will wolves be the new masters of yellowstone?r can the grizzly keep its kingdom and emerge the victor here? "nature" is made possible in part by... leave it untouched by your presence, capture its image and preserve it forever. canon -- living and working together to appreciate today and care for tomorrow. the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. it's spring in the northwest corner of wyoming. the year is about to begin for the grizzlies of yellowstone. by early march, bears begin to emerge from their long winter's nap. [ geese honking ] they may not have eaten a thing for four or five months -- and with snow still deep, a female and three cubs search for a winterkill. otters have been out all winter, slipping and sliding between streams, looking for patches of open water. they're kept under close watch by a coyote. he's on a constant search for food. this is a world of predators, scavengers, and opportunists. in the thawing surface layer of ice, the grizzlies find a

gateway cities like west yellowstone bustle. traffic snarls yellowstone roads as if a major city. the park resembles anything but the tranquility sought. animals that make a brief appearance find an adoring crowd. they are the rock stars of the national park world. rocky mountain bighorn sheep walk precarious cliffs oblivious to crowds below. yellowstone's elk are accustomed to traffic. they blend in as if just another tourist themselves. scenic wonders like artist's point are crowded with tourists. natural beauty is an attraction. early leaders of the wilderness movement saw development of the national parks as commercialization. is this conservation or is access simply a part of american democracy? it's an enduring question of the great debate. wilderness wouldn't be wilderness without the animals of the west. controversy continues regarding the endangered species act and specifically grizzly bears and wolves. wolves are the most controversial animals in the wilderness war. wolves were re-introduced to yellowstone national park in 1995. wolves were largely extinct in the lower 4

what right did i have to write about yellowstone? and then realized in fact almost everyone i knew there who settled didn't begin life in montana or wyoming. they were first generation immigrants and i counted up the states and eye knew people from california, arkansas, illinois, michigan, new york, pennsylvania, et cetera, et cetera, and they'd all been drawn in one way or another by the same thing. and getting the germ of an idea to write about yellowstone, said the one thing that has never -- the period always bed me a lot, the period after the civil war. if any of you were at the panel earlier on history, lot of the writing was from that period. three of the four authors hat written about the period immediately before or during the civil war. and to me it was the period when the country was being re-invented, taking its modern form, the civil war was done. the union was there and the west was wide open and being rapidly settled. so i said something that had never been done before. who were the individuals that went and quote-unqu

home f yeah, you and me camping out in yellowstone all alone. all by ourselves. well, you know it would be a shame if daphne didn't get to see those indint pots. yes, of course. they are a real miracle of nature. yeah. wouldn't be fair to leave niles inan paihouse alone. maris out of town, that'd be cruel. yeah, absolutely. how long will it take us to get to yellowstone? that we could be there by tomorrow. that would be a nice surprise for those two when they wake up. i got a better surprise than that. let's tell daphnwe're in mexico. [ female announcer ] e what makes you walk a little taller? it begins with your skin. venus & olay -- gently exfoliates with 5 blades. plus olay moisture bars help renew goddess skin. only from venus & olay. ♪ i am stuck on band-aid brand ♪ ♪ 'cause germs don't stick on me ♪ [ female announcer ] band-aid brand has quiltvent technology with air channels to let boo boos breathe. [ giggles ] [ female announcer ] quiltvent technology, only from band-aid brand. u h neosporin first aid antibiotic. light & fit greek nonfat yougurt has twic

she'd have no problem with an exxon sign going up in yell yellowstone. doesn't think it's worth it for the federal government to protect national treasures like old faithful. and she wouldn't mind seeing this kind of park ranger? do our friends on the right think any corporate sponsorships would go too far? >> free market solves everything, stewart. >> meat inspections brought to you by the makers of spam. >> well, that may be a bit too far. >> glad to know they draw the line somewhere. but did they think we wouldn't point out the problem with their slick logic? nice try. but we got you. i'm the world's worst cleaning lady. i'm here in your home, having a pretty spectacular tuesday. ♪ but i don't notice the loose rug at the top of your stairs. and that's about to become an issue for me. ♪ and if you got the wrong home insurance coverage, my medical bills could get expensive. so get allstate. [ dennis ] good hands. good home. make sure you have the right home protection. talk to an allstate agent. make sure you have the right home protection. what's the "

