dr. kurt bloome. the reason bloome got the job was because schreiber was sent to texas, and schreiber worked for the air force inness, and it's a long and tangles tale. you can read about it in the book, but it's really astonishing that. schreiber, the former surgeon general of the third reich, was living in texas. but as i said, the cold war was heating up, and this was the threat. the threat was that the soviets who, by the way, had hair own program of german scientists, they got a lot of rocket scientists. but unlike our program, we sort of put the german scientists up on pedestals and treated them with great regard and made them sort of the top dogs of our program. the soviets really loapted the germans. -- loathed the germans. there was deep animosity from the war, and so their german rocket scientists were kept at a second tier. and they were actually squeezed of the information and sent back to germany by the russians at which point the cia stepped in, grabbed up all those german scientists to

dr. beman: we found these intense blooms that seemed to coincide with fertilization and the irrigation in the yaqui valley. as we generated more data and were able to compare them with what we knew was going on in the agriculture system, we really did find this tight correspondence. narrator: motivated by these results, the researchers worked to find ways to maintain maximum yields but reduce the environmental impact of the fertilizer runoff. matson: in our best practice, farmers would have applied less nitrogen, but they would have applied more of it at planting, none of it a month before planting. it seemed like a great idea. it worked in most farmers' fields. it worked in the experiment station. and we talked with farmers about it. but they didn't adopt it. [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ] narrator: when the research team talked with farm owners like sergio, they found that a one-size-fits-all solution was not appropriate in the yaqui valley due to the wide variability of climate and soils. but there was another obstacle to gaining the farmers' support. matson: the other thing

bloom. >> thank you. >> and dr. henry lee. thank you. >>> coming up, emanuel brothers of chicago. them took the polar plunge in lake michigan with jimmy fallon and lived to tell the tale and one will join me next. find out which in a moment. i used to scrub the floor on my knees. [ daughter ] i've mastered the art of foot cleaning. oh, boy. oh, boy. oh, boy. [ carmel ] that drives me nuts. it gives me anxiety just thinking about how crazy they get. [ doorbell rings ] [ daughter ] oh, wow. [ carmel ] swiffer wetjet. you guys should try this. it's so easy. oh, my. [ gasps ] i just washed this floor. if i didn't see it i wouldn't believe it. [ carmel ] it did my heart good to see you cleaning. [ regina ] yeah, your generation has all the good stuff. [ daughter ] oh, yeah. being carried in your arms... but after a morning spent in the caribbean, playing pirates with you in secret coves, an afternoon swimming with dolphins, finished with a movie watched against the setting sun... she won't exactly be short on memories. princess cruises, come back new. ♪ princess cruises, come back new.

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dr. burgess. >> you're welcome. >> thanks for coming in. we'll see you next week. >>> it is 11:49. signs of spring are blooming in the district. plus, storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein will be back with a look at the forecast. when warmer >>> i'm melissa mollet at the live desk. all you oprah fans, listen up. she will be coming to the area. virginia's eighth district, big fund-raising event featuring oprah will be held in arlington saturday, april 5th. chapman has raised about $ 200,000 so far. no doubt this will give her another boost. >> thank you, melissa. >>> lots of people love bacon. they like it so much, some want to turn it into a serving bowl. it's called the perfect bacon bowl. liz crenshaw answers the question, does it really do that? >> reporter: some say everything is better with bacon. >> i thought it would be fun to make this bowl they show on tv. >> introducing perfect bacon bowl. the easy way to make delicious, edible bowls out of bacon. just minutes you'll have tasty, toasty, perfect bacon bowls. >> reporter: we brought it to cliff in bethesda, maryland. it came with four bacon bowl molds and a recipe gu

dr. seuss, then what? "twilight"? ed markey as bella swan? please, folks, no. and most terrifying of all, the inevitable judy bloom face.u there god it's me margaret to ted cruz?" this shouldn't happen, not ever. which is why they need to stop this political kids' book trend right now and do what you would do with any dr. seuss-reading individual. let's give them a time-out. >> hey, at least they're not rapping, okay? at least they're reading. >> they're rhyming and reading. at grade level. >> that was fantastic. that is it for us at this hour. "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts after this. ♪ ♪ ♪ told ya you could do it. (dad vo) i want her to be safe. so, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. (girl) piece of cake. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. [ male announcer ] even more impressive than the research this man has at his disposal is how he puts it to work for his clients. morning. morning. thanks for meeting so early. come on in. [ male announcer ] it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. [ male announcer ] it's how edward jones with our new cucina mia menu, just $9.99.