alaska. here is what i mean. my answer is really this whole area and there is still a question that seemed to be resolved for a while but back on the table now. which power or powers are going to be dominant in the pacific? we are hearing a lot about china these days in east asia. that is what interested me. when i think of alaska and the early 20th century, i am thinking of hawaii, guam, the philippines, the panama canal, san francisco. and of course the british empire in british columbia and the british have other territories. and of course japan is a rising power. i am interested in how that plays out. these different empires and the relationship between them and i am working on a book right now that focuses on the american empire and the british empire in the far pacific northwest. i will be in the yukon some researching that. my interest is on -- is in -- my interest is in how broad things play out in particular places. not so much how big themes play out. the same thing applies to the b

alaska. here is what i mean. my answer is really this whole area and there is still a question of seems to be resolved for a while but back on the table now. which power or powers are going to be dominant in the pacific? we are hearing a lot about china these days in east asia. that is what interested me. when i think of alaska and the early 20th century, i am thinking of hawaii, along, the philippines, the panama canal san francisco. and of course the british empire in british columbia and the british have other territories. and of course japan is a rising power. i am interested in how that plays out. the different empires and the relationship between them and i a working on a book right now that focuses on the american empire and the british empire in the far pacific northwest. i will be in the yukon some researching that. my interest is on -- is in -- my interest is in how broad things play out in particular places. not so much how big themes play out. the same thing applies to the book on

on native people in alaska. so we're going to see a lot of discussion of both the resilience, but also look at how climate change is a threat to fisheries and tourism and other sort of linchpins of the alaskan economy. host: ben geman covers all these issues for the national journal as an energy and environment correspondent there. always appreciate all the good information. guest: thanks for having me on. i enjoyed it. host: and we're asking our viewers to weigh in as the president makes this trip to alaska. what do you think his legacy will be on the issue of climate change? our phone lines are open, if you want to started dialing in. we'll start on our line for republicans in spring, texas, where john is waiting. john, good morning. you're on the "washington journal." caller: good morning. good morning. i think he's done -- hasn't done all that great of a job considering the temperature of the planet. it's at a record level. he hasn't really done very much. and on the s.e.c. issue coming up, i would like -- t

alaska's glaciers are melting faster, too.utchershing, are projected to rise between six and 12 degrees by the end of the century, changing all sorts of industries forever. amy: on wednesday, president obama will deliver a speech at the conference on global leadership in the arctic -- cooperation, innovation, engagement and resilience, or glacier -- to address the crucial climate challenges in the arctic. obama's visit to the arctic comes on the heels of his administration's decision to tentatively approve shell's plans to begin oil extraction off the alaskan coast this summer. despite protest from environmental groups. president obama announced that mckinley will be changed back to denali, its traditional alaska native name. a house congressional delegation had fought for the mckinley name. alaska natives have long viewed the name as imperialist. for more we go to anchorage where we are joined by richard steiner a marine conservation , biologist and former professor at the university of alaska. today, dr. steiner will speak a

alaska is the nation's largest state but it has the smallest prison population. >> alaska is a state that people have immigrated from all over the country and criminals don't change their ways when they move. they're still criminals. they just go to another state and do time in that prison system. >> outside society is big on giving people a second chance. my philosophy is when they reach spring creek they've had their chances and now they will toe the line. >> craig turnbull has been superintendent of spring creek for five years. >> they think they can come to alaska and hide out in the wilderness and never be seen again. they find that's very hard to do. we are surrounded by ice fields. we're surrounded by the gulf of alaska, one road in and out. and although beautiful, very challenging terrain. >> at spring creek correctional center there's only been one successful escape. it was hard to see because they had sheets over them when they went through the fences. they blended in with the snow that was out there. we apprehended them and brought them back really quickly. it probably was

it was quite a scene when president obama touched down in alaska today, a 94-year-old native alaska womanng beaded moose hide boots and gloves broke into song at the sight of the president. she said she was singing him the denali song. and richelle the white house says it is going to try to find an appropriate way to honor president mckinley. >>> the state department is respected to release the last batch of hillary clinton's emails tonight. about 7,000 pages will be made public. 150 of those emails are censored because they contain information that has now been deemed classified. >>> okay, for a look at what is coming up at the top of the hour, john siegenthaler is here. >>> coming up the growing anger of the shooting of the deputy in texas. why the shooting has triggered a national reaction. >>> human tragedy, political emergency, what european leaders want to accomplish in september, as thousands of refugees try to escape war, poverty every day. >> it is too late, because until the 14th of september we will see more tragedies unfolding before our eyes. this is not the first time we're

