this many reasons to want to protect the southeast alaska. these are ancient forest that have been evolving for thousands of years and they're being clear cut. clear coating is the practice of taking every single tree. so what is left is stumps for as far as the eye can see. the majority of logging over the last five or six years actually takes place on private lands. most of it native corporate lands. and the majority of that caught has actually bad sea alaska logging corp. by. but i had no use for greenpeace but i haven't for million with greenpeace from my whaling days and they didn't have the greatest reputation with indigenous people. i. think. we've. not necessarily a confrontational relationship but it's it's had its ten small months with with greenpeace. a clear cut. they will justify why they clear cut but that's what they do that's what we're trying to stop. our relationship to the land and our relationship our cultural value says that we review and but we also utilize the land. leg. they won't listen to me unfortunately they wouldn

greenpeace schedule of these alaska region. my boss came to me and said hey nick we have this opportunity we've been working with the music would coalition and they're actually going to go as a rube up to see last up would you mind going for me you'd have to spend a week in alaska and i said well i guess i could suffer through that if you really need me to. and when i realized who i was with and the conditions they were going to be and i was pretty overwhelmed grey frankly. i was of the bunch of competitors selling around the thomas national forest and i was concerned by how they might act towards me. we saw some pristine uncut force there the biggest trees i had ever seen there's kind of a wow factor to that. there's a beautiful trees up there that you could kneel down and say a prayer underneath. and probably shed a tear while you're doing it. but these guitars are made up of a tree to somehow that's beautiful and. there has to be a win win in there and that's the trick. yeah i just had a whole new appreciation for for nature

after this see alaska tree ceremony i think the relationship hit a speed bump. and greenpeace decided that we were going to start opposing the sea alaska land bill. we did this because of the only that matters is the forest we have not been able to have a good conversation and i went to environmental us where we could really talk about this. when their bill was being put before congress pretty much the entire environmental community signed a letter in opposition to that particular bill. and we're greenpeace and at the end of the day we we have to call them as we see them i'm just i'm just not happy with environmentalists they just don't understand i don't understand that i really don't i'm not going to say that you know. some of them would rather drink poison them. get certified we talk to them we've been forthright and all of our plans we've come to them and said this is what we're going to do or how i hate to say after. we've said it. played cop white man speak with forked tongue. from the news channel five that's what. i bought the company well known for help

first up, alaska. i'm going to be live in juneau on thursday. it is alaska's capital, home it a remarkable national wonder, the mendenhall glacier. and if all goes well, i may get up close to another alaskan icon, the grizzly. i may or may not come back after this. be sure to join us as "today" takes off thursday. >> someone may be trying to tell you something, sending you to alaska with the grizzlies. next week, siberia. >>> dylan's got a look at the weather. >> and we are looking at a big storm out near japan. we have a category 4 equivalent, almost a category 5. this is super typhoon neoguri. it is south of okinawa, japan. winds right now at 155 miles per hour. it is going to strengthen into a category 5 equivalent as it passes to the west of okinawa. then it should make landfall on the mainland of japan as a cate. it is a big one. we will certainly keep an eye on it for folks out that way.

serves as president of the alaska state senate. he is now one of a hand full of high profile republicans who oppose the mine. >> how big a deal was it for people here to seek help about this issue? is outside of the state? >> this is local people that don't like federal government or state government or much of any government. going to the big, bad, epa and saying we are so afraid of this thing. that we need your help. bingham is currently the largest open pit mine in america. leaks there have contaminated ground water more than 15 miles away. poisons the water supply for thousands in the salt lake city area. proof they say, of what is in store for bristol bay. >> the thing that makes this whole arguement so important, water connects everything. it is like mood in the human body. it doesn't take but a tiny infection to poison your whole body. >> is there any doubt that one day a mine will infect be built on this site. we know we with have to do things right. it is an important part of us to alaskaians and as a company. this vast ra

