. >> the overachieving job requirements to work for the health minister of macedonia. >> some presidential ballots get caught up in a web of controversy. >> i am here. you think you have to grab and go for breakfast? good morning washington. >> florida expected to announce today which candidate won the sunshine state. the last minute wave of absentee ballots blamed for the delay. >> a fire is blamed for the delay in the massachusetts. it prevented an old voting machine from counting the ballots. the majority of the 12,000 residents went with mitt romney over president obama. >> a nice sunrise so far. >> it is ridiculously beautiful. look with the lights on and the sun coming up and the sky is clear. it is beautiful. our temperature this morning, 39 degrees. it has gone down just a bit with the clear skies. you can see the little sorrel there. that is what is left of the nor'easter. things are clearing out. for those of you trying to travel or people without power it will stay cold. better conditions. look at the little bubble across the southern plains states. that is a warm-up that will b

the prespa region is a unique landscape of forests and lakes between greece, macedonia and albania.ut this area of outstanding natural beauty is under threat. that's why authorities from all three countries are working hard to raise awareness among the locals that prespa is something precious and should be treated as such. we follow the rangers on patrol. >> the farmers are suspected of chopping down trees in a nature reserve. that is illegal and ranger vasil male is trying to find out what's going on. he tells the farmers to wait but they refuse to cooperate. he tells them he only wants to see their permits. >> these elderly farmers have lived their whole lives in the nature reserve and now suddenly they're being told where they're allowed to fell trees and where they can't. they don't understand that we want the area reforested. they have at least promised to carry permits next time which show that they have permission to fell trees in certain parts of the forest. >> like the farmers, vasil male grew up here on the albanian side of the prespa region. the parts of the forests where

two thirds of them go abroad -- to slovenia, for example, but we also sell them to italy, serbia, macedoniaand kosovo. >> domestic demand is on the rise, too. climate protection doesn't only cost money -- it can also help people save -- and even earn a livelihood. that realization is gaining acceptance in bosnia and herzegovina. >> and now to football. a sport that grips people around the world. it is played in stadiums worth hundreds of millions of euros, in war zones and in slums. and it is played by women, even in one of the most conservative societies in the world. saudi arabia sent two female athletes to the summer olympics in london for the first time this year. a historic move that came with many strings attached. but nevertheless an important signal to all those saudi girls with a passion for sport. >> i like sports in general. football is my passion! it's a very beautiful feeling. that's why i am very passionate about it and i like to play and also all of the girls in my team, they feel the same. for now we are 30 members. attahadi, challenge. we named our team like that because of

. >> get out your resume, the health minister from macedonia is hiring. >> investigators are trying tot what started a fire that sent a glendale man to the hospital. this at a home run no. ave that ended up taking firefighters about one hour to get it under control. the man was burned and now he is hospitalized but in good condition. if you did not change the batteries in your smoke detectors when daylight savings time and day, you can do it now. from 4:00 until 6:00, firefighters districting batteries and smoke detectors outside of metro stations. firefighters and volunteers going door-to-door offering home safety inspections and handing out free batteries. >> washington state adjoining maryland and main to be the first states to approve gay marriage. the governor signed the law, but was put on hold pending the outcome of the referendum. >> a company laying off nearly all of its employees. ameridose produces drugs for hospital pharmacies. the layoffno problems have been linked to products, but last week the recalled all products after the fda ordered it to improve its sterility testin

but in macedonia, we should be honored. i had the biggest hope that macedonia could become a wonderful example for a multi ethnic, a country with a multi- ethnic society and the constitution as a basis for mutual respect of the different ethnic in the country, and the kind of political system, reducing the differences by defining common goals and working to achieve a common goal. this was more or less the spirit of the agreement. i must take note that this commitment of both the ethnic groups and the name problem is unsolved, so i cannot make a lot of hope today. the situation is pending an unsolved. nevertheless, it is the same as it is for cosimo or bosnia. the first of july, croatia will join the european union. it is absolutely impossible to say no to the other former countries of the former republic of yugoslavia. this is not only a question of readability, it is historically impossible to exclude these countries from the european union. bafta stick to the promises they made to fulfill the criteria of copenhagen. i mus

ambassador to republic of macedonia, 96-99, and special envoy to kosovo from 98-99. he also served as special assistant to the president and senior director for south european affairs on the national security council. ambassador hill received the state department's distinguished service award for his contribution as a member of the u.s. negotiating team in the bosnia peace settlement, and was a recipient of the robert s. frazier award for peace negotiations for his work on the kosovo crisis. prior to joining the foreign service, ambassador hill served as peace corps volunteer in cameroon. he graduated with a ba in economics, received a masters degree from the naval war college in 1994. ladies and gentle and i would just like to take a moment to recognize these gentlemen for all the work they have done for the united states in asia and around the world. so if we could just give them a round of applause. [applause] >> we are going to have a little bit of the conversation about different issues in asia, and i will start with a few questions. will then go to the audience

north korean nuclear issue picket previously he served as ambassador to poland from 2000 to 2004, macedonia 1999. he has also served as special assistant to the president for southeast european affairs on the national security council. after hill received the state department's distinguished service award as a member of the u.s. negotiating team in the bosnian peace settlement and was the recipient of an award for his work on the kuntsevo crisis. ambassador will serve as a peace corps volunteer in cameroon. he graduated from bowdoin college. they sent gentleman, i would like to take a moment to recognize these gentlemen for all the work they have done for the united states in asia and around the world, so if you could just give them a round of applause. [applause] we will have a conversation about different issues in asia, and i will start with a few questions. we will then go to the audience later on to entertain your questions as well. gentlemen, the first question i would like to start with is a question about asia as a strategic priority. the question i would ask is, as assistant secret

[laughter] >> hubble combine the answer -- i will combine the answer about macedonia. i think the process will not come to an end. we are negotiating concretely, for example, with turkey about joining the european union. we opened the negotiant concretely. this is a very good example. the member states of the the member states of the