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

>> 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

homes from destroyed sunday when this 7.1 magnitude quake struck central alaska. it knocked out power for thousands of people. no injuries to tell you about. >>> a manhunt for three escaped california inmates has entered a third day. we're now announcing the first images of the escape from the high security jail in orange county. >> pictures from inside the dorm-style cell show how the inmates escape by cutting holes in the steel grate, climbing through the plumbing and breaking through five other security areas. authorities also released this grainy rooftop surveillance video from the southern california jail. the flashes of light believed to be the inmates. >> we will not stop until these individuals are back in our custody. >> the fbi and u.s. marshals join the search for the three. >> two of them are in custody for attempted murder and one for mayhem, kidnapping, i consider them very dangerous individuals. >> the inmates were last seen friday morning at 5:00 a.m. they weren't discovered missing for 16 hours. >> we are he a depending on the information that is

former alaska governor"that's a great question. i think a lot about the department of energy, because energy is my baby, oil and gas and minerals, those things that god has dumped on this part of the earth for mankind's use. i think a lot if i were head of that, i would get rid of it." presidential candidate"we're gonna give them hell." but the bigger question now is whether palin's endorsement will make a difference. "he got the endorsement of sarah palin. yeah. when he heard, john mccain said, well, then you're all set." conan o'brien aside, for those candidates running against trump, palin's support during their congressional campaigns was no joke. presidential candidate"sarah palin jumped in early and supported rand paul. she supported marco rubio. let me tell you something. i would not be in the u.s. senate today if not for governor sarah palin." congress is full of palin beneficiaries, including arizona's jeff flake and iowa's joni ernst. according to data from open secrets, of the congressional candidates who received the mo

hawaii and alaska. >> alaska had the top spot last year. the aloha state has been number one five times since 2008. the survey coiled from residents across the country included factors such as finances and alaska. >> they pay well for the jobs up there. >> you've got to stay up there in the cold. maryland by the way came in at number 34. virginia was 17th on the list. and for the 7th straight year, west virginia was ranked number 50. >> i've been to hawaii and alaska. they're both beautiful in their own separate ways. i get that. >> but if you had to rank them. >> hawaii number one, alaska number two. >> let's check in with gwen. alaska i would imagine is pretty cold in some parts right now sort of like we are here. >> oh, yes, definitely like we are here. tonight it's going to get even colder. we had some of that snow melting under that fabulous sunshine bee had and our temperatures were close to seasonal. icy spots to talk about. we're also talking about lots of weekend sunshine, the southerly flow returns and what does that mean? saturda

>> 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

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>> and unfortunately that's the case, we went up to alaska to look at permafrost, and we'll have that, after the break. >> celebrity chef, marcus samuelsson. >> i've had the fortune to live out my passion. >> his journey from orphan to entrepreneur. >> sometimes in life, the worst that can ever happen to you can also be your savior. >> and serving change through his restaurants. >> we hired 200 people here in harlem... these jobs can't be outsourced. >> i lived that character. >> we will be able to see change. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. >> welcome back to techknow i'm marita davison here with dr. crystal dilworth and phil torres. now guys here's a s

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

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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

it's on the southern tip of alaska. after graduating from oregon state university, the other o.s.u. -- one of the other o.s.u.'s -- with a bachelor of science in forestry and a minor in economics, milo returned home to serve as that community's indian community director of forestry and land resources. working to protect his hometown for the next 16 years. but after two years with the u.s. forest service, milo moved to fema to serve the national tribal affairs -- as the national tribal affairs advisor, and that's what he does today. in this role, milo works to communicate disaster preparedness to reservations, alaskan native villages and tribes across the country. these communities being some of the most remote and isolated in the country, are also the most at risk in times of disasters. ensuring that these communities are educated and prepared helps protect some of the most vulnerable among us. as the primary fema liaison to indian country, milo booth doesn't just help our native american communities prepare for disaste

