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quite bizarre. people like breivik are trying to resurrect the idea of a modern day crusade, a real clash of civilizations against what they see as islamic invasion of europe. in fact, muslims make up only 3% of europes population and thats likely to rise to between 5 and 8% by 2025 and level out at that point. but that doesnt change the reality of the anger, hatred and the violence. ironically, in breiviks nostalgic view of the medieval world, it resembles nothing so much as al qaeda,...

Dirt berm. now, you know, anderson, you and i have been down there, jackson square, new orleans. that dirt berm is huge. you have to climb all the way up and to get to the top to look over to the other side. could you imagine the water only being six inches from the top? so they dump water into lake pontchartrain. the problem is its full of pesticides, of fertilizer, of oil, of sewage plants that overflowed. so all this stuff is now pouring into pontchartrain. last year oil, tar balls. this year...

Some purple at 20 inches or more and some white spots here, we dont even know how high they go, theyre off the chart. theyre 20 inches and more in 30 days worth of rain. so thats why they have today opened up whats called the bonner carre spillway. this is what it looked like when they opened the spillway in 2008. the river comes down and it should just go by new orleans. but if they dont open it or they didnt, the level of the river would have only been six inches below the top of that dirt ber...

Oil, of sewage plants that overflowed. so all this stuff is now pouring into pontchartrain. last year oil, tar balls. this year probably an algae bloom because of all the fertilizer. and all of the fish now saying wait a minute, what is this youre pouring into my lake? theyre all either headed out hopefully or theyre going to perish. another hit for new orleans at lake pontchartrain. >> were going to continue to follow it. chad, appreciate it. thanks for the explanation. were following a couple ...

There will be pesticides, fertilizer, and there are sewage treatment plants over top, and septic tanks and stuff in that water that you dont want to think about. and that stuff is going into lake pontchartrain, because they opened up the bonnet carre spillway, and when that gets in there, it should be brakish and salty, but now all of this is going to try to get out, and some wont make it, and i believe there is going to be an algae bloom like no other, but for the people in louisiana and that i...

Spillway, those levees that you see by jackson square would have been one half of a foot higher than the water level. they had to dump the stuff into lake pontchartrain but now fish are swimming away. an algae bloom and now weve made a beautiful lake a mess again but nothing the army corps could do about it. they knew they had to do that to save new orleans again. wolf? >> all of us remember katrina not that long ago in new orleans. all right. thank you very much. lets hope for the best this tim...

Freshwater environment, so it is going to change the character of the fishing that is in lake pontchartrain, and it is also going to have some potential impact in the short term on probably the slhrimpping in the area. >> this is chad myers, will there be an algae bloom like in the past? >> well, you can anticipate that, because every time the spillway is opened, there have been some sort of algae bloom that collects on the south shore of the lake. dont know what it is going to be, but there wil...

But going down after world war ii, to antarctica, taking 1,000 whales, southern ocean sanctuary is not a cultural thing at all. and, i think the whole world is realizing that, you know, we want an end to whaling. i think it will definitely end. the sea shepherd will go back time and time again until we make sure that we put them out economically. >> larry: what waters are you in mostly, captain? >> all the arctic oceans, the southern oceans, just the entire antarctic peninsula. >> larry: what ki...

Antarctic peninsula. >> larry: what type of whale is it theyre getting? >> they had a self-provided quota of 995 minke whales. >> larry: what is that? >> smaller whale, distributed throughout world. when the ice melts there is an algae bloom, and the crill feed on the algae. the whales go down to feed on the crill. in short thats the biological perspective. during our winter it is summer in antarctica, the ice melts and whales migrate down there. >> larry: you saw the eye, captain watson, are wh...