for cocaine they act as middle men moving the drug north from the point of origin in south america. >he cocaine that is used around the world is coming from one place, the andean region of south america. >> this is columbia, not from where i'm standing. the foothills of the andean mountains. more than half of the cocaine is produced here. one of them ramirez is awaiting trial on u.s. on trafficking charges. >> we're equipped and trained to work in these environments in the jungle and do air assault operations. >> we can't reveal his identity nor of his peers but he has been fighting narco insurgents for four years. their main goal is to fight the globally recognized terrorist organization more than 10,000 strong. >> they feel the insurgency down here by the production and sale of cocaine. >> he and seven other agents make up deanarco jungle operations unit. >> these are the columbian nationalists along with the dea they are about to go on a raid. this is their mission brief. >> the mission, destroy this facility. it was revealed by a confidential source. the dea shared the information

for cocaine they act as middle men moving the drug north from the point of origin in south america. >all of the cocaine that is used around the world is coming from one place, the andean region of south america. >> this is columbia, not from where i'm standing. the foothills of the andean mountains. more than half of the cocaine is produced here. one of them ramirez is awaiting trial on u.s. on trafficking charges. >> we're equipped and trained to work in these environments in the jungle and do air assault operations. >> we can't reveal his identity nor of his peers but he has been fighting narco insurgents for four years. their main goal is to fight the globally recognized terrorist organization more than 10,000 strong. >> they feel the insurgency down here by the production and sale of cocaine. >> he and seven other agents make up deanarco jungle operations unit. >> these are the columbian nationalists along with the dea they are about to go on a raid. this is their mission brief. >> the mission, destroy this facility. it was revealed by a confidential source. the dea shared the inf

in the world exploited by foreigners for centuries, and yet, it remains the poorest country in south america. the project manager says this time, bolivia is determined to benefit from the riches it holds. one expert that i talked to said to me that if bolivia does this right, bolivia could be the saudi arabia of the 21st century when it comes to energy. but if they do it wrong they'll have nothing. this is our chance to correct history, he says. in the past, we have had so much wealth here and all that we have been left with is above -- with poverty. >> some worry this is a developing country, a poorest country in south america that this is an ambitious project for a country like this. it is an ambitious project? >> yes, it is. but it's not impossible. >> success is not guaranteed. but if bolivia can make this work, this vast sea of white could offer this poor country a richer future and a planet a greener future. i'm jeffrey kofman for "nightline" on the uyuni salt flats in bolivia. >> our thanks to jeffrey kofman for that. >>> when we come back, an historic day as the supreme court welcome

so darwin technique, just to give you an example, this is a page on his notes on south america and i can see he's trying to explain what's going on. there's a number at 1858 and at the bottom of the page he's trying to show where the different rock types exist in the strata. he's a little nervous about his drawing ability and he said this is not really an exact representation of nature. this is schematic. but you can see him trained -- that his training, brief though it was, was excellent. so all the specimens he came back with are pretty useable because we know where they're from. they're alli.erq)e's an example of labeling. this is a rock, that's the bottom word. that's a superficial deposit in pampas. and there's a piece of brown paper written in ink and he wrapped the -- the specimens, the samples, in this paper and then put it all in his collecting bag. today geologists tend to use plastic bags, ziploc bags we use for leftovers. but they work perfectly well and they're cheap. no plastics in those days so they used paper. here's another example of a rock specimen, 1079 with a lab

it is fairly closeo south america but it will take a turn away from south america. while you slept, it became a category two hurricane. south america right down there. so not far away. gude lawn just out to the west. i shouldn't say just west. it is still not near guadalupe. it is moving west-northwest about 17 miles per hour and it is expected to continue to take that turn towards the north. >>> let's take a look at the regional temperatures here in our part of the the world. 74degrees in washington. 80degrees right now in new york city. they are ahe get sfoaght a warm one. roanoke, 69 degrees and if cape hatteras, it is 75 degrees at this hour. here is a look at the radar for the eastern united states. now, i mentioned earlier the moisture with claudette. here is some of it. it doesn't look anything like when it made landfall in florida. but as the dray dei progresses and we get more heat, we could see some of that intensify and move into portions of the mid- atlantic region as well. forecast for washington for today looks like this. partly sunny skies, some scatt

