his hometown is some distance from the national park. he prefers to be up in the mountains and forests with the national -- with the bears. >> from spring to autumn, it is very difficult to be here. in the wintertime, i am fine. >> that is when the bears remain out of sight, hibernating in their dens. >> if there's one thing the eu is known for, at his the subsidies that brussels gives out. brussels spends billions every year, and many farmers benefit, but when your money is handed out to fund ski slopes in a not very hilly part of denmark, questions are raised. for years, brussels has invested large sums to stop overfishing in european waters. the intention is good, but in effect, it means many fishermen are being paid to decommission their votes. in greece, it helps the demise of their traditional way of life. >> it is as if he is sawing off his own limb. this boat builder is wrecking an old fishing black -- old fishing boat. for him and his son, every boat has a soul. wooden ships are his life. >> which ever way you looked at it, what

she now wants parts of the real patagonia to be turned into a national park. conservationists are bracing themselves for a tough struggle ahead. >> it's hard work and it takes several days for these young people to fill their sacks with grass seeds. they're volunteers from all over the world, here because they're idealistic and want to help protect the environment. they're in the middle of a wilderness that will one day be the patagonia national park. with the grass seeds, they're restoring land devastated by over-use. it took kris tompkins and her colleagues barely ten years to return nature more or less to its former glory. a few years ago, these vast, unspoilt steppes were completely degraded. >> this land was subjected to extreme cattle farming for over one hundred years. now we're seeing guanacos and lamas again, and not just sheep. nothing wrong with sheep, but you don't want too many. now everything is once again the way it should be and i think that's good. >> kris tompkins is a former clothing company executive. but in 2004 she bought over 3630 square

county, but our open space system which comprises 70% of all of this city's land, including the national parkice in the state park system. it is so exciting to think aboutejjbkt what can be done o. we all look around. all you have to do is to a 360 loop and the word that comes to mind is potential. it is incredible and precious oceanfront open space. and the opportunity to think about how to agree a better accessibility between our beloved golden gate park, our zoo, lake merced, some of the national parkland here, and ocean beach in the great highway is a great opportunity. thinking about new trails from a new recreational amenities that can be out here. and areasustc to highlight some of e incredible special events which already have been out here year-round, it is exciting and fun. i want to thank our partners and stakeholders and community leaders for engaging. it is rare in government that it works so well. i have all these different partners and stakeholders coming together to think and plan. the recreation department is grateful to be a part of it. thank you. [applause] thank you. >> t

new warning officials put out today and what's now closed as a precaution. >> reporter: yosemite national park is dealing with this hantavirus situation even as it gets ready for the labor day rush. there have been a lot of safety meshes are taken throughout the park including some that visitors say could have been done sooner. the lines of visitors entering yosemite national park are getting longer with the holiday weekend approaching. visitors now get warnings about the hantavirus after four campers got the disease and two died. humans get the disease from exposure to saw liva, urine and feces of infected rodents, in this case deer mice. >> seem likes low risk but if you get it, obviously it's very serious. so definitely something we have been talking about. >> this week yosemite national park sent emails alerting 1700 campers who stayed at curry village from mid-june through august. the california pub leb health department sent out an dish 1,000 emails and dispatched scientists to examine yosemite national park's deer mice population. today yosemite national park finished closing down these

and ben tracy from glacier national park where the ice is melting at a shocking rate. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. we begin tonight with presidential politics in florida, the richest prize of the 11 battleground states with 29 electoral votes. today, paul ryan made his first trip to the state as part of the republican's pumpive ticket. chip reed is traveling with paul ryan. >> reporter: paul ryan came to center florida to make the case for medicare reform and he made that politically perilous argument right here in the villages, one of the largest retirement communities in the the nation. paul ryan brought his 78-year-old mother, betty, to the rally in the villages. >> i want to introduce you to my mom. >> reporter: where he promised the romney-ryan plan to medicare would not affect her or anyone else over age 55. >> how many of you are 55 or over? our plan does not affect the benefits for people who are in or near retirement. >> reporter: as for people now under 55, the details of the romney-rya

