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But the towns proximity to a very active volcano means residents live watchfully and remindful of the threat of destruction. in january, 1983, kilauea erupts, blasting lava high into the air. nick and his crew begin to film the explosive events. >> the high fountain back in the 80s once a month, every three weeks it would high fountain 800 to 1,500 feet in the air, and it was absolutely amazing. >> this high fountaining is a spectacle, but looks could be deceiving. kilauea is efusive, not explos...

Destruction. in january, 1983, kilauea erupts, blasting lava high into the air. nick and his crew begin to film the explosive events. >> the high fountain back in the 80s once a month, every three weeks it would high fountain 1,500 feet in the air and it was absolutely amazing. >> this high fountaining is a spectacle, but looks could be deceiving. its not explosive like mount st. helens. dump ash on surrounding towns. 20 miles away, its not in imminent danger, that is until something changes. >>...

Gathered in atlanta, georgia, in solidarity with wisconsin workers. protesters in wisconsin are angry at their state government for pushing legislation to cut benefits and reduce bargaining power for the states unions. in philadelphia, protesters gathered at love park carrying signs supporting unions in wisconsin and in their own state. the crowd was also on hand -- hundreds, that is, on the steps of bostons state house. after spending almost a week trapped in a snowbound car, a couple from ...

International ant research. >> love that one. >> thats a good one. >> were getting to the good ones. $308 million for a joint clean energy venture with british petroleum. does that kind of burn you? number one, this is my favorite. $554,000 for the forest service to replace windows in a closed visitors center in mount st. helen. ladies and gentlemen, thats the top five. those are my favorite. how geitner or anyone in the government can defend that is totally beyond me. >> well, you know, jonas m...

Of some of the projects that they are pointing out? >> reporter: there are quite a variety of them from putting electrodes on dancers to studying ants. one is on mount st. helens. the visitor center got a half million dollars to replace those big windows. the problem is that center has been closed down since 2007 and there are no plans to reopen it right now. another project an abandoned train station in new jersey, its going to cost $1.2 million to turn that old building into a museum. and the ...

To get a better idea of what authorities are facing. this is a pretty tough area to search for anything small like a child. okay? the island, like i said, is about five, 10 miles away from where he was last reported seen, his elementary school, its accessed by one bridge out of the portland area, u.s. 30, and when you get there, its very, very rural, there are farms there, but pretty treacherous cascading range out there. you can see mount reniere, mount st. helens, mount hood. a lot of research...

His head no. they scoured the block looking for him but only found a few pieces of toilet paper. >> the mr. whipple case. brian, lets talk playoffs. >> every once and a while, you have to lean on an intern when things are tough. you feel overworked. this is one of those times. do you mind if i go to the bull pen? >> if you must. >> kelly marks, its your last day, is that correct? >> yes. >> kelly, you would go to the college of mount st. vincent, is that correct? >> yes, i do. >> you play lacros...

Have much of a risk to long-term health to people. even people nearby. there was a will tlot of studie around the time of mount st. helens. people far away in europe were getting this cloud are not suffering health problems. >> you stay safe, try to stay warm. tough duty over there. >> im perfectly safe, andrea. just cold. >> cold. cold and uncomfortable. thank you very much. and democrats and republicans arent all that safe, politically safe here at home. they want to reign in wall street, bu...

Where they are smashing into the other. the one plate will fold. the plate sub ducting, going underneath is loaded with water, seawater, ancient seawater. so it explodes because its full of steam like popcorn. this is a coffee mug made of mount st. helens ash. here is a salt and pepper shaker made of mount st. helens ash. this stuff is solid rock. here is the thing. we use the word "ash." its not like ash in a fireplace, its like flour but abrasive. if it gets in a jet engine in the 1980s, again...

Going. >> do a lot of scientists keeping their eye on that. anything to these moving tech tonic plates, volcanos erupting, earthquakes happening around the globe? >> i remind everybody, there are about a thousand pretty big earthquakes a year around the world. if youre a psychic, you should be able to predict an earthquake. you should be able to do that. almost three a day. just this volcano, its not especially big, its just right in the -- right upwind of the busiest airport in the world. so ma...