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The barge began to sink as it leaked an unknown amount of oil into the galveston bay. booms were brought in to keep the spill from spreading. officials are worried about the bird population there since it is peak migration season. and today the white house and lawmakers are celebrating obamacare's fourth birthday, stepping up efforts to get americans enrolled ahead of the march 31st deadline. democratic leaders launching a social media campaign as well as events to increase the number of people in the program, especially young people. and hillary clinton trying to shatter the glass of elle...

Like san francisco. it smells like rotten eggings. >> brian: what about wind farms. it can affect the bird population. >> yes, windmills kill 300,000 birds annually. in new york city 90,000 birds run in windows and die. if you look at the country 500 million die. our cats kill 500 million birds. when they are opposed to wind power. we are talking point000 percent of all fatalities. >> brian: guys you can fly and cats can't. and climate change and droelectric power causes climate change, is that the truth? >> no, it is a great source of energy and yes, upsuts the fish and disrupts rivers. but i...

the fbi and new york police are up to their elbows in dirt and dust. meticulously sifting through layers of soil six feet deep below a basement floor recemented in 1979. the same year 6-year-old etan patz disappeared. >> we're cautiously optimistic as law enforcement always is when it executes search warrants that they will find what they're looking for. >> reporter: looking for etan's remains who lived a half block from the search scene. his parents still live here. he vanished after his mom kissed him good-bye 33 years ago. he came straight out this door out decked out in a corduro...

Stats, we have 179 souls on board. >> reporter: the majority of bird strikes take place at a low altitude of 500 feet or less. since 198 219 people have been killed because of birds hitting planes. the problem is getting worse because of a number of reasons, among them an increase in the bird population caused by conservation. aircraft today are less noisy and they simply aren't scaring bird away. we are hearing more about the problem because of better reporting. every since a u.s. airways plane hit a flock of geese and they made an emergency landing in the hudson river bird strikes ignored ...

Tool available to the planes, screaming the engines, doing something to prevent this? >> reporter: the preventative measures are being done on the ground to control the bird population. one expert i talked with today told me his company provides, this is very interesting, border colleagues to control the bird population, that doesn't cause a problem with the environment, but it's still simply not enough, we have 10,000 if not more of these incidents a year. megyn: the stats are quite telling. thank you seurb. 45million americans collected food stamps in 2011. 45million, that is a ne huge incre...