i taught utah history 34 times at the university of utah. his first book, bill bright and the campus crusade for christ, the renewing of evangelical in post-war america was a prize-winning book. he is a graduate of notre dame. they will be in our minds today. he is from new york state, upstate as they call it, not really very far from where brigham young worked and not far from column i wrote. well, his insight and balance we will talk about later on in the program. the other commentators are craig foster author of two books,. [inaudible] a critical analysis of pamphleteering and great written, 1837 to 1860 and a different god question, mitt romney, the religious right and the mormon question. he also co-authored the mormon request for the presidency and also the persistence of polygamy of mormon anthology. he worked for the family history library in salt lake city and bear, he did research genealogical research on some dignitaries, john ashcroft, george w. bush, bill and hillary clinton, walter cronkite, sean hannity, charlton heston, henry

i taught utah history 34 times at the university of utah. the -- his first book, "campus crusade for christ: renewal of evangelical in post war america," it was a prize winning book. he's a graduate of notre dame. they'll be in our minds today with football. he is from new york state, upstate, as they call it. not far from where brigham young workedded or paul mira. well, his insight and balance, we'll talk about later on in the program. the other commentators are craig foster, author of two books, critical analyst of appty-mormon in great britain, 1837-1860, and a different god question, myth mitt, the religious right and the mormon question. he also co-authored with the mormon quest for the presidency, and also with the persistence of polygamy andçó mormon anthology. he worked for the family history library in salt lake city, and there, he did research gene loming -- gene research op dignitaries. john ashcroft, george w. bush, bill and hillary clinton, walter cronkite, sean hannity, charles, larry king, barack obama, kevin rudd, mike walla

there would not have been a master in southern utah but for the utah war standoff. and brigham repeatedly spoke and encouraged indian leaders to attack wagon trains. created an environment in which leaders in the south might think that they could orchestrate an indian massacre with his approval. and he doesn't display any great concern for justice, or even ecclesiastical sanction for many years afterwards. so i think, i think it requires a complex answer. >> next question. [inaudible] >> there we go. back up a couple months there to july 24 of 1857, supposedly when we're talking of the 10 years of isolation that brigham young was hoping that he would get, and that he did get. there are some authors and people who say that there was a given amount theatrics with rockwell and others that rode into camp up there at the campgrounds in, what was a, little cottonwood canyon where they were holding their anniversary party to indicate that the army was coming. and that brigham young already knew his army was coming and that this was more of a theatrics to rally the people p

this is not an export things or wines made in utah.from everywhere, but the state has to get them for you. used to be a state employee in utah whose job it was to taste every alcohol and wine and whiskey the state was considering allowing into the state to be sold. i don't know if there is someone with that job, but it wasn't that long ago. that's because in utah the department of alcoholic beverage control is not only tasked with enforcing liquor laws in the state giving out licenses, they choose which wines and beers and spirits the citizens of the state of utah may purchase. the state government on behalf of its residents tastes wine and decides if it is good enough for utah. whether did the states deal with booze is really weird. i always thought it's because we had a long, strange, national failed experiment called prohibition that was not that long ago. when prohibition ended in 1933, americans could legally buy and sell and drink booze for the first time in 13 years. people were obviously psyched when prohibition ended, but ther

a little taste of utah in the middle of maryland.st between places that have state stores for booze and states that don't have state stores. i mean, in some places you can buy beer or wine or hard stuff at the rite aid or gas station. in some places you can buy beer at a gags station, but spirits come from a state store that looks like a prison. there are all the different levels of control on the sale and distribution of booze up to and including the state becoming the retailer that sells you the booze. now that is about to happen with pot, too, sort of. three states had wide-ranging new rules about pot the on the ballot this year. not about medical marijuana but recreationalal use of marijuana. it passed in washington and colorado but not in oregon, which is oregon is a more blue state than colorado is. oregon was voting on something slightly different. the model of the state-run store that sells all the liquor in the state than utah, that is what oregon was considering for pot. the state would regulate people growing and processin

