. >> cars, buses, wood stoves. it has some hand in it. >> team usa goes for gold at the sochi winter olympics, there is a battle back home. one of the main training grounds - as we mentioned, it's over air pollution. utah has some of the worst air quality, because the polluted air is trapped in the valley, particularly in salt lake city. the government pushed to have rules on wood stoves. others say it's more about the industries like state's oil and gas refineries. how can utah get a breath of pressure. joining us is bryce bird, matt, policy director at a nonprofit environmental group, gerard hanson is a professor at brieing enyoung. and amanda, a professional athlete. she started an organization called athletes for air. matt, we talked about it. people think of utah, and the clear blue skies, snow, crystal clear national parks. how seers is the air pollution problem? >> well on a handful of days each winter it's serious, depending on the weather patterns. it can range from a couple of days to a few dozen. we get

the government has worked to cut the wood stoves, but the oil and natural gas refineries. how can utah get a breath of fresh air? joining us is bryce bird, the director of air quality for utah's environmental quality. and a utah non-profit environmental group. jarod hanson is a professor at brigham young university. and she started an organization called "athletes for air." and welcome it all of you. so matt, when people think of utah, they think of the clear blue sky, and the mountain snow. and chris call clear parks, and how serious is the air pollution problem. >> on any day in winter, it's extremely serious. depending on the weather patterns, we get levels of part why pollution, that can buildup to be the worst in america, and we have decades of research about the affects of the fine particles. theyboro deep into your lungs, and they are serious for folks with breathing disorders, and the elderly. and there are disturbing suggestions that they might play a role in autism to depression, to low birth weight. >> but jarad, if it's only a handful of days, as matt mentioned

stove. now the environmental protection agency is proposing new pollution rule that is are so strict and so convoluted they would make literally every wood. this is a stunning example of stupid bureaucrats living in a fantasy world punishing every rural american. 13 million homes in this country have wood-burning stoves. as far as i'm concerned, up with wood stoves, down with the epa. >> well, i would say they better not bring that law to north carolina in the winter. >> or large parts of rural missouri. >> no doubt about it. >> i say up with wood-burning stoves and up with epa. i'm one of the green -- i'm in support of bio mass. that's one of the thing that this rule hasn't gotten in place yet, but hopefully it will. i'm for biomass. i'm sure you are, too. >> we are for all of the above. and i actually had a good meeting with the secretary of interior. we are going to start seismic testing off the coast to start looking for natural gas and rebuild the economy. >> if we can have you back -- >> you are in favor of that, right? >> next time we have you back. before we get out of here, we'll check on the fire-back results. which last name w

. >> i heated up soup on the wood stove. i have three quilts on the bed. >> they hope to get the power on for all but about 8000 customers by tonight and everybody by the end of business tomorrow. >> the federal aviation administration is working to act -- to inspect air traffic control towers to make sure they are protected against lightning. the investigation was ordered after a traffic controller was injured at bwi marshall when a lightning strike that -- lightning strike injured a controller. involvingg news american travelers heading to the olympics. in the last hour, the transportation security administration issued a temporary ban on gels to my carry-on bags for any flight to russia, coming with a warning that terrorists might try to smuggle explosives by putting them into toothpaste tubes. >> still to come, the explanation for what caused buildings to shaken ocean city, prompting many they felt an earthquake. maryland to in improve high school education to save lives. >> y john boehner says the president's ability is

the greek art projects is not being done in our falling on the wood stove wood shop. and basically were producing these products with the intent of selling into the outside. it's a collaboration thirty different designers from around the world basically and these products are the idea said touching on the board. they are getting wise to what that was the view from our kind of god the story of every person who's who's in them. many many people the communists and that's not really at the end of the other rope our job. desperate desperate to rid us that the dotted only know what's going on instead of his drug problem and trying to find this to but he cried because we help me learn. the percussion and what i'm doing. nissan sunny outside instead of work seem to get money. i never lived with but scratch that the tightness in touch and i've really learned to really put everything i have into something and done. these products there are any that did the guy with a lot of lot of time effort and a lot of lot of love. i got to know what's going on seventeen and messy and spent

because the polluted airette gs trapped in the valleys and the government pushed to restrict the wood stoves but it is more about the unregulated industries. so how can utah get a breath of fresh air. we have brice from the department of air quality and matt from heal utah, and garon and the mandy a professional athlete that lives and trains in utah and started athletes for air. so, matt, we talked that, people think of utah and think of the clear blue skies and crystal clear national parks and the snow, and how serious is the air pollution problem? >> well, it is extremely serious depending on the weather patterns, but we get levels of fine particle pollution, pm 2.5. we have got decades of health research about the affects of the particles, they get into the lungs and cross the blood barriers and they are a serious problem for folks with breathing disorders and babies and the elderly and could play a role in depression and low birthrates and autism. >> just a handful of days as matt mentioned, what is there to worry about? >> that is a good question, lisa, it is a handful of days and that

