they are at the alaska zoo in anchorage. to tell us how the five wolf us. are doing, we have zoo director pat, "right this minute," via skype. tell us what the conditions of the pup are now. they have porcupine injuries and were festering. >> we're still finding porcupine quills migrating out of them. they removed all the quills they saw on the initial physical examination, but some of the quills go into them and are under the skin and then start spoking out. at every feeding, every three hours, they're getting a full body check to identify any more quills. >> now, for wolf pups, great caution you take them in. they can be returned into the wild. tell us about the decision to take them in. >> a decision by the alaska department of fish and game. determined the mother moved off. they would be dead by now. we're a transition facility. we have experience in caring for these young animals, seeing to their medical needs and working with fish and game in identifying permanent homes for them to go to. >> what do you have to say to the wild land firefighters who he

and the blacks was raised in alaska. ing rubbed off by the meek and modest natives, the quiet natives. >> tolerance within the prison population extends to other groups as well. >> a high percentage of child molesters and sex offenders. in most states those people have to be segregated or they're basically attacked by people that can't stand them. we're forced to accept them. because we do -- if we don't, you can get in a fist fight. in alaska, you can go in the hole for a year. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> you want to check this out? >> yes. >> the open atmosphere at spring creek helps inmates like sam green williams survive their time in prison. >> yeah, i'm a homosexual. and you know, i have made a long-standing ground of who i am. and you know, i'm not afraid to be me. you know. and i've fought to be me. and being in prison, to me it's nothing different, you know. it's just -- i'm in prison. >> green-williams is serving six years for his third case of felony drunk driving. like a diary, his tattoos record his

quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: mr. president, i request proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: thank you, mr. president. we are on the measure again, the shaheen-portman energy efficiency, also known as energy savings and industrial competitiveness act. an efficiency bill, mr. president. this shouldn't be this difficult for us. when we talk about the benefits of an all-of-the-above energy policy, the benefits that can come to us as a nation when we are more resilient with our energy sources, when we're able to access our domestic energy sources, whether they be our fossil fuels, whether they be our renewables, whether they be nuclear, we all talk about it in good, strong terms because, quite honestly, energy makes us a stronger nation. abg stows our energy resource -- access to our energy resources. i've defined a good, strong energy policy as one that allows energy to be more abundant, affordable, clean, diverse and secure. an energy policy is also

the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. begich: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. begich: i ask that the quorum call be vacated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. begich: for the purposes of presentation on the floor on the shaheen-portman bill. mr. president, thank you very much. i come to speak on the support for the shaheen-portman bill, otherwise known as the energy savings and industrial competitiveness act, otherwise known as i like to put it, it saves money, saves energy. keep it simple. it comes at an important time. it is no surprise as someone from alaska, i care about oil and gas issues. i care about energy issues, energy efficiency. and this is a bill that is important to talk about, but also hopefully pass, and pass it and move it to the house, and hopefully they'll take it up. conservation makes sense. it saves money. it makes people more comfortable in their homes and workplaces. it also is good for the economy and the environment, particularly important to alaska. whe

we have no funding but it's cochaired by myself in the justice on the alaska supreme court. the public defenders are part of it. , community agencies are involved in the process so there's a group of maybe 30 of us and we meet several times a year to talk about these issues. i was struck and we talk about statistics but the one that comes to my mind is the u.s. has 5% of the world's population yet we house 25% of the world's prisoners. and at least in alaska 60% of our incarcerated individuals are nonviolent offenders. they are not the people scott was referring to the vicious murders and so on. there is a cost associated with incarceration. we just opened a new prison last year. before that we house a number of prisoners in colorado through private contracts so we bought all those people that column. he seems to me there's a transition occurring and general holder referred to it i think in the sense that people are fiscal conservatives and fiscal hawks are realizing there is a cost to being tough on crime. it's a cost not only to state government debt to society as a whole.

