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And welcome to. Headquarters and. Also ahead Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes the president. As liberia. As president of the challenges facing office. Is about to begin in washington d. C. To work. And rebel allies have stepped up their battle against kurdish fighters along the turkish Syrian Border to drive kurdish. District and northwest corner. Plans to create a socalled safe zone. To protect its border Stephanie Decker has more from the turkish Syrian Border. Weve been hearing intense tank shelling and heavy artillery outgoing throughout the period of the morning it is an active campaign it is the third day of turkeys offensive the ground offensive also started on sunday we know theres been fighting back and forth in the northwest of syria is of course also a con ....
Forest which did not fall in the eruption that the moores were camped in. So that was the forest that protected them. And they were actually instrumental in helping to set aside the mount st. Helens National Volcanic monument as a protected area. Theres just little bits and pieces up there. It is amazing theres not more old growth forest, but i guess the trees are just so valuable that they were [inaudible] yeah. So one last question. Okay. [inaudible] weve flown over it, and it is astonishing to fly over [inaudible] i mean, is it unprecedented . How disat this pointive is that area now with great biodiversity [inaudible] animals are coming back [inaudible] a question about how disat this pointive this volcano is or how unusual. The fact of the matter is that its unusual in the united states, certainly, but once volcanologists learn from mount st. Helens that this kind of an eruption is actually fairly common. They see this all ....
Him, and they were at least two serious attempts where booth was settled, armed, ready to go. The confederates lost and pushed booth over the edge. There are a group of people centered in washington, maryland in that area who are fascinated on the topic. Some of you will know, you can take tours of his escape route. He was on the run for 12 days and then finally captured below fredericksburg, virginia. There are bus tours that you can take. Ego to the place where they finally caught and shot him, make a stop at the home of doctor samuel a mod, the physician who helped with the broken leg. Some are descendents, some are just fans and bus. Thats,. [laughter] invariably it is an interesting collection of people. And there is another group centered around the booth family home. It is the house where John Wilkes Booth was a teenager. There are homes or you can go and step into places where these events occurred. Thank you all. I hav ....
What happened with the eruption is very stable area they were trying to protect that was devastating so they had to change their strategy because the area that they wanted. What they decided to do instead, scientists at that point had a sort of experiment they worked with the association and groups that were interested in setting aside this area for the studies and that did lead the creation e creation of the National Volcanic area today so that has been protected. When you visit the monument today you can still see that area has been satisfied. Its true that there are still major threats in that area. There is a company that wants to mine on the river actually and they are allowed to do so. There are people still fighting these battles. They use it as a tree farm essentially. [inaudible] this is a question about the process of how the land comes back from this kind of devastation. What they found out is that the cost is much m ....
It was the most beautiful thing that he had ever seen. So they took shelter nearby and said that the thunder was so loud and continuous they couldnt even hear each other speak. So finally he began to run up and they all began to make their way up the river. The trees are going across the trail. It had fallen across the pathway and they realized they would have to get across the for us to get back to their car. So very late in the day they knew they were never going to be able to get to the car. They actually slipped a ball that night and when they woke up the next morning they were not feeling bad. So they started making their way back and heard a helicopter overhead and saw what she was wearing and the helicopter decided that they were the last people to be rescued from around Mount Saint Helens but he didnt land in the trees because there was no place for them to land. They brought a small helicopter and it hovered over an i ....