. >>> yosemite national park sent out a healthy warning today. we'll tell you about the disease behind the warning and what's being done about. >>> our camera is there as crews clear out a very large homeless encampment. >>> sunny and warm weather remains over the bay area. i'll have your wednesday temperatures and look at your labor day weekend for you coming up. . >>> happening right now, we want take you now live to tampa, florida and there you see her. that is ann romney now taking to the stage at the republican national convention. just hours after her husband, mitt romney, became the gop's official candidate for president. let's take a listen to what ann romney is saying right now in tampa, florida. >> how hard it is to get ahead now. you know what, i've heard your voices. they said to me, i'm running in place and we just can't get ahead. sometimes i think that late at night if we were all silent for just a few moments and listen carefully we could hear a collective sight from moms and dads across america who made it through another day. >>

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head north, to someplace pristine like acadia national park. there is nothing like the parks this time of year. the falling leaves, the crisp air, the perfect inspiration for air wick's fall collection. yeah, when i smell all those things, i know fall is in the air. the fall collection brought to you by air wick and the national park foundation. something in the air wick. >>> the temperatures will be similar to what we saw yesterday. mid '80s and '90s inland. or watching someone sure to the southeast the bay area. it to produce more clout since this weekend. the forecast is coming up. >>> recent foggy conditions along the golden gate bridge. the recipe area has no problems. we have some troubles and oakland. >>> and the little league team from petaluma had the day at williamsport. it paid the first in the world series. they won. >>> the petaluma nationals faced fairfield connecticut. they did to run home run with four hits in game. did not been at two runs. among winds 6-4. the plate sunday on 11 o'clock west coast time. >>> could look to the gu

rec and park included, national park service. all of the agencies. of the different groups of users. today, we're announcing that the master plan has been completed, at least this phase of it, with this representation of the work and a lot of groups and conversation, engagement of communities out here, and the different interests to produce a plan that will suggest to us innovative ideas to go forward with decades more of how we continue the vibrant spirit out here that we call ocean beach. i want to thank ben for your leadership. i want to thank all the people standing here and the agencies they represent. as you look at them and understand who they represent, it is reflective of the has to be balanced and how much of viewpoints have to be weighed in. this plan here does do that. we are going to take a good deal of time studying it ourselves, understanding it and then placing its ideas and priorities, but in terms of funding and so forth, but we do have to go through our government processes of adoption and review and make sure that the ideas here a

the national parks there where wildlife and history abounds. it's also where our cnn photojournalist went for today's travel insider. >> it has twice the size of texas. fewer than 1 million human residents and only one area code, but alaska's got great national parks and we visited two of them. getting there, planes, trains, no automobiles. the alaskan railroad will take you to the doorstep of the national park. from the depot, the shutting bus to the visitor's center, lodges, camp sites and various trail heads so you can hit the back country. a delightful ride lets you sit back and let you enjoy the six million acres. it is hard to take a bad picture here. it is the third largest national park, but three times larger than yellowstone. the center piece is mt. mckinley. the highest peak in the united states. denali maeans the great one. you want to feel like a professional wildlife photographer? the national park is unmatched. it is accessible only by chartered air taxi or boat. bear camp offers day and multiday trips with experienced guys who p

to reduce human bear encounters. >> under this bill, the annual apple picking event in yosemite national park today is a fun event with a serious purpose. volunteers and visitors remove apples from the park's historic orchards so the fruit doesn't attract some of the park's 500 black bears. >> it helps keep bears away from the campers and the cars and from breaking in and causing damage. >> the current village orchard is near camp site stables. ktvu shot numerous pictures of their share and there were several sightings today. >> quite a few bears before we had the program that we do now. >> one bear rummaged through the north pine camp ground last night. >> looked outside the tent, and he was just kind of strolling across the campground and off into the bush he is went. >> what was your reaction. >> we're always excited to see bear sgls we were very excited to see one, and i was very happy that we were in the car. >> apple picking started in 1998 when bear human encounters peaked with 387. this year has a lord low eight so far, 38 almost a 90 percent drop. there were only 63 incidents last ye

>>pam: we are falling developing news at yosemite national park. they say that the park service was warned years ago about the spread of the disease could appeared there was someone from the department of health services could >> these people that contracted the hantavirus those six. they have died to recovering and was hospitalized. it is unknown with the six person was then in the meantime there's 91 signature tends to get cabins have been closed.

