the alaska brewing co. has become a leader in energy efficient commercial drilling by developing and employing innovative technology and reducing their diesel consumption by 70%. we have a duty to future generations to make the most of our resources. we can do this with value-added project. marcy and jeff can create 70 jobs utilizing alaska's water just imagine what we can do applying the same ingenuity to our vast fish oil, natural gas, timber and other resources. perhaps our greatest renewable source is the majesty and the lure of alaska itself which draws 2 million visitors every year. our tourism industry creates almost 50,000 jobs and has direct economic impact of nearly $4 billion each year. this is a healthy and vital industry which showcases a dynamic partnership between private enterprise and state and local government. an industry that has potential of limitless growth, contribution to our economic well-being. this evening there are tens of thousands of alaskans with no health insurance who could

i am humbled to serve alaska is your government and you have my pledge that i will always put alaska work with anyone shares this value. tonight. tonight i deliver the state of the state address. this is a rare privilege to which i have so much to my family. i want to begin by recognizing my 1st lady of 37 years and now alaska's 1st lady ms. donna walker. [applause] [applause] has as all of you who have met her know she is one amazing, smart lady who truly has a servant's heart. i want to introduce two of our four children lindsay and jordan walker. [applause] next, i want to recognize my friend and alaska's lieutenant-governor. [applause] and i i also want to recognize his bride of 42 years. [applause] died and i treasure our with you both and with your entire large family i also want to thank the cultures of our transition team. [applause] i want to thank them for all their hard work. hundreds of alaskans contributed to our transition process. alaska is better for it. lieutenant-governor and i express i express our profound gratitude. thank you. thank you. i am committed to carryin

alaska's children. her first official act as first lady was agreeing to serve as honorary chair of the alaska children's trust an organization that works to provide real solutions to preventing child abuse and neglect. i have asked my commissioners to look to states that lead the pack in fighting these epidemics. i will also ask our state and local officials to help us develop community-based solutions. we will work alongside the agencies doing strong work in these areas as we create a solid action plan. i also ask this legislature, make alaska the next state to pass erin's law. this is the bill that will enable our schools to further implement a proven age-appropriate program to help children identify sexual abuse and seek help. members of the legislature, if you send this bill to my desk, i will sign it. and we will take an important step towards protecting the lives of so many young, precious alaskans. we thank the men and women who serve in the alaska national guard with honor and integrity. because

after that we will get a reaction from alaska's congressional delegation. ♪ >> alaska's national wildlifeefuge is an incredible place, pristine undisturbed and his supports caribou and polar bears countless species of birds and fish and for centuries it has supported many alaska native communities. but it's very fragile and that's why i'm very proud that my department of interior has put forward a comprehensive plan to make sure that we are protecting the refuge and aware designated new areas including coastal plains for preservation. i'm going to be calling on congress to make sure that they take it one step further designating it as a wilderness so we can make sure that this amazing wonder is preserved for future generations. >> now we will get reaction from alaska's congressional delegation on the white house announcement of the arctic national wildlife refuge. we will hear from senator lisa murkowski who chairs the energy and natural resources committee. this news briefing is 40 minutes. >> well usually we don't get such a sellout crowd on alaska's specific issue but i think you have

this is not just about alaska.ur oil comes to you guys, down here. >> if you think senator murkowski sounded angry, listen to how 40-plus years in congress alaska representative don young describes the president. >> he lectures the legislative body, youre not important, im the king. disgusting for the nation, disgusting for the people. this man this person has gone completely wacko. this is an attack upon the state, attack upon previous laws, attack upon the nation. >> newly elected senator dan sullivan thinks the environmental lobby is living in another era. >> we have ways in which whether its ice roads, ice pads for drilling only in the winter. where we do these things shoot 3d seismic that literally has zero impact on the tundra. literally. and you know we need to make that element of the debate people are more aware of. >> in 1980, congress specifically set aside portions of the arctic wildlife refuge for future oil and gas exploration, including acreage that president obama has now unilaterally designated as

that would be a huge blow to alaska. so this is a repudiation in part of a deal that congress had made some years ago where it said look we'll wall off some parts of alaska but some of the parts that the president wants to block from drilling were explicitly laid out -- reserved by congress for the potential for oil and gas exploration. >> right. this is a law going back to 1980 and i think the alaska delegation makes a good case this is illegal. you can't designate more wilderness without the consent of congress. lisa murkowski is the quintessential center right, moderate senator, and she didn't just say declare war. she said this is an attack on our sovereignty. we are being treated like a territory. we're a colony. >> how can the president just do this then if congress had said, look, before you can wall off more, congress has to act? >> it's completely unilaterally and i think it will be litigated for years. >> you know what's fascinating though, paul, is that the environmental left, the greens, are furious. >> becau

