i really do. >> utah? >> that's what i said. utahn.nbelievable. >> hello again. >> good to see you. >> curtis and his wife have become sort of a spark in this community as well as in the community of those who came from new orleans. >> curtis and good wendolyn sing in the choir alongside earnest tim commons. >> calvary baptist church has a saturday night choir ♪ earnest also teaches sunday school and since again his new life in utah has earned his master's degree. >> when you look back, it will be 10 years since katrina. >> i know. gray hair. >> can you believe it? it's gone by fast. a lot has happened here i have two different degrees, you know. i had several jobs. but i have grown. that's the most important. i am not stagnant. i could put roots here i have life. i guess the older i become, the wiser i become, so i know when it's time to settle down. >> this native from new orleans found shelter from the storm in the utah desert out of tragedy, loss, a new home. soledad o'brien, salt lake city utah. >> start can over in a strange land

utah. >> start can over in a strange land.t, the keeper of his community stories bearing witness after the storm. ♪ new orleans is a city of great traditions and superstitions. the food, music, madis gras, even voodoo. with all that was sacrificed to the storm, so many homes, it's easy to understand how the spirit of new orleans could have been lost as well. here in the lower 9th ward, we found the keeper of the flame and of the >>. >> when you are involved in this by being a participant, you build a collision and i just decided to be a keeper. i am ronald w lewis, the director of the dance. i have been living here in this life for 37 years. i have been in the lower 9th ward my entire life. this is a piece i did in 1992 when my youngest son was a madis gras indian. these are some of the pieces i took with me when i evacuated. these are typical. they vary in designs and color because each piece is individual. let me tell you, it's like a dress you would buy for a special event. it might make it out of the closibility twice and

poet my angelo was concisely describes utah's commitment to serve -- poet maya angelou describes utah's commitment to serve. "do the best you can until you know better and when you know better, do better." utah believes we can better serve the short and long-term interest of those in need of child welfare. supporting safe care for children in their homes without separating them from their families in foster care is less traumatic and lest costly. the multigenerational approach proves to be more effective on breaking the cycle of reliance on prolonged, expensive government programs. the opportunity to apply for 4e waiver was ideal for utah. our demonstration project was implemented in late 2013 and is being replicated statewide through this year. we are able to invest federal funds to support that has much greater value. not only to keeping children safe with their family, but also to the taxpayers receiving greater return on the dollar. for the average cost of serving one child in a foster care home for one year, we can serve 11 families through homework. through the average cost of ser

in utah, we have taken a national standard and created a utah family and child assessment tool that iscontinuously revisited as engagement tool throughout the lifetime of the case. so when a parent says, i really could use assistance in mental health, i really could use assistance with the substance abuse disorder, that it is revisited.y perhaps the initial interventionist unsuccessful, but they still seek a change result. >> thank you. my concern and asking the question about the caseworkers assessment and touring a part of families as ms. killett spoke about is that ultimately, what we may see in the long run are fewer people calling for help when they need it because of the fear of the breakdown of their family. if you want any closing remarks. my time is actually up. >> thank you, senator. i want to thank each one of you as witnesses are today. you have been really good. each one of you, from ms. killett right on through. somewhatou has brought -- if not important perspective. we're going to see what we can do to help. i want to thank all of the witnesses for appearing today. i als

several facts about utah model i lus i -- utah has one of the low est. the average length of stay for a child is 10.4 months and national average 13.4 months. our system was touted for its effectiveness, we incorrespondence -- incorporated meetings and established and fatality review panel. in recent years we identified the need to build equally to safely keep children with their families reducing the need for foster care. the fact remains that children are best served in homes with families, similar schools and community. the voice of one brave young woman underscores the opportunity that we have to do better. as a young child beth was removed from the neglect of her mom's untreated mental illness. this child was swept into a journey between multiple foster homes, criminal justice system. while asked why she ran away, it was to get to her mother. the positive of final foster father and caseworker influenced in beth graduating from high school and is now enrolled in law school. hearse was a rare success story in that era. we know we can do better. we can

