adam britton a whole new understanding of crocodiles and their underwater world. >> britton: you're in got the current washing over you. you can feel the changes in temperature. and you suddenly think, "this is what it's like to be a crocodile. this crocodile is... is experiencing these same things." >> cooper: britton has actually begun to take dna samples from crocodiles underwater, cutting off pieces of their tails. and, incredibly, they don't seem to mind. diving with nile crocodiles is only possible in the winter months when the water is chilly and the animals are sluggish. these cold-blooded reptiles are far too dangerous to dive with in the summer. >> bestelink: the crocs are much more active. they're much more inclined to want to predate. you know, i don't... i don't... >> cooper: predate? attack? >> bestelink: attack, yeah. they... they... they want to go and eat something. >> cooper: so, two months from now, three months from now, you would not dive in these waters. >> bestelink: no. no. no, and i don't. i don't want to die. make no mistake, i do this because i get an underst

which gets to the question of letters, why doesn't nann britton have those letters? did she destroy them? that leads to another question, not about her, but this occurred to me two days ago. if they pay off carrie phillips, where we know an affair happened, if they pay her off, why doesn't she turned those letters back? this is a botched payoff attempt. if i am giving you $5,000 a year or sending you to japan, i want the letters. at one point she in -- offered to give them. but getting back to nan britton, we see that admin starling, who has no particular grudge against hardy, says he is the kindest man he ever met. he was a secret service man and said harding is not a drinker. he says he was asked to carry letters to new york secretly from harding. some other agents did carry those letters and some other agent brought someone back from new york. we have that level of proof. we also have certain things which corroborated from the letters of phillips, to harding from mrs. phillips. i have heard one historians say somehow she got asked after the letters, that is too fa

it runs underneath britton avenue here. this is a residential neighborhood. pg&e says the line was tested two years ago and it is safe, but many people who live here still have their doubts. >> this is a sad christmas present for san carlos. >> reporter: san carlos mayor says he was not surprised, but very disappointed, that the california public utilities commission today voted 5-0 to allow line 147 to operate at its maximum allowable pressure of 330 pounds per square inch. the line, which runs along britton avenue between highway 101 and i-280 has been operating at a lower pressure recently after an engineer expressed concerns there could be the another, quote, san bruno situation. >> we believe that the pipeline has some serious unknowns associated with it. there's about a mile worth of this pipeline that's a mile out of four miles, roughly, that nobody knows what's underground. >> i don't think anybody really has their arms around what the truth is. >> reporter: christian rhodes lives with his wife and children on britton avenue. despite reassurances from

. >> as i mentioned, probably the most dangerous crisis of the war with britton, came in late 1861, a union naval captain intercepted the british mail package in the caribbean, took a couple confederate diplomats off the ship, sent them to a prison on the east coast, sent the ship on its way and his creative indignation in britain who threatened to war if the diplomats were not released and the ultimate resolution of this, don't want to spoil it, it is a chapter in the book about lincoln backed down, released the diplomats. and war was avoided. one of the interesting things about this affair is the length of time it took for news to cross the atlantic. we take it for granted today that we instantly know what is going on in tehran or moscow or whatever but that wasn't the case in the mid-19th century and there was an interesting dynamic going on, the telegraph in north america, you could flash bulletins from place to place in north america and get your news instantaneously. that is relatively new. the trans-atlantic telegraph was still not yet working so it took a week, ten days or lon

so keep is in london's lecture equal to one seemed to bolster brandy britton on his visit. the trick for this trip is also to encourage chinese so that it applied to all of you that come in and see what else would the witch which is based around the seventh of cussing edge about six a side single vial what happened. i missed it this white to chinese is an unabashed sales pitch the company by more than a hundred business revisits the biggest trade mission in multan the sign in british history. the anime to redress the trade balance that heavily favors china. in short the british economy needs exports. according to bank of england governor mark carney the uk is resurgent economic growth is overly reliant on consumer spending and consequent house all day the concert is where this could go of at least the short term momentum and we're starting from relatively high levels of valuation and inventiveness of us all. that's that those those of intelligence wing and shine that cameron will be building on the success last month of the visit by britain's counter the expected george osb

