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>> reporter: co-discovered ebowl fla 1976, almost 40 years later doctors still don't know how to prevent it or where it lurks between epidemics. >> it came out of the blue in west africa. >> reporter: one leading theoryish bats are carrying ebola possibly spreading the virus to other animals and then to people. testing the theory is difficult because outbreaks are rare and little market demand for a vaccine. money for research often comes from the government. countries like the u.s. worry it could be used in an ebola terror attack. studies have been promising, saying real world testing is what...

Halloween. but farmers love them because they feast on some of the insects that destroy crops. the problem now is that a mysterious fungus is killing the bats by the millions. seth doane has our story. >> this is one of the entrances. >> reporter: cory holliday of the nature conservancy took us to a tennessee cave that's the winter home to 160,000 endangered gray bats that could be extinct within a decade from white nose syndrome. >> this is a wildlife disease. it's unprecedented in our history. >> reporter: scientists are still mystified by this fungus, which shows up as a white powdery resid...

could affect all of us, including our own mail delivery. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." jtsdzer. it all begins in iowa. right now many of the republican presidential candidates are in that state, a state that holds the lead-off contest in 2012. they're working the crowds at the state fair before tomorrow's pivotal iowa straw poll. and they're taking direct aim at president obama's handling of the debt crisis and the u.s. economy. listen to some of the republican hopefuls, including sarah palin, who insists she still hasn't decided whether to run. >> i think the q...

shopping sprees, but are still out there spending and that's good. the dow fell to the lowest level in 30 years, but we are not seeing the wild swings we saw all week. the dow closed down 600 on monday and up 400 on tuesday and down 500 points on wednesday and up 400 yesterday, and it was the first time in the dow's history we have seen closing numbers like this. drew? >> you could probably measure the heartbeat of traders the same way, up and down. tell us what happened in europe? they are trying to prevent the wild up and down swings. >> what they are doing is they are putting a te...

They could outrun a world champion human runner. and this apparently the vampire bat on the treadmill. >> i'm sorry, but that is hilarious. >> i just don't get it. >> who filmed this and why, i don't get. >> and where are his wings, by the way? >> that is an ugly bat. if you get chased by one, you are out of luck. >> all right. now here's a good one. an artist makes a crunchy tribute to rachael ray. there is an artist by the name of -- what is his name? i forget. i forget his name. he makes portraits of people entirely out of cheetos. he made a beautiful portrait of rachael ray. there he is at...