>> stephen: the fame of the last episode was called "felina" from marty robbins hit ♪ down in the west texasown of el paso, i fell in love with a mexican girl ♪ he has to come back because the bad guys have captured his girlfriend-- or the authorities have-- to draw him back and he comes back for his girlfriend in the song knowing he's going to die. >> yeah, yeah. >> stephen: walt comes back. does he come back for jesse, to save him? or is he coming back for the blue meth? is the blue meth his girlfriend? >> i think -- to use "lord of the rings" terms -- >> stephen: please. please. >> i think he's coming back for his precious and his precious is the blue meth in the lab, the lab he constructed. when he comes back, i think he's coming back to set things right financially for his family and after that he just wants to wipe out uncle jack and his gang and he realizes in the hour-- in this final hour-- that jesse is still alive and he wants to wipe out jesse, too. but in other wonderful western terms, it's a bit like the end of "the searchers." all throughout "the searchers" john wayne is chasin

a boiler exploded at the plant not far from the west texas boarder near alpaso. we have the story from there. >> the blast occurred thursday, many n injured had second and third degree burns. a boiling vat of sweets exploded to the ceiling, bringing it to the floor, trapping workers in the process. more than 200,000 mexicans work in factories along the u.s. border. there's wide-ranging safety records at the border factories. the fact is international companies invest and open the factories because they can pay lower wages here and in mexico and have less oversight from the government. there were less safety records, worse than you have in europe and the u.s. that is not to say that all factories are prone to blasts like this. investigators are looking as to what caused the blast here in northern mexico on thursday. >> a new study says latino americans and immigrant construction workers in new york city are dying on the job in disproportionately high numbers the the report comes from center for popular democracy. and said most of the accident happened on worksites

the west texas chemical plant, apocalypse, that blew up 50 buildings and killed multiple people, that is being investigated because of a staff of 41 people, 37 of the 41 are now on furlough. the investigation into that explosion has now been put on hold. do you have a plant like that in your town? the cries of outrage yesterday coast to coast over the families of the service men and women not being able to fly to dover to greet the families coming home from the war they are fighting in our name? congress and the white house and the office of management and budget and the pentagon and private organizations all running today to try to make that better, to piece things together for those families, to try to at a least put that back together again. but every day now, this piece by piece rescue effort, the respond to the laws outrage, fix this thing here and here, this piecemeal response, is not going to work. with something else having to shut down, that will be a huge outrage or grave danger to somebody who will then try to get it fixed. but there are more of these things every day becau

one of the most interesting and untold features of texas i think it's a huge build up the transmission lines to the remote areas of westd so on were allowed to wind farms exist. there's also wind farms closer to the cities along the gold coast, so they work better with a great. the state is spending $6.81 billion. actually you guys. everyone in texas is spending $6.8 billion collectively to build out these lines when they approved the lines in 2008. they pegged at 5 billion somehow it sort of crept out. i think now of course they are saying that these plants will power the oil and gas drilling operations in the permian basin area. that is a really fascinating story and going to be several dollars a month i never went electricity bill coming soon to your home and we will see how that plays out. >> one other quick thing, which is the viability of wind is also depend didn't on the price of other forms of energy. so natural gas is quite volatile. i was in tampa, the small town in the panhandle and i heard t. boone pickens, a saudi investor talk about -- this is five or six years ago now, four years ago maybe, but his plan

seeing that trickle over into the oil pits as well. west texasermediate starting the day out flat. traders watching every headline out of d.c. very closely. if you look at that intraday chart, you can see a steady climb up each step of the way. west texas intermediate closing just above $103 a barrel. that was up coming off a little in the electronic section. the brent price, tensions in libya overnight increasing security concerns there because the prime minister was briefly detained. also some chatter in the pits today about the potential brewing of some protests in egypt. trader were worried about that. finally a tweet out from the israeli defense minister recounting an event from 40 years ago. people misinterpreting that. that adding to the anxiety. put all these factors together and brent pop master's degree th -- popped more than 2%. >> plenty of action in washington. take a look at this live shot of the white house. the president and house republican leaders are expected to meet any minute now at the white house. senator john mccain will t