of alaska.understand alaskans want to have an economic opportunity. they want their energy to be cheaper. and i would say i'm empathetic to the issue because we have five refineries in the state of washington. we're the fifth-largest refining state in the nation. and all our oil comes from alaska. and so, i can tell you that people in the northwest are furious that even though we have those refineries -- so a lot of refining capacity, and the oil comes from alaska, we still have the highest gas prices in the nation constantly, so many times that we've asked for various investigations about why we have the highest gas prices in the nation and why this issue continues to plague us. so i know my colleague when she speaks about the arctic wildlife refuge or ideas about more drilling that it is about getting more oil supply. but more oil supply from alaska hasn't helped washington consumers have cheaper gasoline prices. so i want to continue to diversify our economy off of fossil fuels and on to othe

alaska congressman don young was outraged.ow selfish and ridiculous can we be when we think we can live within ourselves? we have billions of people in asia alone, south america is suffering from starvation, and we're going to set aside 175 million acres of land for a playground that has all the minerals and oil and resources-- timber and hydropower? that's asinine! other congressmen saw the issue in more personal terms. arizona congressman mo udall. the most important thing to me is that it's there. you get a real lift from getting out of the artificial world and being with nature. not only oil lay beneath the tundra. minerals vital to national defense were being imported from the third world while unknown quantities waited in alaska. the amounts were assumed to be vast. the alaska lands act would prevent further exploration. within those borders there's the potential of providing for this nation the 31 minerals which we're importing from the third world. why weren't they developed before this? because the need wasn't there.

and it's not just alaska. i think we're seeing in other producing states that the good news with the lower oil prices is kind of a double-edged sword for some. and so i think the questions that are being asked at home are legitimate fair and very important questions about okay, how -- how does this fit in with the alaska piece? we've got -- we've got a somewhat unique -- maybe it's not somewhat unique but it's certainly grander in scale with large-scale infrastructure projects particularly energy projects of serious magnitude. we've got a world-class oil field in prudhoe bay and the connector that the transalaska pipeline provides from prudhoe bay down to tidewater in valdez, an 800-mile silver ribbon that bisects our state is truly a modern marvel. and it has it -- the prudhoe bay and the oil fields up there providing the resource they have to alaska. again, you can have the resource but if you don't have the infrastructure to move the resource it doesn't do your state much good doesn't help your economy does

i'm humbled to serve alaska as your governor. and you have my pledge that i will always put alaska first. i will forever be ready to work with anyone who shares this value. tonight, i deliver the state of the state address. this is a rare privilege to which i owe so much to my family. i want to begin by recognizing my first lady of 37 years and now alaska's first lady, donna walker.

we're not blocking petroleum development sources in alaska.just that there are right places for it too develop and wibl the wildlife is too special for it to develop. >> woodruff: finally her point is the administration won't negotiate. you heard her say i've bent over backwards and they're not talking with me about this. >> i have had multi-million meetings with senator murkowski and meetings with governor walker. the state of alaska are feeling the low oil prices. my door is always open to her. i suggest we go to alaska together and i rook forward to the opportunity and working with her. >> woodruff: thank you for joining us. >> thanks, judy. >> woodruff: the paris attacks a few weeks ago brought europe's growing islamic extremist threat into sharp focus. our chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner visited another european country, the united kingdom, to see what's driving young muslims there to extremism and what's being done about it. tonight, we bring you the first of her two reports. >> warner: imran khawaja was is p. >> the

here in alaska. i have established a cabinet-level position to address arctic issues. i have named craig flener to the post. as you may know, craig has previously served as a permanent member of the arctic council. he will be a vigorous advocate for alaska's interest as the council addresses transportation, navigation, travel issues, climate change telecommunications and public and private partnerships for arctic development. given current oil prices, there's been a lot of discussion about the fiscal challenges here in alaska. while i don't dispute the numbers i do dispute the gloom and doom. to those who say alaska's finest days are behind us, i say they're looking in the wrong direction. governor wally hick l used to say before we had money we had guts. alaska has trillions of dollars of value trapped urn our ground and in our waters. since taking office december 1st, i have twice been to washington, d.c. for meetings at the highest level to discuss infrastructure and regulatory advances we need to

