no, irrigate is a nice verb. it means to make wet, or supply with water. farmers irrigate their land so crops will grow. now let's try this -- superfluous. it's an adjective that means either beyond what is necessary. extremely graceful. or being really, really sick with the flu. superfluous means beyond what is necessary. just your thanks for this game of word is enough, anything more would be superfluous! but i'll take it anyway. ephemeral, lasting only a short time. irrigate, to supply with water. superfluous, beyond what is necessary. that's "word!" for kids news. >> all across america there are families struggling to make ends meet. some are even finding it hard just to put food on the table. tyler reports on how a group of teens spend their sundays trying to make a difference. on a day that many of us spend relaxing and hanging out with friends, these teens decided to roll up their sleeves and get to work. >> giving back to the community is one of my favorite things i do. i spend a lot of time during the week doing that also and it just feels amazing

turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what we've done here is use artificial turf. you're never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30% of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. we're using less water today than we used five years ago, despite over 300,000 new residents. i think it's a pretty amazing example as to how a town can really turn on a dime if there's the political will and if the public gets behind it. narrator: even the casinos and resorts have adapted to efficient water use. mulroy: the las vegas strip uses only 3% of all the water that we deliver. and when you think about it, it's the largest economic driver in the state, the largest employer, bar none. they knew they had to go the extra mile. and they've embraced conservation. and it's almost beyond belief that they're right now in the process of building another 15,000 rooms. southern nevada recycles 100% of its waste

despite the drop in irrigated farmland. >>> strange weather day. sprinkles. a lot of people wondering when it's going to warm up. let's check in for the forecast. >> people are over it with the scattered showers. we did have sprinkles this morning. wet on the morning commute. now it's kind of mild out there. little cooler. temperatures dropping off after they reached into the upper 60s. we will go into a warming trend. the jet stream well to the north. this low pressure center, which moved through yesterday is clearing out of the area. lake tahoe, rain drops. and again this morning. it is moving on. high pressure establishes itself. there will be, with that high pressure, a opportunity for patchy fog. another couple weeks we won't be seeing fog because it will turn into a summer pattern. we will see coastal fog. temperatures going into the 60s and low 70s. warmest week we have had in a while. it will be warmer this week. a lack of clouds tonight. and then again tomorrow morning as we get into lunchtime. a few more clouds off shore. this shows rain as well. as

>>paul: if we increase the irrigation channel, then the command area will be increased, irrigation costs will be reduced and the production will be increased so the farmers will be benefited and the farmers will be economically enhanced. >>reporter: projects like these are helping farmers move from mere subsistence, to reaping surpluses they can sell. >>reporter: another, more high-tech initiative, is similarly aiming to increase farmers' incomes. the telecentre network was established with funding from the canadian and swiss governments. there are more than 3000 of these profitable, self- sustaining centres across the country. >>akbar: this centre is run by an entrepreneur, owned and run by an entrepreneur. but there are some different kinds of models. those are run by ngos, civil society, even the government is now also owning some. >>reporter: for a modest fee, rural people can get digital photos taken and photocopies made, helping them to apply for government services and subsidies without having to journey into the towns. and thanks to a partnership with the international rice resea

it could lead to a day when growers irrigate crops from thin air. >> its vineyard where the proverbable. despite buying wrinkled as matt likes to say, they are admiral. >> they are resilient. they don't stress out. >> matt manages the vineyards for mondavi. he is the guy who plants new vines and tries to cut costs. last summer he tried an experiment, these are called water boxes and they pull moisture from the air and use it to irrigate young plants. it's the same process you see here when cold liquid condenses water from the atmosphere. the results have been surprisingly good. >> all this, the green leaves but it's just popping. >> these water boxes are roughly $25 each, $25 to irrigate this vine to maturity but there is another advantage, they make the vines work for a plifg. >> work to get the nutrients and it's got to work to produce fruit. when we have a vine that has to work to produce fruit. we get a more complex flavored wine. >> water boxes are the rain children of peter haus. back then he can grow crops in the sahara even. >> as part of the experiment they took acorns from old