troop movement in south america. all that plus the all-star panel, right here, right now. bret: welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. breaking news within the last few minutes. a federal jury has found former louisiana democratic congressman william jefferson guilty of bribery. this case is best known, you may remember, with the $90,000 federal agents found in his freezer. national correspondent catherine herridge joins us live with details. >> according to reports we are receiving from the federal courthouse in alex an dree ya, the former congressman has been found guilty of 11 of the charges against him, including bribery, in one of the most notorious trials in the beltway within years. he was accused of accepting $400,000 in bribes and $90,000 was found stashed in the freezer of his d.c. home and in addition he was accused of seeking millions more in exchange for putting together business deals in africa. he was indicted in june of 2007, two years after f.b.i. agents began amassing the bulk of the case against him. the evidence came from an f.b.i. informant. jefferson,

the hospital ship returned this afternoon after a four-month trek to south america. >> mounted officers have been part of the baltimore landscaped and the city police department for 120 years, but soon they could be gone, that is unless they find $200,000 needed to care for the horses. rob roblin is live downtown. >> this unit has been here since 1888. it is the oldest, continuously running horse patrol unit in the country. >> he knows that you are going to bring him home, so he will bring you home. >> they will quickly tell you what a valuable unit it is. >> crowd control, burglaries. it is an ominous presence. even downtown. people will come up and talk to you and give you information that it would not give a regular patrol officer. >> unless the unit gets $200,000, the unit will be dissolved. >> it would be terrible for the city. it is a tradition. >> the mounted unit is a part of history. it would be a shame to lose it. >> then there is the public relations aspect. everybody wants to pat the horse or take a picture. gov. martin o'malley knows the value of the unit and hopes the mone

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the university of edinburgh that's what led him to learn about birds and stuffing ing down to south america. here's weber before talked about deficit spending and the need for government to intervene when private spending had finished and here's a guy who said how i became an economic heretic and part of the struggle is not just to know how we know but how to go as alice walker says embrace them as our own. >> okay. thank you for that. i'm sorry but our session is over and i'd just like to encourage you to do one thing. one commonality of all of us is the fact that we are book lovers so i'm going to ask you to buy our books, go out there, walk from one part of the street to the other. greet the authors, thank the authors and buy their books. thank you so much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we conclude our encore coverage of the 2009 harlem book fair with catherine acolonu on her book "they lived before adam." it's 25 minutes. >> now we have author catherine acolonu, who is the author of the book "they lived before adam." in 2001, after more tha

. >> deep in the jungles of south america, the jaguar is king of the beast., ferocious. so who is that guy taking a jaguar for a walk? jordan egger, only 19, is from london. he has been caring for rupi for a month. >> i think you get here in ten mines and you realize he's such a sweet cat, as you can see right now. >> yes, the big cat can seem sweet, but they're not always like that. a collection of videos on mysp the this is ambue ari. part of a network of image reserves in bolivia like nothing you'll find anywhere else. they have become a popular destination for extreme adventures. people from the u.s. and other parts volunteer in harsh conditions. >> it's muddy. >> yeah, it getsorse. >> they come here to care for abandoneand jungle animals. living with them from sunrise to sunset. >> well, i don't think -- >> but the big draw -- the jungle cats. >> that is caroline dougherty from greenwich, connecticut. for the last two weeks she has been here at the reer is -- reserve taking care of ans of let. do you have any experience with jungle animals? >> no jungle

