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35% increase in less than 20 years. much faster than most metro areas. notably, one part of houstons population influx came from new orleans residents displaced by hurricane katrina in 2005. roughly 250,000 residents took refuge in houston following that storm and an estimated 25,000 to 40,000 of those folks still remain in houston today. houston is also a very diverse city. since 2000, its white, non-hispanic population has declined from 42% to 30% while at the same time the hispanic population...

Their homes? can they rebuild? are they eligible for federal dollars? the population explosion also comes with consequences. between 2000 and 2015 over 400,000 housing units were constructed in the houston area for the population explosion, and houston has had to pave the way literally for these new residents. harris county has 35,000 lane miles of road. bexar county, home to san antonio, is similar in size geographically to harris county, but is less than half of the amount of lane miles of roa...

35% increase in less than t20 years. one part of houstons population came from new orleans displaced from 2005. people took refuge from the storm. an estimated of those folks remains in houston today. houston is a diverse city. since 2000s its white population declined and hispanic population risen from 33% to 42%. this could present another set of challenge to the recovery efforts. half a million area of residents are undocumented immigrants. what happens to these folks? can they rebuild? popul...

Jobs. 10,000 of them live in this area. there are so many theres actually a government consulate. and with climate change, more people are probably on the way. >> a person called me and said, carmen, if you thought about climate change refugees. >> we would have to come here to live here because global warming keeps making the gloofloods wor the island will disappear. >> if our country sinks, so much of our culture will disappear as well. were beginning to lose our culture with where we are. >> ...

People out. >> we will probably have a population explosion. >> reporter: in other words, springdale arkansas could become the new marshall islands. >> year just starting to build our foundation. how we start now will affect our future for our kids. >> reporter: but heres thing. if nothing changes, marshallese kids wont have any choice about whether to move back to their home. those islands, their country wont exist, and thats my fault and yours if youre living in the industrialized world. its u...

>> the population explosion was unstoppable and pesticides were going to shorten our life, the ice age was coming back. acid rain was killing forests. the desert was advancing. the y 2 k computer bug. that is what everybody said to me about the future. so i was surprised when i grew up that things had been getting much better for most people most of the time. >> some people call this possess mitchell porn or fear porn. it sells in the media. people like to be scared. >> one example of that is th...

Residues. i covered hundreds of scares and finally wised up. in england, a journalist smarter than i quickly realized he was focusing on the wrong things that led to this book. "the rational optimist." matt ridley gives lectures around the world explaining why hes an optimist. >> back in the 1970, the future was bleak, the population explosion was unstoppable. famine was inevitable. bird flu is going to kill us, the ice age is coming back. all these, the desert was advancing. y2k computer bug, a...

Styles. >> you have to deal with the adults if you want to remain the adult in the situation. >> no doubt about it. >> heres whats really interesting. >> investigators say if it is true she probably went after the wrong kid. >> i know, right. you just never know. >> terrible. >> dont do it. >> dont do it. moving on to this now, a population explosion in albuquerque this spring of grasshoppers. there are millions of them in new mexico city because conditions are favorable right now. albuquerque...

Summer swag. poppa manning made an appearance in the video. hilarious. >> that reminds me of that famous justin timber lake schedule. >> "something in a box." >> same humor. all right. thank you so much, betty. >> its one of the most popular summer spots in the u.s. cape cod, massachusetts. traditionally known for beautiful beaches and tranquil waters. but as katie tur reports, there are growing concerns over a population explosion and the hidden danger its attractsing. >> reporter: crowds by th...

When i look at the sort of numbers in terms of how often people eat these foods in terms of the price point a lot of them are at, i always wonder if theres not a tension in the kind of argument curtis makes. i think you hear a lot in the food community, a preference for going back to things we can recognize. foods our grandmothers would recognize. and the sort of way americans eat and i often wonder if the answer to a lot of the problems curtis identified like diabetes and related health issues ...