>> WHAT SGT WEB SITE ASHLEY

MADISON SAY ON MODERN MARRIAGES

AND THE SEA UNUSUALLY

INHABITANTS AND DRAG RACING

SPEED BOATS ON SMALL LAKE NORTH

OF CHICAGO AND DID THE DOME OF

THE OLD CHICAGO FEDERAL

BUILDING MEASURE UP TO THE ONE

ON THE U.S. CAPITOL.

JEFFERY BARE ANSWER THIS DOME

QUESTION.

BUT, FIRST, THE CHICAGO BOTANIC

GARDEN IS ON DEATH WATCH.

OFFICIALS SAY THE TITAN ARUM

PLANT MORE POPULARLY KNOWN AS

CORPSE FLOWER COULD BLOOM IN A

MATTER OF HOURS AND IT'S

NOTORIOUS FOUL ODOR THE PLANT

OBTAINED NEAR ROCK STAR STATUS

SO FAR 40,000 VISITORS FLOCKED

TO THE BOTANIC GUARD TONE SEE

IT.

EVEN THOUGH THE STENCH IS YET

TO COME.

HERE'S THE LATEST.

>> THE CROWDS ARE LINING UNTO

GET A GLIMPSE AND PRAPS A WIFF

OF WHAT KHIK CHICK BOTANIC

GARDEN OFFICIALS SAY SETS

LARGEST WORLD'S SMELLEST

FLOURERRING PLANT.

>> I CAME YESTERDAY, NOW, AND

TOMORROW TO SEE IT UNRAV SFWLL

THE CORPSE FLOWER NICKNAMED

SPIKE IS FWROING FOR TWELVE

YEARS AND CURRENTLY SHE SAY IT

IS FLASHING SIGNALS THAT IT'S A

MERE HOURS AWAY FROM BLOOMING.

>> THE BASE IS EXTRA GIRTHY

AND INTERNAL TEMPERATURE SPIKED

AND FLOWER PETALES ARE PULLING

AWAY FROM THE STEM.

>> IT'S MAKING MOVES TO GET

READY TO BLOOM.

>> THE PLANT IS EXTREMELY RARE

FOUND MOSTLY IN RAIN FORRESTS

IN INDONESIA.

ITS LIFE SPAN FWHUNS SBLOOM

SHORT.

24 TO 36 HOURS AND THE SMELL

THAT EMANATES FROM THE PLOWER

HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS BE

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LIMBURGER

CHEESE AND ROTTING MAMMAL

CORPSE.

WHY TO ATTRACT POLL NATEERS.

>> BEATLS, FLESH FLIES, THEY

WOULD BE ATTRACTED TO THE SMELL

AND THEY THINK THAT'S A DEAD

ANIMAL.

THEY'LL GO DOWN INTO THE FLOWER

THINKING THEY CAN LAY THEIR

EGGS AND FEED UPON THAT AND

WHAT HAPPENS IS THERE IS

NOTHING TO FEED BONE BUT THEY

CARRY POLLEN WITH THEM AND THEN

MOVE ON TON ANOTHER FLOWER.

>> THE ANTICIPATION IS MADE

SPIKE A PHENOMENON CHICAGO.

SOME VISITORS FOUND ARTISTIC

INSPIRATION IN THE PLANT AND

SAY THEY PLAN TO BE THERE UNTIL

THE VERY END.

>> IT'S A HAPPENING UNUSUAL

WHAT BLOOMS TEN OR FOURTEEN

YEARS ONCE.

SO YOU THINK WELL I HAVE A

CHANCE TO BE THERE.

>> THOUGH BOUGHT NIGHT ARE NOT

SURE OF THE EXACT HOUR OF BLOOM

BEING THEY SAY IT ALL MOST

CERTAINLY WILL BE DURING THE

EVENING.

>> BEFORE IT POP IT'S BILL EMIT

THE LIMBURGER DEATH SMELL.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT SMELLING

ANYTHING YET WHICH SIGNALS IT

PROBABLY WON'T BE TONIGHT SGLP

WHEN THE MOMENT COMES THE

BOTANIC GARDEN SAYS IT WILL

STAY ON UNTIL 2 A.M. FOR ALL

WHO WISH TO SEE AND SMELL.

FOR CHICAGO TONIGHT, THIS IS

PARISH SHOULD HAVE.

>> BOTANIC OFFICIALS HAVE NINE

OTHER CORPSE FLOWERS GROWING IN

PRODUCTION AREAS SOME MAY BLOOM

AND OTHERS NEVER WILL AND