. >> i'm not all that familiar with some things in south america. can you tell me basically were you in north, south america or in a southern section? >> will actually i was an analyst with the cia. i worked on every country -- i worked on the caribbean, i worked on central america, i worked on mexico, south america. the one country i never worked on was cuba. [laughter] >> that was a monopoly. >> that's right. but i was the caribbean analyst for haiti and the dominican republic and jamaica and so on and then i was chief of the indian branch and then i worked on argentina and lived in argentina and also lived in brazil. >> you were involved with venezuela? >> yes, to some extent. >> i didn't know that to cover all of south america. >> i was a regional analyst. let me say a few words since you mentioned venezuela about hugo chavez. william going to say may sound a little radical for what most people think of a cia analyst would think. a few years ago i read a book by a diplomatic historian about latin america, a fellow named martin and he made the as

and in this region, the pushing of the pacific basin under south america has been locked since 1835. and that's a long time. it suddenly let's loose, and when it does, it does so with a lot of shaking in the vertical motion and horizontal. and as you heard from your eyewitness, who just spoke from the telephone in santiago, it's a complicated pattern. first it crescendos because the waves come in that series, because it lasts a long time. the earthquake takes 100 seconds to unzip. so this earthquake didn't happen all at once like you might think. the fault unzipped over a period of 100 seconds, and during those 100 seconds, we have a pretty complicated pattern of shake, so that's what your eyewitness reporters are telling us and we can confirm that request the seismographs and the equipment that records the earthquakes. >> i know you're not a sooth sayer, but our resident colleague predicts that we'll have one of these huge earthquakes on the west coast of the united states in our lifetime. and what's the official position of the u.s. geological survey. >> i can give you a clear answ

those waters are rapidly disappearing. >> reporter: it's the largest lake in south america and it's at risk. located at 3,800 meters above sea level on the border of bolivia and peru. lake titicaca has sunk to the lowest level in 60 years, evaporating two to three centimeters a week. global warming is to blame. and the length of the rainy season has been cut in half. >> translator: where we are standing, this time last year, it was covered by water. thousands of birds were feeding from it. now, as you can see, it's completely dry. >> reporter: millions of people depend on the lake and they have already started to feel the consequences of the disappearing waters. this man was forced to move his cattle to be nearer the water. the area they once came to drink is now dry and abandoned. >> translator: as the climate changes, little by little, we are forced to go with our animals to where there is water so we can survive. we have no other choice. life is water. >> reporter: the decreasing rainfall isn't the only factor putting lake titicaca in peril. scientists say the glaciers that feed the

if you look on the left, that is the new world, south america with north america above it. this is the first map to show north and south america and in the u.s. we surrounded by water, not as some undefined part of asia or some undefined place that isn't identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water it's really the first not to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean, and this is something of a mystery because europeans are not supposed to have known about the pacific ocean until 1313 guinn he caught sight of it from a mountaintop. so, that's something that brings a lot of people back to the map and something peter has written about extensively. it's not something i dwell on a lot in the book because i felt that the mystery is almost more fun to read as a mystery than to try to resolve. but it's a great part of the story. it's not the only part of the story the. there is more that is very significant about the map. if you look at africa flexible, this is one of the very first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa and

we forling breakingñr news out south america.the death toll growingÑi to at least 64 after a massive earthquake in chile. theÑi magnitude 8.8 quake hit 2 miles southwest of the capital early this morning. the president has declared a state of catastrophe. it is still too early to determine the extent of the damagqnz hawaii is under açó tsunami warning. a tsunami advisory is in effect in california and alaska. officials in japan and australia are warning a tsunami is likely to hit asian shorelines within the next 24 hours. chuck will join us in just a moment with your weekend weather forecast. stay with us. >>> meteorologist, chuck bell joining us. >> gd morning, everybody. your weekend under way. skies are cloudy. we have snow flurries and showers to show you on radar. another area of light snow across southern portions of pennsylvania is swinging down to the south. so as a result, you folks already into northern maryland are seeing light snow. that whole patch of light snow will be coming down through washington and east over th