caller: i am out of alaska. if you've never visited alaska, is hard to explain how fast it is. the space to these few rigs are taking up is just miniscule. it would be something like a dime on a pool table or something. that is probably exaggerated. they only drill in the winter because the epa is so hard. it's easier to drill in the wintertime. they don't drill in the summer. you wouldn't be able to walk out on the tundra and see a drill site. host: are you still there? i think we lost that call from alaska. mike is calling from montana. caller: how is it going? host: what you think about all this? caller: we have enough oil according to the scientists. we don't need to be looking anymore. we chased oil into the middle east for halliburton and dick cheney. we have isis from it. we don't need any more oil. we don't need to mess of our environment for it. what we need to do for jobs is rebuild our infrastructure which would create more jobs. i am an engineer and 20 years ago, 60% of our bridges were under standard. why do we need to chase oil into areas we don't need to be chasi

of america is in alaska. more than half -- all the other wilderness in the lower 48 states 49 states -- alaska has over half. and so the sense was, there will be no more wilderness declarations in alaska. and yet the president announces sunday that in addition to the coastal plain effectively all the balance of anwr will be brought into wilderness designation. so what does this mean to a state like alaska? again, history is going to be important in this discussion going forward because the area in the coastal plain the 1002 area -- and it is designated that because of a section in the law -- the coastal plain was specifically set aside in 1980 for further study of its oil and gas potential. so you had a decision that was made back in 1980 where you had more than 100 million acres in alaska that were turned into federal law. but it was recognized that this area this 1.7 million acres was unique because of its resource potential. it was identified in law as such. and it said, we're going to reserve this. we're

we are looking at just that in alaska. need to know that i can continue to be done in this country. because if we cannot do it even here in the lower 48 states where the costs are lower and where you have existing infrastructure that you tied into which the keystone xl will we are to have this completed. if we cannot demonstrate that we cannot even get beyond this process of permitting a leg on this pipeline over the canadian border into the united states, what confidence do we have that we will be able to do other big energy infrastructure projects? and that worries me a great deal. so when people say well you know, we are rushing this to quickly. it is premature we need to let everything play out and we need to remind ourselves that six years which is a pretty long time, most companies do not have the wherewithal to wait something out six years because the cost of constructing the pipeline hasn't gone down in this timeframe if anything they are going up and we know that they are. and so we are working on the keystone xl

the clerk: the senator from alaska ms. murkowski proposes an amendment numbered 166 to amendment numbered 2 that at the appropriate place -- ms. murkowski: i request that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: thank you mr. president. mr. president, the amendment that i am offering this afternoon is pretty extraordinary. it would effectively release wilderness study areas if within one year of receiving the recommendation congress has not designated this study area as wilderness. a lot of discussion in the news of late with the -- the president's announcement on sunday that he is seeking to put an additional 12 million acres in the anwr area, alaska's north slope into wilderness status, including the 1002 area, the area that has been specifically designated for oil and gas exploration. but i -- i want to -- i want to make sure people understand that this is not just an anwr amendment. this is about the wilderness study areas that -- that we see that are currentl

in alaska i've seen an american-made, a michigan-made wind turbine in alaska.now, we want big-job production and i appreciate so much our ranking member and everything she said, but talking about moving forward on a big jobs plan, that's wind and solar and energy efficiency and biofuels and a whole bunch of other things. let me say finally -- and i appreciate very much senator cantwell raising the pipeline issue in michigan -- we've had unfortunately a couple of cases very serious pristine river, kalamazoo river, fishing canoeing, 20 years of renewing this river one fell swoop, 800,000 gallons of tar sands. i had the du

and so again for alaska, for the first time, alaska would enjoy revenue sharing with the potential for significant dollars from offshore production going to alaska. now, one might ask what about the federal revenue impact, what about the fiscal impact? this amendment is fully offset in terms of the federal treasury, so it's fully offset with revenue from two sources. number one expedited and increased lease sales in our o.c.s. that will produce more federal revenue. and, number two trimming our federal work force by attrition a policy laid out by the simpson simpson-bowles commission, bipartisan straightforward exactly what we need to do in a fiscally responsible way. now, on that piece the legislation wouldn't fire anyone anyone. it would simply reduce the federal work force through attrition. for every three federal workers that retire only one could be hired. that's exactly what simpson-bowles proposed. now, two exemptions exist to this rule that could be used by the president in a state of war or extraordinary emergency. again, exactly the simpson-bowles proposal. this amendment is