michael okwu travels to the wilds of alaska. firsthand look of what's at stake. >> reporter: buried in these hills is a treasure worth half a trillion dollars. the mother load is known as simply the pebble deposit. pebble contains the largest untouched reserve of copper in the world. some 80 billion pounds of it along with thousands of tons of gold. mike is with the mining company that plans to unearth the fortune. >> 700 million that will strike an 86 mile road. could be he mined for generations. >> reporter: if you haven't heard of pebble that's no surprise. its remote location has helped keep it from the public eye. located 200 miles southeast of anchorage, it is accessible only by air. but chances are you're going to hear more about pebble soon. its fate is one of the biggest environmental situations facing the obama administration since the keystone pipeline. according to company documents getting the metal out of the ground will mean digging one of the largest open pit mines on the planet. eventually that hole could be mor

go ahead. >> well, we got a package for george from the state of alaska.w it was from doug. >> how do you know it was from doug, michelle? >> because george put him in jail. >> okay. >> george testified. >> michelle thought the bomb had to have come from the two men her stepson put in jail, doug gustafson and r.d. cheely. >> the bomb was not meant to frighten someone, to intimidate someone. this was meant to kill. and it succeeded, killing the wrong person. >> but could the forensic evidence prove it? at david kerr's autopsy, investigators found a tiny metal post in his chest, the kind used in a switch. >> ultimately, our crime lab was able to determine the type of switch that that post would be a part of, a manufacturer, and to whom did the manufacturer provide the circuit or the switch? radioshack. well, there are lots of radio shacks, but at least we knew there were radio shacks in anchorage. >> but both cheely and gustafson were incarcerated at the time. >> how could they have done it from jail? how could they do this? how could they do that? which was

, though it's particularly devastating in alaska. the trksz sunami that was generated killed four argonians because there was no and is no early warning system. we can build an earthquake tsunami early warning system. oregon doesn't just face the threat from tsunamis generated. the same type that generated the great alaska quake. and, according to geologic history, we're about overdue for a major quake in the northwest. it has been fairly quiet for a few hundred years. but, as i said, it is judged to being overdue. potentially, we'll be sending a wave north. and we need that early warning system finished and deployed in the ocean. and and as needed on land. you know, we know we're not going to be able to predict a quake days in advance. but just those few minutes. we practiced drills and skills on the coast. i have measured impacts and found safe havens. dr. holt made an comment point and i won't belabor it. but i ask asked a hearing on reduced size misty. it is a relatively decent phenomenon, which is not yet well-studied or well-kn

amz, alaska, arkansas -- >> i can't do it. >> i only know the song. >> amz rgz alaska, alaska, colds, kopz, hawaii, illinois, iowa, kentucky, louisiana, massachusetts, missouri, montana, nebraska, north carolina, skurz, oregon, tennessee, west virginia, washgton, seconds. >> if you didn't say the other stuff, you would beat her. >> i don't know if i can do it without the song. >> close. >> only do it to the melody of the song i know. >> and the tune is -- ♪ >> ropes, parachutes, bungies, throw it away. who needs it when you're a free style jumper like greg row. >> one of the bags -- >> an air cushion that breaks the fall. he starts off low to us, looks like he's way up in the air, but he starts low, and eventually he was jumping, practices his maneuvers, and works his way up to an incredible 180 feet. he's in austria, working with the crane company to do this. when he hits the air cushion, he's reaching speeds of 93 miles per hour. >> how does gnat splatter your body? i know it absorbs impact, but it seems like you just flat -- >> or go through the thing. it's as big as a house, but f

when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy.y bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. stronger than peoples twice her size.er was and that strengtspired his liquid muscle cleaner. it lifts tough dirt so you do less scrubbing. and its nozzle stops by itself... ...so less is wasted sure made grandma proud. mr. clean liquid muscle. ensitive side. and a razor that understands my sensitive skin. venus embrace sensitive. more than a strip. an entire ribbon of gliding gels surround 5 comfort-coated blades for less irritation. venus embrace sensitive. a perfect match for sensitive skin. >>> pretty much everybody's got an opinion about sarah palin. and now, if you're somebody