less than two years in utah, ms. williams has overseen successful offers to obtain a federal title for each waiver and the launching of the child welfare demonstration project homework which reduces recurrence of child abuse and neglect and the need for social service intervention. i welcome each of our witnesses to the committee today and as they proceed to opening statements i urge you to keep your remarks to the allotted five minutes if you can. we will start with you. >> good morning. thank you, chairman hatch, ranking member wyden members of the committee for the invitation to be here today. my name is sandra killett, divorced single mother who raised two sons who are now 22 and 20 years of age. i reside in new york city and am currently employed as executive director of the child welfare organizing project. this is a self-help advocacy organization of parents affected a new york city children's services. today i am here to share and they come again from my own experience as a parent impacted by the child protec

indeed, what utah recognized is the expense that it was costing taxpayers of utah for poor outcome for youth, namely extended stays in the foster care and too often in the deepest end of the foster care with residential care. it only cost on average, $2,400 to keep a family together in the home. that much to serve a family, keep children safe and facilitate long-term change. whe whereas average cost of one child in care is $83,000. so the financial logic of focusing on early, in-home intervention services has naturally allowed us to then have these dollars go further because we have reduced our reliance on long-term care. >> thank you. mr. nyby, i am going to thank you for appearing before the committee and for your thoughtful testimony as well. as i indicated in my opening statement i think strongly we should reduce the relines on foster care group homes and we must improve efforts to keep children safe at home and strengthen family-like placements for children and youth when a child cannot remain safely at home. oregon has the lowest rates of foster care children in group homes. can

if you look at utah's list of who's who the only family that was on that list was romney. they didn't show up and aided by table are supported at all. if you are in certain parts of national politics you know you have to pick one team or the other acre she cannot straddle both. >> well, when they were campaigning very high-profile lots of attention on their mormon faith and in the book you describe them as different kinds of mormons. tommy, explained. >> let's start in 2008 mitt romney's first run at the white house critically look at the label as is everyone is running as romney is the only one who was labeled with his religion. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum or former arkansas governor mike huckabee and massachusetts governor mitt romney is a mormon. it was always that kind of thing some that romney had to take this on his own in 2008 and gave the big mormon speech where he said i will not take direction from the lds church ended dog him throughout the campaign. obviously during the nomination but 2012 comes back again. this time around it's a shared word. the

poet mayu described utah's commitment to serve. do the best you can until you know better and when you know better do better. with research social science discovery and evidence of trauma inform care utah believes we can better serve the needs of those in need of child welfare supporting safe care in their homes without separating them from their families is less traumatic and less costly. multiply generation approaches is more effective in breaking cycles of dependent on prolonged expensive government programs. the opportunity to apply for the 4-e waiver was ideal for utah. our program call homework was implemented in 2013 and being used across the state. we invest federal funds toward support with greater value. not only to keeping children safe with their family but to the taxpayers receiving greater return on the dollar. for the average cost of serving one child in a foster care home for one year we can serve 11 families through homework. for the average cost of serving one child in a group setting for one year we can serve 34

i think for people in the city of utah we knew who he was. i think it's hard to realize how popular that made him. here's an example. he was in people's sexiest man alive issue. that is not a joke. and if you ever want to make them embarrassed you can point that out to him. i think what happened is we have olympians who helped him on all of his campaigns after that because it showed a level of hatred to some and a way to -- he led a massive organization. >> i was in college in massachusetts when mitt romney ran against ted kennedy and of course he seemed to be running a times to the left of ted kennedy. obviously of course this is the same guy who for the 2012 election made the speech about how he was a severely conservative governor. in terms, it's interesting you are talking about how he wants to be his father and he wants to follow in his father's footsteps into politics. in your estimation is that the ambition that's driving him much more than the ideology is and he is willing to kind of move around the ideology in order to achieve the pe

