gas. find out what they did to deserve this prize and how you can claim it. >>> and capitol congestion. how bad is d.c. traffic? we'll show you the results of the study and why your commute could get worse. good morning, everyone. i'm barbara harrison. >> good morning to you. i'm joe krebs on this wednesday, the eighth day of july, 2009. let's first check on the traffic and weather. >> tom keirein is here with us, as always. >>> a beautiful summer morning underway. there's the gorgeous full moon nowhe and t sky ed in owblhos swing .upup ira ot nng swiho atecarip aion ou gihend.on wen ure ihe tpper 60s for prince george's hecounty. her to nhefathor inthhe t 50r ups. around the bay, we are in the low 70s. the mid-60s on the midshore. onshower has moved out to sea and is dissipating. by 9:00, the mid-70s. by noon, near 80. during the afternoon, the mid-80s with low humidity. a wonderful summer day. enjoy. i'll have the forecast for tomorrow in ten minutes. >> okay. we'll enjoy it, i'm sure. >

we need a strategy to use less oil and more natural gas.art of my capitalist manifesto was to rule out gas-powered cars. i'm not alone, i got people who are smarter than i am on the team. richard tinder, a guy who understands the energy business than anybody else in this country wrote a piece that caught my eye in the houston chronicle earlier this month advocating natural gas and nuclear power as solutions to climate change. tinder makes the point that accelerated wind and solar power won't do much to curb emissions. they may be as clean as a whist whistle, but right now, it's just 1.6 of our energy needs. natural gas, on the other hand, is the cleanest fossil fuel, much cleaner than oil. it's cheap, and we're sitting on top of enormous amounts of it. it would be much easier to roll out a transition fuel than solar. natural gas would do more to reduce our co 2 emissions that punishing all fossil fuels. this country has pipe lines for natural gas all across the country. he knows what's feasible, and that's what i want to talk with him about

the gas lines are with a pregnant woman attacked in a los angeles -- line, but people murdered in gas lines, sometimes they will take their casting clocks and when someone cuts in front of them to try to get ahead it will russia and open their gas tank but their lock on, and drive away to the person can get gas into their own car. these places are crazy and the gas lines are crazy and chaotic. in addition you have a truckers' strike in as you can imagine independence truckers, not unionized workers who are upset with the limited supply of diesel fuel and rising cost of diesel fuel. these two, the strike also turns violent. let me give a brief glimpse of the truckers' strike turned out to be. the truckers started to sink rivals out of their sleeping compartments as visit -- vigilante bounced a cold and on june 18 the man was shot and wounded in tennessee were refusing to join the strike of his later governors declared states of emergency because 29 trucks have been shot of and when shells smashed and tires brought in by bullets. on june 19 the minnesota damage a clear set of emergency

in fact, about 12% of america's transit buses are fueled by natural gas. but the energy department stopped funding research on natural gas engines. that would change under senate bill 1408 which extends or expands tax credits for the purchase or manufacture of natural gas vehicles. >> because of near extraction techniques, we have 35% more accessible natural gas than we did two years ago. >> reporter: both democrats and republicans are pushing for adoption of the bill to spur natural gas vehicles. so is t. boone pickens who is betting on wind energy. although as the cost of gasoline has dropped compared to last year, he has had to scale back some of the bigger wind powered projects. john henrehan, fox 5 news. >>> if fema doesn't get a better plan for housing after a catastrophe, the government is. [ inaudible ] they say fema puts too much faith in temporary trailers and no plan to get people into real homes. fema says it is supposed to be a temporary fix. 3,000 families are still in trailers from katrina. >> well, your pick of the day. it was as -- markete