when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. . >>> there may be some narrow circumstances in which there is a humanitarian or refugee status that a family might be eligible for. if that were the case it would be better for them to be able to apply in country rather than take a very dangerous journey all the way up to texas. >> translator: among other things there's a lack of clarity in the migratory policy of the united states. language is ambiguous. that's why the coyotes take advantage of this situation. >> that's the president of honduras. the president meeting with the presidents of honduras, quote and el salv

the same sort of scenario has been playing out in alaska yeah sarah palin's alaska for over thirty years and it's been incredibly successful back in one thousand nine hundred eighty six alaska established the alaska permanent fund which was designed to help all as profit off that state's oil industry since then alaskan citizens receive a check in the mail every year it's essentially a guaranteed minimum income like many european and middle eastern countries have in two thousand and thirteen the permanent fund's annual payout was nine hundred dollars this year is expected to be between thirteen hundred fourteen hundred dollars was actually a year back a couple of years ago where the fun paid out plus there was a rebate of environmental rebate an oil company tax and it all got paid out and people with a family like seven people like sarah palin there making like thirty forty fifty thousand bucks just in the guaranteed minimum income from the state the program is incredibly popular and even sarah palin has scared straight by the slightest bunch of the words socialism supported the fund and

so the profits from the trade led traders up the peninsula to alaska.hat i think the largest of the islands they reached in the 1770s. they set off alarm bells in the european capitals. this was an understatement, a very murky understanding of what it looked like in the 18th century. let's see. there we are. this is a map originally dating to 1758 but this one was printed in the 1784. this was by th the best intelligence that european euroe to work withi with in the 1780sd it's possible the russian court -- almost certainly the russian court do better than this but cartography into the secrets where it is closely guarded as the secrets are today so the russians certainly were holding this information close, and in spain and england this is what they had to work with. is it, the captain when he explored this part of the world of the third voyage and this is the map he had with him to try to figure out where he was going. and it's almost comically bad. in fact he's famously reserved if you read through his journa journals. look at this. they didn't know w

take alaska. in the minds of many it conjures up images of an outdoor paradise. there's another reality - the growing presence of street gangs, many organised around ethnic identity. michael oku travelled to anchorage to take a closer look at the problem and what is being done to address it. >> hang on a second. i suppose i'm supposed to go code 3. we'll go a little faster. >> reporter: lately every night in the land of the midnight sun has been busy for this officer. this evening he's been on patrol for half an hour. when a report of a stabbing crackles through the radio. during his nine hour shift he will respond to as many as 15 separate incidents. >> anybody that comes up to visit, if they did a ride along with the anchorage police department would have a rude awakening. all right. >> reporter: this call involves a troubled sun who threatened his mother. >> he has the equivalent of a boy knife or a small machete. >> reporter: in this case no one was injured, but that's not always the case, alongside domestic disturbances and duis anchorage is dealing with a t

smithart died of lung cancer in alaska prison while awaiting a retrial.> for six years a serial killer prowled the streets of new york city hunting his victims. he promised to kill 12 people, one for each astrological sign. and he only struck while certain constellations were visible. it took forensic astronomy, handwriting analysis, and a world war ii code breaker to find him. late one cold night in march 1990, 49-year-old mario orozco was walking home from his

now this woman in alaska, tragic and enraging. she is looking into just dropping insurance coverage altogether. now, she pays her employees well so they won't get a subsidy in the state exchange. here is a small business owner who can speak personally about the expensive, the tragic and the enrageing side effects of the obama health care law on her employees. and of course there is a lot of uncertainty about what happens next and how much rates might continue to go up, and of course that makes it even worse. the business owner said i just can't penalize my employees by dropping the plan and i can't figure out where am i going to get the money? it's frightening, she said. what happens next year? it's a big concern, what happens next year. people worry about neck year, they budget for next year, they plan for next year, they think about their expenses, balancing their income. president obama says the democrats who voted for this law in the president's own words should forcefully defend and be proud. should forcefully defend and be p

