barnacles, sea grasses, all dead. >> you're living on a hope and a prayer. that's all i've got at this point. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. we're going to start with what we hope is growing trend to raise wages. it is great news for american workers in the economy. walmart announced they would be raising their hourly minimum wage to $9 an hour. let's hear it for walmart. they are not alone. aetna, ikea and gap, they're all raising free wages. is this the free market at work or is this time to stop the embarrassment. >> over the past five years, the longest stretch of private sector job creation in american history, businesses adding nearly 12 million new jobs and in perhaps the single most hopeful sign for middle-class families in a very long time wages are beginning to rise again. america is coming back. >> don't you get a feeling the democrats are like the most modest people on the face of the earth. what would republicans, if they had the power, be doing if they were behind these numbers? look at wall street. today the

barnacles, sea grasses all dead. it is not going to come back. >> they lost money, their livelihood, their careers. >> what were you thinking when you saw those pictures on tv? >> right at the well head, i was almost in tears. that's where i lived. >>> plus, the palin effect. >> i can see russia from my house. >> how much do you think lorne michaels would pay me if i were to run in 2016? >> why a palin 2016 nomination could be a reality. >> this applies to you in the 2016 presidential race. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. it was a weekend of terror around the globe. in libya isis released a video claiming to show the beheading of 21 egyptian christians. the brutal act of violence is clearly a gross display of what isis is capable of what they are motivated about and what they are made of. this amounts to a religious war. we all have our own interpretations at this point. at this point these people were targeted and murdered because of their faith. the response from the egyptian government has been swift

it is not sand in the sea grass but it is snow.f course, your favorite place to shop in cape may washington square mall pretty quiet today with two shoppers going down the walkway. we want to thank our friend at cape may magazine for these great pictures sharing that snowy scene with us. right now in in philadelphia the temperature 30. poconos 19. twenty-nine in reading. little bit milder to the south but not much. raleigh-durham at 34. they have a good dose of snow, about six to 8 inches there nashville 36. birmingham 38, our weather is going to becoming from the northwest and you can see the cold minneapolis nine, omaha ten and bismarck only 9 degrees. on storm scan three you saw a few flurries. other than that during the day tomorrow it will be very sunny, very quiet with temperatures in the the 20's. staying cold for saturday, is that bitter high pressure system builds in and then our next weather system comes from the the south the west in the form of the warm front. we will be seeing a wintry mix, sunday night into monday. th

barnacles, sea grasses all dead.come back. >> they lost money, their livelihood, their careers. >> what were you thinking when you saw those pictures on tv? >> right at the well head, i was almost in tears. that's where i lived. >>> plus, the palin effect. >> i can see russia from my house. >> how much do you think lorne michaels would pay me if i were to run in 2016? >>

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barch barnacles, sea grasses.rs, can you believe it since that disaster and traveled down to the gulf ridge and my home to see what was going on. the day this went on we had a shot of oil coming out of the pipe. >> yeah. >> coming out. and it seemed that everybody was there. then they fixed the spill, the cameras left and that was it. >> yeah. >> how are we faring five years later? >> out of sight out of mind is really what it is. there's still a lot of sufficientoring down there, joe, and i don't know if it will ever be right. bp has done good things but the folks there think they haven't done enough and there's a lot of people that have been financially injured by this and they're still struggling with it today. so many facets. the environment, the recovery, the business aspect of it. >> talk about the business because something that i heard about, and i'm sure you saw this when you went down there is that people would be promised a big settlement and waiting for it because family businesses were ruined and righ

sea level. places where they're thrilled to see one flight a month land on the grass patch that is the mota lavaort. >> you're the man, mick. >> on this island, there are around 1,500 people and two cars. this is the one that runs. sort of. it started. i will never complain about new york city taxi cabs ever again. and wait till you see where that truck took us. >> this is the one that runs. amazing. >> really incredible. and the people there -- i get to this village, better cell phone service than i get in manhattan. they know what's out there. they want what we have. we look at them and think, you live in a screensaver. you already have paradise. be careful what you wish for. >> how did you pick these locations? >> variety. exoticness, that's my bucket list. somehow i got cnn to fund my midlife crisis. >> bill weir, it is terrific. thank you so much for coming in. sunday night, 10:00 eastern. it's the debut of "the wonder list." do not miss it. >> and don't miss this. jump over to our website and check out an "@this hour" web exclusive. i spoke with star jones and randy zuckerberg, the sister

sea level. places where they are thrilled to see one flight a month land on the grass patch that is the international> on this island, there are around 1,500 people and two cars. this is the one that runs. sort of. >> it started. i will never complain about new york city taxi cabs ever again. >> you better not complain about anything. >> no i can't complain about my job again. no roads. about 1,500 people. one car that runs. cell phone service better than manhattan. >> come on. >> a lot of the folks, they want big hotels. they want to give up what we think is a magical way of life to have a little more of what we have. >> this is just one place. you just hit all the highlights around the world. i want to ask about the dead sea. you're telling us you better get to some of these places because they could be gone. >> most people don't know some of the holiest bodies of water, the river where jesus is baptized in jordan and the dead sea are disappearing at alarming rates. israel, jordan syria have been diverting that fresh water to feed growing populations. but that story gave me an amazing amount of hop

sea level. places where they're thrilled to see one flight a month land on the grass patch that is the mota lavanational airport. >> you're the man, mick. >> on this island there are around 1500 people and two cars. this is the one that runs. sort of. >> oh! >> it started. i will never complain about new york city taxi cabs ever again. >> bill weir joins me now to talk about this. you know climate change is a subject near and deer to myar to my heart. it's a subject we should be paying attention to. >> an awful lot of people agree it's happening. they see it happening. some aren't so convinced. i wanted this series to look at things social change overhunting, over fishing through the eyes of people who are seeing it beneath their feet. >> it's interesting you can go to a tiny island and talk about climate change in an intelligent way and you can't do that in the united states. >> it's so politicized. such a third rail right now. but when you look at the fact that human beings have been on this planet for just a blink in time and just a tiny second. in that time we've managed it. cut down half th

sea generation. psych heads look a lot like true palms but they are a different family and order of plants altogether. they are conifers whereas palms are more close the related to grasses. they are different even know they look similar. botanists will say they have morphological similarities. one of the big differences is the way in which they grow. you can take a cutting or a section of its trunk and you can let that go dormant and that is the most likely how these plants were originally transported from the pacific to the part of the united states in the mid-1800s -- early 1800s actually. you can take that dormant peace and coax it into growing leaves and turning into a full plant. the palm, right here we have the classic coconut palm. it has a special growth characteristic in that it has a tip of growth that the botanists call a meristem. once the plant uses that he said growth, it cannot survive. you cannot take a cutting from the contrary in the same way that you could -- from that palm tree from the same with that you could a psych had an generate a tree. iconic plants that people who come to visit washington, d.c. may not have seen and living plant form. people