legal action etc well what it was they say one point seven million dollar fine for poisoning the yellowstone river so it's no money at all this pristine river ruined for how long and one after another there's atrocity have to retry a city whether it's all real big oil or banks too big to fail the word justice in america is being misspelled it's j u.s.t. us just us not them so you don't they think either way out let me just ask you this you don't think the executives watching all these people are going through to after their homes while this man some folds are worried tonight surely not. of course not i mean look what happened with the gulf of mexico it's been destroyed for how many probably you know how many hundreds of years the stuff doesn't us evaporate and again it's one atrocity after another you heard president obama say earlier last year that they were opening up the arctic circle area of the pristine arctic circle for for drilling and then you saw the debacle which shell and of course he promised that it would be much better than this time and it wasn't and then you look at the unite

that fiction in both cases is that the native americans had never lived there and in the case of yellowstone the fiction on with the park and the idea of the park continued to be based well into the 20th-century was that the indians had been so eager and superstitious that they had been terrified of the place. in fact, go into the historical record and they were in and out all the time. hunting, sending out were parties. it would crisscross the from the with the buffalo grove seasonally. it would go into a sitting kraft tech kraft arrowheads. that of sitting cliff functioned as a demilitarized zone. and they went there for six reasons. in many cases their records of various tied to a tree in the hot springs as separate locations where they could be in touch with the spiritual dimensions of the world and the other world. so i guess my point in this book , and nothing there is a lot in common, especially with the book bryan has coming out now which is above sea level rise and certainly when we talk about the environment. as the title of this panel says, along green view. it is absolutely about

what happened about 6 months later, they ended up sending two battalions to yellowstone. i haven't heard any discussion at all, do you expect the military, the guard or the active forces to be training people to do shovel-like work? all you have talked about so far is aviation. >> one of the challenges with a ground-based attack and training a soldier to be a ground-based fire fighter is the training takes time. and it takes approximately 3 to 5 days of solid training to make sure that they are going to be working in a safe environment to learn what's going on. and most of the time that, the incidents in california will become mitigated. now, not to say that we certainly have that as an option. we have a fairly robust what we call fire crew program using cdcr inmate fire fighters. it is on our radar and it's something that we have as a contingency if we needed to do it. >> lieutenant colonel. >> yes, general, in the mou it does address the ground portion but the focus of effort is mainly on the aviation side but it is built in there for the ground side if necessary. >> i

in comparison, out of the 100,000 that made the trek to yellowstone since 2010, just five were arrested or cited for drugs. >> i'm really surprised to hear that. >> i think it does take away from this place knowing that that environment is here. >> we also discovered that the grand canyon had just three busts out of the 100,000 visitors. two at joshua tree and just one at death valley. >> seems to me they come up with a little bit of a spring break mentality. >> those arrested in yosemite are subject to federal laws and often go before u.s. magistrate judge michael seng. >> it's been primarily marijuana, mushrooms, hallucinogenic mushroo and then the party drug ecstasy. >> do you smoke pot? >> on occasion. >> but this climber and local resident thinks there are more arrests in yosemite because they're more diligent and go after people like him. >> it's not fair because they target you, they know, they see you around. they know people around here smoke pot. >> cases we've handled tend to be people from all over the country. >> criminal defense attorney has represented many busted here. h

it bursts out of nowhere and dumps oil into the previously pristine yellowstone river.ven though another oil company shut down their pipeline in the area because of that warning, exxon decided to keep theirs running. this is the result. july, 2011. now, today, mayflower, arkansas, swrus outside arkansas. it's friday afternoon and by now, you know the drill. it starts with boom. >> so, that is a pipeline that has busted and has flooded the neighborhood and is going all the way to the drain at the end of the street. luckily, our house is here, but the smell is unbelievable. i mean, look. that is oil. >> lots and lots of oil. on friday afternoon, another pipeline, an exxon mobil pipeline, this one carrying between illinois and texas, ruptured underground. it sent a thick stream of crude oil everywhere. dozens of residents have been evacuated indefinitely. it's now encroaching toward lake conway, a local source of drinking water. so far, the oil company says 12,000 barrels of oil contaminated water have been recovered by emergency responders. one of the things that has emer