what is our wait time in alaska, the northwest region? is one of the lowest in the country because we now have access. as a matter of fact, an anchorage when you use a qualified federal clinic there and/or the south central clinic -- and again, you have to be on the list, up, get through the system and get on the list, for non major medical it is in day care that is pretty significant. that is competition that actually works with the tax dollars we are all paying. we shall let out to the private sector. we do closer to care program, as you know, which uses private sector, but that does not mean it is the panacea that every veteran will get care overnight. we have to look at the systematic problems. and now you and i talked about this idea and we are doing in alaska. we have some logistic problems, billing problems, scheduling issues and how to make sure that the records are transferred properly between federal agencies and so forth. i know we will figure this out. but doesn't that seem like something we should be expanding and looking at

natalie is on assignment in alaska. we'll check in with her. a hotel room. >> i went to the men's room by accident the other day and ran out. >> how about this? one man had a terrifying 30 hours trapped in a jail. far rad pope went to jail last weekend to visit his son. he checked himself in and was told to go down the hallway. after doors shut behind him, he found himself locked in. banged on the walls and the door. nobody heard him because there was about two feet of cement between the room and hallway. finally he climb into a stool and broke off a sprinkler nozzle. the fire department came the next morning and found him wet. this is at the cook county jail. >> having been a reporter for many, many years and been inside that jail, that is odd. how they didn't have cameras see him go in the room and how they didn't have someone to escort him. this is not "orange is the new black." >> this isn't camp. this place is tough. how did they not see him. >> they didn't sign out. usually if somebody comes in and doesn't come out, you have cameras every

she's headed to alaska and mendenhall glacier for "today" takes off. natalie racking up the frequent flier miles. >> nice. >> feeling good in juneau right now. hot these days. >> i saw a picture on instagram

. >> peter slaiby is the vice president of shell alaska.hell has long been pushing to conduct exploritory off shore drilling in the arctic's chukchi, off the coast of northern alaska. after the company spent 15 million dollars on lobbing in washington last year. >> frankly we would not be considering a move into alaska and other arctic regions unless we were sure at the highest levels in our company that we could do it safely. >> a lot of people here have been kind of skeptical about, it's not a matter of if, but when something goes wrong with the drilling up in the arctic. >> well so, i think it's a matter of time you know i think that's being a bit pessimistic, i think the standards we're putting in place are pretty robust. but could there be an incident? and i think - yeah, there's ship - you know, aside from oil and gas there's a significant amount of shipping. and when we've looked at what's been in place, we think it clearly needs to move up another notch... if a spill does happen, the cold waters in the arctic make clean up even more

. >> we also have rainy and cool weather for our friends in alaska. we'll take a look at that coming up. >> sounds good. thank you, bill. >> the billionaire kok brothers controversial $25 million donation. >>> a warning from the irs you need to hear about, next. ere. ever since we launched snapshot, my life has been positively cray-cray. what's snapshot, you ask? only a revolutionary tool that can save you big-time. just plug it in, and the better you drive, the more cash you'll stash. switching to progressive can already save ye $500. snapshot could save ye even more. meat maiden! bringeth to me thine spiciest wings of buffalo. but do you really? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover erases 99% of your most stubborn makeup with one towelette. can your makeup remover do that? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® makeup remover. are you about to spend that on paper towels? mom: well, i use bounty... kerri: ooo! use sparkle®... it's just right for cleaning up everyday little messes without cleaning out your piggy bank. sparkle®. the bright way to

alaska, kansas, tennessee. thus far republicans fielded superb candidates and candidates who were sort of todd aiken-like have fallen by the wayside. jon: we mentioned earlier you run crossroads gps, the super pac. article in the washington examine are says republicans are falling behind in that kind of big dollar fund-raising. here's part of what david drucker, the author of that article says. he says, this election cycle two new challenges chilled gop super pac efforts to raise cash from wealthy individuals and corporate donors. anxiety they could get slapped with an irs audit and unease donate could lead to public demonization. demonization like harry reid is doing with the koch brothers virtually every day in the well of the senate. >> this worked well for them in 2012 when they picked out five donors to mitt romney and went out to demonize them this is becoming a standard tactic of the left. i sense it in my work with crossroads. i sense it from some donors they're worried about it, but most of them it is