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and he wound up at gas prom in a prominent position. and the russian adherence to the rule of law became a big issue in the elections that lead to the election of mrs. murkol that's critical of russia in the rule of law. it more symbolizes what was happening for a two to 2-1/2 year period. >> second question? >> yeah, i can take a stab. and this system has been trying to create more of a balance between russia and west and china. i think he's weary of russia influence in neighboring companies. one of the reasons i think he didn't want to tie himself too close to the csto. and there is criticism of janav and that russia brings countries that are ostracized by the west and for that fear, we will help maintain you, we will help to maintain your system without rocking the boat. but if you go too quickly to the west, you don't know what they are up to. i think he's smart enough to realize what the russians are up to, but it's a difficult system to balance. >> back over here. >> hi, anthony king, i am a student at santa barbara. this question

a 6-inch gas main was struck this afternoon. gas and fire have been on the scene since. the major impact has been not only the main road closure. but it has affected both amtrak and csx rail traffic, north of the downtown baltimore. all trains have been stopped in both directions. the ones coming northbound have been stopped at penn station. and many of those folks that were on the northbound amtrak lines have been marooned at penn station. most of the afternoon. now, there is no word on whether amtrak at this point has set up any kind of a bus bridge, for points north of baltimore. we do know that bge is making progress here in getting the gas turned off. they said they were going to have some folks try to get down here and get this gas line turned off. the reason they stopped the rail traffic is because as the trains go by, the electric trains, they cause arcing from where the tops of the trains touch the overhead lines. and they're afraid that that arcing will cause an explosion with this large amount of volume of gas in the area. again, they have evacuated some build

we need more natural gas.y idea was to roll out natural pipelines and subsidize natural gas-powered cars. we juice the economy with new jobs rather than putting a captain jack boot on it. i got people smarter than i am on the team. kinder morgan energy partners, kmp, and a guy who understands the energy business just about better than anyone else in this country wrote an op-ed piece that caught my eye in the houston chronicle earlier this month advocating natural gas as a substitute for oil. they may be clean as a whistle, but right now wind and solar supply .16 of our energy needs. we could quadruple our wind and solar capacity, and they would still be less than 1%. natural gas, on the other hand, is a cleaner fossil fuel. it's cheap, and we're sitting on top of enormous amounts of it. it would also be much easier to roll out a transition fuel than wind or solar. natural gas would do more to reduce our co2 emissions than introducing all fossil fuels. he knows this issue. he knows it cold. he knows it's feasib

gas vehicles on our odes.l gas is 50% cleaner than diesel. >> there is only one model of natural gas powered car, the honda civic gx, available to consumers in the u.s. initially it was only for sale in california and new york. don marino, who runs a honda dealership in california, also notes there is an infrastructure problem that may be limiting sales nationwide. >> with natural gas, you have to live in an area where you can get natural gas at the pump fairly freely. in l.a., that's possible. in new york, it's possible, but other sections of the country, it's not. >> at least not for consumers. some state and local governments have set up natural gas refueling stations for buses and other government vehicles to save on gas costs. still, advocates say this is technology worth exploring. >> at current levels of consumption, we have over 100 years worth of natural gas in this country that can be developed that they know where it is and it can be developed with current technology. >> the honda civic gx costs abo

of natural gas in the world. why? t. boone pickens is here and weighs in next.5,5,5,5,5,5,5,, andrew: we have not had a real energy plan in over 40 years, do you believe that? one year ago, t. boone pickens shocked the world calling for an end of america's dependence on foreign oil. he unveiled an energy plan to expand the use of domestic renewable energy such as wind and solar and replace oil with natural gas. mr. boone pickens supports the climate change bill that passed the house last month, but thinks we need to do more to get america off foreign oil. he is here now, energy executive t. boone pickens. boone, welcome here. judge andrew napolitano substituting for beck today. >> oh, yeah. we have worked together. andrew: we have and it's a pleasure, boone. why are we dragging our feet on energy? it is almost inconceivable that we have not had an energy plan for 40 years. >> that is inconceivable but i will say we have been moving faster than we have ever gone. this year we will have legislation that will be t

