north dakota's growth and personal income is fuelled by our state's robust economy. over the past ten years ago was dakota's economy has averaged an annual growth rate of 10.3% near the three times that of the nation's economy. week continues have the nation's lowest unemployment rate at just 2.4% and growing commercial activity has created a 106,000 new jobs. and population decline, a population is growing with the nation's fastest-growing revelations throughout the state. two years ago the census bureau reported north dakota has reached a new record population of new rayburn house office building 40,000 residents. north dakota is also getting younger. a major shift in the long term demographics and a sign of the state's bright future, bright prospects for the future. our growth is allowing north dakota to stake close to home. it is attracting new presidents from across the country. kobe lynn told me he was astonished at what he saw when he traveled from new york city to north dakota in 2007 to visit a friend. and a few isolated towns, and the metro areas, he said he

north dakota is now producing more than a million barrels of oil a day. ten years ago there were fewer than 200 oil-producing wells in the bakken. now there are more than 8,000. >> they call it boomtown usa this is where all the money is. it's crazy the amount of money you can make here. >> this rapid pace of development and the flood of workers coming here, has given north dakota the lowest unemployment rate in the us. but it's also raised questions over the dangers of working in the oil fields. >> the more jobs you complete, the more money you make. the faster you complete them the faster you can get to the next job. let's say i mean you take your time. if you be safe you are not i bet you could cut your pay in half. >> fault lines spent six months investigating some of the risks in north dakota's oil fields and uncovered a dark side to the boom. >> a lot of these workers come to north dakota, get chewed up and go home to recover. i get calls from attorneys in other states all asking the same question. what in the hell is going on up there? >> thousands

big cities lure away in north dakota youth. in other publications around this time or even last balanced with one "the new york times" providing the ridiculous notion that the best economic option for the great plains would be to turn the entire region into a vast nature park or buffalo commons and we always knew better. now the entire nation knows better as well. this was published in april and shows how the people of every county in the nation have fared in terms of personal income between 2007 and 2012. the counties in dark brown showed the greatest gain in personal income. north dakota was the only state to show gains in personal income in every single county. more recent data shows the north dakota per capita income continues to be among the nations highest and in fact the personal income is steadily risen since 2004 from 13% below the national average to 19% above the national average. the economic progress -- [applause] >> or economic progress has not been confined to oil country. the growth in personal income is fueled

attorney for north dakota. >> it was unprecedented. i had -- i've been u.s. attorney now for going on four years. this is the only time we reached out to a school system, to the university and said hey, there's this danger on the streets right now that people need to be aware about. >> as the emergency warnings were being issued, investigators were desperately trying to find out just what this drug was, and more importantly where it came from. >> it took lab analysis to determine the true nature of these substances. when we learned what they were, 2 cinbome, 2 ccbome, that was new to us. >> 2 cinbome and 2 ccnbome are synthetic designer drugs, chemicals designed to simulate the the high of the banned drug lsd. these drugs are so potent a dose the size avenue a few grains of salt is enough to get high. north dakota's top federal drug prosecutor had never heard of them, and neither had christian bju bjurk's parents. >> i had to go to the internet and look up information on it. and i really didn't understand the whole synthetic drug. i didn't know what it was. i

north dakota senator john hoeven is a sponsor of the bill. he spoke on the floor, along with supporters and those who opposed the legislation. this is a little less than two hours. senator joe manchin and actually a total of 60 sponsors, i have filed s. 1, which is the keystone approval bill. it's a very simple, straightforward bill. this is legislation that we've seen before in this body. what it does is under the commerce clause of the constitution it authorizes congress to approve the keystone x.l. pipeline project. i have got this chart here to show you the project. it runs from hardisty in alberta, canada, all the way down to our refineries in texas along the gulf coast. this project will move 830,000 barrels of oil a day. some of that will be oil from canada. some of that will be domestic oil from the back an region -- bakken region in montana and north dakota. this is part of the building the infrastructure so we can build a comprehensive energy plan for our country. we're producing more and more oil and gas in our country from the sha

