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Welcome back. now, time for news by numbers. $240,000, thats how much robert wright makes for teaching just one college class. he is being called a hypocrite since many of his lectures are about income and equality. next, $80,000 worth. thats how much cocaine a honduran woman tried to smuggle into the u.s. at dull let airport. she put the drugs inside caramel candy, just like grandma used to bake.

It left 300,000 people without drinking water for 10 days. the american society of civil engineers last year studied americas drinking and waste water infrastructure from its capacity and overall condition to public safety and gave it a grade of "d." >> its one of those things thats out of sight, out of mind. >> reporter: mae wu works for the national resources defense council, an environmental advocacy group. >> estimates are we need at least $16 billion every year just to maintain and replace ...

Finely, 12 feet, thats how much this burmese python is. caught by the police in port st. lucie. residents saying the 120-pound snake has been terrorizing their neighborhood and harassing their pets. it was the case and the verdict that consumed the nation. the florida mother charged with murdering her daughter. >> i want to find caylee alive. obviously, you and your client do not. >> was casey making some sort of chloroform concoction to put her daughter to sleep so she could go party? >> some...

That? its crazy. >> i was waiting to find out what camera trick they did to make it look so smooth. >> amazingly, the kung fu bear is 100% factually accurate. >> it turns out its just a very talented bear. >> for years claude the bear has been wowing visitors in japan with his mastery of martial arts. claude taught himself serious stick skills after zoo keepers gave him a five foot staff to play with shortly after his arrival in 2002. >> the poor bear is like bored out of his mind. well, ive got...

They also found evidence of sexual assault. >> when the swab from the victim was analyzed in the dna section, a male profile was developed. >> investigators were puzzled by the two electrical cords used to tie the sheet around denises body. >> these objects ive never seen before. i was very suspicious as to what they even were. i had no idea. >> research identified them as heat rocks. >> a heat rock is a pretty simple device. its a fake rock that gets heated by up by electricity. people use it t...

Would help the overall morning market get bigger. so, just keep your eye on that story. its a bit of a slow burner. not all the politicians are keen to see these two agencies get bigger. back to you. >> we can imagine why. geoff, thank you, sir. much appreciated. our twitter question now. and today, were talking about disturbing discoveries. check out this photo from college station, texas. thats a 12-foot african rock python in a womans bathroom. i have stunned the studio. no one is reacting....

Python snaked into his pants. >> oh, my gosh -- >> hurt us was finally relieved of the stake. >> curtis was it good for you? >> the long-range forecast calls for a slight chance of being showered by spiders. >> ah. >> aah. >> and a few isolated snakes. >> oh, thats just wrong. >> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thats right. thats just wrong. >> have you seen that snake? >> yeah, i had seen that before. i hadnt seen the full angle, though. >> yeah. >> which is kind of, you know, funny. >> at least...

Thats to protect the animals and people. they are powerful, powerful creatures. >> in terms of this particular type of python, you have a python with you. its not the african rock python but when i did a show with you recently we had a big python in that day. i was struck when you were in close proximity by the sheer power of these things. i certainly want to be around one without somebody like you, an expert, in control of it. should anyone have these things in a home environment? >> i think it...

Boys were killed in their sleep. >> how does nobody wake up? >> so silent it is able to do it to two children? it is an incredible story. and we now know the kids did this all the time. camped out at the upstairs apartment from the pet shop on the living room floor. easy access. i guess you can say, but still. scary stuff. >> stay on this one for sure. another python to tell you about. this one captured before it could do harm. found by a man in south florida cleaning his shed. the burmese pyt...

Dome. >> one misstep and he would have fell a great distance likely to his death. >> the so-called capital climber guy hid behind some massive carved eagles and got away by climbing down unscaffold. florida, a man says he and a friend found 100-pound burmese python inside his shed in miami. the homeowner called firefighters for help. it took five crew members to lift the 13-foot long reptile. south dakota, one of the worlds biggest motorcycle rallies underway in sturgess. thousands of riders acr...