the populist party is strong in utah, partly because utah is a sober state.s 80% for the democratic candidate, william jennings bryan in 1896. even in its most republican. in the last 40 years, if not gone 80% for any presidential candidate. so you have a combination of the drive for statehood along with the existence of the people in utah asking similar questions asked around the country about the excesses of wild, the great gap between the very poor and the very wealthy and how you bring about them or just an economic society. in utah come you have the same forces populist party, knights of labor and others. then a 200 is a socialist party has developed nationally in utah as well. for the next 20 years is very active in terms of elections in all kinds of that committees. we'd like to say it creates a kind of oppositional culture and the culture is political, electoral, but it's also social. it's also intellectual. and so the socialist parties please his deep roots in utah in those first two decades of the 20th century, which again are very complicated in th

[cheers] [applause] >> welcome to ogden, utah, on booktv. located in northern utah. ogden is the first settlement in what is now a utah. nicknamed the junction city, the leader became the junction location for the union pacific and central pacific railroads. they are now considered one of the top 10 cities in the country to raise a family by forbes magazine. with the help of our comcast cable partners, for the next hour we will learn the history of the city from local authors. >> today when people think of utah, they think of two things. they think of the republican party as one of the strongest states in the country both in terms of the presidential election and the election. we were interested in whether or not we had a leftist radical movement that had existed. >> one of the big misconceptions or that it's only a child to motion and that it's something that we did over by going to summer camp or college. but in reality it's an adult condition as well as this and it's always play develops. but unfortunately we have had to silence us because we worry that it makes i

in utah, single biological fathers have few if any rights. utah's adoption policy is that a child is better off with a married couple even if they are strangers, rather than a single biological parent. mothers can give their babies up, if fathers don't meet a whole series of complicated criteria within 30 days. >> why not just let you have the kid? >> i think it is a higher calling. it is something that she was coached to do, to get this child to a two parent home. and to keep me out of this child's life. so was with the birth mother motivated by her religious believes? was she pressured into this by the mormon church? is. >> i think so. i think the church had something to decide that this was right. and i remember specifically her coming home from church and discussing with me about dongs, trying to convince me, and saying this was in our best interest, and the child's best interest to get this child to a two family home. >> utah far and away seems to be kind of a baby mill, or a baby mecca. >> wes hutchins is the former head of the utah ado

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utah eliminated executing inmates by firing squad in 2003.t coming in 2010 when ronny lee gardener was shot and killed by five police officers armed with 30 caliber rifles. the proposal would give all inmates the option of choosing this over injections. >> to offer people a choice. do you prefer prison or flogging, you prefer exile or fines, do you prefer to be executed this way or that way, may in a sense be incompatible with the very meaning of punishment itself. >> proponents know legal injections have been botched at a higher percentage than any other method of execution. they say it's cheaper and less painful but there could be suffering saying inmates could move or shooters miss their target causing a slow and painful death. since 1976, just three people, all in utah have been put to death by firing squad in the u.s. and in that time, more than 1150 have died from lethal injection. >> oh, boy, brian, thank you very much for that report. and that's going to do it for us right now. i'll be back with more news in one hour from now. but don

in 1907 he started one of the first movie theaters taking a redistribution of movies in utah. move dollar would sitting there talking about a lot better represent his company. you just sketched out a picture wrong on that he represented from living near, surrounded with stars, and that was the low for years and years. the bomb that he drew was been woman. the logo is changed. very stylized to be just a few stars over. i think it looks more like mount everest. at the history. >> for more information on book tv recent visit and the many of those cities visited by her local content vehicles go to c-span.org / local content. >> to look at some of the best-selling nonfiction books cord to the "wall street journal". book tv hosted of your call-in program last month which can be viewed any time at booktv.org. second, the doctors diet fallen by sarah against jesus : forth with his mom or face the music, all life exposed. the fifth book strength finder. ..

