and heading for the great pacific garbage patch. a giant clean—up operation sets sail.ction results in sweden are showing the far right anti—immigration and anti—eu party, the sweden democrats, have made some gains. according to figures from sweden's public broadcaster, the center—left social democrats, led by the prime minister, stefan lofven, are in first place with 28.4% of the vote. the moderates, led by ulf kristersson, have 19.8%. and the sweden democrats, whose leader isjimmie akesson, are in third place, with 17.6% — giving them cause to celebrate, asjenny hill reports from stockholm. cheering this is their night. the far rightjust made swedish political history. the sweden democrats don't like the eu, they don't like migrants, and they have just up—ended this country's liberal tradition. translation: more people have understood the situation now, that we can't carry on like this. we have the politics that swedish people want so the judgement and the rhetoric will change a lot. prime minister, jenny hill from the bbc. are you feeling worried? laughter for sweden

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ex we expect to remove around s lf this great pacific garbage patch every five years. >> reporter: ocean experts are hopeful. ha it's very much an idea worth testing, but if we clean that up and don't stop the plastics at the source, we have an even rogger problem. >> reporter: but for now, slat is focused on this first full- scale test, launching tomorrow. are you sure it will work? >> no! that's what we will see in the coming months. an reporter: carter evans, cbs news, alameda, california. >> glor: fascinating story. coming up next on the "cbs evening news," newly-released video shows how officers took out a gunman and ended a shooting spree at a bank. and later, elon musk's wild night before tesla's bad day. sla's bad day. nd tools to help guide you through the confusion, well that wasn't so bad at all. that's how we like it. unitedhealthcare. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase sensimist relieves your worst symptoms, including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. it helps block six key inflammatory substances.

it will travel to an area in the eastern pacific known as the great garbage patch, where currents trapmaller and smaller pieces, and the smaller the pieces are, the more harmful and harder to extract from the marine environment. so we feel there is a sense of urgency. so how will it work? a giant tube, 600 metres long, will float on the surface in the shape of a horseshoe. over time, the plastic should gather in a small area and then can be taken out. underwater, a barrier will hang three metres down and trap plastic below the surface. it is meant to allow fish to swim underneath it. but some experts worry that the system can harm wildlife. our major concern is for those passive floaters, rather than fish, mammals, plankton, jelly fish, for example. they simply cannot get out of the way of this, they are going to be crammed into this and not be able to escape. the plan is to start with one collection device and eventually deploy 60. the people behind the project estimate a full roll—out will clean up half of the great pacific garbage patch in five years. jenny kumah, bbc news. tributes

the great pacific garbage patch contains an estimated 80,000 tons of litter. is an effort underway to clean up at least some of it. carter evans has that story. >> reporter: when the ocean clean up project set sale from the coast of san francisco on saturday, boyan slat was there to see the maiden voyage. the dutch entrepreneur came up with it when he was 16 years old. >> i saw more plastic bags than fish and i thought why can't we just clean this up? >> reporter: years of research and development resulted in this, a 2000 foot-long waste .t much of the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic floating in an area known as the great pacific garbage patch. why not just take a big ship out there and scoop all this stuff up? >> this area is twice the size of texas. if you were to skim that with boats and nets, it would take around 79,000 years. >> reporter: ahead of the launch, slat took us out on the water to show us how the device was inspired by trash-covered beaches. >> coast lines are very effective ways of catching plastic, but the thing is that in those vast ocean gar

will make its way to the great pacific garbage patch ...n of floating trash in the world... (justine) it is twice the size of texas. and the effort that launched today... is to clean up 1 -point- 8 trillion pieces of plastic. kron 4's dan kerman explains how this system works. friday morning this 2000 foot long ocean cleanup system left the seaplane lagoon off alameda and is now anchored in the bay awaiting saturday's historic launchsot arjen tjallema/the ocean cleanup 10-18 we now take the first ocean cleanup system out there with the purpose of proving this technology works and is an efficient way to take out plastic debris from the pacific ocean. the system is years in the making and will head out saturday, stop for testing about 300 miles offshore and then will be towed to the great pacific garbage patch. it's located midway between california and hawaii and is believed to be twice the size of the state of texas.sotthere is a real high density of plastics floating around we think 80 thousand metric tons floating in that area.once it arr