i thank the senator from north dakota. i know we're going to be going back and forth on this issue and that we have speakers coming later this morning and we're going to have time divided but i appreciate the senator of north dakota allowing us to join in the debate this morning and make a few mountains. and i do want to say i appreciate the senator from north dakota's hard work on the energy committee in general and i look forward to working with him on many energy policies. he and i have worked together on a couple of different agricultural issues, and i certainly appreciate his due diligence. but needless to say i don't agree with the process of moving forward with this motion to proceed to the keystone pipeline bill. many of my colleagues here are going to be coming down, talking about the issues. two of my colleagues including the senators from utah and arkansas along with the senator of north dakota, brought up a couple of different points, but in my mind, they are talking about a 19th century energy policy in fossil

i yield back to the senator from north dakota. mr. hoeven: you're hearing from somebody who's there, who is a talking to the people, where this project is going to be located. one of the states that it passes through. so i thank him for his perspective and for his hard work and commend him for being here and for his continued efforts, not toll not only to work with our caucus but to reach out to the democratic caucus as well and find common ground on this important issue. something that the senator from west virginia said just a minute ago is let's focus on the facts. let's focus on the facts. because i think the more understanding we create as to what the facts are this gets done on the merits. so i want to turn to the senator from wyoming somebody who's got long experience with energy, somebody who comes from an energy state a state that produces a variety of energy sourcessers and pose the same question to him and in terms of focusing on the facts whether it is the environmental aspect, whether it is the jobs, whether it's making o

pipeline will carry 830,000 barrels of oil a day, including 100,000 barrels of domestic oil from north dakota and montana. working with one of our closest friends and allies, canada, we can achieve true north american energy security at home, and at the same time help our allies abroad, which makes our people more secure both here and overseas. the oil and gas we are producing in north america is already changing the global geo-political dynamic, weakening petro-dependent states like russia, iran, and venezuela and strengthening america?. domestic energy production is also good news for american families and small businesses because increased supply is reducing the price of gas at the pump and putting more money in their pockets. lower prices at the pump, down by more than 60 cents a gallon from a year ago, will have the equivalent effect of cutting taxes in the u.s. by between $100 billion and $125 billion, according to economists. that is a tremendous boon to the american economy because energy is a foundational industry. virtually every other industry sector depends on it and does better w

north dakota is already an expensive place to drill for oil. transportation costs are higher here than in places closer to gulf coast refineries, $10 per barrel or more. so the drop in prices makes things even harder for companies drilling in the bakken. with oil prices in free-fall, companies like emerald oil are suddenly cautious. it's a small company based in denver with just 50 wells, not much by oilfield standards. ceo mcandrew rudisill says he's drilling fewer wells next year. >> no one wants to lose money drilling an oil well. so everyone is going to pull back because of where oil prices are right now. >> reporter: niles hushka is the ceo of a large engineering firm based in bismarck, north dakota. he says companies of all sizes are starting to feel the slowdown. >> almost on a weekly basis there's some new announcement of companies cutting back on the number of rigs that they have or possibly re-deploying those rigs into more highly productive zones. >> reporter: he's seen plenty of booms and busts before in his 30 plus years as an engi

>> let me ask you this i spent the last week week and a half ago in north dakota.th dakota's entire economy is propped up on oil and they have unemployment below 1%. oil is below 50 bucks and they're seeing thousands and thousands of layoffs. when you look at january to november of last year only 27% of the oil that we used in this country is from elsewhere and we have a booming, you know native oil industry in this country and we're seeing some of these rigs shut off because the price of oil is so low. is now the time to be fighting for this? >> well think about the benefit that the public is enjoying from the fact that we are producing more. you're seeing lower prices at the pump and people appreciate that. that's more money in their pockets so when we talk about supply mattering, it matters if it comes from this country. so we have these jobs so we can again, work to not only reduce costs to american family but to have good jobs that are out there. >> but senator -- >> we have the opportunity to access the resources. >> serb tor, before i let you go we're seeing