where he paid the price for murder in utah, his life. riflemen fired from a curtained enclosure. their target, a hooded gary gilmore, seated a few yards in front of them. >> that night in january 1977, nbc actually ran a national half-hour special about the return of capital punishment to the united states. >> his name was gary gilmore, but it is only by an accident of timing that we are talking about him tonight, about him and what happened here at the utah state prison today. for what we are really talking about is each of us. our society and the fact that our nation, as of today, is back in the business of capital punishment. the purpose of this program is to mark this turning in our history and to ask the question, where did we come from, and where might we now be going. historians tell us there have been executions in this world for perhaps 4,000 years. it has been a grisly history. in that time, legal killings have been carried out by crucifying people, stoning them, burning them, boiling them, roasting them, dismembering them, cho

what actually happens is polygamy becomes out lot in utah. they become a state very quickly in 1893 i think but not until 1910 there is the second declaration from the church saying we really meant this about polygamy so stop it. so i have akimbo views on this that i am not going to share with you. the salt lake city church condemns polygamy wherever is a see it. period. i am going to say two things. first of all, we know through television, the justice trial, whatever, there are so-called fundamentalist mormons and now that you have heard my presentation, you see fundamentalist mormons hearken back to joseph smith, to the fundamental teachings, the original teachings of the church where joseph said polygamy is in the old testament so these people that you see on tv, the fundamentalist mormons with many wives feel that they are the true followers of joseph smith and they feel the people in salt lake city are the heretics. this gets complicated really quickly. the one thing i sort of learned, pretty grandiose term, writing this book, naturally

>> in the summer of 2009, eric shrever and david cardona are hiking through utah's zion national park. they're both experienced canyoneers, skilled at getting through canyons by any means possible. that includes climbing, rappeling or even swimming. >> i've always loved the outdoors. i've been an avid hiker. but this canyoneering sport, it takes hiking to a whole new level, and i started dabbling in that about three years ago. >> i've been doing canyoneering for about a year with eric. >> this time, david is also going to be a cameraman. >> we thought it would be great to have it on camera and we could show other people what we do. >> but what they're about to record is their worst nightmare. eric is planning to rappel 300 feet into the beautiful but dangerous englesteed canyon. >> you can't really see the bottom of it. it kind of blows your mind away, just the scenery of it. >> they choose a spot and david helps eric set up for the rappel. >> i quickly noticed how tall, how far 300 feet is. i was very, very nervous. there are all sorts of factors that can lead to death and injury as

went south and essentially just returned headed east went through utah, colorado, nebraska, iowa until i got back to minnesota. that first leg took 31 days. i've met about 100 of my facebook friends. when i started i had 302 facebook friends. it's about a third of the friends i've met. it's an interesting thing,

thomas headley is serving a 15-year sentence at utah state prison. and like many sex offenders says his punishment is unjust and his crime misunderstood. >> i was charged with kidnapping somebody that was under 14. i am a man that is attracted to young women, god forbid. 99% of us are. >> when we interviewed him, headley was serving his time in solitary confinement as a punishment for being uncooperative. but he explained to us that he had his own motives for being in the hole.

so it's something we've used here in utah in the past.held by the supreme court as a means to do this. with the problems we're having currently with the drug cocktail and lethal injection and the access to it, it makes sense to have a backup. that's what this will be, just a backup. we'll try lethal injection. if we're challenged in court, if something doesn't work, we can move over to the firing squad and have that as an option just in case. >> isn't it just as bad? i mean, it is not fail safe either. we have definitive proof. i think there was a case in 1987 where it took almost a half hour for a condemned man to die after being fired upon. it just seems really odd to have a man face down five of his fellow citizens who are all holding guns as a means of execution. no matter what your argument, it just seems odd, doesn't it? >> no, it doesn't. you have to understand, 1987, they did not have the means that we do. we strap the individual to the chair at this point. you're tied into a chair and those five people are not just civilians, the

this land belongs to somebody in new york just like it belongs to somebody in utah. and what these professional managers are doing on the ground is saying what is good for the resource? how many cattle would we allow to graze here? where is it roept appropriate t atvs? how can we best take care of this land? and now this cliven bundy bunch giving advice to people in utah on how to deal with the blm? that's like the aryan nation giving advice for donald sterling. the bundy bunch are grifters, they haven't paid their fees, they haven't cooperated with the federal government. they don't even recognize the federal government. and these tea party militia fox trotters are a bunch of ne'er-do-wells, they aren't people that have legitimate businesses on the land. you wouldn't get ranchers to stand next to bundy. people in the mining and oil and gas business on federal land, they wouldn't stand next to these people because they make a living on that federal land and they listen to the rule of the land. >> so the ulterior motive is to make the bureau of land management, the bo