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there is indication that hezbollah in iran operates in south america.'s take the worst case scenario. could iran cause problems in the u.s.? yes. let's take an improbable scenario, but the u.s. and iran are in a worsening confrontation and an iranian circuit set off a car bomb in new york and brings down a building, somehow they from another country -- terrorism is still with us. another attack could push this country in a completely different directions. yes, there is a thread iran in south america. -- there is a threat from iran. the democrats do want to get rid of khameni who is a legitimate, not truly an ayatollah, who is increasingly controlled by his unpopular son. those from the old days would like to get rid of him. tehran oversteps themselves -- if is steps against a selves, there could be a reaction and support could be withdrawn. but tomorrow morning if there were another movement there i would not be surprised. i would like to say there's something we can do to help the democrats in iran, but i don't think so. the further we stay fromiran, t

golf glory being transported to argentina, angel cabrera took the masters in a playoff giving south america its first green jacket. our other major also saw the game reaching a new audience, staying step for step with tiger, south korean y.e. yang denied the number one player and put asian golf on top of the world. we saw for eighth months so many spectacular performances. tiger took four titles before our cameras from jack's event to washington, flint and akron. phil loved l.a. and then felt the love of the entire golf community at colonial with the pink out saturday in honor of amy. another moment, private first class being escorted up the 18th on sunday. just beautiful. this was our world from january to today. we treasured the views from our office windows and we loved every minute of bringing them to you. the cbs golf team will meet again five months time. at torrey pines. liberty national debuting in such a big way. it will not be the site of this event next year. they declared that they are going to rotate it around the new york metropolitan area and plainfield will be the site. it i

in latin america, mexico and south, the markets are still vibrant. so you've got a large portion of the world where the markets are still growing. and with the growth of those markets, our business is doing exceedingly well. so, you know, south america, east of the middle east, i feel very, very bullish about. let's now talk about western europe, eastern europe, and rth america, which is the bloc that's facing the most amount of slow-down. i think those are the economies we have to watch very carefully to see what's going to trigger gdp growth to come back to positive territory. in spite of gdp growth being negative people still have to eat and drink. more importantly, people are cutting back, eating out in restaurants, eating at home more. so that's helping our businesses. so overall, i think the growth rates are still fairly all right. the pattern of growth varies by country. but the growth rates are still there. and our businesses are doing well on a global basis. >> my thanks to indra nooyi. >>> up next on "the wall street journal report," "the p

family had been given 200 years ago for being buccaneers and they had any spanish flag flying from south america up to north america and the islands in between and other buccaneers were given these parcels of land and that is where jimmy grew up. i don't think they got electricity until 1964. it's only been a fleet so to speak to have gotten some so jimmy had this history and his background yet he's being educated by his aunt after his mother became ill as a baby and he didn't have the life that his ancestors had. his father was a fisherman, his father woodbury spices between the bahamas and cuba and jimmy would do this with him in the summer when he would go home from school and nassau and i think that he could continue the tradition that began many centuries before. jacob, his father, even told his three boys, jimmy had to brothers, their ancestors in later years would actually light fires in the middle of the island at times. they were called breakers. they would have these ships come up. they did this on the outer banks. very common on these outer islands and have the ships there in all thes

in the wider cup of south america. and the friendly game between moscow and russia will also go ahead next week. >>> the producers of one of the world's most expensive essential oils are struggling too. almost half the supply of rose oil comes from one valley in bulgaria the >> early evening and deep in the bulgarian countryside they're getting ready to distill the day's lavender harvest, packing tightly into vats and then forcing steam through. the scent of lavender is overpowering. a few weeks earlier it wasn't lavender but roses they were harvesting in a traditional business that goes back more than a century. here in the lee of these mountains say perfect microclimate for growing roses and the fields stretch for miles. the oil distilled from these flowers is valuable. at its peak it sold for $206 a kilo but not this year. the price has fallen and the growers are calling it a crisis. the recession means fewer travelers passing through duty-free shops like this where the bulk of the u.s. perfumes are sold. it's bad f