a utah police officer's dance moves are going viral.s it will break the gaps between the public and the police. he did a dance in the middle of the convenience store after the clerk heard him singing the song on the radio. the store decided to hand over the footage to his friends at the police department. they are trying to get the officer help soon as possible. >> dances better than i do. i just don't. >> he just stands there. the. >> still ahead in the next half-hour of "action news." claims from the woman who said she tipped off the feds to former subway pitchman, jared fogel. >> and wildfires out west when "action news" continues. >> happening now on "action news," philadelphia bid farewell to chase utley after a 13 year run with the phils. >> it is another soupy start and more showers and thunderstorms could move in tonight. >>> a famous main line restaurant had its troubles go from bad to worse, it turns out a bug problem was just the beginning. >> it is 5:30 on this thursday, let's say hello to david murphy and matt pellman. >> r

the utah genome project is harnessing the power of utah's large families and discovered new disease causing genes for under lying conditions, diabetes, obesity and cancer. these large families accelerate the pace of genetic discovery by magnifying our ability to identify disease causing genes and harnessing these advantages, it seems to me, gains for using these large families and cohorts, i think our folks in utah can make significant contributions to what you're trying to do here. and i would just like to know if you think they would be useful and if i can play a role in getting the university of utah and you to -- i think you are already working together but i think you need to work with that group. >> we are indeed. senator, thank you for the question. utah has been in a wonderful place as far as the ability to do remarkable search in genetics over many decades, that i personally benefited from collaborating with over decades of my own research career. and you're right, you have an unprecedented level of depth in terms of family collections. one of the things that we are going to be wre

in less than two years in her position in utah ms. williamson has overseen the state's successful efforts to obtain a federal tight and the launching of a child well fair project homeworks which aims to reduce the work of foster care, and neglect, and the need for social services intervention. i welcome each of our witnesses to the committee here today. as we proceed to openings statements, i urge you to keep your remarks to the allotted five minutes, if we can. we'll start with you. >> good morning. thank you chairman hatch, ranking member wyden and members of the committee for the invitation to be here today. my name is sandra cole. i'm a divorced single mother who raised two sons who are now 22 and 20 years of age. i reside in new york city, and i'm currently employed as executive director of the child welfare organizing project. this is a self-help organization for -- today i am here to share insights, gain from my own experience as a parent impacted by the child protection system. as well as perspective from hundreds i have worke

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he says the beat got the best of him. >> that's in utah, too. >> got some moves for utah. >> maybe he didn't have any money and he said, i'll dance for it. >> how we doing today? >> that's my theory. >> tell us what to expect later today. >> hot, so warm outside, 88, humid, a couple of pop-up storms north and west. a good chance of thunderstorms as we head towards friday. >> tonight on news 4 new york starting at 5, when a local couple tried to add their second child to their health insurance plan, both kids got dropped stead. i'm only in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, t you may know it only covers about 80% t of your part b medical expens the rest is up to you. ll now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare p supplement insurance plans, it could save you pnin out-of-pocket medical costs. call now to re

indeed, what utah recognized is that the expense that it was costing taxpayers of utah for poor outcomes for youth, namely long stays, extended stays in the foster care system, and too often in the deepest end of the foster care system with residential congregate care. as mentioned, it costs about $2,400 to keep a family stable and together in the home for a year. $2,400 to serve a family, keep children safe, and facilitate long-term behavioral change. whereas the average cost for a year for one child in a congregate care facility is over $83,000. so the financial logic of focusing our services and our efforts on early in-home intervention services has naturally allowed us to then have these dollars go farther because we have reduced our reliance on long-term intensive congregate care. >> well, thank you. mr. nyby? by the way, i think that's -- those are startling figures. mr. nyby, i want to thank you for appearing before the committee and for your thoughtful testimony as well. as i indicated, i believe strongly that we should reduce the reliance on foster care group homes. in order to