we launched against south america, they could launch against north america and we'd both be vaporizedody armed each other to the teeth. mutual assured destruction. a way to keep everyone from moving. this wasn't good enough for the thinkers. that's not good enough. how do we do it without weapons? now, let me take you back to right after 9/11. i was a really lazy american. i didn't know much about american history. i didn't know anything about anything really. i was just starting to come in my own and figure things out in the five years prior to that and i thought boy, i don't know anything about the middle east or america or anything. how did we get here? i started to read everything i could get my hands on. i read this one. "tragedy and hope." it was written in the early 1960s but a well respected professor who taught at georgetown, harvard, princeton. he was all over. his name was carroll quigley. he has mentored people from every president for i don't know how many years. he was also very close mentor to bill clinton. in fact, i believe he was the guy who helped bill clinton becom

and created a tsunami warning across the pacific ocean from south america to the pacific rim. stephanie stanton, nbc news. >>> a woman abducted, sexually assaulted and dumped miles away from home. tonight arlington police are looking for the guy who did it. they think he may have done something like this before. police say a gunman approached two women early this morning at a house near wilson boulevard and george mason drive. that's where we find darcy spencer tonight. what do we know? >> reporter: police are saying this woman is lucky to be alive. not only was she sexually assaulted, but was severely beaten. she was driven from this area here in arlington county to a place miles away and basically left f dead. arlington county police say a man abducted two women walking here in the 600 block of north wakefield street this morning. the armed gunman forced them into a home and tied them up. the abductor left the house with one of the victims answer forced her into his vehicle. some point during the ordeal she was sexually assaulted. >> officers immediately saturated the area.

she may have run a drug trafficking operation to transport cocaine from south america to europe. she was coffee queen in 2000. >>> a start up company in california unveiled the balloon box. fuel combined with oxygen inside the cell to produce electric, the box costs $700,000. >> 60 minutes did a big piece on it, it was fascinating. >>> as you look outside, stick around, marty will be back in two and a half minutes with your complete forecast. >>> here's a look at today's my day stocks and last night's winning numbers. ♪ [ male announcer ] now the best seat in the house is in your house. in fact, with the fios total ticket, it can be in every room. unlike cable, only fios gives you a multi-room dvr that lets you record shows in one room and watch them in up to six other rooms. no one will ever have to miss their favorite shows again. and now you can get a multi-room dvr plus set top box free for six months when you sign up for fios tv, internet and phone. you'll get tv with three times more very satisfied customers than comcast, america's top-rated internet, and phone. get it all

. >> the plate is going against south america very quickly, we get these huge earthquakes along that >> reporter: there have been at least 50 aftershocks. >> you don't know when it's going to stop. you don't know if it is going to get any bigger or stronger, it is going to hit us again. you only hope and pray it is going to stop soon. >> meanwhile, as one expert put it, hawaii dodged a bullet. the earthquake sent tsunami-force waves barreling across the pacific. there were fears hawaii could be hit with eight-foot waves. by the tim the tsunami arrived, the waves were much smaller than expected. however, japan is still preparing for the possible arrival of large waves there. >>> seaworld reopening following this week's deadly killer whale attack. there are sweeping changes at the park. >>> on the eve of the closing ceremony, another historic night in vancouver. we go live there and d.c.'s supposedly broken snow melter, spotted in action today. we will tell you all about that. chuck, what's you got? >> d.c.'s real snow melter, springtime, a little ways away. >> they did not need a melt

. >> in this case what is going on is that the pacific ocean is being pushed beneath south america.er, it doesn't slide under gratefully. it gets locked, it gets stopped and in this region the pushing of the pacific basin under south america has been locked since 1835. that is a long time. is suddenly lets loose and it does show with a lot of shaking and the vertical motion and horizontal and as you heard from your eyewitness who spit spoke from telephone from santiago, it is a complicated pattern. it crescendos because the waves come in in a veers and a dose last for a long time. an earthquake like this takes 100 seconds to unzip. this earthquake didn't happen all at once like you might think. the fault unzipped over a period of 100 seconds and during those 100 seconds we have a pretty complicated pattern of shaking. so that is what your eyewitness reporters are telling us and we can confirm that with the seismographs, the instruments that record these earthquakes. >> geraldo: i know you are not a soothesayer but our resident expert colleague michio kaku predicts we will have one o

