anchorage, the founding of anchorage does have that big significance there. and so we will not talk about the background of these cartoons but you have plan earth looking on as president mckinley makes a decision about the philippines. and japan and britain and i think france wondering what uncle sam is going to do in relation to hawaii. i do not think many people in the world, the wide world, are people in the world, the white world, are paying attention to what is happening in anchorage. they are paying attention to the pacific. they can see a few empires, the french, the british. and some will know that this development in anchorage, and alaska is related. the only occasion i found where a newspaper in 1915 here in anchorage refers to another editor of coming to anchorage to look around and refers to a japanese newspaper. on the one hand, it may not be a big deal. on the other, worth noticing the editor thought it was worth reporting. an editor from a japanese newspaper here looking around. it could be interest, i do not know if there's a back story. clear

libby casey joins us from anchorage. a warning from the president tonight. >> reporter: that's right. president obama saying problems in the future are happening now and here. the president saying that climate change is impacting structure, community, health and people's future. >> those trends continue the way they are. there's not going to be a nation on this earth that is not impacted. people will suffer. entire nations will found themselves under severe hardship. >> president obama game to ground zero of climate change. here in alaska, sea ice has melted 40% since a few sec aids ago -- decades ago, at a much faster rate than the past. and we are seeing the arctic warm as compared to other parts of the world. >>> environmentalists are accusing the president of not having made a decision to allow and drill alaska's arctic. how do they justify that. >> he says the process was started with a different administration, and comments that drilling can be done carefully, taking environmental impact and danger into act. a lot

president obama spoke in anchorage on the topic of climate change.ch tonight he said definitively he recognizes america's role in having created this problem. >> the fact is that climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it. that, ladies and gentlemen, must change. we're not acting fast enough. i've come here today as the leader of the world's largest economy and its second largest emitter to say that the united states recognizes our role in creating this problem, and we embrace our responsibility to help solve it. and i believe we can solve it. >> the world's largest economy and the world's second largest emitter. president obama speaking tonight in anchorage on day one of a three day trip set to highlight his commitment to fighting climate change. his environmental legacy will include a lot of different efforts to combat climate change and reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. that legacy will include his decision weeks ago to give shell oil the go and ahead. something that nobody knows who to you clean up if it goes wrong and

chris jansing tonight in anchorage. thank you. >>> we're monitoring extreme weather flaring up in several regions across the country, including the remnants of tropical storm erika dumping torrential rains in the southeast, leaving some neighborhoods underwater. nbc's kerry sanders has the latest for us. >> reporter: a monster mudslide in southern utah. billions of gallons of water and debris moving an estimated 35 miles an hour, set off by heavy rains this weekend. 60-mile-an-hour winds in the pacific northwest led to unusually large waves in lake washington. in seattle, those winds are blamed for two deaths, including a 10-year-old girl crushed by a falling tree branch. from the plains to the northeast, what could be the season's last heat wave is coming. temperatures across the region will hit upwards of 90 degrees this week. meanwhile, unusually warm waters in the pacific are fueling three hurricanes near hawaii, none expected to make landfall. and in the southeast, the problem isn't heat, it's rain. tropical storm

yesterday, the president urged world leaders to take action on climate change durinn a summit ins. anchorage. >> human activity is disrupting the climate. e science is sharp. it is sharpening. the pools of this one distant present. >> the president warned dozens of countries that it will soon be too late to act. >>> and president obama will hamave a wild time in alaska. nbc announced the president will appear in an upcoming episodes of "runagng wild." the president will also get a crash course in survival techniques. >> the secret service must be thrilled with that. >>> 4:39, from classified to mundane, several thousand newly released hillary clinton e-mails are being pored over. 150 messages now being declassified. there was a letter from the state department asking wikileaks not to release classified information when clinton asked for assistance on how to use an ipad. and she adds an aide for two tv shows. >>> governor christie made an appearance on "tonight show." he spoke to jimmy fallon and about jimmy's summer injuries. and what would happen if christie wasn't asked the question for a