particularly affected discount sellers like costco and 1-800-contacts which happen to be based in utah. sreenivasan: often to b optometn actually sell you stufftoo. >> they can introduce patients to new products. they can say this product from johnson and johnson just came on the market, i think it would be great for you. discount businesses won't suggest new products. eye doctors are essential to the manufacturers, and manufacturers want to make sure eye doctors aren't losing business. >> the manufacturers and the eye doctors listen. 1-800-contacts and costco don't have the expertise i do when i sell you something. >> how to put them in yourize and it's serge a medical thing there's definitely something to that. contacts can get kind of expensive so customers are looking for ways to save a little money and they're looking to places like 1-800-contacts. they have actually been able to capture a certain percent of this business now. sreenivasan: what is the state of pay? >> some of the manufacturers have lowered the minimums, this law only applies in utah but because 1-800-contacts is b

border,the nevada-utah near salt lake city. the technique was to load the there ands in b-29's drop them over the salted see where to love it too would pick up the signals from the falling objects. and tel people what was going on insidel the dummy bomb as far as the timing mechanisms, whether they were functioning correctly. 1945, i wasprin gof one of those sent to went over -- wendover. with, we.a.d. i worked set up a laboratory on the field to initiate this testing program. and also to educate some of the army officer so they could carry it on after we left. so that was my first exposure and all-29's and bombs

i know that even in utah, where people think diverse the means presbyterian, we had this growing groupf latino families coming in, and if i could speak way that- it was a they went home and told their moms and dads, the teacher can speak spanish. they felt more comfortable coming to me and asking a question. you are right. research shows that connection is vital. one of the things that the national education association has focused on is the importance of having a diverse teacher corps and support staff in the school. uck into that. forgivenessoan programs. what about going on a college campus where students are spending a lot of money -- that is another question -- but a lot of these college students who might have been convinced to be teachers are going, i will never off my money as a teacher, when i could make double going into almost any other profession. what theoking at local, state, and national government can do in loan forgiveness programs. what if you were to say to someone who could be anything they wanted, be a teacher, we are looking for teachers who can connect with peopl

i was teacher of the year in utah, and i know why. it had nothing to do a test scores. it was because i went above and beyond to make sure that i had interesting and engaging lessons , that i contacted parents, i kept kids after school to help tutor them on my own time. i held myself to really high standards and i said, i have to be accountable for giving these kids everything that is in me. and that really, really good word, since "no child left" has come to mean, if you do not have the cut score, you get punished. you get threatened. you are supposed to be afraid because fear or greed maybe get a prize. that is how we motivate teachers. people who think that do not understand teachers. they do not understand educators. they do not understand anyone who wants to work with children, so accountable is a good word when you say, and when we see something that is not working, you are supposed to intervene. you are supposed to analyze that data and say we see something that is not working. what is our plan? how do we analyze that data and say, what do you know? we have a sig

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

. >>> now to a wild car chase on an interstate in utah.ver weaving in and out of traffic. >> at one point even going the wrong way before the highway patrol took extreme measures to end the chase. kayna whitworth has the details. >> reporter: watch this wrong way driver in utah turning around nearly hitting the police car and weaving her way back through oncoming trafficking. >> she just passed me. 21st street northbound wrong way. >> ignoring police lights and sirens monday afternoon. >> still going the wrong way. traffic's all the way down to a standstill. >> reporter: police know they had no other choice. >> we have to get her stopped one way or another because the outcome is going to be tragic. >> you want me to try and ram her into the wall? >> reporter: cops rapping the car not once but twice. >> i rammed her. she's upside down. >> she got out of her vehicle on foot and tried to carjack a few other cars in the area, tried to escape our troopers. they took her into custody. >> reporter: the driver natalie peterson who they believe was

then it goes up into utah and then comes back down and eventually into colorado. that is part of arizona. intoit hits a little bit california. dumps outlks out -- into mexico. all through there, the people, since there is such scarce water, the people all along that line deep end on the water. and my people are. they farm. that is their lifeline. there are also livestock people. that is ruined, for them. there is a potato farm that the navajo tribe has that they make potato chips out of. that is all going to be ruined. if these people, that is their water. that is what they use every day. host: have you talked to friends or relatives back there? caller: i have. do they feeln comfortable to use this water again? caller: just as other people have said, the epa always gives this wonderful language that they speak among themselves and talk among themselves. points, if you please allow me, you know how uranium is prevalent in the navajo reservation. during world war ii, we would not have won the war without all that uranium. uranium tailings left open. in the 1950's, p

