the reasons to oppose the keystone xl pipeline are clear. many nebraskaawmakers, well they have been bought out by the oil company. they are just not on the same page. is that an inflammatory statement? prove me wrong. 29 nebraska state senators sent a letter to secretary of state john kerry. we have got a lot of letters floating around since we have been covering this. urging support of the pipeline. the 29 nebraska state senators are telling kerry, let's go. let's do it. it is over half the state senate. the report shows trans canada might be buying a bit of influence right here. according to the web side nebraskawatchdog.org. transcanada has spent thousands of dollars over last few years. $700,000 in a small media state. that buys a lot of time and a lot of influence. there is no doubt transcanada has a deep wallet. they are buying insuranfluence. when i was in nebraska, one former state senator said lobbying was rampant. >> were you in the legislature? >> yes. >> 49 representatives. >> uncamral. >> there was heavy lobbying on both sides. >> on the let

. >> so state prison started acquiring the drugs in secret, sometimes oversees. in 2012, nebraska was trying to execute michael ryan, but had trouble to acquire sodium thiopentyl. here at the nebraska state prison, authorities were unable to acquire that lethal drug for the state's first execution after abolishing the electric chair. the chief chemist said she was ordered to obtain it from outside the country which means it would have been a violation of fda rules. pharmacist diane booker who left her job in 2011 asked us not to show her face. >> what did your boss tell you to do? >> to acquire sodium thiopental by any means possible. >> and by any means possible, you took that to mean? >> any source possible, outside the united states. >> because it was not legal here? >> the last manufacturer in the united states stopped making it yes. >> what was his response? >> even though you can't get it, it is not fda approved, you can't possibly use it for execution. >> booker says her boss ignored her objections and obtained the drug from a foreign broker. nebraska would not comment. >>>

. >> so state prison started acquiring the drugs in secret, sometimes oversees. in 2012, nebraska was trying to execute michael ryan, but had trouble to acquire sodium thiopentyl. here at the nebraska state prison, authorities were unable to acquire that lethal drug for the state's first execution after abolishing the electric chair. the chief chemist said she was ordered to obtain it from outside the country which means it would have been a violation of fda rules. pharmacist diane booker who left her job in 2011 asked us not to show her face. >> what did your boss tell you to do? >> to acquire sodium thiopental by any means possible. >> and by any means possible, you took that to mean? >> any source possible, outside the united states. >> because it was not legal here? >> the last manufacturer in the united states stopped making it yes. >> what was his response? >> even though you can't get it, it is not fda approved, you can't possibly use it for execution. >> booker says her boss ignored her objections and obtained the drug from a foreign broker. nebraska would not comment. >>>

now, if nobody in nebraska and the governor turns on him, mr. president, it seems like you'll have to go talk to these people in nebraska. you'll have to meet with them because the other representatives won't. you won't have all the information, mr. president, unless you do what i did. it's an eye opener. it's a risk. it's unnecessary. we don't have to do this. there is plenty of oil and plnt of ways to move it. putting it over the aquifer would be a huge mistake for america. and if you say no, mr. president, it will be a huge symbolic symbol, it will be a huge symbolic statement to the country and to the world we're serious about this climate thing. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question. is the keystone xl pipeline worth the risk? text a for yes, b for no to 67622. you can can go to our blog. we'll bring you the results later in the show. for more, let me bring in earnest schneider who covered the event in houston. great to have you with us tonight. >> thank, ed.in houston. great to have you with us tonight.

with that, i would now recognize the stolen from nebraska for an opening statement -- the gentleman from nebraska for the opening statement. >> i believe this market is timely. at issue here is the live watchedlike what we over the weekend, the ncaa tournament, except for the debacle in san antonio last night. but you can't really binge and watched march madness on your tv or ipad months after the event. yes, you can watch some of the games on cbs.com, which even has a boss button. i do not think anybody in the audience knows with that is. but live content is sold primarily through the system congress set up which allows atv providers like satellite operators to buy the rights from broadcasters and other content owners. local content like broadcast news is also sold through the same system. as the son of a former newscaster of ketv in omaha i am police the legislation we consider today supports our local broadcasters -- i am weased the legislation consider today supports our local broadcasters and their endeavors to serve the local community. my job on saturdays was to put the weather sy

