it's not easy to find opponents of fracking here.ost everyone seems to think it's the way of the future. just over 300 kilometers west, in youngstown ohio, this sense of optimism has been literally shaken. in 2011, there were 11 small earthquakes here. before, there were none. jeff dick is a geologist. to him the reason is obvious. a disposal well where fracking brine is injected deep into the earth. >> that belief is based on the proximity of the earthquakes to the injection, the timing of the earthquakes to the injections and recent seismic data that weave got that show that there is a left-lateral fault located about 3000 feet below the depth of injection for this particular well. >> fracking has brought jobs and tax revenues to the city. but the mayor had little choice. he called a halt to the fracking -- at least temporarily. >> you know, i wear two hats in affected, so myself i got scared when it happened so i know how everybody else felt. so again, i wanna be safe in my home just like everybody else wants to be safe in their h

and in some countries fracking has been banned altogether. but here in south africa's barren wilderness, plans are under way to begin drilling for natural gas contained in a rock called shale deep within the earth. several large energy companies have leased rights to begin fracking here, and they're waiting for fiebl of final approval from the government to begin drilling. >> translator: we have an amazing opportunity here as a company to create a brand new industry that can give the people of the karu but also the 50 million south africans energy, environment and economic benefits. >> if fracking were to be licensed in this country and if they proved to be a shale gas deposit here under this landscape, there's no reason at all why you wouldn't see the drilling happening right here. >> reporter: jonathan has written a book on the karu and is leading the campaign against fracking in this area. >> yes, it is a very special place. it's irreplaceable. my concern is that we could make decisions chasing fossil fuels in this country where this gener

all more controversy this week surrounding the practice of fracking the u.s. department of agriculture has dropped a plan to require an extensive environmental review before handing mortgages to people that plan to use the land arroyo and gas drilling now this has outraged opponents of hydraulic fracturing who say it eases up on rules on this method of drilling be able to leave the practice comes with extremely harmful health and environmental risks so another debate over energy rages on and america let's talk more about this i was joined by greg palast he's an investigative journalist and author of the buck vultures picnic and person of petroleum pegs power pirates and high finance carnivores it's out in bookstores on november fourteenth take a listen. well fracking is a brand new wave getting gas and oil only out really really used for about a decade or so. it is what we they do is they drill down then they go horizontal through shale deposits which normally couldn't get gas out of except then they use an explosive and flow through an explosion they blow san

well more controversy this week surrounding the practice of fracking he was department of agriculture has dropped plans to require an extensive environmental review before handing mortgages to people that plan to use the land for oil and gas drilling and this has as raging opponents of hydro. hydraulic fracturing to say it eases up rules on the drilling method and they believe that the practice comes with extremely harmful health and environmental risks so another debate over energy rages on in america talk more about this i was joined by our very own christine for is out i first asked her about how fracking has affected residents in to mock tensile dania where she paid a visit to recently here's her take. well i was there almost two years ago and it is a very small city in pennsylvania a very rural area but it's you know it's a nice area it's a place where a lot of people go to retire they have these homes and what a lot of them found was they would move into these homes and they would discover that the value of their homes was almost completely lost if not completely lost because of

hydraulic fracturing, fracking for short, is the first ever. alex demetrick runs the numbers for us. >> reporter: a drilling boom is happening as vast and largely untapped natural gas reserves are brought to the surface. it's found in a massive vene of shell. >> we break the rock. we fractured the rock. >> reporter: by injecting a mix of water and toxic chemicals, into the shail deposit, under tremendous pressure, which released the gas. >> having flammable tap water that we don't have the earthquakes that are happening in ohio. and that there aren't fish kills and livestock falling over dead because of contamination. >> reporter: the cows died after chemicals used in fracking drained another pasture. flaming tap water is another methane gas that seeped into wells. as maryland legislators debated fracking here. >> 71% of marylanders want some sort of safety studies done first. and over 80% of marylanders believe that the energy companies themselves should pay for these studies instead of taxpayers. >> reporter: the polling was done to put press

where is fracking in terms of modern day, and is it going to be that we wi watch explode to come back us in the butt down the line. ? >> it's something that we to not know. that is part of the problem right now. s that booming technology without much oversight, there's no federal regulatory oversight on the fracking operations, they are saall operated by the individual state. there's questions about the fracking fluids, and the chemicals that they inject with the water under ground, what is inhe chemicals? do they leak into the water tables? things like that, there's the question about the methane and natural gas that is coming out, they have been found in the wells, drinking wells around the sites. i don't think that we will stop the hydraulic fracking and drilling, but we can make it a safer a er environmentally soun. >> thank you, sir, we will be right back after this. americans believe they should be in charge of their own future. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on

