fentanil, bud ice, has been found. those are the headlines. when john siegenthaler joins us from washington, d.c. have a good night. >> president obama set to put his foot down at the state of union. will his treats of executive orders make gridlock worse? also, has the anti-vaccine movement made thousands of americans sicker? >> why was an american citizen arrested in dubai and imprisoned for nine months over a youtube video? >> meth, money laundering and bitcoin. >> i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". here is more of what is ahead. [ ♪ music ] >> president obama prepares for

tuesday's state of union address. >> tomorrow night it's time to restore opportunity for all. >> it's the indication of a new bipartisan spirit. we need it. >> one of the things that president barack obama ought to do is look in the camera and say, "i'm sorry." >> this is a year of action and work and bypass congress where necessary. >> a u.s. citizens was gaoled this dubai after putting out a parody video. >> i did nothing wrong, there was nothing illegal about the video. >> for once i'm somebody nobody thought i would be. the feeling you get back from them you can't scribe it. >> we begin with president obama's fifth state of union address, expected to focus on income and equality, immigration reform, the environment and education. the president offered a sneak peek of what is to come on monday. >> tomorrow night it's time to

restore opportunity for all. >> it's an opportunity to try again on unfulfilled goals in the state of union. >> let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty and raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour. leaders from business, law enforcement, faith, communities all agree that the time has come to pass comprehensive immigration reform. now is the time to do it, to get it done >> what will be different this year as the president goes into the speech with the record low disability actions? >> the president sees this as a year of action and bipat congress where necessary, to lift folks who want to come up into the middle class. >> we are joined by lynn suite, bureau chief of suns times of

chicago, and bill schneider, a contributor for al jazeera english. they were both in the washington d.c. studios. >> year of action that jay carney is referring to. the president says he has his pen and phone and it's shorthand for bypassing congress, some say he has to follow the constitution. are we in for a worst gridlock >> executive orders and direct theives are not -- directives are not unconstitutional. unless the republicans want to make a court case out of something, that alone will not do it. it's a diminished presidency if the president has to concede he has to bypass congress and if he uses the telephone and pen, it's

not the strongest starting point. others say he may want to like an optimistic note. nothing wrong with that. it will be hard to have the year of action. >> talking about not having a strong starting point president obama goes into this with record low numbers, a gallop pom, 52% disagreed. 37% have confidence he'll make the right decisions. 63% do not think he will. a lot is fall-out from obamacare. 63% think he's has no confidence. >> he's paying the price for breaking his word on obamacare. he said if you like your plan you can keep it. it wasn't true. he's paying a price because there's no economic boom. in regan's second term the economy was booming. people forgave iran can't ra.

in clinton's there was a boom. the economy is not booming. people are waiting for it to happen. there's little the president can do without congress to create economic prosperity. on the obamacare, there's positive signs, 3 million people signed up for it. a survey showed 55% of americans didn't show when the date was to enrol. how big a problem will it be for the president as he tries to get anything done, moving into this year. >> let me take one number that you mentioned, the march deadline for signing up. the reason that's important. besides the fact that people have health insurance, it's a practical thing. if you don't have health insurance by that date you face a penalty you have to pay.

it may be a wake-up call for people, more effective than the advertisement. expect a renewed push in mass marketing. i think 55% were not aware of the deadline. that will change. there'll be a renewed effort. because the website is working i know there may be some problems there, but certainly it was totally not functioning in the october roll out. the advertising will be able to sink in more because people will take action once they know what their situation is going to be. >> certainly, more people are able to sign up. it's working better. bill, we heard the head of etna talking about how big a problem it was. so few young people signed up. there's a push. it will be okay. already there's a lot of talk that the average premium will be up for the majority of americans. if more young people

don't sign up, it will be a disaster. well, i can tell you you said "i teach college", students don't do anything until the last minute. we are likely to see young people signing up. there's a problem. a lot of young people say when is the penalty, how far is it $95, next april. that's never, so some will not bhother. if that happens the rates will go up in october, a month before the mid term election. a lot of companies anticipate big rate greases or the rick pool is so heavy with older and sicker and poorer people that they won't be able to stay in business. that will create a crisis. >> if it happens before the november elections, that weakens the president's standing. >> immigration reform was a big focus of the speech.

i talked to a congressman who was optimistic it would go through. what do you think? >> it's a proposal that president obama could make head way on because we talk about looking for common ground and the democratic passed a comprehensive bill. the house doesn't want to touch it. if you take bite-sized chunks the republican is open to it. republican paul ryan, he is very open to doing things and immigration has been working on it. here's the one issue where it's hard. democrats were opposed or agree that students or youths in the country, through no fault of their own deserve a break. republicans look at a path to legalization. it will be hard to find compromise on their question.