. >>> from our anchorage affiliate, a man urinated on passengers aboard anchorage to portland flight. listen to this, this 27-year-old man right there faces charges of criminal mischief. police say le woke up from a nap, stood up and began urinateing. when officers boarded the plane, they reportedly found him slumped over a seat. >> offensive littering? that's what we're going with? >> i didn't make up the story. those are some of the stories we are following with. a dramatic rescue in the alaskan waters. they saved three boaters sunday after their engine failed, a rescue helicopter traveled over 250 miles to respond to address call and document all just moments before that vessel ran aground. the oklahoma city skyline changed yesterday. two historic hotels were demolished. it took 8 seconds. boom. it came down quickly. locals gathered. the space is being cleared for a new headquarters of the banks of oklahoma. so did you ever think you'd hear of a contest just for yelling? foorm to you. over the weekend, in north carolina, they held a national hollering contest. it is an annual fundr

libby casey has more from anchorage. >> reporter: president obama delivering a warning at the beginnings alaska trip that human activity is warming the planet. he called this science stark and said that climate change isn't a problem in the far-off future. it's a problem here and happening now. he said it is already impacting infrastructure, communities, health, and the future. >> if those trend lines continue the way they are, there's not going to be a nation on this earth that is not impacted negatively. people will suffer. economies will suffer. entire nations will find themselves under severe, severe problems. >> reporter: the president will use the backdrop of alaska over the next two days to highlight the issue of climate change, visiting a glacier that is retreating, visiting alaskian native communities to learn about their way of life, because this is ground zero for climate change. >> the arctic is the leading edge of climate change. our leading indicater of what the entire planet faces. arctic temperatures are rising about twice as fast as the global average. over the past 60

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. >>> from our anchorage affiliate, a man urinated on passengers aboard anchorage to portland flight.ges of criminal mischief and offensive littering. he woke up from a nap, stood up and began urinated. when officers boarded the plane, they reportedly found him slumped over a seat. >>> boaters were saved from choppy waters after their engine failed. a rescue helicopter traveled more than 250 miles to respond to a distress call from the boat's operator and got the men off moments before their vessel ran aground. >>> the oklahoma city skyline changed yesterday, as two hi torric he i -- hi historic hotels came down. the space is cleared for a new headquarters for the bank of oklahoma. >>> did you think there would be a contest for yelling? [ yelling ]. >> okay. over the weekend, north carolina held the hollering contest. it's a fundraiser for the fire department. before the invention of a telephone, the hollering was a form of ucommunication over lon distances. it was a day filled with music, history exhibits, vendors and a barbecue cookoff. i imagine the favorite part is always the barb

heist traveling the anchorage to try to mitigate this. in fact, anticipating extending more leases. but see that that's right, it's because the reserves, potential reserves are extraordinary. these development horizon are 30-40 years out. so there are -- these are clear long-term strategies, but i'm going to be fascinated, and i hope we do public discussions, hearing what their assessments are. this is going to be candid, this is a make or break decision. the coast guard goes up there seasonally. that is our infrastructure. that is only seasonal. we are not thinking for a long-term development. we certainly do have the vision. that's what we have to prepare for. well, this has been a fantastic conversation. after two years, this report is also like a birthing process, we've nurtured this for a while. we hope you read this. it's online. we hope it stimulates further conversation. my special thanks to my dear friend that's been instrumental in building this. this is our last week here. i ask you to applaud and i want you to share that applause for >> speaking in anchorage, president o

s libby casey joins us from anchorage. >> looking good in anchorage, libby, why is this a problem forhe united states. what is the president proposing to do about it. >> a lot of americans don't realise u.s. is an arctic nation. because of alaska, we are. the u.s. only has two functional ice breakers. and sometimes they are barely functional. russia has 40, and china, hardly a player. it has an ice breaker as well. >> president obama wants to quicken the time line for getting a new one out there. he wants the new design roll, coming with a new price tag. the estimates $800 million to $1.4 million. the president has about $4 million in his budget for this expense. it's something that may not feel like a short-term need. it will be in the next decades or two. and the polar star. which is the workhorse ice breaker that the u.s. uses is 40 years old. it's supposed to be decommissioned. they repair it and send it out for new missions. >> look, the president got a first-hand look at the impact of climate change today. what did he see, and what did he have to say about it? . that's right. he