it is cochaired by myself and the justice and the alaska supreme court. the public defenders are part of it, corrections, involved community agencies. so, it is a group of maybe 30 of us. we meet several times of year it to talk about these issues. i was struck by the fact that we talk about specifics but the one that caught my attention is the u.s. has prosecuted about five percent of the world's population, yet we house 25% of the world's prisoners. and, at least in alaska, 60% of our incarcerated individuals are nonviolent offenders. they are not the people that scott was referring to, the vicious murderers and so on. there is a cost associated with incarcerating them. we just opened a new prison last year. before that, we house a number of prisoners in colorado and a few private contracts. we brought all those people back home. it seems to me there was a transition occurring and general holder referred to it in the sense that people, including fiscal conservatives, are realizing there is a cost to being tough on crime. it is a cost to society as a whol

none of the pups had burns but they are all being treated at the alaska zoo for porcupine wounds. fighters say these pups are very lucky to be alive. the 200,000-acre fire has already claimed the lives of several animals. these little pups will stay at the alaska zoo for the next couple of months. >>> firefighters in san jose are warning the public to be careful after battling a pair of fires. news chapper 2 was over at the seventh street exit as fire crews mopped up a brush fire there. a tree burned. there was a lot of smoke in the air. crews worked quickly to knock that fire down but it did cause traffic delays in the area. firefighters also battled a brush fire in the southern part of the city. the fire at kith never circle started add 4:45 yesterday afternoon. it was quickly put out and fortunately no one was hurt. >>> it's an honor once dominated by harvard but there is a new study out that says stanford apparently grabbed the top spot for america's it school. stanford had the nation's lowest under graduate acceptance rate for two years in a row. in five of the last six years

it is cochaired by myself and the justice and the alaska supreme court. the public defenders are part of it, corrections, involved community agencies. so, it is a group of maybe 30 of us. we meet several times of year it to talk about these issues. that weruck by the fact talk about specifics but the one that caught my attention is the u.s. has prosecuted about five percent of the world's population, yet we house 25% of the world's prisoners. alaska, 60% ofn individuals are nonviolent offenders. thatare not the people scott was referring to, the vicious murderers and so on. there is a cost associated with incarcerating them. we just opened a new prison last year. before that, we house a number of prisoners in colorado and a few private contracts. we brought all those people back home. it seems to me there was a transition occurring and general holder referred to it in the sense that people, including fiscal conservatives, are realizing there is a cost to being tough on crime. to society as a whole. state which is very large, we have tried to tackle this. o

and, at least in the alaska, 60% of our incarcerated individuals are non-violent offenders. y're not the people that scott was referring to, the vicious murderers and so on. so, and, there is a cost associated with incarcerating them. our state, we just opened a new prison last year. before that we housed a number of prisoners in colorado and through private contracts and so we brought all those people back home. but, it seems to me there is a transition occurring and general holder referred to it i think that, that's happening in the sense that people, including conservatives, fiscal conservatives, fiscal hawks are realizing there is a cost to being tough on crime and it's a cost, not only to state government but to society as a whole. and so, just in our state, which is very large, we have a small population, we tried to tackle this and one of the first things we did was try to get an inventory. we heard about collateral consequences and there's project going on, national inventory of collateral consequences of conviction project that's i think funded by the apa and adminis

the pups in the den were rescued and are being treated at a special unit at the alaska zoo. sadly, the parents have not been located. >>> when we come back, our salute to this year's class, the class of 2014. >>> finally tonight, what may be our favorite of all our annual traditions at "nightly news." we looked into our own archives today and discovered we have been at this, saluting college graduates this way for over 30 years, and to capture some of the best send-offs, our team deployed to campuses across this country. ♪ >> you will change the world. i want you to take the craziest dream you ever had and i want you to go after it. i don't want you to dream, i want you to do. >> class of 2014 is adventurous. >> inspirational. >> brilliant. >> ambitious. >> ready to make change in the world. [ cheers and applause ] >> this orientation is better for you. the audience, you achieve big things not with one big step but with many small steps. >> i feel on top of the world tonight. >> i feel relieved. >> we made it. >> graduates, smile because i'm taking a selfie. ♪ >> smile. >> if