kidnappers of the united states and turned to the alaska page. you will see mainland, alaska. you might in the lower left-hand corner see a little bit of the alaskan independent to a mini couple is at the bottom. the first as the remainder of the alaskan peninsula and maybe two or 300 miles of the aleutian islands. the second answer test the remaining portion in adak is two thirds of the way in the second and third which means it's a very famous book about world war ii and the aleutian islands called the thousand mile war. payback is 800 miles out in the aleutian chain compass is pretty far out there. when i went to see my fiancÉe, she said where we going? boston or new york. i set adak, alaska. that is the response i got from her. it was even worse when i showed her the atlas and i'm very fortunate she still continued to consent to marry him very fortunate she is in with me for 40 years. what she will tell you it's adak and her two years in alaska which is the navy base at the time but also homeport was probably two of the most formative years of our marriage because i was ne

change is affecting alaska and the effect on native people in alaska.we'll see a lot of discussion of both resilience but also a look at how climate change is a threat to fisheries and tourism and other lynch pins of the alaskan economy. >> ben covers all these issues. always appreciate all the good information. >> thanks for having me on. i enjoined it. >> we're asking our viewers to weigh in as the president makes this trip to alaska. what do you think his legacy will be on the issue of climate change. our phone lines are open if you want to start dialing in. we'll start with our line for republicans in spring, texas where john is waiting. john, good morning. you're on journal. >> caller: good morning. i think he hasn't done that great of a job considering the temperature. he hasn't done very much. on the issue that's coming up, the stock market issue coming up, i want you to ask the gentleman why we don't tax his transactions. these stock transactions. that's more important to me than just about anything. >> that's john in spring, texas. john thanks

heads to alaska for -- the president heads to alaska for a three-day trip as he faces melting graciers to highlight climate change. >> if we do nothing, temperatures are expected to rise. >> reporter: he will be the sixth president to advice sis the arctic circle. president mckinley was never able to sea the peak. >> it's the third tallest mountain in the world. alaska and the state legislature have been working for decades to officially change the name but those efforts as you heard were blocked by legislation in congress and stymied by ohio's congressional delegation. the white house is hoping this change will improve relations with native americans. >>> also in alaska, people along the coastline there hope to draw the president's attention to their problem with erosion. it's so bad some small towns have had to relocate to higher ground as the water swallows up their land. people in dillingham worry that will -- that without help they would be next. the beaches there are receding at the rate of about 2 feet per year and the loss of land could mean the loss of jobs in their main indus

to alaska this week.aller: i guess what i'm trying to say is, these kinds of meetings specific to climate change, without a complete agenda in terms of resource management, really are not going to mean much anyway. this has got to be a holistic approach to how we take care of the remaining resources that this earth has. that some candidates get holistic approach, screaming things like climate change, it , itust not going to be very is not going to reverberate much with the electorate. stand up andgot to take a stand and say, listen, you know, we are using up our resources so much faster now for no apparent good reason when we have alternatives available that we could use some of those resources. there are short-term resources. that tos brought in by stabilize our environmental changetion, climate could be human done, and it could be just a naturally occurring kind of thing. until we getng is, a holistic approach to this environmental destruction that by the however many billion of us, we are probably not

i hope you will follow along at ouse.cov/alaska. this is not just a preview of what will happen if we don't take action, the alarm bells are ringing. as long as i am president we believe world to meet this threat before it is too late. host: your reaction, your response? guest: the president has been saying things that are's simply not true. -- are simply not true. the glaciers are retreating but they have been the last ice age. this is nothing new. sometimes they speed up, sometimes they slow down. we are not heading to a catastrophe. a chartance, here is from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. it is something called the palmer hydraulic. -- on that there is no the upper part that is where it is wet. on the lower part that is the drought. the worst drop by far, the dust bowl the 1930's. the governmental panel on climate change says the same thing. no trends droughts, no transit hurricanes, no trend in tornadoes. host: one other issue involving the president. he allowed drilling off the coast of alaska. guest: we a