nebraska. a lot of the midwest has cold weather in place. now, as we start the morning, across a large portion, we have temperatures getting near cold record temperatures in march. you can see how the low temperatures are forecast to be in single digits and below. >> now, forget the lowest temperatures and the morning hours, it's still in the 50s in the west. single digits all the way down to atlanta. high temperatures cold through the day on tuesday. >> still ahead - the u.s. and other allies, raising the possibility of sanctions against russia. the leverage moscow could use to prevent it happening. >> oscar pistorius on trial for mudder. what witnesses heard the night his girlfriend was shot to dress. >>> a new discovery from the dark times. what's unearthed from a past internment camp in 1942? >>> welcome back. there has been talk in the west about possible economic sanctions against russia. russia has critical leverage, pipelines that supply national gas to europe. ali velshi reports on what could happen if the critical supply is cut off

it's really important to us in the state of nebraska. n guarantee you that if you read the 22,000 pages of the multiple environmental studies, those conclude that there is a negligible impact to the aquifer. agreement putting permanent employees along the route to make sure we have an immediate response if there is any leak. i agree that there is no perfect pipeline but this one is as engineered better than any other pipeline in the history of the united states. i rely on the science. host: is there democratic support for this pipeline? yes, we passed hr3 two deem the permits. we had a number of democrats that voted with us. they are on the senate side. there was a place ibo vote on the budget a year ago and we had 62 democrats over it. host: the caller from nebraska made reference to alaska. our next caller is from anchorage. republican line. caller: good morning, gentlemen. i want to thank you again for the "washington journal." i think it's an incredible resource for information. congressman terry, to clear up that one caller's observa

well, the weekend of february 22nd i arrived in nebraska. i heard the concerns, and i saw the risk of where the pipeline would run. no one wanted to sleep a couple hundred feet away from a pipeline pumping 800,000 barrels a day of toxic sludge. if barack obama were standing here right now, shannon, what would you say to him? >> personally i would ask him if he would willingly sleep 275 feet away from a 36-inch pipe of sludge and poison day after day after day after day. if that's something that he really would feel comfortable doing. personally, i don't. >> would anybody feel comfortable doing that? maybe a few americans. one of the biggest concerns is this, the ogalla aquifer, one of the largest in the world. it's natural treasure to this country, the second largest body of water in north america next to the great lakes. this aquifer provides water to farms in eight states through farm belt, the breadbasket of america, provides water to roughly a quarter of our nation's crop land. it also supplies many local drinking wells. you want to drink

i mean -- >> very good point. >> this really going come down to the nebraska state supreme court if the president approves it, correct? >> let me tell you how important it is. nebraska had the girl scouts put together a consumer complaint, and they went after the governor who had ok'd the x.l. and all of a sudden, the trial court says, no, we're not going to do that. now it's going up on appeal. so all of a sudden there -- transcanada has to be able to say this to this administration that there is an approved route. right now as we speak, there snow approved route for the pipeline. ed, very important new an here, okay. this president is a constitutional law professor. this is what he did. he understands that there is state sovereignty issue that has to be resolved before the pipeline goes anywhere. it's not just nebraska where we're going to see the lawsuits. we're going to see them in south dakota, kansas, oklahoma, here's what's really interesting very quickly. it is this -- the president is talking like a addition might be around the corner. if he's saying that, he certainly understa

in 1821 on the the banks of blue water creak, what is now the panhandle of nebraska. a meteor came through and red cloud was born that night and he was the one that united those people. and tom will tell you that. >> red cloud was born may of 1821. there are so many stories we have heard of in history of people, men and women, who had very difficult childhoods and had to rise above them and the resilliance they gained made them leaders. they think he had a younger brother. when red cloud was five years old, his father did, and he didn't die of war acts or an accident, he died of alcoholism. so talking about the mid-1820s and here is a sioux man dying of alcoholism. and when the early traders and people that were working their way west, there were three powerful diseases they brought: small pox, cholera, and alcohol. the indians had no immunity to these diseases. an advantage he had was was more went back to her band that was one my old smoke who she called brother. we don't know if they were biological brothers or just a close, but he took in the children. red cloud wa

