we are going to do this in alaska. you're right, other places around the country have said we want that. we started the discussions in other places. the only one that's actually ahead of you is new orleans right now. >> well, mr. chairman, if i can get a commitment from you, you, mr. secretary, on continuing to work with my team to implement what you've already committed to me. we can't wait. >> absolutely. >> the idea of you guys pushing this back. remember, commitment was right here. mid-november. it was all going to be done. it's not done. >> yep. i know the deputy secretary and i have spoken about this. he has committed to it. the secretary's committed to it. he was also in alaska, as you remember. he absolutely understands what you're talking about. you have never deviated from this. we're not deviating from it. it is taking longer. but that's why our staff in alaska are doing what they can to help veterans right now. it's not enough. and you're still hearing the comments. we're going to stick with it. i don't wan

that's anchorage, alaska. 46% in one year. which will make it one of the most expensive and the biggest increase in terms of metropolitan areas in the united states. let me give you another example. 40-year-old nonsmoker individual who doesn't receive subsidies will pay anywhere from $579 to $678 a month in premiums for a bronze plan with a deductible of either $5,250 for the more expensive premium or $6.850 for the less expensive premium. and remember, obamacare requires alaskans and americans to purchase these plans. remember what it did. for the first time in u.s. history, the grefs the united states told the -- the congress of the united states told the american people, you must buy a product, you have to, or you will be penalized. that brings notice the penaltie- that brings me to the penalties. because of the prohibited costs, some in alaska and many across the country have chosen to go without coverage and pay the yearly fine under obamacare. but that fine is also very expensive. so alaskans are asking and americans are

>> alaska's reliance... and reservations about oil in the arctic. >> the ocean is an extremely important part of our lifestyle, any changes that occur here are going to affect us in some manner. >> austin ahmasuk is an inupiaq native who was born and raised in nome alaska. >> my major concern with any oil development in that neck of the woods is response readiness. what's going to happen if some disaster occurs. are we ready? and, frankly, from from my own experience in this region, i know that we're not totally ready for a gigantic disaster, that's what scares me. >> but alaskans also depend on oil to keep their state running. about 90% of its budget is supplied by oil revenues. slumping oil prices have caused those revenues to drop. >> there's been drilling done in the arctic for years. successfully. >> denise michels has been mayor of nome alaska for 12 years. >> if an oil spill happens, by law the companies that are doing the drilling, are supposed to have assets in place to control that. but the reality

both faa and alaska airlines is investigating and it's preliminary. kayna whitworth, abc news, los angeles. >> also on the west coast the fbi investigating the crash of a single engine plane into an anchorage office building. of the cessna. he was a member of the civil air patrol but we're told his flight was not sanctioned by the group at the time. >>> investigators in alaska say the victim's wife worked on the sixth floor of that building but she was not in the office when the plane crashed. >>> the search resumes this morning for craig strickland. body of his hunting partner was recovered monday along with the singer's dog who was found alive and well. they had been duck hunting on a lake in the northern part of the state when the boat capsized. family members say they are holding out hope. >>> the coaching carousel is firing up. the eagles fired chip kelly who had been with the team for three seasons. kelly was criticized after certainly personnel decisions backfired and eagles missed the playoffs the last two season. >>> college football, bowl >>

that's not just happening in alaska. it's happening in russia and other places as well. so the engineering and designing and construction of buildings and public facilities has to change. it has to change pretty quickly. >> but permafrost melt is not the only problem. as the arctic sea ice melts, storms produce stronger winds and waves. exposing coastal communities to severe erosion. >> coastal erosion, which is eating away at the shoreline of villages, means that people are losing schools and tank farms. and roads. to a very powerful storm season. it didn't use to happen. >> 180 alaska native villages are presently suffering from floods and erosion. one of them is kivalina. this bear-year island village is losing up to eight feet of shore to erosion each year. it's long-term survival is at stake. alaska's northern coast has some of the highest shoreline erosion rates in the world. >> over 20 communities on the coastine of northern alaska have been identified as places where either they have to move or they will have to move. because they won't be able to be sustained wh

and that's alaska airlines' hub.should know the airport very well. >> this is the fourth time this has ever happened at this airport. so -- >> it's a rare thing. >> all right. well, coming up, a health scare for a member of the kardashian clan. >>> and the man out of all men who's been chosen as "gq's" most stylish man of 2015. you'll be just as surprised as we were. "the skinny" is next. you'll be just as surprised as we were. "the skinny" is next. ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny >>> it is time now for "the skinny." and topping our headlines this morning, a little bit of a health scare for one member of the kardashian family. >> 28-year-old rob kardashian was rushed to the hospital over the holidays after he reported he wasn't feeling well. well, doctors there confirmed he is diabetic. a family insider tells "e! news" that they ordered rob to lose weight, exercise, and dramatically change his diet. >> he was on "dancing with the stars" and has avoided the limelight for more than a year now. he actually even missed his sister k

