one of the most fascinating species found in the amazon is the tran chuisthe tarantula.t we're going to do ask coordinate between the two of us to see if we can find the tarantula. wow, it is a tarantula. >> i felt that through the chord! >> i felt it through, through the screen. still striking us. >> i just have this vision of him coming out and like really fast and me screaming flailing backwards knock you over and the spider on my hand. >> there are a lot of spiders here in the amazon. why do you think there's so much left to be discovered? >> niferlfirst of all, the sciee community hasn't agai given aras enough attention. and this area hasn't received the attention needed to adequately survey the extent of spider diversity. >> on our last day in the amazon our investigative pins pai perse paid off. this was indeed an egg sack. this is a radical departure of what we know about spiders, one of the many discoveries of the secrets hidden in the jungle. i think spider eggs first you can be quite skeptical what we found. we were there, we saw the things that hatched out of

one of the most fascinating species found in the amazon is the tarantula.decided to look inside their habitat. what we're going to do is try to coordinate between the two of us to look inside there and see if a we can find the tarantula, or b, whether we can get it. wow, he's right there. it is a tarantula. >> i think he just stroke at the camera. >> i felt that through chord! >> i felt it through, through the screen. still striking us. >> i just have this vision of him coming out and like really fast and me screaming flailing backwards, knocking you over, and the spider on my hand. >> there are a lot of spiders here in the amazon. why do you think there's so much left to be discovered? >> first of all, the science community hasn't given arachnids in general enough attention as they have to insects. in this area of the amazon diversity is high. we're sitting in a place that is the most biodiverse in the area. and this area hasn't received the attention needed to adequately survey the extent of spider diversity. >> on our last day in the amazon our investiga

people in the southern philippines had to deal with tarantula rains over the past week. most of the areas received over a meter of rain. syria plus having golf the town of monte in mindanao. the star personnel were busy rescuing locals who were forced to flee to their rooftops. over nine hundred thousand people were displaced by the flooding on tuesday the total cost of damage was estimated to be near the eight point one million us dollars. unfortunately am a sahm with a bit of rain will be continuing nothing compared to that too well what we had before. i mean it's gonna be clearing out into friday's service can it be because means i can give you that any additional rainfall could trigger for the flooding and landslides here cos it means that now the bigger picture we have a high pressure system as dominant across eastern half of china on the korean peninsula and even into japan in the western front in japan actually some bit of snow fall in the sleepy to continue for the morning hour isn't that temperatures are very chilly across the northern half of this country with

worked in the department for the last 17 years and see that train out there you you know that that tarantula changes every year it's a different at home and today, we're honoring batkid and last year we honor the warriors and the giant and every year for the last 15 years joe paints that train for us. he spends the entire holiday seaming seagull so on the 15th anniversary of our train we wanted to notify up joe and it's granddaughter lillian is going to lead us in the count down. come own over here. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. >> yeah. >> happy holidays everybody. enjoy our time and love your park. >> have is a >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the special meeting for the san francisco board of supervisors budget and finance committee for monday, december 16th, 2013. my name is supervisor mark farrell, i will be chairing this committee. i am joined by committee member and supervisor john avalos as well as supervisor scott wiener. i would like to thank the members of sfgov-tv covering this meeting, jonathan and charles kremenak as well as the clerk of the committee, mr. victor young. m