the mom was no where to be found so the pups were taken to the alaska zoo for evaluation. they are believed to be five weeks old. >>> still ahead on "today in the bay" history at the national spelling bee. >> a look at the contestant that represented the bay area in the finals. >>> it wasn't me. surprise. live shot of 101. i put the numbers out there, too. this is palo alto and talk about your south bay, give you a look at that, coming up. >>> can you spell t-i-e. for the first time in more than 50 years two boys took home the top prize at this year's national spelling bee. ansun sujoe of texas and sriram hathwar. it was a tie, the first tie since 1962. >> holy cow. >> pretty good. >> good for them. >>> even though she didn't win an eighth grader from cupertino made the bay area very proud. >> she made it to the finals in the national spelling bee. she did get tripped up with this word. >> t-a-g-l-i-o-n-e. >> so close. the last letter there. so, if you're not quite familiar with that word, which is all of us. an italian word for an old overcoat. a standing ovation as she wa

. >> see how they're on the mend with the good folks at the alaska zoo. >> to see the compassion of allgetting involved, it's very heartfelt. >> a man at a laundromat picks up a little boy. >> is he playing with him? >> no. >> why this low life is using a kid to commit the crime. >> the mystery of what happened to nine college students in the '50s is part of an intrigui

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. >>> a sacramento woman attacked by a bear in the alaska wilderness, her quick thinking actions that she believes saved her life. gridlock. teacher layoffs. and a 60 billion dollar budget deficit. that's what john perez faced when he became speaker of the california assembly. so he partnered with governor brown to pass three balanced budgets, on time. for the first time in thirty years. today, the deficits are gone and we've invested an additional 2 billion dollars in education. now john perez is running for controller, to keep fighting for balanced budgets. democrat john perez for controller. >>> stocks drifting lore, consumer spending fell .1% in april and the university of michigan fell more than expected. dow is down 9. nasdaq down 12. s&p is flat. >>> warning about a new scam targeting undocumented immigrants. they are asking for a thousand dollars to help undocumented immigrants obtain driver's licenses. some have even been posing as dmv workers and lawyers and selling false documents. the dmv will not issue driver's licenses for undocumented undocumented immigrants till januar

. >> historically san francisco served the alaska market in the summer months and the mexican market in the winter months. you'll see in october and may a lot of ships here as they're repositioning from north to south, so seattle, vancouver, victoria remain the biggest competitors mexico is just because of all the problems they've had has not been very desirable so the cruise ship companies have had to create new i itineraries. we've been benefitted those. we've been seeing something called coast wide cruises where cruises are going los angeles, santa barbara, san francisco, back down to ensana da, and then back up into los angeles and those are seven day cruises and they're very popular. we're hoping as mexico starts to come back that we can hold on to the -- wu but we did cannibalize because san diego has been hit the hardest. in terms of parks, this is what's makes our port really unique. we have 86 acres of open space right now with 28 acres planned. to give you an idea of how much that is, that means one out of every 5.5 acres of port property is open space or parkland. that is

that was the big news out of the south for this year's elections. in alaska the democrat in the senate race there mark beg bs gich was help by republicans many the alaska state legislature. they made decisions closing out their session that will probably put on ballot the issue of raising the minimum wage and legalizing pot, two items expected to pass alaska if they are on the bat lot and they could drive up voter turn out for voter who is are likely to vote democratic. that's good news for democratic u.s. senator beg gs gich who would be giving everyone a raise. that's a comfortable place to be on a ballot. the democrat running for re-election in colorado, senator mark uda will recollect l got good news. his opponent is named cory gardner who has a long history of supporting and sponsoring anti-abortion he measures that would ban the pill and other methods of conception as well as criminalizing abortion. since he decided to run for senate in colorado he has changed his position on the bills. he's now tying to con since the state that he's not against contrac

they'll go to the alaska zoo for now. >>> and time to get down to business with cnbc's morgan brennan. good morning, morgan. >> thanks, dara. ford is recalling nearly 1.4 million vehicles, most for possible loss of power steering. the recall affects the ford explorer and escape and the mercury mariner. it received reports of 15 accidents. meanwhile, former microsoft ceo steve balmer strikes a deal to buy the l.a. clippers for $2 billion. if the sale is approved, it would be the most ever paid for an nba team. earlier this month, the milwaukee bucks were sold for $550 million. the l.a. dodgers sold for $2.1 billion in 2012. and mark zuckerberg and his wife are donating $120 million to the san francisco area school system. the gift will be spread out over five years and it is the biggest allocation from the $1.1 billion in facebook stock that the couple has pledged to charity. back to you. >> thanks, morgan. >>> how about a smart watch that can predict a heart attack? samsung is developing one that will monitor how you're eating, sleeping and exercising while providing real time data to

