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 is 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. but i'll show you her they wanted to put this location one of the first places that they wanted to put it right from the surprise you say we have to put it well out there you don't have in city. a splitter state situation is when somebody who the surface of their land does not own the resources that are underneath it really 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 that oil and gas has rights to access at oil and gas which means that whoever owns the surface probably can't control what

the rocky mountains. we have five forty acres and nineteen ninety three and this side it will be a great place to find them build a home and retire. i am fifty generation my great great grandfather homesteaded here. let's go let's go to gates that way was killed or do you want to go a mile. sarah launched into north. we have three hundred head about it come down on the high country there and her out of libya. i'm a fourth generation rancher when i was little dad wouldn't let me have two cows out of the herd so i can moan 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 a stranger everything in its use is the one you're. called intertwined every regular some senate house in the explosion city direct from president bush's winners of group resampled countries that claimed were thirty six billion dollars were going to travel on the twenty dollars a barrel dollars a month let's

up next our special report on the people of america's rocky mountain west who found themselves helpless against a massive gas company intruding almost on bad thoughts that. by forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be a great place to find the belle of the hall and then retire. i am good generation my great great grandfather homesteaded here. let's go let's go to gates that way was killed when he would go a mile. sarah wants to board. we have three hundred head of al and come down on the high country they're incredibly beautiful. i'm a fourth generation rancher and when i was little dad would let me have two cows out of the herd so i could have known her. my favorite things is the red winged blackbirds and she was 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 is your and your you will have called interplay for every regulatory senate house of the legislation today directing president produces growth for example to razor blades board good research a billion dollars for your

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

up next part to our special report of the people of america's rocky mountain west to find themselves helpless against a massive natural gas company drilling almost on that all steps. 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 to your residence or near your residence within the legal system. and there's a perceived or real impact on your property value we don't address. 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

starting with back in the '60s and a colin injection experiment, rocky mountain, i want you to remember this one. this is the largest well documented injection induced earthquake, 9.253. in are want -- in the former soviet union, three earthquakes, not necessarily due to injection. we don't know what happened there. but certainly due to the human gas extraction activities. water reservoirs, large water reservoirs also trigger earthquakes, as in lake mead in nevada and orville in california. and many other places around the world. and also geothermal, the geothermal field, where the injection has resulted in an earthquake, and a few others that do -- that you probably have heard. so it's not a new phenomenon. we understand why this happens fairly well. it's just actually very difficult to predict when it's going to happen, and the research program we're working on is what to do about it when it does happen. many of these, as you see, are related to the injection activity, and that's what i'm going to focus my remarks on tonight. those activities that humans are involved with and entail a

rocky mountain air, yes, we can. yes, we can. even john kerry was fun. >> these are two sides to the president always harkenning back to how much hype there was surrounding him when he got elected. >> also the public too, kind of like remembering back to that really fun time. but i've also like grown to like him more and more. i've just -- been a fan of his if you can say that about a president. so that's the other kind of good part of it, is you know, getting to like him more and more. >> let me ask you both, what's the key to the impersonation and key to getting him. >> just like little things. i will say also that it's the writing. it's like the outfit, the makeup and a lot of things that come together, even the set that make it work. >> you're good at like -- give me one little thing. >> sometimes when i'm getting ready i like to say hello. before i go on just a little -- just to hear if echo in the room. >> i always find myself like little handles into the thing, not that i take too big of a vocal swing. unlike bill or when

is rocky mountain cold refreshment really that important? ♪ you be the judge...he world's most refreshing beer. >>> welcome back to the stanley cup playoffs, second overtime presented by geico. how about a review of this 1-1 game? >> pierre: create time and space, get it on goal. troy brouwer going hard to the net gives the capitals a 1-0 lead. a little hustle, a little grit, put it on goal, win a race, benoit pouliot wins it against the defender. >> pierre: doc, i always talk about the line change in the first overtime, here in the second overtime, it comes down to mental awareness and nothing fancy. you just get pucks on goal. you won't see too many guys trying to beat people one-on-one. you won't have enough room to do that unless there's a complete breakdown. now it's getting pucks on goal and getting bodies to the net. >> mike: 75 hits, 40 by washington. 78 shots on goal, 41 by boston. a goal apiece. hand a giveaway by thomas out in front and helping him out was krejci but it's kept by alzner. played along by ference. grabbed by lucic. lucic able to push it