we have in utah from public lands to hill air force base to getting business for utah to bringing people together on both sides of the floor back there in washington and also bringing both congress, both congressional parts together, the house of representatives and the senate. i'm known for that. i'm just grateful to be with you and hope to have a good time. >> moderator: questions for today's debate were submitted by members of the audience, a committee of byu faculty members as well as the byu law school reviewed the questions. they selected those addressing important utah national issues. some questions were edited for clarity. mr. howell will have the first question of the debate, for subsequent questions we'll alternate which candidate answers first. each candidate will then have a minute to answer the question, and both will have an additional 30 seconds for rebuttal. if i determine that a follow-up question is appropriate, each will have 30 seconds to respond to my follow-up yes. the first question is from joseph haywood, a student here at brigham young university. joseph? >> reg

that is healthy for the state of utah.ey do not come up with some sort of solution, probably about 200 of that will not happen next year. if they resolve the fiscal cliff and the economy remains growing, although kind of sluggish -- here is another scenario, we have a loss of revenue from growth money. we are in a situation where we will prepare for the best, hope for the best, but anticipate a negative growth in the economy. liz: there is actually what we are calling the twinkie of fact. it is a negative bidder twinkie affect. there is a hostess plant where you live. how many jobs will that drop-off, as far as employment is concerned? >> a few hundred. clearly, any kind of negative constriction of the marketplace impacts us. even if it is a negative state. clearly, here at home, the good news for us is we are going at a 3.5% rate now economically. we are creating jobs. we have a healthy economy and a great quality of life which is attracting people and businesses to utah. we do not have control over what happens in washin

. >> suarez: for those stations not taking a pledge break, we take a second look at eastern utah, and a compromise that will allow companies to extract the region's natural gas, while preserving its environment. i reported from there earlier this year. the banks of the white river in eastern utah are perfectly quiet, in a way it's sometimes hard to find in a world of seven billion people-- just the sounds of gently flowing water, a hint of a breeze, the occasional bird. the gorgeous vistas and rare solitude sit on public land thousands of feet above a bonanza trapped deep in the earth. from high above, it's easy to see how the gas industry has changed the landscape, with gas wells by the thousands altering the fragile desert ecosystem. utah environmentalists say the view from the air and from the canyon floor illustrate why they want these public lands protected. >> you know, what families find when they come here, what outfitters, what americans come to experience this place, it's the quiet, it's the solitude, it's that you don't have the sight and sounds of human development around

are they all going to come back to utah? those of us who have been following these issues along the utah/arizona border for many years believe that the crimes that they identified, those texas rangers identified down in texas, have basically been going on here in this region for decades. >> hundreds of people used to live in that compound. where did they go? >> reporter: well, good question, wolf. when mr. jeffs started to feel pressure in the early 2000s from utah and arizona, he sent people out and built compounds all over. they referred to that texas one as r-17, refuge 17. he sent a lot of people out, they bought in south dakota, in colorado. they already have people in idaho. there's lots of places they could go but clearly the big concentration, colorado, utah, right on the utah/arizona border, many of them will come back here and there's already great tensions because the federal government has come in and suing both of those municipalities that are run by the flds, basically saying that they're corrupt. so the tensio

this is out on the navajo reservation in southern utah. this is part of a structure that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who just was creeped out by this. because there's a certain h

to me, the games were about utah.t about mitt. >> bullock claims romney made the problems look worse than they really were, a calculated political move to ensure public success. did we need to raise revenue? yes. were we three years out? yes. big difference of the games being around the corner. >> you think he overstated the problems? >> dramatically. dramatically. >> it's a charge the romney camp scoffs at. and in the end, the 2002 olympics were profitable and one of the most successful winter games in history. >> he had pulled off this big success. he had rescued these games. and now it was a question of what he would parlay that into. >> it wouldn't take long for that question to be answered. . ♪ introducing the new 13-inch macbook pro, ♪ with the stunning retina display. ♪ for the pro in all of us. anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yeah. one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ female a

