lindsay moran is ex-c.i.a., she's about to join them. entering a biolab. >> sorry, we cannot confirm your identity concern? >> what is going to be like ebola, but we haven't seen it yet. dr charlotte mcshane is a mechanical engineer. tonight what she learnt about tornados. phil torres. i'm phil torres. 'm an entomologist. that's hour team, nout let's do some science. >>> hey, guys, welcome to "techknow", joined by dr ross shimabuku, and lindsay moran. microscopic things have been making news. viruses. take ebola - it caught america offguard. in some places we overreacted and in other places we doesn't do enough. >> there's a lot of scare around ebola, because we don't know much about it, compared to measles. which is also a hot topic. >> when we think of diseases we tend to think of containment. how do we contain them. i had an opportunity to meet a small group of scientists who are seeking out the pathogens in order to understand it. it might surprise people that metropolis. that's good reason for that. let's have a look. >> reporter: w

lindsay moran is an ex-cia operative and analyst. >> why is this issue political? dr crystal dilworth is a molecular neuroscientist. >> why does a small segment of scientists not believe? i'm phil torres. i'm an entomologist. >> wow! that was something else, i mean it was a real rush for me. >> that's our team. now let's do some science. [ ♪♪♪ ] >>> hey guys - welcome to "techknow", i'm phil torres joined by lindsay moran, dr. crystal dilworth and dr. shini somara. it's a debate that somehow is still raging on - is the climate changing, is man to blame and is there anything we can do to stop the disaster. most agree the answers is yes. that's most scientists, not all of them. shini, crystal, lindsay, you each had a piece of the story. >> at the c.i.a. i was trained to analyse complex and sometimes contradictory data. climate change fits into that model as well. washington d.c. - politics are part of the equation. no matter what the science is, there's going to be contentious debate. >> i had a different experience. i was dealing with the scientists and citizens who

hey guys welcome to techknow i'm phil torres joined by lindsay moran and marita davison. as you guys know, when i do my science it's all spiders and butterflies. but when i'm in the field i love going to peru. the rainforest there is amazing but the last time i was there and i looked out the window flying in and i noticed a huge section of forest was missing. you have to be talking about the devastating impacts of gold mining, of illegal gold mining that's been hitting peru, my home country bolivia, and the entire region really it's been happening for the past few decades. phil since you first brought this story to techknow the question we've been asking is, can anything be done to stop the destruction of the rainforest, or even restore it? those are the big questions and thanks to a team we joined on the ground there in peru we're starting to get some answers... and there is hope. >> the amazon rainforest. legendary, primeval, it's home to 10 percent of the world's known species. its ancient trees remove millions of tons of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere. and

threatening our security and as "america tonight" contributor lindsay moran tells us, a power. >> you're telling me, as someone preparing a battlefield against the u.s., you bet it is. >> david and hastuna are husband and wife team, a type of malwear that has invaded certify wear. >> particularly the industrial control systems in western energy producing exeafns. companies. >> the malwear is dubbed black energy. in 2007 the idaho national laboratory launched aurora, a simulated attack to see if researchers could physically damage a power plant by hacking into its control system. the attack destroyed a power generator common throughout america's grid. experts worry that black energy could do something similar. >> black energy seemed to be more geared towards the control rather than siphoning the energy. >> fire eye a cyber security term in northern virginia, her team hunts down hackers whose level of sophistication hints at the involvement of a nation state, an old adversary of the of the u.s. >> how can you sure these are russian actors? >> developed by russians in the underground. there