a very tough situation, but emblematic of the controversy in southern utah over roads, and off-road vehicle trails. [narrator] mike swenson of utah's shared access alliance leads off-road riders deep in utah's san rafael swell. i want the public to understand that these people are not out here tearing the land up. there's that story that's being told that we're a bunch of uneducated rednecks out here tearing stuff up and it's just not true. these are good folks who love the land. some of them actually make their living off of the land, as long as they do it responsibly, they should have access as much as they want. [william meadows] wilderness continues to have numerous threats. i think in the last eight years we've seen threats from oil and gas development, but the constant threat that we have seen over the last ten years is the proliferation of off-road vehicles. the off-trail use of these vehicles is just extraordinary. [narrator] access for all is discussed in the wilderness debate. the issue was part of the protest ride in paria canyon. [rick draney] how many people in my situation or

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

if you have a cemetery, they can invade the cemetery like they are in southern utah. if you own an airport, the airport is being overrun with prairie dogs and you can't do much of anything about it. these prairie dogs should not be endangered. the tale is a little different color. john: there must be something different. we have a picture of the black tailed prairie dogs which is plentiful, apparently. but the utah prairie dog, which looks the same to me, is endangered, threatened, and these experts are not just certainly, they want to protect everything. john: let's hear your story. you have owned land in utah for a while, you wanted to do what with it? >> i bought a piece of land for my retirement development and when the prairie dogs moved on, what happened was the process of getting them removed you had to go through a process and this process for my 3.4 acres would've taken 42 years to accomplish. john: and we have a statement from the fish and wildlife service saying we work with homeowners. to continue to provide financial and technical assistance to encourage

if you have a cemetery, they can invade the cemetery like they are in southern utah. if you own an airport, the airport is being overrun with prairie dogs and you can't do much of anything about it. these prairie dogs should not be endangered. the tale is a little different color. john: there must be something different. we have a picture the black tailed prairie dogs which is plentiful, apparently. but the utah prairie dog, which looks the same to me, is endangered threatened, and these experts are not just certainly, they want to protect everything. john: let's hear your story. you have owned land in utah for a while, you wanted to do what with it? >> i bought a piece of land for my retirement development and when the prairie dogs moved on, what happened was the process of getting them removed you had to go through a process and this prococess for my 3.4 acres would've taken 42 years to acmplish. john: and we have a statement from the fisand wildlife service saying we work with homeowners. to continue to provide financial and technical assistance to encourage volunt

you have a cemetery, they can invade the cemetery like they are in southern utah. if you own an airport, the airport is bei overrun with prairie dogs and you can't do much of anything about it. these prairie do should not be endangered. the tale is a lile different color. john: there must be something different. we have a picte of the black tailed prairieogs which is plentiful, apparently. but the utah prairie dog, which looks the same to me, is endangered, threatened, and these experts are not just certainly, they want to protect everything. john: let's hear your story. you have owned la in utah for a while, you wanted to do what with it? >> i bought a piece of land for my r retirement development and when the prairie dogs moved on, getting them removedou had tof go through a process a this process for my 3.4 acres would've taken 42 years to accomplish. john: and we have a statement from the fisand wdlife service saying we work with homeowners. to continue to provide financial and technical assistance to encourage voluntary conservation. >> a couple of years ago t

many areas of the west especially as you go through southern nevada into arizona and utah and even southern california. any of those valleys and passes will be the worst of it. and temperatures are kind of cool. we're only in the low 50s today in many areas of the northwest. >> thank you, bill karins. >>> moviegoers were apparently looking for a scare this weekend. the horror remake "evil dead" raked in $26 million. while "the croods" duked it out for second place. >>> country music's biggest stars came to las vegas. for the 48th annual academy of country music awards. miranda lambert was named female vocalist of the year. while jason aldean won male vocalist. an emotional luke bryan took home the biggest award, entertainer of the year. >>> hollywood baby news to tell you about. halle berry and her fiance are expecting their first child together, as you may know. while tom arnold became a first-time father with fourth wife ashley grossman. >>> tax day is fast approaching and as a little motivation to get yours done, actor wesley snipes was released from prison friday after serving time for

