The Story

Producer Cori Princell tells Dick about a trip she made to Gorleben, Germany, to hear both sides of the nuclear waste disposal argument.

Jess Hagerman was asked to run rescue missions the morning that Mount St. Helens volcano erupted in May, 1980. Stephanie Guediri was 14 when she and her family went for a day trip to a national park and got caught in a curious fast-approaching ash cloud. Martin Cunningham was about to fulfil his dream of running the Boston Marathon, when his flight from the UK was canceled due to a volcanic ash plume hovering over Europe.

For the last 20 years, Lisa Curran has been living and working in the forests of Indonesia to help locals learn how to preserve what rightfully belongs to them.  Her work recently won her a prestigious MacArthur Foundation fellowship of $500,000. Also in this episode, Val Johnson of Chicago.

As floods continue to hit the Midwest, Dick Gordon talks to a woman who's lived through four deluges: 1992, 2000, 2007, and now.  Laura Negronida moved to Gays Mills, WS, sixteen years ago to get back to the land. Also in this episode, suspicious spouses use them. So do skeptical insurance companies. And now celebrities facing criminal charges like artist R. Kelly are using private investigators as well -- to sift through their accusers' stories. Steve Wilson is a P.I. who works with defense attorneys.