you know, becacause i wake up so early to feed them, i wake up at 5:00 in the mornrning.hen it is time to release them, i am so sorry but i am feeling so sad. reporter: las cuevas is the first stop on hannah's itinerary today. the project is run by friends of conservation and development. hannah is impressed. >> it's a beautiful cage. who built it? >> myselelf. reportrter: but the cage is onla stopgap solution. if the birdnests in the jungle were better protected, it wouldn't be neccessary. chico: if we have the enough funds, yeses, we could tryry top them more in the wild. i know that t it is very dififft to find the funds, but i it's nt impossible to get it, you know. reporter: these scarlet macaws will soon be leaving their comfortable home. then they'll have to look after themselves. protecting wildlife in the chiquibul forest makes not just environmental, but also economic sense. hannah st. luce martinez: anything that occurs or affects our national resources, affects our economy. because tourists are attracted to the green and the biodiversity that we have as a coun

becacause of this, somome place could see 200 millimeters of rarainfall and flooding could ba bit of an issue. for those of you living in the area, make suree you are prepard and keep paying attention because as we go throughout thursday, friday and maybe even into saturday as the system continues to move its way towards the west, it could be a bit of an issue. now, moving back towards north america, we're looking at the busiest travel day of the holiday season. taking place wednesday. we have a little bit of a potential travel issue because of low pressure system that is coming out of the central plains and that is bringing in some busy, stormy activity possible as we go throughout the day on wednesday. and that's going to be a bit of an issue for those trying to travel through places like m minneapolis and chicago. snow is possible further up to the north and thunderstorms and snow c concerns over to the rockies and into the pacific northwest we're looking at some wet weather. some thunderstorms possible down to the deep south. some of them may be strong. that's also a bit of a pos

the e claim thatat nuclear e eny is enviroronmentally greenn isis just simplyly a myth, becacause theyre ononly lookig at the cararbon dioxidide relead at the e reactor ititself our coununtry has jujust been bamboozled with ththis. for them to consider building new mills and creating new spots like this, this really, i think, emphasizes the hidden costs that the people in the country never see that have to do with nuclear energy. >>> rather b be out minining than harvrvesting t tomatoes. frustration doesn't even come close to describing how we feel about our lives and our choices being taken away from us. whwhen you've been out of work, your unemployment's running out, your savings is gone, your wife and your kikids are gone, people are getting very, very angry. if the economy falters any more, if peopople don't realilize that nuclear is our best option, telluridide keeps fighti u us tooth and nail, it might not happen, period. and i really hope i'm wrong. >> my hope for the film is that audiences who see the film understand that it's really not a simple issue. when n we'rere talking g

. >> i can't even explain to you becacause you don't rereally - i guess you don't expect those kikindsf wounds happeneg when they're not in combat. it felt like a combat wound. it looked like it was a combat wound. she had shrapnel wounds. she did not have burns. her arm was split open. her skin -- her flesh was ripped off of her arm. her bones were broken. nermeen: the morton county sheriff's department is claiming the police are not responsible for injuryy and that concussion grenades were not used duringng the police attack. for morere we are joined by sophia's father waynyne wilansky. thank you for joining us on democracy now! could you tell us, first off, how your daughter sophiaia is now? >> she is resting. she had a second surgery yesterday so they could try to clean out the open wound. she still has an opening from her elbow to her wrist. there is no flesh there. she is resting comfortably. she will have a third surgery on friday. nermeen: what about your response to the claims made by the morton county sheriff's department that they were not -- the e police were nonot response

officialas for war crimes, even though the united states is not a member of the court becacause e crimes were allegedly committed within afghanistan, which is a member of the icc. wikileaks co-founder julian assange was questioned monday by a swedish prosecutor at the ecuadorian embassy in london where he has been holed up for more than four years over allegations of sexual misconduct, although charges have never been filed. the questioning could last as many as three days. assange's swedish lawyer, per samuelson, says he has so far been prohibited from attending the interviews. assange has been confined to the ecuadorean embassy, fearing that if he were to attempt to leave, he would be arrested by british police and ultimately extradited to the united states where it is believed there is a sealed indictment against him over wikileaks' release of documents. and the award-winning journalist and news anchor gwen ifill has died of cancer at the age of 61. 1999, gwen ifill became the first african-american woman to host a major national political talk show when she took the helm of "washingt