north dakota. mr. hoeven: the president -- or the prime minister of canada, prime minister harper, said on a number of occasions how important this project is to canada. the ambassador from canada to the united states, gary dewer, somebody who was formerly the premier of manitoba, somebody i worked with when i was governor of north dakota, we worked together for about a decade on all kinds of issues. and as you said, canada is our closest friend and ally and they're a huge energy producer. and we're producing more energy. so think about it. here's a project incredibly important to canada, it's an opportunity for us to get our energy from the more energy that we're producing and energy from canada rather than the middle east -- something that the american people very much want -- and if we don't approve it, what are we saying to our closest friend and ally when they've said very clearly and repeatedly, this sproj very, --t is very, very important to them. and to add irony to that indignity, they'll stil

there is an economic boom in one north dakota city, but the price is high. ♪ >>> in washington stateicials are now ending that active search for bodies five weeks after that mud slide near oso. more than 40 bodies were recovered, two, though, are still missing. hundreds of people combing through the mud and debris for victims. officials say it could take up to three months to clear the mud from the highway. >>> there was a small town in north dakota that was going broke, and then oil boom happened. christof putzel takes a look. >> reporter: the sign says it all . . . over the past five years the mayor has seen his town come back from the brink of death. >> now it's growing faster than any other place in the country. >> but not everyone likes what black gold has done here. dui arrests are up 15 fold, and there has been a spike in domestic violence. how much has domestic violence increased? >> another one point i would have said tripled, but now i'm going to say quadruples. >> reporter: the mix of men and money is bringing another playing to willston. this undercoverage footage reveals

i went to north dakota. i got hired. i didn't have a job.ng to make $80,000 this year. $100,000 this year. i paid off my debts. i'm buying a house. i'm getting a truck. one call after another. we got 20 people that called us independently and i said, all right, there's something going on here. the unemployment rate is about 2%, but in reality, it's zero in north dakota. trainees at walmart are getting $17 an hour. serious money. all the supporting industries are doing well. they can't build homes fast enough there and it's going to go on for decades. it's not something that's short-term. i said, let me see if these companies would want to partner with us and my tv program is going out there in may and we had one company after another, some with 2,000 jobs available tomorrow. some with 500. some with 900. some with 3,000. and we didn't make it exclusively to north dakota. it's also the oil industry in texas. the oil industry in louisiana. and literally, websites have been shut down as soon as i give out, we interviewed the human resources peo

north dakota's energy boom town and the high cost of all of that new wealth.ll ahead, trash talk. >> when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't have to do anything, you just let them talk. >> outrage on and off the hard court will the l.a. clippers owner be ejected from the game? consider this. the news of the day plus so much more. answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >>> a huge spike in domestic oil production is helping to bring america just one step closer to energy independence, but the small towns on the frontier of the boom are finding that with big oil can come very big problems. we begin ourer isties dirty power with christof putzel. >> reporter: how would you describe what this place looked like when you were first mayor, 20 years ago? >> i don't want to say dead, but i will say probably dying. >> reporter: the sign says it all . . . over the past five years williston major has seen his town come back from the brink of death. the race to exact

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north dakota's energy boom town and the high cost of all of that new wealth.till ahead, trash talk. >> when ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't have to do anything, you just let them talk. >> outrage on and off the hard the stream is uniquely interactive television. in fact, we depend on you, your ideas, your concerns. >> all these folks are making a whole lot of money. >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> i think you've offended everyone with that kathy. >> hold on, there's some room to offend people, i'm here. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. >>> a huge spike in domestic oil production is helping to bring america just one step closer to energy independence, but the small towns on the frontier of the boom are finding that with big oil can come very big problems. we begin ourer isties dirty power with christof putzel. >> reporter: how would yo

when you look at the am of oil coming from mt, north dakota, and canada. debate has become symbolic but not substantial in terms of why we should proceed with this project. >> making the case with the market there charles. the trucks and the railway they are going to deliver it at more emissions than a pipeline would. >> this is the most open and shut case for any energy project, any project anywhere that i have ever seen. the ambassador spelled it out in minute detail. economically, in terms of national security, our dependence on the venezuelans and the middle east. but even on the terms that the opposition is arguing, greenhouse gases, it fails on its own terms. the oil will come through. the oil is coming through, and it comes through as he explained on rail and truck, which creates more emissions. there is no substantial ground on which to make the case. in fact, it's very dangerous. we know there was an accident with rail through quebec carrying oil that destroyed a town, killed -- burned to death 40 people instantly. and the other thing that he didn

