an energy company that's unfolding right now in the rocky mountains of the u.s. . forty acres and one thousand nine hundred three and decided it would be a great place to find my bel the home and retire. i am fifty generation my great great grandfather homesteaded here. let's go let's go the gates was killed. a mile. long border. we have three hundred head of al it come down on the high country current of libya . i'm a fourth generation rancher when i was little dad would let me have two cows out of the herd so i could heard. my favorite things is the red winged blackbirds that use the honey honey the red winged blackbirds are back you know. this has been my favorite place i've ever lived in my life say representatives on your. plane every regulatory senate house the legislation today directing president bush's witnesses represent the oil companies that create order thirty six billion dollars or twenty dollars a barrel. there she is. we call it our new neighbor neighbor. we are. the state situation where we on the surface and someone else on some mineral rights and

the rocky mountains are seeing an unprecedented boom in oil and gas drilling montana wyoming colorado new mexico utah the boom is happening all over the country there's oil and gas operations in thirty two states right now but the rocky mountain states are really seeing the vast majority of the expansion. and it's overflowing into communities where people are seeing this right in their backyards . oh sure you were they wanted to put this location one of the first places that they wanted to put it surprise you and say we have three well out there you don't have anything in. a split a state situation is when somebody who owns the surface of their land does not own the resources that are underneath their land for example oil and gas or other minerals a private person could own a house with land and the federal government or another private individual might on the resources under it the person who owns the oil and gas has rights to access that oil and gas which means that whoever owns the surface probably can't control what happens on their own property. in the middle mile farfield believ

ground in new york but up next you will not see the first part of our special report from the rocky mountains and the locals battle against and then a tree company drilling for natural gas in their backyard. forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be a great place to find my bel the home and retire. i am fifth generation my great great grandfather homesteaded here. let's go let's go the gates was killed what do you want romario don't. want board. we have three hundred head of al i come down on the high country there in current of libya. i'm a fourth generation rancher when i was little dad would let me have two cows out of the herd so i could heard. my favorite things is the red winged blackbirds that use the honey honey the red winged blackbirds are back you know. this has been my favorite place i've ever lived in my life i say representatives on your. plane every regulatory senate house of the legislation today directing president these witnesses groups resampled companies are created or thirty six billion dollars or twenty dollars a barrel. oil in for. there she is. we c

and there's the headlines up next report from the rocky mountains where the locals battle against an energy company drilling for natural gas in their backyard that's in our two special report right. forty acres and nineteen ninety three and this side it would be a great place to find my bell the home and retire. i am fifty generation my great great grandfather homesteaded here. let's go let's go to gates that was killed when he would go a mile. long border. we have three hundred head of al come down on the high country there in current of libya. i'm a fourth generation rancher when i was little dad would let me have two cows out of the herd so i could heard. my favorite things is the red winged blackbirds that use the honey honey the red winged blackbirds are back you know. this has been my favorite place i've ever lived in my life say. on your. plane every regulatory season and also the explosions of a directing president these witnesses group for example companies are paid for thirty six billion dollars or twenty dollars a barrel. and there she is. we call it our near neighbor neig

and you are up at the southern end ftd rocky mountains and there is this scarp of rock that rises up probably about a thousand feet out of a valley floor and right at the tip of this scarp there are two twin towers of rock. if you get to a certain place on top of this very narrow butte, you can see between these twin towers and there happens to be a great house built between these two towers and every 18.6 years when the moon goes into its northernmost point on the horizon, it rises between those two towers. i was there at the beginning of the last 18.6 year cycle and we stood up there, probably 20 of us, researchers, forest service people, all gathered at the same spot with cameras and huddled -- it was late december at 8,000 feet and we were all watching this gap. and somebody had done very intricate work to figure out exactly where you need to stand to see the light at exactly the right time. and as we were all gathered up there, i remember this older archeo-astronomer said it's too bad this isn't celebrated any more. this is such a momentous occasion, the moon finally coming up b

have alliance and up next on our special report from the rocky mountains and the locals battle against an energy company drilling for natural gas in their backyard. in two thousand and four some residents in garfield county began to complain that they were getting sick as a result of the drilling activities in their neighborhoods. a young woman from cild laura amos was one of the earliest and loudest voices. as everyone in this room probably knows my groundwater has been contaminated with methane. gets a lot of people in this room with contamination and pollution issues so who then is responsible to me for that that loss of my welfare if it's not you the gas commission if a whale is drilled next year rosen's near your residence within the legal setbacks and there's a perceived or real impact on your property value we don't address that in two thousand and one gas wells were drilled using the fracking technique a mere five hundred feet from the amos home. underground the drilling breached their water well causing their drinking water to fill with gray sediment and fit is like soda pop.

rose into this narrow gap between two twin towers looking north into the rocky mountains. and as that happened, i turned around and as the south -- and i see out of the rocky mountains, i could see a gap where the piedro river flows south and through that gap i could see the desert of northern new mexico and just over the horizon, just about 120 miles away, is chaco canyon, the largest anastazi site in the southwest, just over the horizon. and in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of miles. you could send messages over mountain ranges. there are fire signals all over the four corners, rows and fire signals. i talked to the guy who first discovered these signals and he was just out there mapping archeological sites with a crew in the 70's and he kept coming across these hills that had some kind of -- a little bit of