. >>> new tonight president obama is in anchorage, alaska, tonight issuing a call for action against climate change. >> but it's his decision to change the name of mount mckinley back to its original title that's getting a lot of attention. >> reporter: president obama posted this photo of north america's highest peak on instagram shortly before air force one landed in anchorage monday. he used alaska's spectacular scenery as his backdrop to urge swift action on melting glaciers, rising sea levels, coastal erosion and shrinking fish harvests. >> on this issue of all issues there is such a thing as being too late. that moment is almost upon us. >> reporter: but his announcement sunday to revert mount mckinley's name back to denali also has people talking. >> it sends such a positive message to our community. >> reporter: alaskans have always referred to north america's highest mountain as denali. congress named it to honor president william mckinley of ohio in 1917. officials in mckinley's homestate say changing the name now is inappropriate. >> because you just don't go and do someth

ncicap.org] alaska.dent obama in seeing the president there on landing at the air force base in anchorage. set off on ama three-day tour of the last. meaning to shine a spotlight on how the u.s. is being affected by warming temperatures and rising oceans. office,s left in president obama is trying to build toward for tough new rules on carbon emissions from power play the head of the national diamond neil later this year, the amend his legacy on the issue. president obama took that feel aw the oil-rich state from recent decision to allow them to drill. some of thesee protesters that greeted obama as he arrived today. and we're going to bring you the comment of president obama speaking in anchorage in about an hour. and follow the president's remarks tonight, a discussion on the challenges acing women in a tennis and. a conversation on shale oil duction and technology. mark talks about the impact technology has had on the end of three and having an institute policy research in new york city hosting the event. >> all right. hello, everyone. take you for joining us. crossroads right now. he

in an unusually blunt speech in anchorage.e have jim acosta there with the latest. >> reporter: john and christine, president obama delivering an urgent message on climate change. the president is sounding the alarm on climate change. melting glaciers and record high temperatures. the president delivered the speech to the arctic nations, including russia on monday night. in his address, he hinted at republicans in congress who stood in the way of his climate agenda. >> any so-called leader who does not take this seriously or treats it like a joke, is not fit to lead. the time to heed the critics and cynics and deniers has passed. the time to plead ignorance is surely passed. those who want to ignore the scien science, they are increasingly alone. >> reporter: the president renamed mt. mckin difficult in alaska denali. next, he will see the effects of climate changes first hand. he will visit a glacier with bear grylls as they talk about global warming and he will travel to northern alaska where he will become the first preside

john kerry organizes the summit in anchorage on monday. they've invited the russians, other ministers. pointedly russia declined to send live, the fairly low level given the importance john kerry put on that. heather and i did hear from the russians i spoke with about the desire for cooperation. you still hear that in all of the russian statement, that they don't want to politicize what is happening up there. i think that authority happened and people who talk about the desire for cooperation are largely the people who will talk to a foreign reporter like me, the ones who are willing to talk to me are the ones making the decision right now. the duality exists, but it is tipped on to the security side of things from the russian point of view. >> well, thank you to you both. thank you so much for highlighting them and we talk about this in the report that i want to emphasize a strong sense of history for the russian arctic matches what is referred to as the red arctic which was modernization from assertive domain conquering forces and indust

libby casey in anchorage, alaska. that does it for this like.he conversation continues on the website. i'm imran garda, goodnight. >> august 25, 2014. michael brown is laid to rest by his family and friends he was 18, and unarmed,