but you can go to alaska without going sledding. i had the whole experience in and got the dogs hooked myself. like a full professional team it was a contest experience holding an for dear life. in trying to navigate my way through the trails there is another dog teams or a tree branches but i froze my but off. so to warm-up is my husband and i headed to a natural hot springs in the alaska. everything outside is frozen inside the water is 105 degrees. so nice. >> lights and dogs and hot springs? >> the food? we had buffalo and elk. we did not have to bear. we had reindeer. in the morning and would go down at 330 in the afternoon. you have three half-hour's to get done in the daylight. >> degenerate's that much light and no heat? >> we generated some heat. [laughter]

but you can go to alaska without going sledding. i had the whole experience in and got the dogs hooked up then i was smushing myself. like a full professional team it was a contest experience holding an for dear life. in trying to navigate my way through the trails there is another dog teams or a tree branches but i froze my but off. so to warm-up is my husband and i headed to a natural hot springs in the alaska. everything outside is frozen inside the water is 105 degrees. so nice. >> lights and dogs and hot springs? >> the food? we had buffalo and elk. we did not have to bear. we had reindeer. the sun came up that than 30 in the morning and would go down at 330 in the afternoon. you have three half-hour's to get done in the daylight. >> degenerate's that much light and no heat? >> we generated some heat. [laughter] >> getting a tattoo? ♪ this is a fox 29 news update. >> good morning. i'm fox 29 meteorologist kathy orr. we are going to see a brief warmup across the delaware valley. it's not going to last that long. temperatures wil

they held one in alaska. you know where that is. most of those no it. it was important to do a level of reach out. we came back and rolled up our sleeves, for oversight hearings and began with a real 30,000-foot look about where are we in different energy spaces. so we had our oversight hearing.hearing. then we moved down to six legislative hearings on a total of 100 14 different bills command these were 114 different bills not necessarily introduced by members of the energy committee. these were bills that were introduced by republicans and democrats throughout the senate and some house members bills that we had seen as well. 114 different separate measures. we took the testimony that we received from experts and advocates and private citizens and administration officials and from our home states and just about every other state. we really did that reach out. we gathered all of the perspectives that we could about what congress should do and what congress needs to do to ensure federal policies keep up with the years of change and energy markets and ene

the presiding officer: the senator from the great state of alaska. ms. murkowski: request that proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, we are winding down the day here. we've had a good opportunity for good discussion and debate about the energy policy modernization act. we took votes on three amendments, and we just concluded voice votes on six additional ones on top of the two voice votes that we had had. so we're moving through some of the amendments, and i think that bodes well for us. as i mentioned he recaller he el have an opportunity to hopefully line up a series so that when members come back next week, we all know where we're going to be going and the direction. i wanted to take just a few minutes tonight before we wrap things up to talk about a section in the bill that i believe is very important, not only important to the energy policy modernization act but really very important to our nation as a whole. you and i, mr. president, hai

a plane goes down off prudhoe bay in alaska. and 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 provide

he never flew for alaska after june 20 and he left the company soon ar. we believe he is deserving of the department of justice's actions. he faces up to is a years in prison. >>> a former oklahoma city police officer will spend the rest of his life in prison while sexually assaulting prison while on the job. he was handed a 263-year sentence. victims who made statement at the hearing were grateful. >> thank you. i thank everybody that supported me. because i know i couldn't have did this alone without you guys' help. >> last month a jury convicted hotelclaw on 14 counts of rape and other charges. prosecutors say he targeted pblack women while on the beat in a low income neighborhood. the defense plans to appeal. >>> a top federal environmental official is out of a job over the water crisis in flint, michigan. the head of the epa region that includes michigan will step down february 1st. epa officials were notified of lead contamination last april but failed to offer technical assistance for months. >>> two of the prisoners released in the prison exchange