there's questions about the fracking fluids, and the chemicals that they inject with the water under what is in the chemicals? do they leak into the water tables? things like that, there's the question about the methane and natural gas that is coming out, they have been found in the wells, drinking wells around the sites. i don't think that we will stop the hydraulic fracking and drilling, but we can make it a safer a er environmentally soun. >> thank you, sir, we will be right back after this. americans believe they should be in charge of their own future. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ male announcer ] it's called ocuvite. a vitamin totally dedicated to your eyes, from t

well more controversy this week surrounding the practice of fracking the u.s. department of agriculture has dropped a plan to require an extensive environmental review before handing mortgages to people that plan to use the land for oil and gas drilling now this has outraged opponents of hydraulic fracturing who say it eases the rules on the drilling not that they believe the practice comes with extremely harmful health and environmental risks so another debate over energy rages on in america and to talk more about this i'm joined now by our by our very own christine for that out nice to see you christine so i know that you've been following this story for a while you went over to a town called dimmick pennsylvania yourself and to see how this method hydraulic fracturing is affecting folks over there tell me a little bit about your experience and what you found out well i was there almost two years ago and it is a very small city in pennsylvania a very rural area but it's you know it's a nice area it's a place where a lot of people go to retire they have these

and epa are partnering on the examine environmental and health effects of hydraulic fracking. can you explain the purpose behind this study and how this is any different than what epa has been currently doing? >> certainly, mr. green, it's an expansion. right now, the epa is looking at the impact of hydraulic fracking on drinking water supplies. that's been independent reviewed as we're beginning it. this is additional money to work with our partner agencies as i said in the opening remarks to look at air quality, water quality and ecosystems impacts to ask the hard questions to ensure that fracking remains safe. >> i understand that the -- hopefully independent peer review will be incorporated. will it be stakeholder input to be incorporated? >> well, we're just beginning to scope that with our federal agencies and we have to wait for budget approval, but i think we would look to do a transparent and valid study and look for public input as well. >> i know you and i have discussed this in the past. would you agree there's no way we can the develop our vast natural gas resourc

what are you thinking on fracking and companies that do it? >> first of all, fracking is so important, we can't leave it to the politicians any longer. the reason is very clear. we have a chance at energy independence. nobody believes it because we've been fooled. presidents say we can do it from coal, from solar. no, we can do it because of technology. and harold hamm knows this. when i visited continental resource, we're going down to two miles and wide two miles. the president needs to spend time on rigs and needs to know fossil fuel is better to get from ourselves. >> you have people say we go have a couple hundred years worth of fossil fuel. that's an economic growth model. >> 15% of growth in the oil and gas industry. the president wants to kur trail the drilling. my friend aubrey mcclinton is saying the president doesn't want to do the right thing. the president is letting the market forces do their thing. i think the problem there is it's not enough. i think you need to have a natural gas act that was just turned down. it wouldn't cost

. >> what is fracking? >> hydro fracking is the ability to increase the channels for that oil or natural gas to flow into production. >> it is cracking a rock and pushing something in to get something out. >> a rock like people like hubbard would have never imagined -- >> he was the first man who said we might run out of oil that people took seriously. >> robert, your organization, tell us about it. >> it is a think tank in washington and we focus on how we get the right policies, both in the united states and around the world, to maximize innovation. >> is innovation a matter of policy? isn't it a matter of extraordinary individuals? >> absolutely not. it is both. >> it is not a matter of bessemer or edison -- >> look at steve jobs. could he have invented the iphone, the i fad -- the ipad, excuse me, the ipod, the music system, unless there was an answer that -- internet? >> wasn't he driving it? >> yes, he was, but there was a platform he could ride upon. one of them was the internet and one of them was t

