this one shares the continental divide with can colorado river. so this is indicative of what happens in spring of 06. the dark bars are what it was on april 01 and this is may one a month later. most of these lost 50 percent of their snow on one month period. many my favorite is went from 176 to normal and 0 percent in one month. this is a spring time warming trend that's quite son certain. this is provided by the national resource office in new port land. the trees are containing the manager's and it's been my pleasure to work with connie and she a long with dave and a few others reconstructed this going back five years and we're looking at a 20 year average dating to about 1500. what's interesting is the tree ring is 13 point 5 acre point feet and historical is 18 point 1. with this no one cares about individual years and what's more important is the run, the sequences of drought and this is where the trees na >> some of them use temperatures and some use global climate models and some both. there are lots of future greenhouse gas predictions.

it's the story of the colorado river and its delta. the river starts in the rocky mountains of my home state of colorado and ends at its delta in mexico. the delta is one of the most important stopovers in the united states and western north america for birds and provides critical habitat to the species. under 1944 treaty, the u.s. gets 90% of the colorado's water and mexico gets 10%, and no water left over for the delta. as a result, the mighty colorado no longer flows to california. the delta that once covered 2 million acres is reduced to 10% of the original size, less than 1%, a tenth of a percent of the water that reached the delta reaches it today, and that water is by accident. it comes from

those are plausible in colorado. the,y axis is number of years in which we get plugs out of records. 78 years. there are two things to catch from this. one, is first of all, the vulnerability of the relative moderate increase of flow in the colorado. a ten percent increase in flow. changes the number of years with uncontrolled spills, floods, from six out of 78 in the data case to 16 out of 78 years some more than doubles the ten percent increase, more than doubles the years you have uncontrolled spills and different colors, blue is little spills and most are red the big ones. sorry the smaller one. you don't get really big spills undercurrent conditions. but when a 20 percent increase in flow your getting more inflows. the system is sincetive to climate. the second important point here is, this whole project. assessing the risk, assuming we operate the system the same way thomas we operating today, we were told when we proposed the project we could not change the operating rules that reservoirs and could not change

it's the story of the colorado river and its delta. the river starts in the rocky mountains of my home state of colorado and ends at its delta in mexico. the delta is one of the most important stopovers in the united states and western north america for birds and provides critical habitat to the species. under 1944 treaty, the u.s. gets 90% of the colorado's water and mexico gets 10%, and no water left over for the delta. as a result, the mighty colorado no longer flows to california. the delta that once covered 2 million acres is reduced to 10% of the original size, less than 1%, a tenth of a percent of the water that reached the delta reaches it today, and that water is by accident. it comes from incidental flows, mostly waste water that runs off the agriculture fields near yuma. as a long term drought in this region continues, we expect that agriculture and cities will become more efficient with their use of water. that's a good thing, but it's also a bad thing for the delta because as agriculture and cities become efficient, in oth

the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: it's my honor to yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentlewoman from hawaii, ms. hirono. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from hawaii is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. ms. hirono: i thank the gentleman from colorado for the time. i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 861, the neighborhood stabilization program termination act, n.s.p. we keep hearing from the other side about wasteful government spending. nothing represents wasteful governme spending re than the continuing bilons and biions of dollars of taxpayer money that we give to big oil, which is making record profits. this bill continues the republican assault on the middle class and working people. for the sake of our mmunities, we cannot afford to terminate n.s.p. by redeveloping foreclosed and abandoned properties, this program is stablizing neighborhoods nationwide. it's not only increases property values but reduces the number of foreclosures. n.s.p. provides a lifeline to struggling families trying to secure affordable

his son cory had 22 points tonight for colorado.on sharpe, no relation there, 89-72, cal finishes 18- 15. their season is over. santa clara, had 1200 people they beat air force and will play the win orphhawaii, scheduled to go tomorrow. villanova's frank wright, excuse me, jay wright, frank is his brother in law, the anchor for channel 2 and the wildcats knocked off by george mason. here we go. villanova with the ball down two. >> fires. off the tom of the backboard. no. george mason. >> that's it. george mason knocks off villanova. one of the few finishes that really had gus yelling. stanford women, the bay area team waving their flag proudy. look here that bronco -- excuse me the stanford women. they, of course, are perennial final four team. ranked second in the nation. they have to get through uc davis first and they will be lucky to host the first two games if they keep winning. >> we know that we need to play against any team and no matter what the seed is, i think our team is very aware of that. and is not going to take any t

i grew up in colorado springs outside of ft. carson published a large army base that had around 32,000. when i was growing up in the 80s and had a lot of friends doing military families they are getting deployed generally meant they be spending. it was not a bad gig when i was in colorado springs as and adult i started working for a newspaper in colorado springs and been deployed meant going to the sunni triangle to the sunni triangle to the sunni triangle pesch river valley, places that you send a fairly good chance of dying every day. it is not something that i ever knew about were it was my job to know about. my job at the newspaper had the sweetest gig in the world. they hired me and there was a job today in colorado. they hired me as their ski writer. and in the summary do things like mountain biking and climbing mountains. essentially my job was to write about how to enjoy yourself in the rocky mountains and people who do it particularly well, which was great. and then these murders started. fort carson had one murder and