they were mostly german, headed for new york where they were due to join a luxury cruise to south america. the holiday of a lifetime. 10 years later, grief was fresh at a memorial service. now relatives could be months away from an answer for why their loved ones died. abc news, paris. >> just want to bring you this -- it is being reported that michael jackson's doctor is on the verge of handing himself in to authorities. he was the last person to see michael jackson alive. according to the associated press, prosecutors plan to charge him with manslaughter. this just in from los angeles. >> it has been confirmed, as you said, a spokesman for dr. conrad murray has confirmed they expect him to surrender to authorities and the next 48 hours. this follows reports from the associated press news agency, and also the show-biz websites tmz, that is the website that first broke the news that michael jackson died. this is likely to result, if he is charged, in a court hearg, a public hearing. the judge will decide whether there is enough evidence to pursue a case against the doctor. >> just to add

country in latin america, and it's one that we want to work with as well as other countries in south america thank you, secretary mcmullin, for being with us tonight. >>> as the warning siren sounded across the length and breadth of the hawaiian islands, people evacuated the beaches and headed to higher grounds -- that's video from chile. but hawaii was waiting for the giant tsunami that experts feared would inundate the beach frogs. the tsunami never happened. and in the words of one expert, hawaii dodged the bullet. but dear friends of mine were there on vacation, and

back here at home, they teach college courses and do their homework for their next trip back to south americaa different sub species. >> reporter: there in the marshes they lose their inhibitions and their shoes in their hunt for the reptiles. why barefoot? aren't you worried something is going to bite your toes off? >> barefoot actually is pretty safe. when you are boots on, things climb into your boots and bite you. >> reporter: even if they get bit again, the snakes are not venomous, and there's no record of an anaconda preying on a human. a reassuring fact as they wade through the mud, researching the anna doon's every move, eating, interacting, even having group sex. more on that in a bit. but first, the most important reason they're after these slithering animals, their dna. >> that will help us know how many babies are from which fathers. is the population healthy, is their migration between different populations. >> reporter: on this recent mission, jesus and sara witness a rare treat. dinner time for a female anaconda. >> let's go around. >> reporter: this male, an unlucky turtle. >>

south america, which amerigo vaspucci wrote about, extended far into the south, part of the globe people tended to think there was not any land in and that made a big impression and we'll get back to that in a minute, and what dominates the map is the southern part and that is why the cartographer put the word, america, on the southern continent along with the shores that vaspucci sailed along and if you list the word america is here and i'll zero in on it. it is probably on what today would be considered brazil, right there, they made up the name and put it on the map. there is much, much more to the map than just the depiction of the new world and i wanted to do a world, for a general reader, something like me, reasonably well informed but didn't know anything about the map or history of world mapping would read and learn as much as possible from and wanted to come up with a way of making it a kind gripping narrative read, as many different stories as possible, the way i came up with for organizing that was to use the map was the guide, as the back drop. the book is organized into chap

twoilms from south america also got notes, "the secret in their eyes" from argentina follies testimony of detectives and prosecutors on their 25-year quest to solve a murder that's gone cold. and from peru, "the milk of sorrow"he story of an indigenous woman struggling to cope with an illness. the french film "the prophet" made the short list, the story of a young criminal sentenced to one of ance's toughest prisons. there he falls in with the loaders of a prison gang and rises in the ranks. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> and finally there is "the white ribbon" from germany. the story of a young man trying to overcome the tyranny of village elders it won the top prize at last year's cannes film festival. and the oscar goes to -- well, for that, you will just have to wait until march. >>> and that's it for now, but don't forget, you can find more news and perspective at world focus.org. thank you for joining us and good-bye. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