it was made by a 20—year—old inventor and it will tackle the great pacific garbage patch.hotograph of christmas decorations, ornaments to the country ‘s countdown and we are asking when is too soon to start shopping for christmas? they have a christmas fair there already apparently. with me is the political commentator, henry bonsu. we were talking about brexit earlier and michel barnier and it looks like negotiations are not going smoothly. he has issues with the planned from the uk. nicola sturgeon fairly vocal about her views on the uk, brexit and how scotland may try another bid for independence. she is under pressure both inside and outside the party, to gives indications of another referendum. this is for scotla nd another referendum. this is for scotland to be independent of the uk. according to these new poll carried out which are for pro remainers, if we do go forward and do brexit, support for leaving the united kingdom among scots will increase by four point two four to 796, increase by four point two four to 7%, giving it a clear lead to those saying they want

largest rubbish patch in the pacific ocean the six hundred metre long structure will be towed to the great pacific garbage patch which is an island of plastic waste twice the size of the state of texas organizers hope to remove the garbage over the next two years. well north korea has been marking the seventieth anniversary of the country's founding with a parade full of pageantry in the capital pyongyang with north korea increasingly showing signs of opening up the festivities for a closely watched for signs of the regimes the future direction and observers also took note of what was not on display in this year's extravaganza. north korea's dentistry of dictators has a tradition of putting on shows to celebrate itself and its achievements huge parades through the capital pyongyang showcasing the armed forces as well as happy loyal citizens but each parade is a bit different and experts study the details for that political significance what was missing today intercontinental ballistic missiles which could deliver nuclear warheads to the united states. i allowed part of the event was devoted to civ

largest rubbish patch in the pacific ocean the six hundred metre long structure will be towed to the great pacific garbage patch which is an island of plastic waste twice the size of the state of texas organizers hope to remove half the garbage over the next two years. now twenty year olds only osaka defeated serena williams in a thrilling us open final on saturday but it was williams whose actions have claimed most of the headlines williams has been fined seven hundred thousand dollars for three code violations during the second set after being warned for a coaching violation williams was docked a point for smashing her racket then for calling the chair umpire a liar and a cheat williams was dunked an entire game with her idol losing her cool japanese born osaka cruised through the final games to win in straight sets. a williams outburst have somewhat overshadowed posada's achievement but in tokyo the fans are only interested in their champion the twenty year old made history at flushing. meadows and back in japan a country hails its hero. this was the moment japanese fans celebrated their new us

largest rubbish patch in the pacific ocean the six hundred metre long structure will be towed to the great pacific garbage patch an island of plastic waste twice the size of texas organizers hope to hear me fall off the garbage into the next two years. well north korea is celebrating its the seventieth birthday a month long program of events kicked off with a cold set followed by a huge parade all the communist state showed off some of its latest military hardware and best trained units there was no sign of advanced long range missiles the basis was on civilian efforts to build the economy the top priority for the decade joe for today's parade comes at a sensitive time kim's relations with u.s. president donald trump have to tear a today since their summit in june. and for more now i'm joined in the studio by about how to botch an expert on china or north korea from the bet has been foundation good to have you with us mr boche now good morning some experts say that you know the focus on this year's parade was the economy and not on military might as we've seen previously is that how you read it ye

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will make its way to the great pacific garbage patch ...he largest accumultion of floating trash in the world... it is in an effort to clean up 1 - point- 8 trillion pieces of plastic. kron 4's dan kerman explains how this system works. friday morning this 2000 foot long ocean cleanup system left the seaplane lagoon off alameda and is now anchored in the bay awaiting saturday's historic launchsot arjen tjallema/the ocean cleanup 10-18 we now take the first ocean cleanup system out there with the purpose of proving this technology works and is an efficient way to take out plastic debris from the pacific ocean. the system is years in the making and will head out saturday, stop for testing about 300 miles offshore and then will be towed to the great pacific garbage patch. it's located midway between california and hawaii and is believed to be twice the size of the state of texas.sotthere is a real high density of plastics floating around we think 80 thousand metric tons floating in that area.once it arrives in mid october, the black floater an