>> income and equality, another big part of the speech as it has been, one of the things that the president will call for is a minimum wage hike. will it happen. >> it's pap ou lar. there's a lot of pressure. there may be a hike, maybe not as much as he wants. it is long overdue. i think there's a good possibility of that because the minimum wage hike is popular. >> gun control is popular. the early part of last year. they didn't pass because there was a determined interest group that threatened members of congress. republicans are pushing back on the income and equality limb.

senator roy blunt says the talk about bringing the middle class up is more of the same and we don't need more inference, calling it a path to class war fair. polls show that americans believe that big government is one of the biggest threats we face. will the president's message go anywhere. >> an issue we should look at is what it means within the democratic family. instead of talking what is poll tested and focused. when you are talking about minimum wage, some don't necessarily here as middle class issues, because i think there is work that obama may have to do to keep the vent rift right of leaning democrats eye line. you have more with you if you

don't talk by economy. >> republicans are pushing back saying what the focus is. bill, let's talk about the republican family. the g.o.p. response, senator ted cruz you have texas has a batch of questions. combatting the war on womenen. cathy from washington state will do the official rebuttal. senator mike lee is doing a tea party rebuttal and senator rand paul is doing his own. what does it say about the lack of leadership in the g.o.p. >> it says there's no leader. g.o.p. it's not bush, it's not the latelate nominee or john mccape. there's no leader.

there's the problem. there's -- john mack cane. there's no leader, there's the problem. the republicans cannot get their act together. >> rand paul has gone out there and made a lot of noise in advance of the speech, especially the war on womenen. this is what he had to say. >> the media seems to have given president clinton a pass on this. someone who takes advantage of a young girl and they have the gal to stand up and say republicans are having a war on womenen. >> i'm mistified as to why rand paul is going after bill clinton, and bringing up monica lewinski will this get them anywhere. >> this is about rand paul, not the g.o.p. i think they have one official response. hundreds of lawmakers will do responses, local, national, whatever, people decide who they want to pay attention to.

rand paul is provocative, that's why he brought up monica lewinski. hillary clinton has a long record of being a senator and a secretary of state. if you want to go at her for what she did in her capacity, do it. if you want to talk about the war on womenen which is a package of issues talked about, including pay equity, the right to choose, having access to women's preventative health care, that's what is - what are the issues that are there. rand paul bringing up what he did about bill clinton. everyone knows about it. it's being provocative for the availabling of getting attention for himself. >> the white house is promising an optimistic speech. this is what said:

>> the president was reflecting on past president, lincoln in particular, and how long it takes to get things done. doesn't it single a sign of diminished expectations, the way he phrased that? >> yes, it signals a downscaling of his presidency. he has one thing he hopes will define his legacy, the health care bill. no american should be without health care. he's hoping immigration reform will be the achievement of his second term. as for other things, he needs an economic boom and can't make it happen on his own without the support of congress. he's pulling back expectations. we are a paragraph in a long story and we don't want to raise expectations too high for the remaining three years of his presidency. >> do you think the speech will

make a difference. >> they do make a difference. if obama is into lincoln, he should see the movie where there's a scene where lincoln cut a deal with congress. >> you have about five times as many people watching the super bowl on sunday as watching the state of union speech. if someone shouts at the president or the supreme court justice mouths an objection. that makes news. >> we'll see what happens tomorrow night and hope he joins in the week ahead. appreciate you joining us. >> coming up new concerns over the anti-vaccine movements. are they making americans more sick? and a bitcoin mass and the twins claiming to have founded facebook. and we track the top stories on the web. what is trending? >> a 21st century parenting

problem. why technology is a solution and concern for mums and dads with special needs skids. we ask what you expect to hear from president obama in the state of union address. check out some of the answers on aljazeera.com/considerthis and continue the conversation throughout the show.