been times in the last year or so that north louisiana was as much as $20 than it was in the oklahoma or in west texas intermediate . that's been offset a lot by natural gas and the consumptions going up. there's a balancing an there's a lot more flexibility now. when you have less demand -- you think that you will be seeing pricing going down. >> let's bring down what the u.s. mines them importing foreign oil. what does it mean for countrys that used to be extremely important to us. as we become more independent. where they become less rev hrapbrevhrapbt rehaveless revalent.>> the demand growing n india and china and all these areas where a lot of russian oil is going. you have a lot more relations between different countries . we don't have that ham ter over us. that increases our own influence and it shuts down and narrows the trade in balance between us and other countries which also helps to improve our own economy world. >> a lot say -- we have tremendous reserves with natural tkpas in particular but there's a lot of politics going on here . >> would that cause for energy independent? >> i'm not

the gap between west texas oil widening to its biggest gap in six months. brent rising after reports of a rift between saudi arabia. the saudis upset with the inaction? the civil war and iran, but west texas crude fell below $99 a barrel on increasing supply in the u.s. gasoline contracts down 13% in a month. according to aaa, gas is below $3 a gallon in parts of 24 states. on the list, arizona, colorado, massachusetts, virginia, new jersey, just to name a few. the lowest prices were found at some missouri warehouse club outlets where gas is now going for $2.66 a gallon. there are some of the states where gas is below 3 bucks. sue? >> road trip. >>> let's get back to josh lipton at the apple event in san francisco continuing to monitor the headlines. josh? >> yeah. sue, headlines still coming across here. tim cook still on stage. interesting data points one about itunes radio, customers love it. more than 20 million listeners listened to one 1 billion songsp. beginning to talk about the mac. stable. you see cannibalization from the ipad. but apple say if it'

. >> also tonight the second part of our report on the frac-ing boom, a west texas town, awash in new gas wealth is left without a drop. >> i turned the water on, and that's when i went oh my god, the town is out of water. >> and the next steps in haiti's recovery. soledad o'brien on the healing hands that are helping haitians find their way. ♪ >>> good evening, and thanks for being with us. i'm joie chen. the story is a disturbingly familiar one now, high school athletes, alcohol, the sexual assault of teen girls and outcry spreading through social media. this case involves who betweeners who say they were doubly victimized because they soht justice. lori jane explains. >> reporter: maryville, missouri may be a small town, but right now it's under a huge microscope because of a rape case that dates back nearly two years and it is just now getting national attention. >> i felt like i needed this story to come out for me also, and i needed to be able to voice my opinion along with my mother, and it's just -- we didn't have this kind of support when everything happened, but now that we

radar, just south of san antonio, at the sensor, flash flooding occurring in south texas, the flood warnings still in effect and even a few warnings in central to west texas, an area that needs the drought? but a little too much rain causing flooding. a little more storm, south dakota, winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings that are in effect because we're seeing a lot of rain plus snow right over where this storm is developing. just now developing spinning here in nebraska, south dakota, a lot of the rain will begin to push to the east. there is severe weather potential in iowa, that rain by 6:00 is moving out of the dakotas. by tomorrow morning here is the rain just west of chicago. the snow is in south dakota. this is a large storm that will impact the area for at least the next 24 to 48 hours. stormy weather tomorrow fur 67 and dropping -- are 58 but dry on wednesday. the heating continues in houston and memphis, eventually that will make its way to the northeast. the area of the typhoon, are continues the move and another storm will impact japan. watching these two storms closely, not only vietnam but this will turn north northeast

the west. and that's where there was nothing, literally nothing. now, in the eastern part of texas they had trees so they could build the log cabins and have a place with a roof over their heads. but when they got out to west texas, there weren't very many trees. you talk about harsh land, there are places where there is just nothing but grass. there might be hills. we do have mountains out in the far west, but to actually settle in a place these women were going out, and this is where the indian raids became much more prominent because the indians were being moved out of their land, and especially the cherokees about whom much has been written were very, very harsh. i mean the comanches, not the cherokees, actually, they were not harsh. but the comanches were. and the comanches would brutalize these families that were out there, basically, with no means of defense. they would kill women, old people, they would kill children. one woman who was captured and the great historian ted -- [inaudible] wrote that the ones who were killed were the lucky ones, because the ones who were captu

