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Deserve to be believed, and make the argument that, you know, what roy moore is saying right now, these denials in the face of so many different accusers saying consistent stories, and now we're hearing those stories directly from those accusers, it's just not credible. >> so you tell me something interesting. given the legacy of birmingham, you're talking about the days of bull connor, the police commissioner who was known for the fire hoses and the dogs and all that stuff against those kids coming out of the birmingham church. this is setting the record where you're saying setting the legacy...

The lush green begins to thin. the jungle floor turns to sand. a half mile further and the rainforest is gone. >> it's like we've entered a completely different ecosystem. from jungle to desert in a matter of feet. >> this didn't exist. these lakes didn't exist. nothing did. it was just flat forest like we went through. this is all manmade. >> wow. oh, my god. oh, my god. and these are all toxic pools now. >> this is all mining pits that are filled in after it's been abandoned with rainwater. >> they use an old brutal method, merciless on the land, cutting down trees, blasting river banks with...

Of the most precious rain forests around. this is up in bolivia where pollution is starting to take its toll. it's a beautiful place, amazing people. and -- >> it looks beautiful. >> tell us about the gold rush. what's being done to try to mitigate it? >> about 600 square miles of some of the most pristine rain forest in the western amazon is just been turned into this toxic wasteland, the miners go out on the los tigres, illicit taxi companies on dirt bikes, they go into the rain forest with a diesel pump and fire hoses. they wash the sandbags down and cut all the trees down until it starts t...

Any possibility of finding that was flushed away by fire hoses. >> and then i get word from the medical examiner's office that they had recovered a knife that was sticking in the woman's back. and -- >> what'd you think when you heard that? >> i went back to my photographs. and sure enough, in the middle of her back, was the knife. >> so someone stabbed her but who? firefighters tipped police that a brother/sister duo across the street, rocky and jessica fugett, had been watching the fire, claimed to know the victims. robert davis and his friend, kevin marsh, knew them as aggressive troublemak...

Firefight could get much worse in the next few days. >> we're on the front lines as firefighters try to keep another town from burning. the fire is coming up this hill, you can see the flames below us, the smoke is billowing. >> in the hills above calistoga, it's a race to keep up with the flames. >> endless fuel in the form of dry trees and brush make it a daunting task. >> it's really steep, rugged, a lot of thick vegetation, there's wind, spot fires blowing everywhe everywhere. >> controlled burns like this one are meant to block the fire from advancing, a half mile down the road, the fire ...