they cool at night and pull moisture from the air and use it to irrigate young plants. it is the same process as here when cold liquid condenses water from the atmosphere. the results are surprisingly good. it is just popping. water boxes are not expensive. roughlily 25 dollars each to irrigate the vine to maturity and there is another advantage to them. they make the vines work to get the living . work to get the water and nutriients and work to produce fruit and when we have a vine that works it is a better flavored wine. he said he could grow crop in the sahara desert. >> all of the water in the air. >> part of the experiment. they took it from the old oak trees and used water boxes to grow new one they are working, too. >> we are trying to get trees established in a cheap and easy way. water box fits perfectly. >> a resource that agriculture can use and all there in wet air in a field of old vines and a new trick. napa county. wane freod man. abc 7 news. i just want the grapes to be there. >> no natural coming. >> it is cool can breezy near the coast and mild inland

they repaired and replaced irrigation devices and couplers. also, we've been undergoing a renaissance in anticipation of the spring and summer season. 6 porta-potty 7 installed -- have been installed. our manager has been logging regularly above all the -- blogging directly about all the activists at delors park. every year, the commission as i asked to grant a permit for the north beach festival, and it has often been a contentious issue. but i am pleased to announce that because of the great work by dana ketchum and the leadership of michael sullivan, we have forthwith festival producers and the neighborhood, and there'll be no controversy this year. i would like dana to give you an update. >> good morning, commissioners. i am going to put up a map so you can see what is changing. hang on. so, you will see on this map -- and i am going to pull it up for years -- a revised north beach festival that is no longer using washington square. so, the festival has moved. i will point out of the things in a minute. it went in stages. the first proposa

we've reduced that to just under 2 million gallons per day by eliminating water irrigation. i will talk about the recycled water plants in a minute. we have used water conservation methods and utility fixture units and things. that has reduced 3.6 million gallons a day. we dropped it by another 2.2 million gallons a day for all non possible water uses, a toilet flushing -- non-potable water uses, toilet flushing, and so on. president vietor: i sound like a broken record. what about collection facilities for each unit? do they collect the water and treated so we can be even more aggressive? >> we are being as aggressive as we can on water use based on recycled water. we are using everything we can that is not potable. this is something to be explored in the commercial area with commercial buildings. we are not promoting the collection of rain water. president vietor: wouldn't that be to our advantage? the -- minimally, probably. >> it cannot change the size of the waste water treatment. -- it can change the size of the waste water treatment. >> that would not change the waste

. >> farmers that use flood irrigation to water their crops have a new low-tech solution. it releases a flag that signals a time to shut on off the water. >> flood water continues to travel even after you shut it off. what we really wanted to happen is the head of the flow to end at the field end. >> what is this? the future farmers of america trying to set a record. as much as they are pushing the technology, the very foundation of agriculture remains human energy. >>> there is new trend in health insurance, to pass along the costs of highest price medications to patients. bay area lawmaker is working to change that. carolyn johnson reports. >> you need let your insurance company know that every day goes by that you don't take this drug they are costing a neurological function. >> she was managing her multiple sclerosis cost her nearly $700 a month. its specialty drug. that means she pays 30% of the cost of the drug rather than a simple co-pay. >> i went into credit card debt. >> we are working on do i go, do i pay my mortgage, do i go into debt if which is common thing,

you see on the overhead, the newly installed landscaping, irrigation, and

pumps to get sewage from the south bay and homes from that area and turn it into water safe or irrigation dates back to the 1950s the renovation project will keep the plant working for 30 to 50 years. >> it's a really good plan. we've been working on it for almost three years. we've had a tremendous amount of public input. >> another part of the plan is to explore the possibility of developing a one-mile buffer around the plant to make it business-ready. and to give people a place to enjoy the outdoors. residents who live near the sewage plant are against any further development. >>> we're learning tonight the granddaughter of one of the greatest minds in human history died at her east bay home last week. talking about evelyn einstein. family friend confirms her death. and says she received treatment for heart and lung disease and for diabetes. the adopted granddaughter of albert einstein spoke in four different languages and earned a masters degree in medieval literature. she once worked as a dog catcher and battled homelessness after a bitter divorce. she was 90 years old. >>> a norther