. >>> north dakota is trying to milk a name for itself as the silicon valley of unmanned aerial drones. a group for the drone industries says north dakota decided years ago to focus on the issue and now the state has the first of its kind academic program to go along with an existing air force presence, financial incentives and plenty of airspace. next month researchers will begin flight testing an f.a.a. approved drone project in north dakota. >> the highway patrol issues an amber alert after a three-year-old girl is abducted by a stranger. what authorities are revealing about the abduction and the suspect. >> a dark shadow across the warriors and clippers' playoff series after comments made by the clippers' owner. >>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >>> it is 4:59. thanks for joining us. >> first up, a check on a changing wet forecast. break out the bikini. >> what? mike in bikini in i would like to see it. >> no, you wouldn't. maybe 30 years ago when i was a swimmer. we have a changing air mass and sunshine with temperatures in the low 60's and it felt warme

it just doesn't work that way. >> north dakota is on your list. >> boy. >> north dakota doing well because of endless oil coming out of the ground? >> you got it. there are a bunch of states like wyoming, alaska, they're got oil. california has a ton of oil, but they won't allow it to come out of the ground. it's a mixture of blessings and good public policy to exploit the resources the state. it's neat to see how it works time and time again over long periods. it's just amazing. >> always a pleasure to have you on the show and i hope you come back more regularly. >> reporter: well, i love it. thank you very much. >> chairman of laffer associates. art talked about those states that have oil. here's a question i get a lot. why does the price of oil behave like it does. i'm here to explain it to you. this is "real money." don't go anywhere. >> as america strives for energy independence... >> we can't do it on just solar panels or some wind turbines... >> we look to alternatives >> you are sitting on top of a time bomb >> and the familiar... >> it's amazing what oil can do for ya...black gold

the senator from north dakota. mr. hoeven: with due deference to the good senator, i understand his desire to make sure that people who are unemployed receive assistance, and i think that he truly is a champion in that effort. i appreciate the opportunity to work with him in a bipartisan way, but i would submit that this very legislation absolutely compliments what he is trying to do and does it in a number of ways. first in terms of a permanent, a real long-term solution, meaning getting those people back to work, but second in terms of paying for it, in terms of actually paying for the cost of unemployment insurance, these will -- these provisions -- this amendment and the other amendment that we are offering will actually help create revenue to do what the senator is trying to do, and for that reason i think it is absolutely complementary to the legislation at hand and will, in fact, add bipartisan support to passage of that legislation. let me cite one more, i think, extremely compelling study that relates to thi

of course, we know in many states where that is taking place like north dakota, the unemployment rateis very, very low. what other things do you think can take part-time workers to full time? >> look, the infrastructure bank both sides agree on, d.c. line, al goer was actually right about it, the problem was he was sprayed with human repellant somewhere in his life, every time he says something, everybody is against it. he's right about that. you put wind energy in west texas, north dakota, solar energy in southern arizona, can you take these places to met trop po liss, much easier than ac lines. this adds jobs. it would free up this renewable energy that is there and can be viable with d.c. plans, d.c. lines. >> so, jamill you heard tax cuts, fracking, what down of those as solutions to the part-time trend? >> well, the infrastructure bank for sure is something i agree with john on and this president has been calling for increase infrastructure spending but for partisan reasons, we have not been able to get people to come to the table in the same way they have during other times of r

you want a job go to north dakota. pockets of red, there aren't too many of them, are states are high unemployment rates. rhode island is 9%. it has got the highest in the country, and by the way it almost always has. we have come a long way, but more needs to be done to improve. now one way to judge whether we're on the right track is to look at forecasts that economists put together based on numbers they crunch. they predict uneven growth in the states they are in. unemployment in florida is 6.2%, and expected to drop to 5.3% in 2015. new jersey appeals to be a oldover where the state's slow recovery is slow going. the state is at 7.1%. it is expected to come down somewhat, still well above the 6% national rate that td says we'll see by 2015. massachusetts where eds and meds, education and hospitals as well as high-tech will continue creating jobs there bringing down the jobless rate to just 5.1% in 2005. we have coauthor on a new report on america's state of economics. he joins me from toronto. michael put some meat