people in willis ton, north dakota hope they don't become the center of a bocking bust. in the western edge of north dakota has been one of the greatest economic success stories of the past decade. as oil prices rose production rose. from 165,000 to more than 1 million barrels per day in just five years. with that surge came jobs. high paying ones. oil field workers and truck drivers can earn more than $100,000 per year. help wanted signs are everywhere. there's more jobs th people to fill them but people have incomecome all over the world and some bring everything in their car and some sleeping in their car because housing is so expensive. they have little in common except looking to cash in on the american dream. >> two years. i think about 1400 rooms across two or three. about 7 or 8 hotels planned. >> reporter: producing oil here is expensive though. the ground is hard. drilling takes more work. most analysts put the average cost to bring a barrel of oil out of the ground at around $70 a barrel. and with oil's recent collapse in price below that level, people here wh

north dakota really, really needs you.this is a job listing for inspector for the smaller variety of pipelines that crisscross the state transferring oil and gas and saltwater and all other kinds of stuff related to drilling. there are 20,000 miles of what they call gathering pipelines, these smaller pipelines all across north dakota. 20,000 miles. they estimate there will be 50,000 miles before long. the total number of people currently employed by the state to inspect those pipelines is europe. the state posted for an inspector for the larger natural pipelines. that department is doing a little better. they've got two inspector jobs and one of them's filled. so, yeah, maybe it's not that surprising to learn that one of the five pipelines that has burst so far this month in this country, the one that spilled 3 million gallons of toxic drilling brine near the town of williston, north dakota, this month, that pipeline was never inspected. it has never had an inspection, ever. north dakota's in the midst of a drilling boom.

the senator from north dakota for her remarks. the "washington times" does today president and ceo of the american petroleum institute said falling oil prices have empowered the united states and weakened opec and russia underscore russia and increased u.s. production has fundamentally reordered the world market. this is a national security issue. this is an issue where russia and i think the breakeven point for them is 110 barrels per oil. they never thought this would happen. their entire economy is at stake and hopefully it would cause mr. vladimir putin to stop and think a minute about some of the antics around the world and in addition the pipeline represents not only the pipeline and everything to distinguish senator has brought up but really a symbol that says we are going to go ahead with all of our energy production and we are going to go all of the above here. this is an either/or with green projects are fossil fuels or whatever so if you vote for the pipeline you are voting for something that affects our national securi

it should be shell producers in north dakota should cut back to help oil production. prince from saudi arabia said one of the positive side affects is that we'll see how many shell oil production companies run out of business. what is your reaction to that? >> as americans we are appreciating the lower gas prices but we are in a energy war here. we have changed the nature of energy with oil from shell like the bak en and eagle ferd. it is interesting that opec talk about north dakota and talk about what we are doing. we have to try and maintain and cut our costs and buckle down the hatches here to make the oil plays more competitive at lower prices and everybody should recognize it is a world issue and we are strongly in support of exports of crude oil. that would strengthen america's place in the world in terms of deliveries. >> i am serious about the final point. you described it as a energy war. what do you need help to make sure you don't go out of business and you don't have too many of your industry go out of business? >> one thing we can do in america, we have

we'll drill down in north dakota. the number two u.s. oil producing state, and cnbc's 10 th best state for business. of course, it gets much of the energy and money from energy. how is it fairing with the collapse of crude prices? the governor of north dakota joins us next. ♪ ♪ [ radio chatter ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] andrew. rita. sandy. ♪ ♪ meet chris jackie joe. minor damage or major disaster, when you need us most, we're there. state farm. we're a force of nature, too. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back to "power lunch," shares of johnson and johnson, the second worse performing today, moving lower after being down agreed from a sell rate -- to a sell rating from a neutral. they drove the company's growth and valuation subsiding based on diminishing pipeline flow. the shares down by 2 %, sue, on today's trade. back to you zplp. >> thanks, dom. adding to the banks misses falling short of the forecasts, sinking 4% on trading session respectively. target calling it quits in canada. the decision costing the retail giant $5 .4 billion in losses impacti