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a large natural gas leak shuts down vehicle and train traffic. when the fire department arrived they heard hissing coming from a six-inch line, and the leaves you see are being blown around by the gas. >> we understand that crews were on the scene performing excavation work to repair a sidewalk when they accidentally struck a natural gas line. >> reporter: all passenger and freight rail service was stopped and a safety perimeter was established. the trains backed up, making for a railway traffic jam. once the trains were halted, because of the gas leak, that effect was felt immediately by passengers. here at baltimore's penn station. >> just with baltimore they told us the train was going to be stopping at penn indefinitely, and they didn't know for how long. >> reporter: eventually the trains were allowed to run but the damage was done. cars were bumping in baltimore as passengers looked for rids and relief from a long day. >> you always have to keep people's safety in your mind first and foremost. >> reporter: the fire department hazmat team an

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on natural-gas powered electric generation and a tremendous build out in natural gas plants but then as the governor said, that $2 became double digits and then was $13 in msf and now we have illustrated gas assets and so in terms of diversifying the energy resources and expecting as economic growth returns in a robust way while we can't give the precise prediction the better odds are the price of energy doesn't look like a smooth slope, it looks like hockey sticks with prices shooting back up. so one, we need t stick with an energy agenda. second, it's in our interest. this is about offense, not just defense. why is it in our interest? you know the statistics on transportation fuels we're exporting a whole stimulus package worth of dollars every year, $700 billion in order to buy the transportation fuels from overseas. those dollars would be better invested in our own economy. but what's the story with electricity? their we potentially have the makings of a perfect storm. .. y. much of our fleet is 562 even 70 years old. there and with that, our regional transmission operators, the

it has made turkey pay for gas. turkey, charging 15% will be self-sufficient in natural gas. they would be happy. pakistan and india -- it does not happen. the sanctions are not only hurting the iranian people, they are putting our allies at risk, hurting the turks and damaging pakistan. i do not think the sanctions have been effective. that is a minority position. >> it happens to be one that has strong evidence behind it. thank you. >> i do not think that anything that has happened in iran has changed the limited options that the obama administration had prior to what has happened. even before these things happen, there were suspicions about military strikes. sanctions effectively haunt the population and strengthen the hard-liners. i do not think anything that has happened in iran has change the dynamic. the only thing that has changed it seems to me is that because the election was at the center of the controversy, it is not possible, despite mr. alex damany's making this a systemic problem to making the argument that this is a crash -- despite khamenei's makin this is sy

a natural gas importer. now the line is very, very close and depending on which statistic you look at, they cross each other but in terms of dollar amounts, even though it may be self-sufficient in natural gas, it is exporting some to turkey and importing at a higher price. it is a drain on the economy. you can see a drop right after the islamic revolution and surprisingly despite the fact that oil prices have been quite high in the past two or three years, the grothse rate has been around 4% or 5% or 6% and recently has actually dropped. this despite the fact that oil revenue has gone through the roof. so the question then becomes you know, what is going on? and you have to look at the fundamentals of the iranian economy. and we have a lot of experts in the room that are probably more expert than i am. when we look at it right now, we have an economy where the government is really around 30%, 35%, maybe 38% of the economy add to that the role of the foundation, which are again another 30%. so you have a pri

gas.national petroleum council reports that 60% to 0% of all wells in -- 60% to 0% of all wells in the next ten years -- now, most of these are gas wells -- in the next ten years will require hydraulic fracturing to remain productive and profitable. the first use of hydraulic fracturing was near duncan, oklahoma, in my state, oklahoma, that was way back in 149. since that time, companies such as oklahoma's devon and cheese peek have performed -- have perfected the practice. very simply, it is the temporary injection of mostly water with sand, nigh nitrogen, carbon dioe and other additives to fracture and prop open the ground formations to improve the flow of oil and gas through the rock fors and increase oil -- rock forock pores. we're really talking about putting in the water and sand that would already there. hydraulic fracturing is used for both oil and gas production but i'd like to focus mostly on natural gas. i have kind of the good news and the bad news but first let me tell you the