of alaska in fairbanks talking about every year in alaska we see 75 billion tons of ice melting in alaskans per year are melting. so what does this mean? it means every decade, the sea level goes up 2 millimeers. this has happened in the last 30 years. that is on the increase. and 80% of alaska is on permafrost. and that releases methane to the atmosphere and that is far more destructive than carbon dioxide. so this is ground zero and why president obama is on his way there right now. >> eye opening stuff. see you next hour. >> thank you. >>> the cnn freedom project is committed to shining a light on human trafficking. this week we are looking at how some girls have been branded by their traffickers and pimps to signify ownership. >> sara sidner rode along on a police patrol in los angeles and here is what she found. >> there are two girls standing on the corner up here monitoring traffic. so they're aggressively hitting up cars out here in the street. i got a good shot of it right now. both can go. we can all burn on this. >> you heard him, boys, let's go. >> reporter: they've been calle

alaska faces climate change like few others on earth. president obama will call for tougher global measures, but he has to balance the defense of an entire state and to an extent the u.s. economy on an industry that many say are driving global warming. >> los angeles police officers will hit the streets wearing body cameras. the lapd plans to deploy more than 7,000 cameras in the coming months. but traffic officers will not be. the police will be able to review videos before filing reports. the public will not be able to see the videos. a police officers that we spoke to said that in today's climate the cameras are necessary. >> i think i the climate that we're in its important to get the point of view from the officers. it's very proactive and moving forward in the society that we're in today. it's definitely the right move. for the 1.5% of officers who are bad apples and are doing illegal actions or unethical actions i think that will put them on the forefront a lot faster and departments can handle that accordingly. but for the other

this is kotzebue, alaska. it's a community of about 3,300 people in northwest alaska and if you want to talk about resiliency in dealing with the rising seas, coates bird flu is about -- it's one of about three dozen communities in alaska that has a fema-approved disaster mitigation plan for coping with the seas rising. with the ocean rising high enough that it basically plans to swallow these villages. not far from there, is a town that has to move their community inward away from the rising sea. the obama administration has set aside about $50 million to relocate alaska communities on the coast that will be inundated by the sea as sea levels rise because of climate change. that one town kivalina is moving first and moving that one town is estimated to cost $100 million which is twice has what the federal government has set aside to move all three dozen of those threatened towns. so president obama has a big week. speaking on climate tonight in las vegas then he's off to talk about surviving the next supersto

. >>> barack obama heads to alaska to tackle the tricky topic of climate change.s. >> reporter: i am charles strad forth reporting from northern ethiopia deep inside a mine shaft hunting for a precious stone that is hoped could bring this country great wealth. ♪ ♪ >>> european ministers have called an emergency meeting for september the 14th for try to solve the region's growing refugees crisis. the blocks uncoordinated response is being described as inning coherent. according to the u.n., 300,000 people have arrived in europe so far this year. and that number continues to climb. but as the politicians debate, the grim reality of the crisis shows no sign of improving. for the third straight day. more bodies have washs up on the shores on the libyan coast. they are from two smuggling boats that sanction off the coast on thursday. in which at least 117 people died. meanwhile, greece is continues to go charter ferries packed with refugees from the island of lesbos to the mainland, they ever come you remembered fire for mott processing people properly instead shepherd

i hope you will follow along at ouse.cov/alaska.his is not just a preview of what will happen if we don't take action, the alarm bells are ringing. as long as i am president we believe world to meet this threat before it is too late. host: your reaction, your response? guest: the president has been saying things that are's simply not true. -- are simply not true. the glaciers are retreating but they have been the last ice age. this is nothing new. sometimes they speed up, sometimes they slow down. we are not heading to a catastrophe. a chartance, here is from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. it is something called the palmer hydraulic. -- on that there is no the upper part that is where it is wet. on the lower part that is the drought. the worst drop by far, the dust bowl the 1930's. the governmental panel on climate change says the same thing. no trends droughts, no transit hurricanes, no trend in tornadoes. host: one other issue involving the president. he allowed drilling off the coast of alaska. guest: we are

go ahead. >> well, we got a package for george from the state of alaska.rom 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 all of ou

obama has no friends in alaska.ironmentalists don't like permits for off-shore drilling and they want to see more. can you talk about the reception he's getting up there? >> yeah. it's interesting where the white house is positioned on this both from a policy standpoint and certainly from a political standpoint. the administration, as we've mentioned earlier has been very focused on climate change during the president's second term. that said, the administration does not want to close off, completely close off to oil and gas drilling because there is a huge hydrocarbon bounty there and one of the two big pieces of the arctic ocean off the northern coast and that's as much as 15 billion barrels of recoverable oil and natural gas reser reserves, as well. they've given royal dutch/shell the green light to do exploratory drilling this summer, but at every turn over the last few days they've been pointing something out which was that this was a lease that was granted to shell under the bush administration, not this admin