the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: i thank my colleague from louisiana. i do think that this is an area where those of us from coastal states sitting down together to truly map out a proposal that is fair and equitable really taking advantage of the benefits of accessing our offshore resources while recognizing that those states that -- that bear the responsibility of these production and development activities should share in some of the benefit there as well. so i'm looking forward to working with him as well as members of the energy committee. mr. president, at this time i would ask unanimous consent that the votes on the barrasso amendment, number 245 and the cardin amendment number 124 occur after the disposition of the udall amendment number 77, with all other provisions of the previous order remaining in effect and there be two minutes equally divided with before the vote on the daines amendment. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. ms. murkowski: mr. president jus

let me ask you a question regarding lng and alaska. as you no he, the facility there as has been exporting lng since 1969. some forget that alaska has been engaged in the export business for a long long period of time. granted, these have been small amounts but it has britain a proeen a process without interruption, the longest export contract that we've had in the country. so i think it has laid the groundwork most certainly for things to come. of course we also have the bigger project, the alaska lng project that i believe merits a conditional authorization from doe on the basis of what the department itself has described as these u niknique features of an lace alaska project but you have an 800-mile pipe. is it doe's understanding this legislation would no no way affect lng alaska ooh eleligibility to x port to non-lng countries and the project will receive an extended deadline. >> thanks for the question. i have actually visited the facility in alaska. spent time on the north slope. so we have a keen understanding of opportunities

-- because of alaska. what that means to you, whether you are in maine, or elsewhere is i welcome my friends and colleague, and senator king with his interest on the arctic issues and the ranking member senator cantwell. also, we have keen interest in how we are going to build out our arctic opportunities. the queue should expect the committee to devote january and february on hearings for a wide variety of issues. one thing to expect next week will be a notice for legislative hearings to be held closer to the end of the month on senator barrasso's bipartisan expert legislation. i think that it is clearly an issue that is timely and has been teed up. other potential topics for hearings include electric grid innovation. this is something that senator cantwell and i have discussed at length. also, nuclear waste policy which is something that senator alexander has been working on with a small group of us, authorizer's and appropriators -- authorizers and appropriators. i want to make sure that we don't use tr

. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," a battle over alaska's wildlife and a security alert for verizon wireless customers. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. >> good morning, lauren. asian stocks finished mixed after election results in greece. tokyo's nikkei lost a quarter percent. hong kong's hang seng added a fraction. >>> here on wall street, investors start up a new week following lower numbers on friday. the dow lost 141 points. the s&p fell 11 points. the nasdaq gained 7 points. >>> president obama wants to stop oil and gas drilling in a huge section of alaska. the president will ask congress to designate 12 million acres of alaska's wildlife refuge as a protected area. alaska's republican lawmakers say that would damage their state's economy. >>> gasoline prices fell again over the last two weeks. the lumberg survey says prices fell 13 cents to $2.07 a gallon per regular. that's $1.24 lower than this time last year. >>> cyber security experts are warning verizon wireless is putting the privacy of its customers at risk. "the new york tim

we're looking at alaska, north detective -- alaska, north dakota. alaska is among the hardest hit.ng with louisiana. texas seems safe. >> how are they compensating for the loss in oil revenue? >> either by dipping into reserve funds are cutting back on the spending side. so, you have a $180 million shortfall. what are they doing? they cut back on spending. they eliminated 160 vacant positions and are cutting back on agencies. in terms of dipping into reserve funds, you have a state like alaska. they are going into their reserve fund right now. they have lost $2 billion in revenue from the drop in oil. they now face a revenue shortfall. >> ok, so how long before they feel the pain and how long can they survive financially with prices the flow? >> they are feeling the pain right now from the revenue loss. hopefully oil will not stay at $50 a barrel forever. if they can get through the next budget cycle, make tough decisions, get through it, if oil prices decline at the end of 2015 or early 2016, states will have more breathing room. we are in the mid year cycle. they need to get thro