libby casey is in anchorage. getting to the dance moves in a memo. libby the region the president vistaed today was a lot of where america's wild caught fish, i guess that's how you say it, comes from. what is his message in going there? >> reporter: absolutely tony, we're talking about salmon for the most part. this is where 40% of america's fish comes from, the fish basket of america, bristol bay fishery. just last year president obama made this region off limits, a no go zone for oil and gas development. that was already temporarily in place but he made it more permanent. as he visited dillingham he talked about why it was important to put this region in a safety zone because of the importance of the fisheries. >> it represents not just a critical way of life that has to be preserved but it also represents one of the most important natural resources that the united states has. this is one of the reasons why we have shut off oil and gas exploration in this region. it is too fragile and it is -- [applause] >> reporter: too important for us to endang

libby casey is live in anchorage with more. >> reporter: good evening, john.sident obama has come here to make a point that climate change is real, it is happening, and it is a threat. this comes in advance of a international conference this fall where climate change will be the big topic. the u.s. is frankly lagging behind. this is an opportunity for president obama to bring national awareness to what alaska is facing. warming is happening here at about twice the rate as other parts of the world. and glaciers are melting three times faster than they were just a decade ago. president obama will visit one of the glaciers tomorrow during this tour. there is a lot of concern about scientists here about what climate change means for animals and migrating birds. as secretary of state john kerry mentioned this is also a lot of concern about what this means for people. >> and we as leaders of countries will begin to witness what we call climate refugees. if wait until you see what happens if there's an absence of water or food, or one tribe fighting against the other

i see anchorage there, at the top of the screen. dillingham to the left. his trip there to dillingham was not his ultimate destination in alaska. it was just one part, one stop. a big full day of events he's doing on this last of day of his three-day trip. some of what the president is doing right now on the strip is historic. he is doing stuff presidents have never done. going places presidents have never been before. some of what he's doing will have political implications. honestly i am saying what he is going to remember most acutely, the thing that will be foremost in his mind at the end of his big long historic day, at least the thing i think the president will tell his friends about when he gets back to the lower 48, i am guessing, will be this moment. the moment when one of those two salty local fisher women had to tell the president of the united states what that fish just did on his shoe means that fish was happy to see him. this is amazing. watch this. watch, watch. >> did you see that? that got on my shoes. he was spawning a little bit which --

we get more from jim acosta in anchorage. >> reporter: john and christine, we witnessed what will likely go down as one of the lasting images of the obama presidency. they were on a boat tour taking a look at the glaciers that are melting rapidly in this state. we also saw some of the stunning wildlife that inhabit this majestic corner of the world. mr. obama spoke again on the issue of global warming, urging countries across the globe to change course before it's too late. here is more of what the president had to say. >> this is one of the most studied glaciers because it's so easley accessible. what it is longer winter and longer and hotter summers is how rapidly the glacier is receding. you know, it sends a message about the urgency that we are going to need to have when it comes to dealing with this because, obviously, when the glaciers erode, that is also a sign of the amount of water that is being introduced into the oceans, rising sea levels, and the warming generally is having an impact on the foreign fada of this national park. >> reporter: president obama also hiked up to a me

seven others on board are being flown to hospitals in anchorage. >>> we're a week away from prop francis' visit to the u.s., you know security is kicking into high gear. >> indeed it is. nbc's keir simmons has words of a plot by an american teenager to target the pope. >> reporter: this morning confirmation that a 15-year-old boy arrested outside philadelphia last month is accused of planning an isis-inspired attack on the pope. reports say the plan had been to target pope francis during his history-making u.s. tour. those reports, joint fbi, homeland security bulletin saying the assault would include multiple attackers, firearms and explosives. that bulletin reportedly says minor obtained explosives instruction and was spreading them through social media. in new york, officials are already gearing up for an unprecedented security task. >> ied explosion from a backpack. >> reporter: the launch screens at many police headquarters s w showing many high priority concerns during an exercise activity. >> this event is going to be the largest security challenge that the department and city hav

