down the colorado river about nine miles to the west of silt is the town of rifle. fully out then on thought. this is one of the one was. this is before. the problems before with the rifle this is right in the tree and when you marry like a hundred years. it's been a worse fifteen years i'm fifty four says fifty nine. to use his tunes to. turn the tradition. in one thousand nine hundred three chris and steve move all the decided to leave california to move to colorado we both got laid off from our work because we both volunteered to be laid off because we wanted to get out of california move to colorado where it was beautiful and clean air and clean water they found themselves in garfield county looking for a new home there's critics. in nineteen ninety five a bought their dream house a fixer upper in a rural neighborhood outside rifle range with a place and we plan to stay there for. it was shortly after chris and steve moved in the drilling rigs began to appear on some of their neighbors land and in the surrounding hills and everything changed. crisper get in the

half of the state of colorado or more sense about the gas pairings known and so. this is an issue that will be with us for many many years to come in the decisions that we make today are going to define. how this will all transpire over the next twenty years. i hope the people of this state i hope the people estate look at the fact that today we have a whole supply thousand wells have been drilled that's just in the northwestern area and if you look down the road fifteen years and you've got three hundred sixty thousand wells sixty thousand wells put in said to. williams i'm going to have to respect. it purchase your project. or start looking over your back to like. you'd like to know that. we experienced. it you know it radio. over record our person this week you performed i don't know if you were the best year ever and thank you for your great . as in the rocky mountains the growth of domestic drilling is beginning to impact people and places across america in ways never imagined oil companies are seeking new leases in thirty two states since ninety nine hundred

in colorado oil and gas conservation commission tested the water well and found methane. said it was safe but they warned the amasis to keep a window open so the methane gas wouldn't build up here and cause an explosion in their home they amos's stopped drinking the water but continued to bathe in it she later found out that a chemical that had been used in the two thousand and one fracking has been linked to adrenal gland tumors. when she went to end canada they denied using it on that well or any other months later the oil and gas commission admittedly that it had been used after all. after years of mounting medical bills devalued property and diminishing options laura agreed to a monetary settlement with and canada corp. aeration the company responsible for her problems. the settlement stipulated she stopped telling her story publicly which is why she was not interviewed for this film many family stories like hers will never be told because of company settlements that require silence. let's go over the trampoline in spite of her well explosion and fire he hofmeister hi

in the two colorado communities profiled in this film the impact has been profound. there is a record of at least nine dry hole families who formally complained about the drilling and they have moved away. some were afraid some were sick all were exhausted by their fight with the industry. chris and steve have seen the same thing in their neighborhood in rifle i think almost all of our neighbors have . people that occupy their houses. people who work for the world. there's a growing resistance on the part of people who live in the path of dream and. see that living with this development has affected our lives in nearly every way imaginable with no other recourse some landowners have become activists. i think there's no question that people are getting sick from the environmental effects of oil and gas exploration and production throughout the united states and what's striking is when you ask them what their symptoms are it's the same one area. that is in another area. overland gas states like new mexico and colorado are caught between intense pressure from the federa

november's election here in colorado, obama won colorado by nine buttons 54% of the vote. the unemployment rate here is 7.8%, well below the national average. chris cillizza is an msnbc contributing editor and managing editor of post politics.com. and joins me from washington. a lot is focused on the west and particularly on colorado. what are the prospects here for team obama versus mitt romney assume he's the nominee? >> what's interesting, so in 2000 and 2004, george w. bush won colorado. president obama won it convincingly in 2008. in the 2010, we note 2010 very good election nationally for republicans but democrats, including the guy you're going to interview, john hickenlooper, when he won the governship, michael bennett won re-election. so it was a little bit of a counter weight in the west because nevada the same way. good democratic wins in nevada. so we don't know the is the answer. i think suburban denver, jefferson county, we're going to be looking closely at it. but you are in the right place because i think if you're talking about the swingiest of swing state

drilling in colorado is heading there's new information about the effect it will truly on your. you know he's a secret lover it sure makes him a kirby was able to build a car needs most sophisticated road looks which on frigidly doesn't give enjoying the sound anything changed.

mines here wyoming colorado new mexico utah the dream is happening all over the country there's oil and gas operations in thirty two states right now but the rocky mountain states are really seeing the vast majority of the expansion. and it's overflowing into communities where people are seeing this right in their backyards . oh sure you were they wanted to put this location one of the first places that they want to put it surprise you and say we have three well out there you don't have nice indeed. split estate situation it is when somebody who owns the surface of their land does not own their resources their underneath their land for example oil and gas or other minerals a private person could own a house with land and the federal government or another private individual might on the resources under it the person who owns the oil and gas has rights to access that well and gas which means that whoever owns the surface probably can't control what happens on their own property but always just one middle mile fell field i believe this this they represent their outer boundary. of they're.

