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Of the family. without that there is really no safety net. we are looking at a real issue here with socioeconomics but also there is a social issue here with women and how women are looked at in india as a whole. >> i just from reading more about it, you hear about these women who have had to have multiple abortions and now the family is pushing them to get pregnant again to see if maybe they might have a son this time, have you so ask what is being done about this, if anything. because the law is the law, yet it is not really being followed. >> that is one of the issues that happens in many t...

Occurring, and in fact, today, because of the way that the wind is coming in, and i will clear that out for you, and the fires are going this way. we know that, because they are again showing up on radar. you think, wait, radar picks up rain, right? no, radar picks up what is in the air. it can pick up a bug. >> it picks up fires? >> picks up the smoke from the fires. there are so many fires out there and the fire lines are so wide now, and you have to understand if it is a one-mile fire of 648 acres and you have one mile this way and that way and that way and this is a four-mile firefighting ...

The businesses are offshore, the financial mechanisms, the bank that got the money from the players to the poker operators, that's what the federal government cracked down on. there were sort of a gray area now where the government tolerated the existence of these offshore poker operation, but clearly, that period is over. we know it is illegal and now the country has to decide whether to legalize it and tax it or continue these criminal investigations. >> abarrett, poker players say t is not gambling, it is a game of skills, and it is not gambling. what is your response to that? >> well, cert...

Often the prize money is less than a single team will invest in trying to find the solution but the effect is you have a multiple of the prize money dedicated to try to find a solution that's going to help humanity. >> absolutely. if you look at a $10 million purse, normally the leverage is immense. the amount of money that the team spent to solve that money team spent to solve that problem and win the purse is ten times bigger than the purse, itself, and we have seen 200 times the size of the purse. >> all right. francis, good work and thank you for joining us today. x-prize is a great idea a...

Cnn tracked down one of the alleged kidnappers who runs a pakistani think tank. listen to this. >> greg mortensen says that you kidnapped him. did you? >> no, he's lying. he's lying. we didn't kidnap him. he was our guest. and we treated him as a guest. not someone -- we have not kidnapped him. he used to move around with us to different places in waziristan. he was here -- >> why do you think he said this about you? >> just to sell his book because people in 2005 or '06 wanted to know about waziristan and the taliban so he thought that it's good to make this story.