speaker, i'm sure the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to captain thomas clarke of the army air corps, flight lieutenant rakesh chauhan of joint helicopter command, acting warned officer class do spencer faulkner, corporal james walters of the army air corps, and lance corporal oliver thomas of the intelligence corps, reservist who also worked as a research assistant. these tragic deaths remind us of the continued commitment and sacrifice of our armed forces, and i know that our deepest concerns are with the families that is very, very difficult time. i'm sure the whole house will also want to join me in paying tribute to and mcgwire who was stabbed to death in her classroom on monday. it is clear from the tributes paid she was a much loved teacher that work to school for over 40 years. she gets so much about her pupils, should come in on her day off to help prepare them for exams. our thoughts are with her family, her friends in the entire school community who have been left devastated by this truly shocking and appalling tragedy. the criminal investigation is under

this is five years after lewis and clark were here. and thomas jefferson had the same vision. astor had this idea, approached jefferson and he endorsed it at the whitehouse. it was astor's idea to capture all of the furs through and funnel them through the mouth of the columbia river and sell them to china. in china these furs, especially sea otter, fetched high prices because the chinese mandarin used the sea otter furs which were luxury and the finest and densest coast of any animal in the year. astor wasn't the first ship on the west coast but he was one of the earlier ones. he came up with this idea of sending trade goods from new york around cape horn by ship to the mouth of the columbia trading them to the coastal indians here for furs. trading things like knifes, beads and pots. and then taking those furs to china, trading them to the chinese for incredible markups in both places. taking chinese luxury goods like silks, keys, porcelain back around the world to london and new york. his idea was to have especially a fleet of ships circling the globe continuous and trading

this is five years after lewis and clark were here. and thomas jefferson had the same vision. astor had this idea, approached jefferson and he endorsed it at the whitehouse. it was astor's idea to capture all of the furs through and funnel them through the mouth of the columbia river and sell them to china. in china these furs, especially sea otter, fetched high prices because the chinese mandarin used the sea otter furs which were luxury and the finest and densest coast of any animal in the year. astor wasn't the first ship on the west coast but he was one of the earlier ones. he came up with this idea of sending trade goods from new york around cape horn by ship to the mouth of the columbia trading them to the coastal indians here for furs. trading things like knifes, beads and pots. and then taking those furs to china, trading them to the chinese for incredible markups in both places. taking chinese luxury goods like silks, keys, porcelain back around the world to london and new york. his idea was to have especially a fleet of ships circling the globe continuous and trading

clark talking been climate change. good to have your company. >> a small island off the coast of australia has been used as a model for testing renewable energy. from king island andrew thomas reports. >> it's hard by a pumping metropolis. australia's king island has more cows than people. it's becoming a roto type. islands the world over could be powered. traditionally small communities relied on diesel generators. there's time the island is powered by renewable energy. that's the need for 2,000 people out of distreel customers. >> it's the most power hungry machinery. >> we have run the island up to 7.5 hours of wind energy. total to date of 150 hours. >> ironically renewable targets have been reached by keeping diesel in the mix, whilst wasting power. the traditional problem is that it's unrealable. not enough, and the lights go out. a surge can trip the system. >> a breakthrough is combining two innovations, firing up and burning dieselment and a recystor tapping off power when renewables were used. >> we hope that the combination of the technologies is what makes this a winner. the screen shows the power mix coming in, and the output demand is pulling out. here it is t

clark. so pike was not under consideration for this particular expedition, but lewis had an intriguing suggestion or proposition for pike. he said that president thomas jefferson was planning to send out several more expeditions to explore the recent hi-acquired -- recently-acquired louisiana territory, and he wants them to be led by, quote, the army's most capable officers. did pike want to lead one, lewis asked? well, you betcha, he sure did. so in the spring of 1805 when pike's orders came to lead an expedition to the headwaters of the mississippi, he was ready to embrace the physical sacrifice that exploration would require. and sacrifice, he did. his orders said to come home by december 1, 1805, but he overreached those orders. he stayed up in the minnesota wilderness and spent a very cold, hungry and exhausting winter there. and he comes back the following spring. and, actually, make note of the fact that he's overstepping his orders here. his supervisor, this guy right here who we'll talk about more many a second, wrote to the secretary of war that pike is a very good soldier, but with he has a habit of overstepping his orders. and pike is goi

clark. so pike was not under consideration for this particular expedition but lewis had an intriguing suggestion. or proposition for pike. he said that president thomas jefferson was planning to send out several more expeditions to explore the recently acquired louisiana territory, and he wanted them to be led by, quote, the army's most capable officers. dead -- did pike want to lead one, lewis asked? he sure did. in the spring of 1805 when orders came to lead an expedition to the head waters of mississippi he was ready to embrace the physical sacrifice that exploration would require, and sacrifice he did. his orders said to come home by december 1st. 1805. but he overreached those orders. he stayed up in the minnesota wilderness, and spend a very cold, hungry, and exhausting winter there. and he comes back the following spring and actually make note of the fact that he is overstepping his orders. his supervisor, this guy right here, who we'll talk about more in a second -- wrote to the secretary of war that pike is a very good soldier but has a habit of overstepping his orders, and pike is going to do this again before we're done with him tonight. a