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the bbc�*s most recognised faces. welcome to the show. thanks very much for asking me. you have a new series for radio 4 called frontlines of journalism, billed as your reflections on the most difficult stories you have covered. one of those is certainly ukrainian we heard the news that the afp journalist had died, killed by russian artillery. he was 32 years old and this is a conflict you know very closely. yes, he was killed somewhere in the east, somewhere near bakhmut, where i have spent quite a bit of time, i was there at the end of last year, these things are tragic and in al...

good evening. welcome to "the whole story. conclusion i'm anderson cooper. tonight brings us to one of the most beautiful and progressive cities in america. a city known for its social activism as well as it wealth, particularly in the tech world. it's home to the highest number of billionaires per captain in the country. but it's san francisco, in steep decline because of homelessness and drug use. more people died from drug overdoses in this city during the covid pandemic than from the virus itself. cnn's sara sidner heads to the bay area, a place she once called her home to show u...

♪ ♪ good evening. welcome to "the whole story." i'm anderson cooper. tonight brings us to one of the most beautiful and progressive cities in america. it's a city known as much for its social activism as it is for its wealth and innovation, particularly in the tech world. it's home to the highest number of billionaires per capita in the country. but it's also one of the least affordable places to live. it's san francisco. a city some say is in steep decline because of crime, homelessness and drug use. more people died from drug overdoses in this city during the covid pandemic t...

>> [ sighs ] yeah . >> holy shit. i just went from "everything's fine" to, like, "we need to move." doing something that nobody has ever done before, there's no guarantee that your plan's going to work. >> agh. [ rapids rushing ] once you commit, there is no turning around. [ waves crashing ] >> we're entirely removed from civilization. >> look at this one. >> we know once we get there, we're on our own. >> climbing. we've chosen to live a life that does have risks. [ rock rolling ] >> oh, my god. >> [ sobbing ] >> one mistake, and you're dead. >> come on, now. >> if you harness that...

[ soft, dramatic music plays ] >> the trip started in juneau, alaska, which is -- there's roads here, but it's not connected to anywhere. the mountains are so radical that the only way to get here is on boat or plane. [ fish pouring into ship ] so we're going to get on a boat from here, take that boat about 25 hours up into glacier bay national park. we're going to get dropped off at the edge of a glacier, and then we're going to walk 15 miles to a base camp and, ideally, go and ride one of the most beautiful mountains in the world -- mount bertha. i mean, this is certainly one of t...