. >> what is fracking? >> hydro fracking is the ability to increase the channels for that oil or natural gas to flow into production. >> it is cracking a rock and pushing something in to get something out. >> a rock like people like hubbard would have never imagined -- >> he was the first man who said we might run out of oil that people took seriously. >> robert, your organization, tell us about it. >> it is a think tank in washington and we focus on how we get the right policies, both in the united states and around the world, to maximize innovation. >> is innovation a matter of policy? isn't it a matter of extraordinary individuals? >> absolutely not. it is both. >> it is not a matter of bessemer or edison -- >> look at steve jobs. could he have invented the iphone, the i fad -- the ipad, excuse me, the ipod, the music system, unless there was an answer that -- internet? >> wasn't he driving it? >> yes, he was, but there was a platform he could ride upon. one of them was the internet and one of them was t

we dug deeper to find out the amount of fracking really going on here in california.ve what we dug up, including this report just released, see all of that tonight at 11:00. raj and jessica? >> if you have any story ideas from us, we want to hear from you. call us at 888-996-tips or send us at e-mail directly to theunit@nbcbayarea.com. >>> let's bring in jeff ranieri. we got quite a soaking today? >> yes, it was quick and it came down pretty hard here in the east and south bay. this time last week we were dealing with 80 degree temperatures in the north bay, now numbers in the 50s and well below average across the entire board. 54 tonight, 56 in concord, 54 in san rafael. we'll see the numbers take a jump here in the seven-day forecast. if you want the number it's on the way. right now, what we're looking at is another storm system on the way right now. there's a few areas of instability lingering across the bay area, this is the only activity we're finding when it comes to rainfall right now. we're finding a few spotty areas of showers. that will last about the next

i think longer term we're going to be fracking in this country, not deep water fracking bull bu we'll i think very, very powerful trend you cannot move away. you have to have a long-term perspective. doris in california. >> caller: hi. how are you? >> real good, doris, how about you? >> caller: thank you. jim, i would like to know your long -- your price target long term for -- >> ma'am, i don't really use price targets. i like to use fundamentals. if the company is still cooking. i think this stock is good because china is baidu. they have the power and google chose not to be there. let's go to vincent in new york. >> caller: yes, jim. happy anniversary. >> thank you very much, vincent. thank you. >> caller: i have here dvn. >> it's a buy, buy, buy. people don't understand it. it's like a. they are making a ton of money. that is the conclusion of the lightning round! [ male announcer ] if you believe the mayan calendar, on december 21st, polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space, which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say t

or fracking. >> we break the rock. >> by trapping the chemicals under a shail deposit. which creates gas. but it's also having problems. >> having flammable tap water. that we don't have the earthquakes that are happening in ohio. and that there aren't fish kills and livestock falling over dead because of contamination. >> reporter: the cows died after chemicals used in aracking. blaming methane gas that seeped into wells. and as maryland legislators consider fracking here, a poll asked marylanders for their opinion. >> reporter: 71% want some sort of safety done first. and over 80% of marylanders believe that energy companies themselves should pay for these. instead of taxpayers. >> reporter: they are considerag -- considering a bill to conduct studies, before fracking ever begins. >> marylanders overwhelmingly support this. >> they approve the idea of studying first and drilling later. alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> and the house bill now before the senate, will charge energy companies $15 an acre to raise the $2 million needed to do the fracking studies. >>>

i do know that many fracking operations require an extensive amount of water. that water has to come from somewhere. and so energy companies are securing water rights were ever there operating in order to have access to such water so that they can continue with the fracking operation. but i will also give acknowledgment to the industry for, they understand the potential impact and certainty the long-term impacts of continuing the operations that are currently taking place with amount of water. they are doing, or proposing to do a better job of reusing water. and actually treating water on site so it can be used there on additional or new fracking operations. >> it is a big issue. i mean, there was an amendment on the floor yesterday that i think phil becomes some people didn't want to encourage more fracking. we have the ability to fracking we're getting natural gas because we're the ability to strike. we would like to see done. but by the same token 10 years from now we want to look back and say oh, my god, what have we done? so i would hope that the research

frack. it's great for and awful for them. and i think that is part of what the gop is relying on here. the idea that environmental issues are biblical, way out in, some future moment and that the pocket issues are today. >> the environmental issues are liberal clap trap, anything anybody is complaining about environmental impact of things have economic impact, if you look at anything other than the economic impact, you should be downed. you might not be telling the truth you are part of an anti-economic conspiracy, i feel the global warming movement has formed every discussion about energy, with any environmental impact it's made the ascertaining of that as an impact of a policy to be a suspect thing. >> and part of it there is a great deal of simply untruth about the economic impact of these polluters, whether polluters polluting air or those who are creating fracking earthquakes in youngstown, ohio, the idea they are bringing tons of jobs and going to put everybody to work, tends to -- the environmental impact tends to be u