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looking at this -- people in national park are looking at rain. aw. >> earlier today, you can see storm clouds moved in. had heavier rain over much of the district. that's up around for another hour or two. 8:00, things are going to start to settle down. this right here is a live shot degrees and cloudy conditions for the most part. at the winds we have had last hour. up to 25 miles per hour. 86 is the average on our board. we are right on target. the record -- 99. national park, temperature 71 degrees. 70 degrees in arlington. temperatures, out to the west of those, 77 in martinsburg. winchester 77. plenty of heat to the west. st. louis in the 90's. as we move through the next couple of days and the upcoming weekend, it is going to feel a like summer around here once again. partly cloudy skies. this is our doppler radar showing scattered showers around springfield. be prepared for very heavy downpours. have these cells, but really big when you look at the digital picture. here is our track for tropical isaac. it will make landfall on the asinican

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and here's abc's neal karlinsky. >> reporter: tonight, yosemite national park is ground zero for deadlytbreak of hantavirus. already four confirmed cases, two of them fatal, leaving park officials with the enormous job of contacting the 1,700 people who stayed in yosemite's curry village campground since june. >> both of these people, a male and a female, are not related, were not up here together staying in these cabins. >> reporter: the virus is spread by rodent droppings, often as tiny airborne particles are ingested or breathed in. early symptoms can take up to six weeks to appear and include fatigue, fever and chills. but in less than ten days those symptoms give way to coughing and breathing problems, as it's lungs fill with fluid. the centers for disease control is asking health departments nationwide to be on the lookout for suspected cases. neal karlinsky, abc news, seattle. >>> and coming up here, we're geeing to return to sam champion who wants to tell you how hard the winds are gusting right now, the winds of isaac. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8%

in fact they were proposed for the dinosaur national monument, which was part of the national park system national monuments for the famous parks except for their made by presidents rather than congress. is that the bureau of reclamation have the proposal built these dams in their in the sierra club and others were fighting partly on the principle that this is nothing that should have been inciting national park. the pearly thinking about how, you know, but their justifications they were getting for this project legitimate. said dave dug into all these studies and calculations in things that would be in computer projections now and staff and was all being done by hand and. then he started to find some numbers that just didn't add up right. and the main problem was calculating the lost to evaporation and see page which they called bank storage thinking they can get it back same day, which doesn't have been. between constructing these two reservoirs and fiddling with some of the other dams that were proposed and in fact raising the level of the dams downstream at grand canyon, which is anot

>> that have the virus blamed for at least two deaths is being traced to one spot in yosemite national park. warnings are going out to park visitors >> a role model until the end, the e-mail that,, >> a second person has died after contracting a disease that has been linked to yosemite national park. health officials say both people visited the park and stayed in a tent cabins at curry village. they were later diagnosed with hantavirus. e-mail alerts are urgently going out to hundreds of park visitors. >> warnings are going out through e-mail and also in person. usually park visitors are warned about the bears that are out here but now the warnings are going out about some of the smallest wildlife. like the breathtaking views of half dome, the iconic stay in the village is part of the iconic experience it might be making people sick. a worldwide call for cases of hand the virus is under way after three recent visitors contracted the disease. two men had died and a woman is recovering >> based in the fact that they stayed in these cabins we feel a pretty strong indication that they may have

. >>> now to yosemite national park. the search continues for a six- year-old boy lost in the merced river. he and his brother, who has been found dead were wading in the water. and officials are scrambling to sequence vackers the park is safe. two -- convince vacationers the park is safe. one of the people infected died. the victim was from alameda county. >>> da lin talked to officials who are testing for hantavirus. >> reporter: a man died in alameda county. officials want to rule out the possibility that he contracted hantavirus here. they started testing last week. and this is the type of trap they used to catch mice. they set up 40 traps. >> the first night didn't catch anything. the second night they are waiting for results. >> reporter: officials say that is a good sign. they are tight lipped about the man. they would only say he didn't live in a businessy neighborhood. >> typical -- busy neighborhood. >> typical of the area, more property and sheds -- >> reporter: open location? >> yeah. yeah, more space. >> rep

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our national parks are threatened by a budget cut the policies that will make them less accessible to average americans, preventing them from the filling their mission of providing for the enjoyment of our parks while preserving america's greatest national wonders. we must be aggressive in protecting the places americans and families enjoy visiting and representing crucial aspects of america's greatest legacy. the national parks provide us with some of the majestic and of inspiring places on earth. if you have not been to one this year, i encourage you to go. they should be cherished and cared for. they should be used and experience by the american people pirie it the 2008 platform ensures that are protected as part of the system so that they are here for generations to come i urge the committee to extend this platform to preserve and protect our national parks system, expanding opportunities for all americans that experience our national parks including promoting national parks as a key pillar to our efforts in boosting international tourism, expanding volunteerism throughout the nat