those partnerships are clearly for the long term in oil supply and for agriculture in south america. they are doing these things and the u.s. and europe really are not. >> i would say that the u.s. is doing it. say for oils. china's building its oil stockpiles and it's now just up to 25 days of supply. the u.s. strategic petroleum reserve down in the u.s. gulf coast has 90 days supply for the u.s. we've got 700 million barrels of oil stornlgz on the u.s. gulf coast. >> that supply would only last us about 30 days i think is the -- if we were full of demand again. it's not really a long-term outlook. i'm saying china is trying to build these long-term strategic partnerships which we don't have. >> because they see themselves as a superpower and they want to get back to their superpower stat sxus they're not going to let any shortfalls get in their way. what does this mean in terms of investing? >> in the commodity space there's going to be opportunity on either side. china's a smart trader, doing what they do best, looking when prices fall, buying the xhaeper commodities. i think it's

visit any of the airlines 56 destinations in u.s., caribbean and south america. the pass is on sale now through august 21st. it will be valid for travel between september 8th and october 8th. >>> a new natural sweetener hitting store shelves. sugar substitute is called truvia. some say it is sweeter than sugar and has no calories. but there may also be downsides. truvia from an extract of the stevia blant b stevia, plant, 250 times sweeter than sugar. >> it is the hottest new sweetener coming out. and everyone is very excited about it. because it is all-natural. and it comes from a plant. you can actually find this plant at your local farmer's markets. >> but there could be a downside. some studies have raised concerns about the use of the sweetener and impaired kidney function, fertility and blod pressure. the company says its researc refutes those findings. >>> group of hotel workers from our area won a powerball lottery prize. a pool of 27 employees at washington hilton played powerball last week. turns out they matched all but one number and won $10,000. afte

he started out bringing health care to the jungles the south america when he realized, maybe there's desperate help needed here in this country. >> he's the founder of remote area medical, a corps of doctors, nurses and dental professionals. he joins us from knoxville, tennessee. stan, thank you for being with us. what an interesting story. you did this, because you were injured. you were in south america somewhere and you needed medical attention, and it was 26 days on foot to get to a doctor? >> yes, yes, 26 days on foot. and so it makes you think, you know, when you're lying there all smashed up somewhere, and there's no doctor in sight. and of course, that unfortunate is really the case for 49 million americans who might as well be in the amazon jungle for their likelihood of being able to access health care in this country. >> is it really true, if you were injured in this country, it is federal law, you walk into an emergency room, and you have to be treated is the law. isn't the issue here that it's costly to have health care system like that, and that we need to find a better

two months ago sanford admitted an affair with a woman from south america. his wife and kids have moved out of the governor's mansion. state officials are asking for an ethics probe of sanford's use of state aircraft. >>> espn zone in downtown d.c. was turned into a sound stage. ♪ i did it my ♪ ♪ i know that my ♪ reach out for me >> the washington nationals hosted star spangled singoff. each contestant sang for 30 second. judges will select a winner to perform at a home game. >>> pretty good. >> fst guy was fabulous. >> f >>> the tonight show is up next. >> we'll leave you with a final look at the tribute to senator ted kennedy. >> the work goes on. the hope still lives. and the dream sthhall never die. ♪

the nation of ecuador is on the western side of south america with columbia to the north, peru to the south, and roughly the size of nevada with a population of 14 million. ecuador's key industries are oil and agriculture. it ranks high with a total gdp of over $107 billion. it ranks 66th out of 228 countries, well ahead of sear ya the dominican republic, lebanon, iceland, et cetera. but the current economic meltdown threatened to hit ecuador hard, nevertheless. this led ecuador's president, a university of illinois ph.d to choose protectionism as a way to escape the economic christ thas now ravages the world. he levied tariffs over 600 products. the total imports have rates of up to 35%. when he did admit imports, he sharply limited them with quotas cutting the inflow of foreign products by over one- third. as a result, ecuador's trade deficit narrowed from 1.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008 to a 820 million dollar deaf fit in the first quarter of '09. ek with ecuador's overall outlook is also solid. the unemployment rate is roughly the same as before the downturn. the economy

