. >>> leaving the fertile plains of the punjab behind, i'm headed out towards the himalayas. last hundred years. [ moo ] all aboard. ♪ this is going to be suboptimal seating. i don't think this reclines. thank god they have relaxed attitudes towards prescription drugs. before you enter the gateway to the himalayas, you better self-medicate. ♪ meanwhile, i have been like 24 hours without a bite of food. i arrive, it's like oh, there's snacks on the way. great. get a bag of peanuts. >> truth be told, i'm an angry bitter man when i board. i'm guessing there ain't a p.f. chang on the way. kind of cute. a little train. it's so little. the universal tourist. go on the king kong ride. while my stomach growls, i become the kind of traveller i warn against. gripy, self-absorbed, immune to my surroundings. but as my brightly colored little train heads up into the hills from kalka station, known as the gateway to the himalayas, my world view starts to improve. the naturally bright colors of india start to pleasurably saturate my brain. the views from the window of ridiculously deep vall

there are many kingdoms along the himalayas, million practicing mahiana or tibetan buddhism and we arethe last surviving nation whose state religion is mamiana buddhism. feudal till about 1933. >> and then the third king abolished the system. >> rose: first roads in '62. yes, in '61, we started constructing our first road about three years before i was born. charlie my mother worked on this road. the entire country had to come together because now we have 750,000 people, so, at that time, we must have had about 600,000 people 500,000 people, and our entire population had to come and work on the road so my mother was one of them. as most of our parents. >> rose: your dad was a soldier. >> yes. >> rose: but you were educated in the united states. >> i was educated in india first, then i did my high school in bhutan, won a scholarship to study engineering in america. i wrote to the best ten colleges, ten engineering colleges and i wrote to the university of pittsburgh because, at that time pittsburgh was voted the most livable city by thyme "time magazine." >> rose: city of three rivers.

if you're at the top of the himalayas you can see the development of industry in india. you can see when lead was put into gasoline. you can see when legislation was passed to remove it. anything that's in the air gets recorded. and perhaps, with the ice cores probably the thing that really makes them unique is that they record the history of the earth's atmosphere. and you can see how the earth's atmosphere has changed through time. and our limitations is just interpreting how that recorder is working. when i came to ohio state university i was prettyonvinced i was going to become a coal geologist. because, having grown up in west virginia, i could see -- one of the reasons of going to college was to get a job. and i could see the application there. in my first quarter here i got a little note in my mailbox that said, "how would you like to work for a research program "in the institute of polar studies looking at ice cores?" and so i took this position. it took me about a year, year and a half, to really start to realize what was archived in those ice cores or the poten

it is tucked away in the himalayas. but the reality is we are not just one big monastery. we are people. the country, the beauty of our country is that it rises very quickly all the way to 7500 meters above sea level in a span of time. charlie: 800,000. prime minister tobgay: 750,000. eight football stadiums. [laughter] it is spread throughout the country. our country is divided by tall mountains, narrow valleys. we do have problems getting from place to place. the country itself is 38,000 square kilometers. a little bigger than maryland. charlie: most people are buddhist. prime minister tobgay: most vajrayana buddhism, and we are the last surviving vajrayana buddhism country in the world. charlie: what does that mean? prime minister tobgay: there are different strains of buddhism. there were different kingdoms in the himalayas practicing vajrayana buddhism, tibetan buddhism. we are the last surviving nation whose state religion is vajrayana buddhism. charlie: feudal until 1953? prime minister tobgay: yes. charlie: the first roads around 1962. prime minister tobgay: 1961 w

the year the skies are very clear the beginning of the climbing season the trekking season to the himalayas, the best time to see the mountains. we were just there a few days ago, and it was raining nonstop even then. the plane did circle around a few times to land. it took about an hour for us to land. and the plane was delayed whether we tried to take off, as well. this is again maybe two on three days ago. so this is very unusual for, you know, for nepal, this weather during this kind of time. plane crashes especially smaller aircraft do crash quite regularly especially in the domestic sector of nepal. it is considered one of the most difficult places one of the most difficult countries to land in especially higher up in the himalayas. we saw a smaller aircraft crash about a year ago. so higher it up's more difficult place to land, but this is the first time in over two decades that we're seeing anything significant happen to a larger aircraft in kathmandu valley. >> all right. monitoring the situation in new delhi from kathmandu, nepal. thanks. >>> u.s. federal agents cracking down on w