that's what we're doing is alaska. we talked about this. we saw this problem when i came into office in '09. we said, what are we doing? we had 1,000 people on our waiting list in alaska. we didn't go to the private sector. honestly, all of that thgo to t private sector to get a doctor, it's hard enough to get our appointments. we looked at our current system of federal tax dollars and how they're being used. eindian health services deliverd by our tribes in alaska. federally qualified federally funded. we maximize the resources at our fingertips today. what's our wait time in alaska? northwest region? it's one of the lowest. one of the lowest in the country. because wu with ne now have acc. matter of fact, in anchorage, when you use a qualified clinic there -- again, you have to be on the list. sign up, get in the system, get on the list. for non major medical, same-daycare. that's pretty significant. if we shove it out only to the private sector, some magic will happen. we do closer to care program, as you know, which uses private sector.

this isn't about alaska. this is about duplication and government efficiency and how we deliver services to these agencies. in 2004, president bush's office of management and budget wrote that the commission's activities were duplicative of other federal programs that address the same needs and provide the same types of assistance. in 2009, president obama's o.m.b. referred to the denali commission as duplicative, redundant, unnecessary and stated there was no evidence that the commission's job training programs improve employment outcomes for participants. the g.a.o. found that the denali's commissions -- commission's ac tifflets to be duplicative of -- activities to be duplicative of other programs. it failed to find any evidence they've achieved success in these areas in large part because of the overlap of the commission's ac tifflets and other federal programs. and in october, 2013, a report to congress, the office of inspector general said the denali commission was a middleman. it was an experiment that

. >> jack mcguire caught this in alaska, saying it took him 40 minutes to just reel it in.e world record is 57 pounds, less than this fish. >>> and because they reeled it onto the boat it is disqualified by world records, still, it is a big fish. >>> all right, let's check the weather. >> just for the halibut? you should have seen the one that got away. let's take a look at the weather, shall we? it is worth looking at. mainly sunny skies right now, beautiful afternoon across the bay area, just some low clouds drifting over the bay, more patches of clouds over the coastline. there were a couple of thunderstorms over the sierra, less numerous than we saw yesterday with moisture still dripping in northern california. the storms are weakening, thus reducing the risk of fires, the red flag warning remaining in place until 6:00 this evening. because of the dry lightning strikes that could trigger lightning with the dry fuel in the area. but now with storms tapering off, it will expire at 6:00 p.m. here is a live roof top camera under partly low cloudy skies, here are the low for

in alaska we have done some things that are innovative. we don't have a veterans hospital like many states. we have a clinic, and then the hospital is in seattle. but one fifth of the size of the country is alaska, in its size and vastness. we have to think of different things to make sure every veteran can get access. we've done that in a way to manage it, so we can manage expectations, because i think some people will say, just open up the system to every private doctor in the world, and it will all be solved. i don't know how long it takes you to get a doctor's appointment. i know what it takes me, and if anyone needs mental health services in this country, the waiting list is a mile long. i'm anxious for you to get on the job. i hope you don't get up into the politics of what goss on around this place. i notice by your sdloer, we may have difference in our past politics, but that's the greatest bit about in committee, we look at what you can do. i'm looking forward to it. you'll probably hear a lot from me, because i am a detailed pers

alaska airline is getting good press over pancakes.have something that's called pancake printers. they spit out fluffy pancakes on command. they are in seattle anchorage and l.a. and portland. it's made with fresh healthy and all natural ingredients. and the man was invented by a polish australian man who wanted to automate breakfast for his family. he came up with this, and alaska airline said we'll take four. >> just get the butter and you're good to go. >> i think it will make your weekend mornings better. >> he is on to something. >> a twitter hits a campground down south. several of the victims are from our area. >> we have more on the latest plane disaster this time in africa. more on the investigation when "action news" continues. so say hello to ocean spray 100% juice. and goodbye to added sugar. i thought we weren't adding any sugar. oh. okay, nobody use these cranberries over here. because the more you know, the more we can help you. at farmers, we make you smarter about auto insurance, cut. lower. shave. chop. and drop your