aside from a few vocal opponents in support of this. >> you are in moab, utah, where does utah fall into all of this? >> we have been reporting on the rising tide and questions of public uses, we're here on a massive bureau of land management area called desert sands. there's a famous slick rock mountain biking trail here. a dinosaur foot was chiseled and stolen out of this area, people are upset about that. other parts of nevada and utah are coming into conflict over the blm saying they wants more increased access to this land. paul. >> ul interest l. paul thank you. >>> a man who served in vietnam voted for decades worked in the federal prison system, found out recently he's not a u.s. citizen. robert ray has the story. >> mario hernandez started his wednesday hoping to become what he thought he's been for the last 50 years, a legal u.s. citizen. >> i probably slept like two hours last night. but i pray to god everything will be fine. >> the cuban immigrant was about to face a hearing in florida that could determine the rest of his life that in fact might make him a criminal. hernandez

and utah is no exception. but nowhere are prison gangs more powerful, dangerous, and faster growing than in california. and they have added their own ominous chapters to the convict code. >> you can always spot a guy that's not used to prison, a new inmate, because he'll come out, he'll wander around, he won't go with his own group. you know, he's just looking. and usually what will happen is one of the gangsters will go over and snatch him up and bring him over and run the game down to him, tell him, hey, this is what you've got to do, this is where you've got to be, you can only hang out with your own people, we don't want to see you talking to people of other races. and that happens real quick. real quick. >> at san quentin state prison, we learned that not only do gangs force most of the prison population into racial segregation, they even draw boundaries on the rec yard. >> this is the lower yard. and the inmates segregate themselves out here, the reason being that the gangs want it that way. the blacks a

in utah it's 42% of the state. in nevada it's almost 80%. people say this land is theirs, and they want it back from the government. engines revving, flags flying. these atv riders say they're sending a message and taking back what's theirs. >> that's what we're here for, to do the hard thing and stand up and do what is right, and tell the federal government we've had enough. >> reporter: fueling the anger here is access to a place called recapture canyon a few miles east of the town of blanding. the federal bureau of land management made the area off limits to motor vehicles back in 2007 to protect ancient native americans artifacts. but protesters call the move just another example of government overreach. >> i'm been back here, and i know we've been here forever, and then for a governmental agency to acquire it, that's really frustrating. >> reporter: the protest ride comes after a showdown in nevada last month. rancher cliven bundy and his backers some members of armed militia squared off with the blm over fees for grazing cattle on fede

even utah officials said, we did not ask for this.deral planners were angling i-70 down to hit interstate i-15. there was a desire for a quick route from denver to los angeles will stop there are probably more sources to look at. it appears from the sources i was able to find that that was the most important deciding factor. the announcement that colorado was getting its interstate was cause for jubilation stop colorado felt sure that this would bring more tourism. it was still to be decided where the new interstate would go stop federal planners had only 60 endpoints. -- fixed the endpoints. how would he from point a to point b? this was a cause for debate in colorado. -- varies groups had different arguments for their route. a make a long story short, technocratic governor called in a new york engineering firm to study the possible routes and decide from an expert engineering perspective. this firm studied no fewer than eight possible routes, including seven different proposed tunnel sites will stop the one highlighted in red is the

it wasn't announced as a tenant to the church until they got to utah in 1852. it was obviously a very pernicious secret that goes without saying. his absolutely closest friends and intimate companions could stomach the idea of taking on another wife. it had a sense in which it had an overlay because joseph was marrying his friends wives and they had several children. in any event this is a sort of micro- example in the chapter and it involves a woman who first meet some joseph smith in kirkland ohio that i mentioned as one ois one of the first cold she's kind of precocious and memorized a little bit of the book of mormon and joseph praises her in a moving moment and after the leafs, someone is a 12-year-old gold they say you know who was here and she says i have no idea. she comes as a company of the angel of the lord. i take up the same story and she is now 23-years-old and she is married. this will show how polygamy works if you will. the two young children fled missouri settled by far from illinois. she was living in a tiny dwelling when smith asked her to m