inches same thing into texas and oklahoma extended north and if you want with winter weather rocky mountainsd set for the ski season snow falling temperatures today chicago 84 degrees another 80 tomorrow extend the streak to four consecutive days of 80 degree weather is or above tied for the third of august streak and october the want reached up to the shores of hudson bay taste of the early winter and mountaintops out west. setting up what you expect out in the jet stream active whether going days of four and five above 80. no red ball until wednesday. the most studied days since 1934 in their row wataga%. pretty amazing he's still at this hour warm across the midwest look at the wind gusts purple areas where wind is the strongest blow it with gusto and our area today. over the next 10 days of tense land out interesting people wonder how long can this go on? forecast by sunday still in place in the warm air monday still warm tuesday still warm and by wednesday a cold front to start cubs get a plunge of cooler air coming in later next week could be fairly substantial quickly lifted now back

as in the rocky mountains the growth of domestic drilling is beginning to impact people and places across america in ways never imagined oil companies are seeking new leases in thirty two states since nineteen ninety hundreds of thousands of new wells have been drilled and the pace of development is excel or. incredibly drilling is now planned in the new york city watershed which provides drinking water to millions. but some feel it doesn't have to be this way. technology is available for industry to comply with all these laws and to conduct their business in a much cleaner way it's often affordable and it's often profitable we can make them do it better the profits now in the industry are so high that there's no reason why they can't start using some new technology develop the new technology to capture the escaping gases the b.o.c. but also to do something with that water. when they capture these has to substances they can also capture more of their saleable product we need data. we need data on humans with a population. that requires again money a plan you know doing. this for alternati

isolated thunderstorms are in the forecast for the desert southwest and up into the central rocky mountainsnorthwest is looking at persi persistent rain falling throughout the day. >>> in sports, st. louis evened up their national league series with philadelphia last night. albert pujols hit a single off cliff lee. st. louis 5-4 over the phillies. >>> in milwaukee, the brewers broke through with a safety squeeze bunt in the sixth inning. they went on to score four more runs. >>> in new york, detroit's melky cabrera started the scoring for the tigers with a two-run home run in the first inning. max scherzer pitched no-hit ball in the sixth. tigers held off a yankee rally in the ninth to get a 5-3 win. >>> in the nfl, baltimore grounded the new york jets on "sunday night football." the ravens defense pounded jets quarterback mark sanchez and baltimore defeated new york 34-17. >>> in cincinnati, buffalo suffered its first loss of the season. bengals quarterback andy dalton led a comeback to tie the game in the fourth quarter. cincinnati, though, kicked the winning field goal as time ran out. t

they pulled the cub out and so it could return to its family in the rocky mountain national park. >>> good ending but the bear was stuck. >> honey pots you know. always goes for it. >> 61 this morning on the delmarva from dover to easton. 61 in baltimore. up to 63 in patuxent river. a sign of warm air pulling in despite the chill of 48 in york and fog across some parts this morning. we have patchy thick fog. a sign of moisture building in to benefit some clearing overnight. the clouds thattaed a little veil over the moon during the evening and some of you still seeing it this morning. the cloud will lower and thicken as the storm build in. there's the storm right now. i wanted to point this out across florida and look at the push of the moisture into the carolinas. and it's knocking into central virginia and i think we get showers this afternoon so plan for things to deteriorate mostly cloudy to overcast and we will push 74 but then showers take the umbrella if you have plans this evening. tanya has a check on traffic. >> reporter: penn line train 405 is on a 7-mibt delay near bowie s

cynthia hessin from our bureau at rocky mountain pbs introduces us to some new denver food entrepreneurs hoping to do the same. >> reporter: lunch time is fast at smashburger-- a pace that matches the company's steep growth. named to "inc" magazines 500 fastest growing companies of 2011, smashburger has gone from concept & research to franchise rollout in record time by making a flattened, seared burger the star of a new fast-casual menu. c.e.o. dave prokupek says the idea has really taken off. >> we'll have about 150 stores open at the end of 2011 and we started just in the middle of 2007, so we've been growing at something like 2,000% here over the last four years. >> reporter: prokupek and partners founded smashburger with $20 million in private capital, allowing rapid expansion without borrowing. success has come despite the down economy. >> i feel really proud coming out of this great recession that we have created about 2,500 jobs this year alone, will keep adding to that amount as i look forward, 2,500 or 3,000 year. >> reporter: prokupek calls colorado the silicon valley for rest

we're showing you a view of the snowcapped mountains in the wake of the western rocky mountain snowstormsally windy out there but in our area and it's just gorgeous. and it clocks sunday mournful there will bat 8:00 sunday morning the wind will be mild. but that's not the story in florida where there will be lots of beach erosion and stormy weather. we're looking at the mid to high seventies in temperatures over the next several days through wednesday. overall the next two weeks will look to be above normal in an hour temperaturestemperatures. we want to wish good luck to hour marathon runners this weekend thank you for joining us today we hope you have a great weekend. we will leave you with more music from thomas dolby. his new album " a map of the floating city " comes out later this month you can find him tonight at martyrs on lincoln avenue. ÷

and 68 in new orleans. 60s across the pacific northwest and the rocky mountains. >>> coming up after the break, the cost of stamps going up yet again. >> bad news there. >>> and some surprising news from apple. and why the stores will close for several hours today. >>> and also this morning, the lighter side of starbucks, the coffee giant out with something new. >>> welcome back. the darling of the tech world isn't so dear to investors this morning. apple's net income was up 54% last quarter. revenue up 39%. but analysts had been expecting even more gains. iphone sales were disappointing, as many customers held off waiting for the new model that didn't go on sale until after the quarter ended. apple sales will be off today, too, somewhat. all of its retail stores will close for several hours so that employees can watch a web cast of a company-wide memorial service for co-founder, steve jobs. apple calls it a celebration of jobs' life for employees only. >>> bank of america is no longer the country's biggest bank. jpmorgan chase is. according to their earnings report, jpmorgan chase h