obama was speaking at an international conference in anchorage, alaska. this is part of a three-day visit to highlight the impact of climate change, which he called the defining threat of the century. >> the point is that climate change is no longer some far-off problem. it is happening here. it is happening now. climate change is already disrupting our agriculture and ecosystems. our water and food supplies. our energy. our infrastructure. human health, human safety. now. today. and climate change is a trend that affects all trends. economic trends, security trends, everything will be impacted. and it becomes more dramatic with each passing year. >> now president obama is also making another bold move. he's renaming mt. mckinley, which is the tallest mountain in the united states. it's named after the 25th u.s. president, william mckinley, who's an ohio native. ohio lawmakers are not happy about the name change, but mr. obama says he'll use executive authority to rename the mountain to its historic, native-american title, denali. now of course donald tru

at the speech in anchorage, he speaks out. jim acosta is there. >> reporter: president obama has arrived in alaska to deliver what he believes to be an urgent message on climate change. the president is sounding the alarm calling attention to what alaskans are experiencing here. melting glaciers and record high temperatures and one of the worst wildfire seasons in years. the president delivered a speech to the conference of arctic nations, including russia on monday night. in the address, he hinted at republicans in congress who have stood in the way of his climate agenda. here is more. >> any so-called leader who does not take this issue seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead. the time to heed the critics and cynics and the deniers is passed. the time to plead ignorance is surely passed. those who want to ignore the science, they are increasingly alone. they are on their own shrinking island. >> reporter: the president started the trip renaming mt. mckinley denali. next, he will see the effects of climate thing

the president spoke earlier today at a climate change summit in anchorage, alaska.first of his three day visit. he is warning that the thawing permafrost. and the warmer waters. threaten alaskan homes and livelihoods. he says, some villages are already in imminent danger. and must relocate entirely. > >obama : the fact is that the climate is changing faster than our efforts to change it-- address it that ladies and gentlemen must change. we are not acting fast enough >> pam :president obama's tour of alaska is aimed at showcasing that states melting glaciers and rising sea levels. in an attempt to demonstrate the damage from global warming. the president also plans on changing the name of mt. mckinley to mt. denali. which is its original name denny's restaurant. wants to work with burger king. to make their very own "peace burger." this comes after mcdonald's rejected burger king's suggestion, that the two fast food chains sell hybrid "mc- whoppers" to celebrate peace day. denny's wants to combine elements of its bacon slamburger. which includes hash browns, egg, an

. >> the university of alaska anchorage measures the coast line and said that kvilina's land is rapidly eroding. >> historically in the fall there would be sea ice present along the coast. when these fall storms came in they would buffer them, the land, so it would not be so bad. but now the ice forms much, much later. >> not only is it harder for hunters, but the village is in increasing danger. >> there is no safe place to go. in western alaska those villages are not connected by a boat system, so evacuations are not possible when storms come in outside of their communities. >> as kvilina's tribal council chief, she has to figure out what to do. >> i worry about the entire community and our lives, safety of our children and elders. >> 400 people live here, a third of them school children. and 85 of the houses are in danger of falling into the sea. >> they could lose their stability. >> there is no place to relocate this home. >> the army corps of engineers estimate that there is a decade until it's uninhabitable. there is a proposal to move 7 miles away to the mainland with the price

libby casey joins us from anchorage. libby you have been with the president this whole trip. >> antonio the funds are welcome news to communities in alaska but of course mitigation and adapting to to climate change doesn't stop it from happening. and before the president came to alaska he made a controversial decision he allowed offshowery diligencoff shoredrilling for o. a way of life for thousands of years. >> we survive off our land and we have values that we use as foundation, as a foundation for who we are. >> the inupiat people of ca casaview alaska. even as their are community modernizes, pete is afraid an oil spill will ruin that. >> it will be a major shift in our traditional activities. >> schaeffer's native village opposes the, many here see as impossible. >> why do you think it would be harded to clean up an oil spill here? >> i don't think there is any precedent that is around right now that would show the difficulty of what we're talking about. >> reporter: locals remember the exxon valdez spill in 1989. pr