they are spreading their tentacles now into central and south america, reinvigorating relationships with chavez and the castro brothers in cuba. they are also reaching deep into africa and the middle east. so we've got to watch them strategically as well as economically. >> so exit question, is it obsolete or not, the g8? >> no, it's not but it will have to be slowly enlarged to include india and probably brazil. >> i'm not advocating a g2. i'm just saying china and the u.s. have to be partners in a lot of areas. >> i agree. >> the vice president of the united states is encouraging the china/u.s. relationship. she deserves a lot of credit. >> new york the secretary of state. >> excuse me, the secretary of state. >> right. >> there's been renewed interest in asia since barack obama came to power. hillary clinton's been to southeast asia twice. i think you will see a lot of attention on the region. >> is the eupasse? >> if it is, where am i going to go? >> dimitri's our man in hong kang. >> the u.e. is essential for running the world's economy. >> the e.u. is huge on trade. the problem it

but they've heard that here before with silver, gas, oil yet this remains the poorest country in south america's different this time, says the plant manager. these profits will stay in the country. if bolivia can make this work. it can offer the country a sea of future. >>> and coming up members of congress ready to fly in style. courtesy of your money. fancy feast appetizers. simple high quality ingredients like wild alaskan salmon, white meat chicken, or seabass and shrimp in a delicate broth, prepared without by-products or fillers. new fancy feast appetizers. celebrate the moment. new fancy feast appetizers. the $100 cream. flabbergasted when we creamed the $700 cream! for under $30 regenerist micro-sculpting cream hydrates better than 32 of the world's most expensive creams. fantastic. phenomenal. regenerist. back playing in .the afternoon. excedrin back and body has two ingredients to block and relieve the pain. doesn't your whole body deserve excedrin strength relief? excedrin. what ache? >>> former ra wla congressman william jefferson was convicted late today of charges of bribery and

reserves of the key ingredient in those batteries actually come from a remote spot in bolivia, south americaffrey kofman takes us there. >> under this vast sea of blinding white, the largest salt flats in the world may be the key to a greener planet. right now the only people you find on the remote flats are desperately poor salt gatherers. but there is something much more valuable here -- lithium, more than half of the world's known reserves. you've heard of the new generation of electric cars that will soon be on the market? they will run on lithium batteries. there's no way that's going to be supplied without accessing bolivia's reserves. so bolivia has the potential to be the saudi arabia of lithium. the lithium battery is far lighter, more durable and hold as charge much longer than any others. as the auto industry looks towards the electric car, the challenge is finding a supply, which is why the world is looking here at the salt flats of bolivia. so in one of the most remote places on earth, bolivia has begun building what they hope will ultimately be the largest lithium, tracks plant

during his reign, basically all of the countries -- some of the countries of south america. other countries have done -- have done better than egypt. and egypt should be one of these countries. >> reporter: it will take more than a change of president to make that to happen. ben knight, "lateline." >> joining us to discuss u.s./egyptian relations and issues that are likely to be on the agenda when president mubarak meets with president obama tomorrow is salameh nematt he is a foreign affairs columnist for the internet news site the daily beast and joins us from washington. welcome. >> thank you. >> as the obama administration tries to come up with some sort of middle east deal, what role does it envision for president mubarak? >> well, the obama administration would like to see president obama to take steps to normalize relations with israel. the obama administration would like to see more warming up of relations of kind of exchanges of visits. some kind of concessions, if you like, to israel, such as allowing flyovers of airplanes, israeli airplanes over egyptian airspace,