the horses made their way north to kansas, and the pony in nebraska. all the way up to the creed in canada, and, of course, the cheyenne and the sioux took to the horse naturally, and much like the early apache raid, now they could spread out more. they conquered what remanents of the smaller tribe, the otos, the mandan, and then the big boys and pushed the pony out. they pushed the kiowa out of the black hills. they pushed the you out of the river country up into the rockies. they controlled, basically, minnesota to montana to the great shake and -- great salt lake through lower colorado. it was just -- it was an empire. the sioux were still seven nations, seven tribes, sitting bull, you heard of him, he was a hump papa, crazy horse was an ogallal, and red cloud had an ogallala mother and sioux dad. they were shattered into frabs, bands and clans speaking the same language and same culture, but they were not united. they did not fight each other, were not enemies, but they were not friendly. they were just waiting for someone, if someone would come alo

the road out here in front of us is nebraska avenue here in northwest washington. it is a mile from the tv station as we start our morning out and about. we'll do increasing radii away from the district, but this is just off nebraska avenue. all of a sudden, everything is changing. this is one big sheet of ice out here in this neighborhood. we are on 38th street here off nebraska. there are ruts in the road where people have driven before, so it's a mixed blessing. it has packed the snow down to ice. this all started yesterday morning. if you feel like you are losing your traction, get over to the krup chi parts on the side, but you extra caution. i have a funny feeling that danella is going to be busy today. >>> i have the same feeling. like you saw in chuck's camera, it is hit or miss. the main roads are looking good. the side streets are tricky. start in northwest with an alert, d.c. police are tweeting out about manhole covers missing. also, florida is closed at connecticut avenue. again, that's because of missing manholes. now we'll head over to i-95 northbound

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we feel the lawsuit that was awarded to nebraska citizens a couple of weeks ago that ruled the sidingl, our attorney general and our governor have appealed that. and lee terry is out, you know, saying that was a bad decision. other candidates for some of those federal offices are saying that it was bad decision, and that they're going to continue to fight for approval of the pipeline. so it's zil stihl -- if not anything, it's getting worse. >> will this public comment period have an impact on the issue, as you see it? >> i believe so, yes. i think the public comment period is very important. and it gives folks a chance to weigh in on the issue from all across the country. and i think that from what i've seen, folks from all across the country all have their different reasons to be concerned about this issue. and i've been encouraged by a lot of the support that we've had for our efforts here in nebraska from people all across the country and all across the world. >> what would it mean to you and your ranch, ben, if the keystone xl pipeline were approved and it's going to be on your l

the cranes for 20 years. >> it would be like missing christmas if i didn't come to the platte river in central nebraska to watch cranes in the springtime. >> this is good. this is really good. >> reporter: revered since ancient times, mike says the graceful, el gantd birds dance sometimes because they're nervous, sometimes they're in love, and sometimes because they just like to dance. but the best time to watch them is at first light. with the golden moon in the western sky you can barely see the birds, but you sure can hear them. the cranes spend the night on the banks in the sand bars of the platte river and as daybreak comes the birds get louder and louder builder to a dramatic crescendo, the wake-up call the likes of which you have never heard. crane-lovers come from all over the country and all over the world to visit audubon's row sanctuary, lin can't wait to hear the birds up close. you're all pumped up. >> i really am, i can't help it. >> reporter: we used to say we know it is spring when the swallows return to capistrano. now you know it is spring when the cranes return to carney, harry smith

the story. first billionaire nebraskan, yeah, from nebraska, from omaha, warren buffett. monday he said the pipeline would be good for america. >> what about the keystone pipeline? that question was raised several times by shareholders and other whose say, wait a second, do you want the keystone pipe line to come because it's a direct competitor to what would happen with burlington northern? its not that big competitor. it would be moving crude down interest canada and that -- i -- i think probably the keystone pipeline's a good idea for the country. >> do you expect the president might pass it? >> vie no idea. >> admitted there are risks involved with the keystone xl pipeline. >> there are leaks on pipelines and, you know, occasional exposure, that's very, very, very rare. but if you measure moving millions of barrels for a hundred years, one versus the other, i'm not sure how it would come out. depends what's goingen. they'll change railcars, obvious. >> i warren buffett knew the share would be productive because he bought burlington northern in 2009. the numbers i'm rea