>> an explosive spread of childhood diseases that could be prevented by the use of vaccines is felt worldwide including in the u.s. a look at the map from the council on foreign relations from 2008 to 2012 shows whooping

cough and measles outbreaks - the green and red dots. and huge outbreaks in western europe and sub-saharan africa. the move to discredit a vaccine may have a powerful effect. none of them good. for more i'm joined in the studio an assistant professor, abdu el-sayed, who focussed on disease prevention and emerging challenges in public health. were you shocked when you saw the map? >> absolutely. the numbers are shocking. beyond simply the outbreaks, it's interesting if you look at the map which is on the website. you'll see the increase in time, in outbreaks. that tells us there's something about the way of preventing diseases. this has been brought current. when you look at the united states you don't think that

you'll be having reports here and there. and more whooping cough. this is significant in the most developed country in the world. >> i think you hit the nail on the head. we have been able to prevent the diseases for 30, 40 years. why are they researching is now, people are making is decision not to vaccinate and leads to bubbles that we see on the map. let's look at it, how dramatic it was. according to disease control. more than 24 cases of whooping cough. there's 24,000 lasts year down from 50,000. when you look at what it was like three decades ago, as you can see from 1979 to 1982, there was only 2,000 is it this

attributable to the fact that a lot of parents were scared by the association of autism. >> that's so. it shows the power of reference. sometimes when we think about the vaccination, if i don't vac sin out my own risk, they'll be protect by everyone around them. the minute you spread ta to someone else and their kids are not vaccinated, you have increased the risk in your own kid. in there's one child and everyone is vaccinated and that kid is not. he or she is protected by the fact that everyone around them isn't. imagine five of them, the parents not vaccinating him. that kid is playing at lunch or research. they are exposed carrying the disease and can infect the child. >> it's a parental

responsibility. we sometimes forget how bad the diseases are. unfortunately vaccinations have become the victim of their own success. we don't know people who have kids who have a lot of these diseases. because they are rare, it doesn't take much to talk to the parents generation, and they can tell you about children who had polio or pumps. >> i had measles, but didn't suffer the consequences. as a child you were afraid of some of these diseases, small pox among the worse. i'm sensitive to autism. i have a nephew and niece on the spectrum. is the signs settled. >> there's no causal relationship between

vaccinations and awedism. the research was driven by an idea that you had an increase in autism that if you laid it over the increase in sack sination, the two things are increasing. hence there might be a relationship. andrew wakefield who is credited with publishing the research published a study. since then the findings have been rescinded. it's clear to the scientific community that there's no relationship between vaccinations and autism. >> in the united states it's whooping cough that is the big issues. in europe it's measles. how bad are the diseases? >> both are deadly. >> we saw 10 kids die in california from whooping cough. what is sad about whooping cough

is that the children who die tend to be less than one year old. you are talking about infants, it leads to pneumonia and seizures, if not death. with respect to measles, there can be long-term consequences, including pneumonia and death. >> the increase of deaths from measles is probably because of parents declining to vaccinate children. >> situations where we have the public health infrastructure, the only reason we see a resurgence of the disease is because parents take advantage of the infrastructure. when parents don't vac sinuate kids are at a greater risk. >> when you look at the big red dots, that is more likely a lack of access to vaccines. >> yes. in places like sub-saharan africa or india, where there's a lack of a robust infrastructure,

that can mobilise and get access to vaccinations for children, we see a higher raid. if you compare the rates in the united states, the numbers are staggering. that's because the infrastructure is lacking. what is interesting is as which worked through the financial downturn over the last five, 10 years, it's had an effect on where money goes in places like sub-saharan africa. as the economy - it's improving, but as the economy worsens, we see the ripple effect on how likely people are to get vaccinations and the diseases. >> we'll pull up the map. we are talking about sub-saharan africa. if you look at other countries. you see virtually nothing happening in those places. one of the articles that i read said that we have aft ron omicily high rates -- aft ron

omicily higher rates in u.s. rather than afghanistan. would you have believed that happens? >> it's staggering to think about. it shows how seriously people take vaccinations, recognising that it's a way to protect children that wreaked havoc. if they do the work of mobilising limited resources to make sure kids are vaccinated it's a trav si that parents are not taking advantage of what we have here. >> let's home people listen. abdu el-sayed, doctor, thank are for coming in. >> switching topics to what may be a below to bitcoin. charlie shrem is vice fair and runs bitinstant. the winklevoss brothers who dewle over mark zuckerberg and

