least have a billion passenger pigeons -- wused to hav a billion passenger pigeons f around.re's not a single one left. roosevelt, who was a hunter, part of the paradox,hich also a great cservationist and what li protectionist. ey're still a lot that could do we' looking at species of nishing regurly all of the anet. tavis: his name is douglas brinkley perennianew york timebest selling auor. the new one is cled "the wilderness rrior." douglasnice to have you nt. thank you f joining us. >> than u so much, tavis. tavis: my pleure. up next, musician josh charles and his tribute to the peop of new orlea. stay with us. one week bfore hurricane katrina, musicianosh charles move to ignore lanes with pls to record an album tre. like so many, the storm forever changed his life. his most recent proct is a singleevoted to the people of theig easy called "healing time." all proceeds go tward the continuingeconstruction in the city. in jusa moment, he will perform for us. at first, have you onhe program. >> thanyou. tavis: i askedhether you were ill living in the city, and you said iried.

. >> this one is called pltic bottles, and it picts two million plasc bottles, the number wuse in the united states every five minutes. stay tuned. ptioning sponsored by public affairs televion >> moyer welcome to the journal. th is that time of year when public televisn asks you to go to your phone or computeand make a pledge to this ation. more than er, it can use your helpn these very difficult economic times th week, as we often do during pledge drives, by popular request we're bringingack one of youfavorite broadcasts, this one with a remarkable scholar and story ller who has some important insights out owing older... and old. ere are 76 million of us in what the noted educator ra laence-lightfoot calls "the third chapter," a timeor passion and adnture. for her book on th subject she spent twyears on the road, gathering the stories oflder americanwho have set out on new lives and careers. shadded her insights as an experienced, leading sociogist, and wrote "the third chapter: passion, ri, and adventure in the 2years after 50." i first interviewed sara lawrence-ligfoot a generatio

and i think this is, the same thing thhappened, you know, wused toay a president now should always assumewhen ey are in public tt they are going to be on the record. with -the video of nator from virginia getting caht putting his foot in his moutduring the campaign, we ben to say okay, any moment that y are running r office in a campaign, you shoul assume you are now o the record and its going to be public. now i think any lawmake in any situion in public en at a constitut meing,3 that a f years o you would have assumed was fairly lowevel, you are now going to assume that you are on cera. thiss in a sense the mccaca iation of being in public life. what do you make of that. you started with by saying that most pple are not getting the basic facts, why doou think that is? >> well, i thnk it's much eaer to cover a ptest. it's much easier to cover a rumor. it's much easier to cover death pan et -- deh panel its or death care. it's really, really mh haer for somebody in the media to cover age-ratingor the mechanicof risk pools. and all those ings that really areoing into what is going to comeu

. >> wusee you for "news 4 miay." have a great day.n the home front-- not a lot of activity. you read the news. and yet, some people need to sell and other people want to buy. this is a moment of challenge and opportunity. fortunately, re/max agents have the experience to help you meet the one and recognize the other. thanks. because the future's counting on us. nobody sells more real estate than re/max. new blackberry, huh ? yeah. ♪ me too how sick is the web browsing !? all the apps... gps... video. yeah... you didn't get your blackberry with the verizon network, did you ? no. sorry. so it doesn't work here, does it ? no. umm... but... paperweight mode. alright ! blackberry runs better on america's largest 3g network. and now get the new blackberry tour for only $199.99