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The island are going to be diminished. >> earlier this year came a lifeline from the federal government. for the first time ever the department of houing and urban development awarded a climate resilience grant to resettle the people of isle de jean charles. christine peterson who runs a local not-for-profit helped draft the people. >> there are no experts in resettlement. to say we are projecting this will be resilient 100 years out is really an important step. its a step then that hopefully ca...

Into jagged rocks. >> oh, my god. >> jesus. >> it was pretty obvious to everyone that watched it that there was going to be a significant injury from this. >> i knew it was not going to be a pretty ending. >> in his years as an underwater videographer and conservationist drew wheeler has had many opportunities to witness the power of the ocean firsthand. >> i have seen some very close calls here on the rocks at sharks cove. the thing is about this area on the north shore is when the waves come i...

To see the spectacular waves hitting the rocks with this beautiful explosion of white water. its a very common sight to have people taking photos along this area of the shoreline. >> but on this particular day a pair of tourists, mother and son, would get more than a view of the waves. >> when i first saw the couple walk out on the rocks, i initially tried to warn them, as did several other people on the shoreline. >> our first instinct was to yell at them and warn them because the waves were ob...

Transplant waiting list every ten minutes. that amounts to more than 120,000 men, women and children in need of a life-saving transplant. when a match does finally become available it can sometimes be all the way across the country. for heart transplants, the usual way of transporting the organ is on ice, in a cooler. similar to the one you take on a picnic. since the first heart transplarnt in the late 1960s, technology has come a long way, and now it might be catching up to organ preservation ...

>> looking back at the entire odd mishap, matt is grateful for one thing. >> i like diving without a wet suit because it makes me feel more streamlined in the water. one of my concerns after the accident, i wasnt wearing a wet suit and i was only wearing a pair of board shorts and i was concerned that it could have been a lot worse if she had swum under the legs of my shorts. >> now that would hurt. coming up -- >> it actually stuck to my mask and my mask was coming off. >> a giant pacific oct...

Weeks before the mosul invasion. and though they are outnumbered more than 20-1, isis prevails. >> the number of the military and the security forces ran away because they had seen these videos and they didnt want to stand and fight. >> beyond the battlefield, isis videos began to evolve into staged, stylized set pieces, increasingly violent, increasingly glossy. in one video, a row of isis executioners appears, leading 21 captives along the beach in libya. >> things werent going quite so well w...

As american as anything could possibly be. yet, it also never shed what was there before and the layers and layers that have come since. its a wonderful, tricky, conflicted, mutant hell broth. in what, for lack of a better word, youd have to call paradise. >> paul: nowheres paradise. paradises dont exist. paradise is, kind of, in your head. >> anthony: wait, wait a minute. you look out your window here and you look at those hills, those mountains, all that green, that blue sky, and gin clear sea...

Access.wgbh.org cities in the east bay. pittsburg claims that they a lower crime ra >> scathing allegations against a bay area police department. on paper it is one of the safest citys in the east bay. >> they claim they have a lower crime rate. >> new claims, officers are cooking the books. pot growers rushing to buy land but there is a scary side to californias green rush. >> i personally have been stopped by assault rifles on public roads. >> why some worry a marijuana boom could destroy th...

Oh, bleep, hes in the cave. >> oh, [ bleep ] hes in the cave? >> and apparently, one of the younger teens that had just arrived had jumped off and his timing couldnt have been worse. all of a sudden, we seen him struggling. and then just the most massive swell of the day that i had seen came rolling. and it turned from oh, my god to oh, my god! >> stay calm. >> gary hands the camera back to hillary and heads toward the water. >> i go down to the waters edge. im trying to grab his hand. and i joc...

Into the water himself. >> at this point, i real im in serious trouble. im fighting for my life. >> the current sucks gary into the mouth of the cave and hurls him perilously close to the jagged rocks. >> once gary was swept in there and the swells were coming in he was trying to dive under them and they were popping up. one minute they are popping up over here. the next minute they are popping up over there. it was just relentless. >> he is right there, behind you, hes going in the cave. >> we ...