two things, first during a wildfire season they have 4,000 square kilometers of wildfires across the alaska but also we have had a very dry spring across the region and, in fact, drought has been a factor here as well and looking at states like texas where it's been going on for quite a long time and alaska and lack of rainfall has been an issue but there is likely to be changes coming in the next day or so certainly in the forecast and looking at fairly heavy rain beginning to move in across the region and the temperatures are up and fair banks is 19 and going to 20 degrees and really across the region there should be enough rain to dampen down the fire. >> reporter: thanks for that and coming up, on al jazeera people francis addresses what he calls an ugly crime and says the church has zero tolerance for abuse. a woman sentenced to death for marrying a christian and given birth to a baby girl and we are alive in cartoon on the latest on her judicial appeal. the miami heat on the brink of another finals appearance. that is coming up. ♪ time to look at the headline making stories on al jaze

at the alaska zoo for the next few months.fighters really doing some hard work out there. >> there you go. time now 7:52. stanford just knocked harvard out of the top spot harvard used to dominate. the specific category and also why students say stanford is their dream college. >> it's definitely a public health issue, something we're very concerned about now. >> a woman in san francisco with a history of breeding rats and living in squalor. the danger to herself and the public. >>> 7:55. oakland police are searching for man they say sexually assaulted a woman in broad daylight. it happened about 12:30 wednesday afternoon on east 31 31st street near highland hospital. investigators say the suspect approached a woman in is a secluded area, groped her and tried to assault her. the suspect is described as an african-american man between 25 and 35 years old. 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds. >>> 7:55. tomorrow the navy gives an update about possible radiation contamination on treasure island. earlier this year the u.s

the presiding officer: the senator from alaska is recognized. mr. begich: i ask permission to speak as if in morning business to talk about one issue, i.r.s. overreach. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. begich: before i do that, i do want to say to my friend who just spoke on the floor, i'm one of those who loves biennial budgets. i think it's a great idea and one we should continue to work toward. we get a little longer planning horizon. mr. president, i come down to the floor because there has been a lot of talk recently in different areas about the i.r.s. and virtually none of it is good. let me be clear, the i.r.s. going after taxpayers for debts allegedly incurred by their dead relatives is shocking. tax delinquent employees at the i.r.s. getting performance bonuses is offensive. targeting individuals or groups for their political beliefs is unacceptable. but today i want to talk about a different issue -- vital industry in my state crushed by overbearing i.r.s. enforcement of their own incomprehensible regulations. folks

it was insane. >> reporter: by one estimate, more than 11,000 gray whales make the trip from alaska in the fall down to bah dia california and back. there are occasional killer whales, blues, and humpbacks too. but the grays are the dependable show. doing the backstroke for this excursion boat in january. and often traveling in groups. calves and the odd dolphin in tow. this time so close to shore. >> i've never seen it with the swimmers. not next to them like that. that was the first time. >> yeah, it was crazy. i didn't really expect it at all. when people were yelling there were whales, i just didn't believe it. >> every person on the beach had their phone out or ipad taking pictures of the whale. >> reporter: in fact, this encounter was so close and so unusual, there were warnings posted on social media. we know the whales are way cool, but please don't swim up to them. for your safety and theirs. >> the mom's probably 40 tons. here you are a human being that's maybe 200 pounds in the water and you're not afraid of that animal. that's pretty special. >> reporter: but with the speci