. >> i heated up some soup on the wood stove. i have quilts for the beds. [inaudible] >> they have been living in the two rooms or the house were a generator has been supplying power for heat. they are anxious to get the powerback. >> we have no cable, internet, phone -- so we are done. >> frederick county had 35,000 customers without power. today showed signs of improvement. >> we are below 18,000. we are not happy until the number is zero, but we have been making good rye grass. rex the clover hill neighborhood is still without power. 81-year-old spent time cleaning up is to downed trees on his property. >> when a couple of inches of ice on everything. >> the ice was too heavy. it's down all over the place. >> sorry about that. we had some problem with the beer pays -- the earpiece there with suzanne kennedy. talk about possibly another potential storm coming for the weekend. >> here we go again. doug hill is here with what we are looking at for the upcoming weekend. rex you are hearing talk of a potential storm here. some folks on facebook started up the

sweet bean, one of the fillings for the variety of pastries stuffed, shaped and put into an old wood stoveer, the heartening slap of fresh bread pressed against the clay wall of a tandoori. and eggs bob and spin in the broth of fish, spice, and herb. >> mohinga? this i must have. if there's a national dish, would it be this? >> yes, you look at the things. these are indian, these are chinese, but mohinga is a local thing. it's popular not just in the city, but also in the rural areas too. it's a fish paste with rice or noodles, sometimes we put in some crispies, like fried beans, and these are some coriander leaves. >> yeah. >> lime. >> sprinkle some in here. >> good textures. particularly in the light of obama's recent visit, these are interesting times. significant changes for the first time in 50 years. >> yes. one thing that's quite significant. you take a look around, all kinds of people, all age groups. a couple years ago, people would be talking about politics, you -- nowadays, it's more outspoken. the government is more open. they also are relaxing the rules about censorship. augus

the heat is primarily the wood stove. u need to have somebody. >> having guys come over and stack the wood has been a godsend much she will need more by thend of the winter. >> they aren't a couple of college kids. dwight shank is 67. larry davis is 53. she is here by herself. it is kind of in the backwoods type of thing. so, you know, it is pretty important for us to get a good supply of wood here for her. >> i knew they were going to be mostly retired people. >> they are part of a village a new community that helps older people help each other, their village stretches through seven different towns in western new hampshire, all surrounding the manatanak mountain dwight shank grew up in the shadow of the mountain. >> i think it's as good as well get for now and should be okay. after a drecareer in boston, in this retired and on the land he loves has it gotten harder? >> yes. i used to downhill ski. >> what about the maintenance? >> that's a big part of living here. when you get up in the morning, you may have had a foot of

because it's freezing everyone has wood stoves inside their tents and trash cans outside the tents. the tire fire is actually horrible smelling. they actually gave me a mask to wear when i was shooting photos. i thought i would throw up when i was filming. >> same situation or different? >> that's the main area around parliament, kind of the front line, but the larger protest is in the square and then there's also a barricade of police up by the presidential complex protecting that. but there have been like seven or eight buildings that have been taken over by the protestors. there. >> there are some remarkable pictures that we've been showing while you've been talking. robert graham mcnamara. thank you for sharing your story and your pictures, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and north africa, we warn you this is graphic. nigeria, at least 47 people were killed. al jazeera is the first media operation to reach the violent. yvonne nej has the exclusive report. >> this is all that's left of the church. the attackers came through that doors, some on motorcycles, some jumping out of

. >> in addition to helping the villager build new smoke-free wood stoves they organize medical teamsho conduct clinics in the countryside, $40 million worth of medicine in his world is unheard of. >> in a year we will carry out about 15,000 clinics and 1,300 surgical operations. >> and through that process you are talking about $300,000? >> yeah. $350,000. so it's -- you know, it has to be a huge organization operation that can handle that volume of medicines. definitely. >> in a last effort to try to verify any of the alleged huge donations from the american charities we travelled to the countryside and to the address of a warehouse where the medicines were stored. the guard would not allow us in without permission and he was given the order to keep us out. why? the man on the other end of the phone wouldn't tell us. >> i'm telling you we cannot find it anywhere. we can't find any stamp of your work and we're just trying to get to the bottom of it. we are standing at a warehouse gate and no one would let us in. >> we never got it or got an explanation where the $40 million in medici

