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Briefing or so. >> since we don't have pictures yet, can you illustrate what that is going to look like? what a seismologist would want to take a photo of? >> well, yeah, we're speculating a little bit here in that we don't -- >> you think? >> we don't know yet if this fault ruptured to the ground surface. magnitude 6.4s in california sometimes break all the way to the ground surface. sometimes don't. until we have some definitive information. if it did break up to the ground surface, what we should see is where two sides of the ground that were close together would have slid horizontally. the...

Jon: the los angeles water supply company wants to pump ground water out of the mojave desert for the second year in a row, those plans shrivelled up in the state's legislature. it would have required a new state environmental review before the project could proceed with ultimately selling the ground water to southern california cities. opponents of the plan believe it will threaten desert springs and wildlife. with more, here's douglas kennedy. >> i don't see any water out here. >> well, you won't. it's couple hundred feet beneath ground surface >> they say you can't get water from a stone. b...

Jon: the los angeles water supply company wants to pump ground water out of the mojave desert for the second year in a row, those plans shrivelled up in the state's legislature. it would have required a new state environmental review before the project could proceed with ultimately selling the ground water to southern california cities. opponents of the plan believe it will threaten desert springs and wildlife. with more, here's douglas kennedy. >> i don't see any water out here. >> well, you won't. it's couple hundred feet beneath ground surface >> they say you can't get water from a stone. b...

Is an unprecedented rainfall on any ground surface, much less a fire-burned watershed. >> reporter: all that water surging off the bare hills, funneled into montecito's dry creek beds. when you see the size of these boulders, it gives you a sense of the power that forces these giant rocks and these giant trees downstream. oprah winfrey surveying the damage to her property, too. >> so, there used to be a fence right here. that's my neighbor's house, devastated. >> reporter: the death toll now at least 17. it includes roy rohter, the founder of the st. augustine academy, swept away from his home...

Its head is on the chopping block skpland likely could face extinction. the jaguar will likely be pushed back toward the precipice is likely to head toward extinction because of the building of this wall. >> the birds specifically, wouldn't they just be able to fly over the wall? >> it's interesting you say that, and it's actually an excellent question, but certainly many animals that fly can migrate over that wall. but many animals actually stay very low. many of these animals, for example, birds and bats are actually passing close to the ground surface because they're heading wards plants fo...