Theres a group of people called the aymara who have lived for time immemorial in what is now peru in theandes. And they are, its a tough life wherethey live and the part of the reason is that not a lot grows their. One of the things that does grow there is potatoes. But these are notyour Grocery Store potatoes. These are small, wild andtoxic potatoes. Toxic in the sense that not theyre going to kill you but they will make you vomit, give you diarrhea. Basically make you never want to eat another potato as long as you live. And you cant just boil them. That will destroy the toxins. And they are not environmental contaminants. The toxins are made by the potatoes themselves. Why would a potato or any other plant make a poison . Basically to protect itself. The potato is the plants Energy Storage thing. And it doesnt want humans or any other animals digging up its Energy Stores and eating them makes them toxic to protect itself they are the potato plants batteries. They are stealing the po
Good morning, everyone, the time right now is 6 00. We are following breaking news out of oakland. This is where a massive fivealarm fire is burning at a construct u construction site right now t. Building is on san pablo avenue. A live look outside. You can see the smoke. Fire crews are bringing water on it right now traffic not affected is the good news. We were hearing there were embers falling on vehicles. The Oakland Fire Department says the building could collapse. That was one of the most recent updates. We are keeping an eye on multiple fires that started in nearby buildings. A construction crane could be monetized. Crews are monitoring that. A wide array as to why this fire coverage is so important and we are continuing to upon tore the scene. We want po move things over to our east bay hills camera. This shows you a different perspective. You can see here the flames arent too bad right now. You can actually barely see them from this vantage point. Flames from 10 to 20 minutes
Contracting every bit of bad news in europe. That lines up with u. S. Companieses that does business there. Mixed Economic News here at home m weekly unemployment claims came in higher than expected but the Housing Market, yeah, that remains a bright spot. Existing home sales we found out today, they rose and home prices have been going up. That was good news. Stocks were lower but they have bounced back up. Thats a nice way to end the hour and the day with the markets and good news. A couple bits of good news. Thank you so much, alison kosik. Thats going to do it for me. The situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. Fred, thanks very much. Happening now, a brazen shooting leads to a deadly Chain Reaction crash all within major sites of major casinos in las vegas. The major investigator in the pistorius case has been thrown off the case. And a senator admits that he fathered a child with another onetime senators daughter. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. All that
But not vetoes. I looked very seriously at the veto, i was thinking about doing veto this is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to mtp daily. Donald trumps impulses are to fight and after a dizzying series of white house shakeups it looks as the president s impelss might be running the country largely unchecked. He wanted to fight robert mueller, who will stop him in the chief lawyer who wanted to stop him is gone. He wanted to fight a trade war with china, who will stop him in the chief white house economist who did want to stop him is gone. He wants to maybe bring us to the actual brink of a potential war with iran by ripping up the nuclear deal. Who will stop him . The National Security advise who are wanted to stop him is out. And a major proponent of ripping up the deal and bombing raub ir in. He wants to fight storm and congratulate pute ind and again who will stop him. Support a bipartisan spending bill and then fight it an