when dion peace peace peace he has his eye shot of utah. when she was into to mexico to live in l a to liverpool. that is the mainstay question. for you. huh. for me. up the heat of the day of the cities of sydney two thousand city. in the middle of the debate. i meant to thirteen on top. i mean. what happened it's probably going to dismiss. i held out. went to the normal time which has been on a non stop reduce heat the morning i went out for my golf ball game. and they see in the atrium and done. as our workshop will not go looking yet i've been a bit. details of the pupils must not go with it and just as i was. it will cost from eight th and sunday shopping. house three times. this will not be so dumb of course is that something is wrong and of all the dogs even mock ups and more i mean. i mean i need to get out. the sliding door because its content like something was wrong time when i was cute. somebody is canadian comedy akbar on to all your needs might be true i will hide my age. but how to dance to the must run into a fist of the top

. >> we've seen killings and kidnappings that we haven't seen in the state of utah. we try to make those preventive measures so it doesn't spread to other cities. >> he announced plans to bolster security if his home state but extra boots on the ground may not be enough to curb the violence. >> it is important for the federation to help out the state of mexico government because on one hand the forces are well trained and well paid and work well together. however, the only way crimes levels in the state of utah will fall in the medium and long term is through the reform of municipal and state police and the judiciary. >> reporter: fighting crime from the sky gives them a new perspective and a powerful tool that they hope will eventually make their city safer. al jazeera, the state of mexico. >> now five time golf major winner philadelphia ha phil mickelson has denied any wrongdoing after being identified by the fbi for possible insider trading. he may have traded illegally on information from a billionaire investor. no charge have been filed. a new police you want ha

i moved out here to utah with my husband.were both eager to come west but i suddenly realized how much i miss my family in the midwest. i wondered if i was strange in that way because i have heard for generations of americans had set out west and never looked back and it was an easy process. suddenly i found that very difficult. why wondered if there was some sort of an anomaly. quite a prominent theme in american history. i found that in the archive file went to i could easily turn out people reflecting. how bin plus in the 19th century americans were very public talk of the church. everybody seems to have been moving. ♪ so common and publicly discussed in motion. tremendous fan attached to being home sick. people who were acutely homesick were called nostalgic people thought you could die of it. the killing nostalgic. seventy-two actually died of a stanza. >> fighting for the confederacy after reading your letter twice, i can hardly sleep. my thoughts were of my happy home. homesickness, absolutely typical black-and-white,

. >> elizabeth smart was taken from her utah bedroom in 2002 and at age 14, and held captive for nine months. she is now speaking out about the recen abduction. she says the "victim" in this case has a long road to recovery. >> not only is she going to be trying to recover and move forward from everything that happened to her in a decade, now she is going to have the overwhelming, uhm, media attention and notoriety that comes along with her case. not to mention trying to find that new normal trying to find that new way of life of moving forward. >> smart says the victim will not only need time but also privacy to readjust. >>> new video of the santa rosa mom who appeared in court today after allegedly assaulting her daughter's bully. formal charges against garcia- bratcher postponed. witnesses say she grabbed the boy by the throat at an elementary school last friday. the d.a. says the case is still under investigation and hasn't determined whether pursue criminal charges against delia garcia-bratcher. >> she did nothing wrong. her daughter was being bullied and she confronted the bull

another recent tragic loss to the utah law enforcement community was utah county sheriff office sergeant corey ride. sergeant ride was shot and killed while on duty on january 30, 2014 as he was assisting a stranded motorist. sergeant ride served with the utah county sheriff's office for nearly 20 years and served his community in various roles including patrol as a member of the department of special operations teams canine and swat. he was married to naonette for 18 years. he was the father of four boys and one daughter. nathan, chance, shea and connie ann. he had eight grandchildren. i wish to stand my sympathy to his family and recognize sergeant ride for his service, his selflessness and his courage. i urge my colleagues to take some time this week to think about these men and pay respect to the numerous other fallen heroes who have served our communities with professionalism, integrity, and compassion, as well as all members of the law enforcement community who watch over and guard our streets, protect us, our families, and our mr. president, i ask that my next remarks be placed at