those are actually it -- irrigation canals. these are some of the metric you can use to judge whether not we were successful. this is an overhead shot taken by u.s. satellite capability of the crops being drgrown in marjeh. on the left is marjeh before we arrive. if it is yellow, it is poppy. if you see green, it is sweet. it is the purple, that is some other crop. on the left, just prior to our arrival, it shows you the progress being made. as we take control of those areas, as the government of afghanistan news in and does what local governments do, one of which is a strong eradication program, you begin to see the poppies disappear. the local governor is rapidly anti-drug. he has programs against poppies. he has a strong eradication program that he does on his own. the as a substitution program which we work with them on that has been very effective. we at 5000 farmers signed up to take part in the crop substitution program. what they got was a wheat seeds, a fertilizer, and instructions on how to grow it -- not for free, bu

an honor wavering a childhood dream of literally reaching for something big aspiring cosmonauts irrigator entire watches intently as a so you see i'm a twenty one spacecraft is to its vertical position at only fourteen he's so certain about his future that he's already made headway he went to the u.s. and became the first youngster to spend fifteen minutes floating in the zero gravity environment hostile an arts training called the. i thought the full weight of my body as if i was drawn to reach i could hardly move my hands this early start is something the first man in space you to god in could himself have related to and his feet fifty years ago marked the beginning of a long list of achievements in man. space exploration. from walking on the moon. to building the massive international space station. but it doesn't stop there next possibly a hotel in orbit yet another space dream but would it go you for this hotel project there will be four rooms at the station with enough room for seven people there will be trivial luminaries so that everyone can observe the earth and stars i've always

use a drip irrigation system to apply water exactly where you need it. >> any water in the air is wasted out about the water garden tour go to abc 7 news.comand click on 7 on your side. that saves a lot of water. >> it is very simple steps. >> >> we had it this morning. spencer is here now. >> this afternoon, we had a clearing issue. it is a time lapse view. post frontal clouds in the sky . a quick look at season to date. rainfall totals compared with the average major location except it is above the average amount of rainfall this time of year. tomorrow morning at 8:00 temperatures will be cool and temperatures are in the upper 50s. it is the upper 60s . and here's our accu-weather forecast. we have a string of sunny and dry days and look at the weekend ahead. they will climb in the upper 70s . thank you, spencer. >> tonight, we watch to introduce us to a 85 yore old woman . on the job we mean on the job. she hasn't had a six day since dwight eisenhower was inaugurated president. >> this is not a retirement party. 85 year old elena has been working for 65 years. >> i love to come to wo

on my tacos, uh, i >> so the couple learned as they went along, everything frcm soil science to irrigation techniques. and before they knew it, they had developed a thriving avocado orchard along the way. they now have 8,500 avocado trees--trees that have come to mean more to the couple than they ever could have imagined. >> we like to think that we have 8,500 employees working for us here at the facility on our area. and we like to think of every tree as really an individual with its own personality. >> my husband calls them our employees, but they're kind of like my babies, and anytime anything happens to them, you feel horrible. and you see where a tree is stressed, and you have to take care of it. and if any of them die, you feel bad. you feel really bad. so you want to take of them as best you can. >> and those 8,500 employees continue to rk hard for linda and mark, who continue to dote on them. they hope to harvest about 15,000 pounds of fruit per acre this season alone. each avocado is hand picked, making sure the stem is trimmed off so it doesn't scrape or bruise other avocados whe

everything from the north to the south just one more word on the irrigation system. does play a very important role for us. but, again, built by americans in the 1950's, a large hydroelectric dam that provides electric power to two-thirds of afghanistan and more importantly, water controls of the area is farm 12 months out of the year. the irrigation system is simple, yet gravity-fed, and has been maintained by the afghans ever since. they remember the americans quite finely. the company town, built by the company that built the system, and if you see those zero buildings, and you will see american ladies playing tennis in short skirts and american men moving around, and afghan people in western dress working closely with the americans. it was the breadbasket of afghanistan for many years and produce everything from corn, wheat, potatoes, and pomegranates. if you have not had a helmand pomegranate, you have not had a pomegranate. spread the word. some 90% of the world's heroin is produced there. it became a huge cash crop and remain so under the insurgency, focused i