a group of boy scouts escape injury after a canyon in southern utah. 6 scouts and three adult leadersen one of the leaders became exhausted. some stayed behind with the leader the others went for help. the group that stayed behind was later rescued a helicopter. a historic day for the space program. >> 3, 2, 1. >> >> a cop contracted by nasa successfully launched a rocket. it was a test to send a cargo ship to the international space station. heather? >> authorities releasing names of five people killed yesterday in a back country avalanche. fox news correspondent marianne rafferty has brand new details. >> a massive avalanche leaves 5 snowboarders dead. weather conditions in the area may be to blame. >> we have weak layers in the snow pack that formed earlier in the season. now we are building big blasts on top of this winter weather we are having this spring. it is making for especially dangerous avalanche situations. >> they were at least 8 feet deep. all were wearing proper equipment including avalanche deacon. they recovered their bodies. a sixth snowboarder was part of the group

accused of breaking into dozens of cabins in central and southern utah over the last 17 years. ree utah counties. >>> synchronized traffic lights in los angeles. los angeles. very ambitious. will it work? only been in use a few weeks, too soon to tell. there are some 7 million people on the road during peak rush times in l.a. >>> a scare as a small plane was forced to land on the highway. the aztec airways beach craft 18 took off on a training flight from a nearby airport. the pilot chose to abort the flight, landing safely on u.s. 27 north of i-75. the ntsb is launching an investigation. >> and the best selling memoir, "look me in the eye" exposed what it's like to live with asperger's, new a new memoir, "raising cubby," where he tells the story of his son, who also has asperger's. it's an autism spectrum disorder, and yesterday was at sixth annual autism awareness day. >> good morning, and welcome. >> good morning. thank you for having you with me. >> as we mentioned, you wrote this book about being an adult with asperger's and you talk about your son, cubby and tell me, can y

utah. authorities say knapp fired shots at a helicopter that was tracking him and finally gave himself up after being surrounded. knapp is a survivalist who's suspected of breaking into dozens of cabin in southernn years. he now faces 18 criminal charges. >>> l.a. trying something new to fight gridlock. synchronized traffic lights. the city has synced up 4,500 traffic signals across 470 square miles. there are 7 million people on the roads at peak rush hour times. still to see if this is going to work. >>> our weather forecast. spring was warm and now not anymore. jennifer delgado, explain what's going on here. >> for today we are talking about spring showers out there. look at the radar here. it is lighting up across parts of the south, from texas through louisiana, getting pounded this morning. it was a rough overnight, where we saw reports of softball-sized hail. what we're going to be looking at is rain across the deep south. we're talking potentially some of these storms could become stronger later in the day, but much of the lightning offshore, and we're also looking at the chance for just a little bit of snow to set up right near the texas panhandle. as we go through today as well as thr

southern ontario in particular. i yield that. >> thank you. i turned to the gentleman from utah. thank youecretary, for your services. this is probably a long hearing. you do not know the line of questioning, so it requires you to be an expert on everything. things i would like to ask you quickly if i could. >> sure. >> as a former air force pilot, uncomfortable handling a weapon, whether -- i am comfortable handling a weapon whether it is one that i flew or handling a handgun. after 9/11, i think that is true. i'm sure you're familiar with the federal deck officer program. it has been in place for i guess seven or eight years. it has been quite effective in training a large number of pilots to carry handguns in the cockpit with them in order to protect themselves and their passengers. yet it is my understanding that the program has been entirely defunded in the latest budget requests. that troubles me. i'm wondering if you could help me understand your reasoning for not condoning funding for what i thought was very cost-effective programs. >> two things, congressman. we have offered training and guidelines -- if the