this cold outbreak is pretty much from alaska to canada and much of the low erer 48. so much in the northwest or throughout the west. this is a one spot where it will remain with pacific air, relatively mild. rainy today, 54. not a bad middle of the week in seattle. as i was saying compared to last week this is gold in los angeles. 77 78 we're liking the looks of this forecast. warmer than miami by the end of the week. >> beautiful forecast. thank you. >>> the box office report topped entertainment news today. >> trying to cut us off. >> the hobbit battle of the five armies came in at number one earning almost $22 million. disney's "into the woods" came in second at $19 million. and angelina jolie's biopick "unbroken" third with just over $18 million. >>> sly stallone revealed the title for the fifth rambo movie. five of them. get ready for it. "rambo last blood" "blood," makes sense. >>> teresa giudice from new jersey is to report to prison today. she was sentenced to 15 months last october. she pled guilty to several fraud charges. she'll do her time in a federal pr

we have seen particularly in alaska abuse. we had in chicken, alaska summer of 2013 a raid with rifles shotguns body armor, helicopters for a potential clean water act violation in our state. none were found. and from my perspective one of the things i got elected on was looking at the responsibilities of the federal government and starting to limit those responsibilities. the epa will still be able to do its job. they will still be able to work on criminal warrants. they will just need to get together with local law enforcement, troopers sheriffs or federal marshles who are armed. we think from a strategic perspective starting to limit the federal government in terms of power and authority and also in terms of oversight. if you have to get together with a local trooper to execute a warrant you might think twice. so i think it is something that we are looking at bipartisan support for. there is a lot of people who are concerned about certain agencies having grown in terms of responsibilities who are armed. the department of ed

i've been to alaska and seen a michigan-made wind turbine in alaska. we want big job production. i appreciate our ranking member and everything she said talking about moving forward on a big jobs plan. that the wind and solar and energy efficiency and biofuels and a whole bunch of other things. let me say finally, and i appreciate very much senator cantwell raising the pipeline in michigan. we've had unfortunately a couple of cases very serious. pristine river, callakalamazoo, fishing, one fell swoop 800,000 gallons of tar sands. i had the dubious distinction of going over this in a helicopter after it happened. stunning. now, the company has come in you know, cleaned up most of it we still can't fish. we still have -- people along the river can't use their property. they're backyards. this is going to take tens of years to clean up. you can go on the other side of the state where we have in detroit of petcoke, petroleum coke from tar sands sitting along the river now going into the river, neighborhoods churches on the southwest side of detroit. now thanks to my colleagues, senat

people talking about the state of alaska.ion is willing to negotiate with iran and not alaska. you make a very interesting point. just the designation itself keeps it keeps it protected. unless congress acts, correct. >> right. so what's going on is, you know obama is officially asking congress to digs nate it a wilderness. congress, this congress will never, ever, do. that the problem is that once the federal government asks for that designation, it automatically sort of goes into equivalent of escrow. and it can't be touched or develop and forces congress to sign off on this one way or the other, effectively defacto getting exactly what obama wants anyway. murkowski is entirely right. the amount of land in alaska is privately held is 1%. this is a state that is four times the size of california and only 1% of it is privately held this administration wants to basically, you know, the reason why obama is not negotiating with alaskans because he doesn't negotiate with anybody. this is another one of these unilateral moves. it

so detectives searched for a sample of carolyn's dna and they found it in alaska.rs earlier, carolyn mailed a letter to her girlfriend in alaska, and her friend had never thrown it away. on the envelope flap and stamps was carolyn's saliva, still a rich source of dna even after ten years. the samples were too badly degraded for traditional dna testing, so scientists used a newer and less exact dna test called mitochondrial dna. traditional dna testing analyzes the nucleus of the cell. but outside the cell nucleus are what are known as mitochondria, cells that can be identified, although not as precisely as in traditional dna testing. >> mitochondria dna is inherited from a mother to her children. therefore, if you want to make a match between a sample of evidence from a missing person, as was in this case, blood stains from someone whose body is not available, you need only go to a maternal relative. >> the dna from the envelope flap and stamps matched the dna from the blood found in smith's truck. and with dna samples from carolyn killaby's mother and daughter, dr

we aren't drilling in alaska. none of this stuff helps us, but if you want to constrict the supply and make everyone around the table a multi millionaire, go right ahead. we are trying to solve a problem in this country. and this is counterproductive to stop. i was on my high horse, but one of my -- one of the few issues that punches my republican buttons. >> i appreciate everybody being here today. and let me say, i love canada, too. >> prove it. >> you know what? i think there are people like myself and others who have concerns where those concerns are based on substance. you don't have to agree with it, we have a number of new members, 52 new members. committees haven't been constituted yet. hearings haven't happened. yes, you had hearings in the past. if you want to move forward with this, at least open the process up and allow some of the 52 members to have an opportunity to be able to bring some suggestions to the floor. maybe there are some issues that we might be able to find some bipartisan consensus on t