north dakota and south texas is a great opportunity. let's do this right, figure out how if we are going to use the oil, do it in the most environmentally, the least impact. it is the challenge. from what travelling and talking to engineers, people in the community, i absolutely think they are up to the challenge. >> i ask you in a published interview, about something in the united states, particularly in texas, that is reaching energy independence and whether or not fracking and shale drilling was going to be the sort of miracle to reduce our dependence on the middle east in countries like venezuela where we don't have good relations. has that happened? >> no. we are not energy independent. we import a lot of oil. we are importing a lot less than we used to and five years ago we were very much dependent. we weren't independent because we had to do things around world to make sure the flow of oil kept coming. whether it was alliances of putting the fifth fleet somewhere. we are a position of importing so much less the weekend pick and c

north dakota organized and the georgia dairymen dumped their milk.ux city strike began, it was all over. although scattered protests continued throughout the nation, they were faint echoes of the anger that spilled over at sioux city. why was the strike unsuccessful? the milk dealers could find enough milk supply somewhere to thwart the desires of the dairy farmer. so there didn't seem to be much that farmers could do to improve their general lot. not individual action, not institutional activity, not even group protests and violence. economic analyst richard gill explains why farmers couldn't find their way out of this terrible economic predicament. there are really two points to be made here. the first is that the dairy farmers in sioux city and north dakota and georgia were not being at all irrational in trying to curtail milk supplies on the market. the reason it made sense from their point of view is that the demand for milk, like the demand for most agricultural products, tends to be what economists describe as inelastic. what this means is tha

this is this little town in north dakota of 15 people where a small group of white supremacists moved in. they attempted to basically set up homesteads and take over the town. the town of leith, at one point, considered disbanding itself, to stop these nazis from having anything take over. the leader of that band in leith, north dakota, is currently in jail facing seven charges including terrorizing the town officials in leith. but from jail, he reportedly had contact on saturday with the guy who on sunday went on to do those kansas city shootings. in 2009, the department of homeland security prepared a draft report on the national security threat of homegrown right-wing extremists in the united states. after a draft of the report was leaked, there was a huge backlash on the political right and on the fox news channel in particular. a huge backlash against the department of homeland security, even studying the possibility that there might be a threat of violence from right-wing extremists in this country. that final report was never released. the lead author of the report later said t

and i suspect that has to lead to a lot of spending and other industries in north dakota.here industries that spread the wealth more greatly than technology? >> new york city along similar lines looking at technology companies and the impact and one of the things of that is interesting about this rise in technology reletive to the .com boom is it is incorporating a larger section of adjacent technologies. it touches retail. these skills are broader as well. >> it is a very important point because it has the potential to spread jobs and growth across a broader area than people think. >> to the point, what are the government's actions that have aided in this and what could have been done to grow faster? >> i not sure you wanted to grow fast in san francisco. they were very encouraged and welcomed to tech firms. they offered very targeted tax breaks. it was very effective in encouraging the firms that were already thinking about moving to san francisco or staying there to do so. part of the lessons of new york and the san francisco, if the city's administration is focus on at

the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. hoeven: i rise to offer amendments to the unemployment insurance legislation that we're currently considering. while we all want to help those who are unemployed, the real solution is to get them a job, is to create a growing economy and more jobs. we need to get this economy going, and one way we can do it is by empowering our energy sector. now, that doesn't mean spending more government money. what it means is taking the shackles off billions in private investment that's ready to go into energy development in this country. in 2011, the u.s. chamber of commerce commissioned a study, and the study was -- took a look at the energy projects that are stalled in this country due to government bureaucracy and red tape. that study found that there are more than 350 energy projects, projects that will both produce renewable energy as well as projects that will produce traditional energy that are stalled at a cost of $1.1 trillion to the american economy and almost at a -- at a cost of almos

the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. hoeven: i'd like to thank the distinguished senator from kansas for his words today and for his support of this important project. i'd also like to turn to the distinguished senator from iowa, somebody who i know truly believes that we should have an all of the above energy approach, but that means actually doing -- not only producing from our traditional sources of fossil fuels but also our renewable sources but somebody who also understands that if we are truly going to have an all of the above energy plan in this state and do it, not just talk about it, we need the infrastructure to make it happen. and i would turn to the good senator from iowa and i would say isn't this the kind of vital infrastructure that this country needs in order to truly have an all of the above energy plan that works? mr. grassley: it's a jobs bill -- the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: thank you. it's a national security issue. it's sending messages around the world that we are not

