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School superintendent, respected by students. when he didnt show, investigators would take a hard look at keiths love life for clues, and another person to help detectives piece together this puzzle. heres dennis murphy with "at close range." >> reporter: winter comes early and stays late in far western new york. the farmlands near chautauqua lake, tilled by amish and dutch families, are encased in snow and ice for months at a time, but in this place of frozen stillness, the hottest of passions,...

Clarify some of the evidence. was mr. couple bert in this greenhouse, last night, about midnight? >> this is 1968. you dome have black men hitting white men in movies and living to tell the tale. and he does. >> there was a time when i could have had you shot. >> sydney poitier completely holds his own. not just the actor but the character. virgil tibbs. its a murder mystery but also about the way america is starting to change. >> the winner is "in the heat of the night." in south vietnam toda...

Wild, rabid dogs. >> medical experts developed a lot of odd ideas about how you would cure these. they used to believe that one way to stop rabies from killing you is to take a hair from the tail of the rabid dog and insert it into the bite wound and this is the origin of the phrase hair of the dog which we talk about in the context of hang over treatment. >> the vaccine worked. >> most of the cases in the united states do come from bats but the risk is low. so, unless you see a bat behaving str...

In the bronx zoo oogling these feared creatures. >> felt like the animals that i was seeing in person was not matching the description that people were giving me. around the world bats are a sign of good luck. fertility and growth, everything you think of bats are the opposite of what they are considered here in america. >> the batman became the showman, the lead singer of an 80s glam metal band, roxx. >> we were pretty much active at night and sleeping during the day. >> in the early 90s after ...

Into the mystery of covid-19. in the last 20 years some of the deadliest virus outbreaks came from bats. sars. marburg. ebola. what is it about the way they spread pathogens and how they are so dangerous. >> every animal has it normal suite of viruses and bacteria it normally carries and people do as well. we carry viruses and bacteria. some of which cause disease. it is the fact that bats tend to carry a higher proportion of viruses that have the ability to affect people. the question is why we...

All named for the shape of their noses. there are dozens of varieties of horseshoe bats living in a number of places. in fact there is incredible diversity among bat species. bats can be found all around the world on every continent expect antarctica. but the diversity and the unique abilities of bats make them tough to contend with when it comes to disease. they are the only mammal capable of actually flying so they can spread to other communities. >> some actually migrate thousands of miles an...

Getting sick. >> understanding how bats co-exist with disease is very critical. they have a unique relationship with pathogens generally. they have a unique biology and it allows them to co-exist with pathogens in different ways. >> various theories about why that is and it might have to do with how long bats have been around. >> they have been on planet earth for a long time, and that means they have had a long history of being exposed and adapting to viruses in nature. >> another theory involv...

That birds do, only they do it at night. >> bats are unique mammals and in some ways are similar to human. >> bats have four limbs. >> two of them are the wings. they have all of the same bones that humans do in the upper arms. and then the bones that support the end of the wing are long finger and hand bones. >> bats living and eating habits vary widely. there are some that roost in trees and others under leaves and some in caves. some bats eat insects. others fruit, fish, frogs. >> some of the...

Every year, we, as a species, encroach deeper and deeper into bat habitat and those of other wild creatures. exposing ourselves to new and dangerous viruses. with the dramatic increase in travel, a rise in global trade, were now capable of spreading those viruses, far and wide. scientists warn that what weve created is the perfect storm for