a third of americans now live in wilderness areas often near cities. the fortners know the risk of rebuilding. >> what can happen will happen. it's just a matter of time. >> reporter: and you'll build again in the forest? >> right on the same property. >> reporter: this is the scene of a fire last year that destroyed some 350 homes, but -- and caused half a billion dollars damage. but as you can see, scott, people are back rebuilding with no guarantee that the exact same thing won't happen again. >> pelley: it's worth noting, barry, that the u.s. spent $3 billion fighting fires last year. thanks very much. nasa has chosen new astronauts who could one day travel to mars. that story's coming up. hmph! [ female announcer ] charmin ultra soft is made with extra cushions that are soft and more absorbent. plus you can use four times less. charmin ultra soft. plus you can use four times less. if you've got it, you know how hard it can be to breathe and man, you know how that feels. copd includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. spiriva is a once-daily inhale

>> we are entering the preserve. >> he says we are fetishizing this wilderness, but the real wildernessld have looked completely different from this. >> we can never get back to something that george's fantasizing about. >> you seem to be saying that it requires human intervention to manage the ecosystem. george seems to say we can let the ecosystem do it itself. >> that is the traditional view of rewilding, which is not appropriate to the uk landscape. >> why not? >> spaces like this play a hugely important function for society. if we let this area here go completely back to three cover, for example, the bog would dry up. we would not be able to store water, would not be able to clean water. erode and carbon would be released into the atmosphere. it would be hugely detrimental. ♪ rewilding areof not just talking about getting rid of sheep. theyant to bring back species, including these. [wolf howling] >> they are very bottom heavy. they are missing most of the top. we are only beginning to discover how certain's -- how important species are. wolves are a very effective ecosystem engine

and the saltway britter root wilderness in the state of idaho and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from utah, mr. bishop, and the gentleman from the northern mariana islands, mr. sablan, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from utah. mr. bishop: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. bishop: mr. speaker, this bill was a great bill the first time we passed it, the second time we passed it and it is still a great bill and it's necessary for the good people of idaho and i would yield as much time as he may consume to the gentleman from idaho, mr. simpson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. simpson: i thank the gentleman from utah for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.r. 876, the idaho wilderness water resources protection act. this bipartisan noncontroversial legis

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remote expanses of our country to back yard wildernesses closer to home. the wood-pawcatuc wadder shed is such a place. its rivers are within a 45 minute drive of every rhode islander, easily accessible for family outings and school field trips. passage of this act b will allow for study for -- of sections of the beaver, queen, wood, and pawcatuck river for potential ategs to the national wild and scene exrivers system. rhode island and connecticut have long been stewards of this rivers and i hope completion of this study will affirm what we rhode islanders already know, that the pawcatuc and its tribute tears possess outstanding recreational, natural and historic qualities that make them worthy of the designation in the wild and scenic rivers. we are eager to share this natural treasure with the rest of new england and the nation. watershed catuck offers trout fish, canoeing, and bird photography, with adjy sent hiking and camping for sportsmen. they're in the only part of our heritage, they're a critical part of our tourism industry and the economy. this

it was pretty scary. >> it was very scary. >> reporter: in desperation, the wilders went down in ther house and started writing. the e-books which she self-published a series of steamy romance models started picking up buzz on the internet and quickly earned them enough to meet their $1,200 a month mortgage payment. >> so we started writing like mad. in six months we put out 20 titles. >> 20 titles? >> yeah, i think we showered three times. >> reporter: with each book, their sales climbed higher. then this spring, a romance called "falling into you" about a girl's whose first love dies suddenly jumped on "the new york times" best-seller list. jasinda was out driving with her kids the day it hit number one on amazon. >> i was crying hysterically. >> she called me unintelable. i said you have to slow down and tell me in short sentences what happened. >> i'm like i -- >> reporter: the wilders asked us to use their pen names because they've been overwhelmed with success. in less than a year, they sold over 1 million e-books. >> how often do you think about that? >> we're saying our praye

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. >> she took the corpse to wilderness taxideterminey. the owner says he could freeze dry the animal. deborah paid 7 $50 and left it there. that was the last she saw of sweet pea. >> i didn't hear from him. i called. well, she's still in the machine. >> a year went by. then two years then, three. he kept saying sweet pea wasn't ready yet. however, another three years went by. she still didn't have her pet or her $750. >> this guy can't just take money and pet and say whatever. >> we contacted wilderness taxes easedeterminey. the owner tells us the machinery had broken down. he'd kept the lizard until he can get it fixed. however,' agreed to send the animal back and refund the money z sure enough, deborah received a check for $750 and a box with the frozen remains of sweet pea, which we won't show you but it was a strangely happy reunion. >> feels great to see here she tells us i'm just happy deborah is happy when i get the machine back she'll be the first in line to get her pet mounted. now she has a resting place in the kitchen freezer.

