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All right units friday you know if that means lets welcome tonights guest hes the only one on the panel who still looks like his yearbook picture of the host of the god bends and show guy benson if only his jokes were sharper says razors comedian and founder of western Razor Company david angelo shes like a pothole on the street people always trying to avoid her the New York Times bestselling author and fox contributor and finally he trims his beard with a Grazing Flock Of Sheep the New York Times best selling author and comedienne for bar in wa World Champion before we get to some news storie...

The pollution of the carbon we are throwing in the air comes from three industries. >> dana: have plastic bans ever really shown a decrease in carbon emissions? >> well, no. in fact, the best available science shows the opposite. after plastic bags were banned in california, carbon emissions actually went up because people used more carbon alternatives. not just paper bags, but also cloth bags. i think this is not really a climate issue that people are worried about. we all saw the sea turtle with the plastic straw stuck up its nose. 95% of the plastic waste in the ocean doesn't come from rich...

Retired u.s. coast guard and a survival expert. you sort of hold on to that sliver of hope. maybe not necessarily because of their younger ages but because of the fact that what the boat capsized sunday which means perhaps they haven't been in the water for all that long? >> yeah, well they are experienced as boaters and their age. once they get into the water, the ocean doesn't care about those things but i think there's still a reason to look. i know they left friday and we found their boat sunday. i don't know when the boat turned over. probably it turned over friday but did they hang on th...

This plastic pollution is getting into the food chain and they ultimately affect our health. >> reporter: and it's affecting the animals? >> absolutely. roughly 660 species today and that's a conservative estimate. what's insidious about it the plastic in the ocean doesn't disappear. it acts as a sponge for contaminants. >> reporter: in the pacific alone, noaa said massive patches of plastic swirl about. there are laws that prohibit dumping blass ticks in the ocean. the problem is enforcement. governments need to do more on cracking down on pollution. and the vast waters are difficult to polic...

Over water. the hunt for 8501 in the java sea and mh-370 in the indian ocean. during the search for any sign of the aircraft, objects floating in the water turned out to be junk, discarded nets and old buoys among a myriad of items. >> this is an example of the pollution that we find in our oceans. >> reporter: anna is the director of institute. >> roughly 80 to 90% of the debris in our oceans is plastic. and the worst of it is that people don't realize that it's not just unsightly. it's getting into the food chain and may be affecting our health. >> reporter: and it's affecting the animals? >...