francisco headed to an area of the pacific ocean halfway between california and hawaii, known as the great pacificarbage patch. 250 million pounds of plastic over an area twice the size of texas. >> and for 60 years, man has been putting plastic into the ocean. and from that day onward, we're taking it back out again. >> reporter: ocean cleanup spent five years studying the patch, creating and testing the technology, then building the cleanup system. it consists of massive sections of hollow tubing that floats in the water and traps the plastic. ships then come every few months and scoop it up. >> wow, that's incredible. >> reporter: spectators came to fort baker to catch a glimpse of the launch. >> ihi and hopefully together with collective effort, we can mke a difference. >> to me this is more important thanan mission on take care of the planet that we have right now. >> reporter: it will take five years and a fleet of systems to clean up just half of the garbage patch, but this is at least a first step. so what happens to all that trash once they collect it? >> we want to recycle into product,

it will travel to an area in the eastern pacific known as the great garbage patch, where currents trapes, and the smaller the pieces are, the more harmful and harder to extract from the marine environment. so we feel there is a sense of urgency. so how will it work? a giant tube, 600 metres long, will float on the surface in the shape of a horseshoe. over time, the plastic should gather in a small area and then can be taken out. underwater, a barrier will hang three metres down and trap plastic below the surface. it is meant to allow fish to swim underneath it. but some experts worry that the system can harm wildlife. our major concern is for those passive floaters, rather than fish, mammals, plankton, jelly fish, for example. they simply cannot get out of the way of this, they are going to be crammed into this and not be able to escape. the plan is to start with one collection device and eventually deploy 60. the people behind the project estimate a full roll—out will clean up half of the great pacific garbage patch in five years. jenny kumah, bbc news. just like old church of baker s

. >>> a big cleanup at the great pacific garbage patch. a nonprofit is launching a boat between california and hawaii. it will clean up more than 80,000 tons of plastic trash floating there. the ocean cleanup will use floating tubes and netting to collect the trash near the patch. every couple months this boat will come to take that trash away like a garbage truck. the goal is to have it gone by 2040. welcome to the xfinity store. thanks, janet. it's my happy place. you can learn how to switch to xfinity mobile, a new wireless network that saves you cash. and you can get 5 lines of talk and text included with your internet. and over here i'm having my birthday party. dj fluffernutter, hit it! ♪ dj fluffernutter simple. easy. awesome. ask how to get $300 back when you sign up for xfinity mobile, and purchase a new samsung phone. visit your local xfinity store today. ♪ ♪ ♪ i put a spell on you ♪ yeah, because you're mine ♪ with chase atms serena can now grab cash on the go, all with the tap of her phone. ♪ stop the things you do no card? no

moving on, it is known as the great pacific garbage patch, region twice the size ofex filled with waste most of the plastic. a ship carrying ant gloating tube is making its way to the area in the pacific ocean to start a massive cleanup effort there. david shukman explains further.i in san francisco, final construction of a massive project with an incredibly bold ambition, to try to clear the oceans of plastic waste. this animation shows how the huge structure is meant to collect millions of pieces of plastic, to make them easier to get rid of. sites like this have shocked people around the world. images of the damage to wildlife ve inspired this effort clean up. >> if we don't do it now, all the plasc will start breaking down into smaller and smaller pieces. the smaller thpieces are, the more harmful and harder to extract from the marine environment. we feel there is a sense of urgency. david: there is plastic every ocean around the world. this is the first attempt to clean it up. it will take place in the eastern pacific in a rotating current that tracks plastic, what is called the gr

francisco headed to an area of the pacific ocean halfway between california and hawaii known as the great pacific garbage patch. 250 million pounds of plastic over an area twice the size of texas. >> and for 60 years, man has been putting plastic into the ocean. from that day onwards, we're taking it back out again. >> reporter: the bay area nonprofit ocean cleanup spent five years studying the patch, creating tested technology, then building the cleanup system. it consists of massive seconds of hollow the water and traps the p spect ft. baker to catch a glimpse of the launch. >> i think it's pretty cool. and hopefully together with collective effort we can make a difference. >> to me this is more important than landing another mission on the moon. it's more important to take care of the planet that we have right now. >> reporter: it will take five years and a fleet of systems to clean up just half of the garbage patch. but this is at least a first step. so what happens to all that trash once they collect it? >> we want to recycle into products and with those products we want to allow people to h