is what happened, did the drug cartels essentially move from south america to mexico? right. you're probably referring to the cocaine wars there in south florida in the late '70s. and at that time, the flow of the cocaine was through the bahamas and through the sea. and then after the united states put all the reinforcements there, then it was diverted to mexico. and then it created the problem at the border. >> all right. carlos botifoll, thank you for bringing our attention to such an eye-opening problem. >>> on to our trivia question, which states have two-year gubernatorial terms? it's vermont and new hampshire. every day could be election day if -- i kid, i kid. new england, they love their politics up there. >> they do, indeed. >>> coming up, we'll go in the room with white house domestic policy adviser, melody barnes on what's next for health care, selling the budget plan, and working with republicans. >>> and later, "american idol" super bowl-style. sure, these guys have the right moves on the field. we'll check into that. >>> but first, chuck, get ready, the w

if you look on the left there, that is the new world, south america and with north america up of it.his is really the first map to show north and south america the unambiguously surrounded by water, not in some undefined part of asia or undefined place that really is not identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water it is a president bush to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of a mystery because europeans are not supposed to have known about the pacific ocean until 1513 wendell boa caught sight of it from a mountain top. that is something that brings people back to the map and something peter is written about extensively. is not something i dwell on a whole lot in the book because it felt the mystery is almost more fun to leave as a mystery than to try to resolve. but is a great part of the story. it is not the only part of the story. there is more that is very significant about the map. if you live in africa for example, this is one of the first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa had only been c

reporter: there are still a lot of penguins to be seen here and elsewhere along the ghosts of south americais the high density area, and what you're seeing here is the real estate where penguins can really dig deep burr ropes. so, this is the best quality nesting. >> reporter: it goes on as far as the eye can see. >> this is about 12,000 pairs, right in this area. >> reporter: but 12 of the world's 18 penguin species are listed as either threatened or endangers, as they hab gnat is destroyed and warming oceans threaten their survival. >> reporter: do you see this colony as peng wirns as one indicator of the health of the planet? >> penguins are seessential tin nalls. they are telling us what's happening on land as well as the water. >> reporter: it is easy to share boersma's fascination with these endlessly entertaining creatures. but while the science here has obvious and charming dividends -- >> he's trying to help me. >> reporter: it is serious. dee boersma believes that through science, the penguins are telling us something about the planet we share, and that we need to listen to them.

they had promised to go to south america and see these real places that we got to go, the table top mountainsd she passes away before the have the chance. the movie is about how he deals with that sense of failure, and really, a great studio pixar allows us to pursue something unusual like this and see it through. tavis: speaking of pixar, 10 films, all of them have done marvelously well. maybe they don't want this out, but why are all these films so successful? >> i think the formula is there is no formula. the one thing we do is we allow ourselves to make mistakes and correct them. what you are seeing on the screen when it is done is like the eighth version of the movie. we have made a bunch of other versions, we have had directors, man, give really hard notes, -- we have had directors come in, give really hard notes, or structured things. in the end, and hopefully it has come together in a way that is cohesive. tavis: never once have i heard anybody say they were on a project where a director gave them notes on the project, but that appears to work for pixar films. tell me about the proces

effort to stop drug smuggling from south america, the cia aircraft mistakenly identified the aircrafts likely belocking to a drug smulinger. >> we're trying to remain covert. >> reporter: the cia could not have been more wrong about who was on the plane. they were american missionaries from michigan, jim and veronica bowers. also on board the plane was the bowers' then 6-year-old son cory and their infant daughter, charity. >> nobody's been punished for it. nobody nobody's been health accountable. rrl over the course of one hour and 49 minutes, cia personnel would never correct their mistake. and, in fact, would violate again and again what were thought by the white house to be strict rules of engagement, including a check of the plane's tail number. that did not happen. >> you know, we can go up and attempt the tail number but the problem with that, if he is dirty and he detects us, we can't chase him. >> reporter: had their read the tail number, the cia could have learned the plane was registered to a church group. >> see, i don't know if this is ban dee toe or if it's amigo, okay?