possible animal abuse charges. >>> a man is rescued after spenlding the night lost in a forest in utah. >> reporter: this morning, malaki bradley is back in the arms of his family. >> how do you feel right now pretty good. >> bradley was camping with his family in the remote mountains two miles east of salt lake city, when he went out to gather mushrooms and got lost. >> didn't have anything bad happen to me except tripping and getting a few cuts. >> the boy is just 10 years old using survival smarts he got from his dad. the temperatures dropped to the 30s and he used rocks for a shelter and huddled and side of his jacket to keep warm and used the jacket to filter water to drink. >> i thought if i was in an open space, the helicopters could find me, so i sat there most of the day. looking for helicopters. >> find them they did. a ride on a rescue chopper bringing his 24 hour ordeal to an end. >> he looks like he was through a rough time which he was, and he is okay, that is the bottom line, so exciting, such a relief. >>> more breaking news out of delaware county, glenolden, chopper 6

contaminating tributaries in new mexico, arizona, and utah. preliminary tests on the river have found little if any danger to fish and wild life. now the e.p.a. is toasting the water downstream from the spill site. and residents and businesses should still stay cautious avoided showering any kind of bodily contact. don't let livestock drink it. >> 95% of my business has been swept away. and we with have about 23 employees that are currently out of work wail, the state of emergency has been declared in colorado and new mexico, today, colorado's governor pay add visit to one of the areas there are thousands of abandoned mines in the state, and he says he is work withing to make sure this never happens again. >> with with the e.p.a., the state is going to go through each one, and bring that assessment up to date, some of those are 20 years old, there are over 20 with thousand mines so we are clear the frame of the probable it is significant. >> dan olsen is the executive director, and he says abandon mines on the west have been wreaking havoc on

the contamination reached montezuma creek in southern utah and is headed for lake powell. it is a major vacation spot that attracts several million visitors per year. >> a river stained with toxic chemicals, a growing disaster that's shutting off a national treasure and poisoning some people's wells. >> i am here on my property and i cannot shower. i can't cook. i cannot do anything with the water from my water well. we came out here together and we looked at the river and we tried. >> an ecology it will catastrophe, sludge trying to the river in southwest colorado, three times more than first thought. >> the magnitude of it was -- you can't even describe it. >> created accidentally by the people responsible for guarding natural resources. the environmental protection agency was trying to plug a leak in an abandoned gold mine. instead, crews disturbed loose lock lodged in the mine, releasing contaminated water down a river popular with kayakers and rafters. as of monday morning, it was still gushing 550 glance a minute, sending a steady stream of mustard colored heavy meta

. >>> in utah a bizarre police chase was captured on dash cam video. police say a woman believed to be high on drugs was driving on the wrong side of an interstate. the woman allegedly tried to run over a trooper and began driving in circles before a police cruiser was able to roll her suv. the suspect then fled on foot and allegedly tried to carjack several other is vehicles. police say it took five troopers to sub dew the woman who weighs only about 100 pounds. >>> the blazes across the western states have caused local fire officials to call for help from across the globe. more than 70 fire managers from australia and new zealand are on the ground in the northwest as local officials warn they could not keep up with the spread of the flames in washington, 200 military members are battling the wildfires. and the state is calling for civilian volunteers, who can operate heavy machinery. washington has announced the fires are the worst in the state's history. officials are worried the blazes could continue into november. >>> this morning, sad news on the

three million gallons of toxic waste is pushing down two rivers that cross colorado, new mexico and utah. this was the animus river in colorado, but now look at it after a crew working for the e.p.a. last wednesday accidentally breeched a dam holding heavy metals used in gold mining. the governor of colorado has oclared a disaster. mireya villarreal is on the story. >> how far are you? pe reporter: by 7:00 a.m., people were already lined up at this farmington, new mexico, water testing site. >> so if ours is dirty, everything downstream is dirty. ir reporter: they brought water by the gallon and the jug. >> at this point until we get any result, we're saying don't use the water. , reporter: residents like carl cliffs also brought a little anger and frustration. >> i think something should be done and the people that are responsible should have to do tomething for it. >> reporter: the e.p.a. says the plume of the spill has traveled more than 100 miles through parts of colorado and new mexico since wednesday and is headed for utah next. but the source of the spill, this abandoned gold mine