yellowstone, but no, it is a nasty volcano but it's -- it is releasing -- is doing what faeroe people should do more often which is to release its imaging. >> so don't worry. >> if i can ask a question about dictionaries is it true you stopped consulting your dictionaries at home and you look up words in your ipad? >> this is the decision i was in australia when they made this remark he couldn't have the third edition published in a hard paper format. i got telephone because of the books that i'd written about the subject and i would say quite honestly i don't -- i.e. it saying it in a place like the bookshop in 30 years' time, the volume in the third edition will be published 2037. they say june in 237. and i and by then it will not be extinct. but by then i think the most massive books will be available essentially only online. i would have fought for the purely romantic reasons they will produce a hardback edition but as to what i do now, i have to complete 20 volume but if i want to know a word, for instance, the web site has been launched on december 10th and i've been given a sl

dollars over pipeline safety violations and that was for an oil spill two years of college in the yellowstone river in montana exxon has a month to contest the violations many believe that it will jockey get away with violations like that all too often in the west and all it takes is a team of really good lawyers to do that which the companies certainly have and that at the end of the day it's the people affected will pick up the slack in washington i'm going to check them. next on the spokesman said no problems were detected when the almost sixty five year old pipeline was last checked the company was finding twenty ten for not inspecting another portion of the same route frequently enough environmental consultant richard steiner says the pegasus pipeline has run its course a long time ago there's no excuse whatsoever for oil pipelines to be anything over thirty years old or general design life is maybe twenty to thirty years there's been several spills about six or seven of this heavy diluted bit timid it's called dil bit which is the tar sand oil which is so thick it can't be transported t

dollars over pipeline safety violations and that was for an oil spill two years of college in the yellowstone river and montana exxon has a month to contest the violations many believe that oil giants get away with violations like that all too often in the west and all it takes is a team of really good lawyers to do that which the company certainly have and that at the end of the day it's the people affected will pick up the slack in washington i'm going to check that. all this latest oil spill in a small u.s. town has once again raised questions about environmental hazards of musing over the pipelines and transports increasing large amounts of oil across the continent financial consultant and star says the pegasus pipeline is long past its sell by date there's no excuse what so ever for oil pipelines to be anything over thirty years old or general design life is maybe twenty to thirty years there's been several spills about six or seven of this heavy diluted bitumen it's called dill bit which is the tar sand oil which is so thick it can't be transported through a pipeline unless it's cut wit

million dollars over pipeline safety violations and that was for an oil spill two years ago in the yellowstone river in montana exxon has a month to contest the violations many believe that the world trying to get away with violations like that all too often in the west and all it takes is a team of really good lawyers to do that which the companies certainly have and at the end of the day it's the people of good will pick up the slack in washington i'm going to check. that accident has reignited the debate over the use of decades long pipelines to transport increasingly large amounts of crude oil across north america that's not a good look at the continent's oil transit infrastructure right more than the heart of america's oil routes we're building during the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's now this is according to the u.s. department of transportation some including the pegasus pipeline which caused the trouble in a console way constructed even before that now billions of dollars worth of oil flows through these pipelines every in twenty eleven five all have been five largest industry

million dollars over pipeline safety violations and that was for an oil spill two years ago in the yellowstone river in montana exxon has a month to contest the violations many believe that while giant get away with violations like that all too often in the west and all it takes is a team of really good lawyers to do that which the company certainly have and that at the end of the day it's the people of that will pick up the slack in washington and then a check. well his latest oil spill in a small u.s. town has once again raised questions about the dangers of using older pipelines to transport increasingly large amounts of oil across the continent let's now take a look at america's oil transit infrastructure we can see here. more than half of the nation's pipelines were built in one nine hundred fifty s. nine hundred sixty s. according to the u.s. department of transportation others at the pegasus oil pipeline which burst in arkansas were constructed even earlier soon after it will go to and billions of dollars worth of oil flows through these pipelines every year now in twenty eleven the big

exxon the same company that owns the pegasus line leaked fifteen hundred barrels of crude into the yellowstone river even scarier for the first part of the keystone pipeline keystone one suffered twelve spills over the course of just one year between two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven so can we really trust the oil companies when it comes to environmental safety or last week's disasters just a taste of things to come let's ask bill mckibben author environmental activist and founder of three fifty dot org and anthony swift attorney for the international program at the national resources defense council bill anthony welcome to the program both it's a pleasure to be on time and i thank you glad to have you with us a bill. and so it's time thanks bill so bill let me start with you what what's your take on the public consciousness of the you know i would call a crisis of this oil spill potential crisis as a consequence of these spills has this awakened anybody as a getting any media attention attention it's getting a lot the facebook post we put up was the largest one we've ever a mil