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africans from south america. a more diverse african-american community. it's not going to be an african-american community where everybody has the same sort of historical lineage. tavis: we ain't all going to be from mississippi and georgia, in other words? >> exactly. and with hispanics also, they're coming from all sorts of countries. the same thing in the asian community and with the anglo community. more and more people from different places. more and more mixtures of kinds of people than we've ever seen about. tavis: how does that connect to the fact that we then become a more interracial society? >> i define the united states as a multiracial superpower. it will be the first society in the world to really be a multiracial country on a large scale and in incredible diversity. one out of five by 2050 may be of more than one racial background. certainly we already see in the surveys tremendous changes in views, for instance, about interracial marriage. if you compare millennials, young people now with people over 65 you go from about 40% who favor inte

. >> reporter: we're on the parsely populated edge of south america, one of the most pristine places yet, even here, penguins are in peril. from overfishing, oil spills, and yes, rising ocean temperatures. who wore this? >> this guy right in here. >> reporter: using satellite tracking, boersma has discovered penguins that were swimming 100 miles to fill their bell lips with fish 13 years ago are traveling an extra 25 miles. why are they going further? >> the food is just not here. and part of that is probably climate change. it changes the distribution of prey and then changes where the penguins have to go to find it. >> reporter: that means so chicks starve to death before they parents return home to feed them. and one did while we were visiting. >> she came home from fishing. >> yeah, it was too late. >> reporter: which may explain why the population is down significantly, from about 600,00025 years ago to half a million today. >> would you like to write, as well? >> reporter: dee boersma believes the penguins are telling us something about the planet we share, and that we need to

but they're also smuggling them, you know, south of the united states into south america and central america. so that's basically i your typical organized crime employee, organized crime organization employees who basicalliry trying to move illicit funds through international border but was you have cash couriers that work for the organized crime enterprises and declare the money that they're sending or they're taking on them but instead of declaring $20,000, they're actually carrying $50,000 or $100,000 on them. so it's really interesting how they're doing all of this. of course we do have programs that law enforcement is working with where they're actually checking and var ferifying. >> one of the examples, problem put the cash into a condom, tie it, and swallow it, so that it doesn't explode inside them, obviously and kill them and that would be pass undetected. any way we can find that? >> tough to find that at airports when they come in with that. that's less likely, just because the volume of cash that's required to swallow. that's more for drug dealers using -- trying to smugg

if you look on the left, that is the new world, south america with north america above it.his is the first map to show north and south america and in the u.s. we surrounded by water, not as some undefined part of asia or some undefined place that isn't identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water it's really the first not to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean, and this is something of a mystery because europeans are not supposed to have known about the pacific ocean until 1313 guinn he caught sight of it from a mountaintop. so, that's something that brings a lot of people back to the map and something peter has written about extensively. it's not something i dwell on a lot in the book because i felt that the mystery is almost more fun to read as a mystery than to try to resolve. but it's a great part of the story. it's not the only part of the story the. there is more that is very significant about the map. if you look at africa flexible, this is one of the very first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa and,

went all across western europe, into the south pacific, into north africa, even into parts of south americaet result of it is that 11 million gis came back with a keen loyalty to coke. it had really been like letters from home or a pack of cigarettes. it was to them a symbol of something that they were fighting for. >> but coke soon faced more combat against a new enemy, pepsi. an epic battle that began not with a bang, but with a jingle. ♪ pepsi cola hits the spot, twice as much that's the cola to drink for you ♪ >> by offering twice as much cola for the same price, pepsi hit coke right in its soft spot. coke believed one size fits all. >> we were reluctant to get into king-sized packaging at first. beginning in 1960, we started to expand our product diversity. >> wow, have you seen coca-cola? now in king-sized too! ♪ coca-cola puts you at your sparkling best ♪ >> but it wasn't enough. by 1983, coke's market share plunged to less than 24%. the pepsi challenge was all too real. >> in side by side blind taste tests, nationwide, more people prefer the taste of pepsi over coca-cola. >> what wa