closing right now polls in iowa, montana, nevada, utah and idaho. both candidates have settled into watch. the president has been some chicago, romney went to boston to cast his vote before flying out for more campaigning. we have team cove rage on the two. ken pritchett is with the president in chicago. we start with rita williams. >> >> reporter: romney's senior strategist took to the stage to try to rev up the crowd. he didn't have any real news but as you can see this crowd here is beginning to grow. meanwhile i'm told that romney is a cross the street in a hotel room with his wife ann, his five sons, 16 of his 18 grandchildren. right before he went in there he had one last thing to say about this long campaign. >> i have am very pleased. i feel like we have put it all in the field. we left nothing in the locker room. we fought to the very end and i think that's why we will be successful. >> reporter: no would have, could have, should have, he seemingly is satisfied with the campaign he has run. >> as for his supporters, some are down stairs bel

to me, the games were about utah. it wasn't about mitt. >> bullock claims romney made the problems look worse than they really were, a calculated political move to ensure public success. >> did we need to raise revenue? were we short? yes. were we three years out? yes. big difference of the games being around the corner. >> so you think he overstated the problems? >> dramatically. dramatically. >> it's a charge the romney camp scoffs at. and in the end, the 2002 olympics were profitable and one of the most successful winter games in history. >> he had pulled off this big success. he had rescued these games. and now it was a question of what he would parlay that into. >> it wouldn't take long for that question to be answered. ñço jen's car wasn't handling well. so i brought it to mike at meineke. we gave her car a free road handling check. i like free. free is good. my money. my choice. my meineke. >>> the opening ceremonies for the 2002 winter olympics were still more than a month away, but mitt romney already had oth

great example of that talking to my friend gary herbert, the governor of utah, utah, and probably most of your viewers know five or six years ago set up an exchange and did it in a free market way and one of the lowest costs in the country of health care and still have quality health care, but did it through a market driven exchange. according to my friend gary herbert that doesn't qualify under the new affordable care act and they're going to have to come back and put in place something more aligns them with what the federal government wants. to me, you get the exposure without any of the flexibility, that's not a good deal and on behalf of the taxpayers in my state i said no thank you we'd rather have the federal government not only take on the responsibility, but the responsibility to pay for it and not defer to our tax base. >> isn't there a risk if the federal government runs the entire show you guys will be cut out totally and basically, you'll have even less room for maneuver, your companies in the state, your providers in the state will really have to march entirely to washingt

to me, the games were about utah.ut mitt. >> bullock claims romney made the problems look worse than they really were, a calculated political move to ensure public success. >> did we need to raise revenue? were we short? yes. were we three years out? yes. big difference of the games being around the corner. >> so you think he overstated the problems? >> dramatically. dramatically. >> it's a charge the romney camp scoffs at. and in the end, the 2002 olympics were profitable and one of the most successful winter games in history. >> he had pulled off this big success. he had rescued these games. and now it was a question of what he would parlay that into. >> it wouldn't take long for that question to be answered. >>> the opening ceremonies for the 2002 winter olympics were still more than a month away, but mitt romney already had other plans. beth myers remembers getting a call from romney in january. >> i'm thinking about running for governor, and would you have any interest in helping me run my campaign? >> massachuse

they are projecting romney will win utah. there it goes red. we want to let you know that peps pennsylvania was declared in the barack obama camp. so he won pennsylvania. also happening a short time ago the state of new jersey. even with a republican governor, take a look. president barack obama winning the state of new jersey and capturing all 14 of its elect oral votes. >> you mentioned pennsylvania. some considered it a battleground state, romney did. but he lost that state. so, now he is turning to ohio which may be the most important state in this election. right now president barack obama is leading mitt romney in ohio bi2 points, we still have -- by 2 points but we still have more registered voters in ohio and we only have 3 million casting ballots. it could be a long night in ohio and florida. it is a story every four years, razzor thin elections in florida. look at this. more than seven million votes cast. it is tied, look at the separation, 3 million, for each, you are talking about more than 7 million votes and a difference of only 2