you know, fracking is not new by any means.out 90% of the bells that are being drilled today on public lands are using the fracking technology. so our inspections have always included looking at the the fracking operations as they were occurring. but, again, the additional fees would provide us opportunities to be on site more often than where we are right now. >> the secretary's also indicated recently that his intention to raise the onshore royalty rate from 12.5 % to 18.75%, can you tell me how these rates, the present rate and the proposed rate, compare to state rates? because, or state rates is probably the comparable point. >> well, it varies somewhat. let me just suggest that our primary goal is to make sure that the american taxpayer's receiving a fair return for the assets that are being developed. that's the least that we can do. at the same time, as we go forward and we are, we have analyzed what some of the states or many of the states actually are charging relative to royalty for production that are occurring withi

my guest tonight is an accomplished actor who is here to discuss hydraulic fracking which is perfect because he's about to get drilled. please welcome mark ruffalo ( cheers and applause ) thank you. mark, thanks so much for coming on, big fan. >> thanks for having me, stephen. >> stephen: i'm about to tear you a new one, buddy. >> i think i'm ready. >> stephen: all right, movie star man, let's talk about your beaveyourbeef with our energy p. we know you're an actor, producer, writer, oscar nom neerk looks like everybody's old boyfriend. now, you have this thing called water defense. >> that's right. >> stephen: what is that? >> well, long gone are the days where we just stick a straw in the ground and get beautiful, concentrated carbon-based fuel out of the ground. now we have hydrofracking, tar sands, mountaintop removal, deep sea drilling. and all of these things destroy water, and in particular, hydrofracking. so we've seen this kind of-- this publicity push to get hydrofracking, but we haven't heard the opposition. >> stephen: explain to people what hydrofracking is. you have all

fracking has been going on for deca decades. but it's not gas that companies in california are after. it's oil. steve craig and his partner remoo removed to the remote side of monterey county for its beauty 30 years ago. they stayed for the lifestyle and now make a living off their res of land. >> to someone who farms, this is the center of the universe. >> reporter: but craig believes that lifestyle has come under siege, by a practice taking place underground. >> this site was injection fractured without disclosure to the county. >> reporter: fracing, also known as hydraulic fracturing, has been going on in this community for years. >> this is one of four known hydraulic chemical injection fracing well sites in the county of monterey. >> reporter: hydraulic fracturing has been used off and on for five decades. but according to the environmental working group, the technique has become much more popular and much more widespread here lyntce. >> no one really thought to look. >> reporter: renee sharp spent the last year digging up

to assess questions regarding fracking. strong science means finding answers. we are making investments to support standards for clean energy and energy efficiency. specifically the budget supports epa's budget for cleaner vehicles to expand the use of home-grown bio-fuels. this includes the funding for fuel standards and certification programs for certification and testing for all emission standards. this includes the president's historic agreement for carbon pollution and fuel economy. through 2025 for cars and light duty vehicles. taken together, the administration's standards for cars and light trucks projected to result in $1.7 trillion of fuel savings and 12 billion fewer barrels of oil consumed. this funding will support implementation of the first ever carbon pollution and standards for heavy duty trucks. mr. chairman, i thank you for the opportunity to testify today. while my testimony reflects only some of the highlights of epa's budget questions, i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you, ms. jackson. i will recognize myself for five m

fracking has opened up big energy reserves in places where it was never profitable to drill before-- suburbs of cleveland. but south doane found out not everybody's happy about it. >> the well will go in that wooded area right over here. >> reporter: just two months after andrew berger and his wife christina bought this house they learned of a proposal from a company called gonzoil to drill a 4,000 foot oil and gas well next door near where their son elijah plays. >> we want him to be able to play outside and not have to worry about the potential effects of this gas well. and we don't know what it's going to do to the soil. i don't know what it does to the air quality. there are so many questions. >> reporter: wells have been popping up all over suburban cleveland. in the burger's 13 square mile town of broadview heights, there are 81 oil and gas wells drilled in the last six years. that's because a law in ohio allows oil companies to drill a well if the majority of neighbors want a well and the royalties from it. en energy companies just need 90% of landowners to sign on. >> this pe