the advisory. it's mainly under nebraska avenue in the areas of wisconsin and massachusetts avenues in northwest dc. anyone in this area is strongly encouraged to boil water for drinking, cooking, the water you'll use to brush your teeth, make ice, formula for infants, water for your pets, you'll want to boil all of that water. obviously, you want to allow it to cool down and then use it. this all began this afternoon at the fort pumping station in dc. power went out, pumps went down. the loss of pressure from those pumps could have caused contamination in the water system according to dc water. right now, the water authority said there's no reason to believe any of the water was, in fact, contaminated, but they'd rather be safe until they know for sure. >> is there a time frame on how long to boil water? >> the time table is at least through tomorrow. even though the service is fully up and running and there's no more contamination possible now because the system is up and running as it should, shawe have to do water monitoring, and it takes 24 hours to get the monitoring back. >> crews with the w

surveillance national security agency has reportedly installed software computers around the world grandma nebraska. the nsa know us are looking at your internet access as well looking directly into facebook and google youtube yahoo and five other big names snowed in on the twenty nine year old source behind the gift weekend and in state history and mom he went in to explain his motives. we were actually in false and misleading the. alexander went down defending the agency in recent years these programs together with other intelligence have protected us and our allies from terror strikes across the globe to include helping prevent the terrorists that are potential events of over fifty times since nine eleven meter of my town's independent review board would determine a pianist a ball that india program was largely ineffective doing very little to prevent attacks all the while media reports on the week continued revealing dragnet surveillance programs like actually score a total allowing the government to search through the databases containing details on line chats and browsing histories of individ

the former senator from nebraska, bob kerrey is with us and ezekiel emanuel. tensions in europe. we will look at that through the morning on bloomberg television. adam has top headlines this morning. >> we will start in venezuela ande h a soldier civilian are killed in protests. the violence brings the death toll to 19 in just three weeks of protests in that country. turkey may banned facebook as well as youtube. the prime minister tries to stop damaging audio and video clips. he saidterview, the mov the move could come as early as march. here we go. johnny football makes a deal with nike. the former texas and am order quarterbacks and am signed a contract with the company. nike beats out adidas, under armour and new balance which made bids for his marketing rights. he's projected to be one of the topics in the nfl draft in may. those are your top headlines. we have a former senator and .overnor from nebraska what do you think? >> it exciting. -- it exciting. it's exciting. he is a real player. >> people worry that he is too small. i'm small, too. i hope he doe

and then the huskers knock off ninth ranked wisconsin in a 77-68 win. nebraskaake it to the ncaa tournament for the first time since 1998. and second ranked wichita state is aiming for a number one seed in the tournament. the shockers top indiana state 83-69 in the missouri valley conference championship. wichita state will enter the big dance as the nation's only undefeated team. >>> in ohio high school hockey two teams are named state champions over the weekend. cleveland st. ig nashous and sylvania's northview were tied at 1-1 at the end of regulation. the teams then battled for seven overtime periods with no one making a goal. finally the coaches and school officials determined that was enough. they decided to end the game with a tie saying players on both teams were becoming exhausted. >>> a high school basketball team ended with a display of sports manship. they were leading by more than 20 points with less than a minute to play when bo howell entered the game. the trinity freshman has autism and was looking for his first points of the year. even though th

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a watch out for snow tonight in the dakotas and northern nebraska. >>> the good news if you're flying, no major airport delays are expected. >>> back to the news. a lot of questions about the collapse of a high school theater stage. >> amateur video caught the terrifying moments. the students were nearing the end of their performance when, without warning, the stage collapsed. >> if you look at how high the students were, the stage is about six feet built off the ground. with them standing, a fall of anywhere from eight to ten feet. it's a significant fall. >> everyone was crying. we were all, like, freaking out because we didn't know like if someone was seriously hurt or what was happening. >> investigators suspect the likely cause was too many students and too much weight on the stage. 24 were hospitalized with minor injuries. >>> from tampa, an extraordinary view of a collision between a skydiver and a small plane pilot bade world war ii veteran. >> despite the heart-stopping acrobatics, both of them escaped with just minor injuries. linzie janis has the story. >> reporter: a sky d