brought rain and drought to eastern texas and parts of oklahoma, but above the tree line on the rocky mountains, near boulder, colorado, there's bare ground where there should be snow. colorado's snow pack, just 49% of average. less snow means less water for tim's organic farm. today, he laid down a barrier to hold in moisture for his strawberries, but without water, he may have to make a tough choice. >> we're going to decide to save the fruit trees and have to let go of all of our vegetables. >> noaa's forecast is for this warming trend to continue, particularly in the mid-atlantic and southern sections of the country, and nowhere is it predicted to be colder than normal. anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> today, facebook, a seven-year-old company wrote a big check because they can, and they wanted to make a strategic acquisition. they paid $1 billion to buy a mobile photo sharing service called instagram that is not even two years old itself. that billion dollars face book paid, one observer said, it's enough to buy bankrupt kodak 12 times over. >>> on wall street here in new york, a del

and in some cases, the doctors that didn't do well couldn't contract with the ipa and rocky mountainlth plans anymore. to make this year-end adjustment work, grand junction has built its own system of digital recordkeeping, because in mesa county, information is pure gold. as in some other american communities, doctors have figured out that an integrated system of electronic health records can improve care and reduce cost. healthcare is one of the few things humans need even before they are born. you should measure 38 centimeters, and you measure 38.5. in many american towns, though, pre-natal care for mother and child is just not available if the mother-to-be doesn't have health insurance. that was the situation nurse midwife janet grant found when she arrived in grand junction in 1983. there were just too many pregnant women for the system to handle, and lots of them had no health insurance. alright, let me feel. see, there's the head right there. i was the only midwife in town and none of the physicians that were here would see patients with no medicaid. and so my backup physician

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 ninety nine hundred hundreds of thousands of new wells are drilled and the pace of development is excel orating. 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. technologies 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 a new technology to capture the escaping gas and the neo sees but also to do something with that water. when they capture these hazardous substances they council capture more of their saleable product we need data. and we need data on animals we need data on humans we need data on the population and that requires ag

oil and gas operator from west texas or the state of texas or my good friend bill armstrong, rocky mountains into this room for just a minute and tell you how he thinks. first of all, the oil and gas industry is a high risk energy and those that participate in the industry think long and hard about how they're going to deploy their capital and what kind of risks they're going to take. and you know, the very simple principle of the lower the taxes are, the more risk that you're able to take. when you think about the oil and gas operator in west texas and let me give you an example, this is probably the best way to explain how it works and how it's working today and in this country in an incredibly remarkable way. the independent oil and gas operator in west text in the early part of the last decade was continuing to take risks and trying to continue to develop technology that would increase the simply of oil and gas in america and independent operators started pursuing technologies that were risky. believe me. i mean, as i said, oil and gas industry is a lot of risk. i've certainly drilled my

when we did an inventory of what we do mostly on a bethesda campus and in the rocky mountain campus, there were 404 intramural projects that could be dual use, plus 147 manu scripts and none were found to be dual-use research of concern. when we did the extramural experiment of all of the grantees, there were 381 grantees or contractors. 10 of those grants were designated as durc. seven of them were in influenza. one in anthrax. one in plague and one in botulism. out of 381, there were only 10. and those are the ones we're now going through the process that's delineated carefully in the new policy. that's the scope of what we're doing at nih. >> okay. that's very helpful. just generally, am i right to assume that there's -- there may be dual-use research projects of concern for instance at the -- funded by the department of defense? >> as dr. gerstein, i'd hesitate to make a statement about the department of defense. we collaborate a lot with them and, yes, i cannot imagine that they're not doing some. but probably a really small amount. but they clearly are doing some. >> okay. so m