this is in murray utah.tor was she thought it would be a great name to give him respect with some room for scandal. then it would be really funny if he ended up being president senator. he is four pounds, 12-ounces. mom, baby happy. chris an wendy bench for parents. utah senator mike lee came by. and the press secretary, thank you for spending me that little cute saying on election day. >> kimberly: that was nice. greg? >> greg: robert did his part for obama. robbed a convenience store with a gun and told the clerk at gun point to vote for president obama while he was robbing him again at gunpoint. clerk said he was not allowed to vote. gunman said vote for obama. this is obama expletive before fleeing. >> bob: who did that? you said robert? i don't want -- >> kimberly: a criminal. bad guy. >> greg: it might be a metaphor for something but i couldn't come up with it. >> kimberly: that was interesting. talk about puerto rico. check me out. they said we want to have staid hoot. they had a referendum -- stateho

in utah people know me real well.n this state and people know me well and ultimately i think they care about the issues we talk about. that's what's going on on the ground here. >> congressman, you were the lone democrat in the utah delegation. how do you think you've been able to actually survive in such a conservative environment? >> well at the end of the day what people appreciate about me is that i'm really not about party. i'm about just trying to do the right thing. i think most people in utah are tired of all the partisanship and the bickering. what they though about me is that's not who i am. they know i'm a guy that works with anybody regardless of where they come from. i put good ideas above party politics, personal ambition. that's what they're looking for. so the approach that i have followed for all my time in office i think in the year 2012 it matters that much more. >> it is a very pragmatic approach. as a member of a blue dog coalition, fiscally conservative democrat, but you are really a rare breed.

we in utah are doing very well. we will probably have about a 6% to 7% reduction in nondefense spending, but we'll manage. we hope that they will, in fact, balance the budget. we've, in fact, gone back to congress and said we'll take less money for programs that we use at the state level. we'll take 20% less. we'd like you to cut those strings though and give you more flexibility to be more creative and innovative at the state level, which is what governors and states do. >> your fellow governors were meeting this week out in las vegas. some of your republican governors, haley barbour from mississippi, aa former governor. they spoke out and said they think republicans in washington should be open to the idea of increasing tax rates as part of a potential compromise with democrats on they see fiscal negotiations. do you share that view. should that be on the table for republican it is? >> i think tax reform needs to be part of the discussion. i think everything should be on the table. i would caution us all that incr

utah, one of the most republican states out there mitt romney will carry utah. with utah right now, we can make that projection, let's see where the road to 270 stands right now. we have 158 -- 158 for romney. 143 for obama. we can't make projections in three states where the polling just closed. in iowa, no projection. in montana no, projection and nevada, no projection, iowa, nevada, always considered battleground states in this race for the white house. so no projections right now, we can share with you as we wait for more real votes to come in, our exit polls, they are -- we can show you what they are revealing. i want to caution everyone, these are estimates based on a sampling of voters as they left select polling stations. here are the exit poll results. barack obama, 52% to mitt romney's 46%, an exit poll estimate of what we saw today. in montana, look at this, the estimate, mitt romney 53% to barack obama's 43% in montana. in nevada, the president slightly ahead, in the exit poll that we conducted. 51% for the president to 45% for mitt romney in nevada.

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amy robach made the trip to a secret world. >> reporter: deep in the desert, on the border between utah and arizona, a polygamous sect of 8,000 people are still living a secret live, obeying the commands of their leader, warren jeffs. he was sentenced to life in prison for the sexual assault of girls as young as 14. >> we miss our prophet. we know he is innocent. >> reporter: a year-long investigation by "20/20" reveals that jeffs, from behind prison bars, still controls every aspect of his followers' lives. >> obey the prophet when he speaks, and you'll be blessed. disobey him -- it is death. >> reporter: in this community, where a man needs three wives to gain salvation, warren jeffs married over 80 women. every week, he issues bizarre orders that seem random to outsiders. >> now it is down that you cannot eat corn. >> no sex between husband and wife. >> at home you couldn't have any toys. you couldn't ride bikes either. >> reporter: this community has often taken young boys out of school to work in construction. willie steed told us he helped build this multimillion dollar house for

