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December 27, 2014
Launch pad for american tourists, looking for a trip to the rainforest. their first stop is often the bay lane market where all kinds of exotica are up for sale. [ speaking foreign language ] >> vendors here sell everything from vegetables and alligator skulls, to snake charms, and yes, even ayahuasca. >> we just asked one of these shopkeepers if they had any ayahuasca, and this woman said, let me run over and get some. how much does she sell this for? >> i have no idea. >> to guide me on the po...
December 20, 2014
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December 14, 2014
This building project is literally changing lives. in brazil were building a new education center with local partners. >> theres going to be three classrooms. to do this for us, for the children, this is a world cup spirit. >> youve never had milk this good. >> we had about 300 volunteers here from about 12 countries. within a couple of days theyre part of a team full of 400 working hard. doing something together a great bond and the world cup is just a launch pad for us. >> our first key volunt...
December 8, 2014
>> theres going to be three classrooms to do this for us, for the children. this is a world cup spirit. >> we had about 300 volunteers here from about 12 countries. within a couple of days part of a team working really hard. doing something together for someone else is always a great bond. and the world cup is just a launch pad. >> our first key volunteer project was in 2010 in south africa. epicenter of the aids epidemic. we met kids that had been orphaned. a whole stack of kids living in this ...
December 8, 2014
If we could mobilize some of these people to do some good. this project is literally changing lives. in brazil, were building a new education center with local partners. >> theres going to be three classrooms to do this for us, for the children. this is a world cup spirit. >> we had about 300 volunteers here from about 12 countries. within a couple of days part of a team working really hard. doing something together for someone else is always a great bond. and the world cup is just a launch pad....
December 6, 2014
Outer space. it took it 15 times higher than the international space station. the space station has tremendous hopes for orion that it will even take astronauts one day to mars. alina machado reports from cape canaveral, florida. >> reporter: i was here for the liftoff, and its like nothing ive ever seen before. we were a few miles from the launchpad, and yet we could feel the sheer force and the power of the rockets that were boosting orion into space. the spacecraft made two orbits around the ...
December 5, 2014
Blitzer referencing eric garner died as a police officer put him in a choke hold trying to arrest him for selling cigarettes tax free. paul blames new york citys high cigarette tax, more than $5 a pack in that case. and palm aul and clinton may see to eye on some areas of criminal justice reform, but this contrast is a likely preview as we enter the presidential campaign season. >> brianna keilar, thanks for that. a second attempt for a test launch for the orion spacecraft is set to happen 90 ...
December 5, 2014
By 20-foot sink hole in the middle of a busy intersection. nearly ten-feet deep, breaking a century old water pipe that lay underneath. these crews have been working here all day to fix the sink hole while water government officials have been handing out these flyers going door to door telling neighbors the repairs wont be finished until next tuesday. aditi roy, abc news, san francisco. northern california is facing another wet day. two more inches of rain could fall. southern california and t...
December 5, 2014
For a second straight day, the orion and huge rocket that will take it deep into space are sitting on the launch pad. yesterdays attempt to get it off the ground had to be scrubbed because of wind gusts. orions nearly five-hour flight will test systems as nasa works toward a possible mars mission. despite a sometimes bumpy ride, they have faith in uber. the ride-hailing app. the company valued at more than $40 billion after raising more than $1.2 billion in financing. its value is more than li...
December 4, 2014
Martha: disappointment this morning at cape canaveral with nasa forced to cancel the first launch of the orion spacecraft on a mission to mars. what happened? multiple factors, right? >> reporter: in the end the 2 hour 3 member it launch window came and went. on the launch pad is the orion stabbed on top of that delta 4 heavy rocket. they are draining out the liquid oxygen fuel to repump it in at