staying over at lake hoare is a rare privilege enjoyed by few, like dr.ogist and dr. byron adams, a biologist. >> anthony: so what are you looking at our here? >> michael: everything that lives here lives in the soil. we study the soil organisms mostly the animals the animals that live here, but also the microbes that those animals feed off of. >> anthony: right. >> byron: this is just a marker that tells us to stay on this trail. these soils are so sensitive that if we walk off the trail or whatever we could completely jack up the soils organisms that live below there. >> anthony: oh like that guy? >> byron: yeah, like that dude he's totally -- he's going to get wipped out. >> michael: when scientist came and first started studying they thought that these soils were sterile, but we've dispelled that myth when the glaciers melt and the streams flow, that's where you find life. >> anthony: so why is this area look like this? where's the ice? how come the ground is sort of soft and spongy? >> byron: the polar plateau where most of the ice accumulates starts

as we look at the wider view all the activity will stay out hoar across the high plains, the western great lakes states this high is acting as a road block, as the cold front try to run east it will run into it, it will slow the frontal system down, we're seeing sunshine for days on end we'll pick up clouds and showers and drizzle and heavier rains out there everything will shift as we get into the latter stages of this up coming week. you get it, the next few days look really, really nice. future tracker 6, sunny, clear. overnight tonight, clear and dry, tomorrow, we do it all over again. the moisture has a difficult time traveling east, there's the high, wednesday morning it's slicing through the central portion of the great lake states and the lehigh valley, it doesn't arrive here until friday morning him that will cool temperatures back down again. for today, sunny skies, pleasant, 70 degrees. going hour by hour, we're expecting a lot of blue upstairs. 11:00 a.m., 60 degrees we're close to that now, actually. 4:00 p.m., 69. by 7:00 p.m. 64. overnight tonight, it's another chilly one, 49 degr