this is out on the navajo reservation in southern utah. this is part of a structure that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who just was creeped out by this. because there's a certain h

which we went on this trip to collect a piece for radio carbon dating, a federal archeologist in southern utah had asked us to pick up one piece of it to bring out. so that part of the basket is missing. there are artifacts everywhere. they stand out. this arrowhead here is maybe just under half an inch long, tiny little piece made out

. >> suarez: a year earlier, steven bloch from the southern utah wilderness alliance, brought gas industry representatives from anadarko petroleum corporation to this same stretch of river to convince the industry giant to consider the impact on pristine river banks in their pending request to drill in the greater natural buttes region. anadarko's existing permits were expiring. the company wanted to bring out gas from wells left behind by old-fashioned drilling methods and make a new plan with the united states bureau of land management. the wilderness alliance asked anadarko to drill further away from the river floors, to erect wells away from the canyon rims so they cant be seen by canoers and hikers. the energy company anadarko had a lot riding on the greater natural buttes project, and the numbers are staggering: 3,700 wells, six trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, billions to be paid in royalties to the state government of utah and the federal government. thousands of jobs created. the only question was: could they pull all that gas out of the ground and make peace with environmenta

you see photos from the desert in southern utah, northern arizona.mormons marry one spouse. >> i want to ask you about the cultural depiction of mormonism. it seems as though mormonism has come into its pop cultural own. you've got mormons in the pop culture and pop culture dealing with mormonism in some positive ways, in some negative ways. you know, there is a great quote by gk chesterton, old philosopher who said the test of a good religion is whether you can make fun of it or not. do you feel like the fact that mormonism can be spoofed, say, by the book of mormon on broadway, is that proof that mormonism has become a little bit more accepted by the american culture? >> absolutely. you know, when i was a little girl growing up there were no books on the shelf at the store at the library that talked about lives like mine, lives of every day mormons. that depicted us in our sweetness, humor, and i think the book of mormon as cringe worthy as many mormons find it when they watch it does mark this moment when we are being sort of embraced in the main

southern california, nevada, arizona, dealing with heavy rain and thunderstorms. even the report of a tornado touching down in the u.s. i should say the nevada/utah border. let's go down to europe. i want to show you what the temperatures are doing. the heat wave isn't really budging. 36 in budapest. 37 in rome. 39 for you in madrid. looking very seasonable in central and northern locations. here's your extended forecast. >>> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." do join us again.