when i listen to the nebraska department of roads, there is a lot of frustration at the limited federal dollars we have being used on requirements, on a lot of april work. they really do not affect the social or environmental or historical aspects of these projects. many of you have mentioned that. and your frustration with that as well. chairman willis, in your testimony, you say that counties will send environmental review forms to state agencies, lengthening the time it takes to receive approval. do you have any estimate on the costs that will add to projects in your county? cannot give you specifics, because it varies so much. i can give you paper examples. road in --oving a putting a culvert into a robe that -- road that has existed. the application was 82 pages, 960 squareto curb feet of dirt. it is a road that existed long before the regulations were created, but we are jumping through that hoop. only, toounty in my just add guard rails or to put center yellow line striping on the road, they had to submit paperwork. if you are going to paint yellow it should the road, be instanta

especially midwest, all the way to nebraska, oklahoma, and ice on the ground and difficult travel conditionsstarting out cold again this morning. teens for new york and washington. warmer than you were before when we had all-time records set in dover and atlantic city. you look at houston, barely above the freezing mark. you had icy conditions with freezing rain yesterday and now things are improving as the system moves out. now we are focussing on the west. a lot of rain coming down. big concerns from northern california, up in washington and oregon. avalanche danger, rock slides and flooding on rivers as temperatures are warming up. 65 in san francisco, 58 in seattle. a lot of rain and it's warm. let's talk about atmospheric rivers. you look at the satellite picture. moisture from hawaii, all the way to california, and the north-west. we call that an atmospheric river. it's a stream of a lot of moisture, pulling up subtropical moisture. as it moves on the land, all it needs is storms to lift it up, squeeze out the moisture, and you get the excessive rain fall, leading to the dangerous cond

the city of lincoln. it's large for nebraska, small nationally. that's just one example. so i believe that that's replicated across the country though. you know, les is a leader in looking at renewables. the citizens in the city of lincoln want to move forward in that direction, but polls have shown they are not willing to pay for it. and i think that is also replicated across the country. the costs that are incurred sometime and especially when they have to meet requirements from the epa. finish what are your feelings on that? do you, do you see that policy moving forward with epa? are you going to try and, you know, reach out more to help utilityies be responsible in their coal-fired plants but also to move forward? >> senator, we're doing the best we cannot just to reach out to the utilities to understand what their business plans are moving forward and how we can keep the lights on and keep it reliable, but we're also working very closely with the states on these regional haze issues. we understand that there are important environmental benefits, but they have to be lo

now completed with the route we have now in nebraska and so the last item on the tableas the g hg issue. report indicates the pipeline won't have any impact on emissions. the criteria laid out by the president the pipeline would only be beamed to make games to be in the public's interest if it didn't significantly increase emissions both in north america. neil: compromise our market. looking at the meditative hassles you have had to encounter, do you regret getting involved in this? >> no. i am a fundamental believer in the market. frustrated at five and half years of process, but what we have seen his production grow in north america by two, two and half million barrels per day. the oil has to find its way to market, fin finance white the mt now in other roads of transportation. the need for it is greater than it was we started this process. as i have said, the marketplace will dictate a pipeline gets built and the logical day it gets built to refining locations, that is what the british pipeline does. neil: your customers would be happy to take it. how do you stand on

the nominees for best picture. "american hustle." "captain phillips." "dallas buyers club." "gravity." "her." "nebraska." street." and the oscar goes to -- "12 years a slave." jeremy kleiner, steve mcqueen, and anthony pilcher. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> thank you, all. thank you for this incredible honor you've bestowed on our film tonight. i know i speak for everyone standing behind me that it's been an absolute privilege to work on solomon's story. and we all get to stand up here tonight because of one man who brought us all together to tell that story. and that is the indomitable mr. steve mcqueen. [ applause ] >> all right. i'm sorry. i apologize for the paper. but otherwise, i'll just bore you all. i'll do the same now. but i'll try not to. i first want to thank the academy. thank you so much. the people i need to thank. i'll push on. to my wonderful cast and crew, plan-b, brad pitt, without him this film would not have been made. river rhodes, anna wilcher, and brad weston. and tessa ross. and steve telula. my publicist, four words. i'm sorry about this. for hard work, and my magnificent age

