but here in uganda, they are in a sort of hippo paradise. >> we have buffalo, elephant, and hippo happily coexisting. >> yeah, you can see they're friendly. because they are grass eaters. >> they do occasionally fight with predators like lions. there's a crocodile. >> yeah. >> or prehistoric-looking toothy grinned crocodiles like this one. hippos are a key part of an ecosystem that includes goose-stepping consider mow rapts, little antelopes who see we engaged in mating dances which i quickly put out on twitter and larger antelopes who's blocking our path right here. >> yeah, that's the male. >> right. and apparently those horns don't feel good when they enter your body. he may look mellow, but he will attack. peter and his colleagues throw rocks to get him to move, but no such luck. no, this guy is not moving. >> he wants to attack you when he he's coming for -- >> we end up taking an alternate route. while the wildlife here in uganda is clearly thriving, right across this lake where the hippos and all of their animal friends are living is one of the most dangerous places on earth. the d

the mies are living off of hippo meaeat? >> t the armies areiving off of hippo meat becse ty don't have anyther source of food. ththey havave to g a protein, t meat from somewhere e d ey're eatingng the hippo population. >> civilians are eatg the hipp and in an appepetite superstition.desperation and a the rstition is ifou g married you have to giveour wife hippo meat. >> because it's supposed to give you good ck and give youu chchil. >>>> and w wfi onene that bumpsn the our boat.. >> that is a boat. >> he's probably mad. but wildldlife offificials herew mixed feelingslation with theris a sneneaking suspicion that the oy reason there are so many here is because ththey' running away frorom the cacarnan congo. for "nightline," tis dan harris in anda. that report. danan harris for >>> whwhenen we come back, berm already had its look at bill and now theast coastst holdsts breaeath. g. ♪ love inks! eah!eah! ♪ ♪ l lovove stinks , ♪ [ female announcer ] swiffer 360 duststers clcleansp into hard d to reachch places the thick alall a

and a little bit of luck. >> hungry hippo you just have to eat them. >> what do we have tonight?nals? >> we have a little bit of everything. steven strassburg is signed. current title holder has a chance to win tonight's game. meanwhile the redskins not immune to a little embarrassment. what they did to brian orakpo. the latest from training camp is next. 3f?f?f?ffa l-l-l- fa p ?? >>> now 9sports with sara walsh. the best sports in town. >>> with the record breaking signing of steven strassburg, talk around nationals park centered on the franchise's future but lately the present has been pretty sweet for washington, nats winning 11 of their last 14. tonight hosting colorado. top of the 8th tied 2-2. gonzalez homering to right. rockies go up 3-2. but in the end the nats would answer back in the 9th. cristian guzman singling. rally. ryan zimmerman at the plate. runners on the corner. rally just ended. nats fall 4-3. >>> steven strassburg signing a 15 behind 4 million deal, four years. he will arrive on thursday. press conference expected friday. he will not make a big league appear

why one south american country are dealing with drug hippos. >> it is thursday.is thursday and we are having a great day here at 9 news now. traveling the toll road past the airport, toward the toll plaza. you will find lanes open. no incidents or accidents along the way. more traffic for you coming up. >>> in the news now, this morning crews are fighting several new fires in california. a new blaze erupted on wednesday this los angeles national forest. while the fires are not threatening homes they will be difficult to contain because of heat and inaccessible terrain. >> new mexico governor bill richardson will not face criminal charges in the federal pay to play investigation involving a political donor. this is video of the governor on a trade mission in cuba this week. the allegation derailed president obama's appointment of richardson has commerce secretary. authorities in south america are trying to figure out how to handle too many hippos. they say they threaten the native animal species. >>> a new version of susan boyle catching fire on-line. new details

marry a hippo, fine, okay, and then you get the baby girl and think about the world out there and my motto on everything now, now that i have seen gran torino, which i haven't seen, totally recommend, get off my lawn! get off my lawn! oh, thank you, mr. kowalski for saving the neighborhood from the gang. >> get off my lawn. but anyway i became a -- became a -- when i ceased to be a liberal, ceased to be a leftist i was a communist, socialist and i got a job. and it didn't cure me. i was still a nut for the first two weeks of the job, and i got a job for $150 a week and paid every two weeks and i was really looking forward to that $300 and so was my landlord, $300 was a lot of money and i got my paycheck, and i netted out at $185.63. after federal tax and state tax and city tax and social security and contribution. and pension fund and i was really interested in that age and health care and union dues and i go wait i'm a socialist and i have been screaming and yelling and demonstrating in the street and i get to a job and find out we already have socialism, they took half my money, i'

gretchen: this op ed seemed to be hippo critical to me there hasn't been a more debated issue than the prom mission of affordable issue. if there hasn't been a more debated domestic issue then shouldn't everybody read the bill? bill: and debate -- brian: and debate it? gretchen: historic effort for scrutiny and debate. all worth the time it takes to get it right. all these sort of signs of how important and global this is well then how can you have senators and members of congress and members of the house, i should say who come forward and say why read it? it's 1100 pages. every single member of congress should be held to some sort of a level up here and they should all be asked whether or not they have read this bill. if, in fact, this op ed is true and it's the most important domestic debate out there. brian: 7% of the economy. $2.7 billion in costs out there. everybody is talking about seniors and talking about affordable class and health care. are seniors going to be in front of a death panel? just as you think that's ridiculous. then you realize there are provisions in there that