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Lose 3,000 acres of rain forest every hour. it's important that we protect habitat because in a rain forest not only olinguito but a cure for cancer or aids or the next food source to help in starvation. >> really fascinating. jeff corwin, thanks for sharing. we appreciate it. >> thank you, carol. here's what's all new in the next hour of "newsroom". >> mayor filner i am a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. >> another bob filner accuser comes forward. >> he came up to me without any warning and hugged me and kissed me. >> her attorney gloria allred joins us live. plus -- >> preside...

Understand that all of this distinguished work is not just about writing the chronicle of the stuff we're told. earlier this year at the nation's preeminent award, a lot intimidating to be up there with the scientists, talking about ozone layers and how to save the rain forests. i don't do much public speaking, this was very intimidating for me. i tried to get at the idea of how we get to these problems. something as big as the temperature of the earth being wrong seems like a dumb problem to work on, because it is just too big, right? what could we ever do to affect something that big? well, ...

Species. most of it like to spend up in the treetops and likes cold, high altitude places and primarily eating fruit, nectar and insects and, really, tells a powerful story of the challenge of science which is to identify animals before they become extinct because the truth is every half an hour we lose the species of life on our planet. >> that's really sad. in talking about species that you have yet to discover, how many, how many could there be? >> that's what's so exciting. in places like rain forests or the deep recesses of the planet's oceans exists many creatures waiting to be revealed....

Stories? what are the things that can be explained about achievement in environmental protection and environmental science that can help us all, even not the true believers, that can help us all understand that all of this distinguished work is not just about writing the chronicle of the stuff we're told. earlier this year at the nation's preminent award, a lot intimidating to be up there with the scientists, talking about ozone layers and how to save the rain forests. i don't do much public speaking, this was very intimidating for me. i tried to get at the idea of how we get to these problems...

Essence of great eating. it's a beautiful space. so how's the restaurant business in bogota? >> it's a very good business. a lot of people with money, they don't know how to cook. >> nobody cooks at home. maybe their cook does. they eat out a lot? >> yeah, it's a new part of our culture. everybody wants to go to restaurants. >> so 10 years ago, 15 years ago, what, traditional casual food? >> yeah. >> a few fine dining, you know, white tablecloths, serving french, continental or italian? but this is new. >> it's a new business, a new world. there's two great bodies of colombia food, the mixture...