the president leaned in for this selfy with david cameron of britton and the president of the netherlands. the mirror newspaper notes to the right, the first lady michelle obama does not look too amused. >>> a fox news reporter will not be forced to reveal her sources or go to jail for a story about last year's colorado theater massacre. new york's top court ruled today that jana winter is protected by the state's shield law. it refused to recognize a colorado court's effort to force her to testify on who told her about a note book sent by james holmes to his psychiatrist. fox news chairman and ceo roger ales said it is not just about this channel. >> today's ruling is a major win for all journalists. the protection of jana winter's confidential sources was necessary to preserve and protect journalism and democracy itself, in my view. so the highest court in new york did the right thing. >> more snow and wintry weather here in washington and much of the northeast tonight. many federal workers and school children were given the day off. snow accumulations of up to six inches expected in ba

. >> reporter: just 20 feet away, below britton street is pg&e's gas line, number 147. the utility began running natural gas through the line over concerns of neighbors like mike mcquaid. >> they haven't gotten down to the brass facts and understand the details of what's happening. >> reporter: in october, pg mrnd e was ordered to shut down the line, documents revealing potential flaws in the pipe. >> we know from the experience in san bruno what can happen if something terribly goes wrong. >> reporter: the state allowed pg&e to restart the line today after it agreed to reduce pressure, while san carlos' own expert believes the line is safe, city managers think the move to press it into service is premature. >> we don't think it's fair, we think pg&e is putting service ahead of safety. >> i'm satisfied line 147 has been maintained and operated safely. >> reporter: today in san francisco the state public utilities commission questioned pg&e officials on why they waited eight months to notify the state after first discovering the inconsistent documents regarding the safet

since an engineer warned there could be another, quote, san bruno situation on a line that runs along brittonvenue. officials say the line is safe. san carlos' city manager says they're extremely disappointed in the decision and feel that it was rushed. >>> still ahead, one-shot solution for the flu? it could be. what stanford researches are doing to bring that closers to reality. >>> and brought together by tragedy. why one man says the boston bombings changed his life for the better. >>> and good evening, i'm jeff ranieri. a lot of blue sky for today across the bay area. will it continue for the weekend? we've got the latest on your holiday forecast coming up. right now a live look on palo alto on highway 101. >>> in health matters tonight, a universal vaccine that could potentially help protect you against every strain of the flu. it may one day be a reality thanks in large part to a group of researchers at stanford. the scientists say they've taken important steps toward creating that type of a vaccine. the team warns that many steps remain before it's known whether their approach will ac

. >> reporter: that's why jeff britton couldn't believe when he received this letter from starbucks.ite. the letter says in part, quote, as you probably know starbucks coffee is the owner of a number of trademarks. it goes on to ask him to stop using labels similar to the word frappuccino. >> when i got that, i had to laugh. >> jeff got an idea. write starbucks back. in his letter he assured him that he changed the brew's name to the "f" word. and it goes on to say, that we never thought that our beer drinking customers would have thought it would be coffee from one of the many, many, many stores located a few blocks away. then he included a check for $6. it's how much he would have made from the three people that would have drank the frappuccino beer. the goes on to say, us small business owners need to stick together. while the note is quite sar cat tick, he says it was just a joke. >> i don't have the money or resources to fight them. much less the desire. you know, i understand completely where they're coming from. >> reporter: but still, he says he probably won't be buying their

a special relationship with israel in the middle east, really comparable only to what it has with britton, over a wide range of world affairs. since that bonding experience, the u.s. and israel have approached the strategy as a region as a team. as a team. over the five major arab-israeli military conflicts that have occurred over the decades, the one that highlights the u.s.-israeli union the most is the yam kippur war. in this conflict israel was fighting the usual suspects, egypt to the seevet, along the sinai peninsula, and syria to the north. this joint ar ab initiative garnered the military support of jordan and iraq while egyptians received military hardware from the soviet union. egypt and syria lost launched a surprise attack on october 6, 1973, which was israel's most holy day, yam kippur, the day of atonement. the war inflicted heavy initial losses on israel's army and our air force and by october 8 . rael was in serious jeopardy a quick call was made to washington. the operation to resupply israel began. code name, operation nicholgrass. by the end of nicholgrass, the u.s. shi