barack obama heads to alaska to tackle the tricky topic of climate change plus. >>> i'm charles stratfordn ethiopia in a mine shaft and looking for a stone hoping to bring this country great wealth. ♪ european ministers have called for an emergency meeting on september the 14th to try to solve the region's growing refugee crisis, the blocks uncoordinated response so far has been described as incoherent. according to the u.n. 300,000 people arrived in europe this year and that number continues to climb and hundreds of refugees most syrian are continuing to line up for trains in macedonia, exhausted crowds slowly being allowed to board, train services run twice a day dropping people at the northern most border between macedonia and serbia. meanwhile greece is continuing to have ferries packed with refugees from the island for the mainland. they have come under fire for not processing people properly instead shepherding them to macedonia. hungry under fire for this fence that it is buildings along its southern border to try to stop refugees to making their way to northern europe and they cri

bering strait between alaska and russia.won't be able to see into russia past the wall. as the problem. it is a problem alluded to a number of times. and the lose the primary and win the gentleeral election. and you have to think some of this stuff is going to come back to a reasonable centerist position but at this rate it would really damage the whole party's brand. >> perry, have any of the republican candidates presented a feasible proposal for immigration reform beyond tracking them? immigrants like fedex packages. >> i think jeb bush has a six point in the idea being to wind down the -- his ideas i would argue all of them pretty much the obama administration is already doing. but the ideas seem more plausible than these walls. christie is getting the right idea but the phrasing was probably poor. what rand paul just said seemed more reasonable too to krooel really cut down. but so there are some reasonable ideas out there. but the wall idea seems very simple. conservatives like it. so i think you are going to hear more

and, meanwhile, alaska airlines' profits are way up. they reported $500 million in profits in 2013, and the way they did that was in part by making sure that the people who work for them don't make any more than minimum wage. >> reporter: the connection between wages and profits is pretty obvious, says seattle venture capitalist nick hanauer, an outspoken advocate for the $15 minimum wage. >> clearly, the c.e.o. and senior managers of alaska airlines, and their board of directors, and their shareholders would prefer that most of the value created by that enterprise goes to them, and almost none of the value created by that enterprise goes to their workers. >> reporter: alaska airlines declined our interview request, but sent a written statement: "alaska is profitable now, but the past decade has been the most challenging in the history of airlines. in order to survive, we turned to airport-based contractors that work for multiple airlines and provide economies of scale. while we can't dictate the labor relations practices of our busines

he is closing down alaska to everybody. there is a difference of opinion.arly the president has signed orders to set aside certain areas and protect them. shell and other companies have gone through a legitimate legal process to buy leases and may have passed the requirements for gaining permits through the department of interior and are proceeding with legal legitimate business. but this administration done is try to find a balance. the administration is focused on climate change, looking for renewable resources, developing renewable resources, but they are also pragmatic. they understand many petroleum products, fossil fuels for the foreseeable future and companies in the business have a right to explore as long as they live within the safety regulations and go through the proper permitting processes and do it in a safe and sustainable manner. i don't see a disconnect in what the administration is doing. yes, ma'am. [inaudible] >> -- norwegian broadcasting. they have the same in contradiction to shell, they decided not to drill in that area. could you ela

it's the highest one in alaska. alaska has formally called it mt.ars, but mckinley was born in ohio and assassinated in the second term. president obama is expected to make an official announcement on the renaming later today. that's not the only controversy with his three-day visit to alaska. chris jansing joins us now live in anchorage with a beautiful backdrop there. chris, the issue the president's agenda is also climate change. >> it is. and any time you mention climate change, global warming. the president is going to send a message that this is one of the most important issues of our time. he and other members of the administration, including secretary of state john kerry, has been saying that history will not judge well with climate deniers, and we also expect to hear from him that we're born to take action, and that action is critical in the fight against global warming. >>> in one of the most beautiful places on earth, mike and kelly run a glacier touring business. but those glaciers are shrinking. >> we just really, really watched the gla