a lot of people are real scared about it. >> reporter: this is williston, north dakota.ight on main street, and this is oil country. they call it black gold and for workers here it's meant steady work and great pay. the latest unemployment rate, less than 1%. but with oil falling from 100 bucks to less than 50 what happens to boomtown if the boom goes bust? >> i hope that they've done a lot of planning and preparation in case the oil does go away. >> reporter: because it could. >> because it very well could. >> reporter: it's winter on the great plains over north dakota's oil fields. >> a native of liberia, john roberts came here for better work. he made $18 an hour driving oil workers to and from the rigs. but when oil prices fell he and thousands more were laid off. >> i need a job right now. i need to eat. i need to gas my car. i still have a farm in iowa. i need to take care of that ranch. >> reporter: you have four kids back in liberia that rely on you making money. >> rely on me. >> reporter: the vast wealth pumped out from the shale that lies below these towns isn

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i appreciate the gentleman from north dakota for all his efforts on it. >> thank you, mr. stivers, welcome to the committee. mr. cull lins. -- collins. >> i appreciate being here and being recognized. one of the things that was cussed. the process. how much more process does this need? how many more times do we need to practice on the field when the comeback of jobs, secondary jobs, money invested, it is sort of interesting that i believe there was no interest in the pipeline, there would not be an interest in the permit. the idea of is it going to get built or not is not a concern, because we're still here. people keep coming back to this. it is amazing to me, we continue this conversation, let's move it by train, the least safest way professor at georgia tech who, the only argument was, there's other ways in the environment, we're scared of -- you're arguing to move it by a nonenvironmentally friendly way when you can look toward a pipeline? that's the part i struggle with. i want to take this moment to say, the one thing that shows process here is regulatory burden in t

i mean, north dakota also grows sugar beets. we are very familiar with the importance of fair free trade in our hemisphere and the importance of what happens when it's not adhered to by our partners. so we need to keep all the protections in place as well. that's why i think, and this is a heavy lift, but that's why i think incrementally we can make the case to our colleagues based on the spread of democracy, based on the economic opportunities for our farmers as well as others, manufacturers, intellectual developers, you know, who knows? imagine the infrastructure opportunities that maybe, you know water pumpers in north dakota and texas might have in a place like cuba as they rebuild and build to meet the demands of the current century as opposed to the last one. there is no end to those opportunities in my view. we still have -- we have to have a relationship for that to happen. we can do it with a short leash and test it incrementally. we can open it up little by little and provide assurances to those colleagues of ours in b

oil from north dakota and montana out of the bakken formation, our state alone north dakota produces 1.2 million barrels of oil a day. that's how much oil we produce in our state. second only to the state of texas. 1.2 million barrels of oil a day we produce but because we don't have enough pipelines, we have to move 700,000 barrels a day on rail. now we're trying to move a.g. ag goods, we have all kinds of other products we produce with the states in our region, south dakota minnesota montana but we have tremendous congestion on our rails because we're putting more and more oil on rails. 700,000 barrels a day's a and growing as we to ingrow our production. so we need more pipelines. what you see on this diagram is the original keystone pipeline that was constructed and built when i was governor of north dakota and this yellow line shows the sister pipeline we're trying to build. but as you can see this goes right through our state and of course the new pipeline goes right next to our state but the whole point is we want to put 100,000 barrels a day, at least for starters, 100,000 ba

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we've studied this in great depth in north dakota. so from an environmental standpoint it is better. with regard to the price of the oil, that is a compelling reason to approve more pipelines. the difference in moving oil by train versus a pipeline is the difference of $10. now you have that margin -- you have a little bit of wiggle room at $100 a barrel. you have none at $50 a barrel, or $40 a barrel. the other thing we haven't talked about is that one of the negotiated deals between the states of north dakota and montana in support of this process 2,301 days ago with transport with canada at least 100,000 barrels of day for capacity would be reserved is for bach and crude. we now move 70% of bach and crude by rail. we've all seen challenges with rail. safety is a major one. but 71% clogs a transportation system that is equipped, and frankly, required to move food to hungry people, commodities to markets, around the world. that 100,000 barrels of capacity a day freed up off our railroads is ten trains a week moving food rather than o