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there's people from the wilderness society and the national parks association was influential and prominent in the izaak walton lead, which no one has ever heard about anymore. anyway, they were fighting about these two dams that were proposed for construction inside dinosaur national monument, which is part of the national park system. the national monuments for the famous parks except for their made by presidents rather than congress. and so, the bureau of reclamation had this proposal is to build the stands and the sierra club and others were fighting partly on the principle that this is nothing that should have been inside a national park, but partly thinking about how the justifications they were getting for this project legitimate. and so, dave dug into all these studies and calculations and things that would be in computer projections now and stuff that was all been done by hand fan. he started to some numbers that just did not operate. it was the main problem was calculating the loss to about duration and seepage, which they call big storage, thinking they can get it back someday, w

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who express symptoms could symptoms hantavirus could end up in the hospital. >> reporter: the national park service is contacting 1700 park visitors to let them know they have been exposed to hantavirus. he is a specialist he says the disease inkue baits for 5 weeks. >> shortness of breath and a cough, we have to put the patient on ventilation, on machines to support breathing. >> reporter: early detection and treatment are the keys to saving lives. >> hantavirus has a mortality rate of 38%. >> reporter: there is no vaccine and no cure. it has to run its course. hantavirus was diagnosed in the early 1990s. >> it is very important for doctors to be aware that in patients that have the history, they have to consider hantavirus as a possibility. >> reporter: again, this afternoon, 2900 people received notification about the responsible exposure to hantavirus. cdc are issuing a nationwide alert to medical officials, and again, one more note, there is no worries about a wider outbreak, hantavirus can't be spread from person to person. live in san francisco, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2 news.

one place to see the fax is glacier national park and montana. ben tracy shows us how the ice disappearing fast >>> glacier national park and iconic landscape its waters and jagged peaks appellee called the crown of the continent. >>> corey holloway has been a guide for 15 years she has already seen the glacial melt that we have taken a lifetime. >>> personal is sad i have kids and would love for them to see this at this stage it just keeps getting smaller. >>> corey took a sun 5 mi. hike, the issues to be one of the largest glaciers in 1938 it covered an entire valley but from 1981-2009 it dissolved. the glaciers have been shrinking since 1850. scientists say climate changes by the melting quicker since 196611 have completely melted away. it is true these glaciers would melt naturally but scientists believe that what of lasted 100 years but with the human factor these glaciers could be gone in 10-20 years. >>> this man is a scientist with the usgs, what changes are you saying? >>> glaciers the most obvious we seen changes in the snow pack they d

head north, to someplace pristine like acadia national park. there is nothing like the parks this time of year. the falling leaves, the crisp air, the perfect inspiration for air wick's fall collection. yeah, when i smell all those things, i know fall is in the air. the fall collection brought to you by air wick and the national park foundation. something in the air wick. >>> well, if you still have back to school shopping on your list or to start, listen up. maryland tax free holiday week kicks off this weekend and runs from sunday august 12th to saturday the 18th. you won't have to pay taxes on clothing or shoes that cost $100 or less. >>> more rules could be put in place to protect owners. the consumer financial protection bureau is proposing several changes on mortgaging, including easier to understand statements and faster payment processing. the changes could be approved early next year. tony? >>> by the end of the year, there will be an estimated 6,000 new rental units available in the washington area. industry analysts say that could gi

and uch next, national park service campaign owe close a marin county oyster >>> yosemite national park shut down 90 cabins in that area in cabins they say there is a prime breeding ground for mice. people catch the hanta virus from mouse droppings. yosemite is retro fitting cabins to get rid of the double wall gap. >> it's a design flaw not a cleanliness law. we clean the cabins in between guests. >> a california department of public health report addressed the rodent infestation, outlining several steps yosemite had to make to reduce the number of mice to keep them from hiding in the structure autos a new review is raising questions about whether the national park service did enough research before trying to shut down an oyster farm. the battle is over the park service claiming the farm is harming the environment and wants it cloused. the but the national academy of sciences found the review lacks strong support. because there wasn't enough data available. at kad my said the park service research was so deficient waits, quote, similar to estimating rainfall for an entire year when the