the kingdom of butan with a population of 730,000 lies south of the himalayas. traditional attire is still worn in schools and at official events. however, people now commonly sport modern leather shoes. multicolors sneakers are popular with the younger generation. in this photograph, most people are barefooted. in the past, shoes were considered a luxury. and not everyone could afford to own them. shoes became popular in the 1970s when butan began to open up to the outside world. there are now 50 shoe stores, a wide variety of foot ware is available, mostly imported from countries such as china and india. while such shoe stores exist in thimpu and major towns, there are none in the rest of the country. this woman has arrived in the capital from a village 18 kilometers away. >> translator: i've come to buy new shoes because it's so cold. i only buy new shoes once every two or three years. >> the woman is wearing plastic like this is common in rural areas. >> translator: in the cold, my heel splits. >> her budget is just $3. >> translator: i'd really like warm boo

we're likely to see about ten centimeters of snow across the himalayas including southern tibet. you can see, the system will be weakening. so we're not going to be seeing that much rainfall. so the recovery process is cooperative -- the weather is cooperative with the recovery efforts. a little bit toward the east though, we have some thunderstorm warnings but it's on a low level. and as you can see, that's clearing off too. now, further toward the east we have a disturbance in southern china that's bringing sma rainfall across the area. and that's pulling into the western areas of japan. quush yue has kyushu has been seeing the heavy rainfall and that's pulling into much of japan including tokyo as well. the system over toward the korean peninsula is now bringing 20 centimeters of snowfall to the northern areas of the korean peninsula. and snow will also cover much of northern japan. the rain will be coming in in tokyo starting the evening hours today. and as for the forecast, looking at some clearing skies on tuesday. a very short break break because we have another round of s

it's in the himalayas, this is the beginning of the climbing and trekking season.n tourists climbers trekkers would be headed to nepal. it's considered the best time to view the himalayas, some unusual weather patterns in recent days it's been raining nonstop, so officials in nepal are blaming the visibility there, the turkish airline official saying there could have been a technical problem as well. they're all investigating all of this. one of the passengers on the plane did say that the plane had to circle the kathmandu valley area for about an hour and a half and in the second attempt to land skidded off the runway and into the grassy area. that you are seeing in the pictures but incredible evacuation all the passengers there were rescued safely and no reports of injuries. >> incredible. we see this happen from time to time, but to see those pictures like that. extraordinary. >> things happen to planes, but when everybody makes it out alive, it's something worth covering. >>> so president obama firing back after prime minister netenyahu's fiery speech to congre

charlie: would you want to climb the himalayas? michael: i don't have a bucket list.o a lot of that kind of stuff. we climb mountains once a year for five or six days. charlie: which mountains? michael: no big mountains. in british columbia and costa rica. charlie: why don't you go climb mount everest? michael: somebody else has done that. charlie: it doesn't look that fun to me, by the way. michael: i don't mind suffering a little bit. i don't have a bucket list. charlie: undiscovered in life? michael: for me? a bunch of things undiscovered country at things i would love to explore as a writer. i would like to go back to my childhood in new orleans. charlie: tell the sort of the new orleans you knew as a kid. where everybody was a walter isaacson want to be. michael: he was the only successful person in new orleans. he actually wants to go and do stuff. most of us want to do lay around and scratch ourselves. [laughter] i do have a list of subjects i want to do. charlie: let's hear them. michael: that is one of them. charlie: i want to help you out because somebody's

a lot of concerns in this part of india as well and in the himalayas about the rain. right across parts of india, they're experiencing more extreme rainfall than they would normally expect for this time of the year. >>> to denmark, where researchers have discovered that porpoises can adjust the beams of sound they use to hunt. the animals hunt with clicks and buzzes detecting echoes from their prey. researchers showed them switching from a narrow to a wide beam like adjusting a torch, as they honed in on fish. here's more. >> reporter: like many under water hunters, porpoises detect prey using sound, clicking to pick up echoes. when they're chasing one fish they switch from a click to an intense buzz receiving a stream of echoes as they pursue it. this study shows that they can actually adjust the width of a beam of sound they produce. a team used under water microphones to measure sound from hunting porpoises. this revealed the animal's beam widened, trapping the fish in a broad search light of sound. the scientists say that uncovering these secrets will help them de