colorado would have a significant -- pretty much every state in the country would benefit. you look at the companies based in silicon valley. they have offices, you want to expand your business, think about those young people in colorado. everything -- stated say the same thing. that money would get spent over the country very rapidly. >> thank you. governor brown. >> it is a good idea to bring back that $1 trillion sitting out there. how to do that, it remains to be seen. but then that will require some other

we want to see it in colorado. what we want to do is create a competitive and ferment over the whole country where we're trying to accelerate these entrepreneurs. >> this has been delightful. what a wonderful conversation. thank you both. i cannot think of two better governors. >> thank you. what a great job you did. [applause] >> governor brown, governor hickenlooper, please do not leave the stage. innovation is not popular in government. i did not get the nickname governor moonbeam by being conventional. we were give reminded that the best time to invest, 20 years ago, second best time, today. what great leaders, both of these dynamics state's half. we wanted to thank you both with just a small token of our appreciation and our deep appreciation as well to barbara of the san jose "mercury news." i know you cannot accept gifts. >> i would want to report that. >> we're hoping that sutter can accept a gift, the first dog. governor? [applause] and governor hickenlooper, your dear friend and our dear friend, dan gordo

i see the colorado plateau. this bowl is from american museum of natural history and that's where it is now. that's the storage place. where it was from before is pueblo bonito in chaco canyon where there were rooms filled to the ceiling with bowls stacked within each other, bowls like this. all their designs, you can kind of get a glimpse around this. they have this flawless symmetry blending all the way around. it looks like that place. it looks like that landscape. i look into this and i see the sharp edges of the land. i see the way the earth is shaped out there. i see the routes in their vessels. i mean, to understand these, this one came out of a 13th century site in southwest colorado and i would sit with these bowls for hours and hours, drawing them into my sketch book because that was the only way i could really understand the complexity of how they got their symmetries to match up because i could never get them to match up in my drawings. i could never do a 100 percent accurate rendition of these becau

for rural colorado the dairy industry has ban tremendous success story. over the next few years colorado is bringing in tens of thousands of more cows in its position to double its dairy output. this growth in colorado's dairy industry comes from our producers and manufacturers responding to market opportunities overseas. in fact, madam chair, this is happening all over the the country. i'm holding a recent article from the "wall street journal" that highlights how the dairy cooperative in california in response to a slow u.s. market invested in processing infrastructure to supply china's growing middle class with milk. i'd like to submit the article for the record. >> without objection. >> thank you. the products may be going overseas but the jobs are created in our rural communities. while i don't plan to offer my amendment for a stand-alone margin insurance program i strongly support this growth-oriented approach to risk management for dairy. i know we have regional differences here, and i respect that, but i hope to continue to work with you and other

today's concern in colorado with thunderstorms, eastern colorado will push up in south dakota, nebraska during the day with areas of heavy rain and thunderstorms. even kansas city late today has a chance of storms. we take all the rain and push it saturday through the ohio valley, chicago a chance of rain. even washington, d.c., that same area is going to be the funnel, as we go in sunday more rain possible back here in the midwest. interesting upcoming weekend. for many areas. if you're watching us in boston, relive boston's burlesque area through displays of costumes at vintage costumes of burlesque at the west end museum. >> that is some costume. all the feathers. there you go, something for halloween, bill. >>> nice. >>> an early look at headlines in entertainment news. several films should spice up the battle at the box office. jason segel and emily blunt star "in the five year engagement "most experts see it finishing on top with 18 to 20 million. last weekend's champ "think like a man" is expected to take in 15 million in second. but the experts under rated it last weekend. >> th

than any other state in the country. -- colorado more than any other state in the country. we want to make sure they are employed in innovative companies that have an opportunity for full education and research. there has to be a culture fun -- from the federal grant all the way down in research. they should hammer out what the appropriate compromise is to repatriate all those overseas profit corporations are not putting back into our or economy. the largest beneficiary would be california. we want to see what the cutting edge is. most of a still look for california. -- loomost of us still look to california. what governor brown said about the traditional politics is all about taking the thing in making it fresh. to a certain extent, i tried to be a writer in college. i failed miserably. a professor said everything has been set but not everything has been said superbly. even if it had, everything must be said freshly again and again. you have to see a fresh lead to a certain extent. the real issue with -- in terms of asking