united and alaska up about 4.5%. shares of avon products spiked on deals with a private equity firm about a possible transaction. that's according to the report. the speculation comes after a six year investigation into whether avon bribed local officials in china. the stock was 14.5% higher to $8.66. shares of land said the fourth quarter profit and revenue would come in below estimates. blamed disappointing sales of cold weather apparel during the holiday season. stocks plunged to $41.97. >> there's a new stock, sue expected to trade tomorrow. the cloud storage provider box. but what is box and how does it make money? julia boorstin explains. >> reporter: box charges companies monthly fees for its cloud storage sharing collaboration and security. since in 2005 when ceo aaron levee was in college, cloud storage has been commodityizedcommoditized. it's focused on consumers and moved into box's business but levy said box is distinguished by its collaboration too manies. >> box's basis premise is storage should be easy

the senator from alaska is somebody who really lives and breathes this topic. when we talk energy someone who is truly committed to it that truly committed to an open dialogue on all types of energy and giving everybody an opportunity to weigh in here to build the best energy plan for our country that we possibly can. so i want to extend my thanks to her and also my appreciation and likewise say that i really look forward to working with her on this issue but on so many important energy issues. i would like to turn to my colleague from the state of north dakota and ask her for her perspective on why this project is so important for our country and for the energy future of our country. >> thank you so much mr. president. i rise to join my colleagues on the other side who represent states who know a little bit about energy and certain my colleague from north dakota who has led this effort from the first day that he arrived in the united states senate. no big surprise because we know that you can have as much oil out there, you can know where the reserves are that

so it is warmer in anchorage, alaska than las vegas at this moment. it only gets up to 42 in vegas. still a very cold air mass. not bad otherwise. i mentioned the warmup is coming. it does look like as we go throughout the next couple of days it will get better. there is that 31 in vegas. a little fun with numbers this morning when vegas and phoenix are as cold as anchorage. >> do you think they were betting on that in vegas, i don't know. >> i don't know. a little cold. hands are cold. >> thank you, bill. >>> now time for entertainment news. ♪ ♪ ♪ it's 9:00 on a saturday ♪ >> you saw that right. "house of cards" star kevin spacey joins billy joel on stage during the upcoming special on pbs. the library of congress gershwin prize. >> are you impressed? >> i am impressed. i didn't know kevin spacey could do that. >>> remember when gwyneth paltrow and chris split up or as they said they would consciously uncouple back in march? well, paltrow reveals that -- in a february issue of "harper's bazaar uk" that there have been times where she's considered and

the alaska dispatch reports 4-day school weeks to a state lottery is suggested. the state faces a shortfall because it relies heavily on taxes tied to the energy industry. >> in alaska it's significant - 90% of the general revenue is from oil and gas. the state doesn't have broad based taxes like a personal income tax that helps to mitigate the changes of oil and gas. >> alaska stands to be hurt the most by dropping oil prices and is among the eight states that will see strains on the budget. north dakota rems on money from -- relies on money from oil and gas thanks to the fracking boom. in louisiana, for every dollar drop there is a $12 million loss to the state's general fund. texas is bracing for losses and is haunted by memories of a recession in the 1980s, when oil plunged. the difference now is the state is diversified. >> it is a main drive of a text economy. when you have an oil crisis it will affect the economy. we will lose jobs. but it doesn't mean we are going to go into negative territory. >> in texas 140,000 jobs could be lost in the next year. that

for centuries, it supported many alaska native communities. but it is very fragile. that's why i'm proud my department of the interior put together a comprehensive plan to make sure we are protecting the refuge and including new areas including coastal plains for preservation. i'm going to be calling on congress to make sure they take it one step for their -- one step further, designating it a wilderness so we can make sure this amazing wonder is preserved for future generations. >> the white house's request has already drawn reaction from alaska senator lisa murkowski. on twitter, she said this white house ran on hope but is decimating alaska's economic hopes through moves like today's and more. the u.s. conference of mayors held its meeting in washington last week. the in bed -- the event included a discussion between the house sector carry -- they talked about their experiences as former mayors and how it helps in their current jobs. they hope to encourage relationships between state and federal officials. [applause] >> yesterday, he heard from dr. barber who wrot