or ipads to monitor the pumps that they use to pull up groundwater for irrigating their crops. and water. >> the new system can also send that data to the farmer's cell phone or other computer. it allows farmers to turn on the pumps from anywhere and an optional camera can also send realtime pictures back as well. >> so cool. and also farmers can get tax breaks from using this app, because it makes them more efficient. it's high-tech farming. very impressive. >> nothing that smartphones don't run in our lives. >> beautiful i know. >> everything. one day it will do this show. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now." shop till you drop. relax by the pool. at a four-star hotel for a two-star price from hotwire.com. so you get ridiculously low prices, backed by our low price guarantee. like four stars in chicago, travelocity published price $189. hotwire hot rate just $85. hotwire.com. four-star hotels. two-star prices. ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e save big on car rentals too. from $13.95 a day. . ii hd 3. hd 3. >>> if you don't know what next monday is, then this story's for you. >>

are you irrigating wheat land?eally that is a very fine line on how much we, we can control and monitor that. and a lot of it has to do with how much that local elders structure has bought into the principles of if you provide a certain input, the expectations of a certain output will happen. that wheat will be grown or corn will be grown and not opium. if opium is grown, we're not going to be able to offer the same inputs after. you are conditioning a little bit of your development based on the understanding we can help them achieve. >> now i want to put together the two questions i've asked for you, ms. richard and for you, mr. bowers. let's suppose there's a post-conflict condition and we say the taliban must stop protecting the heroin trade, and they want to impose something awful on us like the karzai government must get rid of corruption. a high level rather than lowest common demom they to have deal. could ngos play a role in that kind of higher level -- could you provide enough, if funded enough, enough of

the irrigation system is simple. it has been maintained by the afghans ever since. they remember the americans quite fondly there. it was a company town built by a company that would go there to build the dam and the system. you will see american ladies playing tennis in shorts purchased at the country club and men -- in short skirts at the country club. it was the breadbasket of afghanistan for many years and produce everything from corn, wheat, but it is, to world crass -- to world class -- corn, wheat, two world-class pomegranates. it is also a worlnatural land fr poppy. it is focused in two areas, one in the north and one in the south. it is a cash crop that every farmer dreams about. a guy shows up around october and and you're a bunch of seats. you throw it on the ground. it does not take much rain. in april, it blooms. then it hardens into a ball that you score, squeeze, get the sap out of it, and another guy comes out in the middle of the night and takes that sap and taser cash for it. it is a great deal for the farmer who is just trying to feed its family t

through the process of separations liquid from solid and turning sewage into safe for irrigation and released into the bay dates back to world war ii. the city says the time to bring it up to date is now. >> everything that is flushed in the santa clara county, most of it in the agencies and cities that we serve come here and this is what stands between the bay and sewage, basically, from -- >> san jose city council voted today to go forth with the master plant to bring the plant up to date and the price tag, about $1.8 billion, which could mean higher rates for folks in the south bay. >> to give a sense for what is paid, i think our average cable bill is about $80. what we pay for sewage is little over $30. >> reporter: updating the plastics and metal that run around the clock has they have since world war ii but to make sure that areas can draw development dollars or be developed into a park. >> it affects more than just the nose. it also affects your taste buds and stomach when you experience this. >> the economic benefits of communicating the odors cannot be overlooked. >> report

. >> reporter: it is a plaque next to it that says it was part of an irrigation project.lar tower was a mile from where most of his barns, house and other residences were . >> reporter: the tower has no door. windows bricked shut and an upper floor has deteriorated. for years he has offered a reward for anyone that can unlock the mystery. >> someone has to prove it and if they can prove it and come to me i will make you famous. you will have solve the 140- year-old mystery of frenchman's tower. >> reporter: go to cbssf.com. click on connect to send me your good questions. >>> spend enough time around coffee shops and you wonder how it is possible that some lack great americans novels. >> people come in, grab a cup and sit down and stare at a screen. >> some of the most boring places in san francisco coffee shops look like an apple showroom. >> we will give this another look. >>> banks make billions off the use of your debit cards. surprised that they want to hold onto that money. who is stepping into the growing battle over swipe fees. >>> this will come as no surprise. g