where a violent narco war rages to deep inside the california wilderness where a new front is opening up. i join an elite group of investigators as they work to bring down mexican drug trafficking organizations. >>i got them in front of us, they're running. >>operating here in the us. >>when that marijuana is grown here in california and crosses state lines, the mark up is unbelievable. california bud right now is the marijuana that people are looking for. (adam)it's an early spring morning, and i'm heading out for a patrol in the mountains of northern california with mavmit, the mountain and valley marijuana investigation team. this new task force was created to do something that has never been done before. target the big criminal organizations that control most of the marijuana trade in the united states. >>we do a lot of rural patrolling where we infiltrate drug trafficking organization cultivating marijuana. our overall goal is to dismantle these groups. through aerial reconnissance mavmit commander roy giorgi and his team have identified what they believe to be a large marijuana

. >> in the line between that is so natural, you can see birds and be in complete wilderness. i really like that about this. you could maybe get a little snapshot of what they are expecting. >> it is an interactive, keck sculpture that is interacted with by the visitor. >> they are a lot about and they fall down the belt. it moves the belt up, and if you turn that faster, the butterflies fall in the move of words. >> the art reflect the commission's commitment to acquiring the best work from the bay area and beyond. in addition to the five new commissions, 20 artworks that were already in the airport collection were reinstalled. some of which were historically cited in the terminal. it includes major sculptures by the international artists. as a collection, these art works tell the story of the vibrant arts scene in the early 1960's through the mid-1980s's. the illustrate san francisco's cultural center and a place of innovation that is recognized and the love throughout the world. one of the highlights is a series of three left tapestries. they are on view after being in stor

you're out in the wilderness. you go to the bathroom in the dark. >> what do you do?oilet paper. >> no, you don't. turn off the lights! can we? >> i don't know. >> is it working? >> it glows a little bit. it is lard to see in here because it has to be really, really dark. >> we're going to have to take your word for it just like the water thing. >> we'll send it back to the lab and get it back to you. >> all right. we're going to have to take her word for it. >> it's hard to see in the studio. >> we're going to have to take her word for it. >> we believer! >> don't you trust me? >> this is the geo trackering device. it reads your satellite so it will work where your cell phone doesn't. it has a compass, will download maps so you can check out everything on the trail. when you get back you can upload your information to the garmin website. and relive your trip. >> i think she meant that for you. >> i don't know how to read a compass. >> have you all heard anything she said the entire time? now we're out of time. >> no, we're not out of time yet! >> well, we sort of are

. >> she took the corpse to wilderness taxideterminey.says he could freeze dry the animal. deborah paid 7 $50 and left it there. that was the last she saw of sweet pea. >> i didn't hear from him. i called. well, she's still in the machine. >> a year went by. then two years then, three. he kept saying sweet pea wasn't ready yet. however, another three years went by. she still didn't have her pet or her $750. >> this guy can't just take money and pet and say whatever. >> we contacted wilderness taxes easedeterminey. the owner tells us the machinery had broken down. he'd kept the lizard until he can get it fixed. however,' agreed to send the animal back and refund the money z sure enough, deborah received a check for $750 and a box with the frozen remains of sweet pea, which we won't show you but it was a strangely happy reunion. >> feels great to see here she tells us i'm just happy deborah is happy when i get the machine back she'll be the first in line to get her pet mounted. now she has a resting place in the kitchen freezer. >> he can m

they sky dive into potentially deadly combustion wilderness. >> reporter: we watched them jump into this canyon in colorado. after they land, their equipment is attached to their own parashoot. >> you find the hand pulls we use for fighting fires. generally shovels. >> reporter: the smoke jumpers who work for the u.s. department of agriculture in the interior are water, sleeping bags in the cargo boxes because they may be in the wilderness for 48 hours while hauling gear on their back. >> weighs between 120 and 140 pounds and we'll hike out of the situation. >> reporter: the fires in colorado are unpredictable and relentless but there are other ways to get hurt including lightning and bad parachute landings. >> i had a branch of a tree puncture me and come through the pelvis and the person i was with was a trained paramedic. >> reporter: they clear fuels with the equipment and digging fire lines. also building backfires to stop the wildfires in their tracks. they have to get along with each other because their lives depend on relying with each other. are there times you're fearful? >> al