the companies are suing to overturn a law in utah from banning minimum prices.f their argument is rejected that could lead to more states adopting similar laws. official in utah say that could lower prices by as much as 35% nationwide. >>> trick or treat? it's a little early for halloween but folks in a sacramento neighborhood are wondering about a van advertising free candy. >> what's up with that? the neighborhood kids were happy about it, of course, and curious. one 12-year-old took a picture. parents, suspicious. >> nervous about it. i want to get evidence if anything happens. >> it's very ominous as far as looks like blood. and just a creepy white van with no windows in the back. >> the mystery solved. the van headed for burning man the big festival in the nevada desert where freebies are celebrated. >>> it is 4:56. the caltrans engineer playing golf while on the clock and that's just part of wasteful spending found in a state audit of state agencies. >> reporter: san jose police need your help to find a driver who hit and killed a woman and le,,,,,,,,,,,,,

it happened in ogden utah. highway patrol clips the bumper but the driver keeps going zigzagging across multiple lanes of traffic. the trooper goes after the car again. this time hitting it directly causing cat to roll but the crazy scene doesn't end there. the driver gets out of the car and runs across the interstate. troopers say that she tried to hitch a ride with a stopped semi truck. they wrestled her to the ground. she was probably under the influence of drugs. >>> julie watts is in today for paul deanno getting a check of the weather. you were saying earlier there is rain in the forecast. >> just a little bit of rain. how's that for a tease? i won't get it until the end of the forecast. in the meantime plenty of sunshine outside right now. starting to see those clouds move in. san bruno current temperatures 67 degrees. 90 in livermore. 66 san francisco. 76 right now in san jose. definitely warming up. really what you see today is what we saw yesterday and we'll get a little more of the same tomorrow. hig

and the nav show nation up in utah and lake powell. they will get the sources and when to use it, et cetera. >> all right, allen. new mexico, colorado's governor is trying to reassure his constituents that the water from the animus river is safe to drink. john hickenlooper took a swig of the water from the river yesterday and he put anaeo dine tablet. it was called irresponsible. and he said hickenlooper may as well have lit 15 cigarettes at once. they have affected more ground realize in the county. and that's at the epicenter of the impact. people living within a mile and a half of the river are advised to get their water tested as a precaution. the toxic spill is not just a problem for colorado and new mexico. we'll talk about how all of the waterways are interconnected across the southwest. >>> the death toll stands at 50 after several explosions in a warehouse in tianjin, china, and dozens are missing. talking more about the environmental impact of the explosions >> reporter: the heart of one of china's most important economic hub

and that's the massive reservoir on the border of utah and arizona. and again, the stuff making the river look like tang. the orange colors are settling to the bottom of the rivers, and hopefully will not settled before they get to lake powell, but they will be stirred up by storms. the colorado system is the life blood of the whole american southwest. life would not exist without the colorado. it's the only major river in the region, and it stretches more than 1400 miles from the rockies all the way to the gulf of california. 40 million people, and 22 native american tribes rely on it for drinking and farming and tourism. [ audio difficulties ] acres of farmland, the system produces $26 billion from recreational activities alone. we heard about the rafting and finishing, and it will have a massive ripple effect on the region. >> let's ask questions about this. paul, bob deans is with us now, and he's the director of strategic engagement at the natural resources defense council and he joins us from washington. bob, good to have you on the program. [ a