there is comment about the colonial period in north america and south america. >> larry: so it's fair to say -- >> absolutely. i think it would be unfair to dismiss the film as not really thinking about those things. >> larry: to create this it required monumental behind the scenes efforts. let's look at some of it. >> oh, my god. ♪ >> larry: safe to say, there's never been a movie like it. you may have changed the way movies will be made. you probably affected 3-d forever. >> we'll see. we'll see what changes. what i would like to think would happen is that filmmakers now will have permission to do a serious film in 3-d where previously it was thought of as kind of for kids, you know, maybe for animation, that sort of thing. and go make a serious dramatic film in 3-d. >> larry: disney has a movie coming in 3-d and apparently the theaters can't push it out in time because you're doing so much success, they can't get yours out and it in. >> it's an alice in wonderland. it will come out when it's meant to. obviously it will push us out of some of the 3-d theaters. we'll just hang around

. >> i am from south america, and yeah, when i call my friends over there. they are going to the beach. and now we are here. >> historical moment. >> very, very crazy. unusual for maryland weather. for sure. >> braving the second blizzard. >> like snow. >> of 2010. >> i guess everybody is praying for a little bit more sunshine at this point. >> in ellicott city. kathleen cairns, fox 45 news at 10:00 >> it looks like the last bit of snow is heading out as we go through the overnight. winds are a factor but it looks like winds will die down a bit. but we have a lot of cleaning up to do. look at the snow totals and what the next storm will be. coming up in the forecast. >> i didn't expect it to be this bad. >> next on fox 45 news at 10:00. stuck at the airport. what some people are doing and when they may be able to leave. that's next on fox 45 news at 10:00. >> this snow storm has caused thousands and thousands of power outages and [ yawns ] having sweet dreams about the mouthwatering taste of chocolate? then hurry into dunkin' donuts and let those chocolate c

. >>> a police raid in columbia, south america, leads to an american hostage being freed. >> bocao. > criminals, including four women, were arrested at day break, in an apartment where they had been holding the man captive. the kidnappers had planned to demand the ransom in exchange for the hostage they had followed for several days. the kidnapping victim's identity has not been released. >>> snowy winter weather headed our way. ,,,,,,,,,,,, ♪ five, five dollar ♪ five-dollar footlong ♪ any, any, any to thank you for making subway $5 footlongs famous, we're making any regular footlong a $5 footlong. join the celebration. >>> well, bob, we were finally being able to see patches of dirt and green. >> and warm, too. >> we do have some rain in the picture right now. take a look at radar. to our south and southeast, there's light rain. temperatures are well above freezing as you can see. it's moving off to the east/northeast. most of this will miss baltimore late, late tonight. by the time it gets to baltimore and northern maryland area, it will mix. and overnight, we expect it to change. t

in the case of the spanish, they wanted orr, precious orrs and they found in south america and mexicout they weren't -- they had no tendency to settle. the british were content to settle here. perhaps because they came from a crowded island. i don't know the reason. but they were truly settlers. the reason the french were willing to give it up for such a small price and get rid of it was napoleon had had it up to here with the colonies. his army led by his brother-in-law were slaughtered by an uprising of haitians. and jefferson threatening and madison was secretary of state so he actually made the threat that there were rumors that the spanish were going to retroseed the louisiana territory to the french. they'd actually had done it but we didn't know about it.Ö those rumors set off other rumors that napoleon was going to send tens of thousands of troops over here to put up a barrier along the appalachians to keep americans from moving west. and then settle louisiana. madison said he could -- announced that he would have 200,000 citizen soldiers on the mississippi before napoleon cou

that we should be honored and pleased that the quotas that we had to go through -- or i am from south americaut i went to medical school there. but in those days here, jews couldn't go because there were quotas. >> uh-huh. >> and let me tell you something else, in the last few days, i met with a very good friend who is a professor at another university. and he was saying -- he's from israel. he fought in the 1967 war. but he didn't fight for the policies that the current government of israel is applying to the west bank. [applause] >> you know, if you read certain sociologists who share your admiration for the universities and my fellow intellectuals, you will find that one of the things they say is that when young people come to college, they have their assumptions and presuppositions, the ones they brought from home shakened up and they learn to look at them critically and this is often applied to both jewish professors and jewish students. but the plain truth of the matter is that most jewish kids nowadays come to college already having liberal ideas and assumptions. and rather than being