they sky dive into potentially deadly combustion wilderness. >> reporter: we watched them jump into this canyon in colorado. after they land, their equipment is attached to their own parachute. >> you find the hand pulls we use for fighting fires. generally shovels. >> reporter: the smoke jumpers who work for the u.s. department of agriculture in the interior are water, sleeping bags in the cargo boxes because they may be in the wilderness for 48 hours while hauling gear on their back. >> weighs between 120 and 140 pounds and we'll hike out of the situation. >> reporter: the fires in colorado are unpredictable and relentless but there are other ways to get hurt including lightning and bad parachute landings. >> i had a branch of a tree puncture me and come through the pelvis and the person i was with was a trained paramedic. >> reporter: they clear fuels with the equipment and digging fire lines. also building backfires to stop the wildfires in their tracks. they have to get along with each other because their lives depend on relying with each other. are there times you're fearful? >> al

a vast expanse of wilderness considered to be the last frontier. for many this comes with a price -- the loss of freedom. in the next hour of "lockup," we go inside spring creek, alaska's only maximum security prison. a little more than 100 miles south of anchorage is seward, one of alaska's oldest towns. it is surrounded by water and the majestic surroundings. in the middle of the scenic beauty is a correctional facility that houses the most violent offenders. >> i'm a pimp on the street. you know what i'm saying? me and my girl, she didn't come back with the money on time so, you know, she got smashed. >> i was robbing a hotel in alaska and ended up getting in a fight with two people and hitting one of them with a hammer, a lot. >> they were like, what's going on, why are you killing me? i didn't say nothing to them or talk about it to them, i just did it, you know. and threw them into the bay. >> 500 inmates are housed on 328 acres of land which is surrounded by national park. alaska is the nation's largest state but it has the smallest prison p

hitchcock and george stevens and a few of those, william wilder started that thing of using an actoror twice and then after they have established them wanting new material so again it would lend more believability to a role if the star was not known. if the lead rather were not known. very often if you will notice that the academy awards are given to people who are not established because they seem more believable. >> when alfred hitchcock died in 1980 at the age of 80. bob mackenzie brought us this obituary. >> reporter: hitchcock's death this morning ended a happy life and happy career. he was a craftsman and specialist. he was the acknowledged master of the form. one reason for hitchcock's success maybe was that the director himself always had a marvelous time. he was a performer himself. >> the victim tumbled and fell with a horrible crash. her back broke immediately as it hit the floor. it's difficult to describe the way that the twisting of the -- >> there was another hitchcock trademark the cool blond heroine. i prefer the icy looking school teacher type. after all when she ma

than a million people are spread out over its three million square kilometers of space it's a vast wilderness but it's not for drivers paradise well it might be my very first rally but we're not doing anything by halves because of the larry and i are going to one of the world's most inhospitable places along one of its most infamous roads the poll of cold along the road of bones. we were heading to. the coldest inhabited place on the planet this small frozen town once recorded the temperature of minus seventy one point two degrees celsius. we had a thousand kilometers to go and three days to do its. military has been making this journey for five years for. the most important thing is to be on. speed driving well it doesn't really matter very much. as you are arriving ahead of time. as well as for being behind your allotted time we have to follow the legend if it says fifty kilometers an hour we keep to the speed limit of fifty. because of the treacherous conditions the main aim of the rally is to arrive in one piece and from the first to the last speed. we had around four hundred. times with

this atrocity could be left behind a lean-to in this utopian forest, one of the last great wilderness areas in the eastern part of the united states, even then. and the question of the moment was, who on earth did they think would clean up after them? who was going to carry all the stuff out? and the possibility of just letting go of stuff and assuming someone would then pick it up, that question would succeed and it stayed with me from that moment. i guess i could say it composted a little bit. [laughter] it grew into the larger questions that pervade the book. >> where does trash, garbage in manhattan, go? how far away from the city? >> trash from manhattan does not go that far away. it crosses the hudson river to a waste energy facility near newark. it becomes energy that is sold to the communities adjacent to the facility. if you want to know about trash from other parts of new york, other boroughs, it does go far afield. some goes by train. some goes by truck. it goes to pennsylvania, ohio, virginia. one of the carolinas. it goes very far away. >> why? >> we have nowhere to put i