general ban on smoking would have to be implemented in national laws to us all nuts in a speech to the states alaska is on the prowl again accompanied by a teeny scientists from the institute for health and his assistant we checked out the restaurant lawyer told a month ago and file charges against it for inadequate known smoker protection while the scientists measures the air quality the smoking share seems content this time. here's a video. the issues that separate entrance directly into the non smoking room how i go. he did to the main entrance to cement its restaurant with separate smoking room festooned to mix restaurant with two different room. boy time. and no one smoker pretext and insecure team can sign. mema mostly devoted to keep doing what you come to a screening tool to cleanse myself of it as a sign that the non smokers run behind it. well it's. it is is disappointed however. his measurements showed the air and the non smoking area is twice as long as those on the street. taking the salute you. the concentration of particulars matter should be much lower than on size heavy traffic as a

the size of that blaze is not unusual for alaska, but the state does not usually see such large firesis early in the season. >>> severe weather is on the move this memorial day across much of the south and midwest. flood watches and warnings are posted across texas as thunderstorms and downpours march eastward. accuweather's molly cochran has the latest memorial day forecast. >> if you have this memorial day holiday off, break out the shorts and t-shirts. feeling more like summertime across the northeast. temperatures well into the 80s from new york city to boston. don't get too comfortable, though, as we will see a cooler trend pushing its way into the new england states on tuesday then making its way into much of the northeast by wednesday. different story across the south central picking up some heavy rainfall on monday. want to keep a watchful eye to the sky as we can expect some thunderstorms in there, as well. now across much of the deep south also picking up on the heat along the gulf coast. central force of thunderstorm activity to pop up mainly in the afternoon hours across f

they are awaiting a permanent home at the alaska zoo in anchorage. >>> musicians and athletes and techans coming together for a common cause, an antiviolence message being sent as one. >>> a year after unpaid bills, the festival buying -- bringing together music and wine will be different this year. right here. my parents were immigrants. and they taught me that with hard work, anything is possible. i earned a scholarship to mit. and worked across party lines to get things done. i'm alex padilla. i'll protect voting rights for everyone. and make it easier to start a business. so we create jobs and opportunity for all californians. what should we order? (announcer) alex padilla. secretary of state. it gives you options based on your budget -- it's a piece of cake. i was told there would be cake. get a free quote at progressive.com. >>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. happy friday to you at 5:28. >>> on this friday, we will find out what the forecast look like. >> mother nature has forgotten it is summer, on friday brought the marine layer back and fog on live do

. >> on the alaska peninsula, they haven't been hunted. it's remote, so the general public doesn't go there. we can get in to areas and see bears up close. you just can't do that anywhere else. >> in the spring of 2013, brad is leading a tour of photographers when he decides to set up his go pro camera. >> i knew a stretch of bear trail that that intersects the river. a great spot for bears to happy in and try and get a fish. i placed the go pro on a rocky area. i didn't want the bear to see the camera. i wanted to get its natural behavior. >> brad moves to a safe distance. he soon gets more than he bargained for. >> it mother frames herself perfectly and turns and looks over. sure enough, the cub follows her. the cub was bored and curious, checking everything out. the cub looks straight at the camera, then the bear decided to taste it and chew on it a little bit. my heart sank because i thought, uh-oh, we just lost another go pro. >> after giving the go pro a serious tongue bath, the cub moves on. brad grabs the camera and is relieved to f

cool systems off in the gull of alaska to kick off the winds in the coastline. blustery this afternoon. 20 to 30-mile-per-hour winds there. sight chance of showers to the north and then not too bad towards sacramento valley. 75 degrees, partly cloudy there in the high country and slight chance of showers as well. 50 in lake tahoe. 60 or 70 and 63 degrees in the monterey bay. system through this morning, not much energy with it. gist enough to brick us a few clouds and sprinkles. things settle down into tomorrow but temperatures are cooler today. 65 in san mateo. only 59 and pretty blustery in pacifica. low 60s there and about 64 in alameda and 65 in oakland. sunset at 8:04 and as we look out over the next couple of days, we warm up. a few clouds coming our way with sprinkles on thursday and much warmer, lots of sunshine as we head towards next weekend. that's the weather, guys. back to you. >> thank you. >>> we've got music and fun part of the cinco de mayo celebration today. >> roberta gonzalez is ready for the festivities in pleasanton. roberta, i'm loving the

