it is buried here in the windy sands of northern alberta, and people want more oil to fill their cars and fly their airplanes. the canadians decided to develop this oil sand at breakneck speed. the reserves are the size of florida. digging up the sand and separating oil is complicated and used to be too expensive, but new technology has brought the cost of production down. now profits are up, and this moonscape attracts investors from around the world. smith >> this is where the work is. this is where the money is. >> she is a long way from home. she came here from the philippines initially as a nanny but was quickly drawn to oil. now the tiny woman drives a monster truck. >> i can go anywhere i want. i can buy anything i need. i am supporting my family and relatives, so it changed my life compared to when i was a nanny. >> the oil has created a modern- day gold rush. the town has doubled in size and the path decade. you can almost see the horses and saloons, but for people who have lived here for 30 years, the speed of development has alarming environmental consequences. >> the foot

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i grew up in a small town in northern alberta. what we could read when i was a kid was "peace river record gazette," our local paper once a week. listen to cbc. and "edmonton journal," delivered at 6:00 at night by greyhound from edmonton. that was it. today, my dad, who's a farmer and very interested in the global story because farmers are all insane futures traders. insane. and they can now actually trade futures from their tractors because they are gps and wi-fi-enabled. so they care a lot about china. he now every morning reads reuters because i run the website. bloomberg. "new york times." ft. "wall street journal." and he can do that from his tractor and his field where he is this afternoon. to sort of feel like information has been cut off to people, it sort of depends on where you were in the information space. and i also very strongly agree with rebecca's point about the internet being tremendously empowering in terms of access to stuff around the world. i was a foreign correspondent in the former soviet union about ten y

i grew up in a small town in northern alberta.d when i was a kid was peace river record is that, our local paper, once a week. and the edmonton journal, which was delivered at about 6:00 at night by greyhound from edmonton. that was it. today, my dad is a former and very interested in the global story because the farmers are all in saying futures traders predicted actually trade futures from their tractors because they are gps and wifi enable. so they care a lot about china. he reads reuters, bloomberg, the new york times, and the wall street journal. he can do that from a tractor in his field. if you feel like information has been cut off from people, it depends on where you are in the information space. i agree strongly with rebecca's point about the internet been tremendously in powering in terms of access to step around the world. i was a foreign correspondent in the soviet union for about 10 years. when i first started, someone who became my ex-boyfriend said being a foreign correspondent is not that hard if you can read russ

northern part of minnesota. down south we've seen some storms. there could be severe weather today in atlanta and south carolina. but you track this cluster of storms. that's alberta, what's left. not even a depression anymore. we're watching some clouds break up to our south and west. as we look at the future cast, we're expecting to pop up some showers and storms for the afternoon. some of these could be locally heavy. maybe a better threat south and west of d.c. where we've already seen more sunshine. this evening into the early part of tonight, some showers around. should quiet down overnight like last night. tomorrow, though, watch this. we add some heat. by noon we're starting to pop showers and storms. some of these will get heavy again in the afternoon. we're going to do the same thing on thursday. but by the end of the week, this pattern is going to break down. we're going to see heat build and isolated storms. muggy today. upper 70s. might see 80s south of town. showers and storms developing. we'll call them scattered about. 65 tonight with 60 in the suburbs. showers wain. tomorrow more showers and storms in the afternoon, partly sunny, 80. thursday 82 d