former alaska governor sarah palin gave donald trump a huge endorsement today. reaction from trump's number one-republican opponent--- ted cruz. thanks for joining us tonight. i'm noah bond. one of the most dangerous intersections in nothern nevada is getting a major makeover. construction crews are demolishing homes near pyramid and mccarran. it's the last step-- before construction begins. kolo 8 news now's catherine van joins us live on nelson way--- with a look at the progress. cat? some of these homes behind me are getting prepped to be torn down in the next couple this project has been a longtime coming and still has a long way to go. neighbors say... they just want r-t-c to get it done. philip: it's just been a mess. crews are wrapping up the last phase of the demolition project. 33 more homes along with three businesses and a church are next in line. most of the neighbors still living along nelson way know the project is necessary... but didn't anticipate how much it would impact their neighborhood. philip: they left it so the yard was not maintained, we

former governor of alaska president of the united states, donald trump. the former alaska governor officialy endorsed the republican frontrunner at a rally in ames iowa. former governor of alaska you're ready for a commander in chief that will let their warriors do their job and go kick isis' ass. ready for someone who will secure our boarders, to secure our jobs and secure our homes. this could be a key turning point for trump in iowa. right now he is deadlocked with ted cruz in a battle to win the february first caucuses. cruz responded to early rumors of palin's endorsement by maintaining his support for the mama grizzly. presidential candidate i love sarah palin, without her friendship and support i wouldn't be in the senate today. this is the second blow to the cruz campaign in iowa. earlier in the day, governor terry branstad called for cruz to be defeated. iowa "he hasn't supported would be a big mistake for iowa to support him." presidential candidate well look, it is no surprise that the establishment is in full panic mode. meanwhile senator john

so many of us have lost our jobs at the alaska."3 shows about alaska." alaska."at the factory or reality shows about alaska." alaska."3 tina fey made a return to the stage to portray sarah palin. she spoofed palin's endorsement speech of donald trump last week during a campaign stop in iowa.fey was energetic and rambled on about trump, america, and the mass media.trump, played by darrell hammond, started out excited about the endorsement but by the end he was ready for fey's speech to end. 3 cam newton wants his teammates to know he's supporting them all on their road to a title this season. season.during warm-ups on sunday, newton wore a special pair of cleats.they had the names and jersey numbers of all his teammates on them.the cleats apparently worked since carolina won the nfc title in commanding fashion.newton had 4 touchdowns and carolina beat the cardinals 49 to 15.the 3 now to weather and traffic every 10 minutes. 3 black ice is possible through the morning with temperatures in the 20s and low 30s. expect mostly sunny skies today with highs low to mid-50

most others know it as some far-away village in alaska.vel of reachout. after our listening sessions, we came back here and really rolled up our sleeves. we held four oversight hearings and began with a real kind of 30,000-foot look about where are we in different energy spaces. so we had our oversight hearings. then we moved down to six legislative hearings on a total of 114 different bills. these were 114 different bills that were not necessarily introduced by just members of the energy committee. these were bills that were introduced by republicans and democrats throughout the senate and some house members' bills that we had seen as well. 114 different separate measures. we took the testimony that we received from experts and advocates and from private citizens and from administration officials and from our home states, and just about overother state. we -- and just about every other state. we really did that reach-out. we gathered all the perspectives that we could about what congress should do and what congress needs to do to ensure t

the parks service men cited one small part of the alaska national interest lands conservation act. the national park service bans hovercrafts on federal property but sturgeon says the river he was hunting on ran thru state lands-. it was within a larger federal land border, though. sturgeon believes the federal rules should not apply. so the court must decide how to treat non -federal land like this. "the case is federal overreach and the government keeping their promises." sturgeon got backing from the state of alaska, the alaskan delegation and multiple native corporations and natural resource groups-- just to name a few. "i've had incredible support from alaskans--- i've raised an incredible amount of money for this case and i've not asked for any of it." the national parks service will argue wednesday morning before the nations highest court that they do have an interest in the land that falls within its borders. and until now the courts have sided with them. reporting at the supreme court -- i'm alex miller. we reached out to the supreme court -- i'm alex miller. we reached ou