it may surprise you to know that juno, the capital city of alaska, located in this section, is not anorthern settlement, but in reality, lies on almost the same line of latitude as the great city of london and is just as easy to get to. in climate as well as general appearance, southeastern alaska is like our own new england states, such as maine, new hampshire, or vermont. it may seem hard to believe, but nevertheless true that washington, d.c., gets colder in winter than does juneau, the capital of alaska. ♪ what sold my heart for alaska was the first site of its main approach by water, the beautiful sheltered stretch called the inside passage. in the last ice age, the same tunnels along which the vessels move peacefully were mighty glaciers. the ice melted away, ocean water flowed in to the carved out fjord, and now this. along the inside passage are alaska's first cities. this is juneau, the capital city, with about 6000 inhabitants. and, the chief source of employment is one of the world's greatest engineering projects, the famous alaska juneau, gold mine. the smiling meadows ma

. >> there are three of you in congress representing alaska. 3714 miles from here is juno -- is juneau. do you ever feel like you are fighting against the tide to get people down here to understand? sen. murkowski: it is always an education. i can talk about alaska to my colleagues and to members of the administration, but even they will admit they really did not get it until they flew to alaska, until they were in that situation where they realized, wait, she was right, there are really no roads down here. over 80% of communities in the state of alaska are not connected by road. your bus that wants to try to get around alaska, good luck with that. we have a marine highway system, up.get on a ferry and go we have one that goes up and one that goes down, and that is our road system. when you think about rural, everybody has rural in the ir state. they say, i understand. to them, rural is you drive a long way, you finally get to a rough and bumpy road, a little town after that, and another rough and bumpy road. and then you are in rural. for alaska, it is beyond rural, it is frontier. it

have a quota for women political participation now we do have some woman who have been elected on the juno seat without you know that means that the perspective of the local community is in change in support of women but that of course as i said before need a lot of resources a lot of political commitments and you know it cannot be changed overnight now going back to that issue of talking to the taliban the question is how to do it because both the americans and the westerners more generally have tried different approaches back in two thousand and one george w. bush used ultimatums which resulted in a war on the other hand there were times when westerners sort of caved in to the taliban's demands for example back in ninety seven when a female attorney for the u.n. high commissioner for refugees was forced to talk from behind a curtain so they wouldn't see her face which led. even more outrageous demands later on what do you think is the optimal way of engaging this group without losing the chance for reconciliation but also without considering everything in the process absolutely it's a ve

have a quota for women political participation now we do have some woman who have been elected on the juno seat without you know the coup that means that the perspective of the local community is in change in support of women but that of course as i said before need a lot of resources a lot of political commitments and you know it cannot be changed overnight now going back to that issue of talking to the taliban the question is how to do it because both the americans and the westerners more generally have tried different approaches back in two thousand and one george w. bush used ultimatums which resulted in a war on the other hand there were times when westerners sort of caved in to the taliban's demands for example back in ninety seven when the female attorney for the u.n. high commissioner for refugees was forced to talk from behind a curtain so they wouldn't see her face which led to even more outrageous demands later on what do you think is the optimal way of engaging this group without losing the chance for reconciliation but also without considering everything in the process absolut

the soccer team was exploring the cave on juno owe divers had to rescue them them one by one in a high risk mission. they spoke to gma this morning and they didn't know if all the boys would make it out alive. >> quick question, the whole time through. even though we got four for four the first day, it was not much more than cautious optimism the next day because we knew the risk had not gone down any at all. >> dangerous operation. ea. whole world happy to report that all of that team is out and recovering now. you can watch the full interview coming up at 7:00 on gma after abc 7 mornings. >>> we're covering the latest in an explosion in wisconsin. we have learned that a firefighter has died and another is critically gas explosion and leveled several buildings in downtown sun prairie. at least six firefighters were hurt along with some civilians when a private contractor hit a natural gas main last night. starting when firefighters investigated the leak and cordoned off the area. the building exploded and raining debris throughout downto downtown. very scary. >>> we move to the nato s

there are no roads connecting juno to the rest of the state.a popular it destination for cruise ships and tourists coming to ride the thet robert tram and visit glacier. coming up, we continue our special look at alaska with a visit to alaska's capital building built in 1931. welcome to the alaska state capitol in juneau, alaska. this is a building that started construction in 1920 nine and was completed in 1931. the federal and territorial building in a transition to the alaska capital and statehood in 1959. you know was doubled -- was designated the capital in 1900 by congress. as the capital of the district then. the primary industry at alaska in the time -- at the time was gold-mining to gold was discovered in juneau in 1880. it was the biggest town in the area. certainly, the center of industry in the area. citys the most important at the time. the traditional capital from russia was in kodiak. it moved to sitka. it stayed in sitka for a wild. -- while. congress designated juneau as a capital and it was moved from sitka to juneau. this bui