and there in utah, dark storm clouds in the skies above the salt lake valley. that severe weather is on the move tonight, targeting parts of the central planes and the mississippi valley. >>> but the most damaging storm on the planet tonight, tropical storm duesoudelor slamming into taiwan with winds up to 120 miles an hour. killing at least six people so far, leaving behind a trail of devastation and that's where we find abc's neal karlinsky tonight. >> reporter: tonight, taipei streets are an obstacle course. thousands of fallen trees and street lights. twisted pieces of sheet metal are everywhere. the winds, dangerous. okay, bad place to be. let's move on down. here, about a half dozen homes have been evacuated because they're worried about mudslides. typhoon soudelor blasted across taiwan with 120-mile-per-hour winds and sheets of rain. two to as much as four feet in some areas. so powerful, we had trouble trying to capture the typhoon's force on camera. 3 million homes were without power for a time. by midday, several people had to be rescued from homes cu

the waste water, creeping toward utah. and officials saying it contains materials heavy metals, including lead and arsenic. the acidity in some areas, as strong as black coffee. the epa has warned people to stay out of the river. mary bruce, abc news, new york. >> thank you. >>> also tonight, we're remembering frank gifford. he earned nearly every honor there was to in football, and was also a sports caster. >> reporter: from the 1950s onward, frank gifford was off. >> hello, everyone. frank gifford with al michaels and dan dierdorf. >> reporter: achieving his greatest moments of celebrity with abc's "monday night football." on the broadcast team for 26 years. his chemistry with don meredith and howard cosell was wonderful. it was football that made gifford a star. beginning in college, and then 12 seasons with the new york giants, where he was made an icon of the era. >> i was out of the ordinary, i was from california, my nose wasn't broken, i had all my teeth. i paid a price for it on the field, until i proved i could h

>> from a bad tow in snowy new hampshire to a quick-freeze incline in utah.s of drivers are caught off guard, turning a residential road into a downhill demolition derby. >> look out, lady! >> watch out! >> just 18 miles north of salt lake city, bountiful utah is built into the foothills of the wasatch mountains. because snow is so common, most locals know how to handle driving in it. but on january 21st, 2012, freak rain in bountiful makes route 400 conditions worse than usual, according to longtime resident, dave kitchen. >> it was just pouring rain. what you'd normally see in late spring some place. then it changed to snow, just like started out with like a layer of slush, and then the temperature dropped fast enough that that slush just turned to ice. i've never seen anything like that here. >> and as heavy snowfall covers the icy road, neighbor rhee braby just happens to be videotaping at the right time. >> my parents were in the caribbean and my dad just -- i just got off the phone with my dad and he was telling me how great the weather was there. so i

ut utah attorney general shawn reyes is looking at a lawsuit against the government.first start with how safe is the water? if you listen to the epa, they say it's no big deal, getting better by the day. this was a minor blip. was it? >> leland, this is like the ancient greeks. they had a fascination with tragedy and irony and this is a tragic situation in terms of both the short term disruption to people's lives and businesses and potentially love stock crops, the environment. very little is it the environmental protection agency that is responsible for this spill, millions of gallons of poisonous materials into our waterways. >> ordinarily it would be the job of the e.p.a. to investigate a spill like this if it happened from a couple or like that. dupuis the excavation can be dorn previously? >> that could be part of the process. any self-examination by an agency is acceptable, but i believe that we have to have an independent outside body that looks at the epa. it's not enough to do a self-investigation. i've spoken to a few senators, there has to be some oversight

i believe we should extrapolate from utah's innovation as a model for all states. when you ask a child who has been in foster care about how to improve the system, often the answer is, you could have helped my mom. when a child cannot remain anothert home, alternative is to locate a fit and willing relative for the child. in recent years, congress has taken steps to increase these outcomes. in fostering connections to success and increasing adoptions act, congress allowed states to get federal reimbursement for certain kinship placements. now allowed to get federal incentives for increases in kinship placements. congress has strongly signaled that kinship placements should be a priority, but challenges still remain. today, we will hear about these barriers and suggestions to make these placements more prevalent. is looking to introduce legislation that will allow federal funds to be used to help families stay together. i look forward to working on legislation that will reduce the reliance on federal foster care homes. i hope to have a committee markup of this legis

