. >> the property is owned by tom and lynette heinrichs who live with their 23-year-old son ben, buddy'st pal. >> i would say buddy has pretty much been shadow. when ben leaves, buddy leaves. you could tell that buddy was ben's dog because he was right there with him and he listens to him real well. ben is definitely the master. >> the night of the fire, buddy is right beside ben who's working on his car in the shed when gasoline ignites. the blaze leaves ben with first and second-degree burns. >> one of my parts had fallen into the tank of gas and splashed up on my heater and ignited, catching me on fire. i ran outside in the snow. told buddy we need to go find help. >> buddy obeys and that's when he runs to the road and meets up with trooper shanigan. >> i am very proud for what my dog did leading the state trooper to our house. by doing so, he saved our house. >> but buddy isn't finished. he runs back out to the road again. >> i had a firefighter that had come to up to me during the whole episode and told me they had followed a german shepherd in from the same general location that i

death and destruction in earthquake-ravaged nepal, less than three weeks after a quake rocked the heinrich himmler nation killing more than -- himalayan nation killing more people. today another quake struck. the 7.3 quake caused buildings across the region to collapse. more than 40 are confirmed dead and another thousand injured. it's feared people in isolated towns and villages were buried in the rubble. the quake triggered a powerful land slide near the border with china. u.s. marine officials served that a marine helicopter went missing. six marines and two nepalese soldiers were on board. search teams are looking for them. andrew simmonds reports on the quake in kathmandu. >> reporter: reliving a nightmare, when people had begun to believe they had returned to something of normality. crush injuries, head injuries fractures. some of the medical staff are in shock as well. this may not have been as big ag the last but the hospitals are overcome again. no one wants to be in a building when what follows is half-a-dozen shocks. this man an the casualty list. >> i tried to jump out the buil

quickly i want to associate myself with the comments of senator heinrich about distributed energy and storage. i recently read watched the graduate and the guy in that movie says plastics famously. if it were today he would say storage, energy storage. that is going to be a huge issue. one of the things you can do one of the troublesome issues here and this is a national security issue and also a sort of private personal rights interest to have energy generated at your house but the challenge is what is the right number for the grid charge for backup and capacity and it has got to be sufficient so that other ratepayers are not bearing the cost but it also can't be so high as unreasonably burden this nascent development which i think is very important and is going to happen anyway so i think another area where you could be very helpful to wes is to have your smart people thinking about what would be the formula for determining a reasonable backup charge or a reasonable capacity however you characterize it and finally to help us start thinking about we have to get to the point of real-t

next, republican senator rand paul, democratic senator ron wyden and democratic senator martin heinrichshot down attempts by mcconnell to extend the powers by as little as one day. the senate adjourned and will reconvene may 31, the day before -- may 30, the day before the program expires. they will reconvene on may 31. the senate has approved a measure to give president obama fast-track authority to negotiate the secretive trans-pacific partnership trade deal, then introduce it to congress with no amendments allowed. critics, including a number of democratic lawmakers, oppose the tpp, saying it will fuel inequality, kill jobs, and undermine health, environmental and financial regulations. the fast-track bill will head to the house next month, where it is expected to face a tougher battle. in india, at least 800 people have reportedly died in a scorching heat wave, as temperatures climb toward 50 degrees celsius, or 122 degrees fahrenheit. the southern state of andhra pradesh is the worst-hit, with more than 550 deaths in the past week, while over 230 have died in neighboring telangana

the democrats were senators ron wyden, martin heinrich, joe manchin, chris coons, maria cantwell, richard blumenthal and jon tester post of the house approved a measure last week that calls for ending the bulk collection of telephone records i requiring the nsa to make specific requests to phone companies for user's data rather than vacuuming up all of the records at once. but republican leaders in the senate say they want to keep the ball spying, federal appeals court ruled the ball collection of phone records is illegal. california has declared a state of emergency for santa barbara county after a ruptured pipeline leaked oil into the pacific ocean. the estimated spill size has grown five-fold to up to 105,000 gallons. a coast guard spokesperson said the oil slick from the spill has also expanded to 9 miles. >> we have basically, two miles from shore, a slick that is possibly 3.7 miles long that goes along the shoreline heading east. and northeast, we have a slick offshore that is 5.3 miles. so a slick totaling about nine miles in length. in addition, we are actively on the beaches and

he has been joined in the effort by utah and democratic senators ron wyden of oregon martin heinrich and joe manchin of west virginia. senator paul could speak through the night, possibly even go on to tomorrow. and if he does it could delay this senate's plans to consider its renewal of the patriot act. we'll be right back after this. it comes in oral rinse spray or gel so there's moisturizing relief for everyone. biotene, for people who suffer from a dry mouth. the citi double cash card. it's a cash back win-win. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn on purchases, it makes a lot of other cards seem one-sided. >>> today at my direction, the united states launched a argued the operation against that compound in abbottabad pakistan. a small team of americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. no americans were harmed. they took care to avoid civilian casualties. after a firefight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. >> welcome back to "hardball." just over four years after president obama delivered the new

klobuchar blumenthal whitehouse, udall sanders, warren, manchin markey reed of rhode island and heinrich. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: the support to this funding level reached 300-some house members four years ago and 70 senators, including obviously a number in each party four years ago when we decided to support this number. so this funding level of 5of $575 was established four years ago. the amount included in the underlying bill is enough to operate the program we some say and we shouldn't bring the funding level back to the $575 million. fact is, mr. president we don't really know what. what we do know is that t.a.a., the trade adjustment 123457bs, the money that we provide to workers to be retrained after they have lost a job because of the decision that president obama an the congress have made to pass a trade agreement which always produces wirps and losers free trade supporters, free trade opponents all agree -- even cheerleaders as passionate as the "wall street journal," even they acknowledge as strongly supportive as they are of these free trade agre

and so last year, along with my colleagues senator heinrich and senator mark udall i filed a brief ina case that was before the court of appeals for the second circuit. it is an important court one of the highest in our country. in the brief we said -- and i quote -- "we have reviewed the surveillance extensively and have seen no evidence that the bulk collection of americans' phone records has provided any intelligence of value that could not have been gathered through means that caused far less harm to the privacy interests of millions of americans." and i'd say to my colleague what we are talking about are in effect, conventional approaches with respect to court orders and then there are emergency circumstances -- emergency circumstances -- so when the government believes it has got to act to protect the american people, it can move quickly and then, in effect, come back and settle up later. but the conclusion that we reached after reviewing bulk collection very carefully was based on eight years' worth of work and, of course, we've recently had this court declare bulk collection t

and i see my friend and colleague, senator heinrich, has joined us here tonight. and i am so pleased that he has joined the intelligence committee because senator heinrich is one of those senators who subscribes to that view that i just mentioned that it's our job to ask the hard questions. it may be uncomfortable it's not designed to in any way convey disrespect. but we see it as our job to ask the hard questions. and i'd be interested in my colleague's thoughts with respect to this issue and having him being given a chance to participate in this colloquy. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. heinrich: first off, i want to thank my friend from oregon and to recognize the substantial leadership he's shown on this issue over the years, long before i came to the intelligence committee and long before edward snowden began to steal documents. senator wyden along with senator mark udall and others, were doing everything they could without disclosing classified information to shine a light on the fact that the u.s. government was collecting massive volumes of d