alaska's wildlife and people face climate change like few others on earth. as the first sitting president to visit the american arctic, mr. obama will call for tougher global measures against climate change, but he has to balance the dependence of an entire state and to an extent the u.s. economy, too, on the industry that many say is driving global warming. daniel lack, al jazeera, washington. >>> alaska is the only part of the u.s., of course, in the arctic circle, and the arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet. no one knows that better than the crew on a boat that studying melting see i.c.e. healey knows that and phil torres joined them. >> reporter: it's summer high up in the arctic circle, and this is what you expect to see. ice as far as the horizon. the only way through it is on this ship, the coast guard cutter healey. it's one of two icebreakers in the united states built to handle polar ice. the ride can get a little rough. that's the sound of being in the the bow of an icebreaker, but there's trouble in in frozen paradise. the arctic

he's renaming alaska's mt. mckinley. the tallest peak in north america. or rather he's changing its name back to denali, that is the alaskan native name for it. a move that's sure to rile some in mckinley's home state of ohio who have fought for years to cope his name on that peak. >>> the u.s. is facing a rash of extreme ather. now threatening to cause major flooding in florida while hawaii is nervously eyeing hurricane ignacio hoping to avoid a direct hit. dylan dreyer joins me with the forecast. >> reporter: a even though it doesn't h e an official name any longer, the remnant of erika w e continue to stream in these hextavier downpours. they could produce veral inches of in. ash flood watches are in effect through monday. all week long we could end up with 1 to 3 inches of rain. out in the pacific ignacio is now a category 3 hurricane. it will continue to weaken as it stays to the north of hawaii, but waves will be extremely high. in the northwest these photos out of olympic national park. several trees wer

the 20,000-foot peak in alaska the tallest spot is returning to denali. it means the great one, saying the name change means respect. >> it is a reflection of really acknowledging the value of the culture of the people of alaska, you know the first people of alaska. >> william mckinley was a presidential candidate from ohio when a gold prospector suggested calling the peak mckinley, many alaskans scoffed at their mountain being named after a midwesterner. >> for generations alaskans have known this majestic mountain as the great one. >> republican senator lisa of alaska thanked the president but the ohio congressional delegation which fought the name change for years objected on twitter ohio senator said the name change was another example of the president going around congress. today the president heads to alaska for a three-day trip where he'll face a bigger fight as he visits melting glaciers to highlight climate change. in new york, for cbs news. >>> coming up next a mother leaves the store without her baby. >>> my 3-year-old goes mom, where's baby. >

some of alaska's most awe inspiring sites disappearing right now.alaskan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate according to scientists who say this year alone the average glacier will lose 30 inches of thickness. >> about 25,000 glaciers in alaska and almost all of them are retreating, losing mass and shrinking. >> this marks the last leg of an 11-day, 14,000 mile rip focused on climate change. but while the president is in alaska, he is also taking the time to rename mt. mckinley to mt. demali, the fame used for century by alaska natives. >>> wall street jitters this morning, investors will be watching the markets closely to see if the extreme volatility of last week it continues. >> for that and more of the news before the bell we turn it to landon dowdy. good morning, landon. >> good morning to both of you. well, after a wild week wall street is poised to start out this week on a down note. traders reacting to a drop this had china's markets today with stocks in shanghai sliding 3%. european markets and u.s. pew tours are lower this morning. i

. >>> north america's tallest mountain is being renamed and president obama is heading to alaska to makeficial. laalaska has long called the mot denali now the federal government is repping newsin re. it's a symbolic issue. daniel lak reports. >> reporter: this week president obama will see for himself both the glorious landscape of alaska and how it's being devastated by climate change. glaciers, permafrost and sea ice are all meltings as the president himself said coastal erosion is wash ago way communities forcing people to flee. >> if another country they wanted to wipeout an american town we would do everything in our power to protect ourselves, chime at change poses the same threat right know. >> reporter: environmental assists agree but they don't like his administration's decision to a prove offshore oil drilling by shell in the sea off alaska am north slope. as the drill rig left seattle earlier this year, protesters some in kayaks, tried to slow it down, making their feelings known. the president they say, says one thing and does not. goes to alaska to tuck about the urgency of