. >> the intake is from the entire colorado basin. this is all the way to mexico. this makes california water look a little bit simple. in the sense that the compact that governs how water is established and how it assumes 16 million feet come out of that system. the people who depend on that are wondering why the lake is at its all-time levels and why when they spend this money to get to the intake down below those levels where it is out now. they know they need to do it. the question is is a little bit of an irrelevant link. >> those people don't have homes. that is the other issue. i just wondered what of the comparison was them. why this was a comparable model. >> in the sense of their water system, this has 8 states that get their water. we have our own self-contained, largely paid for project that has all of the advantage is that it has and our ability to control it completely on like colorado and the delta. because of the way that the drought has occurred in the southwest and in the colorado basin, it leads us to think about how drought might change for us a

the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: it's my honor to yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentlewoman from hawaii, ms. hirono. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from hawaii is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. ms. hirono: i thank the gentleman from colorado for the time. i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 861, the neighborhood stabilization program termination act, n.s.p. we keep hearing from the other side about wasteful government spending. nothing represents wasteful government spending more than the continuing billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money that we give to big oil, which is making record profits. this bill continues the republican assault on the middle class and working people. for the sake of our communities, we cannot afford to terminate n.s.p. by redeveloping foreclosed and abandoned properties, this program is stablizing neighborhoods nationwide. it's not only increases property values but reduces the number of foreclosures. n.s.p. provides a lifeline to struggling families trying to secure

the colorado river is in it's 7th year of drought and record low levels on the reservoirs. the other ss get water from california. which wildly fluctuates. so i think i don't gamble i just work in california water. you get the same sensation of putting it on the line all the time. we have a large capitol improvement program and it's part of the analysis and it mately the response we have done to some of these challenges. let me show you where our transmission line is. we go from the northern border to the mexican border. three thousand miles of pipe. it's now about 13 feet in diameter and we serve 3 point 2 million people a year and serve an economy of billions. there is my life. you are here. there i am. i'm that corner at the bottom of the pipes in a really bright orange yellow area. we get an average of 8 inches of rain per year. so we - there is very little we can do related to rain fall and local run off. our strategies have to be radically different than strategies that edward and chuck have sitting in portland and seattle and i think if there's anything you take away

i started working for the colorado springs gazette. and being deployed met going to the sunni triangle or going to the pashtun river valley, places that standard fairly good chance of dying every day. it's not something that i ever knew about or it was my job to know about at the newspaper. my job at the newspaper, i thought i had this we skied in the world. they hired me, and there actually is a job for this in colorado. they hired me as their ski rider. [laughter] and in the summer i did things like mountain biking, climbing mountains and thing like that. essentially my job was to write about how to enjoy yourself in the rocky mountains. and people who do it particularly well. which is great. and then these murders started. fort carson had one murder and then another and another. strange murders and murders that were strange not in the way that they happen, but because when you looked for reasons it was very little reason for that to happen. and at the newspaper we dutifully reported it. as these things would happen. this was set up

now as blair griffith was colorado two thousand and eleven.

we tend to not have them dry at the same time it's one of our primary areas or defenses, we get colorado okay okay, north california, and local in our south california region that supplies almost half the water we use and then through one of our member agencies city of los angeles the east si' ras and this year is it's becoming depress ingly clear and 07' is shaping up that all of them are well below normal. every single area. hoping that it's not a trend and a depressing state for me as my first years general manager. , brad will talk first hand he's on the faculty of university of colorado the director of university water assessment and was one of the great names in western law and politics. our next speaker doctor dan will repeat that entire lunchtime presentation except he'll talk really fast and do it in ten minutes. our third speaker barry nelson, codirector of national resources defense council and working on an interesting project water law

we tend to not have them dry at the same time it's one of our primary areas or defenses, we get colorado okay okay, north california, and local in our south california region that supplies almost half the water we use and then through one of our member agencies city of los angeles the east si' ras and this year is it's becoming depress ingly clear and 07' is shaping up that all of them are well below normal. every single area. hoping that it's not a trend and a depressing state for me as my first years general manager. , brad will talk first hand he's on the faculty of university of colorado the director of university water assessment and was