. >> a federal judge overturns a ban on early pregnancies in north dakota. explain this.maria ines has the details. >> reporter: it's called the heartbeat law. it's a ban on abortions as early as six weeks or when doctors can detect a heartbeat. but a federal judge ruled the measure invalid and unconstitutional. it was signed into law last year. north dakota's attorney general said he's unsure what the state's next move will be. >>> the man behind the bomb scare in boston is being held on $1 million i in bail. the 25-year-old said he had a rice cooker inside his backpack. the incident happened hours after the ceremonies. his backpack was destroyed. >>> in ohio a judge ruled same-sex marriage of four couples must be recognized immediately. they are the one who is sued over the state's same-sex marriage ban. the judge put a stay on the rest of the ruling meaning the majority of gay married couples has to wait until the appeals process plays out. that is expected to take months. >>> the city manager of bell, california, has to pay back $8 million stolen from the city. robert

utah has the same operative language for extinguishing title hood of public lands as north dakota, south dakota, nebraska, louisiana, alabama. they simply have not honored that promise with the states in the west. that's what is happening now. because that have frustration, the complex patchwork that the professor called it is creating environmental and economic urgency throughout the west. you have forest that are sitting as tinderboxes and you have record fire conditions that are killing millions of animals, destroying water shed and habitat for decades. you've got wild horses issues where under their own plans, their own regulations the federal government is showed to limit the wild horse population in a particular southern utah area 300 wild horses yet there are 2,000 wild horse there is, and their population is doubling every four to five years. destroying the ecosystem, and their solution because they don't have the money is to reduce cattle grazing by 50%. what is happening now the states are saying, look, the promises of statehood are the same. you've kept that promise with state

harrod hamm is a pioneer in the bakken region in north dakota.e is billionaire who's company produces 150,000 barrels of oil a day. forbes magazine says he is the man fuelling america's future. he is on the cover of the magazine this month. we have the author of that article. chris, thank you for joining us. you just heard don talking not just about the oil that comes from canada, but also the bakken shale. hamm looked at that, and said i can get the oil out of here, and he is doing that. >> yeah, the bakken has been an absolutely fabulous find for america. it is producing 1 million barrels a day. and if you pair the bakken of north dakota with the eagle folder shale of texas, that's about 3.4 million barrels of day of oil that the united states was not producing just five years ago. this is the real keystone of the american energy boom. we are producing 800 million barrels a year of our own oil that in years past we would have been forced to buy from opec, saudi arabia, russia. >> so if you look at the bakken, there are two things that are going

long the regional distribution center for heating oil it was shipments out of north dakota to refineries up and down the east coast. but the refineries caught many by surprise. >> the state is preempted by the federal government in terms of its regulation of the railways, and in a sense this has snuck up on all of us while we're busy keeping fracking out of new york. >> reporter: it was just two years ago when global partners, a leadershipper of oil by rail sent its first pay through albany. today it handles 1.8 billion gallons of the flammable oil each year. now new yorkers may have more reason to fear. local partners is looking to expand in albany and a new terminal north of new york city. global partners has not returned al jazeera's calls for comment, but the federal railroad administration insists when it comes to crude oil safety is it's top priority. according to spokesperson kevin thomson, federal regulators have ordered advisories, held public hearings and have been conducting unannounced spot inspections. they're drawing up rules to retrofit train cars to meet new safety standa

you need to look no further than north dakota and the it's unemployment rates plummeting. but the fact of the matter is any time you have anything going on with fracking, with the production of oil and gas there are basically concerns about problems that can arise. it really comes down to not necessarily is fracking, are the problems going to outweigh the economics, but how safe is it. >> and representative of th of e petroleum industry said they will make it safer. but the oil companies could have figured it out years ago. they just didn't bother. >> i think there were safety measures that could have been taken. when you hear someone say that we'll figure it out as we go along, that's not large comfort to people who consider this to be a high probability event. but i think the problem is that fracking is considered to be this kind of catch-all phrase, and the hydraulic fracturing itself in the completion of the well may not necessarily be the problem, but it may be associated pieces with that, the completion of the well in terms of the casing and cement, which is part of