the rock. you are talking 3-6 million gallons per well that's fracked. >> areas like west texas have been long stressed for water. in the midst of a drought the fracking boom is pushing some towns over the edge. once a sleepy intersection with a population of 92, baan heart texas is teaming with trucks and new people, all to service the oil field. at last count 300 trucks, most of them 18 wheelers run through baan heart every hour. >> i take them around up here, show them the progress. >> beverley maguire and her husband settled here 30 years ago. >> everything you see, my husband built. i want to show you the well - or what used to be the well. that's - you can tell we haven't been in here. all of this money is down the tube. >> you don't think it will come back. >> i don't think it will ever come back. >> after her own well went dry, beverley borrowed $1500, bought a town water meter and paid to be hooked up to the baanville well. >> the month i got it paid off, i got up, turned the water on and that's when i went, "oh, my god, the town is out of water." >> the town well had run dry. for thre

. >> a close call for the driver of an 18 wheeler in west texas. that is a bad accident the driver managed to escape the rig, nobody was hurt. the truck bottomed out and got stuck on the railroad crossing in texas. it took crews into the evening to clean up that big mess. >> wow. but at least trains stayed on the track autos still to come apple steve jobs. >> you have never seen you're sure to get a better bundle. just choose the two, three, even four services you want to build a bundle that works for you. [ female announcer ] call at&t now. choose a u-verse triple-play bundle for just $79 a month. get the same great price for two years. plus switch today and get a total home dvr included for life. [ male announcer ] with u-verse high speed internet, connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices to your wireless gateway and save on smartphone and tablet data usage at home. and now, choose from internet speeds up to 45 megs -- our fastest speed ever. with u-verse tv, you can record up to four shows at once with a total home dvr and play them back in any roo

water in this country pretty much all gone thanks to all the drilling going on. >> the fracking boom has entered west texas, a huge swath of land called the permian basin. the permian is one of the largest oil and gas producing areas ever discovered in the u.s. with 82,000 active wells. but most of its riches are only accessed by fracking. >> ron green is a scientists at the southwest institute. >> they would have a vertical hole and maybe use 100,000 gallons. in fracking they are drilling down putting in a horizontal well and they inject a lot of water to hydraulically frack the rock. you are talking 3 to 600,000 gallons per well that's frakd. >> long pen stressed for water, in the midst of a historic drought, fracking would push some towns over the edge. once a sleepy intersection off the highway with a population of 92, barnhart, texas is now teeming with trucks all to service the oil fields. now 300 trucks most of them 18 wheelers run through barnhart every day. beverly and her husband settled in barnhart 35 years ago. >> everything you see my husband built. >> wow. >> i want to show you our well or wh

from '51 or '5to '73 the dollar number was $3.25 for west texas crude. purchasing power, of course, decreased all that time, and the costs obviously escalated during that 22 years. the american oil industry had other problems. to curb inflation, price ceilings were set in 1971 by the nixon administration. james scesinger, the nation's first secretary of energy. ife attempted to control the price of oilr tural gas based upon the assumion at a5%ate of returwas the ceiling because there areso many ilures, dry holes, we would discover that it would not have been the entrepreneurial activity in the industry atasecessa maintain any acvity. e control of price in highly risky industry will destroy that industry. we were doing damage to the industry during the period of control. world oil prices kept rising. although prices for our known oil reserves wereestricte by nixon's conols, the americanil iustry d one incentive-- new oil. oil found af1972was ee follow the higher world price american producers heard the knock of opportunity. one newcomer, sam lefrak a new

wet weather makes it's way from the upper midwest into texas. gorgeous out westfor tomorrow, the rainmaking it's way into upstate new york. up across the upper ohio river valley. into central and southern texas. out west, gorgeous up and down the west coast. rainy in the upper plains. it will be snowy in the central rockies. >> good morning. it should turn out to be a nice day today. there could be some fog and low >>> and that's your latest weather. >> all right, al, thank you so much. well, octavia spencer is trying something new. she has written her first book. it's called randi rhodes ninja detective. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we know you're the oscar winner, the red carpet mavin, are you a bookworm? >> i'm a bookworm and armchair detective. >> you have been since you were a little girl. >> i always loved books. i've not been the best reader but i loved books. so this is up my alley. >> was this your chance to workout wanting to be a detective to solve a crime? >> absolutely. when i was young they called it nosey little kid. now, you know, it's

