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As soon as i had him, he coiled. oh, look at that. wow. >> it's pretty powerful. doesn't get up around the neck. >> reporter: how do i get him off of me? >> very carefully. >> reporter: thank you. with no natural enemiest predators move to the top of the food chain. bad news for the prey and the people of south florida. john zarrella, cnn, big pine key, florida. >> tough guy, john zarrella. he is okay. don't worry about him. bullied to death a. 11-year-old boy picked on relentlessly kills himself. now his grieving mother is speaking out about the day she says will haunt her forever. and sa...

Is found in a miami neighborhood. it had just devoured a cat. this 10-foot python captured a chicken coop. there's nothing scientists haven't found in their stomachs, even an alligator from a belly. >> we have found alligators, a full grown deer. >> reporter: this mess got started they say when python owners realized the pets had grown too big to handle and dumped them in the everglades. 20 years ago, there were none out here. now, there are an estimated 30,000. flourishing and breeding. >> a foot and a half is a hatchling. a six footer is a year old. and they're both of these on the move with...

Mile and a half a day and wildlife biologists say they some may be swimming from the southern tip of the everglades across florida bay here to keilar go. and once they're here, wildlife biologists are concerned they'll devour pets and endangered species or menace small children. only way to prevent the spread is catch them. they have classes for officers and park rangers. >> this is not fun. when he's facing me. >> reporter: on how to do just that. >> you have a big python hook. >> reporter: they're nonvenomous but as i found taking the training class, they have no problem coming after you. th...

Thank you. megyn: with all the pressing matters on capitol hill like health care reform and confirming a new supreme court justice, congress is taking up the matter today of killer pythons. we are not making light of this issue. one of these things killed a little girl last week because a man had it in his home and got out in the middle of the night. what can congress do about this? bill: good question. nasa is making new progress and establishing a permanent colony high above the earth. the last man to walk on the moon was 37 years ago. he is in our studio this mornin.

He wasn't touring. he wasn't making new records. and he had this towering $270 million debt. >> reporter: and his beloved neverland was toxic asset number one. >> neverland, which cost him around $19 million in 1987, had a staff of about 150 at its peak. and all these carnival rides, exotic animals which required full-time veterinary care. it cost him around $10 million to keep that up at its peak. >> reporter: $10 million a year he could no longer afford. so an auction of his most personal items seemed like the answer. from his sequinned glove to a life-size replica of darth vader made of leg...