libby casey joins us from anchorage. you visited the area. how are people reacting to the changes. >> it is one of a handful of coastal villages experiencing change not just as a future idea, but a reality, eventually they'll have to leave. that's not easy for a community not connected by roads to the outside world. they can only get there by flying in, taking a boat. in the winter you can dog mush or snow machine, but moving is not just a change of address, it's a cultural shift as well. >> reporter: larry relies on the see and land for his food and way of life. that is getting harder. >> i used to represent the current and weather. my grandfather showed me. now, today it's unpredictable because of the ice change, it's not as thick and is not safe. it's scary. that change on the sea made it impossible for the men of the village to spend spin hunting season out on the ice. a tradition they kept alive for thousands of years. alaska may be the last frontier, but the front line is the area of climate change. >> it's just melting like butter on a

on monday, alaska governor bill walker, who traveled with obama to anchorage, called russia's moves "the biggest buildup of the russian military since the cold war." we will have more on obama's trip after headlines. in news from syria, a united nations agency has confirmed the destruction of the temple of bel in the ancient city of palmyra by the self-proclaimed islamic state. satellite imagery shows the 2000-year-old main temple building has been flattened. in iraq, nonviolent civil resistance is growing as a campaign of weekly protests enter the second month. tens of thousands of protesters flooded baghdad's main square friday come a calling for improvements to the countries a logical system amidst a sweltering heat wave, trials for corrupt officials, and the negative anticorruption reforms. the demonstrations are largely held by young people, many of whom see the remove -- the movement as a rebuke of the government traded by the united states following the 2003 invasion of iraq. one of the demonstrators, a 22-year-old, told "the new york times," this protest was established to dem

elizabeth arnold from anchorage.nks so much. >> thank you. >> ifill: while global leaders meet to discuss action on climate change, one new threat has emerged in the world's oceans. as scott shafer from our san francisco station kqed reports, the threat may not be visible to the naked eye, but it changes the very chemistry of essential parts of the marine ecosystem. >> reporter: coral reefs like these, vibrant and teeming with life, may hold clues to the future of the world's oceans. >> coral reefs make up a fraction of 1% of the ocean, but they hold 25% of the ocean's species. not only that, they feed hundreds of millions of people and a billion people or more get income from coral reefs. so this is an ecosystem that is really fundamental to human on the planet. >> reporter: steve palumbi is the director of stanford university's hopkins marine station. he has studied coral reefs around the world. for decades, warming ocean waters have damaged, even killed coral. but palumbi says reefs are now facing an insidious thr

inside shell's command center in anchorage, they are focused on the race to see if their $7 billion gamble on oil here is going to pay off. this is realtime? >> this is realtime. >> reporter: the president of shell invited us to see their alaska operations. there's got to be a big pay-off to justify a $7 billion investment. >> the potential scale of these resources is enormous. >> reporter: some say up to 13% of the world's undiscovered oil is in the arctic and with climate change and more and more melting ice, that oil is now more accessible than ever. locals here are divided about drilling. this man was the mayor of alaska's north slope for years. what was your campaign slogan? >> no drilling offshore. now not only no, but hell no. >> reporter: other leaders say they need the tax revenue and other money new oil discoveries would bring to their struggling community. barrow is up here. >> we are quite a ways offshore. >> reporter: in the vast remote arctic, the closest coast guard station is a week away. the government is requiring shell to bring its own emergency fleet. 28 vessels includi