the operator for west texas -- of the we have l west texas fertilizer plan the where a massive explosion killed 15 had serious safety violations. including unsafe storage of chemicals. this blast registered as a small earthquake. the company is facing more than $100,000 in federal fines. >>> get this, classes at a georgia school are being canceled today on account of great weather. the head master at calvary christian school in columbus says he's had to cancel classes for years because of bad weather and he wanted to do a positive reason to do it before he retires this year. the forecast for columbus, georgia today, 80 and sunny with a chance of awesome. that's awesome. that sounds great. >> a nice good act before he retires. >> very good. >> how about the time for the political gut check. ready for this? we've been talking about the president and the house republicans negotiating a debt limit deal. is there a light at the end of the tunnel and is that light the train? cnn chief national correspondent john king is here to break it all down. good morning, john. let's get right at the meet

u.s., we are watching the potential for some flooding over texas, and our next storm system over the northern rockies. let's talk about the flooding potential for central texas, west of austin, they received over eight inches of rain in less than 12 hours. so that is really dangerous. flash flood watchings and warnings are in effect and i have a feeling we'll get video out of that area. a lot of high-water rescues. don't travel over water you can't see the bottom of. and look at the rainfall on top of what we have seen. in some cases, over six inches of rain. ultimately a good news story because they're dealing with an extreme drought, but too much of a good thing can lead to flooding. our next storm system across the northern rockyici aies is going drop feet of snow as well as potential storms across the midwest. >> sounds like dust off the skis. you know john sougkate will be happy. thank you. >> they were sent to a ranch for troubled youth, but now they're nowhere to be found. we'll have the latest on the search for a group of missing teens and the disturbing allegations, they say, against the owners of that facility. >> we're checking that out. plus, feeling h

, as richard said, that became a national system throughout new england as throughout the south, as far west as texas. in 1680, nathaniel sylvester, an englishman brought up in amsterdam, and his english wife, counted 24 people as their property, the largest number in the north at the time, 11 men and women, and 13 children. many had african names. others had three oh names such as -- which tells you they've come through other places besides africa. they have been transported to the west indies or to brazil. it could be a name of french origins, jocks, the oh in intel get it probably has some hispanic of the connotation, conjure with it as you like. the slaves labor produced the first path of love for the sylvester's from the west in the sugar trade. on shelter island, they tended hawks and cattle to butcher for salt meat. a bread and throw courses to power the sugar mills, and cut trees to shape barrels to make tasks which were really the shopping bags of the day. you couldn't do anything with sugar and russia had a barrel to put it in to you couldn't do anything with rama and they shut a barrel to

assets, refocused all the attention, the engineers and the geologists on primarily the eagle ford and primarily west texas in the midland basin. >> and you have enough money to develop spraberry? >> yes, we do. as long as crude prices stay relatively in the $90 range, we have plenty of cash flow over the next several years. >> what a story. i mean, i think it's good to have a good story on a couple bad days. yours is -- you're the next big major. i can't believe it. you're the next big major. >> thanks, jim. >> okay. absolutely. scott sheffield, chairman and ceo of pioneer natural resources. go through his presentation, largest u.s. oil fields and you'll feel like i am. you will be blown away. stay with cramer. >>> coming up -- diving into default? >> this is the credit worthiness of the united states we're talking about. >> while d.c. battles it out and puts the entire global economy at risk, cramer's flipping the script. don't miss his list of companies that could capitalize on the chaos in the capital. >>> and later -- looking for a way to play what's next in tech? cramer's got his eyes locked on the c