and lots of clusters like north dakota. >> miami airport. and in front flew huge [inaudible conversations] >> executive editor for bloomberg news and i ever see the washington bureau. thank you so much for coming out here tonight to test john allen and amy on their incredible achievement of their book the state's biggest secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton. john and amy are appreciative of your support. thank you for coming out. sorry. a few comments. nobody -- interesting in american political life van hillary clinton and she has inspired a great deal of curiosity. john and amy have it all. they hit the best-seller lists, number 6. big hand for that. just a few words, john. when we will talk about amy. bloomberg news hired john just a couple weeks before the book came out. it was my fastest and perhaps my smartest higher ever. not many reporters that you hire immediately go to the best-seller list but it was easy to fall in love with john. he is warm, he is funny and he completely won meal for when i asked why he decided to write a b

oil drawn out of north dakota is saturated with more flammable gas. people distinct think crude oil could explode until it did in the trains. >> how do the communities along the rail that carries the trains and oil - how do they respond to this? >> i think with a fair bit of alarm. there was an accident in july, in quebec. an oil train crashed in the middle of an up to, killing 47, levelled part of the town. you know, for oil by rail, that was its version of the exxon val deez. it mobilized regulation to address oil moving in tankers. the question now is whether states and the federal government are going to mobilize in the same way to address the risks of oil moving. what information do folks have. if you see an explosion, obviously the train tracks are carrying oil. if you don't have a problem, how do you find outside whether oil is coming by or through your neighbourhood. >> rail roads are secretive. it has been very difficult for me to learn what is moving around oregon. i have been reporting about this for months and am still fighting the departm

he began his career deeply engaged in state issues at the north dakota state commissioner. so when you understand the optimism, the jovial spirit that senator dorgan calls in the reserve, you understand it started out as commissioner for more than a couple years in north dakota. you can always count on byron dorgon for at least one gerson keillor quote. i now convened a panel on a number of our leading commissioners and look forward to a very engaging day. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] there's an old saying that the jury has 100 fathers and defeat is an arcane. i wouldn't be surprised if the information in regard to other recent activities. >> we are just talking about the fact that the interrogation last week at the committee senator goldwater asking questions about the use of the carrier aircraft from s.b. carrier aircraft after we figure that somebody over there has told them about that thing on wednesday morning and will spring up where goldwater is going to going to spring it in such a way that it looks like there's u.s. air cover and you are wrong an

. >>> a federal judge over turns a ban on early abortions until north dakota t. >>> tony, north dakotacalled the heartbeat law and it's a ban on abortions as early as six weeks or when doctors can detect a heart beat but a federal judge ruled the measure invalid and unconstitutional. it was signed into law by the governor last year. the attorney general says he is looking at whether to appeal the decision. the man behind yesterday's bomb scare in boston is being held on $100,000 bail, kevin edison is charged with a hoax device and making a false bomb threat. he said the 25-year-old said he had a rice cooker inside his backpack. it happened hours after the ceremony's marking last year's bombing. >> the world literacy summit is underway. the state with the lowest literacy rate is mississippi where teaching the poor how to read at an early age is one of the biggest challenges. john hendrik reports >> reporter: sometimes the best award for children's literacy is kind of a first aid. before she can teach the todaylers at her child care center, she has to take on the crimin chip ling hardshi

places like fayetteville in north dakota.ensacola yesterday evening within one hour we had over 5 inches of rain. that wasn't the total, that was within one hour. so it has been very significant. here is that flooding i was talk about. north carolina, you can see a car submerged. it only takes a few inches to knock over a person, and a foot or two can move your car. so you don't want to drive into this and get yourself stuck. all of these flood concerns are now spreading their way up the coastline. combined with that, though, the fact that we're still going to have really warm air into the southeast. there is a dividing line of the warm air where we still have the risk of strong storms today. >> thank you very much. for more details on the flooding we have been following, head to our website, you can see more on the science behind those tornados. go to aljazeera.com and click on u.s. for the latest headlines. >>> donald sterling receiving the harshest punishment in the history of the league. >> nba commissioner adam silver ad

pennsylvania is benefiting from that and so are states like north dakota. >> why is it radical in peoples minds durinpeople'sminds duringl debates, and i know that rick perry felt nobody would answer but when asked what departments would you eliminate. it's strange but it almost seems jarring to people that don't pay a lot of attention and you talk about eliminating departments in the federal government like education or the epa, some people just act like you've taken the lord lord's name in vr something. >> time after time the strides in education are happening at the state level and at the federal governmenthe federalgovs unions are not trying to help the students but you see that in new york with the dc scholarships this is hoping poor minority children into the evidence is so clear it's beginning to unite the right and left around the country. it's one of those issues that we need to bring more into the spotlight as conservatives. but it goes back to federalism. we need to get control out of washington and remind americans to cause we don't want the federal government to do it if mean