and here in utah.u plead guilty and you will receive a lenient sentence and end up with a job who sand bags it. >> and the attorney apparently thought he would get 180 days and he went in the school and check in the local jail and instead he is in solitary confinement. and the prosecutor didn't renege. and the judge is not listening and that legally, and i know it is a harsh sentence under utah law. it is a legal sentence. >> think about it. you talk about a guy who got eight years for leaving a man damaged. and this kid is getting 15 years and stole $10 and i am not sure he did. his three compatriots got the cell phone. >> he took the people in the basement and they had guns and must have been harrowing for them. >> and more people are incarcerated, 2.4 million up from 300,000 in $0.19 and the point is, you come up with antidote after antidote. it is six times more serious and so this kid. i think he's 16 to get 15 years on this is crazy. >> and it will go back and somehow correct it in my opinion. >>

in utah it controls 42% of the state. in nevada, it's closer to 80.eople are saying that land is ours. >> engines revving, glass flying. the atv riders are sending a message and taking back what is theirs. >> that's what we are here for, to do the hard thing, stand up and do what is right and tell the federal government that we have had enough. >> fuelling the anger is access to a place called recapture canyon, a few miles east. the federal bureau of land management made the area off limits to motor vehicles in 2006 to protect ancient american artefacts. protesters called the move an example of government overreach. >> i was back here in high school back through here in high school. we have been here forever, and for a governmental agency to acquire it, take it over and say it's not yours is frustrating. >> the protest ride comes after a showdown in nevada. rancher cliven bundy and his backers, some members of an armed militia scared off over fees for grazing cattle. several of bundy's supporters and his children showed up on saturday of. >> if we are

i'm not going there. >> this happened in utah. >> hello, utah. >> only some of the girls who didn't followe dress code had their photos photo-shopped. here's an original photo, a v neck, tattoo, but in the yearbook the nextline is raised and no tattoo. >> this v neck was a problem. >> right. here's another student here. she is in a tank top. and then all of sudden in the yearbook she grew sleeves. >> this principal better not watch the fox news channel. he'll be -- we'll be photoshops a lot. >> here's another girl who grew sleeves in the yearbook as well. now -- >> shoulder ares a problem. >> a big problem, and tattoos. now, here is two different girls, both yearbook pictures, almost identical outfits and wasn't was not photoshopped and one did. that's why the girls are the most upset. >> she is wearing sleeves and this one she is not. so that's what they're upset about? >> incoin si. >> not up -- inconsistency. >> do you think when you hear these stories we're on a different planet? >> there's a lot of different viewpoints going on around there. >> you look great today. >> thank you. >> w

what's different in utah? >> what's different in utah is we have used it in the past.cution in 2010. we used the the firing squad. it's not anything out of the norm for us. we are set up to do that. we have done it. it has worked for us. >> why did you stop after 2010. >> at this point we have inmates on death row but they haven't yet exhausted their appeals. in 2004 legislation was passed to put lethal injection as the source of that. but that was before there was the problems we are having with the lethal injection which is why we are looking for backup with the firing squad. >> what you are doing in utah is a direct result of problems we have seen in places like oklahoma with regards to the lethal injection, the three-drug cocktail. >> right. it's the inavailability of the cocktail from europe that we have and the refusal to sell to the u.s. and ongoing lawsuits on it. that comes together and we have a second option if it's needed. >> how real is the concern that a modern court would consider death by firing squad cruel and unusual and kons consequeconseq unconstitu

i first want to raise problem of marijuana cultivation on land in my home state of utah. the federal government currently owns. federal government owns a majority of land in only five of the fifty states, and that figure is actually around 70% in my home state of utah. now, people in most of the country don't know what that means, but utahans certainly do. it means the federal government has the responsibility to address issues and problems related to the federal land itself. and this is not the first time i've addressed the federal government's failure to live up to the that responsibility. last year, for example, i offered an amendment to the immigration bill that would enhance penalties for marijuana cultivation on federal land. now, this committee adopted my amendment by unanimous consent. these activities pose a direct threat to public safety in and around our communities. do you agree that this is a serious problem and that it is the federal government's responsibility to solve it? >> i do, senator. and, you know, we have, we have worked with our state and local cou

even utah officials were like, we didn't ask for this.he federal planners were angry -- angling interstate 70 down to have interstate 15. so that desire for a quick route, a directory or less set for national defense purposes appears that that was the most decisive factor. the announcement was cause for jubilation. that said, it was still to be decided where the new entity would go. a federal planners had only fixed the end point out with the interstate get from a to b? this began the next cause for serious debate as boosters. brewsters and partisans of u.s. six argued. since the successor of blustery and technocratic governor called in a new york engineering firm to study possible routes which would be the best. this new york in engineering firm studied no fewer than eight possible routes including seven different proposed tunnel sides. the one highlighted in red, the sort of last two routes that this engineering firm narrow the possibilities down to. they've follow along u.s. 40 in the other along u.s. six. besides the to the were the f