dualed over facebook, they said they were part owners in the site. they sold more than a million if bitcoins for users of the deep web, silk road website conspiracy to commit runny lawned iring and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. they could bring 25 years in prison. silk road allows users to purchase illegal drugs and commodities anonymously. i'm joined in the studio by glenn greenwald, who has been covering the story. great to have you with us. you've been on top of this for a while. for people who end understand what it is, what is it? >> bitcoin is a decentralize the crypto currency, a digital cash not issued by any government or bank. it's controlled only by the users. cash can be used anonymously.

like a digital currency, whatever facebook credits or world of war craft gold. it combines online payments. it allows online producers. >> what are the details of the indictment? >> whl, charlie shrem, a public pace. he's the advice chairman of the bitcoin foundation. it's been the main group in terms of lobbying. it's kind of a legal tender trying to reduce the regulation of the black market currency. he is accused of helping to sell a million worth of bit going users. to a bitcoin exchange. according to a person in the indictment charlie shrem wrote

to another person that was indicted and said: >> then he wrote another email to a cofounder of bitinstant and said: >> those efails do not look good. >> this is the indictment that the prosecutors put together. it seems to be that charlie shrem didn't want to do business with this guy. saw that he was potentially involved in illegality but was tempted by the profits he could make by exchanging bitcoins for silk road use irs. as the numbers grew he changed his tup and convinced his cofounders and potentially deceived his cofound erp, doing the dealing under the table. >> silk road made an incredible

amount of money. ross, who was running silk road, they were back in business. when he was arrested, i think in today's dollars he had $38 million. the bitcoin rate is changing. the federal bureau of investigation seized over a million dollars of bit coins. they were held in the bitcoin servers. >> now if they are finding the guys doing illegal acts or allegedly illegal acts, is a lesson to be learnt. that they are not fully anonymous. when the website was seized, it's not clear that the users of the site were outed. they were identified as russ albright.

charlie shrem himself did use the site to buy marijuana. if this indictment happened, we might not know that. the tools used, bike bitcoin. there were other human errors that administrators made, allowing them to be caught. >> they were able to go after the site. they may not have been able to trace the people dying the illegal drugs. how big a hit is this to have an evangelist put behind bars. it's a black eye. for a public perception. yes, charlie was a noted public figure and his investors. the winklevoss will be participating in ta hearing held by financial regulators.

it will be an awkward situation. >> as i read the research, a quote that said money without government appeals to people without law. is that fair. bitcoin towed the line between radical humanitarians. it is not controlled by banks or the federal central bank, and anarchists or anar-co-capitalists, we see a trend between legal libertarianism and flir tags, anarchy and black markets is thinner or blurrier line. >> it's a fascinating story. green andy greenberg thank you for coming in. >> lawmakers are working on a

bill that would place tracking bracelets on autistic children. it's called avant,'s law, a boy whose body was found in east river queens. four months after he went missing. he wandered out of school past a security guard. he didn't realise he was autistic. wandering away is a fear that autistic children's families face. half of children with autism wandered off or attempted to wander away from caregivers. they are working to develop a teen tracking program. he proposed designating $10 million towards the program. >> the program would set aside funding for local law enforcement agencies so they can purchase gps tracking devices,

used by parents, tracking children with autism. >> while this idea of tracking is no good, well intentioned, there's too many possibilities for it to grow long. there's another solution: >> you kaun -- can read more at the website on aljazeera.com/considerthis. join in the conversation on twitter or facebook >> ahead, an american citizen thrown into gaol for nine months over a youtube parody. >> and a look at saving taxpayers' money.

>> imagine sitting in a foreign gaol, not knowing what crime you committed. then you find out it was for a crime no one would conceive of punishing in the u.s. shezanne cassim went through that. here is a clip of what started the controversy. >> one of the most important weapons is this. this is important. it is good to rip the enemy. i will show you a demonstration.