exxon spilling last year into the yellowstone river. exxon's pipeline breaking this weekend, and all exxon can say is oh jeez. we're sorry. >> we are very sorry. this should not have happened. and we apologize for this. >> bill: don't you think maybe there is a lesson here? don't you think maybe we ought to take a look at this technology? doesn't it sort of say to me? they are blowing smoke that these pipelines are indeed dangerous? they are fragile? they are man-made? they can break. they can current tourrupture. you know, they can spill and then when they spill, it's huge damage to the environment as we have seen. one, two, three times. damage spill in the last week. it should make us all think twice, three times, four times, about that keystone pipeline. certainly not to rush it. certainly not to force it through before the environmental review is done. but even then, i don't see how you can possibly say we are going to build this pipeline and there is no damage to the environment and is it really worth it to move that oil, that gunk

dollars over pipeline safety violations and that was for an oil spill two years the coal in the yellowstone river in montana exxon has a month to contest the violations many believe that while giants get away with violations like that all too often in the west and all it takes is a team of really good lawyers to do that which the company certainly caught and that at the end of the day it's the people affected will pick up the slack in washington i'm going to check them. well that actions rig no into the debate over the use of decades old pipelines to transport increasingly large amounts of crude oil across north america let's take a look at the continent's oil transit infrastructure more than half of america's all roads to build back in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's they're getting old now according to the u.s. department of transportation those figures some including the pegasus pipeline which is one the cause the trouble in arkansas this time around were constructed even before that bill is a dollar's worth of all flows through these pipelines every year in twenty eleven to fi

seven million dollars over pipeline safety violations relating to a twenty eleven oil spill in the yellowstone river that is in montana montana so exxon the has a month to construct good to contest the violations in that notice many believe that or giants that get away with violations like that all too often in the west and all the it takes is a team of excellent lawyers to do sad that at the end of the day it's the people affected who pick up the slack indeed sadly gunshy count thanks very much for updating us there. now not everyone in cyprus is having their money held to ransom apparently it's claimed that wealthy clients were tipped off before it was announced that up to sixty percent of their cash would be tapped while the shutters came down for ordinary savers who are strictly limited in how much of their own money they can lay their hands on millions of euros are believed to be transferred out of the country's official investigation into the cyprus crash will be wanting to look at one hundred thirty companies and individuals who may have jumped ship joining us now is george culture gala

dollars over pipeline safety violations and that was for an oil spill two years the coal in the yellowstone river in montana exxon has a month to contest the violations many believe that while the giants get away with violations like that all too often in the west end all it takes is a team of really good lawyers to do that which the company certainly have and that at the end of the day it's the people affected will pick up the slack in washington i'm going to check them. as is often the case is one of the residents whose homes are affected by the pegasus pipeline spill as chris harrell is talked to hi there chris thanks for taking the time to be with us in our t. tonight how was your town of mayflower affected you see the pictures it's hard to get the scale of it just the pictures how does it affected you and the people you know sure well it's an absolute mess huge inconvenience and there's a lot of concerns about what happens next yes and that's a question what is going to happen next. when the cleanup the cleanup process is ongoing right now and there's a lot of personnel and equipment i

seven million dollars fine for a pipeline that dumped forty two thousand gallons of oil into the yellowstone river all the way back in two thousand and eleven so this is just one company removing on slick ground and continuing that path now all of this is happening just one week after the u.s. senate held a symbolic vote in favor of the keystone x.l. pipeline these latest incidents are just the newest chapter in a complex narrative of america's energy future. and that's going to do it for now for more of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america and check out our website for all the latest and greatest information in a few stories that we just didn't have time to get to that web site is r t dot com slash usa and don't forget to follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez and i want to hear your comments your feedback your story suggestions send me anything send me everything i'll see you right back here at five pm. technology innovation and the developments around. the future three hundred. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand

seven million dollars fine for a pipeline that dumped forty two thousand gallons of oil in the yellowstone river all the way back in two thousand and eleven so this is one company that is moving continuously on slick ground now all of this is happening just one week after the u.s. senate held a symbolic vote in favor of the keystone x.l. pipeline these latest incidents are just the newest chapter in a complex narrative of america's energy future and that's going to do it for now for more of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america and for the latest and greatest information coming out from around the world check out our website our two dot com slash usa our digital producers are always working hard to connect you to the world with new stories and in-depth interviews so check it out and don't forget to leave us your feedback and you can also follow me on twitter at meghan underscore lopez my question to you twitter followers tonight how should exxon be punished for this latest oil spill what should we do to stop it from happening again r.t. dot com slash usa and meghan