seeing harbaugh and utah. last year ranked in top 25.on goes on, schedule on fox sports 1 for college football will get better. >> going to be like any other season, any other sport. >> what a great season we have ahead. mainly because we have you. >> you're too kind. >> you bring excitement to everything. where does that come from, voice, cadence, passion? >> i'm a loud guy from detroit that loves sports. i can't believe they pay know do this. every time i step in the broadcast booth, i'm on bonus coverage. it's really fun. i love my job. thank you. >> got to get you out there. >> he's toured the sports department. this is fun. hard to believe it's already college football time. and action. elisabeth and brian. >> hut, hut, hut go. . look at her. great knees. great knees. brian looking athletic as well. he spins to get there. the fire. go one more. elisabeth has got a great arm. how about that? high five. >> coming up, this is not the suspect officers expected to run into. the story behind the ultimate bear hug. "fox & friends" live are

west and central pacific, started on the west coast and was moving east -- east and they met up at utah and that's well -- really what propels us even farther. we become that point of moving west, one of the gateways to the west of the that is what the railroad did for omaha. this facility came about as the second union station to help the railroad traffing -- travel, owl -- all the passengers coming through omaha. the first railroad station had reached capacity. this was heralded as a step forward for ome open. it was a brand-new, art deco style building. the first was neoclassical. it was in vogue in 1931. so they decided to raze the old one to the ground and build this new one to show the nation that omaha had arrived as far as act itecture. the height of the railroad was 64 trains war ii, coming and going. you would see trains and then dead silence. they would have great times of activity and people running back and forth and then just dead calm and then it would pick back up again. that would have been kind of the norm for a day at union station. we preserved the main hall, the mai

i do charity work through the university of utah.has contributed to the university of utah toward my i'll be leaving in a week to do cataract surgery in haiti. he is a generous man. but that's a little different than buying and selling politicians, giving to the university of utah eye center. >> then it was the exchange we just saw it it got heated and maybe a little nasty, between you and new jersey governor chris christie over government surveillance. look you may or may not be right on the merits. i'm not asking you about that senator. politically, when there is this growing wave of lone wolf terrorists when people are more and more frightened that there may be the enemy at home isn't the argument that we don't want surveillance or the kind of surveillance we have isn't that a tough argument to make to voters? >> well you know i actually want more surveillance of suspected terrorists. i just want to obey the fourth amendment, which says you have to name the terrorist. you have to have suspicion and you ask a judge. on all of the i

sent to utah for basic training. and then after that, after wasc training, the army just starting their specialized training program. of so, i was taken out regular army units and sent to astp, the unit in what is now carnegie mellon. then carnegie tech in pittsburgh. and i was, i had the choice of going into four different areas. chemical engineering, electoral engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering. -- already taken most of the concentrated very heavily on chemistry and physics and mathematics in my undergraduate work. could learng -- i something and was electrical engineering, so i opted for that. so, eventually, that program, 944, the january of 1044 pressures for manpower were being felt in the army. so they disbanded most of the aftp across the country. pals went off to the 95th infantry. then were subsequent part of the european enterprise. there were a number of us left behind. s one of those, sent to los alamos to work as basically the technician. so that was in december, 1944. so, there i wa

>> because utah receives a relatively small number of new arrivals on intake days, officers can make the 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, was 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. bend 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

on the west here coast and were moving east and they met up with utah.hat propels us even farther, we become that point of moving west, one of the gateways to the west. that's what the railroad is for omaha. this facility came about as the second union station to help realm travel, all the passengers coming to omaha. the first union station has reach capacity so they needed a new and modern station. it was heralded as a step forward for omaha. the first one was neoclassical. the art deco style was invoked in 1931. they decided to build this new thatand show the nation omaha had sort of arrived as far as architecture. at the height of real travel was during world war ii, 1946, and that was about 10,000 people a day. there has just been a hub of activity and what you would have seen, people coming and going and then dead silence. they would have these great times of activity and people running back and forth and then just that calm and then it would pick rack up again. that would have been the norm for a day at union station. we've preserved the floors tha