so in la jolla, california, recently, they had 300 to 400 volunteers show up to help 100 kids get iner. hunter's all ready for this. great video of hunter catching some waves. >> you can see, this is corey, corn dog. >> corn dog. >> as hunter describes him. as you can see, he and corn dog have a nice relationship and they're hugging and they're surfing together. peter, hunter's dad, talks about how hunter has his own special boards. >> he has his own boards. water, hunter out into the water, once they get out, they'll put him on the board, flip him around, bring him in. >> the person who started the life rolls on organization suffered a spinal injury that left him paralyzed so he wanted kids to still have the opportunity to surf and do all of the things that he knew he wasn't going to get out of his system. >> fantastic that so many people come out to help participate in an event like this. you can really overcome anything and teaching that important lesson to all of these young people. it's a really, really heartfelt, beautiful thing. >> volunteers with life rolls on, they make it h

tom jordan is live in la jolla with more on that, tom? >> paul, al gore was the first ever recipients of the roger revelle prize. honored tonight for his work in environmental preservation. [applause] >> a rousing welcome for a man continuing his campaign on environmental awareness and protection. former vice president al gore, being honored for his efforts for the first ever roger revelle prize. >> i want to express my very deep and genuine gratitude for this honor. >> this marks the 1 thunth birthday of roger revelle who >> and credits him for igniting his passion on the environment. >> as a former student, still a student, trying to learn, but still inspired by a great teacher, who was a great scientist, and a great man. >> his work back in the 1960's was at the time considered revolutionary. many scientists consider that work pathetic. >> we were told it was a short report saying climate change is an issue and the earth is heating up and therefore something needs to be done about that. >> gore was moved by his early work and now consi

at la jolla farming in california, 80% of this year's grapes are rotting. but there's also an impact you can't see below the surface. >> groundwater levels in many areas of the state are well below their historical lows of record already. >> reporter: during drought years up to 60% of the water used by californians comes from the ground. now wells are running dry, which means robert nick's company is busier than ever, digging deeper wells and drilling new ones. >> this is the most repairs we've ever done in one season since i've been in business in 37 years. >> reporter: he's working 14-hour days, and he's booked into next june. >> and it's a seven-day-a-week operation. we can't slow down and stop. >> reporter: counting groundwater and surface water, the western u.s. has lost 62 trillion gallons of water in all since the beginning of last year. that's enough to cover everything west of the rocky mountains with four inches of water. so what happens when that much h2o vanishes, the earth rises. >> the effect we're looking at is if you take weight off the spri

stephanie elam, cnn, la jolla, california. >> thanks, stephanie. we get more now on this new ebola serum. arthur kaplan is the director of medical ethics at new york university's langone medical center. he was nice enough to join us from vacation via skype from denver, colorado. or steamboat springs, right? >> that's right. >> thanks for being with us. the interesting thing, we've heard a lot about its surprising results that there was just a one day after taking the serum an improvement in at least two of the patients. you had an interesting story about where this came from and why putting it into widespread use at least right now is an extremely large challenge. >> well, you still have a highly experimental drug. it's great, almost unexpected that it would do so well in the first two humans who got it. it's really only been given to a small number of monkeys, success there. but to bring a drug forward really so you know how to use it, what the dose is, how to administer it, how often to give it you have to test it on a lot more human beings. we m

tom jordan is live in la jolla with more on that, tom? >> paul, al gore was the first ever recipients of the roger revelle prize. honored tonight for his work in environmental preservation. [applause] >> a rousing welcome for a man continuing his campaign on environmental awareness and protection. former vice president al gore, being honored for his efforts for the first ever roger revelle prize. >> i want to express my very deep and genuine gratitude for this honor. >> this marks the 1 thunth birthday of roger revelle who >> and credits him for igniting his passion on the environment. >> as a former student, still a student, trying to learn, but still inspired by a great teacher, who was a great scientist, and a great man. >> his work back in the 1960's was at the time considered revolutionary. many scientists consider that work pathetic. >> we were told it was a short report saying climate change is an issue and the earth is heating up and therefore something needs to be done about that. >> gore was moved by his early work and now consi

we are live in la jolla, kusi news. >> john coleman believes there is no significant man-made global warming and he travels the nation speaking on the topic. >> at that point i got the opportunity for the first time to tell the story of roger reville and that global warming campaign on television. and now today standing here would you i wonder, where roger reville be today if he were alive. here in las vegas, sitting proudly besides my great hero fred singer, and joining this conference and probably receiving an award here, or would he be somewhere sequestered in hiding with al gore? talking about we skeptics. e deniers. and the tons and tons of carbon that we are emitting into the atmosphere and destroying the climate of earth. where would roger reville be today? i think i would be able to look down and say dr. reville, we honor you. as i conclude my presentation, i would like to take just a moment to speak to those probably not in this room, but those who are watching streaming or perhaps watching the rebroadcast of this . cspan or on youtube young people who love this earth and wh

stephanie elam, cnn, la jolla, california. >> joining me to talk more about this secret serum who mayerican ebola patients receiving treatment in atlanta, one of the scientists who got the ball rolling and helped develop that drug. doctor, thank you for being with us today. i want to go back a decade-plus, and that is to the beginnings of this, the genesis of the drug in the first place. is it my understanding, is it correct that you were actually working in concert with the u.s. army because there was a concern about these kinds of attacks and the need for treatment and vaccines? >> well, we weren't as much concerned about attacks at the time as just basic immunology. it began with mary kay cart with the u.s. army at ft. detrick, studying ebola in mice. we obtained a gene sequence for the antibodies that would attack the virus. we wrote a grant proposal. they gave us money to begin studying how to improve those antibodies but also how to produce them in a tobacco plant. that's how it took off. >> work with me on the tobacco plant. i think this is rather complex for a lot of people to

that is amazing. ...to survey the cliffs near scripps institute in la jolla.ideo is then turned into 3d models that will help track erosion over time. low-cost drones now are opening new horizons for nick woodman's company. >> woodman: let's go check out these kids ripping. go! >> cooper: for under $1,000, amateurs can get the kind of footage that was previously only possible with big budget professional productions. sometimes, the images are so startling, it's hard to tell if they're from hollywood's computerized reality or reality. in august, 2012, mark peters and his friends were tuna fishing off california when they lowered a gopro into the water to see what was down there. >> woodman: and when he got home and loaded it on his computer to watch it, he was just totally blown away by what he saw. and then the rest of the world was blown away by what he saw, these beautiful dolphins dancing. and it looked like it was a professional production shoot, but it was just a fisherman on his way home. >> cooper: gopro turned the dolphin video into a commercial. it ha

it could be la jolla, it could be necco wavers. >> we could have a bureau in montana. >> there's a lotn the bahamas. >> fort lee in englewood cliffs new jersey and i know to your you know, to your chagrin -- >> i would do the montana thing. >> you would not! you'd hate it. >> l.a. how about l.a.? >> you would do that? well we could combine -- >> you get up early now. >> all of the -- >> you'd have to be up at -- >> all your irons in the fire -- >> how much money to just be anywhere? $30,000? $40,000? >> you know what? this next story -- this is the story that we started off today with, that put me in a very sober mood, and that is these guys are just -- >> you didn't even want to criticize obama's suit. >> i don't even want to talk about his suit. >> you were so serious. >> you remember how before 9/11 we were talking about -- >> nonsense. >> and then the world -- >> so the president is coming under withering criticism for what he said. >> not for the suit. >> for what he said at this news conference that he called hastily late yesterday. why he suddenly decided to do this several time