. >> hi, i'm senator john hoeven from north dakota and i'd like to talk to you about why i believe we should pass legislation to approve the keystone xl pipeline, and why making it the first bill we take up in the new congress is important. i want to start, however, with some good news we got yesterday from nebraska. the nebraska supreme court has decided that their state has properly determined the route of the keystone kl pipeline. now, only the federal government is holding it up, and that's unfortunate because the keystone xl pipeline is all about energy, jobs, economic growth, and national security. along with roads, rail, and transmission lines, pipelines like the keystone xl are part of a comprehensive national energy plan. the pipeline will carry 830,000 barrels of oil a day, including 100,000 barrels of domestic oil from north dakota and montana. working with one of our closest friends and allies, canada, we can achieve true north american energy security at home, and at the same time help our allies abroad, which makes our people more secure both here and overseas. the oil a

north dakota is now producing more than a million barrels of oil a day.ears ago there were fewer than 200 oil-producing wells in the bakken. now there are more than 8,000. >> they call it boomtown usa this is where all the money is. it's crazy the amount of money you can make here. >> this rapid pace of development and the flood of workers coming here, has given north dakota the lowest unemp

"newsmakers", republican senator john hoeven of north dakota is our guest. he is responsible for a bill currently in the senate that would authorize the construction of the keystone xl pipeline. >> the present __ president has been quite critical of the pipeline. he has been saying that the jobs are temporary, and therefore not as good as perhaps some other broader infrastructure jobs. he has said that it will not lower gasoline prices. what i want to hear from you is what you think of these negative comments? do you think it signals that he will reject this pipeline? >> we have addressed every one of those criticisms. we actually use it own administrations environmental

north dakota has some of the lowest unemployment rates highest growth rates in the economy out there. think there are a lot of lessons. republicans, to their credit, have in many ways latched onto this as a political issue. expanding energy production, happy not just north dakota, what is the caller mentioned pennsylvania, colorado -- this is a huge issue, energy independence that republicans are uniquely qualified to talk about and promote. host: democrats line. ruth. go ahead. guest: i can give you all three republican candidates. they might be popular but none of them would -- yes, i can give you all three republican candidates, and they would be popular, but none of them would make it and would make it a win for democrats. jeb bush, besides fracking, one word, enron. he was very much involved with that. chris christie, the hurricane money -- he did not take care of a lot of the towns that are still completely devastated from the hurricane. and reagan -- i mean, romney -- oh this man is trying to run on his father's background. his father and him are two completely different people

>> we don't talk enough about north dakota so we can talk about it now. looks like there's chatter there about whether or not heidi hicm will run for governor in 2016. she's not up for governor. if she runs she could keep our senate senate. she would be up against the current governor dalrimple. shoo she wins she could appoint a successor on republicans making prospects and noise and putting bills forward to prevent that little technicality, so she wouldn't be able to do that, but that's a little chatter going on inned in north carolina now -- north dakota in some movement. >> keep an eye on it. you're right we never talk about north dakota. >>> a bit of a parallel as we look forward to the 2016 presidential race the question is whether liberals can convince elizabeth warren to challenge hillary clinton for the democratic presidential nomination. ma are yo cuomos faced similar in 1991 and 1929 at bill clinton was openly critical of his democratic party being too liberal. deadline day for filing in the new hampshire primary there was a play for governor cu