in the early 90's the prediction was we had a tremendous oversupply of gas, the price of gas would be two bucks in mcf forever and ever, so there was a rush to focus singularly on natural gas powered electricity generation, a tremendous buildout in natural gas plants but then as the governor said, that two bucks and mcf became high double dits and then was $13 in mcf and now we have a lot of stranded gas assets. so, in terms of diversifying our energy resources and expecting that as economic growth returns and returns in a robust way, while we can't give the precise prediction, the better odds are that that price of energy doesn't look like a smooth slope. it looks like a hockey stick with those prices shooting back up. so one, we need to stick with an energy agenda. second, it is in our interest. this is about offense, not just defense. why is it in our interest? you know the statistics on transportation fuels. we are exporting a whole stimulus package worth of dollars every year, $700 billion in order to buy those transportation fuels from overseas. those dollars better invested in

i am mary bubala, a live report just ahead. >>> a major gas main break shuts down train traffic. it has bge working hours to make repairs. i am kai jackson. i will have that story coming up. >>> and i am sharon gibala with wjz traffic control. area roadways, we are already looking at a few accidents and a few delays. we will talk about those straight ahead. send it over to marty. >>> a new season of "big brother." julie chen talks to don and we find out we are kind of doing a high school thing. we will have collection. okay. jules going to explain it all. i would like to live in that house minus the cameras. you stay tuned. the morning edition continues >>> good morning, maryland. don scott, marty bass, breaking news with mary bubala, your first warning weather and wjz traffic control with sharon gibala. it is wjz, maryland's news station. >> it is 6:30 in our string of nice july day starts continues to be followed by some more. another nice day apparently and traffic is more messed up. sharon will have details after marty's first warning weather. >> let's look at the forecast. a

they have not been ali to manipulate the gas. natural gas situation. in fac the ung, i was talking with donion, he owns this etf space. he's been saying over and over again the money intong has moved tural gas higher than it should be. think natural gas should be at three. do notant to lump in the natural gas stocks with e oil stocks, but thmaet will. they're all going downpete, i don't want to outthink this. we have anothelevel of decline inhe oils cause we know that oil belongs beeen $45 and $50. that when the stocks were at levels lashat's where oil wa i think that we e that kind of decline. we're t done going down. i am not recommeing speculatg the oil patch or the natural gas patch st yet. schlumberg may be 46, 47, i said yesterday i thought it could go into the 50s. i think when some of t oils yid huge we'll get back in. but right now wee holding off. boo ya, mike. city of winners. for the most part. for the mostart. cubs? >> cler: you know, jim, i ally appreciate your educaon and last week you were talki about pe ratio and how they relate t grow

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why they were being rewarded with free gas. f >>> new developments tonight. police offer a motive in the death of retired nfl star steve mcnair. the former tennessee titans quarterback was found dead along with 20-year-old sachel kazemi. inside mcnair's condo in nashville saturday. kazemi was believed to be mcnair's girlfriend. tonight police say she was apparently distraught about her financial situation and possibility mcnair was date something one else. investigators say that kazemi shot mcnair four times, possibly while he slept, and then killed herself. >>> two men that spent 20 years behind bars for a crime they did not commit are savoring the taste of freedom. ronald kitchen and marvin reeves walked out of prison free men yesterday. it was 1988 when they were convicted of murdering would two women and three children. recent discoveries by the attorneys and northwestern university law students cast doubt on the evidence against them. and after a review it was found that the case rested on the testimony of an informant who was not credible. and a confess