come on, answer the question, yellowstone brought to -- >> why not?re in the constitution -- >> it doesn't. >> pay for x, y and z. >> stan for that? >> i think in era of annual deficits over a trillion dollars, yes. we have to force priority-setting, so what is laid out in the constitution with the government should be doing, namely, the military and other functions, of course, those are the things we should be paying for. but ex-extraneous stuff -- i would put the easter egg roll, which is a great american tradition and that's not something we should be paying for. >> education. nodding your head. >> well, education is supposed to be a local government function. it's not supposed to be a federal government function. >> you're evading. >> there are plenty of private schools -- >> this high school brought to you by -- >> well, there are some private companies that step in to deeply dissuppressed school districts like mark sucker berg policemenned a million does to the new york city school system. >> i feel like i'm on retreat. but you draw the line at

. >> tonight at 11:00 find out how drug stats compare to other national parks like yellowstone and the grand canyon. we also break down arrests and citations by the number of visitors. that is tonight on nbc bay area news. >> and we will look forward to seeing that this evening. >> thanks for watching us here at 6:00. have a great evening. we hope to see you at 11:00. >> bye-bye. look at them kids. [ sigh ] they have no idea what it was like before u-verse high speed internet. yeah, you couldn't just stream movies to a device like that. one time, i had to wait half a day to watch a movie. you watched movies?! i was lucky if i could watch a show. show?! man, i was happy to see a sneezing panda clip! trevor, have you eaten today? you sound a little grumpy. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. because all these whole grains aren't healthy unless you actually eat them ♪ multigrain cheerios. also available in delicious peanut butter. healthy never tasted so sweet. ♪ the one and only, cheerios >> now on "ex

the yellowstone draws about 20 million visitors each may. >> we worked on a 20-week tourism season.o weeks will be taken out because the park is not open, that's a big deal. secondly, and most importantly, that is the launch for our tourism season. so, it sets the trend for everything else. >> reporter: also on the sequester chopping block the pop a blue angels, the navy canceled all 35 summer appearances this year, saving taxpayers about $20 million. the air force also grounded the thunder birds. both have been fixtures at seattle's annual sea fair event. combined they cost the event about $12,000 a year to bring in. with neither an option, organizers got creative and found a replacement, the patriots jet team out of california. they cost $80,000. in addition, the navy pulled a warship out of the fleet week, so organizers book ad canadian naval ship to fill in. >> we have had to look outside the box and find new ways we can fill the gaps of where our government is not able to provide those services. >> reporter: of course there are limitations to what we can do to backfill $85 bill

you have a yellowstone bison management plan. the health inspection service needs to have a policy that works in the regulation, but the plan envisions 3,000 wild bison and it was developed more than a dozen years ago is it still appropriate and relevant today? >> i think that we are on the verge actually of a breakthrough they are recognizing their tribes in the west that would like to have by sen and the culture to the facilities and structure to manage bison herds of. we want to maintain a heard in the 3,000 population class but they could be up to 5,000 so we need to be able to use those. the bison coming out of the park being quarantined, those tested and are positive and would go to the house and are tested would be quarantined for period and tested in partnership with the state's and then ultimately transferred to the tribes. we have done some of that already in the reservation, and it's been very successful and i think the concept is to line up all the agencies of the state in particular to support that in terms of their

and the yellowstone river.trouble with what is spilling out, it is bad enough for any oil spill, but this stuff is a whole degree of nastiness worse. the tar sands -- you have to keep it up and add chemicals to even get it to flow. when it comes out of the pipe, it is incredibly hard to clean up. stuff that, burning this means game over if the climate. you see we are messing with the environment and so many friends that it is as if he set out to fig -- so many fronts, it is as if you sit out to figure out what is the worst. >> this bill comes two days after a train carrying canadian crude derailed in minnesota, spilling something like 15,000 gallons of oil. >> it is almost as if nature was trying to send a message that it might be best to just beat this stuff underground in canada where it has been safely for the last few million years instead of talking it, piping it, taking it by train panther and not across the countryside. this is the kind of thing that people will look back on in 20, 30, 40 years and say,