that's the story of healthcare at this "grand junction" of colorado rivers...about everybody's covered, costs are controlled, and outcomes are excellent. which makes you wonder -- if this typical american town can do that, why can't every town do it? we went back to leafy new hampshire to ask the scholars at dartmouth... we liked what we saw in grand junction, but it's a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. are there big cities doing this, too? oh, i think thnorthwest, you know, seattle, for example, is really a pretty remarkable community. ♪ seattle, washington, where the space needle towers over puget sound, and you can ski either on snow or water, has a slightly higher median income than the national average. the town has spawned some local companies you've probably heard of... it has also spawned far-reaching innovations in healthcare delivery. this region has traditionally embraced co-ops -- that is, businesses owned by their customers. a famous one is group health cooperative, which treats about 600,000 people, but with a structure that's really different

you've made it clear in your advocacy for what used to happen for colorado. and we're going to continue to work with you and appreciate all of your advocacy on that regard, as well. >> well, thanks to that, madam chair. and i -- i want to say thank you to you and the ranking member in a different way. over the last 18 months, i've done over 20 farm bill listening sessions across colorado, from cortez to lamar and meeker. and when people ask me in these places, what is wrong with you people, why can't you work together, i have the opportunity to point to the bipartisan work of this committee, as an example of how we should be approaching our work all across the united states senate. and particularly with respect to the deficit reduction that's been in this bill. this committee has shown extraordinary leadership and it would not have happened without, madam chair or the ranking members. so thank you for setting an example for the rest of the congress. i also want to thank your staff very much. both the chairwoman and the ranking committee. they worked with me i

in colorado's third district. appreciate your time. do you think congressman tipton's campaign manager slipped or was he just being honest? >> you know, ed, gas prices are high. unemployment is high. coloradoens are hurting. however, scott tipton wants -- it's appalling, his campaign wants to use this pain and suffering for personal political gain and advantage. this isn't the way it's supposed to work. scott tipton and his campaign should apologize for making light of people's pain and suffering for their own advantage. we asked folks to steign our petition on our website to ask for congress to focus on creating jobs instead of celebrating people's pain and suffering. >> has this guy done anything as a representative to make life better for folks in colorado? i mean, has he accomplished anything in this last term? >> this seems like more of the washington way of doing things. as you know, washington is gridlocked. they're not working on trying to create jobs and our own district in pueblo, colorado, we risk losin

it's the most secure state prison in colorado.ocked up in their cells 23 hours per day. >> i'm just trying to stay mentally prepared to sit back and be locked down for the next two, three years. >> several days after a visit with his family, hall has received a letter from his mother. small comfort for what lies ahead. >> jonathan, you're not a bad person. you just have gotten confused. life threw too many curveballs at you. just keep god in your heart and things will get better. they will. maybe not the way you want, but better. i'm so glad i had you. you're very important in my life. it's good to hear [ bleep ] like this. this remind me that people out there care. they're still thinking about me. they're still just keeping me in their heart. i don't know if this prison's gonna eat me alive. if i'm going to end up -- if this prison's gonna be the death of me. >> while hall faces many more years in prison, ray slagle only has eight weeks left until his release. but first, he has a long, overdue visit. >> i haven't seen my daughter

his work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. the book, house of rain, is craig's latest book. please help me welcome craig childs. . >> hello. i come to you from out of the desert. i'm coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people

it is a clear shape from the colorado plateau. we do see it in calinke, you see it in certain incan sites in south america. so it might be a pan american feature. i'm not sure what it is. some hopi people have told me that the t, the bottom of the t, goes down into a mythical underground lake so this is an upside down mountain that leads down into a place called the house of rain. that is where twyla, probably oldest american deity, the rain deity, lives down in the house of rain and this is a t shape from up on the colorado plateau and that is the last picture on these slides, so -- the t shape, the pottery, i followed genetic information that you find in bones and teeth. i followed as many different pieces of information as i could and they sent me walking. i started in chaco canyon and walked north up to mesa verde, around to comb ridge in utah, down into the hopi mesa, across the mugion rim, to mexico and then into the sierra madre, following people, following routes. because everything in the desert leaves a route that leads