>> look at what utah did back in 2010. so utah abolished the firing squad method in 2004.emned to death prior to that date, you had the option to choose. and one prisoner did choose in 2010 to use the firing squad. so they brought him in a room. they sat him in a chair. they placed a white target right over his heart. they wrobrought in five police officers. they put bullets in their guns. one officer had a weapon with blanks in it. they all fired. and that prisoner was shot in the heart and pretty much died instantaneously. i'm assuming this utah lawmaker is going to use that case. say, hey, if you're concerned about someone suffering and these drugs not working, here's another method. let's go back to what we did in 2010. >> apparently not the only one who prefers an alternative. it says 20% say let's go with the gas chamber. 18%, the electric chair. 12%, firing squad. 8%, hanging. in fact, some states have these methods. delaware, new hampshire, washington, they allow hanging. arizona, wyoming, they allow the gas chamber. what are the legal arguments? >> first, it's stu

people are without power in cedar city, utah. across the southwest, powerful wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour are toppling trees from texas to southern california, even crushing this car. >> the angry then the crying and now it's just we're blessed, though, because we have good homeowner's insurance. we have good car insurance. >> reporter: and there's no end in sight. the national weather service says this kind of severe spring weather could end until the last of june. larry jacobs, abc news, new york. >>> all right, well, those gusty winds larry mentioned are helping fuel a devastating wildfire in the panhandle. dozens of homes have been destroyed by the blaze that broke out late yesterday afternoon. hundreds of residents have been evacuated overnight. firefighters managed to get the wildfire 50% contained, but the extent of the damage is still unknown. >> it's a disaster, and many people have lost their homes. the crews were able to go back into the area, and they're starting the search of these to try to determine the extent

i want to again thank the distinguished senior senator from utah, senator hatch. he has been so constructive in trying to build a bipartisan piece of legislation, a bill that came out of the senate finance committee several weeks ago with very substantial bipartisan support. it really is designed to deal with a number of tax provisions that are temporary in nature, and it in effect extends those temporary tax provisions until the end of 2015. and in consultation with the distinguished senator from utah, i thought it was important to call this bill the expire act, and it was important because this legislation actually does expire after two years. it in effect says -- and i said, mr. president, on my watch as chair of the senate finance committee, there will not be another extenders bill. that's not going to happen on my watch. this is it. and in effect, by extending these important provisions now for one last time, the congress can give itself and the finance committee on a bipartisan basis the space that is needed to take on the challenge of comprehensive tax refo

because the supreme court has gotten involved in utah, they could certainly get involved here. what we're waiting to find out this morning is whether the state's republican governor who opposes same-sex marriage will appeal this case. they rallied around the state after a federal judge ruled pennsylvania's 18-year-old ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. >> the justice has been done for a long time, and we are going to stop it today. >> reporter: philadelphia's mayor called it an historic day. county offices there stayed open late last night to handle applications. the state's attorney general voiced her support. >> i think that where there's inequality in one group of people or one class of people, then there's inequality amongst all of us. >> reporter: 11 couples sued plus a widow, one couple's teenage daughters and the aclu. governor tom corbett hasn't said if he'll appeal. there's been a flurry of activity just this week. on monday, a judge struck down oregon's same-sex marriage ban. the same day a federal judge ordered utah to recognize 1,000 couples who married b

in utah more than 57% of the state is now under federal control. a al jazeera's paul beban has more from salt lake city. >> reporter: as you hike into recapture canyon you notice the silence. >> we are barelied in the closure. we have come to our first ark logical site. >> reporter: there's evidence that ancient native americans called this home. >> this is what we call an outdoor museum. it's a special place where there's remains of the past. >> recaptured canyon is protected land administered by the federal bureau of land management or b.l.m. in 2007 they closed the canyon to motorized vehicling something that didn't sit well in blanding, where locals don't want to be told what they can or can't do in the canyon. on may 10th the roar of engines fill the air as all-terrain riders took an illegal spin. >> several years into the process, it's ab surd. the b.l.m. should be embarrassed. bill runs the local paper here and says people in these parts are fed up. >> say yes or no, don't drag it out for seven years, or you'll have a situation that happened