west texas. it will be clear and dry along the east coast. sunny and mild on the west coast. but some snow tapering off in the rockies. while that front pushes rain into the center of the country. severe from nebraska to central texas. >> take a look at the numbers now. 79 in dallas. phoenix at 72. seattle, 54. fargo, 43. a mild 74 in kansas city. chicago, 63. atlanta, 76. 68 in baltimore. and boston will be 56. >>> well, the st. louis cardinals are now in boston for tonight's world series game six. but they had to wait out a long flight delay before flying there. the team's plane was grounded by mechanical problems at st. louis airport yesterday. six hours after getting onboard, the players switched planes and flew to boston. they landed after 11:00 p.m. eastern time last night. the cards are trailing the red sox, 3-2 games. >>> well, drink up because it's going fast. what's behind the worldwide wine shortage? >>> and something else could be soon in short supply. the popular hot sauce, sriracha. why an entire town wants the factory shut down. >>> plus, posing with the pontiff

the jury selection begins in february. heather? >> well, remember this dramatic video, it happened at a fertilizer plant. it was an explosion in west texase explosion killed 15 people and now the owner is being fined $1,800. the healthy administration or osha outlined 2 dozen safety violations including failure to have a site plan. >>> marriage security flaws in the chrome browser. the browser stores everything from street addresses, social security numbers and credit card numbers. stores them directly into your hard drive in plain text making it easy for hackers to gain access. the intended function is to speed up display of web pages. google says they are lacking into it. >> we have all heard of it probably played it ourselves it might be a classics playground game but new hampshire is banning it. there have been too many cases of kids being pushed to the ground while played. the school's principles said they want the children jumping and running but in a safe way. >> tag, you are it. come on. >> the many mayors reach crossing borders. michael bloomberg involved in a food fight in another country. cyndi lauper was after all news cruz g

the fracking view. we'll go to west texas, home to one of the largest oil and zas producing areas.ll show how the boom could make some towns go bust when it comes to order. >> if you want to comment on a y stories log on to the website aljazeera.com/americatonight. tell us about what you have seen and what you'd like to see. join the conversation on facebook or twitter. thanks,ave a good night. ♪ searching four survivors and cruise come in after an earthquake hits a popular tourist area in the central philippines. hello and welcome, i'm stephen and you are watching al jazeera from doha and they are sitting down with iran to discuss the nuclear future and the syrian president celebrates and here is the mosque in damascus and we report on

the fracking view. we'll go to west texas, home to one of the largest oil and zas producing areas. we'll show how the boom could make some towns go bust when it comes to order. >> if you want to comment on a y stories log on to the website aljazeera.com/americatonight. tell us about what you have seen and what you'd like to see. join the conversation on facebook or twitter. thanks,ave a good night.

the sierra nevada low 60's and lows and breezy and >> a dangerously close call for the driver of an 18-wheeler in west texasck out the force it was hit by a train with. >> my goodness. the driver escaped before it was smashed to pieces. amazingly no one was hurt in either vehicle. the rig was stuck on the union pacific railroad tracks in texas. >> water cooler story: police in india filed charges again the newly clowned miss universe for unauthorized fashion shoot, formerly miss usa, was shooting a commercial where commercial activity is banned. though could be jailed for up to two years and fined $1,600, hopefully not have to train in her crown for handcuffs. >> steve jobs an action hero? he is now a toy and is here showing a suited tie. here he is wearing the trademark turtle neck setting you back $150. the first like steve jobs meets the beatles. >> a nobel peace prize surprise, the girl everyone thought would win loses out in the prestigious honor. a strike for friday bart commuters, ahead the down to the wire announcement and what is happening. >> a toy story of terror in a behind-the-scenes look. peop

the great lakes to texas. that was the storm that was in the west over the last couple of day, and in its wake, it has left a lot of cold air. it is chilly. some people may need a jacket, costumes. california not too bad. just a little bit of wet weather in the pacific northwest. a warm front still trying to push through. and that could create a little bit of wet weather. for the most part, it's a very quiet weather map once again, just cool temperatures in the inner mountain west. the radar out of the pacific northwest. a lot of the cities aren't seeing it. it's mostly up in the mountains we're getting the radar echoes, but still a chance of hit-or-miss shower, a patch of drizzle or two, but overall, many areas are perfect halloween costume weather. enjoy. in the pacific northwest, it looks like a stormy weather pattern, a change coming up in the days ahead. >> okay, bill, thank you. >>> a man loses a finger during a crime, but cops scoop it up to find the perp. >>> plus, another major publication refuses to print the name of washington's football team. the controversy is heating up. details in two minutes. >>>