voyage, headed to an area of the pacific ocean, halfway between california and hawaii known as the great pacific garbage patch. 250 million unds of plastic over an area twice the size of texas. >> this has been known sentence i think 1976 that the first paper came out looking at this problem, but somehow it actually took 40 years before it actually starts to cleanup. >> reporter: the bay area non-profit ocean cleanup spent five years studying the crash and building the cleanup system. it consists of massive sections of hollow tubing that floats in the water and tracks the plastic. ships come every few months and scoop it up. spectators came to ft. baker to catch a glimpse of the launch. >> i'm super happy somebody is actually going to try to do it. i know there's people that feel, hey this might not work. how will we try? >> it will take five years and a fleet of systems to clean up half of the patch. this is at least the first step. >> it's thefirst ship load of ps back into ports and for 60 years, man has been putting plastic into the ocean and from that day onwards, we're taking it back out a

and in five to six weeks it will make it to the great pacific garbage patch. >> it's halfway between here and hawaii. and it contains about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. >> reporter: the massive floating island of trash is 600,000 square miles which is twice the size of texas. it's made upmostly of plastic gar damage -- maid up mostly of plastic garbage and of discarded fishing equipments. >> it would take around 79,000 years with boats and nets. >> reporter: but this system is designed to do it faster. >> we expect to remove around half this every five years. >> reporter: 24-year-old dutch inventor came up with the idea on vacation in grease and saw trash on the -- greece and saw trash on the beach. >> coast lines are effective but in the fast ocean garbage patches there are no coastlines. >> reporter: so he created a floating coastline. here's how it works. once the collection system is towed it floats with ocean currents and forms a u-shape to corral the trash. a skirt about ten feet deep will catch the plastic and a ship will then collect it and bring it back to san francisco t

currents and forms a "u" shape to corral the trash. >> we expect to remove around half of this great pacificarbage patch every five years. >> reporter: ocean experts are hopeful. >> it's very much an idea worth testing, but if we clean that up and don't stop the plastics at the source, we have an even bigger problem. >> reporter: but for now, slat is focused this first full-scale test. >> are you sure it will work? >> no. we'll see. >> reporter: carter evans,lamed >>> great idea. >>> coming up, starbucks has coffee shops all over the world, but it's never done business in one european nation until now. does the espresso giant have a shot at success in an originator of coffee culture? later we'll take a look. but first here's a look at the weather for your weekend. put to a very practical use. up next on morning rounds. dr. david agus with how computers are teaching themselves a new skill so they can help women survive a deadly disease. you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday." hi, dr. agus. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally d

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experimental effort to clean up a section of the ocean that's so polluted it's become known as the great pacifico has swept across the sky in the south—east of spain. this weather phenomenon was filmed over the mediterranean resort of la mata. it made its way slowly inland, but it isn't thought to have caused any major damage. a wildfire is burning out of control in northern california. this was the scene late on friday near redding, which is around 250 kilometres north of sacramento. the flames have forced authorities to close an 80 kilometre stretch of an interstate highway until at least sunday. people are paying tribute to the us rapper mac miller, who's been found dead at his home in los angeles after an apparent drug overdose. the 26—year—old had just released a new album and was due to start touring later this month. i've been speaking to keyon harrold, a jazz musician who collaborated with mac miller, and described him as extremely talented. he was such a cool person and the timei he was such a cool person and the time i have had with him in the studio has been a fantastic experience, su

that's a 2,000-foot long device designed to scoop up trash from the great pacific garbage patch. the area is made up of an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of floating plastic. 24-year-old dutch inventor boyan slatt came up with the system when he was just 16 years old inspired by trash covered beaches. >> coastlines are very effective ways of catching plastic, but the thing is that in those vast ocean garbage patches there's simply no coastlines to catch any plastic. >> so you built one. >> we built our own artificial coastline. >> once it's towed to the garbage patch the collection system makes a u shape. the skirt about 10 feet deep will catch the plastic for recycling. he hopes to deploy 60 of these systems. testing has shown it could reduce the garbage patch by 50% in five years. >>> tesla investors are wondering what was elon musk smoking. how this podcast puff could land him in trouble with the military. >> a man causes thousands of dollars in damage to a police car, officers forced to climb on the roof to end this bizarre standoff. >> and lifting with digital weights, the ba