let's power our automobiles with natural gas, let's produce natural gas, and rightfully so. they should be proud of their resources. i'm not knocking their resources, i'm proud they've got it. . i predict there's shale from pennsylvania all the way down to texas. i think the geologists will prove t and there's a lot of natural gas in that shale and we ought to use it. that's how we free ourselves from foreign oil. we free ourselves by drilling offshore. in a clean drilling procedure which we have and we haven't spilled a drop of oil in a drilling procedure in 15 years. in the seas. and all of our spills you read about are shipping spills not drilling spills. so let's go out and seek our energy where it is and let's create our alternative energy, wind, and solar. and let's not forget nuclear. the cleanest energy out there. ms. foxx: would the gentleman yield? i in having this energy debate that we were having a few weeks ago before the democrats passed their national energy tax, which they call cap and trade, that predict that c.b.o. -- c.b.o. predicts will levy $846 billion

we had two gas plants come on in egypt that added about 110 million cubic feet of gas a day. we had a development in the gulf of mexico, a deep water gas discovery, that came on, is producing a little over 100 million a day. we pride ourselves in believing in a portfolio balance, and i think that's shown through very well this quarter. >> let me ask you about what congress has been looking into and get your thoughts on it. we see congress looking into the role of speculators in the oil mark market, talking about that constraints should be put in place so we don't have speculators driving the price. do you think that's what's behind some of the moves in oil? >> the current boom in oil, i think -- i can't judge month to month or week to week. but if you look at the insatiable need of the world for crude oil, whether it's this year or next year, we're going to continue to see rising prices on the crude side. >> so you think that prices continue going higher because of fundamentals? >> i think there is no doubt over the next five years we're going to see higher oil prices. >> wha

we caught up with drivers taking advantage of a gas away. >> but on the same day 10 gallons of gas for free from all state dot drivers going -- >> i don't have anything. >> a police report is also out. >> it is number two. >> it says washington is the second worst area and traffic congestion, just behind los angeles. >> la is bad. i used to live there. >> this man lived here from los angeles and id metts he hits the brakes just as much. he admits he hits the brakes just as much. >> we are just used to it. >> it is a little worse but not as bad as people think. >> the results of the study results -- are based on numbers from 2007. while other areas like los angeles and atlanta saw congesting dropped, washington's increased. they waited an extra three hours from 2006. >> i am not surprised as far as traffic, as far as our ratings. d.c. is pretty bad. >> adding new roads or an extra rail will not solve the issue. when it comes to easing congestion, and it comes down to a decision -- comes down to the decision washington drivers make. >>> alexander drivers top the most improved list when i

million gallons of gas.port is done annually by the texas transportation institute. it was done in a report a few months ago. both reports do declare d.c. is among the worse in the nation when it comes to traffic in that report rates our region second to l.a., which is considered number one in congestion. so we ask commuters in our area, what do you think can help ease some of this. >> there is just a lot of roads that need to be expanded, but we are not going to get that done anytime soon. and we nee to, i think, focus more on public transportation. >> i think it's pretty awful. more attempt should be made for te tele commuting. >> do you find people in the area have a hard time grasping that? >> yeah, i do. they think if they cannot see us doing it we must not be doing it. >> what do you do? >> i am driving today, and i will probably get sick of that. >> the report concludes that there is no one solution, though. they say improving roadways and mass transit has been helpful, but they also say better busine

natural gas billing? we can make it easy for people to buy cars that run on natural gas or convert their current ones. why don't we just do natural gas cars? and not only will we have transition to cheaper, greener fuel, but we'll also create good jobs for millions of americans, second point. and this one should be a no-brainer. we actually should build new infrastructure. the government should build new sewers, new aqueducts, we should rebuild every darn bridge in this country that's older in order to replace the aging infrastructure, that's a sure fire job creator. it's a poster boy for what's needed. third, you want to deal with health care, fine, i got it, one simple idea. you create three national competing private health care providers and subsidize them so companies can afford to hire more cheaply. between the competition and the subsidies, businesses won't have to commit to paying huge benefits packages. makes it difficult to hire new workers because workers are so expensive. fourth, we should bri