the island is located off the coast of -- in the pacific ocean off the south america plate. you have the plate that is diving beneath the south american plate, and where this boundary occur sais place where you have quite a bit of seismic hazard risk. randy, you talked about the plates. most people are going, wow, that sons -- sounds intracate. but it does make a difference. i mean, the kind of earthquake, i know there are two or three kinds of earthquakes and that has a lot to do with it as well. >> that's correct. this is what we consider a sub ducks zone earthquake and occurs right along where those two quakes are sliding one under the other. >> and does that mean more damage, more of an impact or less of an impact? >> it doesn't say anything necessarily about the damage. but it does say about the seismic risk of the area. it is a well-known area of size i can in risk that has produced large earthquakes in the past. >> so as a well-known area, as an area with massive earthquakes, 9.5 quake that struck in may of 1960, what can people really do there? what have they been doi

. >> the plates are gng under either south america very quickly. we get these huge earthquakes along that margin. >> reporter: there have been dozens of aftershocks following the initial magnitude 8.8 earthquake, but the ground is still moving this morning. authorities are warning people to stay away from damaged, unstable structures. for "today," george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. >> cecilia lagos who was there joins us via skype. we're happy you're able to join us this morning. can you tell us about the severity and the number of aftershocks that you are experiencing? >> well, we are still having lots of aftershocks. last night it was quite -- it was quite a nice night to sleep and recover from the great terror we lived the night before. we experienced more than 60 aftershocks so far, some of them, maybe three of them really,eally strong. actually some of them are rated 5 on the scale and actually an hour ago or so we had another aftershock that in talca, one of the most affected areas in the country, reached the 7 number, the seventh level, so

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we have how this government is similar to the marxist agendas being put forth by those in south america have a lot of that going on here. of course sarah palin is going to have -- she headlines tomorrow, the big event. we've raised this in first read today whether or not she's a politician first or a political celebrity first now. there's some questions that she doesn't take questions from reporters. she hasn't really been someone who has had to go on "meet the press," for example, and doesn't have elected office anymore. so $100,000 for a speech, ten of those a year, that's a nice cool million i think some of us would like to have. that's part of what's going on here now. >> domenico montanard, we'll be talking to you throughout the weekend. thanks for the update. >>> sarah palin's keynote speech at the tea party will be saturday night, 9:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m. on the west coast and we will bring it to you live here on msnbc. this is the kind of story that may send shivers up your spine. a kite surfer along the florida beach was enjoying the waves and the wind when he was suddenly attacked

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and we have the south america plate, and this is the nazca plate here. a matter of years you build up pressure and the plate here, the south american plate bulges in, and continues to basically acquire pressure over years, and when you have essentially a rupture because of all of the energy that has been garnished and once you get the rupture, you will get a displacement up. if you have air on top of that, it would not be a problem, but we have water on top of it. what happens is that the water is displaced up and we will get a tsunami. if you are in a fishing boat in the middle of the pacific ocean, you won't feel it at all. it is only important as far as the shelf, and the continental shelf here. once we reach the shallow waters, because that is when the wave which is benign across the middle of the ocean becomes larger and larger and larger and essentially, you can see what is happening here. we are squeezing that in, and the water has to go up, and there is the tsunami coming in and creating havoc. of course, the height of it is certainly dependent u

[applause] >> steven schwab is a former senior analyst for the cia south america division. he currently teaches history at the university of alabama. for more information visit left-bank.com. >> we no historically dead markets often don't work but they forgot all that. >> in his book, "obamanomics" "washington examiner," editor timothy carney says president obama presents himself as a champion of the average american but is more on the side of big corporations than wall street. fuhrman university in greenville, south carolina is the host of this event. it is a half an hour. >> the book "obamanomics," the thesis is this. every time the government gets bigger, somebody is getting rich. and, the main idea that i'm going up against is what i called the big myth, the notion that what business wants is simply to be left alone. that big business wants the regulation and taxes and regulations are the scourges of big business. this is true maybe half the time but when it is missed, when people don't see it going on they think, this is something that will clamp down on the excess is

