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Flooded. you mention that this part of the world, is this the so-called ring of fire in the pacific where volcanos are constantly erupting and just that this one is underwater? >> yeah, the ring of fire, it starts with volcanos connected in some way. like someone described the shape of the volcanos around the pacific. you have two tectonic plates interacting in various ways. if you have one tectonic plate going under the other, it sets off a chemical system that's good for developing, volcanos often have explosive activity. this part of the world is known for being very volcanically active. al...

bank, their equivalent of ben bernanke gave a speech had morning and they said their economic growth is slowing, and traders took it as a note to say things are more serious than we thought. you combine that with the fact that the japanese central bank intervened to prop the yen up, and there's a fear that everybody is doing badly and nobody is there to pick up the slack. basically is that what is happening. money is coming out of the stocks. when you see that happening, it comes out of commodities or gold. people are taking their money out of the stock market and gold, and oil, and ...

Lot of different perspectives if life can exist, what are the conditions, and so on. so, all of that's going on. and you can never exactly tell when something's going to break. >> how are you defining life? >> that's a really interesting question. because there is no accepted definition of life. it's one of the things that you just assume is the case, but nasa uses something that's called, they say life is a chemical system that's able to reproduce in a darwinian fashion and metabolize. but there are a lot of other definitions. there are last i heard, something like 390, 400 definitions. it's ...

Deep water horizon oil rig. 11 workers were presumably killed. it could spell disaster for the fishing tree and experts are worried. >> 69% of the oysters, 70% of the shrimp domestically generated come from apalachicola bay in florida to louisiana. >> reporter: ba >> reporter: back in that area shane has lived through it all. as for the containment effort, they're trying to determine if a chemical system is working. for cnn, i'm samantha hayes. >> the attempt to corral oil on the surface has been hampered by the high winds. below the surface, officials are trying to stup t ing ting to st. ther...