the third example, lake geneva. the city is notable. it has commuter service all the way up in the 1970's in chicago. lake geneva took great pride. in their connections to chicago. top executives lived up there. it was a destination of great importance to chicagoans. the service continued to decline. i think we read about it this quarter. when the railroad left in the 1925, debate to bring them back has been nonstop. the planning efforts to do that have been extremely challenged by the factors that is outside t is outside of our state boundary. slightly too long of a distance or a commute. we go to the next slide. you can see the ni,mby forces reared their ugly heads, you might say. they were opposing lake geneva's efforts to embark on planning initiatives to bring its railroad back to strengthen its connection to chicago. rumor has it government agency a made government agency b take it down really quick. it doesn't look good when they aren't cooperating. in this example, had the tracks remain, the options would have been so much great

lake geneva took great pride. top executives lived up there. it was a destination of great importance. service continued to decline. i think we read about it this quarter. when the railroad left in 1975 the debate to bring them back has been nonstop. the planning efforts to do that have been extremely challenged by the factors that is outside of our state boundary. we go to the next slide. we can see as they have the debate, we see other forces reared their ugly heads, you might say. i captured this picture showing a school district opposing lake geneva's efforts to embark on planning initiatives to bring its railroad back to strengthen its connection to chicago. rumor has it -- government agency a may make government agency b take it down really quick. it doesn't look good when they aren't cooperating. the options would have been so much greater for a city like lake geneva to re-strengthen its transportation links to chicago. what is your sense of it today? is it open for redevelopment? >> probably five or 10 minutes outside of town, you could

reporter: he's often spotted during breaks from the intense iran nuclear negotiations, biking around lake geneva. his schedule has been cancelled, but we're assured he's in good spirits as he prepares to go back to boston. tom? >> thank you. >>> now, to the scandal swirling around former speaker of the house, dennis hastert. his supporters speaking out. mary bruce has the story. >> reporter: once the most powerful man in congress, tonight, dennis hastert's name has been stripped from his alma mater. as he faces an uncertain future. embattled by a hush money scandal, accused of lying to the fbi, paying $3.5 million to cover up his misconduct. now, sources say there is a second individual who is also allegedly victimized. another former student from yorkville high school in illinois where he was a teacher and coach for 15 years. but some say the allegations don't ring true. >> no experience i had would lead me to believe this could be true. it must be politics. >> prosecutors allege he skirted financial requirements to make large withdrawals. >> this is a gotcha prosecution. >> reporter: still no

lake. nearly half a million people have fled the country and 1 million have been internally displaced. all sides are now in genevasecretary general ban ki-moon met with gulf states from the g.c.c. and members of the security council ahead. talks, he's insist that go it will be a yemeni led process. let's take you live for al jazerra. with all sides so entrenched in this conflict, it's difficult to see that any progress can be made there in geneva. >> reporter: it's definitely going to be an extremely delicate situation for the international community and for the united nations in particular. but at least they say that this is the first time that a different factions in yemen are meeting since the start of the saudi-led air strikes more than two months ago. the problem is each is coming with a different vision of how to move forward. houthis say they have signed a deal with the government when they took over the capital sanaa in september that's the pillar for any political settlement. the government said that was a deal imposed by the will of the houthis therefore it has to be scrappedded and we have to start a n

lake-effect snow as it moved into buffalo, new york. >> people were stranded on the highways, the interstate. >> nick louis, a professor of science at williams smith colleges in geneva, new york. >> i tell my students to imagine a bald top of the mountain. just a little push and that ball goes all the way the mountain. just a little push rices vigorously in the atmosphere and produces intense snow. >> it feels like weather is becoming extreme. >> a lot of research has shown that, as it will become the norm. >> does science suggest this is going to happen more and more. >> i think that's the reasonable inference from what we're seeing. >> when is extreme weather like buffalo's due to climate change, and when is it just plain wild weather. there is a new field called attribution science that tries to assess whether climate change played a role in these extreme weather events. take the extreme heat that caused wildfires in 2013. was it climate change? according to research published in the bulletin of the meteorological society, probably yes. and what about the winter of 2014, climate change or just wild weather? a study out of oxford university said that that event wa