the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: mr. president i want to take just a couple of minutes as we wrap up before proceeding to votes to speak to to -- to the franken amendment. i think all of us want to buy american buy local whenever, wherever we can. we strongly support that, and it does mean jobs. whether we're talking about a pipeline or otherwise. but i think the bigger question here and what we have in front of us with the keystone x.l. and what this amendment would do is this amendment would mandate specific materials for the keystone x.l. pipeline, and i think it -- it needs to be -- we need to put this in context. this pipeline is a private project. this is not a federally funded infrastructure project. this would be the first time, the first time that congress has directed or forced private parties to purchase domestic goods and materials. we actually asked the congressional research service to look into this, to see if there was any other instance where here at the federal level we had told private p

in alaska, you can grow quite a few plants in your own home, and you can consume in your own home and the commercialization of it, if it was just about it getting high, everybody would be fine in alaska. but they want industry and huge commercial industry there. >> mark, speaking of legislation, as this industry grows, it's going to be much more powerful and how do you see the politics of this playing out in the next 10, 20 years. >> the national organization just hired a lobbyist, and again, they're not going to be able to make any money if any policy gets in the way of drug addiction, and so there's going to be as powerful an interest against growing can bus as the alcohol manufacturers are about controlling alcohol sensitivably and the tobacco growers are about controlling that. so the first move is to legalize the stores, so you don't have a commercial retail industry lobbying, and to be a supplier to a store to vendor. >> sheryl, wrap it up for us. >> well, i would like to say that women, specifically moms are the secret to legalization and you can find us online with moms for ma

senator, i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> alaska not the only state in this oil battle.i was just talking about, most of north dakota's economiy depends solely on oil, but will the boom in the boom town keep going? that's next. also coming up can lsd make you a billionaire? seriously, some in silicon valley swear the psychedelic drug has helped them become part of the 1%. ♪ go! go! go! he's challenging the very fabric of society. in a post cannonball world! was it grilled cheese? guilty! the aquatic delinquency is a larger issue to this ♪ you did it again, didn't you? yup. ♪ [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ mom ] with life insurance, we're not just insuring our lives... we're helping protect his. [ female announcer ] everyone has a moment when tomorrow becomes real. transamerica. transform tomorrow. >>> many drivers across america are cheering $2 gas, but cheap gas comes at a price. in north dakota's oil country there is new concern that this boomtown is on the brink. we went there to find out what worke

we're trying to move alaska's natural gas to market as well. but, again if you don't have the infrastructure, it sits, it stays, it doesn't benefit the consumers, it doesn't create the jobs it doesn't help any of us out. so keystone truly is about infrastructure. and i thank my colleague from north dakota for leading on this issue for years now for reintroducing the legislation senate bill 1 the first bill to be filed in the senate this year. it will be -- it will be, mr. president, among the first bills to pass in this new congress and appropriately so. appropriately so. this is a measure that, again not only enjoys bipartisan support here in the senate, it enjoys broad support over in the house, but it enjoys support across our nation for great reason. so you say why -- why are we where we are? why are we looking at the situation and saying, there's so much frustration going on here? senator mcconnell has promised to allow open and full debate on the keystone x.l. pipeline project, the legislation in front of it, i think we're looking forward

. >> reporter: alaska health officials are closely monitoring this one-year-old girl after she tested positive for measles this week. her mother emily, says the family had just returned from a visit to southern california. >> about the 15th is when her fever just spiked. >> reporter: she had also just received the measles vaccine which can cause similar symptoms. this doctor is her pediatrician. >> there was d.n.a. of measles in this child and we need to now sort out if that is connect to the outbreak in california or not. >> reporter: the outbreak began at disneyland the week life christmas. the california's 68 cases so far, 48 are linked to disneyland. california state epidemiologist warns if you are not vaccinated stay away from disneyland. this nine-month-old is too young to get the measles vaccine. doctors told her mother kristine it's best to cancel a trip to the theme park. >> we want to go but her health is most important.