we did overnight survival training in the wilderness. big fun. big, big fun. little on the way to the bathroom. survival training? is that like camping? uh-huh. except you don't have food or water, and they don't have a sunset sabbath service like they do at camp hess-kramer. do you sleep in tents? no. i slept in a hole i dug in the ground with my bare hands. and at some point during the night, an armadillo crawled in and spooned me. poor baby. but i did it. i survived. i wasn't sure i was going to when the sandstorm hit. just pulled my turtleneck up over my head and waited for death. but somehow, as i sat there, wrapped in a cocoon of my own neck-sweat, i found that primal part of the human spirit that just wants to keep on living, no matter what the cost. you're so brave. i'm proud of you. i ate a butterfly. it was so small... and beautiful... but i was so hungry. are you crying? no, i don't think it's possible. i'm severely dehydrated. my pee is like toothpaste. howie, if you're not able to do this, come home. it won't change how i feel about you. thanks, h

he tells them to stay out of the gang, and that we have officers with a wilderness program. there are a number of things in the organization in place to start to make change. we have seen this over the last three or four years. in 2008 there were 98 homicides in san francisco. the number is now almost half. i think we continue to see that, as we work with the community. in closing, i want to say that your task force, they do an amazing job. they have the community aspect of this. they're out on the streets, and we will continue to build those relationships as long as we have this in place. thank you. [applause] >> gino, you grteew up in the ba area. -- bay area. how do you determine the gang? and what makes a person a gang member. >> we grew up in the city of richmond. we are known for violence. i looked at this as being part of a gang. the term "gang" is manifested through the media, and law enforcement for numbers. it was more of a community. i did not go to school and meet somebody. i lived on this block and this is where my grandmother's house was, or i was born and rais

up for an hour, right" the fourth has been home to such notable residents as spencer tracy, gene wildert years concealing a dark secret: he's from wisconsin. milwaukee, of course, was the locale of the iconic sitcoms happy days and laverne and shirley, two grown women who work in a factory and live together as roommates. come on. i think we know what that l stands for. i mean schlemiel, schlimazel or as they call it scissoring. the fourth is also home to major league baseball's milwaukee brewers in recognition of the city's beer industry and if you drink enough of their signature product, every night is bobblehead night. and who has the squiggies to represent the fourth? it's none other than five-term congresswoman gwen moore. i sat down with congresswoman moore in her washington office. congresswoman moore thank you so much for talking with us today. >> thanks for having me. stephen: tell me about the fightin' fourth. >> i can tell you it is one of the most diverse districts in the state of wisconsin. >> stephen: you are the first african-american and the second woman in congress from

today is it is the birthday of the late jacques cousteau and gene wilder whoa is still alive call your agent gene, get back in the game. this is "viewpoint." >> john: i'm john fuglesang. this is "viewpoint." thank you so much for joining us tonight. our polarized political world is splitting again over the government surveillance programs revealed by edward snowden. and snowden himself. while president obama insists that every member of congress was briefed on the national security agency's telephone records, surveillance and the massive internet monitoring program known as prism some members of congress, including representative keith ellison of minnesota, my guest in a few moments, say they knew almost nothing about it. as for weather americans need to be kept in the dark about those programs and their impositions on everyone's privacy so long as they keep us safe, white house press secretary jay carney outlined the president's position. >> he believes that we must strike a balance between our security interests and our desire for privacy. he believes, as commander in chief, that the

i feel suddenly vulnerable alone in the wilderness. as if by magic a man appears from the sands to help us out perhaps this is the renowned desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the men who maintain the highway once they were all soldiers and saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. them without knowing who we ought to make room for us to share that. with out of the massive take iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue. remember your family was taken hostage and she deserves it. you horrible new days when they called people who ran away they were simply hang out with them one on one i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough talk insanity days a soldier was paid two thousand dinos less than the bank he was carrying was worth we can definitely say we were really miserable. not rock the boat. the highway splits the desert and on each side of the road to bask in the vast oil fields of rumaylah. more than half of iraqi production is pumped from this burning desert a treasure chest within the sound. shell b.p. ex

you can pretend you're lost in the wilderness. the museums, opera, that you can be an elitist. free street entertainment that you can feel like a commoner. the many coffee shops where you can sip coffee for over an hour, recite bad poetry and smell bad. the board of supervisors public comment where you can get two minutes to give us your 2 cents worth of enlightenment and sing. the pretty streetses where you can find discolored items that you have been looking for for years. the new farmers markets where real farmers can't afford to shop. fisherman's wharf, pier 39 and the cable car, tourists come to visit. the beautiful wondrous engineering feat of golden gate bridge and the bay bridge. the [speaker not understood] emporium shopping centers where the rich come to shop and the poor come to watch. and, of course, the castro where you can be liberated from everybody else. thank you for listening. >> next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. >> if you could pull the microphone in front of you, please. >>> i have a cold -- >> pull the mic -- i see. >>> my name is john [speaker