from. >> a lot of the yuca and banana plants are dying off. i planted new ones, but they died too. so i got fruit from the village market, and it made the children sick. i think everything has been contaminated here. >> we ask him to show us the source of the contamination. we only have to travel a short distance on the rio napo, the biggest river in yasuni national park. and so that the children learn something, they come along also. we soon arrived at the first gas flare, one of the many in the area that are always burning. less than one kilometer away, we need a group of workers who are using barriers and hoses to clean the angst of leaded oil. nowhere is there a greater variety of flora and fauna species. but the wealth in the region that interests ecuador's government is in crude form, underground, or was, at least, until 45 years ago, when the state started extracting the oil. since then, much of the nature preserve has changed. only a few areas remain untouched. so in 2007, ecuador's president proposed not drilling in the area if the in

see that things have turned wet in the city as well get first scattered showers in the peninsula and yucashgston. there's rain through santa row sachlt it will rosa. it will -- rosa. it will head south through the day. you can see right now over the peninsula scattered showers. rain moving in in advance of that front. it will get breezy with gusty winds. showers through tonight. we get a break on sunday . more rain moving in on monday. in fact, the week ahead looking fairly unsettled. the complete for cast when we do the forecast a few minutes from now. >>> a lawyer for state senator leland yee said he plans to plead not guilty to corruption and gun running charges. the california senate has taken action. joe vasquez reports, yee was in his hometown of san francisco as his colleagues decided his fate. >> senator yee is no longer running from reporters. he's holing up inside his home. he was until this man started talking to cameras outside. >> pride and fame and politics ruin lots of people. >> just as they were distracted the senator quickly left his house, jumped in a car and drove away