>> 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