general ban on smoking would have to be implemented in national law to this month's notice that the states alaska is on the prowl again accompanied by a beanie scientists from the institute for health and his assistant we checked out the restaurant owner pulled a month ago and file charges against at four in an acquittal and smoker protection. while the scientists measures the air quality. the smoking share it seems content this time. here's a video the issue as a separate entrance directly in the non smoking room. then about how i go. he did to the main entrance to cement his restaurant with separate smoking room festooned to make stressed on two different from the void. and don't smoke or pretext and insecure team inside minimizing devoted to keep doing what you come to a swimming pool because the plants out of it as a sign that the non smokers from behind as well. it is is disappointed however. his measurements show the air and the non smoking area is twice the standard is out on the street. a constituent he knew the concentration of particulars matter should be much more adult sized heavy tra

temperatures in the 80s in hawaii. alaska is the time of year the sun is out until late late in the day. usually start to warm things up. still struggling now. nome at 23. barrow, alaska, at 18. better from juneau to anchorage, beautiful day, low 60s, fairbanks, clouds, 50s. not too bad for this time of year. not bad on the cinco de mayo. looking fine in many areas of california too. the northwest, some showers. >> cinco de mayo, looking good in anchorage, celebrate really mo more. >>> spider-man 2, the superhero sequel did not break any records but pulled in $92 million. second place went to the comedy "the other woman" with $14.2 million. and third place to "heaven is for real" with $8.7 million. >>> star wars episode 7 director j.j. abram and the writer wished fans a happy star wars day with a video selfie. they uploaded the video on may 4th, may the 4th be with you telling fans there are more casting announcements to come. i was wondering why my brother texted me may the 4th be with you. >>> an online petition is trying t

well, the former alaska governor with a clear and quite rye reference to the well known greek myth.eus in the form of a swan forced himself on the -- yada yada christopher columbus discovers america and the founding fathers create the greatest country god has ever given to the people of earth. well played, governor, you do read, all of them. [ laughter ] where exactly was a speech such as this appropriate? >> sarah palin stirred up controversy at the nra convention. >> jon: o the nra convention. the national rifle association. i believe it's some sort of gentlemen's sporting group organized in the late 19th century to promote proper marksmanship. i look forward to remarks on good hunting etiquette and weapons hygiene from the nra president the in no way undermedicated wayne la peer area. >> there are home innovate vaders, drug cartels, knockout gamers, rapers, haters, campus killers, airport kill yours shopping mall killers and killers who scheme to destroyed our country. [ laughter ] nl. >> jon: daddy scared. [laughter] i see the nra has changed its mission from firearm safety to d

in 2007 he was honored by his peers when he received the alaska bar association board of governors professionalism award in recognition of exemplary conduct in association with his colleagues and legal community. in 2011 michael geraghty was elected to the american bar foundation in recognition of outstanding dedication to the welfare of the community, the position of the profession and advancement of the objectives of the american bar association. michael geraghty received an undergraduate degree in political science from the university of hawaii and graduated with j.d. from the university of santa clara. michael geraghty and his wife lived in anchorage for 30 years and have five children. we are going to have the same format we did in the last panel. then for 15 minutes, pose some questions and open up to the audience for questions. esta bigler, you want to begin? >> i will begin. good morning, everyone. i can't tell you how thrilled i am to be here but i feel little bit like diana duck out of water. as the only employment lawyer on the panel went perhaps the only labor employment lawyer in the

you can read more about the fires in alaska on the website aljazeera.com. there you'll find the top stories at aljazeera.com. >>> hello, i'm richard gisberg and you are at "listening post". this week, life in the past lane. searching for a solution for net neutrality - where does the internet go from hear. >>> television in thailand goes black as the military moves in >>> journalism without a safety net - syria coverage >>> two powerful women in print journalism take a fall >>> there's a battle in washington over the way the worldwide web should work. the stakes are high. if the internet is a superhighway should there be a fast lane for those that can pay the price or a slow lane for those that can't. should everyone be treated equally, regardless of whether they are big corporate backing or small. the f.c.c. is trying to figure that out as they try to propose new rules for the broadband, to make it work without stifling freedom of expression. critics argue that service providers will create a 2-tier internet, charging a premium for access to the fast lane