>> shezanne cassim joins us from minneapolis. this happened in dubai, which is one of the united arab enirates, and the video was something you and your friends decided to do. you invetted a goofy dubai martial arts. it was impossible to wonder why anyone would be offended. so why were you thrown behind bars for this. ism that's a question i hope to have answered soon. i don't know the answer. you are an american. you grew up in dubai, it's a tourist and business center. a similar question - why do something like that that could possibly scare away businesses

and businesses. >> i don't know. and the point is i grew up in dubai, so i'm familiar what you can and can't do. three red flags you don't cross is you don't instalment the religion or the government or criticise the government or insult the leaders. the video didn't do any of that. i'm wondering what they felt was wrong with the video. you did this for fun. >> the thing about dubai is it growing fast. the way the international press looks at dubai is artificial. they forget that there's a unique culture. there's a lot of funny things that happened. the video is about celebrating the funny stuff that happens, to improve the creative scene that is happening.

we don't have to import everything or import our entertainment >> you posted the video in 2012. we had no idea what was going on. we had no idea what was going on. when we went in the station the first thing we said was relax. it's not a big deal. they showed me a screen shot and asked questions like, you know, who paid you to make the video. how much were you paid, how much did you pay the actress. >> from the start they look at it as if it's a conspiracy. >> i'm not sure what i was accused of. >> were you treated well. >> when i was kept in the

prisons, i was not physically harmed, but the conditions were so bad that it amounts to psychological torture. especially having been kept there without anyone telling me what i was accused of doing. other people were caught up in this. a human rights defender who defended you on cnn, was thrown into gaol, and so did four of the friends you made the video with. what happened to them. >> the friends were arrested and convicted like me. two got to remain in the country. two were indian citizens. they were deported, like me. >> they were deported. >> i had a lot of support. including will farrell. there's a movement called free chez. let's check out what that looked like. >> we are submitting this inshore of shez and his eventual

freeing from being wrongly gaoled for making simply a video. >> start putting people in gaol for making videos you don't like. you lock up and that's no fun for anyone. >> shez is in prison for making a funny video. i was in boat trip and walk free every day. that's insane. >> have you been in contact with them at all since you got back. >> i have been. they have been supportive. i'm thankful for what they did for me >> how involved was the state department. >> when i was in prison i was so isolated. i didn't have access to what was going on outside. i didn't have an idea of what the state department was doing. i can't comment too much about that. >> are you planning on suing

anyone? >> we are looking at all options. >> you lived there for a long time. it's a reason you made the comedic video, because you understood the culture. do you have been an intention of going back and working. >> i cannot return there. i would like to make the place improve. they have potential, they need to make changes regarding the justice system. that would be great. >> it's difficult to believe someone would be thrown into gaol for what you did. we appreciate you joining us, shezanne cassim. thank you very much. >> straight ahead, how the internet is showing how parents show preference for one child over another. and a unique case of prisoners taking care of other prisoners in hospice.

>> today's data dive plays sfafrts with google. parents rarely admit to preferring one child over another. an examination into google

searches tells a different story, when it comes to stereotyping. when it comes to fiscal appearance, asking whether a sop is over weight, there's 17 for a daughter. boys are 9% more likely to be heavy set than girls. while there's greater concerns over a girl's physical appearance. girls put a greater emphasis on it than boys. mum and dad make 2.5 times searches to ask if sons are gifted than daughters. parents are likely to google whether their doubt -- daughters are ugly than their son. parent around the world are likely to google if there are way the to ensure they have a baby boy. pakistani parents do it. america is not in the top 5.

10% more parents here search for ways to have a boy. there's a few partial to having girls. australia, new zealand and the u.k. parents will love their babies no matter what their gender is. >> coming up, an os car-nom faith documentary looks at how prisoners can save taxpayers dollars.

>> spending on prisons is sky

rocketing not just because the prisons are growing but it's aging. it's expensive to take care of prisoners. a small percentage has taken action and started to run hospices and staffed by inmates and funded privately. the iowa state was documented in "prison terminal." it was nominated for an academy award, showing the impact an patients and caretakers. >> i thought it would be about what i could give to the patient, what i could do for the parment to make them do better. when you do what you do. the feeling is you give back from them, that you can't describe it. it gives you a feeling inside that for once i'm somebody that no one thought i could be.