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. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com >>> could his ex shake up barry bonds's trial? the ex-mistress takes the stand what she could say about the signs of steroids abuse. >>> what president obama is expected to say about america's future in libya tonight in a speech. >>> good morning. thanks for joining us on this monday, the 28th day of march. i'm sydnie kohara. >> hi, everybody. i'm frank mallicoat. it's 5:00 straight up. in honor of this lovely weather we're having this week we decided to bring everyone upstairs. >> this will be permanent. >> and celebrate. >> the gang is all here. and we have sunshine. >> hey it works. >> i'm jealous. so let's start off with some weather and some golden rays out there. >> we have been giving frank a hard time. ever since he arrived we have seen rain pretty much every day. >> it's over. >> so my question, are you going on vacation on wednesday and thursday?

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. >>> caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >>> a top of the morning to you, folks! it is thursday, march 17. happy st. patrick's day. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm sydnie kohara. thanks so much for joining us. your time is 5:30 let's start with a quick check of your weather and traffic before you go to work or to one of the lawrence pubs. >> a little early for that! [ laughter ] >> if you have to, folks, it's looking mostly dry so far around the bay area. the one exception, we have this little wave of energy right there. that is going to bring with it a chance of some showers north of the golden gate bridge. otherwise looking good after that, though. friday we have another storm brewing. we'll talk more about that in a minute. right now the let's check on traffic with elizabeth. >> okay. things are still looking great. live at the san mateo bridge, westbound and eastbound 92 off the high-rise looking great about 13 minutes across the span between hayward and the peninsula. elsewhere, golden gate bridge

in the big sky, northern colorado. the northeast, n.e.c. jamal olasewere had 31 points for long island. the red raiders wearing white, playing at home. taking on two-time defending conference champions robert morris. and it's liu surviving a scare in overtime. but advancing to the ncaa tournament for the first time since 1997, with a three-point win. >>> i'm steve bunin. that does it for this espn news update. >>> tina fey may be a dead-ringer. but the gig goes to actress julianne moore. moore will play sarah palin in

a 12-year-old colorado boy is in custody, accused of killing his parents. >>> and deadline day for pro football. the contract between the nfl players union and team owners the contract between the nfl players union and team owners expires at midnight. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. investigators in germany are trying to figure out why a gunman opened fire on a busload of u.s. airmen, killing two, and seriously wounding two others. it happened yesterday at the frankfurt airport. the suspect is an employee at that airport. charlie d'agata has the latest. >> reporter: the two u.s. airmen killed wednesday had not even made it to the battlefield. they were with 11 other military personnel on this bus outside the frankfurt, germany, airport, when the gunman opened fire. police say the suspect, 21-year-old arid uka is a citizen of kosovo, an airport employee and a devout muslim. they say he had argued with the airmen outside the terminal before pulling out a handgun and trying to board the bus. police say he shot and killed the d

high waters wreak havoc in california, while colorado fire crews battle wind-driven wildfires. >>> and bracket busters. march madness lives up to its name. as the sweet 16 kicks off with name. as the sweet 16 kicks off with some major upsets. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody. and thanks for joining us, i'm betty nguyen. this morning we are learning more about the extent of the damage at japan's fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, and the news is not good. japanese nuclear safety officials say the core of one of the reactors may have been breached. but it appears to be limited. now if that is true, uncontrolled quantities of radioactivity could have been released into the surrounding air and ground. the reactor in question is number 3. on march 14th, a powerful hydrogen explosion damaged the outer containment building. the reactor holds 170 tons of radioactive fuel in its core. work has been stopped at reactors 1 through 3 at the fukushima power plant. >>> it's now been two weeks since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck japan's northeastern coast. hundreds of

the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. i want to thank senator alexander for his leadership over so many years on education issues confronting this country and making sure that every child in america has the opportunity to fulfill their full potential, and for his work on this bipartisan effort to do something very, very unusual for government and also for public education, which is actually the -- to begin an inquiry about not what the next rule should be, not what the next regulation should be, but whether there are rules and regulations that are now obsolete or whether our state regulations and our federal regulations are actually not accounting for each other in any way other than to overburden the people that are actually teaching our kids and our kids themselves. i used -- you know, i used to spend a lot of time when i was the superintendent of denver public schools wondering why everyone in washington was so mean to our teachers and so mean to our kids. and now that i've been here a