and hit dan weville >> pam: when some san sextuples the alaska are planning to challenge the state thate marriage with a federal lawsuit. five couples are expected to file the lawsuit against the state today the suit will say that in last the day and the price same-sex couples of the process and equal protection under the law. in 1998 state residents voted to defy mayors as being between a man and a woman. but over the past year's federal court had struck down state bans on de marriage. four of the couples are already married to other states. the >> catherine: hommel health officials or from a that a second person in the u.s. is sick with the dangers respiratory virus known as murders mers mers >> catherine: the most recent case here will mers stands for middle east respiratory syndrome and it has made hundreds of people sick in the middle east. the most recent case here a man from saudi or radio who was visiting florida he was diagnosed last night and is doing well in the orlando hospital. from earlier this month, a man and indiana was tunnels with a potentially deadly virus and letter

the bay. a clean up. why would states as far as way as alaska want to stop it? >> the president and many of us thing of this bay as a national treasure oar, it's a treasure that has tarn eshed. pollution has taken a toll. there's a plan to clean up the bay and restore the fish and shellfish. clean water - what could be less controversial. down by the bay, and in courtrooms clean it up is the focus of a legal debate. "america tonight"'s sheila macvicar explains why. >> i worked on the water for 48 years and have seen a lot of changes, and not any of them good. >> this bay, the nation's largest evident uary, a place where the water -- estuary, the place where the water meets the land. it is in trouble. over the years dave kir win has seen the bay overwhelmed with a combination of agricultural and industrial run-off. waste water from sewage treatment plant and sediment. >> there used to be grant. when i was a kid grass would be all the way across, in the '60s. when they used fertilisers, systeming up agriculture and the run off. it killed off the grasses. >> will ba

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this issue has cropped up very recently in alaska before the alaska board of game. aska for years and had what is called the same-day airborne prohibition. you cannot fly an airplane from a company to spot a moose or a nearby and then land into the animal on that same day. that is considered to be unethical and not constitute fair chase, and now with the emerging drone technology, i know that the alaska board of game is taking steps to ban the use of drones basically as an outgrowth of the same-day airborne rule. to the degree that this technology is going to become available to ordinary citizens, i think that those types of research and fall clearly within the fair chase gambit. host: we're talking with bill one of the sportsmen's alliances , he is the federal affairs director there. we're talking about efforts to enshrine the right to hunt in state constitutions, ended the segment of the "washington journal," we have a special line italy for hunters if you want to call in at (202) 585-3882. otherwise, democrats can call in at (202) 585-3880, republicans (202) 585-3

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the first that decriminalized marijuana was alaska. since then red and blue states like have decriminalized marijuana from california to new york to mississippi to nebraska. nothing was similar about the states. the district of columbia is the only jurisdiction that is gotten a full-fledged hearing on its local discrimination laws. the national government has to do but make the framers turnover in the gray. makes officials in their own jurisdiction. a local control of local affairs. this hearing stands out. it flies in the days of what my republican colleagues often preach about devolving power at two local states and jurisdictions. they tried to snatch power by making the district of columbia vindicated local power. its local policy before the state legislature. we will defend this cities decriminalization bill against any and every attempt to block or change it. there will be a city official here today. they have informed me that he objects to this hearing and he has refused to provide, as has the council, any official who has had any

ntsb officials say air traffic control did not warn the planes. alaskaision avoidance alarm on the 737 is actually what saved those lives. "outfront" tonight mary schiavo. this is a trend. this is the fifth incident we have reported on in the last month of a near miss of a mid-air collision passenger jets involved. what is going on? >> well, the office of inspector general, my old office has studied this many, many times. they found that several things are wrong. the air traffic control mistakes, mistakes made by the controllers themselves are on the dramatic increase. the faa says it's just better reporting. but the inspector general found no, they don't actually report them as much as they should. they're increasing. there is a lack of adequate training. the training gets spread out over three years. they don't report the problems, and they don't have good procedures in place, like to one, where they had to do a go-round, and they both turned the same way. so they need to do all those things to correct it. and that is a very alarming statistic, because