>> and unfortunately that's the case, we went up to alaska to look at permafrost, and we'll have that, after the break. >> welcome back to techknow i'm marita davison here with dr. crystal dilworth and phil torres. now guys here's a stat that completely blows my mind. the arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. >> yeah and when people hear that they think warming, melting ice, but it's not melting ice it's warming ground that we're worried about. >> yeah i went to alaska to look at that ground because within it is permafrost, something that is supposed to stay permanently frozen but when you warm it, it starts to melt and there's a wide range of effects that happen, so, lets take a look. >> rising temperatures are changing the face of the arctic - on the sea... as summer sea ice recedes... and on land, as earth... once permanently frozen...thaws. that thaw is eroding parts of alaska's northern coast, buckling its roads and causing trees and houses to tilt. >> it's pretty difficult to live in this kind of house. >> vladimir romanovsky has been studying this frozen gr

scott rupp is a climate scientist at the university of alaska.he's been observing this trend for years. >> what we have seen in certain places along the coast of alaska kivalina being a great example of that is just really substantial losses of coastal territory from this erosion process. and places like kivalina are in a very bad situation of needing to do something because they are literally falling into the ocean. >> kivalina is home to just over 400 people. it's a close-knit community with a simple lifestyle. most of the homes don't have running water. and some accommodate up to 20 people. but they want to hold on to their way of life. and yet it's not clear how long they can stay here. the mayor is hoping a protective wall will keep the sea back. but he's knows it can only buy them time. >> it's supposed to give us at least 15 years, may be more, protection from the fall storms and winter storms. if it goes beyond that, that's great you know, gives us a little more time to find other solutions to either move the village or add on land by fil

no alaska pilot program.ou guys are asking for $13 billion $14 billion to fix the choice act and you can't even fix it in my state where you know, doctor, it is a fricking disaster. so i am a little bit upset and i've been very measured. i'm trying to be measured here for months. you saw the way we operated in alaska. we're not making this up. this is a nightmare. and my veterans, who, by the way, top -- more veterans per capita in my state than any state in the union -- that's not funny. they're not being served and you guys are making promises, i'm learning your staff is walking all the stuff back, all your six points. when are you going to fix the problem in alaska like you committed to in august and why are you walking back commitments you made to me publicly that was made here on october 7 publicly about an alaska plan all being walked back. i don't understand. on behalf of my veterans, i'm missed. so what's -- what the hell is going on? >> so senator, first of all, you have been consistent from prior to

we are going to do this in alaska.you're right, other places around the country have said we want that. we started the discussions in other places. the only one that's actually ahead of you is new orleans right now. >> well, mr. chairman, if i can get a commitment from you, you, mr. secretary, on continuing to work with my team to implement what you've already committed to me. we can't wait. >> absolutely. >> the idea of you guys pushing this back. remember, commitment was right here. mid-november. it was all going to be done. it's not done. >> yep. i know the deputy secretary and i have spoken about this. he has committed to it. the secretary's committed to it. he was also in alaska, as you remember. he absolutely understands what you're talking about. you have never deviated from this. we're not deviating from it. it is taking longer. but that's why our staff in alaska are doing what they can to help veterans right now. it's not enough. and you're still hearing the comments. we're going to stick with it. i don't want

there's nothing you can do but find god. >> kivalina, alaska - 80 miles north of the arctic circle. we arrived during one of the busiest times of the year - the beginning of the fall storm season. >> so you guys have been working 12 hours days this past week? >> close to 12 hours. 10, 11 hours. >> a storm surge had hit just a few days before, and the village's emergency crew - all volunteers - had been working for days and nights, trying to make sure the waves didn't compromise the town's lifeline - the airport. >> every 5 minutes, we're losing half an inch, the bags were dropping half an inch. within the hour, we'd have to be setting a new bag on top because they were dropping so fast. we were losing ground over there. >> if the sandbags don't work, people here will lose their main way in and out of the village. >> we used to have slush out there in the ocean to break the waves before they come in but we don't have any cold weather for our fall storm right now. >> ice used to protect the shore, but it's forming later every year. and as temperatures rise, the layer of frozen soil un

that's what we saw burn in alaska alone this year. those of us whose states are impacted by wildfire all started this year in agreement, that what we needed to do here was address a broken system. that the way wildfire management has been funded is broken and that it's past time that we fixed it. we know we can't continue to underfund fire suppression only then to scramble to borrow money to fight fires. and this all goes on while the fires are burning out of control many times. and we know that what we need to do is end this very disruptive and unsustainable cycle of fire borrowing. it -- it drains funds from other programs as the agency is seeking resources. this fire borrowing concept is the one area i think that we have all been able to come together, whether it's those within the agencies, those of us that are looking to address policy, the appropriators, we've got to figure out how we're going to stop the fire borrowing that goes on within the various accounts in an effort to respond to these wildfires. earlier this year, as the

