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A $3 million bounty on his head surrendered. one of the top al shahad terrorists gave himself up. authorities say he may have had a fallen out with the top leader who was killed earlier this year. we are getting word of a two-prong attack against terrorists in pakistan. u.s. drone strikes reportedly killing at least seven militants at two separate compounds today. meanwhile, pakistani security forces also killing a suspected organizeer of last weeks school massacre. it is the latest in a massive...

Extreme environments they have developed some extreme strategies to survive. >> after two days, the ship returns to norway. one of the worlds most northern cities. at the lab, the real investigation begins. robert preserves and catalogs the marine organisms, some of which have never been seen before. the samples dont just end up in these town but also in aberdeen in jaspers lab. >> this is from norway. it has been frozen. it is sealed on site there and comes to us like this. so it is essentially...

Compounds. so, for example, we have collaboration tw the university of chile in santiago and isolated act from the desert. so we take a sample of the desert sand and soil. it is teaming with back tear yachlt they make new antibiotics. >> its why the pharmacy team is in the arctic, too. the possibilities seem endless. >> the bacteria work on the arctic is at a very early stage. i have a great feeling about this project. do feel well be successful in finding new chemicals. >> inside the organisms,...

Marketed and sold as legal alternatives to marijuana, cocaine, lsd, methamphetamine, lsd and heroin. in the last four years, synthetic drugs have flooded into the united states. even the popular club drug molly which is marketed as a pure form of the drug ecstacy is being replaced by a variety of synthetic compounds according to dea scientists, the highs may be the same but the molecular structure is modified just enough to evade the law. >> these chemical companies are alt e alt e altering the ...

>> thats an unusual system. theant carries on the activity. they make the anti-fungal compounds andant qui bacterial compounds. >> its another example of natures head start in this race against time. having the advantage of millions of years of perfecting complex structures that scientists in a lab couldnt even dream of. there is no time to waist because of how long it takes to find, develop and approve new drugs. were talking seven, eight, nine years, possibly even a decade or more. >> we shoul...

Environments, they have developed some extreme strategies to survive. >> after two days, the ship returns to norway, one of the worlds northernmost cities. at the lab, the real investigation begins. robert preserves and catalogs the marine organisms. some of which have never been seen before. the samples dont just end up here, but also in aberdeen in marcel jaspers lab. >> this is one of the original samples from norway. nothing else has happened to it. its come and sealed on site there. and it ...

Carries on its body that make the anti-fungal compounds and anti-bacterial compounds. >> its another example of natures head start in this race against time. having the advantage of millions of years of perfecting complex structures that scientists in a lab couldnt even dream of. there is no time to waste. because of how long it takes to find, develop, and approve new drugs. were talking seven, eight, nine years. possibly even a decade or more. >> we should be concerned. i dont think we should p...

Adventure world by the way has seven of these rare giant pandas on site. "cnn newsrooms" continues at the top of the hour. right now keep it here for "sanjay gupta, m.d. ""ill see you in a bit. welcome to the program. why is mumps going around the national hockey league? we got that story. plus, we put together the top ten health stories of 2014. some of them are going to surprise you. what do you think number one is? but, first, it is a race against time and what the world health organi...

Directed. do you think this is a situation where they just missed the risk of this school of military families in this hotbed area of jihadi activity? >> no, i doubt it. you know they know very well whats the target and what su know, vulnerable. and its not unusual to have these military compounds and their schools attached and presumably they know that you know the hotter the situation gets, the more likely there are to be these soft targets. obviously the taliban have been pursued by the milit...

1950 acres burn away here in the san gabriel mountains in the angeles national forest, and this area sustained the mud and debris flows. theyre concerned again. burned away was the vegetation the holds the soil andground in place which prevents significant runoff, and also waxy compounds were released by the plants as they burned, and when the ground cooled, that created a natural barrier in the soil that prevents water from seeping deep into the ground. absorption of rainwater is hindered and t...