>> i move from the himalayas where i was working with tibetan refugees on capitol hill in 1998 and i assumed a position with the congressional human rights foundation. my first week on the job saddam husein attacked the kurds using chemical weapons. i was visited in my office and the braeburn house office building by a neurosurgeon with whom i became fast friends and is now the governor of kirkuk. now he is brought with him photos of kurds who have been victimized in fallujah. i write about it in the preface of my book. he brought gruesome photos of kurdish civilians who perished during a chemical weapons attack in the village of fallujah. these photos depicted old men in traditional kurdish garb sprawled kurdish women and girls in colorful clothing and headscarves laid dead in the street, faces twisted in anguish anguish, foam running from their mouse, pained expressions frozen in death. 5000 kurds perished that day that the attack on holub joe was not an isolated event. it was part of a broader campaign that was launched by saddam husein and implemented by his nephew. he was called

not normal, but we are getting the right area for rain this time of the year in the foothills of the himalaya. we go north a little bit to the satellite picture. you get rain or snow, dependency on the height. that's well above the average. further north to senegal, that would be falling as snow. we have had a bit of snow there not a huge amount. this is probably good news. equally, until you get into the foothills, this is rain. toward kashmir now but these trees are not used to great disparity, we get rain and snow here. the rain still falls. we're taking it through 24 hours, and then it dice out. you are up in the hindu cush here. there is a line beyond the snow, potential there for at least the cloud to be a low ceiling does exist. beyond that, it's a little bit better but it's not quite perfect yet. >> thank you. still ahead on the news hour, h.iv numbers in africa help to decriminalize the sex trade. >> hundreds of thousands of activists in buenos aires have come to show their support to president kirchner as she plaintiffs her last state of the nation address. >> in sport chelsea secur

i want to bring in conrad anchor, a mountaineer, he's climbed through the himalayas and trekked across antarctica. welcome. >> greetings brooke. >> amid the myriad of challenges what is challenge number one for these rescue crews we see on the ground here in the alps? >> the first challenge will be to ensure the safety of the rescuers. whenever there's a rescue you do not want to endanger the rescuers who are there. it's very hilly terrain. they'll be using a lot of helicopters. so ensuring there's not any further accidents, that's their top priority. >> some of the challenges i understand according to the president of this region in france at this moment helicopters are not able to land in this area. i was reading part of what you were telling one of our producers, describing this process of long lines, short lines. can you explain that to me? >> there's two different ways we'll be able to get the rescuers in there. they're flying with a euro copter. seats about four passengers. they can tow in. they hop off the helicopter. they can drop the rescuers in on a long line. they unclip fro

so i mean, do you want to climb in the himalayas? >> like a bucket list?> rose: do you have a bucket list. >> i don't have a bucket list, i do lots of that kind of stuff guy off with pals once a year for five or six days and we climb mountains, yes. >> rose: which mountains have you climbed? >> we haven't climbed any big mountains, no famous mountain, these little mountains, mountains in british columbia and mountains in puerto rico. >> rose: why don't you go climb mount everest and write about that. >> other people have done that. >> rose: and it doesn't look like fun, especially if you don't like cold. >> yes, i will suffer a little bit, but i don't have a bucket list. >> what is undiscovered in life? >> for me? >> yes. you. >> oh, there are a bunch of things. there are a bunch of things that are undiscovered -- there are things i would love to explore as a writer, i would like to go back to my childhood in new orleans that i grew up -- >> rose: and tell the new orleans of the the tell the story of the new orleans you knew as a child. >> yes. >> and wall

. >> what about the encrusted cheerios. >> himalayas or himalayas? which is it? ck santelli at cme group in chicago. >> good morning. if we look at the intraday and two day of tens really kind of a push. granted one-day rates are up a smidge. yesterday they moved lower from their higher levels. but all in all, yields are actually a little bit higher than we closed yesterday, or close to unchanged. december 1st chart shows you we're not back off from where we settled last year. look at two day of bunds, yes, we did violate the 20 basis point level briefly, trading 19 basis points and change. if you look at two day of bunds and euros, horsepower how they're pushing euros out the door, of course is having an effect of making bund rates. >> et heated. i heard the discussion about the high for the year and the euro versus the dollar like many markets in 2014 2015 the first trade day of the year. we had a high close of 121.04. we could see what's happened ever since. look what's go on with regard to foreign exchange and stick with that, i want you to see something else.

not only coral reefs off the coast alaska, glaciers in the himalayas, deforestation in the amazon. something else changed trajectory of her life once again. for the first time she saw the thin blue line encircling our planet. as if someone had taken a royal blue crayon, she said, and drawn it. recognizing the from gillty of earth's atmosphere. sometimes she changed the metaphor. the ribbon of atmosphere was earth's spacesuit. or it was a slim as the fuzz on a tennis ball. but that is all there was she realized the only thing protecting our planet, our lives, us, our lakes, our trees our seas, everything that's here from the harshness of outer space. and seeing that thin, blue, line is what would later become her motivating impulse for the rest of her life, protecting planet earth. that was just the beginning of her contributions to nasa. after the hideous accident that destroyed challenger and killed seven people on board, nasa was only astronaut and only woman to serve on the commission that investigated it. she was also the source of a critical revelation about the rocket's o-rin