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>> we live in colorado springs, colorado. >> what do you do today? >> i teach at the united states air force academy. been there since 1993. and i'm a professor of history there. >> first -- >> first of the permanent civilian in the history department. in '93 congress had mandated that the military academy particularly west point and the air force academy, hire a certain percentage of their permanent faculty as civilians. no -- not necessarily military experience. for a variety of reasons, and i was one of those first who came in. now there's 20, 25 and 30% of the faculty there are civilians. >> how many courses do you teach a semester? >> two, usually. two. >> how big are the classes? >> they're very small. that is one of the things that attracted me there. i have not taught a class with over 20 people in years. usually between 10 and 15. >> what's the number now between men and women? >> women, the numbers have increased. i believe it's over 20% now. when i first started, it hovered around 10% to 15% but now i think it's 20%. >> but in henry clay's

i'm sure you've heard, personhood is back in the colorado. it is. as you know, 2008, it was defeated overwhelmingly. and in 2010, they gained three points. still, defeated overwhelmingly. after the victory, keith mason of personhood usa, who is the leader, put out a press statement comparing himself to susan b. anthony and her campaign for women's suffrage in south dakota. and like her campaign, that was unpopular at first, but slowly started to gain and slowly started to gain, he will come back and fight for the unborn. and anyone who does this work is very familiar that colorado it's kind of easy to get a ballot initiative on. it's very low threshold. there's not a lot of laws. what they did this year, they rewrote the title. so before mississippi, there's what i like to call personhood classic, which is just the basic language, life begins at conception. life begins at fertilization. and what they found themselves -- because colorado is a little bit more pro choice than mississippi. so what they found themselves in mississippi -- they weren't --

you look at colorado. i mentioned colorado. there is just the states in different areas of the country. there are going to be a lot of latino votes. not so much in ohio. it's going to be a lot of this fought out demographicly. we're seeing that. you know and there is different demographic group autos you've dune a lot of social media and it will be a big factor. but you look at the enthusiasm in young voters compared to 2008 for president obama. it's really down. >> yes it's going into the polls it s i would not underestimate the obama campaign's ability to build a network among young people, they've done it before and they're doing you now. there is i think that could be a way to run bodies on the streets that people are not counting on. >> and if you're in the romney campaign what are you doing now? what is the strategy? >> start going after women hispanic voters and catholic voters. whoever wins catholic vote is basically going win this election. >> how do you do this? >> talk about issues they're concerned about. white hous

you look at colorado. i mentioned colorado. there is just the states in different areas of the country. there are going to be a lot of latino votes. not so much in ohio. it's going to be a lot of this fought out demographicly. we're seeing that. you know and there is different demographic group autos you've dune a lot of social media and it will be a big factor. but you look at the enthusiasm in young voters compared to 2008 for president obama. it's really down. >> yes it's going into the polls it s i would not underestimate the obama campaign's ability to build a network among young people, they've done it before and they're doing you now. there is i think that could be a way to run bodies on the streets that people are not counting on. >> and if you're in the romney campaign what are you doing now? what is the strategy? >> start going after women hispanic voters and catholic voters. whoever wins catholic vote is basically going win this election. >> how do you do this? >> talk about issues they're concerned about. white hous

>> right off the bat, 1922, the colorado river compact divvied up the water.r temperatures, so less water overall in the system. you go from 10 million people 5 million people up to 30 million people today with a projected 50 million people living in a watershed by 2025 we have a real problem. >> in the end do you end up fearing that you have a dry riverbed? >> if you go down to the gulf of california, go down to the colorado river delta. it's dry. there is maybe 5% of a former wet land area that was one of the most significant wet land areas in north america, and it is now a dessert. >> we have been talking about the impact of climate change because of population growth and the use of the water probably in addition to the warming of the planet. what in the end can people do? what can happen to be able to mitigate this? >> right. the good news is that there's a tremendous amount of waste right now. there's a lot of low-hanging fruit within the river watershed system that can be addressed agriculture could change the way they irrigate. you have individual consu

you look at colorado. i mentioned colorado. there is just the states in different areas of the country. there are going to be a lot of latino votes. not so much in ohio. it's going to be a lot of this fought out demographicly. we're seeing that. you know and there is different demographic group autos you've dune a lot of social media and it will be a big factor. but you look at the enthusiasm in young voters compared to 2008 for president obama. it's really down. >> yes it's going into the polls it s i would not underestimate the obama campaign's ability to build a network among young people, they've done it before and they're doing you now. there is i think that could be a way to run bodies on the streets that people are not counting on. >> and if you're in the romney campaign what are you doing now? what is the strategy? >> start going after women hispanic voters and catholic voters. whoever wins catholic vote is basically going win this election. >> how do you do this? >> talk about issues they're concerned about. white hous

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