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31 the state launching a plan to eradicate its python population. camera crews on hand as wranglers explain their new mission and it wasnt long before the first assignment came slithering by. foxs melissa medina reports. >> site handler is surging everglades and nabbing their prey, the burmese python. a celebration that these experienced handlers will be doing much more of. they have been given a permit and not have permission to eradicate as many pythons as they can get their hands on. >> until...

>> our biggest concern is we dont want them to eat a florida panther. >> this is the told handler sees. what they do is cut right and the brain. easy to slip there and that shuts the central nervous system down. >> you put your hands on him to do something he doesnt enjoy it and youll come back at you. >> to see you can see how long this guy is, we are told that his 9-foot as you can tell, it is much longer than me. more than 150,000 burmese pythons now call the everglades home. the handlers not...

>> were going to hunt thm. were going toeradicate them. >> reporter: rodne barretteo is tid of talk,s florida fh and wildli conservation commison chairman, he wan action. >>ere developing a pn imdiately that we will roll t the will allow people who are trained, pervised by us, to go ou and hunt pythons and kill them. reporter: the pan would en 750,000 acres of ste land python hunters, withpermits. paid a small bounty r each dead snake the proem is,tate land is that way, and federal landis this w...

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Announce nexweek legalize hug for pythons. you heard right, hunt pythons and you get id a bounty. biogists have officially declared the sth florida python populati of more tha 150,0 out of control, and spading. jeff buside from our miami station wtvj has thetory. reporter: albert kilon knows pyths, he captured these neby. just two of a populationof 150,0 officlly declaredut of control. >> it coils around you, arts to constct, might even suocate somebody. >> reporter: algars even ve a hard time, ...

As soon as i had him, he coiled. oh, look at that. wow. >> its pretty powerful. doesnt get up around the neck. >> reporter: how do i get him off of me? >> very carefully. >> reporter: thank you. with no natural enemiest predators move to the top of the food chain. bad news for the prey and the people of south florida. john zarrella, cnn, big pine key, florida. >> tough guy, john zarrella. he is okay. dont worry about him. bullied to death a. 11-year-old boy picked on relentlessly kills himself...

Is found in a miami neighborhood. it had just devoured a cat. this 10-foot python captured a chicken coop. theres nothing scientists havent found in their stomachs, even an alligator from a belly. >> we have found alligators, a full grown deer. >> reporter: this mess got started they say when python owners realized the pets had grown too big to handle and dumped them in the everglades. 20 years ago, there were none out here. now, there are an estimated 30,000. flourishing and breeding. >> a foot...

Mile and a half a day and wildlife biologists say they some may be swimming from the southern tip of the everglades across florida bay here to keilar go. and once theyre here, wildlife biologists are concerned theyll devour pets and endangered species or menace small children. only way to prevent the spread is catch them. they have classes for officers and park rangers. >> this is not fun. when hes facing me. >> reporter: on how to do just that. >> you have a big python hook. >> reporter: theyre...

Thank you. megyn: with all the pressing matters on capitol hill like health care reform and confirming a new supreme court justice, congress is taking up the matter today of killer pythons. we are not making light of this issue. one of these things killed a little girl last week because a man had it in his home and got out in the middle of the night. what can congress do about this? bill: good question. nasa is making new progress and establishing a permanent colony high above the earth. the las...

He wasnt touring. he wasnt making new records. and he had this towering $270 million debt. >> reporter: and his beloved neverland was toxic asset number one. >> neverland, which cost him around $19 million in 1987, had a staff of about 150 at its peak. and all these carnival rides, exotic animals which required full-time veterinary care. it cost him around $10 million to keep that up at its peak. >> reporter: $10 million a year he could no longer afford. so an auction of his most personal items ...