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Line and effectively useless. >> this facility will allow us to draw water even if lake mead gets to a dead pool elevation. that's the point at which no water can be released to downstream users. if that is to occur, southern nevada is still going to have access to its drinking water supplies in lake mead, specifically because of this facility. >> reporter: so bret, some 80 years after another engineering marvel, the hoover dam, created lake mead, american ingenuity is once again at work, effectively transforming this huge lake into the world's largest bathtub with that giant plug at the botto...

>> reporter: so some 80 year, shep, after another engineering marvel, the hoover dam, created lake mead, american ingenuity is once again at work to turn the lake behind me effectively into the world's biggest bathtub and guarantee it as a source of water for decades to come. >> good stuff, jonathan hunt at lake mead. thank you. three men are probably dead after apparently getting trapped under a landslide that witnesses are calling a sea of logs. that's according to emergency officials in alaska. crews there say they hope to search through debris to find the missing men but it's way too dan...

To plead guilty on charges of engaging in sex acts with minors and receiving child pornography. fogle was in court today. court documents indicate he took the plea deal in exchange for a sentence of not more than 12 1/2 years in prison and restitution payments to victims totalling about $1.5 million. also today, fogle's wife said she is seeking a divorce. now to some positive news. keeping the water flowing to las vegas is the goal of a billion dollar project that's nearing completion, deep under the area's primary water source. chief correspondent jonathan hunt tonight takes us underground ...

Line and effectively useless. >> this facility will allow us to draw water even if lake mead gets to a dead pool elevation. that's the point at which no water can be released to downstream users. if that is to occur, southern nevada is still going to have access to its drinking water supplies in lake mead, specifically because of this facility. >> reporter: so bret, some 80 years after another engineering marvel, the hoover dam, created lake mead, american ingenuity is once again at work, effectively transforming this huge lake into the world's largest bathtub with that giant plug at the botto...

Engineers. this was done by people who knew what they were doing, and they came from a house over here a mile away and they made it into a maximum security prison into an area this big inside the prison a very specific area and a place out of camera range. they really had to know what they were doing to do that and everybody has said that they had to have inside help to make that happen. it was quite an engineering marvel and this organization the sinaloa drug cartel and it's no surprise this man went out on top. that man didn't walk out of jail, he rode out of jail. according to one of the au...