. >> we have got snow falling in the rocky mountains on one side of that risk area. we have temperatures 80 degrees or more on the other side, and the third element-- and this is the key-- we have a jet stream moving very quickly precisely located right in between the two, mixing those two air masses up. when you mix conflicting air masses you get rapidly rising air. the faster the air rises the more the trouble comes down. >> reporter: most forecasters are predicting the conditions are about to go from bad to worse, jim, making conditions here in wichita and across the great planes very dangerous over the next few hours. >> axelrod: dean reynold reynoln kansas, thank you. for the latest on the severe storm outlook for tonight into tomorrow, we're joined now by meteorologist jeff berardelli at our miami station wfor. jeff, good evening. let's deal with the next couple of hours. i imagine storms tracking under nightfall make it even a more dangerous situation. >> yeah, definitely. storms that hit at night are, obviously, harder to see and they can take people by surpr

. >> just lick the giants the warrior were playing in denver but performance rocky mountain low.turday golden state won by just this. tonight a different story. rookie kenneth couldn't be stopped. meanwhile the warriors ice cold wright mis misses. jenkins can't take the land. tyler with the air ball. game pretty much over by half time. if of 2 of the 15 here. ball never touches the floor. contrary high 27 points. 17 rebounds. mcgee off balance but still dunking. chris wright provides our one warrior highlight. this was embarrassing folks. warriors lose by 39. 123-year. >> shark good to late work out today as they prepare for game 1 in the play off series thursday in st. louis. dominated san jose during the regular season winning all 4 games. twice by shut out. sharks need to figure out a defense that allow the fewest goal in the league. >> by all means we have a ton of respect for this team and the way they are built and coaching staff but they are the north south team, not a simple team. >> shark on hot streak and is with knows they might surprise. >> let's hope they do. go shar

he previously worked at "the toledo blade" and "the rocky mountain news" and "the oregonian." mr. tankersley and a colleague at the blade won the 2007 livingston award for their business as usual series of stories revealing the true roots of ohio's economic decline. he was part of the coingate people that was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. jim? >> thank you so much. thank you all for sticking around. i'm a numbers nerd myself, and have been delighted with the amount of numbers so far this morning. but i want to start without numbers and start with some raw politics. we just heard a lot of theoretical discussion back and forth about how numbers and how we should do this for $5 trillion here, $4 trillion there. let's talk about what is going to happen, right. what does this look like a year from now, both from the lame duck and going forward. how much closer do you all think we will be toward actual fiscal health, towards balancing our budget, and most importantly, where will those budget-balancing measures actually have come from. we'll start with you. >> history would tell us

>>> the day we arrived at colorado state penitentiary, a super max prison at the base of the rocky mountains, we found a sterile, rusty environment, steel doors behind which inmates are locked up 23 hours a day, but despite his surroundings, inmate shawn shields was in high spirits. when he sat down with us, he was eager to help our producer get the interview underway. >> quiet on the set, you boneheads. >> then he calmly told us how he got 16 years added to the original sentence of 12 for robbery. >> me and another inmate had an altercation. i manipulated the door so that it would not latch completely, and when he came out to walk, i came down after him, and proceeded to stab him. >> why? >> it was just a verbal altercation. there is a lot of verbal altercations between people. you have to understand there are 16 men living together behind closed doors with stress, animosity towards one another in some cases, and it is not always a pleasant place to be. >> when inmates erupt, no one is safe, including correctional staff. >> we had an inmate that was on his way to the rec yard and came behin

the mack family lives here amid the rocky mountains. >> we love the mountains. our whole family.e sure get out and explore in it the winter. >> we live and breathe the mountness. some people like the oceans, we like the mountains. >> for the macks, nothing is better than venturing into colorado back country and riding on fresh powder. >> just kind of the place where we go to get away from the busy resorts. it pretty much feels like you have that whole mountain and you're kind of just floating. >> but the macks know full well that the back country is risky and the threat of an avalanche is real. colorado averages six to eight avalanche deaths per year. >> it's a very dangerous place. you have to respect the mountains around you. you are at the mercy of your earth. >> who you're going out there with plays a big role. you prepare yourself by wearing beacons, which your friends and family are able to track you out there in case something would happen. >> january 2006, heather and ben are joining their friends to help shoot footage in a pristine area of the back country called jones p

