they called me because i live part of the year with my wife down in patagonia and over the years, that would be since 1996, i have accumulated a lot almost by osmosis about what is going on down there. and of course almost every day that i am down there or nearby in the san rafael valley, i have encountered undocumented aliens coming over the border. i have certainly encountered an awful lot of drug swindlers because for various reasons the area we live in is more of a drug corridor, a drug smuggling corridor then it isn't area for smuggling illegal aliens. i can think of one incident when i wife leslie and i were hiking only a mile from patagonia and we were erred watching of all the innocuous activities, and we came around a bend in the road and there were five guys offloading tales of marijuana into a beat up old volvo station wagon. we were only about 50 feet from then and of course we stopped cold and they stopped cold in the drug dealers ran off into the bushes of the creek, and the guy who was driving the ball go god in and drove off, and made a u-turn and drove out past us kind

well, if you've watching us on wxi a-11 live, atlanta, georgia, explore argentina's bad lands of patagonia. at the fern bank museum of natural history. and that's your ear"early today today event of the day, lynn. >>> time now to look at the stories that we'll follow throughout the day on nbc. >>> my lie cyrsigcyrus makes he move. her next movie project will see her playing the 16-year-old daughter of a james bond-like super spy. sources say matthew mcconaughey has already turned down the role of her father. >>> and speaking of 007. reports say she's the next bond girl are wrong. according to them she hasn't even been approached. >>> somehow for some reason despite her role, it's reported that lindsay lohan will be designing hand bags for ed hardy. >>> finally sarah palin is ready to ink a deal with discovery channel for her own travel show. the former governor will reportedly be paid $1 million per episode. wow! >> she'll get the ratings, i bet. >> for cable, a million dollar an episode. that's network tv stuff. that's like "friends" material. >>> and this comes to us from wtvj, nbc 6 in

i can think of one incident when my wife, leslie and i were hiking only a mile from patagonia and we were bird watching of all of the innocuous activities and we can round up the band in the road and there were five guys offloading bales of marijuana into a beat up old station wagon. i really it of 50 feet from them and of course we stopped cold, they stopped cold and dave ran off into the bushes in the creek and the guy driving the volkswagen golf in and drove off and made a u-turn and drove back past us kind of giving us his best treasurer of the c dot dress their probably to let us know he didn't think would be cool if we called the cops which we did any way. [applause] but in another case, kind of a humorous one about two years ago i was for spec writing with a friend in the rauf tail valley and four of these sad sacks came popping out of the canyon. they looked like a mess and they were waving at me and so i made sure they were not armed. i rode up to them and it turned out they were drug mules who dropped their loads and they were asking me for a road where they could get picke

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