and then will be towed to the great pacific garbage patch. patch of garbage is located midway between california and hawaii ... and is believed to be twice the size of the state of texas. the ocean cleanup system consists of a black floater and screen ... that acts as a trap for garbage floating in the water. ( robin ) some people have voiced concerns about the cleanup system's impact on marine life... but those behind the system say it has been designed to minimize any risk to the environment. (robin) still ahead on the kron four morning news... another fire at an east bay - scrap metal yard- is sparking questions about the companies safety practices. (robin) and here's a live look outside... at the golden gate bridge. the gate bridge. the hollywood minute is c

it is being towed from the city towards hawaii to the great pacific garbage patch, which is an islandalian lawyers are seeking compensation for more than 100 indonesian children they say were wrongly jailed as adults in australia. the children were accused of people smuggling and some were held in maximum—security prisons for years. rebecca henschke has the story from the remote island of rote. with no news for months, siti thought she had lost her son, abdul, at sea. translation: after a long time, he called me and told me he was injail in time, he called me and told me he was in jail in australia. that was a really ha rd was in jail in australia. that was a really hard thing to hear. abdul says he was offered good money to work on a boat. he says he didn't know he was headed for neighbouring australian waters and was carrying on—board migrants desperate to seek asylu m on—board migrants desperate to seek asylum there. court off the coast, he was charged with people smuggling. his family says he was just 1a at the time. he was convicted in australia as an adult and jailed in an adult

and then will be towed to the great pacific garbage patch. of garbage is located midway between california and hawaii ... and is believed to be twice the size of the state of texas. once the system arrives in mid- october, the black floater and screen below... will be bent into a u- shape to create a coastline of sorts. (lydia) some have voiced concerns about the cleanup systems impact on marine life... but those behind the system say, it has been designed to minimize any risk. (lydia)the number of car burglaries in san francisco... is declining. the district attorney's office tweeted thursday ... that car burglaries are down 20-percent from this time last year. san francisco's d-a is crediting a new partnership with city police, and getting repeat offenders off

. >> reporter: his team visited what's known as the great pacific garbage patch, halfway between california and hawaii were more than 80,000 tons of plastic are said to be floating. the contraption was built and saturday set sail on a test run over the san francisco bay. it will be tested about 275 miles off the coast. the project consists of a series of connected pipes that stretch the length of the five football fields. if this is successful the plan is to launch even more systems and in the next two years the goal is to clean up 50% of the garbage in the garbage patch. the fire department welcomes the voyage with a water solution. people cheered as it coasted under the golden gate bridge.>> we have been looking forward to this for the past five years. on one hand it's a big milestone but on the other hand the next few months are going to be nerve-racking.>> reporter: scientists have criticized the project concerned it could harm marine life. they are not convinced that it will survive at sea. >>> hurricane olivia has weakened to a category one as it continues to move towards a wife. sear

it is being towed from the city towards hawaii to the great pacific garbage patch, which is an islandhinese government is carrying out a systematic campaign of human rights violations against muslims in xinjiang, in the northwest of china, according to a reportjust published by human rights watch. evidence of what is going on in xinjiang has been building, and now human rights watch says it has new proof of mass detention and surveillance, torture and mistreatment. sophie richardson is china director at human rights watch. shejoins me now from washington. welcome to the programme, sophie. you've literally released this report, the embargo lifted a few minutes ago, what new light does it shared on muslims, particularly how they're treated in xinjiang province? we've spoken to over 50 people, several of whom themselves have been in the camps and they described to us military style discipline as they went through their days, forced to study xi jingping thought and other communist party dogma. they were allowed to practise their religion. they weren't allowed to speak in the ethnic minori

it is known as the great pacific garbage pack seattle. 600,000 square miles. the idea is that the he is debris will many of to to the barrier and a ship comes and empties the unit and hauls away all the crash. >>> and oil company was found guilty of a spill in 2015 it send 123,000 crude i'll no the water. they found that the planes all- american pipeline guilty for failing to maintain the pipeline and found guilty of misdemeanors. the company said it has accepted full responsibility for the impact of the accident. the houston based company faces fines at sentencing in october. >>> the coast guard said that a man was fishing without a life vest on and fell into the water another person called for help. the coast guard searched for him all into the long and sending a helicopter out this morning to continue the search. >>> the fire that is burning north of reading is now the size of san francisco. it has burned 49 square miles. it is on both sides of interstate 56789 it will remain -- interstate 5. it will remain closed with no date when it will reopen. there is

and heading for the great pacific garbage patch — a giant clean—up operation sets sail.