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The issue of border security came into sharp focus this week with the presidents call on his budget proposal for billions to finance detention, deportation and his border wall. violence along the border was also highlighted this week with a deadly shooting in the rio grande. nbcs gadi schwartz was there as it unfolded. >> reporter: this week on the texas/mexico border, a rush to the river. a border patrol agent finding three people shot in a fishing boat riddled with bullets. those are bullet ho...

Journalists hoping for a better look at europes most active volume cane owe ran for their lives today. an explosion sent ash, rocks and steam their way as temperatures over 1800 degrees. more from rome correspondent seth doane. >> reporter: mount aetna has been putting on an impressive show for days. speuing lava and steam, but no one expected this. >> a massive explosion was caught on camera by a bbc crew. piping hot volume cantic ash and rock rained down as tourists and the crew fled. one repo...

Loud and clear to any business that wants to help build president trumps border wall. the city finance committee passed a resolution that oakland will boycott any company that helps design or construct the 2,000-mile border wall with mexico. >> it doesnt reflect our values as a city and tax dollars should not be used to create barriers across our border that prohibit commerce and trade and certainly separate families as well as does nothing to solve our immigration problems as a community. >> re...

>> mason: chip reid, thanks, chip. overseas, iraqi troops backed by the u.s. have trapped isis forces inside western mosul. the terror group had held iraqs second largest city for nearly three years. the fighting to liberate it is fierce and holly williams is there. >> reporter: a u.s. coalition air strike and another one pulverizing an isis fighting position. [explosions] brigadier general abbas al jbouri confirms they hit their target little more than a city block away. >> killed more than 15....

Dogs have been placed in game reserves across africa. in one region, they caught over 100 poachers in 18 months. holtshyzen told us one dog, killer, nabbed more poachers than rangers equipped with the latest high-tech weapons. >>ings that the most effective tool against the fight against poaching ever used. and its low technology. its low cost compared torg technologies, and it works. >> reporter: mans best friend may turn out to be a poachers worst enemy. debora patta, cbs news, johannesburg. >...

Helicopter, falling more than 6,000 feet to earth, landing in the middle of the poaching wars. >> getting the dog on to the front lines as a matter of fact possible is always a challenge, and parachuting and rappelling is one of the days getting the dogs on the ground where theyre needed. >> reporter: these elite canine dogs are trained to immediately sniff out the poacher, rushing to attack, pinning him to the ground, until more hp arrives. this may be a training exercise, but the dogs bites ar...

Arrow seems unperturbed, even as they hurl themselves out of the helicopter-- >> go! >> reporter: falling more than 6,000 feet to earth, landing in the middle of the poaching wars. >> getting the dog on to the front lines as fast as possible, is always a challenge. and parachuting and rappelling is one of the ways of getting boots on the ground where theyre needed. >> reporter: these elite canine dogs are trained to immediately sniff out the poacher, rushing to attack, pinning him to the ground,...

In the past seven years alone, a third of africas elephants have been wiped out. nearly 100 of these sky diving dogs have been placed in game reserves across africa. in one region, they caught over 100 poachers in 18 months. holtshyzen told us one dog, killer, nabbed more poachers than rangers equipped with the latest high-tech weapons. >> that is the most effective tool against the fight against poaching ever used. and its low technology, its low cost compared to other technologies, and it work...

Moment. >> i look over and see sage laying on the ground right with her head in the stream. i jumped in the stream, i was super happy. i put my arms around her and hugged her and threw her over my shoulders and carried her up the mountain. >> reporter: sage on his shoulders, and sages family, now overjoyed. as they take their dog home. >> i was hugging everybody, you know. it was just amazing. >> reporter: amazing and, tonight, that firefighter says sage has taught us all a lesson. >> its been h...

Every 100 years. the last major earthquake taking place 160 years ago. the police chase in the desert. the suspect wanted for assault with a deadly weapon trying to outrun police in lancaster, california. officers trying to slow him down with spike strips. he spins out, the driver jumping from behind the wheel, trying to outrun the officers. that didnt work. he is under arrest tonight. overseas and near paris tonight, a shocking crime. zoo officials say one or more poachers broke in overnigh...