the guys in utah rented a big truck and drove it around seemingly taking people's leaves from their homeith bag after bag after bag of leaves. 17 feet high and 20,000 pounds. >> 1,462 bags. contains every single leaf in utah. >> i don't know if that was an exact. >> can't confirm those numbers. what arefá you going to do when you have a pile of leaves that big? >> jump. it's like jumping into a big cloud. they have a go proon a stick to capture the big pile of leaves -- thanking everybody involved. they said thanks to everyone who let us rake and collect their leaves. these guys are the same guys who pulled off the awesome treasure chest prank where they buried the treasure chest in the sand and dug it up at the beach. >> i am really impressed that this is able to support their fall. it seems like you would fall to the center or end up with the random twig in your butt. >> when you have an entire truck of leaves that is probably enough. >>> first ski of the season. i think of this video as like a warning. do not eat the steaks or the chickens or the paninis at this house. >> is that a ca

utah goes on to win it 83-76.lls to 0-8 for the second year in a row. >> we got enough here to win games. we do. we have to believe that. and i have to help them believe in themselves. >> right now, we're on eight. we just have to keep every game there. it's a matter of us keeping the game, keeping them cushioned. >> bradley beale who had to come off the bench tonight for jordan crawford. the wizards are the second team in nba history to go ♪ just put a little bit of yourself ♪ ♪ in everything you do [ female announcer ] add your own ingredients to hamburger helper for a fresh take on a quick, delicious meal. it's one box with hundreds of possibilities. progresso. in what world do potatoes, bacon and cheese add up to 100 calories? your world. ♪ [ whispers ] real bacon... creamy cheese... 100 calories... [ chef ] ma'am [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. mary gshe also has asthma. so she sees her allergist who has a receptionist susan, who sees that she's due for a mammogram. mary has one that

high pressure protects areas from utah to arizona all the way through california. we're not going to see too much bad weather or heavy rain. there are light showers right over the top of seattle heading up i-5 and up into the mountains. anywhere from portland northward, you'll have a chance of hit and miss showers, especially in washington state. temperaturewise, it's chilly in the inner mountain west. right along the coast, we've warmed up a little bit. typical for this time of year. should be gorgeous around los angeles to phoenix and there's a chance of showers on and off, especially washington state. usually that's the end of the forecast. but i've got to show you how cold it is this morning in alaska, fairbanks right now is minus 22 degrees. the coldest temperatures of the year. today's highs aren't even going to get up to zero with sunshine. that's cold. that's a look at cloudy. bakersfield to san jose looking good, too, just the northwest with the clouds. >>> no huge storms coming, and we need to get a little warm-up for our friends 2in alaska. >>> the u.s.

. >> to tell us more we have the founder, dan, via skype from utah.me back to the show. >> thanks, guys. >> this is bigger than it was last year and it's not even time for the deadline yet. >> yeah. it's crazy. i mean, we've been open for just over a week, and we have almost 50,000 participants. yeah. we're really excited. people just are really excited to get into this time of year. >> are there any rules about what people can't give as gifts? >> i think there's probably a ton of rooms about what people can't give, but, you know, we try and leave it up to, like, common sense. give people stuff that's legal. you know? just send something that you think would be awesome for the person receiving it. >> are people that will potentially give to "right this minute" going to read a profile where we say what we would like? >> we ask them just a couple of really simple questions. just like, tell some likes and dislikes. something so that whoever is assigned to you can do some internet stalking. open null the 26th. on the 26th we do matching. we create basical

we begin with a murder suspect's rampage at a utah airport. this is newly released video showing the commercial pilot driving a stolen plane out of control on airport grounds. during the july incident pilot brian hedglin smashed the regional jet into a building and parked cars before fatally shooting himself. police believe hedglin stabbed his girlfriend to death three days before he went over the edge. unbelievable. >>> well, a bank robber known as the ak-47 hit another bank last night, this one in idaho. the fbi believes the suspect has executed a string of bank robberies in california and washington armed with an assault rifle. a $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest. >>> and finally, a female air force pilot is breaking more than the sound barrier with her accomplishments. major caroline jensen became the first female reservist to join the famed thunderbirds. she's been flying over 17 years and hopes to inspire the next generation of air force airmen. bet she will. >>> all right, to sports. nfl thursday night