natural gas.there was a huge reduction in natural gas. this has everything to do with the fact that we have been so good in implementing this, we have shale technology and natural gas went from $13, this was $3.33. this is a product of competition, supply and demand, so the slide that you had on their, about natural gas, and the natural gas is because we did work, we were applying this in the field. we have plenty of natural gas. we have so much that we need to use more of this. down on some of that cold, we will send you some natural gas. >> we should be able to use more of that natural gas. as i put up there on the slide could be a game-changer that that is a huge opportunity to increase our energy security in pupil to put policies in place however to get that into the marketplace. thank you all very much. >> anybody like a copy of karen's presentation, she will be happy to supply that for you. thank you karen. you can see is a very interesting topic, something very important to the state by nat

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the idea was to go in reverse on the pipeline, starting at the gas pump. tell us about your travels and what you found. >> we started at the gas pump, and people always yell at the gas station owner because that is where they interface with the price, but he is making less money than almost anybody. the reason you see gas stations going to convenience stores, the reason you fill up your tank and cupholder is that they can make more money from a bottle of soda than a gallon of gasoline. the real money comes in the refining area and for the crude oil people who mine the oil. as you go back to the oil fields that is where the money is made. 50% of the price of a gallon of gas goes to the crude-oil and 18% for the refineries. >> i think so many people are confused by the basic question of what really determines the price of oil. we are in the middle of the summer driving season and we have our eye on gas prices. can you narrow it down for us on what causes the price to change? >> sure, a lot has to do with supply and demand. there is no commodity in the world

. >> with natural gas you have to live in an area where you can get natural gas at the pump fairly freely. in l.a., that's possible. in new york, it's possible. the other sections it's not. >> the honda civic gx costs about $25,000 and consumers will get a tax credit of $5,000 if they buy it. >>> a moving company owned by the former chairman of the maryland republican party is under federal investigation. the company is accused of paying its workers less than required for those working on federal government projects and then filing misleading documents, claiming it complied with the law. a company spokesperson says that the owner would was not aware of any fraudulent practices. he lead the maryland gop. if convicted he could face millions of dollars in civil fines. >>> plans of moving forward to open another -- in maryland. a spokesperson for the supermarket chain says crews are placing a fence around a wraus on the parkway that will eventually house the supermarket and the parking garage. no completion date has been set. they have 1 store in hunt valley and plans are in the works for 5 m

and falling gas prices. many consumers are too worried about their jobs. to make summer vacation plans. and only up 1%. people are still not driving in spite of the fact that gas prices are down. and 7% over this time last year. >> a check of metro area gas prices, shows what a difference a year makes. with the average price of unregular. and despite the cheaper gas prices, motorists at the virginia rest stop say they haven't noticed an increase in traffic just yet. >> the road is a little lighter this summer. no doubt about it. >> less traffic on the road at times. >> triple a says for those who are traveling tight economy changed their vacation habits. according to a survey. more are taking day trips. staying fewer nights in hotels. booking closer to travel time. comparison shopping on line and spending less overall. but like turner, some are planning to get away. >> i'm going. i haven't been on a vacation in maybe two years. >> triple a says that while gas prices have officially peaked for the summer and they will continue to fall, it may not be enough

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the easiest way is to get it out of natural gas. why do that when natural gas would do most of the work? and there are other problems. but talking about energy density, it is one-tenth the power, the density of natural gas use in the kitchen. that means you need a lot of it to do a job. it is not strong enough to turn a conventional engine. it has to be fed through a fuel cell the vice to direct -- device to direct elections. if you have a hydrogen car, all that comes out of the tail pipe is a little water. but it is no way to go. you will have to build a nuclear plant probably to get the hydrogen out of water. so, you end up in a sort of crazy -- because it appeals -- nuclear became something very strange. nuclear is kind of like socialism. to the left, it is the bogeyman, just as socialism to the right as the bogeyman. and most of these people -- both of these bogeymen are phonies, they don't exist. >> where did you get bogyman thing? >> i read the wrong book. a typo. the republican plan also has an interesting component. there wo