two were run over while camping and another person drowned while on drugs in the swift moving irrigation canal, and then they fumbled as the story unfolded and couldn't explain why 3,000 people wanted to attend this concert in the first place, and then when they finally on december 14th there was a columnist who said the event was a disaster for the counter culture, but his tone was so priggish it's hard to imagine younger readers taking him seriously. he said, "maybe it's wishful thinking, but to me that rock fiasco looked like the last gasp of the whole hippy drug thing. they were the stones peddling their idiot beat before the mindless of animals, the human mob. it was just another manifestation of the rock drug slobbery cult to which you can only say good riddance." i use this event at the beginning of the book to -- because i think it helps us to understand the powerful appeal of the underground newspapers for the young readerrers in the 1960s and they lacked pretense of objectivity, but put across forcefully written opinions growing out of their own subculture and the examiner was

that's good news for supplies but with customers using less water for things like watering the lawn, irrigationis less revenue to be made by the water companies and that's one of the reasons that the water district is proposing this rate increase. it's going to be about 9% a year for the next five years or nearly 60%. so pretty steep. but there is another reason that water usage has declined. conservation. people are using less water because that's exactly what the water district has told them to do. and according to the palo alto daily news this morning, some local politician are pretty upset that in effect, their residents with being punished for conserving water which is exactly what they have been encouraged to do. the water district says there's another reason that -- for this rate increase. basically they have aging infrastructures and they have to pay for increased maintenance and repair of things like pipes and pumps. this rate increase still has to be voted on and that will happen on april 26 here in san jose. i'm matt bigler life in san jose for cbs 5 -- live in san jose for cbs 5. >>

devils also want to be too technical is are you going to do harm as well because in fact is that irrigation canal you helped clean and fixed, are you here with getting the poppy or the wheat plant? and really that is a fine line on how we can control and monitor that and a lot of it has to do with how much the structure has bought into the principles of if you provide uncertain input, the expectations of the input will happen that wheat will be grown or corn and not opium and that if opium is grown the essentially we are not going to be able to offer the same input the year after so you were conditionally in a little bit of your development based upon what the understand and achieve. >> i want to put together what they've asked for you, ms. richard and mr. bowers. let's suppose there's a post conflict situation, and part of the price we say the taliban must stop protecting the heroine trade and they want to impose something on us like the government we must get rid of corruption. a highest level rather than the calmest denominator could be ngos play a role in that kind of a higher level and

are you irrigating poppy land or are you irrigating wheatland?and really that is a very fine line on how much we can control and monitor that and a lot of it has to do with how much the local elder structure has bonded to the principles. if you provide a certain input, the expectations of certain output will happen. we will be grown or corn will be grown and not opium and of opium is grown essentially were not going to be able to offer the same input you are after. so you are conditionally in a little bit of your development based upon what the understanding we can help them achieve. >> now i want to put together two questions for you ms. richard and for you mr. bowers. let's suppose there is a post-conflict situation and part of the price we say the taliban must stop detecting, the harrow when trade, and they want to impose something lawful on us like the government, must get rid of corruption. a high high-level brother and then blow is the ideal. could ngos play a role in that kind of higher-level? and could you provide enough, if funded enough

sometimes using simple salt water solution, telling the patient when you get home from work, try to irrigatee sure you have proper ventilation. hair colorists, people who color hair, they're often not in a situation where they're getting good vent liilation. >> if someone decides surgery is what they need, this came back for you, this is outpatient? >> outpatient. the not painful. the patient doesn't look different. >> is it more common? turning to surgery before? >> we have minimally invasive techniques so the surgery doesn't seem as prok lem blemat getting back to work and the postop pain is less. patients are less scared. more information for patients to have about the surgery so there aren't misconceptions about the way it was. >> you're happy with it. people say this is not the route i want to go. if you don't treat the loss of sense of smell, could it become permanent? >> i find that the longer the patient has not had a sense of smell, the less favorable their recovery is. so if somebody's had years and year of polyps and infections, trauma -- or there's trauma to that sense of smell,