. >> madam president. >> the senator from nebraska. >> thank you madam president. i rise to speak in full support of the ayotte ayotte mccaskill proposal before us today. it will only strengthen the historic reforms that have barred impasse by this oddity to combat sexually assaults in the military. elsa rice to express concerns with the gillibrand proposal to remove commanders from this process. because i believe that's going to undermine credibility and accountability. i am glad that we are having this debate on the floor because every member of the senate agrees that this is a problem that needs to be addressed. over the past year the members of the armed services committee have focused on this issue. it cuts across ideology across gender and across regions. also cuts across party lines. i was happy to work across the aisle was senator shaheen on improving standards for petter personnel responsible for sexual assault prevention and i was pleased to join with senator blumenthal to ensure that victims rights are protected under the uniform code of military justice.

the desert. >>> southwest nebraska to ohio will see temperatures in the 60s and 70s and about the same for most of the south. it'll be cooler in the northeast. >>> uncle sam raising a red flag. there is a new tax scam that some are calling the biggest ever seen. what you need to look out for. >>> and the sneaky teen on an all-out investigation under way to uncover how a thrill seeker got past security guards making it to the top of the world trade center. >>> plus, this is why they call it march madness. major upsets and surprises on the first night of the tournament. ( cheering ) ( grunts ) ( buzzer sounds ) now they're beating us on the boards out there, guys. this is your territory, grimson. do your job. grimson. hello? hi, honey. what? now? all right. ♪ the itsy-bitsy spider - ♪ climbed up the water spout... ♪ - ( giggling ) ♪ down came the rain ♪ and washed the spider out ♪ ♪ out came the sun... - shh. - ♪ and dried up all the rain ♪ ♪ and the itsy-bitsy spider - ♪ climbed up the spout again. ♪ - ( rock music playing ) i love you, daddy. i love you too, sweetheart. - ( laughing ) - ♪ do yo

prepare for heavy snow on the roadways in the midnorthern tier. rain from nebraskaonsin. >>> and if you're flying, airport delays are possible in minneapolis all day and in miami this morning. >>> the rolling stones have canceled tomorrow's concert in perth, australia, following the death of mick jagger's girlfriend, l'wren scott. >> the model turned fashion design er originally from utah was found dead in her apartment of an apparent suicide. scott designed clothing for a-list celebrities like madonna, nicole kidman and the first lady michelle obama, but reports from the uk say her business was failing and she was embarrassed to be more than $6 million in debt. >>> new video this morning of the coast guard rescuing a man and his dog. they are right here, check them out, sitting on top of their capsized boat. this is rough water along the coast of texas. the rescuers tossed him a line and got him a life jacket. they were dragged across the water and into the coast guard boat and everyone is doing just fine. >>> in redwood city outside of san francisco a man barely m

the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to speak about the reauthorization of the child care and development block grant program, and i thank the senator from maryland for her courtesies. in addition, i would like to address an amendment that i proposed to the underlying bill. promoting policies that enable job creation is a basic duty of the people's government. this bill that we have on the floor before us now provides low-income, hardworking mothers and fathers with the opportunity to have quality child care while they earn a steady paycheck or if they go back to school. americans work hard. they work hard to provide for their families and to make a better life for their children. as mother and grandmother, i understand that knowing your children are safe and secure is essential to maintaining a steady job. we need to encourage responsible adults to enter and to maintain their presence in our workforce. that's why i appreciate my colleagues' work and their compromise on this bipartisan legislation. i also app

just kids compared to the actual state of nebraska. it turns 147 on oscar eve. ldn't be the oscars if meryl wasn't nominated. >> again. >> yep, number 18. >> but whatever. >> not bad. until you consider that he's still 41 behind walt disney. by the way, the guy who played him this year, he's got two. finally, whether meryl takes .home her fourth, jennifer lawrence her second, or steve mcqueen her first, the number in the back of their mind must be 45. that's how many seconds each one has before conductor william ross cues the music. alfred hitchcock only needed two. >> thank you. >> he woep yhope you join us fo academy awards. the red carpet starts 7:00 p.m. eastern. join all my colleagues right here breaking it down for you. good night, america, from los angeles. or how to find big savings on the things you need.eek. just make a straight line to safeway. your club card gets you deals you can't find anywhere else. right now, breakfast is on. oscar mayer bacon is only $3.99. rise and shine with simply orange oj, just $2.98. and oikos greek yogurt is only a buck. r