in a speech last night in anchorage he called on world leaders to act. >> the time to plead ignorancetruly past. those who want to ignore the science, they are increasingly alone. they're on their own shrinking island. if we abandoned our course of action, stopped trying to build a clean energy economy and reduce carbon pollution. if we do nothing to keep glaciers from melting, oceans from rising, forests from burning faster and storms growing stronger, we condemn our children on a planet beyond their capacity to repair. any leader willing to take a gamble on a future like that. any so called lead their doesn't take this seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead. >> meanwhile, president obama's arrival in alaska came the similar day his decision shell oil to resume drilling there took effect. it left some environmentalists calling him a hypocrite on the issue of climate change. he faces controversy on another front, renaming of m.t. mckinley to denali. this leaves some saying renaming the mountain is a mistake. >> look, just ought it should stay that. i don't know what the

the president is in anchorage, alaska, for the three-day glacier conference.ays no nation is moving fast enough for global warming. >> the science is stark. >> the president obama's trip will include viewing melting glaciers and eroding coast liens. >>> the atlantic city air show is making changes to this week's program after the death of a stunt pilot scheduled to perform. 54-year-old andrew wright was killed when his plane went down when practicing for an air show. the texas pilot was slated to attempt a new world red for the most inverted flat spins. >> always in the back of your mine. you hate losing a performer, especially one you know real closely. >> organizers say there's no need for changes in safety but they have altered the show's lineup, obviously adding a memorial tribute to wright. >>> turning to the casino crisis in atlantic city. today showboat's doors remain closed and atlantic city's unemployment rate is nearly 9%, the highest in the state. most of the resort gamblingç halls are on the upswing. stockton university says it has received severa

eric klein - both scientists for the arctic domain awareness center at the university of alaska, anchorage. >> so when we're out here and we're getting this air in, to us it's just kind of misty, arctic air... >> but what you don't see are all the different isotopic compositions that will change depending on how much sea ice is there, the humidity, the temperature. >> contamination will also change the isotopic composition of the air - like oil. >> like shell in the arctic here we want to make sure we're well aware of any mishaps that might occur very early. well our vision is to take this device, put it inside a noaa buoy and then circle those buoys around an oil platform so that then we have guardians of this habitat. those buoys surrounding the platform could give us an immediate warning that something has happened, we need to do something now. >> it may be two years before this technology is ready to be deployed, but there's one big reason for it. the drilling shell will start here, is on everyone's mind. >> how do oil spills and sea ice mix? what happens when the two are involved? >>

today president obama kicked to have glacier conference in anchorage by challenging leaders to come togethernd act boldly on the issue of climate change. >> i'm here to make thur america continues to drive international action because we can't do this alone. even america and china together together can't do this alone. even all the countries represented here cannot do it alone. we have to do it together. >> critics say the president is sending mix messaged on the issue of climate change having just given shell permission to drill in the arctic. the president will take time off during his three day trip to run wild in nature. he will trek with bear gryls. on the show, bear pushes celebrities to their mental and physical limits. president obama will use the show to focus on the issue of climate change. >>> it is decision time for a county clerk in kentucky. will she continue to deny issuiissu issuing marriage licenses to guy. she says doing so defies her kristen believes. >>> all or nothing for football's tom brady. no settlement today in the so-called deflategate scandal. but that will soon c

posted this photo of north america's highest peak on instagram shortly before air force one landed in anchorage on monday. he used alaska's spectacular scenery as his backdrop to urge swift action on melting glaciers and rising sea levels and coastal erosion and shrinking fish harvest. >> on this issue, of all issues, there is such a thing as being too late. that moment is almost upon us. >> reporter: but his announcement sunday to revert mt. mckinley's name back to denali also has people talking. >> it sends such a positive message to our community. >> reporter: alaskans have always referred to north america's highest mountain as denali, which translates to the great one in the native language. congress named it to honor president william mckinley of ohio in 1917. officials in mckinley's home state say changing the name now is inappropriate. >> because you just don't go and do something like that. >> reporter: the white house says it will work with ohio to find another way to honor the nation's 25th president. danielle nottingham, cbs news, los angeles. >>> the white house is rolling back repo