dante chinni, 30 seconds left, and what do you hope to see out of these numbers that will help you in your research in understanding the coming year? >> i would love to see the geographic slice. we're talking when we have a lot of speculation of what we think is going on, and i would like to know, at least get a sense of where this is going, because then we can tie more closely to what we're seeing. >> i would like to thank my guests, ellen meara, dante chinni, a partnership with the wall street journal, and news hour, and david weir, director of health and retirement study on the michigan center for the demography of aging. i'll be back in a moment with a final thought on expectations. stay with us, it's "inside story" and send us your thoughts on twitter@aj inside the reef am. or follow me and get in touch at ray suarez news, or follow us on facebook to tell us what you think is affecting the mortality rate among white americans. we would love to hear from you. >> people have had a hard time seeing their economic circumstances as something more than temporary. whereas factors that c

professor anne case at princeton and dante chinni here in washington.eciate it. >> thanks. >> thanks very much. >> ifill: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: the middle east conflict, 20 years after an israeli prime minister's assassination; and actor jeff daniels trades in the big apple for the midwest. but first, natural gas is often considered a cleaner fuel than coal. it emits about half as much carbon dioxide. but the main component in natural gas is another greenhouse gas: methane. as special correspondent kathleen mccleery explains, that's why both environmentalists and the energy industry are trying to find ways to capture leaks from oil and gas facilities. >> reporter: you can't see it with the naked eye, but methane gas is escaping into the air around this well pad in northwestern new mexico. >> oh yeah, oh boy, blowing up off the side of it here. >> reporter: you can see the methane, along with other emissions, with the help of an infrared camera. this one operated by the environmental group, earthworks. >> there's a lot of leaking comin