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In 1947, alber cam yao wrote "the plague," the devastation of an algerian city overrun by rats and according to my high school english teacher he was using the rats to symbolize the nazi invasion, and the consequences of letting your guard down. in this way the plague was really a metaphor, well, this story is also full of rats, but our story is not a metaphor. >> what do you smell? here in new york, the rats are literal, and they are frickin' everywhere, and they chew through electrical wires and spread disease and threaten to

Term organization very loosely. who's in charge? >> nobody. >> great. how many of you are there? >> we don't know. >> excellent. rats is like an old western posse a. ragtag team of volunteers on a mission to hunt down rustleres and horse thieves. >> is the goal of the organization to get rid of the rats? >> we'll never get rid of rats. >> it's our civic responsibility to do good for our city, so we knocked down the rat population a little bit. >> these dogs are natural born killers. terriers killed rats by the millions and many became legendary among the soldiers they protected and today richa...

Killed? >> dozens. >> really? >> i don't really keep track. >> he does have notches on his collar? he knows right where the rats are, and he wants them, he wants them all, and he wants every rat in the city, don't you? don't you? let's go get 'em! night falls and the ryder's alley gang is ready to go and get the rats, and we are joined by somebody to collect samples for critical ongoing research. >> we distract dna and compare every rat to every other rat and we can figure out exactly how related they are. what we find interesting is that you have cutting edge 21st century science being suppor...

The dichotomy, the old, the new. >> i go out every day with my crew and we are trapping around the city and we will catch maybe five rats in a day, and i go out with these guys and in an hour they catch me ten. >> scientists about matt are dead serious about the rat problem because the history of rats is down right deadly. in the middle ages the beau bonnick plague killed 50 million people. the culprit? rats. technically it was flees but the flees were on the rats as they are today, and they are still covered with delightful contagious, and there's e. coli, and the hundred tau virus, and the p...