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Environmental pollution starting with the plastics gouge scientists with the alan mack author foundation recently predicted that by 2050 in terms of weight they'll be more patrick than fish in our oceans we're going to take a look at some of the ways we can turn back this tide. education is a good start school children in ghana learning about plastic recycling. with basic plastic is another in uganda women make paper from elephant dung. and how about repair like smartphones manufactured sustainably. children are especially vulnerable to environmental threats due to their developing organs and ...

Training. >> do my honor, do my best to stand up, eyes on me, eyes on me. all of the guys were looking right on me, no other place to go, we knew we had to go right up to the same spot. at home, i got a 6-year-old boy, and i'm thinking, i'm sorry for what's about to come. i love you and be great. >> one of the pilots, now in our religion, chief warrant officer alan mack, whose helicopter was shot up on the previous attempt to land, volunteered to fly the team back into harm's way. >> and i remember hearing the boys boys, and he said, good luck. >> a key member of that team, air force technical...

Slabinski remembered his boy scout training. >> eyes on me, they were looking at me, no place to go, had to go back up to the spot. i am thinking sorry for what is about to come. i love you. >> one of the pilots, chief warrant officer alan mack, the helicopter was shot up on the previous attempt to land, volunteered to fly the team into harms way. >> it was out's voice, wished the team leader good luck. >> reporter: a team leader, technical sgt. john chapman's job was to call in air strikes. he was hit almost immediately by machine gunfire after stepping out of the helicopter.

Operations helicopter pilot a alan mack who volunteered to fly back in after the first helicopter took fire but there were a series of tragic events. >> dana: jennifer, why is this medal of honor more controversial than usual? >> well, the incident at what is now known as "roberts ridge" led to a lot of turn in the special ops community. the quick reaction force did not know two previous helicopters had been fired upon. there are questions about why slabinski broke military protocol and landed the helicopter on their objective rather than walk in. air force sergeant john chapman who returned t...