we're in alaska ahead of his hoss stirric -- historic three- day visit and former vice.eney is here with his daughter liz. and how best selling author brad meltzer helped save the life of one of his high school teachers. and the person who scaled the murder wall will be here. >> much respect to pass along there. the murder wall? pass that along. good to see you, norah. >>> it's time to start a new streak, erica grow. >> i was just going to say don't sign me up for murder wall. anything that has murder or death in the title, i'll try to stay away from. today will be close to the 90- degree mark today. we'll easily surpass that mark tomorrow. another heat wave here in the dmv. aren't you excited? let's take a look at the michael & son weather cam and our day planner. yesterday places like leesburg and hagerstown already got up to 90 degrees. today you're going to get there again. 79 at 9:00. a sprinkle or a shower is pretty likely, especially the further south and west you go away from the beltway. 85 and partly to mostly cloudy at noon. # 8 degrees at -- 88 degrees at 5:0

i don't think the president will get two crazy in alaska. i suppose the secret service will be keeping the gris ing ti away. during the glacier tour the president embarks on, tomorrow he'll do taping with bear grylls for a special that will air later this year focusing on the issue of climate change. that's the big thrust of this trip. the president really wants to focus in on this issue. they consider alaska to be the canary in the climate coal mine because of all the varying affecting taking place everyday here in alaska as a result of climate change and the president will be seeing that firsthand with bear grylls to get a unique perspective on the subject and hopefully they'll survive their time in the wild. hopefully it will be close by -- hopefully the secret service will be close by with the grizzlies being there. >> jim acosta, what a trip for the president. thank you. >>> up next, tracking undocumented immigrants like fedex packages? building a wall between the u.s. and canada? those are the immigration solutions and considerations c

president obama kicks off a 3 day visit to alaska where he would address a council on arctict issues.> reporter: this week, president obama will see for himself the glorious landscape of alaska and how it's being devastated by climate change. grash years, permafrost and sea ice are melting. as the pet said, coastal erosion is washing away communities. >> if another company threaten today wipe out an american town, we would do everything in our power to protect ourselves. climate change poses the same threat right now. >> environmentalists agree they don't like the administration's decision to approve offshore drilling. the drill rig left seattle earlier this year, protesters, some in kayaks tried to slow it down, making their feelings known. the president, they say, says one thing on climate change and does another. >> going to alaska to talk about climate change while just approving arctic drilling, which scientists have been crystal clear is oil, 100 billion barrels that must stay in the ground if we are going to stop the worsts impact of climate change. >> hydro car bons drive alas

obama's visit to alaska today and bill plante is there. >> reporter: alaska's vast, awe-inspiring natural beauty is the backdrop for president obama's call for action on climate change. secretary of state john kerry set the tone today. >> but what we discuss here today is important not just for the arctic. it is important for the rest of this planet. >> reporter: climate change is impacting fish and wildlife in the arctic. like these walruses who gathered on land in northwest alaska because the ice they prefer had melted. the president will see evidence of that melting when he tours a glacier like this one called portage. 100 years ago the portage glacier came to the end of this lake. 30 years ago, you could still see from here. but now due in part to a warming earth, it's no longer visible from here. to see the portage glacier today you take a boat ride three miles down the rake. nick racine, the forest service rain jeer washed the glacier sink. >> the portion to have the glacier facing the water on the left side is definitely pulling out father than the side on the right. >> reporter: s

barack obama heads to alaska to tackle the tricky topic of climate change and [gunfire] we are with aice squad on the trail of drug traffickers in peru just given license to shoot down smuggling planes. ♪ the hungarian government is defending its actions as it strengthens the border control to stem the flow of refugees and the government spokesman told al jazeera that hungry is not against asylum seekers but it needs to ensure people are entering the country legally and they can be tracked. the u.n. says 300,000 people have arrived in europe so far this year. and hungry is also under fire for this fence it's building along its southern builder and french foreign minister criticized the fence saying that it doesn't respect europe's common values and a short while ago we put those criticisms to a spokesman from the hungarian government. >> let me put this clear it's not about asylum law but illegal border crossing we are trying to fix and it's unacceptable 150,000 people come through the green borders with no order, discipline and law and we try to establish the borders of hungry or ser

president is set to make a historic visit to alaska. obama plans to highlight how alaska's stunning scenery has been damaged by increasing global temperatures. >> this week president obama will see for himself the glorious landscape of alaska. and how it's being devastated by climate change. glaciers perma frost and sea ice are all melting and coastal corrosions are washing away communities. >> iclimate change poses a threat right now. >> environmentalists agree but they don't like his decision to approve off-shore drilling. protesters, some in kayaks, tried to slow it down making their feelings known. the president says one thing on climate change and does another. >> he's going to alaska to discuss the urgency of climate change while approving arctic drilling. the oil, hundreds of barrels of oil that must stay in the ground if we're going to stop the worst inimpact of climate change. >> yet, hydrocarbons drive the jobs in alaska. low oil prices are raising fears of cut backs of state services. state officials will tell the president n