utah is appealing a similar decision which was stayed by the u.s. supreme court.d any gay couple who got married in utah before that stay must be granted full legal rights by the state. >>> a short break ahead. a large swiss bank pleads guilty to helping some u.s. citizens dodge their taxes. >> now it is facing a very steep fine. we'll tell you the price. >>> plus, the rain has pretty much stopped in the balkans. >>> is the swiss bank has pleaded guilty. >> they said the illegal activity was the work of a few rogue bankers. as part of a settlement, the bank is expected to pay more than $2.5 billion to u.s. regulators, is not required to provide the name of the u.s. clients involved though. >>> there are no signs of relief for flood victims in the balkans. the region' heaviest flooding in more than a century has claimed at least 26 lives. >> now now land mines leftover from a war that ended 20 years ago. >> reporter: in bosnia, residents and rescuers are facing not only catastrophic floods. they're also facing an added danger. unexploded ordnances left over from th

are getting slammed with snow. 7,000 people lost power in cedar city, utah. dozens of car accidents are blamed on the slappy and icy conditions. the flip side is in the southwest, all about the wind gusting up to 70 miles per hour, toppling trees in texas and in texas, firefighters are already dealing with wildfires due to extremely dry weather. high winds do not help the dry weather. there are increased fire warnings in seven states, some places are facing potentially record temperatures this week. california may top 100 degrees. steph. >> ok, erica pitzi, thank you. campaigning kicked off in syria today for next months presidential elections. bashar al assad is widely expected to win a third term in office. a brutal civil war rages on in syria. >> this video reportedly shot over the weekend shows the latest round of explosions in fighting between rebels and syrian government forces. the june elections are said to be a sham. >> 40 people are dead after a boat sank off north africa. dozens have bodies have been recovered near tripoli. the boat was on its way

of his lasting effects in the fact that 80% of people that live in utah within the stretch between august with the largest city in the middle of the a hund 80,000. the population blooms to 370,000 during the day. a lot of success is by having strong regional partners. the chamber was an advocate for transportation choice and has done amazing regional transportation that has been implemented by our partners and then they utah transit authority that operates in an efficient system. we estimated the impact of the regional transportation is about $7 billion which is amazing. the top is the line that requires some of our collaboration to realize the success i have housing transportation, economic and planning in my department and we were able to collaborate looking at the zoning and the stakeholders and the developers to map out. the first opened up and 99 and connected to the downturn to university of utah and cost about $200 billion today created $1.6 billion in investment and it's still ongoing. but i still want to talk about on of the other line that opened up and it goes along the north t

>> oh, it was utah. >> utah. >> oh, okay, got you. appreciate it. >> okay. see you later. >> president obama says athletes and coaches need to stop playing flu the pain, and pay attention to the risks of concussions. >> we have to change a culture that says you suck it up. identifying a concussion and being able to self-diagnosis that this is something that i need to take care of, doesn't make you weak, it mean use are strong. the white house held a conference calling for more research and better safety equipment. they hope to use the influence influence to report more head injuries. boy that's a big number. allegations of police brutality resulted in new roles for the seattle police department, now some officers are saying those very rules are putting them in danger. and another use for drones science trying to fly them into the most dangerous parts of hurricanes. >> we're here in the vortex. >> saturday, 7:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. seattle police officers say strict use of force regulations are putting their lives at risk. the rules were put

after pressure from utah ramps the bureau of land management will now remove hundreds of wild horses from parched leaning land. paul beban has the latest. >> reporter: it's a round of resistance against the role the federal government in the west. all of this happening in the wake of that armed standoff in nevada last month at the ranch of cliven bundy, over grazing fees for his cattle on federal land. in utah a group of ranchers say the federal government is not doing his job when it comes to controlling wild horses and they are about to take matters into their own hands. they filed a lawsuit asking 200 horses to be rounded up that they want to graze their life stock on. the dlm said it will remove the horses but it may not happen for months or years - it doesn't have the money and on top of that it's holding pens in utah are at capacity. it's holding about 1600 wild horses in the state. now, in southern new mexico another standoff is playing out. otaro country voted to open a gate and give a farmland access to a watering hold fenced off by the forest service, they say it's been the