>> i think this hydraulic fracking for oil and gas is a very big deal. i refer to it as the game changer. we've got a lot of oil in reservoirs in rock. this is oil that we would get out of reservoirs if we could hang around for 10 million more years because the oil would seep through the rock into reservoirs. but by taking it out of the rook w rock and there is a lot of it. >> do you think oil where it is right now, comfortably above $100 a barrel is overpriced? >> i do. i think there is an iran premium in it right now. i think the normal price is around 100 but i think if i'm right about this hydraulic fracking it can go down to $85. >> you see earnings rising and the s&p above 1,400. >> that's already there. >> the s&p has been so strong. gdp rising. you think unemployment falls. tell us about that. what's behind this prediction? >> you know, you're reporting all the time on economic news. the economic news has been better than most people have expected. so i think most people -- most economists were at 2% the beginning of the year. they're at 2.5% now

>> maria, i think this hydraulic tra fracking for oil and gas as game-changing. we've got a lot of oil in reserves, in rock. this is oil we would get out of reservoirs if we could hang around for 10 million more years because the oil would seep through the rock into reservoirs. by taking it out of the rock we get it early and there's a lot of it. >> there's a lot of oil in the world. do you think oil where it is right now, comfortably above $100 a barrel, is overpriced? >> i do. i think there's an iran premium in it right now. i think the normal price around $100. but i think if i'm right about this hydraulic fracking, it can go down to $85, as i say. >> you see earnings rising and the s&p above 1,400. >> it's already there. >> it's happened already. the s&p has been so strong. gdp rising and you think unemployment falls. what's behind this prediction? >> you're reporting all the time on economic news. and the economic news has been better than most people have expected. >> sure. >> so i think it's, you know -- most people, most economists were at 2%. beginning o

that this boom we're seeing across the country when it relates to our opportunities for hydraulic frackingcombined with horizontal drilling, we recognize it has vastly increased our natural gas supply. it is reviving communities, bringing about jobs. but those could all be lost at the federal government decides to place owners and the redundant requirements on the technology. again, i appreciate your efforts in a very difficult area. folks back home in alaska are talking about nothing but energy right now, and it is not just the price at the pump. but it is all energy. so you are here at a particularly opportune time for us. thank you, and i look forward to questions. >> ms. secretary, take whatever time you need to describe the administration's proposed budget, and then we will obviously have questions. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much, chairman bingaman and ranking member. thank you, senators. thank you for all the issues that we work on. many will agree on, and sometimes we disagree. but i do think that we're making progress on a host of friends on the energy agenda for

little clarity about the disclosure requirements that the department is working on for hydraulic fracking. the question that i would have is whether it is just that. whether it's a disclosure requirement, as many of the states have advanced, or actually a new set of regulations. i think all of us are looking very critically at this. we want to make sure that this boom that we are seeing across the country when it relates to our opportunities for hydraulic fracking combined with horizontal drilling, we recognize that it is vastly increased our natural gas supply, and it's reviving communities, bringing about jobs. but those could all be lost if the federal government decides to place owner redundant on the technology. again, i appreciate your efforts in a very difficult area. the folks become home in alaska are talking about nothing but energy right now. and it's not just the price at the pump, but it's all energy. so you are here at a particularly opportune time for us. i thank you and look forward to questions. >> ms. secretary, why don't you take whatever time you need to describe the a

that, i would like to ask you whether the $45 million ulsgs fund you intend t use to study ho dry fracking, will that also be paid by companies engaging in that activity in we had testimony from the commission i think that studied this and i wondered whether the companies that benefit from this would pay for that study. >> the answer to that, senator franken, is that the president is strongly supportive of research and development and developing the science. in fact, much of the great boom and promise that we now have with respect to shale gas in the united states is a direct result of investments that this congress has made both in the united states geological survey and in the department of energy, the bachen formation is an example of where the usgs has been very involved in developing the numbers there and helping industry develop the technologies. so this money in response to your question is part of our investment in understanding shale gas within the department of interior i believe the number is $18 million that would be appropriated in the 2013 budget for usgs to continue to do th

mind, sir, we're in the middle of a two-year study that is specifically to look on the impact of fracking on drinking water. what i said is anything we learned from that study, the first audience will be the states because they're really on the front line of trying to protect their people and regulate the industries to keep them safe and responsible. >> given that you're still in the middle of a study, a february article from the "pittsburgh post gazette," you began an investigation of -- air, water and hazardous material impacts. in late september, according to the paper, it said you're in the, quote, middle of enforcement action or actions. i'm concerned about a couple of things. you're in the middle of enforcement and have not completed a study. is there a statute that gives the epa authority to regulate oil and gas production or is it water? i'm confused here. >> certain aspects of production are regulated under a number of statute, the clean air act, the clean water act, general duty clause under the clean air act, there is spill prevention and containment regulations that are separa