president is set to make a historic visit to alaska to call for action on climate change.s three-day tour president obama plans to highlight how alaska's scenery is being increased by global temperature and daniel lack explains. >> this week president obama will see for himself the glorious landscape of alaska and how it's being devastated by climate change. perma frost and coastal erosion causing people to flee. >> we would do everything to protect ourselves, climate change poses the same threat right now. >> reporter: environmentalists agree but don't like the administration's decision to approve off-shore oil drilling by shell off alaska's north slope. as the drill rig left seattle earlier this year protesters summoned kayaks tried to slow it down making feelings unknown and the president says one thing on climate change and does another. >> going to alaska to talk about the urgency of climate change and just approving arctic drilling and scientists have been crystal clear is oil, 100 billion barrels of oil that must stay on the ground to control the impacts of climate

reasons we're in alaska. hard, ask any alaskan, i think people in alaska will tell donald trump and tell ted cruz, it's happening. all they have to do is come here and open their minds and their eyes and their ears, listen, look and they will see the impacts of what is happening. >> now, the president has come up with a unique way to hammer home this message of climate change while he's touring some of the glaciers here outside of anchorage, jake. he's going to be linking up with reality tv star bear grylls who has that reality show "running wild." i suppose he will test his survival skills with bear grylls. i'm not sure there will be grizzly bears around. i'm sure the secret service will be nervous when the president goes out into the wild. it's all a part of the white house approach to try to get the message out there on climate change and they're going to be doing it on reality tv as well as on the news as well, jake. >> jim acosta thank you so much. now to sports lead. no deal on the deflated footballs. a

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president obama about to take off and rude to alaska -- on route to alaska.d investors are saying i told you so yet again. some analysts say the bond market does a better job of anticipating the direction of shifts in the economy. market routes may be far from over. here to explain is lisa abramowicz. last week when we were struggling to find a catalyst for the big global route, i did have a couple of people come on and say credit spreads told you so. creditver since may, spreads portend of broader weakness that may not be correlated to specific high-yield companies. those also tend to be a good tea leaf for stock market. ever since may, credit spreads have been widening. companies have been selling hundreds of billions of dollars of corporate bonds to buy back their shares and pay dividends and acquire companies. bond investors have been saying, enough already. stock investors have loved it. they continue to buy and enjoy the ride. typically, since 1996, three times when credit spreads widened this much, 32 basis points, in three months the s&p 500 has decli

alaska, the last frontier.and i look at it was the coast guard cutter and would in a place called -- i said i don't know where that is what is alaska. out to be great and it would be an adventure. i put my card in the slot, went back to my room and broke out in alastair ichat av to do this. getting atlas of the united states enter into the alaska page. on the alaska a juicy mainland alaska became a in the lower left hand corner see a little bit of the alaskan peninsula. then there's a couple of inserts at the bottom. the first insert has the remainder of the alaskan peninsula and maybe two or 300 miles of the aleutian islands. the second insert has the remaining portion of the aleutian islands and adak is about two-thirds of the way out in the second insert which means it's a very famous book about world war ii and the aleutian islands called the thousand mile border. adak is about 800 miles out in the aleutian chain so it's pretty far out there. when i went to see my fiancÉe she said, so where we going? boston

yet hydrocarbons drive alaska's economy, paying lucrative royalties and creating many jobs. low oil prices are raising fears of cut backs to state services. an conference on climate change state officials will tell the president not to take steps that could hurt it's most important industry. >> we need to try to find that middle ground to bring sustainable development and responsebly draw on those resources to meet not just our needs and the needs of the community but the world's needs for fossil fuels going forward, and also to bear in mind there is an environmental cost to this that we need to balance all of that. >> here is proof. melting sea ice is behind this gathering of walruses, thousands of them forced ashore facing starvation and unable to stay in ice-bound ocean hunting grounds. alaska's faces climb change like few others. >> president obama will call for tougher global measures against climate change, but he has to balance the state and the u.s. economy on an industry that many say is driving global warming. >> well, speaking of climate change rob is here. we'll