>> edgar barens directed the film. "prison terminal" premiers and has a theatrical one this friday. thaj you for joining us. congratulations on the nomination. thank you. you focus on a gentleman we saw a moment ago, jack hall. a world war ii veteran. he killed a drug dealer after his son was hooked on drugs. over time in prison you know that she found redemption. >> jack hall has been in prison for 21 years and spent the last 10 years in the infirmary. he had heart problems and was so weakened he was in the infirmary. he was a long-term patient.

>> hospices, like the one at the iowa state pen ten shary help the prisoners in their final days. >> for the most part most prisoners die in their cells by themselves. in an infirmary or in a state hospital shackled to a bed with a guard outside the door, with no cystors can come. so the prison hospice program at the iowa state pen ten shahhy enables the terminally ill prisoner to die with family around and friends from the prison, that he's probably done time with over the years. >> research shows one out of every five prisoners is elderly. 100,000 are expected to die in their chels over the next decade. what impact will the hos pies

have on prisoners turned patients. . >> the truth is we will not - rarely is it used now. medical parole is used for terminally ill patients. the hospice program is the next best veining. the problem - the benefit of the program is that this particular program in iowa trains the in mate to be a volunteer, and they can help their buddy go through the dying process. that is comfort care, palliative care and sitting there holding their hand as they die. if the prisoner is lucky, fortunate enough to have a biological family. that person is allowed in the prison infirmary so they can be there at the dying moments. it's a wholistic program. it helps the dying prisoner, but

helps the inmate who is trained hospice volunteer, and benefits the family on the outside. let's face it, there's 2.5 million in prison now. millions of prisons on the outside with family members behind bars. the program helps everybody. >> as we saw from the person helping jack, it has an effect on the prin population. >> it has an amazing effectment the fact that they can do something that is worthwhile in prison. a lot of programs make prisoners feel good or redeem themselves have been yanked from the prin. this prison program is unique in that it gives the inmate a redeeming quality and a feeling that they are participating and helping somebody, which, you

know, let's face it, that happens rarely behind bars. the ripple effect - it goes beyond the infirmary. it ripples into the yard where the general population is skeptical about most prison infirm ris, now that the hospice volunteers were involved, the veil of miss teek is lifted from the prison infirmary. it has a benefit that ripples into the yard. >> you spent such months in there with unbelievable access. you were living across the street. you saw what happened. what do you say. jack says that prison is a cold place, but death is colder, you know you are dying. what do you say to people who think request why are we going out of our way to do anything

for people like jack who killed people. should they be given an easier death that the people they murdered. >> i ask that a lot and prepare myself for that question. the truth is the punishment that they are getting the freedom is taken away from them. they should not be pinnished further. i feel that we, as a society, have to be better than they were when we committed the crime. i think the program is something that for some people it is hard to stomach, if you want to look at it in an economic way, it's a budget saver. you know, less drugs are used once the inmate accepts hos pies. the inmate knows medication will be taken away and they'll be taken care of on a palliative

level and they'll slowly die. so the people that are worried about economics and this program will cost too much. it doesn't. it costs very little, next to nothing. >> that was the next question. is this something that should and could be replicated in prisons across the country, not just for the prisoners, but for taxpayers, >> that's why i made the film. i wanted the program to be replicated across the country or standardized. legislatively passed law. at this point the elderly population is growing quickly. it's not only elderly people that use the hospice. prior to me filming there was a 28-year-old inmate who died of colon cancer. it's not om for the elderly, it's a huge portion of the population behind bars that will take advantage of it, it's for younger inmates who are

terminally ill and have no other resource. it's a low-cost program, if anything. the program in iowa, when i filmed, used a lot of community volunteers. they would get church groups to knit the quilts, prisoners would make things at their own cost. it's an if no-brainer. the program can be replicated. >> who are you taking to the oscars? >> i'll take my mum. i told her to get a dress, we are going to hollywood. she was happy. >> sounds great. edgar barens, it's a thought-approach okaying documentary, "prison terminal." airing on hbo, 8:00 p.m. eastern. starts a theatrical run this

friday with other documentary shows. >> the conversation is over, the conversation conditions on the website or facebook and google+. you can find us on twitter. see you next time. >> good evening everyone. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler reporting from washington, d.c. great expectations and pressure for president obama on the even of his state of the union address. fatal fix. the surge in hoirn deaths in hen pittsburgh in a week. america on ice. temperatures plunging, heat prices soaring as