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with the talk of high gas prices and energy, fracking is back in the news, fracking involves extractingck. and shows residents lighting their tap water on fire to highlight the danger he of fracking and the state department has it on the featured film list. and our next guest says it's wildly misleading. they exposed the lies in gas land. >> good morning, how are you? >> we're doing good. the film got so much attention from that clip, lighting tap water on fire. you say that's entirely misleading, why? >> it's shocking clip, but misleading and i questioned the doctor of gas land and he admitted to me that he knew that people could light their tap water decades before fracturing ever started and all across america, there are places called burning springs and people have known for hundreds of years you could light the tap water, nothing to do with fracking and the director of gas land knew that. >> and you confronted the director of the film gas land and we have a clip from your upcoming film. here is the piece. >> and yourware, you said to yourself, people lit their water before fracking

>>guest: the water, you said yourself people lit their water long before fracking. he said, that is true but it is not relevant. >> what did you try to do with the exchange. >>guest: i am a journalist and i thought it was a scoop getting the director to to admit he knew that people could light up the tap water and he got new york lawyers to force youtube to take it down. >>alisyn: so you decided to create your own documentary to talk about what have unearth the called "frack nation," and there are people that report that family pets and horses died suddenly after fracking and the veterans expected heavy metals what could you find out about the pollution that it could bring to town? >>guest: there is no proven case of pollution of ground water. animals die and people get sin and there is no provable case, there is no scientific evidence to back it up, it is all stories. that is what this was, with my documentary we will show the emotion and show the science and show the stories of real people whose family farms are being sold because of the money the natural bomb --

when it comes to the case of dinnick pennsylvania that the water there was ok and that practice of fracking had actually contaminated it well and that's great news i mean from an environmentalist perspective what we want to do is make sure that you and i are able to turn on the top and enjoy the clean water that we expect in america so it's not about going after that industry it's about making sure that industry is safe and we've seen in texas and north dakota and new york huge problems with water poisoning. that being said this industry the natural gas industry is also proposing right now nine new export ports it's this is really about energy independence why are they proposing to export this abroad and so what i think we have to do is have to take a step deeper and look at the profits that are behind this explosion and really think hard about whether that's getting america in the right place for you and you know the rest of american consumers. if they just want to export it then i guess you could say that it's all about. making money and so in that sense will the americans actually early

. >> fracking discovery of a school in waldorf. is it -- frightening discovery at a middle school in waldorf. what the student told officials he planned to do with the gun. >> there is an elementary school next to the middle school and high-school down the street. school officials tell us parents received a letter stating a student here at mattawoman middle school did indeed carry a gun into the school yesterday morning. police received a tip through their crime solver program. they quickly searched and found the unloaded gun inside the student's locker. the 15-year-old boy telling the sheriff's office he brought it from home with the intentions of selling at as he walked home after school. it is not clear who the gun belongs to. the student was taken out of the school and arrested, charged this morning with possession of a deadly weapon. he also faces expulsion. >> thank you. a family and friends will gather at a church to say goodbye to a woman murdered by her estranged husband. police say heather mcguire was abducted killed, and

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that we have made because americans are driving more fuel efficient vehicles thanks to things like fracking that now the u.s. is closer to being independent i guess you could say you know forty five percent dependent it's still not exactly energy independent but we're closer than we were decades ago so do you think that you know that's a good sign that americans are saying well if at least that's the argument is that we don't want to be reliant on foreign oil or foreign energy anymore then maybe this is the right step it's also i think the report is a great headline and i think that we absolutely do you want to be energy independent but the truth is like you mentioned right now we're looking at is about half of the oil that we use in this country we import that's not energy independence there's a lot of good things that they're tracking we are driving more fuel efficient cars with the president's new fuel economy standards americans are going to be saving one point four trillion dollars over the life of that program and reduced fuel costs and we're seeing a big signs you know the electric v