today should be mostly sunny and warmer in southern utah and southern california.pected. more severe storms are likely in the center of the country. showers and thunderstorms for the south. >> temperatures will approach 90 degrees today in southern california. 80s in the pacific northwest, also in the midwest and east coast. not quite 40 degrees in denver. >>> all right. high school football players always get the cheerleader, right? well, yes. mike ramirez did get to take katli next from the houston, texans squad to his high school prom, but he had to work for it. he asked her on twitter in march. the deal was he would have to get 10,000 retweets of his invitation and 24 hours later he had them. they met for the first time at a local restaurant saturday night before going to prom together. ramirez said he will be smiling for quite a long time. >> he didn't take a cheerleader from high school. he took the cheerleader from the pros. >> the football player gets theç really, really nice, good looking cheerleader from the pros. >> no kidding. >> very cool. >> this is o

there have been instances not just in utah, but instances in other states where there have been booby traps, and it's dangerous. so we have continued our efforts. we continue to run eradication-suppression program. we continue to fund state and local authorities who are, who pledge to go and take enforcement on public lands, and we will continue to do so, and i know you've been very, very supportive in our efforts and want to thank you for that. >> well, thank you. the problem i just described is getting worse for two related reasons. first, with the second highest percentage of federal landownership in my home state, utah sits next to colorado which now has legalized marijuana. the international drug cartels that already had been invading federal land to cultivate illegal drugs will inevitably work to increase supply to meet the increased demand. and secondly, even though your prepared statement says that the administration, quote, continues to steadfastly oppose marijuana legalization, unquote, the justice department announced that it will not challenge the legalization of marijuana

the gentleman from utah is recognized. mr. bishop: reserve.speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from mississippi, the distinguished ranking member of the committee on homeland security, mr. thompson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized for three minutes. mr. thompson: thank you very much. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to this rule that allows for consideration of h.r. 4681, the intelligence authorization act for fiscal years 2014 and 2015. i'm troubled that this -- that 11 amendments were allowed under the rule and many solid amendments that would enhance oversight and transparency were blocked, particularly an amendment by representative gabbard to expand the authority and oversight of the intelligence community by the privacy and civil liberties oversight board. with respect to the underlying bill, i'd like to discuss a number of provisions that deserve to be highlighted. the bi

in utah, for example, more than 57% of the state is under federal control. al jazeera's paul beeban joins us live from salt lake city. paul, what exactly is the point that these ranchers are trying to make here? >> well, good afternoon, morgan. the point they are trying to make is that the federal government, according to them, is intruding on their lifestyle, oppressing them. hear words like tierney tossed around. these people want to use the land the way they see fit, not the way the government sees fit. >> as you hike down into recapture canyon, one of the first things you notice is the silence. >> we are just barrel inside the closu closure. and we have come to our first archeological site. >> all around, there is evidence that ancient native americans called this place home. >> this is what we call an out door museum. it's, you know, it's a special place where there is remains of the past. >> recapture canyon is protected public land administered by the federal bureau of land management or blm. in 2007, the blm closed the canyon to motorized vehicles ca

>> because utah receives a relatively small number of new arrivals on intake days, officers can make process more comfortable for inmates. we found a very different atmosphere at the sprawling and constantly bustling los angeles county jail. >> stand up, spread your feet. shoulder width apart. lift up your left foot, wiggle your toes. >> l.a. county, which is probably one of the largest jail systems in the world, is a completely different experience. >> drop them, turn around. >> and the inmate reception center is gigantic. you know, they get 400 guys a day. 2,000 a week. hands up. hands over in place. reach back. no talking. no laughing. just reach back and pull them apart. spread them wide. >> while intake can be a traumatic experience for new inmates, settling into the day-to-day routine of prison life provides a very different challenge. >> the time isn't hard if you keep yourself busy. you know, it's a point of managing it. you know, you can either manage it, or it can manage you. >> waddell harper and his cellmate, sakha ren, have created ways to break the monotony with the few