bonet, a lifelong alaskan, lives in fairbanks, a former gold rush boom town that prides itself on natural stories in 2003, bonet learns that police are using taser guns as a crime-fighting tool. his curiosity is piqued when a police officer makes an offhand comment. >> he sort of jokingly said you should do it. it's a lot of fun. i said, sure, why not. fateful statement. >> fateful, indeed. a self-described risk taker bonet decides to try it and capture it all on cam. >> when i told my co-workers what i was planning to do, i was met with a lot of blank stares. i don't think they really believed me. >> have you ever seen thomas pace before? i never have. >> i became more and more nervous. you know, i was trying to play it off like, i'm not afraid at all but that was absolutely not true. >> bonet decides despite his fear, he should not only go through with the plan. he should make the experience as real as possible. i figured if i'm going to do this, i'm going to go all out. and they gave me all sorts of options like do you want to get tased for one second, three seconds or five seconds? >>

he's from the university of alaska in fairbanks, and he's one of the guys who designed the latest satellite imagery systems for nasa to understand the mass balance of this icefield. >> glaciers respond immediately to any changes in climate. their variations and their mass are determined directly by how much snows falls on them in the wintertime and how much ice and snow melts away due to warmer temperatures in the summertime. so by monitoring glacier variations, we can understand a lot about climate systems, and so they're one of the first sort of early hallmarks of climate change on the planet. >> dr. arendt helps create high-resolution computer models of glaciers like this one using data from satellites, airplanes, and deep snow pits like these to develop a clear picture of our future global climate. 95% of alaskan glaciers are melting at an unnatural and unprecedented pace. >> glaciers are really large contributors to changing sea levels. you want to be able to quantify how much water is coming out of these systems every year and then use that information to develop models and predict in

. >> 40 miles away, the midnight sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanksnd the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and it's filled with fans. >> there's a lot of events going on. there's a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane, ron and mark cross the cook inlet and enter anchorage air space. >> the sun's hitting on anchorage. all the buildings have the reflections. probably the prettiest night we have ever seen when flying. >> suddenly, the plane's engine dies. >> we look over at mark, looks at me, that's not right. immediately, we start dropping and that elevator feeling, you know. >> the pilot scrambles to get the motor started. seconds later, the engine starts up. >> once he got the plane going again, it was happy times with me. >> but the happy times don't last. before the brothers can relax, the motor cuts out again. >> you just keep hoping get it started, come on, man, just get it started. he looked a little frantic up there. >> this time, the p

juneau, kodiak, fairbanks. because the dollar can't go far enough. that's why raising the minimum wage will help them be able to purchase more, enjoy a better quality of life. i tell you, alaskans like hawaiians, we know challenges and we have tough challenges because we're kind of isolated lots of times and sometimes forgotten that we bale, actually, exist in the union and we have to make that point more than once but it doesn't matter if we're doing drilling on the arctic which is a great challenge or dpish fishing for crab in the bering sea which is an unbelievable test of capacity and ability, but we know how to overcome challenges. we just don't want more challenges and the minimum wage increase will help reduce some of those challenges. minimum wage is truly at the rate it is today is an obstacle to trying to get people to move forward because we don't have it at the rate it should be. $10.10 in a lot of minds is an easy step over two or three year period. and it's also one we can fix. we can fix it tomorrow. we just need a bipartisan approach