and providing safety and security for drug shipments that are being transmitted from south america through north africa ultimately to be sold in europe. this of course is an economic arrangement that is beneficial to the terrorists and much the same way the taliban in afghanistan benefited from the ability to make money off of the cultivation of opium in that part of the world. finally we have to look at the issue of homegrown terrorism. this topic is then much discussed certainly for the last for five years and it has been manifest in many countries around the world and particularly countries in europe. it has not been a big problem in the united states until recently but certainly the recruitment of somali young people into the fight in somalia and what we saw most recently with the fort hood shootings and with the zazi investigation suggests a homegrown terrorism would now be a greater problem here in the united states. that is not to say at this point in time we have anything like that dimension of homegrown terrorism that we see in for example parts of western europe but it is to sugg

america's potent antiapartheid movement was larger set in motion by black americans like randall robinson and south africa's and those of french and black extraction are the spitting archetypical image of america's white southerners. both groups have invented folk-loric sales -- tails. and having religion and technology to welcoming savages. south africans translates it as rednecks. there's a popular story told in south africa perhaps apocryphal. it goes like this. a white south african traveled to the united states in the mid-'80s and landed at o'hare international airport in chicago. at customs a white american immigration officer thumbed silently through the south african's passport for a minute or two prompting the white south african traveller to ask the beefy middle-aged officer if there was a problem. so you're from south africa the officer asked without looking up. yes, i am the traveller answered. expecting the worst. the immigration officer stamped his passport. lifted his head to look to the south african in the eye. smiled and returned it to him. we like the way y'all handle your nigger

i happen to know a lot about south america. my wife is from south america.e figures are a little bit lower their -- the wage figures are a little below their -- a little bit low there. how can u.s. workers in manufacturing which make $20, $25 an hour compete with workers in china? the answer is productivity. if you are 20 times as productive as they are, you can 20 or 30 times as much. that will always stay that way. how do you maintain productivity? you do so by having the capital and equipment which allows people to become more productive. what kind of capital by talking about? physical and intellectual capital. the machinery you put in my hand, which is very sophisticated and in bodies a lot of knowledge and technology, makes me more productive. i've learned how to do it better. i don't have to do it better from u.s. manufacturing -- i learned how to do it better for u.s. manufacturing, become more productive it is knowledge, no how. we can maintain our advantage -- if we are going to be exactly like them, we will make what they make. we have got to stay

abaab, Ã coming from south america and providing safety and security for drug shipments that are beingtransmitted from south america through north africa ultimately to be sold this of course is an economic and arrangement beneficial to the terrorists and a taliban and afghanistan benefit from the ability to make money off the cultivation of opium in that part of the world. finally we have to look up the issue of home grown terrorism. this topic has been much discussed certainly the last four or five years and it's been manifest in many countries are on the world particularly countries in europe. it hasn't been a big problem in the united states until recently but certainly the recruitment of somali young people into the fight in somalia and what we saw most recently with the fort hood shooting and the investigation suggests homegrown terrorism may now be a greater problem in the united states. that's not to say at this point in time we have anything like the dimension, groome terrorism you see for example in parts of western europe but it is to suggest that again keeping with this them

. >> reporter: we're on the sparsely populated southern edge of south america, one of the most pristine the planet. yet even here, penguins are in peril from overfishing, oil spills, and yes, rising ocean temperatures. and who wore this? >> this guy right in here. >> reporter: using satellite tracking, boersma has discovered penguins that were swimming 100 miles to fill their bellies with fish 10 years ago are now traveling an extra 25 miles. why are they going further? >> the food's just not here. part of that is probably climate change. it changes the distribution of prey and it changes then where the penguins have to go to find it. >> reporter: that means some chicks starve to death before their parents return home to feed them. as one did while we were visiting. so she came home from fishing. >> yep. but it was too late. >> reporter: which may explain why the population is down significantly. from about 600,000 25 years ago, to 500,000 today. >> would you like to write as well? >> reporter: dee boersma believes the penguins are telling us something about the planet we share and that