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i mean, if you think about it, the only people who can't get jobs in north dakota are people who can't pass the drug test that they know is coming. and wages have shot higher and so wherever there is a demand for labor and less labor, wages are going to go up. gerri: i got to tell you, brian, there are a lot of people waiting for a turn in the job market. the long-term unemployed in this country, 3.8 million. many of these are white collar older workers. 35 and older. they're desperate for a true improvement. they want to know if this is real. are these mcdonald's jobs? are these middle income, you know, management positions, where people have responsibility and make some money? >> yeah, i think they span the full spectrum of what you just mentioned, gerri. the economy has grown slowly over the past five years, but it's grown, in fact, we have 48 straight months of private sector job gains but in most communities, the unemployment rate is still high, and i want argue the reason wages haven't kept up with inflation as much as they might have in the 1990s or in the 1980s, the reason the

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it happened in medina, north dakota. and as roger o'neil reports, the men who got away are members of posse comitatus, a militant anti-tax group. >> police were trying to arrest 53-year-old gordon kahl of midland, texas for violating probation on an income tax evasion conviction. kahl is described as a fanatical opponent of taxes. he was formerly a farmer in north dakota and was attending an anti-tax meeting of farmers at this clinic in medina. kahl, a member of the radical anti-tax group posse comitatus is known to be armed and dangerous. authorities said in the past kahl has said he would not be taken alive. >> gordon kahl ended up escaping to arkansas, and he was killed in a shootout in arkansas. that was 1983. a little less than a decade later, in 1992, it was a white supremacist in ruby ridge, idaho. he'd sold some sawed-off shotguns to somebody who turned out to be an undercover atf agent. he ended up going to jail, getting released on bail, not turning up for his trial. when federal marshals turned up at his place

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the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. ms. heitkamp: thank you so much. i want to thank our great friend and leader from the state of maryland for continuing her hard work. i wonder if she ever wakes up in the morning and wonders when it's ever going to be done, when we'll see justice and i think she's learned over the years that until you stand up, every day, and lived that life and live a life where you're trying to make positive change in america, it doesn't doesn't get done. she is somebody who has never given up. i think it's interesting because north dakota like west virginia is one of those states where actually women earn less than men and below the national average less than men. but when you look at the national average, 77%, that is a horrible, horrible statistic. but you know what's really horrible? it's really horrible if you live that statistic. not one person in this body lives that statistic. we're all treated equally. it doesn't matter, you know, what gender we are, if we are members of congress, we're treated equally. can you imagine wha

train in casselton, north dakota, struck another train, igniting 10 cars and spilling 400,000 gallons of crude oil. ethanol, which is also increasingly carried by rail, was the cargo in a 2009 train derailment in cherry valley, illinois. one person was killed in that accident. now, the national transportation safety board is working with other agencies on new steps to improve the safety of the rail shipments. >> woodruff: for the record, b.n.s.f. railway is a newshour underwriter. >> announced they will phase out older rail cars like the ones involved in the quebec accident by may 2017. between 65 and 80-- 80,000 of them are carrying flammable liquides in north america. this week the u.s. in addition transportation safety board has been meeting on these very issues. and i'm joined now by its chairman deborah hersman, welcome to the newshour. >> hello. >> woodruff: is there a consensus on why there have been as many accidents as there have been with explosions and the kind of mayhem we've seen? >> so i think the important thing to understand is we can prevent these accidents. so we've

as authorities searched the area near medina, north dakota, for gordon call.tive for two years after violating his parole for a conviction for refusing to file federal income taxes started in 1967. call, who died in 1983, in a shoot-out with local and federal authorities, and it's the sheriff of lawrence county, arkansas, that was also killed, had been a member of the posse comatatis, a radical anti-semitic group founded by a retired dry cleaning executive and one-time neo-nazi named henry beach. beach and his followers believed that the federal government had been subverted we a criminal conspiracy and that it had lost its legitimacy and that the highest police authority they had to answer to was the local sheriff. who would call up posses if need be. so-called common law, which conveniently they created for themselves. they refused to pay income taxes mostly, which the group believed xused solely to loot and plunder the wealth produced by the sovereign individual. groups like this, which were sometimes called the sovereign citizens movement, claimed that the