if you shock the american economy by raising gas prices to $2 to $4 a gallon in a short period of time, which is what happened, and people, working class people have to take money that they spent on other things and put it in their gas tank, in order to heat their homes, you take the money out of the overall economy. you soften it up, ok that's

an emphasis on public trepidation means fewer greenhouse gas emissions. not only that, but other criteria as well. you asked as well about energy, and i will let the secretary of energy answer that question, but clearly, part of cracking the nut of greenhouse gas emissions and the pollution that comes from greenhouse gases is dealing with the transportation sector. >> very simply, i would say the increasing use of public trepidation, especially in suburban or urban areas, would do a lot in decreasing our carbon emissions. i would also add that using trains for long-distance freight will also do a lot, and then using the trucks for local distribution -- there is an advertisement that has been running for a couple of months. for every i think metric ton of freight, something like 400 or 700 miles per gallon, if you use the train, so trucks cannot get there. >> thank you. >> senate is, before you do a two-minute leading up to your question, but leave a minute, or otherwise, we will not get to everybody. >> thank you. david green testified before our committe

land uses are responsible for over one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions.it's difficult to see how greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere can be stabilized without policies that target emissions and carbon sequestration on agriculture and forest lanz. as a result it's vital that america demonstrates how the inclusion of agriculture and forests in a domestic approach to climate change can, in fact, produce real and lasting benefits to both landowners and the climate.9y under climate change legislation the farm sector will experience both costs and benefits. energy price increases can impact rural crop production and other agricultural activities. for example, fertilizer and fuel costs account for 50 to 60% of variable costs of the production of corn. because of the high personal transportation expenditures, rural households are more likely than urban households to feel the pinch of increased gas prices. but and this is an important but, i believe that there are significant opportunities for rural landowners in a cap-and-trade program that recognizes

he's always been an oil and gas guy. >> and a wind guy he says. >> wind and water. >> he also believes ts is critical for america and i think it's right. >> for all the talk wind and solar gets at the core of his plan is nat gas.

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apparently putting out a very large volume -- of gas. there has been some vacation -- evacuations between that location of cane street and quad avenue. now, also affected is amtrak service, north and southbound. they're holding all trains now at pin station, until they can make this situation safe. now, bg&e is also on the scene. there is noword on how long he's going to take to get this high pressure gas main shut down. the fire department person on scene has said that this could go well into the evening. so major ramifications for rail travelers, from baltimore and points north. they are allowing no trains north and southbound for amtrak and csx, right along this north point road corridor, where they all intersect. we'll stay on top of this as we get updated. >>> thank you. we'll have more information on that story as it becomes available. >>> and we're learning new information tonight about the accident on the light rail track that claimed the lives of two teenagers. denise is in the newsroom with what the mta is saying today. >> eyew

by all accounts a friendly and dedicated gas station employee of many years. tonight montgomery county police are telling us the fire that consumed his minivan monday morning did not start in the engine and not as a result of a collision but how? that's still a mystery. ebu sars was from gambia. a married father of three, he was 45 d anhad been living in the united states for nearly 20 years. he was last seen alive leaving his part-time job at this exxon gas station in annandale. it was monday morning around 2:30. 90 minutes later he was found dead inside his burning minivan on bradley boulevard in bethesda. >> to hear what happened yeerday was just a big shock. >> reporter: chuck mcbride worked with sars on gallows road and said this surveillance camera captured him leaving before his shift was over. >> he walked out of here, walked to his vehicle, came back, locked the door. we could see the vehicle drive away as he was leaving. >> reporter: his relatives say he left the virginia gas station because an alarm went off at the glen echo exon where he worked ful