>>sabeau: you have the middle east, the chinese and in europe and in south america you have two or threeou have some projects of production of caviar. >>reporter: farmed caviar also enables a much more consistent supply. harvest qualites of wild caviar can fluctuate wildly, as can the final price. >>gates: we found it difficult to often quote prices to customers so farmed caviar has allowed us tohave something that is constant and customers knew where they were. >>reporter: and it seems customers approve. farmed caviar took a while to catch on, as much for reasons of snobbery as gastronomy, but so far the switch to sustainable caviar has been a smooth one. >>gates: those people who enjoy eating caviar will continue to enjoy eating caviar so we are very happy with the sales of caviar. we've not seen any drop-off at all. >>reporter: so it seems that even in a recession, connoisseurs will continue their love affair with caviar. only these days the very best caviar may just be farmed. >>abirached: the largest beluga sturgeon ever caught was in astrakhan in 1908. it was the length of 11 men s

south america, where it's winter has been hit relatively hard according from figures from the european centers of prevention and control. the virus had killed 192 people. by this week, that number had almost tripled to 557. in the u.s., there were 436 deaths as of two weeks ago. this week, the number had grown to 522. world wide the number of deaths from swine flu has gone up about 50% in the last two weeks from 1,851 to 2,757. >>> for all the concern about the flu, here is something that might put it in perspective, malaria, the mosquito-borne disease, kills more than 1 million people each year. most of them in sub-saharan africa. tonight, we're going to take a closer look at malaria, the toll it takes and what's being done about it. there is new hope. we report from a report from kenya in the town ofcyia on the front lines of the battle. the story was produced by the international reporting project, shot and edited it by christina macgillivray and by charvan who narrate it is the report. >> reporter: this is the district hospital in rural western kenya and it serves over 120,000 pati

the colombian president alvaro uribe is on the world went to work of south america to defend his plan to boost u.s. military press presents in his country. after visiting peru, he flew to bolivia to meet president morales who reiterated his strong opposition to the plan. full market and financial analysis in 25 minutes but first michelle has news of huge losses at @ britain's lloyd's banking group. what we know about that? >> the bank has come forward and this was said it is all the fault of individuals and companies actually not repaying their debt. they actually lost about $20 billion almost in terms of bad loans. the knock on a fact of the bottom line when it comes to profits is the company said it made a loss of $6.8 billion. pretty bad news, especially if you are a british taxpayer because the company had to be bailed out by the british government which now owns a 43% stake in the company. >> it was not the only bank reporting losses. >> it certainly wasn't. it seems that all this week we keep coming back and talking to you about banks. we heard about another european bank, socie

is now working to attract mo instors from theiddle east d palestiniansiving abrd especially in south america. >> t minute ere's a slight improventin the political and diplomatic front, particularly the prospectsf the peace agreement with israel, growth is going to come to the paleinian's stock exchange and when it comes it' not going to be 20% a 30%. butmuch, muchore. reporter: plans to take the exchangeitself public b 2010 butest way to attract instors and bring sustainable growth to the wst bank economy will be long-term peace reement. >> that was deutsche welle >> and that brings us to our segment,how you see it." we'd like to know from y, what do you tnk it will take to reach a mideast peace agreent? you can tells what you think by going to the "how you seet" section of ourebsite at worldfocus.org and we'll rort on what you id tomorrow. st night, we asked you about the detention of terror suspect o was thought to be only 12 years old en he was sent tguantanamo. hoshould the u.s. deal with terror suspects whenhey are still chdren? e viewer told us, "of course the arrest was pper and the d