alaska considers itself the last frontier in the u.s. where people work hard to earn a living from a rugged, challenging landscape. climate change is taken more seriously here than elsewhere in the country, because its effects are ever present and happening right now. >> there has been a building awareness, particularly in the arctic that the arctic is at the leading edge of change. i also worry at the same time that the environment is changing so fast that we may not be able to catch up. >> meeting those challenges will be daunting, expensive and uncertain, but alaska will have to try. it's young and growing population will demand no less. daniel lack, al jazeera. >> daniel lack on the problems faced in alaska, so here in paris, got next focus will be around 6:00 where we expect the latest version of the draft text. we'll see how it all works out. >> thanks so much, nick. >>> rights groups in south africa are trying to end the tradition where young girls are abducted for marriage. the children are often forced to marry older men, in a c

both the faa and alaska airlines >> kayna whitworth tonight. thanks, kayna. >>> now, to the nfl and superstar quarterback peyton manning. tonight, the reporter defending her story, claiming performance enhancing drugs were sent to manning's home. here again tonight, abc's ryan smith. >> reporter: tonight, fallout from that explosive documentary allegedly linking an icon of american sports to performance enhancing drugs. >> it's completely fabricated. complete trash. garbage. >> was human growth hormone sent from the clinic to ashley manning? nobody has denied that. >> part of my training at the guyer institute. >> reporter: "the dark side," showing charles sly, an alleged pharmacist at the guyer institute, where manning received treatment for a 2011 neck injury, talking about sending human growth hormone to the nfl star's home. >> it would never be under peyton's name. it would always be under her name. >> reporter: the reporter also saying it's sly's assertion, not ashley received the banned drugs on his behalf. what are you alleging, with res

a plane goes down off prudhoe bay in alaska.nd this will take the place of the pilot in the water, a 60 pound dummy called thermal oscar. it's designed to generate heat like a human body, so infrared cameras can find it. >> once this dummy goes into the water - that marks the beginning of a the search and rescue drill the coast guard has been planning for months. >> the location has one thing going for it - prudhoe bay and land is about 20 miles away. that means support from assets already in place, something much of the region lacks. a drone called a scan eagle, developed for surveillance in military operations like this in afghanistan, is launched from prudhoe bay to find the dummy. once it's in the air, an operator aboard the healy takes control and begins a search of the simulated crash site. >> alright, ready for the handoff? >> i got it. i got control of the aircraft. >> the idea is the drone operator finds the pilot, then provides the location to manned helicopters that fly to the rescue. but while the operation provided

middle east, alaska. with all the pain we're seeing, do you think we will see much more of this fallout in the new year? >> i do. especially when it comes to the energy complex. if you take -- and i think this is a real problem for 2016. there's a couple of points i want to make. that's very long in the tooth as both of those go. of course, that makes sense to me, where it's going to go. i think that's a longer-term problem for the economy. so i think 2016 is going to start out bumpy and proceed that way throughout the year. >> thank you all for your comments and happy new year, if we don't see you later. >> we have a little less than 50 minutes to go before the closing bell. looking at declines. the dow is down 63 points. the s&p 500 down .4%. notable because it's still in the black. we'll see what happens over the next hour and into tomorrow's trading day. which by the way, is a full session. >> yes, we will be here for a full satisfying day tomorrow. coming up, alaska governor bill walker. imagine his

time for the proximity flying in alaska. this stuff is next level. >> that has to be the most incredible rush. >> look at the moment when they go across the peak of the mountain and that little turn left. it's ridiculously awesome. >> you're out there and landed at the top and just dude, just snowboarders ski down that beautiful snow. >> let's be honest, the guys from epic tv did the wing suit and probably loaded on the snowboards with backups. >> so amazing. >> i love that there's a helicopter around so they can get them out, because i'm not seeing the little village where until the truck comes to pick them up. >> that's what i was thinking. must a thousand mile walk. you can hear in the background the chopper is still there, probably going back up for another one. i never get tired of this stuff. alaska one of the most stunningly beautiful places. to see it like that it's amazing. >>> come on baby brother. come out. >> oh, they're so unpredictable, the kids. they're super adorable like the girl in this video. come out. rig

. >>> back here at home tonight, and to a deadly plane crash in alaska. a small plane slamming into a building in downtown anchorage, bursting into flames. at least one person on board, killed. no one injured on the ground. meanwhile, tonight, the faa is also investigating another plane emergency. a passenger jet landing at the airport in seattle on what they thought was the runway. here's abc's kayna whitworth. >> reporter: tonight, an investigation into how an alaska airlines flight could have landed on an active taxiway instead of runway. the 737 aircraft was flying from chicago to seattle earlier this month, when it was cleared for landing and directed to a runway. >> alaska 27, maintain 5,000 to establish localizer. cleared now to approach. >> reporter: but that's not what happened. the plane cleared to land on a runway instead landing there. that's not a runway. it's a taxiway. luckily, nobody was injured during the landing. >> the danger here is now landing on a long strip of concrete. the danger is that actually somebody else might be on that taxi