and then of course that pipeline burst, flooding the yellowstone river with oil, and exxon was hit with proposed fine for those violations and a few others. the proposed fine was, $1.7 million. again, just for context sake in terms of the day that fine was levied. here is how that fine relates to the profits that exxon made in that single day. exxon made that day about $122 million in profit and here is that giant $1.7 million fine they were slapped with. not even a nat bite into their profits for that one day. in terms of this latest spill in arkansas, arkansas's attorney general has been so far pretty much all over this. we had him on the show earlier this week. he has been touring the affected area. in recent days. he said today that his head hurt all the way through yesterday just from being exposed to the fumes in mayflower for a couple of hours. he's now demanding a trove of documents from exxon, including the company's inspection reports for this pipeline. there is news today a number of residents of mayflower, arkansas who were affected by the spill, they have now filed the firs

be quarantined or sequestered or whatever it is that's supposed to hurt yosemite sam and close yellowstoneational park. isn't that stephen king's new book, "the sequester"? with the first quarter in the bag we've got to review how they're doing because i think these are still some of the most fertile stocks out there. in the aggregate, don't just stand there, do something cohort spectacular performance. from november 29 whth i started recommending them through the end of the first quarter, and i got pounded on these stocks almost every day during the first quarter. they have taken off like rockets at cape canaveral, wherever rich people are shooting off rockets these days. the don't just stand there mob is up 23.9% versus the s&p 500's 10.2%. wow. smoking. winner? hess. which just today announced the sale of its russian unit to lukewell for 2.5 billion. hess has been under siege since the beginning of the year and is now going to $73 and change from the $50 price tag where it was -- when i suggested that if hess didn't do something to bring out value someone else would. sure enough, a hedg

. >> some of the hot springs in yellowstone, for example, get down to a ph that is close to battery acidwe look to those organisms and their capabilities i think we get a much different picture of where life could persist. >> reporter: the planet hunters started their search with one major question. are there any earth-type planets out there? now that that's been answered, the burning question remains: are we alone? do you have any doubts that there's life out there besides us? >> oh, goodness. i myself think that life is too creative. here on earth we find life on every... under every rock we lift. so i tend to be of the camp that believes that life is going to be prolific. so, this board gives me rates for >> osgood: next, an age old question. and they're them. yes. but they're here. yes. are you...? there? yes. no. are you them? i'm me. but those rates are for... them. so them are here. yes! you want to run through it again? no, i'm good. you got it? yes. rates for us and them -- now that's progressive. call or click today. >> osgood: what does the future hold for us? that's the quest

hiking, fishing and camping in the country's first national park, yellowstone.y to the windy city and discover what makes chicago our kind of town. and it's a wild ride in orlando where we will find thrills for the whole family. >> that are should be fun. five of us are going. willie will be on the trip as well. the five of us are starting that adventure. today's great american adventure on monday, the 20th of may. >> the 20th? >> you can't do it? are you busy? >> i wouldn't miss it for the world. >> some of us a lot of us have never been. i never have been to high? >> you never have been to hawaii? >> we will go the weekend before and have fun. >> and yellowstone. >> you flew in for us. that was okay. we look forward to the trip and you will come along for the ride. >> coming up, can we help martha stewart find her love match? we will try. >> martha is in the market for a man and with the help of match.com, we will see how it works out. firsyour local news and weather. yeah, kfc! original recipe. original recipe? dad, i think you ate the bones. i did what? you

the park service decided to save money by plowing snow at yellowstone national park two weeks later than normal. that would delay clearing of four park gates well past the may 1st opening. total savings to taxpayers? $150,000. but would cost the communities of jackson hole and cody, wyoming, a lot more than that because they depend on park related tourism. both cities held fund-raisers and raised money for the state to clear the road so the gates will open on time. >> we needed to act and, if there was a way that we could make, make a difference we wanted to do that because people rely on that opening date. and, the moment that the park opens, things are different in cody. >> reporter: not surprisingly many of the donations came from businesses which stood to lose if the park didn't open on time. now 20,000 visitors can get through the gate on may fist when they want to get there martha? martha: dan, thank you very much. dan springer in seattle. bill: so the tables are turned on one of the bad guys. look at this image here. from the city of new orleans, a robber pointing a shotgun at a m