the top 10. for states who feel they are stuck they should look at south dakota and nebraska. ave improved dramatically, after being in the 20s and 30s in the last few years. south dakota, was in the mid to top 30s, some seem to be close to the top. colorado among them, placed seventh, low obesity rates. but there seems to be not much years. west virginia was 49th. same goes through states ranked 46th through 49th this year. they have lived at or near the bottom six for the past decade. you got to tbond cold is cool. the only warmer states to do well were hawaii and california. coming up, the u.s. delegation snubs the opening ceremonies of >> al jazeera america presents extrodanary documentaries. colin comes from a long line of ferrymen. >> you're a riverman from start to finish... >> now he leaves home to see what life is like on the waters of bangladesh. >> it's absolutely filthy... >> he learns how difficult working ther can be. >> how do you say..."get out the way"? >> shoro >> can this brittish man find common ground with his local host? >> "must really take it out of mr.

the top 10. for states who feel they are stuck they should look at south dakota and nebraska. ave improved dramatically, after being in the 20s and 30s in the last few years. south dakota, was in the mid to top 30s, some seem to be close to the top. colorado among them, placed seventh, low obesity rates. but there seems to be not much upward mobility in the last few years. west virginia was 49th. same goes through states ranked 46th through 49th this year. they have lived at or near the bottom six for the past decade. you got to tbond cold is cool. the only warmer states to do well were hawaii and california. coming up, the u.s. delegation snubs the opening ceremonies of russia's paralympics. is it a useless gesture or will it carry some weight? >> the paralympic games kicked off friday in sochi without an official u.s. delegation, because of russia's actions in ukraine. will it mean anything or sit just a political stunt? al jazeera political contributor, sports editor of the facing and host of sports nation. dave, always glad to see pickup the u.s. is taking a stronger stance

sinner with sobran, buckley tells the story of wail yam scranton, governor of pennsylvania who the nebraska 5060s -- in the '60s was considered presidential timbre. scranton came back with a recommendation that the united states be more even-handed, and no one ever heard from scranton again. [laughter] buckley writes, we both laughed. one does laugh when acknowledging inordinate power even as one deplores it. and even in the book there are a lot of good lines. one of them is given to sobran from a private letter he wrote to buckley. when i talk to a palestinian for an hour or two, i'm struck at how absolutely bizarre it is that an editor of "commentary" or "the new republic" can buy a plane ticket to tel aviv and instantly benefit from a whole range of rights denied to the native arabs. but none of this matters. buckley did cut sobran lose, sobran's career suddenly deteriorated into the indefensible. he did conclude what buchanan wrote amounted to anti-semitism and even as he appended a highly qualifying clause and defended most of what buchanan said, abe rosenthal and david fromm got the g

is forced to become a slave is less snowy say mcconaughey in the dallas buyers clubs and the others and nebraskahe leonardo's wolf of wall street. >> reporter: a lot of films up for awards this year were heavy and quite serious topics we had to deal with. >> i think that is a sign of the maturity of the film industry and also the fact that if you have films of the excellence that were competing and only a limited number of awards, certain films go unrewarded which is a great pity. we had kate absolutely superb as best actress playing someone mentally unstable in blue jasmine and i was extremely impressed and it was obvious she would win. there were two searing portraits, matthew mcconaughey as hiv suffering and touching and remarkable and a transgender woman and again a remarkable performance and very close i would say his win because he was such a great pirate in captain phillips and so many races were tremendously close but yongo, i was thrilled when she won because rumor said that jennifer lawrence would win for a good performance in "american hustle" which was overrated and won nothing and f

