differences in compensation were based on property improvements and not race. listen. to turn this land back over to the original owners is not only legally incorrect, but economically it borders on a disaster for this very poor county, macintosh county. reporter: you see the land is currently in use as a national wildlife refuge, which attracts 90,000 visitors a year to this sparsely populated, rural georgia county. jon: what about the environmental impact of letting them go back in, would that be a factor? reporter: yeah that is certainly a big concern from the federal government. the federal government says this spot where i am right now is home to more than 300 bird species, including some endangered wood stork populations. refuge managers say allowing even moderate residential
because after iowa and then new hampshire and then south carolina, the next place that republican presidential candidates compete this year is in nevada, the nevada caucuses. nevada is third in the country for the democrats this year, fourth in the country for the republicans. so nevada is a really important early state. it s the first western state. overall nevada is very, very sparsely populated, doesn t have all that many people in it as a state but those few people are a really important audience for the presidential candidates. so it makes sense that you d do a debate in nevada. beyond just being in nevada, though, beyond being in nevada s population center of las vegas, there s also one other reason that last night s debate venue was perfect in every way and that s because the specific place in las vegas where they held last night s debate is a hotel called the venetian, the biggest hotel and casino in las vegas. the version of the venetian that s in china is the single
overall nevada is very, very sparsely populated, doesn t have all that many people in it as a state but those few people are a really important audience for the presidential candidates. so it makes sense that you d do a debate in nevada. beyond just being in nevada, though, beyond being in nevada s population center of las vegas, there s also one other reason that last night s debate venue was perfect in every way and that s because the specific place in las vegas where they held last night s debate is a hotel called the venetian, the biggest hotel and casino in las vegas. the version of the venetian that s in china is the single biggest casino in the world. and both of them and a lot more casinos and hotels beside, they re run by a conservative republican multi-billionaire named sheldon adelson. he s the zillionaire who spent more money in the last election than any other single person in the united states of america.
local people in the xlun it toy smuggle marijuana across the border. the methods are described as more like a professional military operation than a band of drug runners. our cameras were there to capture the story. the exclusive report from nbc s mark potter. reporter: in a massive show of force, nearly 200 agents and tribal police begin an arrest sweep in southern arizona. 46 people are accused of working for a mexican drug cartel that allegedly smug hes hundreds of tons of marijuana to native american land. the reservation sits along the mexican border near tucson. it s the size of connecticut, but sparsely populated. for most of the remote 75 mile long border there, this fence is all it that separates mexico from the united states. typically a smuggler, smug e smuggling group, will move dope lieu this desert in either a