the epa is waging war on wood-burning stoves. take that, ben franklin. >> there is certainly a need to keep people safe, keep their drinking water safe, et cetera. aren't you concerned with the regulations that we have in this nation that we're diluting the ones that we really need? >> you've heard me say it before, david, i, too, agree that we have too many regulations because the person that you hire is not going to give up their job when they've done the main thing but we do mislead when we don't point out, look, if people will go and look, small businessmen at those 1100 regulations that have been proposed, you're going to be stunned to see how they don't apply to you in any way, shape, or form. >> more and more people -- actually, you're wrong becae my wife does have a little business and we just had a bunch of regulations thrown a at us. >> we complain that we're not manufacturing enough yet we're passing more and more regulations to kill manufacturing. >> congress passes the law. >>> no outs? how is that possible? >> they

proposed rule on future production on wood-burning stoves like the one in this picture. my constituents are concerned that this regulation to provide another ban on the production d sale of 80% of america's current wood-burning stoves, which is the world's oldest heating system. the e.p.a.'s stringent policy goes against the will of the people and it requires the same stringent standards as a cannotage in the woods as it applies to a high-rise in downtown new york. for the first 10 years, my husband and i heated our home and i'm concerned with the many constituents who have used these stoves for years to heat their home, that they will turn in their old furnaces for scrap. so again, i implore the e.p.a. to apply a little common sense to these regulations and not finalize this burdensome rule. these are just two examples of the many concerns of the e.p.a. can overreach. and i pause now to invite my colleagues to share issues that their constituents face dealing with this agency. so i would like to start with my dear friend from colorado, doug lamborn, representative lambor

retailers, auto zone and advanced auto parts benefit as you think about snow removal, heating, wood pellets, stoves that's lifted their benefit. we expect the benefit to continue for the auto retailers. dick's preannounced positive numbers, north face sales, a boot season. for everyone else it's been bad and it will stay bad right now. on the negative side, who's getting hit the hardest are people are who seasonably high penetration. gnc and vitamin shoppes are getting hit hard. >> are those sales sales that can be caught up down the road or are those sales once they're gone, they're gone. >> it depends on the sector. it's generally a mix. i would say, you know, with someone like the vitamin retailers, you would say it's 50/50. you'll have a catch up later on. the earlier spring breaks in february it lifts everybody's business, because people go out there, they start buying apparel, start jogging and getting in shape and thinking about the upcoming season. >> i would think for some of the apparel stores that it's really just a bust because the season moves and the clothing, you know, you have to ge

consumption before and after a stove is purchased are measured to determine the size of the credit. >> we know through laboratory and field testing, they save 50% of the woodg used normally in an open fear and they reduce carbon emissions and particularate matter by 70%. >> while stove team tries to protect a business model that tries to be sustainable, the global alliance say the overall effort will need to be vastly scaled up and made attractive to commercial investors. its goal is to provide 100 million clean stoves by >> ifill: fred's reporting is a partnership with the under-told stories project at saint mary's university in minnesota. online, you can find examples of five different clean-burning stoves used around the world. >> ifill: offshore bank accounts and tax evasion: it's a sore spot between the u.s. and switzerland. now a new senate investigation is adding more fuel to that fire. the senate probe finds that banking giant credit suisse helped thousands of wealthy americans hide billions of dollars from the i.r.s. overseas. the report found that in 2006 the swiss bank had about 22,000 accounts with u.s. customers totaling more than $12 billion.

stove when she's wrenched it loose. what else? to clean up after her and dust behind her and light the fire after her. she only puts on the wood.he glasses, relay the table, uncork the bottles, open the window, stare at the rooms, remake the bed, empty the water carafe when it grows green with slime. - sing to me! - wait, first the toil! the toil of holding the debt of life at bay. but you are rich. why don't you keep two maids? it wouldn't matter even if we had three. life is hard. sometimes i grow tired. imagine if we had a nursery as well. the greatest joy of all. most expensive. is life worth so much trouble? it depends what one wants in return. i would shrink from nothing to win your hand. don't talk like that. you can never win me. why not? you mustn't ask. are you crying? when one gazes at the unattainable, what else can one do but despair. i can open doors and human hearts, if only i can find a hand to perform my will. show me and you shall win her. but you've dropped your bracelet out of the window. because my hand had grown so thin. it is she who is devouring me, devouring us all. what's she got in her hand? the color