>> if the president don't come out indiana, he's -- we're going to bring nebraska and the route to him cowboy and illinois alliance for moms and myself. we are literally going to put up tepees, bring our water from the a out here. >> jamie made an important point that the president aught to here. let's play that. >> reporter: if president obama were standing here, what would you ask him? >> personally, i would ask him if he would willingly sleep 275 feet away from a 36-inch pipe of sludge and poison day after day after day. if that's something he would really feel comfortable doing. personally, i don't. >> michael, this is where it comes back to, the idea that people will have no recourse with this going through their backyard or through their communities, and we don't really know much about what the potential effects of exposure are from. when you think about communities last weekend, we had a gentleman from port arthur, texas. in every part of the country, it just feels like they are sort of helpless in entities like ours. >> that's why we have to push back. if the president doesn't

snow today in the northern rockies, a little bit through nebraska and iowa. once the storm intensifies a band of snow in the northern half of new york city and all of northern new england. that's going to be wednesday night, significant travel impacts. veronica, another storm, but this one will be a lot less impact for a lot of people. >> no more. i just can't take it. thank you, bill. >>> edward snowden is coming out swinging today. b plus an original band of brother remembered. >>> the blarney blowout spins out of control. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. check it out. i can't believe your mom has a mom cave! today i have new campbell's chunky spicy chicken quesadilla soup. she gives me chunky before every game. i'm very souperstitious. haha, that's a good one! haha! [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. do you really think brushing is enough to keep it clean? while brushing misses germs in 75% of your mouth, listerine® cleans virtually your entire mouth. so take your oral health to a whole new level. listerin®... power to y

the children. you're in nebraska without the children. can i assume that something is being worked out for them through the offices of the u.n. maybe the us embassy, talk to me about what is going on on their behalf righ right now. >> on their behalf we've been working with our partners here in the u.s. like we mentioned they're in a safe place, and our staff member member simon gotlos the hero. he made quite a journey to get the children in a safe location. they got a house. they've got beds. they've got food. we came back here to move forward and to raise up support and to raise up help, and to begin the mission glen our thanks to missionaries brad and kim campbell for that. >>> in afghanistan nine senior employees from the security company guarding the hotel are being detained for negligence. security cameras show gunmen smuggled weapons past security during last week's attack that killed nine people. pre-election violence has police on edge. the taliban suicide-bomber and two gunmen launched an attack on an election office in kabul. t

ayotte: i yield my time to -- senator mccaskill's time to the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: thank you, madam president. i rise too smeek in full support of the mccaskill, ayotte, and fisher proposal that's before us today. it will only strengthen the historic reforms that have already been passed by this body to combat sexual assault in the military. i also raise to express concerns with the gillibrand proposal to remove commanders from this process because i believe that's going to undermine credibility and accountability. i am glade that we're having this debate on the floor because every member of this senate agrees that this is a problem that needs to be addressed. over the past year, the members of the armed services committee have focused on this issue. it cuts across ideologies, across gender, and across regions. it also cuts across party lines. i was happy to work across the aisle with senator shaheen on improving the standards for personnel responsible for sexual assault prevent

with almost two million deported so far, barack obama has deported more people to live in the entire state of nebraska. no one has deported more people. a star, first place, goes to barack obama. question two, who expanded immigration enforcement by local enforcement 100 fold? one of these presidents expanded the secure communities program for deporting immigrants who are booked into local jails from 31 jurisdictions in this nation to over 3,000. who was that? yes, president barack obama, another dubious star. question number three, let's go to boots on the ground where the immigration issue seems to begin and end for many republicans. who spent more money on immigration enforcement than all other federal law enforcement combined? well, if you guessed barack obama, you would be right. yes. the $18 billion he spends is $3.5 billion more every year than we spend on the f.b.i., a.t.f., d.e.a., secret service, all of them combined. in order to achieve what? unprecedented deportations. another star. question four, what crimes are the most prosecuted crimes in federal court? you think kidnapping? murder? co

the top tep. for states who feel they are stuck and they should look to south dakota and nebraska. improved after being in the 20s or 30s in the past five years. washington state also made a big leap. it was in the mid to low teens for four years before cracking the top 10 this year. some states seem to always be near the top, colorado among them. it placed 7th. one reason, low obesity rates. there doesn't seem to be much upward mobility at the bottom of the list. west virginia has placed dead last for the last four years and the year before that, it was 49th. the same goes for states ranked 46th through 49 this year. they have mostly lived at or just outside the bottom 6 for the past half decade. you have got to wonder if cold gateway cool. no state in the southeast made the top 25. the only warmer states to do well were hawaii and california. coming up, the u.s. delegation snubs the opening ceremonies of russia's para olympics. is it an empty gesture, or will it carry some weight? unregulated.. >> easy access to guns... >> there's somewhere around 1600 women being held every year