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Correspondent dan springer tells us about it from olympia washington. >> a property owners worst nightmare in thurston county, washington, a single mound of dirt has the potential to stop any and all development in its tracks, just ask steve and deborah mclean. they have been trying over year to get a permit to build a house on their land. >> the gopher has been able to enjoy our property this entire time, and they have more rights to our property than we do. >> the mazama pocket gopher themselv...

Can take years. hundreds languish on a list waiting for gopher inspectors to visit their property three times, but only over a five month window in which golfers are most active. a small private college sitting right next to the fish and wildlife service has also learned a hard lesson about property rights and they protected gopher. plans to build a new science lab in this open field got rejected after they found evidence of a gopher. now they have to cut down all those trees. ironically, fish a...

North korea is ready to engage as towards denuclearization. >> changes also in china, today sending an envoy to the same meeting, another sign of their growing engagement on the issue. >> there are more and more people in the top chinese leadership, i think, who understand they divided korea is not in chinas best interest. >> with the uss michigan waiting patiently in south korea, pressure continues to grow on the north. >> so tensions continue to rise, continue to simmer. all eyes on that meeti...

Correspondent dan springer tells us about it from olympia washington. >> a property owners worst nightmare in thurston county, washington, a single mound of dirt has the potential to stop any and all development in its tracks, just ask steve and deborah mclean. they have been trying over year to get a permit to build a house on their land. >> the gopher has been able to enjoy our property this entire time, and they have more rights to our property than we do. >> the mazama pocket gopher themselv...

As towards denuclearization. >> changes also in china, today sending an envoy to the same meeting, another sign of their growing engagement on the issue. >> there are more and more people in the top chinese leadership, i think, who understand they divided korea is not in chinas best interest. >> with the uss michigan waiting patiently in south korea, pressure continues to grow on the north. >> so tensions continue to rise, continue to simmer. all eyes on that meeting at the white house. it is ve...

Can take years. hundreds languish on a list waiting for gopher inspectors to visit their property three times, but only over a five month window in which golfers are most active. a small private college sitting right next to the fish and wildlife service has also learned a hard lesson about property rights and they protected gopher. plans to build a new science lab in this open field got rejected after they found evidence of a gopher. now they have to cut down all those trees. ironically, fish a...