right. >> okay. the dallas morning news, pilots of u.s. commercial flights have either landed or nearly touched down at the wrong airport 150 times. >> it happens. it happens. >> yeah. >> if you're drunk while you're flying. >> oh, stop. the associated press report follows two high-profile landing mistakes. in some cases the pilots realized their error before making the final descent. most errors occur at night. most common troubled spot is san jose, california, where mistakes have occurred six times. >> and from the san diego union tribune, the first female to accuse former san diego mayor bob filner of sexual harassment has reached a settlement. former communication director will be rece

host: the two democrats who voted against raising the debt ceiling were jim barro of georgia and jimatheson of utah. districts --aning mitt romney won 67% of the vote in mr. matheson's district. those are the two democrats who republicansof the in voting no to extending the debt ceiling. in other news yesterday, washington post weighing in on the white house's decision to delay the employer mandate. the law is also a mandate. the obama administration selectively enforces the affordable care act. , during his press conference with the french about the talked decision to delay the health care mandate. here's what he had to say. [video clip] >> it was simply to make an adjustment in terms of their for many ofbecause, these companies, just the betweenof complying 50-100 folks, it may take some time even if they are operating in good faith. we want to make sure that the purpose of the laws not to punish them. it is to make sure that they are either providing health insurance to their employees or is that they are helping to bear of their employees getting health insurance. the vast majori