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and while i know something about the geography of nantucket island, i'm beginning to get the hunch thatfollowing week, we travel to nantucket, meet up with ryan to see if david will actually show up. what do i do, turn left? >> i would turn right. >> reporter: after trying to follow his directions. here we go, here is the right. my suspicion was confirmed. found a light house, but not the house. okay. so we put the address in our gps. it's beautiful. which house is that. >> so we're looking for. >> reporter: we arrive at the actual house where we wait. and wait, and wait. >> david? ryan and i are standing here at the rental house but you're supposed to be here with the key and it is 12:09. >> reporter: all we got was his voice mail, but there was one last lead on the bottom of the fake rental contract. we noticed there was a fake address for david's supposed company. and you're not a real estate agent? >> no. >> reporter: david's trail has gone cold. and we're pretty sure he is gone for good. >> there is not very much to do about it. >> reporter: it is a story we found out local police
and while i know something about the geography of nantucket island, i'm beginning to get the hunch thatfollowing week, we travel to nantucket, meet up with ryan to see if david will actually show up. what do i do, turn left? >> i would turn right. >> reporter: after trying to follow his directions. here we go, here is the right. my suspicion was confirmed. found a light house, but not the house. okay. so we put the address in our gps. it's beautiful. which house is that. >> so...
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] >> it is a real pleasure to be here, yes, i am from nantucket who has a tradition of having an unseemly pride for being from that wonderful islandnd it does go back to that era and probably before it. nantucket in the early 19th century was something special when it came to america. it was the center of america's first global business. the oil business. before there was petroleum, before there was john rockefeller and standard oil in texas crude, there was nantucket whale oil trading was lubricating the machines of the industrial age. on this little island, only 50 square miles, a sand bank, crescent shaped, about 25 miles off of cape cod was the center of this business. in 1819 when the whale ships were right around 7000 people, the quakers had begun to wane. but the spiritual influence of quakers had infuse the whole community. i was in philadelphia not too long ago. being a quaker doesn't necessarily interfere with your ability to make money. [laughter] these nantucket quakers were some of the most sophisticated and hard-nosed businesspeople that the world has ever known, and they controlled every aspect of their oil business
] >> it is a real pleasure to be here, yes, i am from nantucket who has a tradition of having an unseemly pride for being from that wonderful islandnd it does go back to that era and probably before it. nantucket in the early 19th century was something special when it came to america. it was the center of america's first global business. the oil business. before there was petroleum, before there was john rockefeller and standard oil in texas crude, there was nantucket whale oil trading...
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. >> we're talking about also the barrier islands, changing topography, north carolina, south carolina, georgia. >> cape cod, nantucketi was in nantucket this summer. you should see the erosion on baxter road. it's absolutely breathtaking. >> this is a u.n. report, an internationally achieved consensus. are there still deniers out there? >> there are skeptics. even those who used to call themselves deniers admit -- most of them now admit the world is warming. the the science is there. that's hard to deny. the bigger question is what to do about it. that's where the argument comes. what this report lays out very clearly is we have to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. that means we have to either burn less coal and oil and gasoline or do something to capture the carbon created when those fossil fuels are burned. that's where the split is. we know what the consequences are. the question is do we have the political will to do something about it. as you know in washington, that's a very hot topic. you've got issues of the key tonight pipeline in play. all of these questions pit the environmentalists against others who l
. >> we're talking about also the barrier islands, changing topography, north carolina, south carolina, georgia. >> cape cod, nantucketi was in nantucket this summer. you should see the erosion on baxter road. it's absolutely breathtaking. >> this is a u.n. report, an internationally achieved consensus. are there still deniers out there? >> there are skeptics. even those who used to call themselves deniers admit -- most of them now admit the world is warming. the the...
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larry summers is on the island and participating in the nantucket project.a lot of sort of postmortem work going on, gossip among the chattering class about what they could have done or should've done and why he did not get the post. and a couple things i picked up which were pretty interesting. the first is, you know, we always talked on the show about whether there was a campaign to get him the job, there really was a campaign to get him the job. many of them thought they'd been too slow in pushing the president and starting that campaign. should've started it much earlier. we talked on the show about when the president first made that comment to charlie rose and they said they should have been right in there with that campaign on day one. they all look at him, larry summers as a casualty of -- if you will, of the syria situation. but the other thing that actually was the most surprising to me was the view that they should have actually gone more negative on yellen and should've gone more negative on yellen early. there was a blame game going around last n
larry summers is on the island and participating in the nantucket project.a lot of sort of postmortem work going on, gossip among the chattering class about what they could have done or should've done and why he did not get the post. and a couple things i picked up which were pretty interesting. the first is, you know, we always talked on the show about whether there was a campaign to get him the job, there really was a campaign to get him the job. many of them thought they'd been too slow in...
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nantucket orphans. you check it out, talking about teaching kids how to be frugal with their money. fractured off their [ laughter ] . >> i'm sorry. >> it's a wonderful islandgood people up there. >> what's wrong with people? >> the nationals hosted a double header with the braves. the game began with a moment of silence, first, though, for those killed in monday's shooting at the washington navy yard. two days ago, it was postponed. 9th inning, gnats trailing by a run. the groirnd right through the wickets of atlantic shortstop simmons. a 6-5 walkoff win. they blanked the braves 4-0 in the night cap a. two game sweep there. to denver the rockies in the 3rd, he laces a two run trim down the right field line. st. louis wins 11-4. they are up one game on the pirates. >> you sound like donny. look at me, look at my plaque shirt. guys, can we stop? >> the st. louis cardinals. >> this was a joke. >> the st. louis cardinals, man. >> a great organization. >> i want to know how they do it. year in. we have been talking about the pirates all year and here they come out of nowhere. they go every year, just like a few years back, you talk about the phillies all year.
nantucket orphans. you check it out, talking about teaching kids how to be frugal with their money. fractured off their [ laughter ] . >> i'm sorry. >> it's a wonderful islandgood people up there. >> what's wrong with people? >> the nationals hosted a double header with the braves. the game began with a moment of silence, first, though, for those killed in monday's shooting at the washington navy yard. two days ago, it was postponed. 9th inning, gnats trailing by a run....