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It's actually dangerous right now. >> and on this former navy bombing range turned sleepy paradise, where glow-in-the-dark plankton -- >> three, two, one. >> reporter: draws tourists from around the world. >> so beautiful, man. >> reporter: -- we found that near 200-mile-an-hour winds had turned just about everything upside down. planes, boats -- >> we're out of food. we're running out of food and water. >> reporter: and thousands of human lives. >> we decided the most important thing was to establish communications. >> reporter: until another angel named robert becker brought in a bag of sate...

♪ >> anthony: while the sailing canoe the hokuela was a powerful spark for the hawaiian renaissance, this was what really set things off. beginning in 1941, and continuing into the '70s and beyond, the u.s. navy had been using the beautiful neighboring island of kahoolawe as a bombing range. you could feel the shockwaves as far away as maui and molokai. >> ritte: i'm proud of my hawaiian blood and nobody can tell me any different. >> anthony: people had never been happy about it, but emboldened by the times, and by recent events, a group of young activists decided to take a stand. in 1976 th...

>> bret: u.s. air force says one of its aircraft crashed in afternoon in new mexico took place 65 miles north of base red rio bombing range. no word yet on the status of the pilot or pilots. not clear what type of aircraft was involved yet either. the crash is the seventh noncombat incident this year for the air force. that equals the total for all of last year. tonight we continue our series looking at the challenges and opportunities for america's infrastructure. this evening correspondent douglas kennedy reports on a new way of going a long way in a short time. >> the very similar to face t...

>> anthony: while the sailing canoe the hokuela was a powerful spark for the hawaiian renaissance, this was what really set things off. beginning in 1941, and continuing into the 70's and beyond. the u.s. navy had been using the beautiful neighboring island of kahoolawe as a bombing range. you could feel the shockwaves as far away as maui and molokai. >> ritte: i'm proud of my hawaiian blood and nobody can tell me any different. >> anthony: people had never been happy about it, but emboldened by the times, and by recent events, a group of young activists decided to take a stand. in 1976 there ...

Here, but it hasn't always been that way. for over sixty years, the island was used as a bombing range for the us navy and for training exercises. the soil is rich with depleted uranium, agent orange, and the kind of good stuff left over after 60 years of explosives raining down on it. many see a clear connection between that recent history and a cancer rate that is 30 percent higher than in the rest of puerto rico. while the navy works to clean up what it left, vieques tries to deal with the financial crisis in its own ways. ♪ chef erica connelly grew up here and has raised her family here....