colorado gets their point across ending cal's season, 89-72, the final.lara moving on by eliminating se ining air force. welcoming the warriors, hugging, bumping into guys like monta ellis who got so mixed up he got into the turnover act. 21 turnovers for the warriors. phoenix gets out to an early lead. the wright three makes it a ten-point game. that's as close as it would get. final points, an exclamation point from vince carter. the suns beat the warriors, 108-97. >>> spring training but it's still a rivalry. the giants hosting the dodgers today in scottsdale. you know, we wish there were some fireworks to show you. but all we've got is this guy nearly blocking jeff suppan. the plans for first still unfolding. now juan uribe, the victim of a suppan strikeout, one of two ks in his start. mota giving up two more. the dodgers beat the giants, 6-3. we would have showed you a's highlights but that would have been cruel, 18-1. >>> pounding the rock tonight, mark grieb to chad cook. the buzzer beater at the tank. the bracket buster comes on the kickoff return

collins, colorado. >> story so difficult to hear. we want to bring in dr. marie savard, an abc news contributor. and i know you have three sons, all young athletes. you are so versed on this. i wanted to look at this animation of the heart tonight. and it starts out as a heart that's normally beating. >> that's right. sudden cardiac death goes from a normally beating heart to a very rapid beating heart and then an erratically beating heart and it stops, often because there's an underlining, a congenital condition, as we're learning in this case tonight, perhaps a heart disorder that wasn't yet discovered. >> so the parents had no idea. >> that's right. >> which leads to your checklist tonight. they're going to hear what they do in italy, the ekgs, many parents will want to ask for one. what's the recommendation on that? >> the american heart association recommends two things. first, that all kids before athletic programs, and then repeated every two years, have a focused history, where they talk about a family history, talk about early heart disease before

the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i thank the gentleman from utah for the time. mr. speaker, now more than ever it's critical that we focus our efforts on creating jobs, continuing to stabilize our economy in the housing market. i'm happy to say there's some good news on that front. just last month, mr. speaker, it was reported we added 192,000 jobs, an that unemployment dipped below 9% for the first time in almost two years. we're talking about private sector jobs. this was due in part to the recovery efforts that were passed in the 111th congress and signed by the president. now, however, instead of building on the successes of the previous congress and introducing legislation to continue this economic growth, my colleagues were seeking to pull the plug and return us to policies that got us into this economic mess. instead of talking about on the floor of the house creating jobs, republican leadership is focused on repealing the patient bill of rights, passing h.r. 1, a spending bill that chairman bernanke st

[applause] our fourth panelist hails from colorado where she served in the state house and then six years in the u.s. house of representatives. marilyn muss grave now takes her 100% pro-life record to the susan b antony lift where she is spokes person. and their nearly 300,000 members are cate to electing pro-life women as well as the issues criminal in front of our country from obama care to federal funding aff planned parenthood. please give a warm welcome to marilyn. [applause] and now i'd like to ask each of the panelists to take about four or five minutes and take the podium from me, and introduce the subject of this panel. thank you.

but colorado led by three at the break. he injured his knee in the second half while buffalo's cory higgins caught fire. he is from danville and the son of former warrior rod. but you want to see this colorado's shannon sharp. shannon, you're so vicious. shannon sharp and the buffaloes win 89-72. cal finishes the season 18-15. >>> also tonight santa clara stayed alive in the less impressive college insider better known as cit. broncos beat air force 88-75. >>> two pac 10 teams survived in the dramatic ncaa. charlotte and 7th seeded washington. runs right through the georgia defenders. wilcox could have put the game away by making this free-throw. but no georgia gets the rebound one last chance for a three pointer. he can't convert. number 10 georgia is beat 68- 65. >>> in cleveland today the 8th seeded georgia mason in the white injuries veries take on villanova. pats take it at 28 seconds left. what kind of shot is that? that's not even close. george mason hands develop in a nova the 6th straight loss. mike morrison a nast

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dave is working with colorado springs utilities and others including at least one here in california the short answer is absolute . but are they great? no. but we have to start using them. >> we typically rely on models we get to create in terms of what we think demand and that drives what we build and design things. we have taken into perspective climate change but it's a different challenge in the white water side of the business that have to rely on councils and governments because of population growth and often times their relying on funds that come through the federal funds and their held and bound to using certain models and criteria. so it's getting very complicated when you go into regional planning to flood control to water and all the sets and different for legal reasons as apposed scientific. >> the problem is not the models. there are plenty of models. we have lots of tools. the problem i would argue, is not even the scenarios. there is problems with precipitation. i think the problem is politics and management decisions about who's going to take responsibility for changi