so, kate sinding, talk to us a little bit that's. the obvious plus suget more and it's what cost? >> right, ye, fracking, the development of fracking combined in the case of many of these resources with horizontal drilling that allows for them to develop resources where they previously hadn't thought that they economically could do so. what those two technologies involved mean together is significant amounts of water usage, significant generation of waste waters, generation of air pollution, lots of traditional pollution, significant amount of water involved in fracking translate into ndreds of tru trip for every well pad. those in turn turn into not only air quality impacts but impacts to quality of life, the kinds of things that we saw in a clip from one of the segments earlier this week. we're grappling with some really serious issues now, issues the industry itself is acknowledging present real problems, waste water being a key example. the wurt that-- waste water generated through the extraction of gas using the fracking process is heavily contaminated, both with chemicals us

we pick up on some of the questions raised by the energy boom now with kate sinding. deputy director with the national resources defense council. her work includes promoting smart growth and monitoring environmental and health impacts of natural gas drilling in new york state. and robert bryce, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, who's written widely on energy matters, including his recent book, "power hungry: the myth of green energy." kate sinding, i'll start with you, a boom in new production, overturning a lot of old assumptions about energy in this country. give us an overview first. what do you see happening? >> well, what we see happening that the way tatnaturalis uny otally unacceptable. you've got an industry that's running roughshod over communities. thigh think that they're entitled to operate under a different set of rules than those that apply to everybody else. and the result is a pattern of negative impacts to water, to air, to health, and to our communities. it's not something that should be happening in america in 2012. and, moreover, it's not

they are probably going to have to head in sind. things are likely to get a lot more active throughout the day. let's look at the cloud cover. that is a big piece of the picture right now. across the rest of the state, clouds are starting to thin out. the atmosphere is still unstable. thunderstorms could continue to pop up. it is the sun breaking out the brings the concern. here is a thunderstorm of to our west. right now, the lowest entered into ohio. -- the low is centered in ohio. there is a secondary cold front coming in right behind it. these two storms coming in through of the week will actually bring our temperatures down, nothing drastic, but we actually do drop below normal as we get into the end of the week. however, there is a slight risk for severe weather. again, the combination of the sun breaking out with the instability. the entire stake, from western maryland all the way to the eastern shore, and a thunderstorm that pops up to date could be on the strong side. we cannot -- pops up to date could be on the strong side

now, think back, sind real la has nightmares, lady and the tramp they can't sleep. now many times have you seen donald sleepwalking and gentlemen pe toe snorg and can't forget sleeping beauty. researchers say in the films shows the screen writers are very aware of these kinds of disorders. >> now, that you mention all those characters. >> huh. learn something new tonight. >>> all right. let's take a look into the hour by hour, shall we? . >> okay. >> little fog tomorrow morning. 66 greece as you wake up to good morning maryland i hope. 78 around lunchtime. sunshine and clouds and extra sunshine. 81. there could be a shower in the afternoon. we'll be right back. . >>> so update you now on the breaking news that we told you about at the top of the show about possible pipe bomb. the bomb squad is on the scene now. there was some type of traffic accident and police went to investigate they found fire works in the car, some kind of pipe. they are taking every measure safely trying to make sure that no one is in the cars. our crews are on the scene. they'll have the lates

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