the money. and i googuys, what's more amai how widespread this is. 300 miles west of san antonio, texas. in fact, the average per capita income here is now higher than that of silicon valley. put that in your cowboy hat and smoke it, suzy. >> i wish i had a cowboy hat-bring one back for me. thanks so much, brian sullivan from midland, texas. read more about the energy boom in texas and its economic impact on our website, nbr.com. >>> and coming up, how the jpmorgan settlement could end up costing people hunting for a mortgage. but first, how composites and treasuries performed today. >>> a top federal reserve official thinks the government shutdown will delay the expected start of the fed's tapering of its stimulus program. with two more central meetings left this year, one in october, the other in december, charles evans, the president of the chicago federal reserve bank, expressed doubt that there could be any pullback that soon. >>> and a bit of a setback for existing home sales in september. sales of previously occupied homes declined almost 2% last month. as rising mortgage rates and

it is a journey that began here, amid the arid plains and long horizons of west texas. >> i was raisedat was really completely saturated with religion. it was southern baptist, fundamentalist baptist. the bible was inerrant, as we said. and i never really met a person who wasn't a believer until i left that place. >> an early role model in faith was his fundamentalist grandmother, josie clorine wiman. >> she was able to be in the world in a way that was completely incarnational almost. there was no separation between her existence and this self-consciousness that i always feel afflicted with, separating me from my experience. she really inhabited the life that she had. and i think you could argue that that's what being with god is, being able to fully inhabit the moments that we are given. >> wiman left texas to travel the world, aspiring to be a poet. he also left behind his baptist upbringing but not what he calls an insistent, clandestine religious yearning. >> i wouldn't have called myself a christian for years and years but clearly it was a passion. it wasn't exactly dormant. >> h

the fracking view. we'll go to west texas, home to one of the largest oil and zas producing areas. we'll show how the boom could make some towns go bust when it comes to order. >> if you want to comment on any sto stories log on to the website aljazeera.com/americatonight. tell us about what you have seen and what you'd like to see. join the conversation on facebook or twitter. thanks, have a good night. ♪ ♪ >>> the president is not letting -- >> we have already had a damaging effect on our country because of the touchdown. that damage would be greatly magnified if we don't make sure the government pays its bills and that has to be decide third degree week. >> as i said the president is not letting the new-found feeling of by part an ship stop him from keeping pressure congress to get ideal done before thursday's debt ceiling deadline. an alleged al qaeda figure suspected in taking part of the 1998 bombings of u.s. embassies in south africa will physicia fe

be i the end of the weekend, we will be looking at the mid-west through texas, some heavy rain. big thing i forgot to ask is what cuomo was dressed as for halloween. the thing is, i have no idea. so, chris, please help us in here. >> i have no idea who he is. he must have impressive deltoids. no idea who that is. >> thank you, chris. >> no, thank you, indra. the counterattack will be waiting. we want to update you on a story we having following from the beginning. 12-year-old rebecca secretary generalwick, you remember here, she committed suicide we believe after months of relentless bullying. one of the girls accused of driving her to it as a criminal attorney jose baez. he is representing roman. you will remember, baez defended casey anthony in court. he joins us is morning. counsellor, thank you for taking the opportunity. >> good morning, chris. that uchg for having me. >> jose, you said these accusations should be properly on the other girl involved, not on your client. what are you privy to that's not public that gives you that confidence? >> well, i don't really point the

to the west, shower activity across the central plains. rain is now in portions of texas.y, there's a tropical storm south of baja that's spreading moisture in that region. you see that jet stream just bringing that moisture all the way into oklahoma. that is not generally going to impact us. the front to the west will cool us down towards the end of the week. sunshine, still some showers up in the atlantic. east winds of the bay 5 to 10 knots. sunset at 6:28. a few clouds particularly southf us. 48 for a morning low. tomorrow sun and some clouds. beautiful afternoon and pleasant high around 70 which is a few degrees above average for you tuesday. enjoy a nice day for a change. >> sounds good. thanks, bob. >>> investigatorsw information in the case of madelyn mccan. what they know now. >>> a wiz kid that's making national head lines. what this local teen came up with that could save many lives next. >>> duncan douglas. doug gansler ducks questions ability about his,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,