so this is a sensitive issue to those up there in alaska. and i think it is notable that you have the senator up there is aing that she was blind sided by this and the administration didn't come to her to propose a compromise. and they are looking for 13 million acres and the only explanation is that the president wants this as part of his legacy and not interested in the republican opinions about it. >> cynics noted that the official white house announcement has the president sitting on board air force one. whether it is flying or not. they wouldn't just take him to the airplane to shoot a clip for a white house television commercial. but air force one, not exactly cheap on gas. it is kind of an interesting side note to this whole discussion. >> it does matter to some of those out there that are frustrated with the administration. look, i think you will see this issue pop up as we ramp up in 2016, i was out in iowa and looking at the republican contenders and a lot of them are raising the overreach and environmental legislation and senator

time to check with our friends up north in alaska. be a snowless winter in anchorage, pretty mild. 41 degrees at this hour anchorage at 20. a little chilly in the interior fairbanks 7. this was a pretty good-sized storm. look at that swirl coming up. looks like it had been raining in juneau now taper off. not bad for alaska standards. it's the weather pattern. it's been warm in the west and warm up in alaska. >> all right. thanks bill. >>> now to some entertainment news at the box office this weekend. "american sniper" earned over $90 million -- did you see it? >> not yet. i take it you have. that's good. you like it. kevin hart's "the wedding ringer" earned $21 million while "paddington" grossed $19 million. $19 million worth? >> i took my $40 for my family. >>> brian williams stopped by to see jimmy fallon on friday night. and while he didn't get a chance to slow jam the news he did talk a little about his fashion sense. >> yeah, it's just -- it's a little -- you know, it's a mancessory. you and i -- >> what do you mean, like johnny

the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: request that proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: madam president for the information of all senators, we are -- we're working now to set up votes on several pending amendments to the bill and these votes would be after lunch today. right now we're looking at 60-vote thresholds on the fischer amendment along with a boxer side-by-side. the sanders amendment and the lee amendment. i do understand that the boxer amendment is now filed at the desk and i would also ask unanimous consent that the fischer amendment number 18 be modified with the changes that are at the desk. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: thank you madam president. i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: ms. murkowski: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: request that proceedings under the quoru

louisiana has the nation's highest murder rate, but alaska, new mexico and nevada have the highest per capita rate of overall violent crime. according to this report, vermont and maine are the nation's two safest states. >> sreenivasan: congress returns to work tuesday, and republicans will have substantial majorities in both the house and the senate. republican leaders have promised they will initiate legislation, and one of their first efforts may be to roll back parts of no child left behind, the education law passed under president george w. bush. stephanie simon is the senior education reporter for politico and joins us now from boston. so, this was approved in a bipartisan manner. what's wrong now, 10 12, years later? >> it was a very bipartisan bill as you said, had huge support. to give you some idea, ted kennedy and john boehner was coauthors of it, so that gives you a hint of how widely it was approved. and now 12 years later, people are looking back and thinking that there are huge problems with this bill. it mandated annual testing in reading and math for students in grades

and it's not just alaska. i think we're seeing in other producing states that the good news with the lower oil prices is kind of a double-edged sword for some. and so i think the questions that are being asked at home are legitimate fair and very important questions about okay, how -- how does this fit in with the alaska piece? we've got -- we've got a somewhat unique -- maybe it's not somewhat unique but it's certainly grander in scale with large-scale infrastructure projects particularly energy projects of serious magnitude. we've got a world-class oil field in prudhoe bay and the connector that the transalaska pipeline provides from prudhoe bay down to tidewater in valdez, an 800-mile silver ribbon that bisects our state is truly a modern marvel. and it has it -- the prudhoe bay and the oil fields up there providing the resource they have to alaska. again, you can have the resource but if you don't have the infrastructure to move the resource it doesn't do your state much good doesn't help your economy does

we're trying to move alaska's natural gas to market as well. but, again if you don't have the infrastructure, it sits, it stays, it doesn't benefit the consumers, it doesn't create the jobs it doesn't help any of us out. so keystone truly is about infrastructure. and i thank my colleague from north dakota for leading on this issue for years now for reintroducing the legislation senate bill 1 the first bill to be filed in the senate this year. it will be -- it will be, mr. president, among the first bills to pass in this new congress and appropriately so. appropriately so. this is a measure that, again not only enjoys bipartisan support here in the senate, it enjoys broad support over in the house, but it enjoys support across our nation for great reason. so you say why -- why are we where we are? why are we looking at the situation and saying, there's so much frustration going on here? senator mcconnell has promised to allow open and full debate on the keystone x.l. pipeline project, the legislation in front of it, i think we're looking forward