we reward farmers for using more fertilizer, more irrigation because those things have been cheap historically so, we have lots of greenhouse gasses and carbon embedded in what it takes to grow an ear of corn. and the analysis that my lab and many others have done says very clearly that corn is simply not a good feedstock for biofuels. >> smith: regardless, the corn lobby continues to throw its weight around washington, and has helped the auto companies win a fuel efficiency credit for every e85 car they sell, even though very few drivers have access to ethanol filling stations. >> smith: you say you have 2.5 million e85-ready vehicles on the road. >> yes. >> smith: how many of those are actually using ethanol? >> well, there's a few pumps. >> smith: a few. but there's... >> it's not widespread. it's not widespread. >> smith: in fact, out of a total of 120,000 gas stations nationwide, only 1,600 offer ethanol, most in the midwest. california has just ten; new jersey, none. >> smith: we've invested a lot of money in ethanol. is that getting us anything? >> the corn-based ethanol program is goin

the project has ranged, and irrigation from classrooms to learn to read to acquire a skill. the intangible benefits are meanful. for many participate, it represents the first time in how they are able to play a role. the opportunity to elect consensus is an exercise in good gov innocence on the community level. funding is protected by corruption and communities see results. communities are invested in ncp as it dependents on their ability to deliver. the level of buy in is not only critical to the project, but long-term sustainability. i also want to mention a second program, also a partnership with afghan organization, this approach was critical in our ability to oversee humanitarian assistance, following severe flooding in 2010. the irc now receive funding from usaid office of foreign disaster assistance. this emergency response, the irc provides training to four afghan partner organizations in how to help after humanitarian emergency or natural disaster. in visits to the region and my time working in afghan and washington, i have been impressed again and again by the quie

result is that there are news alligators and they are sitting around and blogging in -- news at irrigators and they are sitting around blogging -- .ggregate jurorors the difficulty that the internet has given us is that we have had this huge explosion of opinions , and is resting on an ever narrowing column of facts that comes from having reporters out on the ground and reporting. i am pleased to say the times actually has more foreign correspondents than it did when i was a foreign correspondent 15 years ago. we have expanded and invested in this but it is because this is very much our bread and butter. it is the reason that people around the world go in and get "the new york times." the business model that works for us cannot work for that many other news organizations. take everything i am about to give you an discounted by the fact that "the new york times" is hardly a typical news organization for these purposes. to what degree do policy-makers not only use these kinds of schools of thought, but do journalists refer back to the schools of thought as they go and do their reporting? the

the projects that range from the construction of roads, schools, hospitals and irrigation systems to classrooms to learn to read or acquire a skill. the intangible benefits are also meaningful for many participants that represents the first time they've been able to play a role in determining how their needs are met. the opportunity to elect council members and build consensus empower citizens is an exercise and good governance on the community level. funding is protected from corruption and communities with results. they are developed in ms p. this level of finest only critical to the project, but also to the wanting sustainability. the nfp program is paved the way to other areas. i also want to mention the second program in partnership with afghan organization. this approach was critical in irc's ability to over 30,000 people in southeast afghanistan following severe flooding in 2010. the irc now receives funding from usaid stop to support this humanitarian response program. in this emergency response program, the irc provides training to four afghan partner organizations and how t

farmers and ranchers in my state an additional $7,000 a year to ir-- an additional $1,700 a year to irrigate their land. by 2030, it would cost them an additional $7,000 a year for one meter to run their irgation. that's costing agriculture. that's costing jobs. instead of becoming the environmental protection agency, the e.p.a. is becoming the everyone pays a lot agency. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: mr. chairman that information is incorrect. i'd like to see a letter that pertains to this e.p.a. answer. i think it might have been a letter related to a different piece of legislation. i'm now pleased to yield two minutes to my colleague from california, ms. eshoo. ms. eshoo: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. eshoo: i thank the distinguished ranking member of the house energy and commerce committee. mr. chairman, i rise in very, very strong opposition to this bill h.r. 910. i can't help but think as i listen to what's being said on the other side that they're sitting in a car, looking in the rearview mirror and they t