. >> now to a developing story from south america, where costa rican president oscar arias has been diagnosed with swine flu. the 69-year-old president and nobel peace prize winner has shown flu symptoms since sunday but participated in public activities as late as this morning. arias is quarantined at home now and is being treated with the antiflu medicine. >> tonight, the nation is mourning the loss of you'r eunie kennedy shriver. she made a permanent mark on the american landscape with her commitment to public service, particr our region. the d.c. headquarters of the special olympics honored its founder with this picture made during happier days and a sole yellow rose below. >> she has touched so many. she was so committed. she really was a tireless, fearsome advocate for this cause that she believes iso strongly. >> three of her brothers ran for president but it was eunice kennedy shriver's mentally challenged sister rosemary, who inspired her. >> she taught us all that adversity meant almost nothing and that it could always be fun for all of us to be together. >> the 88-year-old's work i

the america's that are bearing the brunt of 1154 confirmed deaths, 1008 of those in north and south america, 436 in the united states. medical officials are closely watching south american countries like argentina where it's now winter to get an idea of how the virus might behave when it hits the u.s. as temperatures cool. >> i think we're doing& everything we can to prepare for this fall, including working to prepare a vaccine for distribution this fall. >> reporter: tomorrow the president goes to new hampshire for a town hall on health-care reform. it should be lively to say the least. activists on both sides are expected to show up in large numbers. katie. >> all right, chip reid in guadalajara, mexico, championship thank you. from our cbs news medical team dr. jennifer ashton what is the winter flu season in the southern hemisphere telling us about what the flu is doing and what we may be facing this fall. >> well, katie, the cdc has field crews across the southern hemisphere. and what they're seeing so far is high numbers affecting young people ages 5 to 25 24, exactly as we've seen in

in south america, in chile, officials say the death toll from the disease now stands at 128. but they say its spread there is now slowing. world wide, an estimated 1,800 people have died of swine flu. that's considered to be a relatively low number. but it's up more than 20% from the week before. new zealand was one of those western pacific countries warned today about the spread of the swine flu. but that's apparently not what's on the mind of many folks there tonight. another topic is corporal punishment. in a nationwide referendum that ended today, nearly 88% of new zealanders voted "no" when asked this question, "should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offense?" there is already a law on the books in new zealand that prohibits parents from hitting their children. some parents think the law is intrusive, that it's a private family matter. and that's what inspired today's referendum, which is nonbinding. tell us what you think, should governments make laws about how to punish children? or it is a private matter? go to worldfocus.org to share your op

working to attract more investors from the middle east and palestinians living abroad especially in south america. >> the minute there's a slight improvement in the political and the diplomatic front, particularly the prospects of the peace agreement with israel, growth is going to come to the palestinians stock exchange and when it comes it's not going to be 20% and 30%. but much, much more. >> reporter: plans to take the exchange itself public by 2010. but the best way to attract investors and bring sustainable growth to the west bank economy will be a long-term peace agreement. >> that was deutsche welle. >> and that brings us to our segment, "how you see it." we'd like to know from you, what do you think it will take to reach a mideast peace agreement? you can tell us what you think by going to our "how you see it" section of our website at worldfocus.org and we'll report on what you said tomorrow. last night, we asked you about the detention of a terror suspect who was thought to be only 12 years old when he was sent to guantanamo. how should the u.s. deal with terror suspects when they are

people go to south america, africa. i kind of wanted to stay local. >> reporter: why?e a lot of it had to do with the economy. >> thank you so very much. >> reporter: in mamaroneck, new york, they helped rebuild a home destroyed in a flood. you've been living with friend for how long? >> two years now. >> reporter: wow. >> two years. >> reporter: this will be quite a change. >> yes, this is going to be exciting. >> reporter: while most people won't go to the lengths tom and john have, last year 62 million americans volunteered, the most since 2005. and it was 16- to 25-year-olds who made up half the increase. it's been mostly fun, despite the tight quarters. >> we haven't gotten in any fist fights yet. >> reporter: good. and they say they've gotten some help from a third buddo board. >> this is st. nicholas. the patron saint of boaters and travelers. >> reporter: together they navigated the waters guided by their sense of adventure and a quote from mark twain, "sail away from the safe harbor. catch the trade winds in your sails. explore. dream. discover." seth doane, c