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we studied this in north dakota. that is a compelling reason to approve more pipelines.the difference in moving oil pie train versus a pipeline is a difference of $10. now, that -- you have that margin, you have a little bit of wiggle room at $100 a barrel. you have none at $50 a barrel or $40 a par lbarrel. one of the negotiated deals between the states of north dakota and montana in support of this process, 2301 days ago, with transcanada, was at least 100,000 barrels per day of capacity would be reserved for back and crude. we now move 71% of back and crude by rail. all seen the challenges with rail. safe city a major one but 71% clogs a transportation system that is equipped and frankly required to move food to hungry people commodities to markets, around the world. so that 100,000 barrels per day of capacity freed up off of our railroads is ten trains a week of moving food rather than oil. i'm for trains, all the above transportation is important, but 71% is an inappropriate i think, imbalance. and so for those reasons, 2301 days is long enough for both -- for the p

we stud yesterday this in great department in north dakota. from an environmental standpoint it's better. with regard to the price of oil, that is a compelling reason to approve more pipelines. the difference in moving oil by train versus a pipeline is a difference of $10. you have that margin -- you have a little bit of wiggle room at $100 a barrel and you have none at $40 or $50 a barrel. one of the negotiated deals between the states of north dakota and montana in support of this process 2,301 days ago that at least 100,000 of barrels a day would be reserved for bark and crude. we move 71% by rail. we have seen the challenges with rail. safety is a major one. but 71% that is equipped and frankly required to move food to hungry people, commodities to markets around the world. so that 100,000 barrels per day freed off of our railroads is 10 trains a week. i'm for trains. all of the above transportation is important, but 71% is an inappropriate i think imbalance. for those reasons 2,301 days is long enough for the president and congress. you k

you're in north dakota.because of the fracing and drilling there that you can see your state in space. >> a fairly new wrinkle, i suppose, you weren't planning on. >> i will tell you, you raised a very important point and another reason -- gathering lines for that natural gas has resulted in the very unfortunate outcome of bringing gas into the atmosphere and all the greenhouse gases with it without adding any value to that gas. another good reason we need more pipeline, not fewer. >> i'm very much aware of nebraska's concerns that the ak aqua for that covers the united states. >> i'm familiar with the ogallala aquafor it does cover much of nebraska which is why a different route might have been better. that said, there are lots -- i mean, thousands -- i'm sure the chairman would know exactly how many millions of miles of oil and gas and other petroleum product pipelines there are underneath the earth. there are safeguards in place should there be a leak, an accident. i'll tell you a story about the original

of course, that's north dakota. here's a california business that trusts its customers.y farm sells jams with no cashiers. jim who runs that farm stand says they don't rip them off. the customers don't? >> no. it's amazing. it's really quite a phenomenon. we do thousands of dollars' worth of business every day. it's quite amazing to see people experience it for the first time. stossel: at first you did this because you were busy. there weren't that many customers. you couldn't afford to have a cashier there all the time but now you have all these customers. you're leaving change available in the open 50 to $100. and people are honest? >> yeah. and sometimes somebody from germany or chicago will show up and start scratching their head. and another customer will come up and say here's how you do it. you make your change here. they go through a period of disbelief. and then they finally get adjusted to the idea, and sure enough, they do it. then, of course they want to have their picture taken next to it. stossel: some say this is because your farm is in a small town. the t

. >> osgood: the elk horn ranch in the north dakota bad lands was refuge for future president of the united states during the darkest period of his life. mo rocca will go there this morning. >> after 25-year-old new yorker teddy roosevelt lost his wife and his mother in a single day he needed to get far far away. >> he knew he had to do something to restore his soul. he knew he had to get a place where there would be sol dude but enjoy really vigorous, hard working life. >> the land that would transform teddy roosevelt. ahead on "sunday morning." >> osgood: acclaimed broadway musical is on tour for much of the new year. plenty of preparation and rehearsal. david pogue got a back stage glimness. ♪ >> 40 more days to put together a very complicated broadway show. >> curtain going up on what it takes to send a hit musical on a national tour. for lucy arnaz the high wire act. >> you wanted to do what? >> now? >> "pippen" on tour coming up on "sunday morning." >> osgood: the unlikely story of jeff kinney behind the wimpy kid book. and a losing basketball team turn around. burbank is havin