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Disrupting the everglades fragile ecosystem. >> our biggest concern is we dont want them to eat a florida panther. >> this is the told handler sees. what they do is cut right and the brain. easy to slip there and that shuts the central nervous system down. >> you put your hands on him to do something he doesnt enjoy it and youll come back at you. >> to see you can see how long this guy is, we are told that his 9-foot as you can tell, it is much longer than me. more than 150,000 burmese pythons n...

31 the state launching a plan to eradicate its python population. camera crews on hand as wranglers explain their new mission and it wasnt long before the first assignment came slithering by. foxs melissa medina reports. >> site handler is surging everglades and nabbing their prey, the burmese python. a celebration that these experienced handlers will be doing much more of. they have been given a permit and not have permission to eradicate as many pythons as they can get their hands on. >> until...

31 the state launching a plan to eradicate its python population. camera crews on hand as wranglers explain their new mission and it wasnt long before the first assignment came slithering by. foxs melissa medina reports. >> site handler is surging everglades and nabbing their prey, the burmese python. a celebration that these experienced handlers will be doing much more of. they have been given a permit and not have permission to eradicate as many pythons as they can get their hands on. >> until...

>> our biggest concern is we dont want them to eat a florida panther. >> this is the told handler sees. what they do is cut right and the brain. easy to slip there and that shuts the central nervous system down. >> you put your hands on him to do something he doesnt enjoy it and youll come back at you. >> to see you can see how long this guy is, we are told that his 9-foot as you can tell, it is much longer than me. more than 150,000 burmese pythons now call the everglades home. the handlers not...

>> were going to hunt thm. were going toeradicate them. >> reporter: rodne barretteo is tid of talk,s florida fh and wildli conservation commison chairman, he wan action. >>ere developing a pn imdiately that we will roll t the will allow people who are trained, pervised by us, to go ou and hunt pythons and kill them. reporter: the pan would en 750,000 acres of ste land python hunters, withpermits. paid a small bounty r each dead snake the proem is,tate land is that way, and federal landis this w...

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Announce nexweek legalize hug for pythons. you heard right, hunt pythons and you get id a bounty. biogists have officially declared the sth florida python populati of more tha 150,0 out of control, and spading. jeff buside from our miami station wtvj has thetory. reporter: albert kilon knows pyths, he captured these neby. just two of a populationof 150,0 officlly declaredut of control. >> it coils around you, arts to constct, might even suocate somebody. >> reporter: algars even ve a hard time, ...

Nonlethal idea tget rid of python neverthelesshunting season on pythons is about to open in florida. in the everglades jeff burnsid for msnbc. back to you, alex. >> aight, jeff, thank you. > a private swim club in suburban philadelphia is trying to explain a defend y it turned away so minoty kids who signed up use the pool. representatives of that pool say it had thing to do with race but instead say it w an iue of overcrowding and safety. but oneof the initia explanations given by that pool was...

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As soon as i had him, he coiled. oh, look at that. wow. >> its pretty powerful. doesnt get up around the neck. >> reporter: how do i get him off of me? >> very carefully. >> reporter: thank you. with no natural enemiest predators move to the top of the food chain. bad news for the prey and the people of south florida. john zarrella, cnn, big pine key, florida. >> tough guy, john zarrella. he is okay. dont worry about him. bullied to death a. 11-year-old boy picked on relentlessly kills himself...