. >>> we still have a rocky mountain winter storm but we have rain outside. >> raining buckets. >> couldn'tof anything else. are yo speed wagon. -- congratulations to him you know the insurance company definitely knows the percentage between half court and 3/4 of them making that shot. good morning having a little fun, hopefully, you will too on this thursday, wet outside, streets slick, by the afternoon sunshine, the commute home won't be as taxing as the commute to work this morning. there you are looking from emeryville towards sfplts if -- towards san francisco, east bay shoreline into the sees bay valleys with rain all moving east southeast 25 to 30 miles per hour. rainfall totals most impressive, redwood city and cupertino unusual. usually you have the least amount because of rain fade due to the mountains with the want we had yesterday you received a lot of rain half an inch there, quarter inch in san jose, 2/10 concord and livermore, also oakland napa a 10th after inch. right now mid to upper 50s not only here but also around the monterey bay. today morning drizzle and rain and isol

believe it or not, snow falling in the rocky mountains today. the third element which will mix all that air together is an incredibly fast moving jet stream with streams coming down to the surface creating twists that's why we're confident we'll see tornadoes there today into the overnight hours into sunday. be very careful in that portion of our country. >> announcer: this weather segment sponsored by pro namel. . >>> have a great day. jeff, over to you. >> thanks very much new the world is remembering titanic. 100 years ago tonight the doomed luxury liner hit an iceberg. more than 1500 people died. the fascination with that voyage not only launched an oscar-winning movie, also spawned several museums. rebecca visited one in pigeon ford, tennessee. >> reporter: it may be 100 years since the titanic sank to the ocean floor but the world is captivated by her faithful voyage. >> if you haven't heard about the staircase are -- >> reporter: from belfast to halifax to tiny pigeon forge tennessee. >> the ship was built beautifully. it's designed for p

we're talking about areas from ohio, oklahoma, all the way out to the rocky mountains really, an unprecedentedase. these aren't the biggest earthquakes, but these are earthquakes larger than magnitude three. they're not tiny ones, either. >> on the six-times increase, this is not a 10% increase, a 600% increase suggests something fundamental has happened here and needs to be explained. >> yes, and this is a tipping point may have been crossed. this is very puzzling. seismologists will say it's hard to trigger earthquakes, so they don't expect it. when you see a huge increase right around where there is this new type of oil and gas drilling it seems that we've crossed a threshold. my intuition is because we're using vast amounts of water. texas in the year 2010 used 13 billion gallons of water for fracking. so it is a staggering amount of water. in one texas county it's 40% of ground water withdrawals are for fracking. >> just to put this into context, when fracking wasnalled or considered nobody considered the magnitude of the water reinjected into the water into the wells, concluded this. >>

. >>> nestled at the base of the rocky mountains, colorado state penitentiary was built to house the state's most violent and disruptive inmates. it gives new meaning to the words hard time. >> we decided that csp could not be a place where inmates could get comfortable and make a life for themselves. we had to treat them differently. >> colorado state isn't just any maximum security prison. it's a super max facility. inmates here are considered a constant threat and are confined to single-person cells 23 hours a day. >> i was just astounded by just how sterile and stark, and what tough time it would be to serve in that particular prison. i think that would be the hardest time possible. >> many of the inmates we spoke to agreed. they say the isolation is too much. >> i've been here a long time. i've seen a lot of guys, seen them snap, you know? any given day they can snap. >> 23 hours a day you're locked down. you come out for five hours a week. essentially it's just another cell. it's a dead room with a pull-up bar. there's one small window. everywhere you go, handcuffed, handcuffed

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