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Lets be clear the governor of nebraska, republican governor, republican legislators in alaska people throughout the state had a problem with the pipeline route going through an aquifer and they raised objections, the. >> chris: the governor is on record saying we will start it and route it around the sand hills area, go ahead, we are not holding this up, president obama is. >> the company itself has said they will be submitting a new pipeline route. ought to be reviewed and expeditiously. >> it ...

this will be a topic of heated debate here in the city of new orleans. sean payton has been a beloved figure ever since the saints won the super bowl after the 2009 season in the years after hurricane katrina. sean payton and quarterback drew brees, you know, were the faces of this team and in the city for a team that had done so much to kind of bring this city out of the doldrums here. so the punishment against him, i think, will be a hot topic of debate here in the city. >> a lot of ...

All share. >> reporter: the most pressing issue is water. >> people say, waters the next oil. it isnt the next oil. its irreplaceable. >> we are using water faster than it -- than it becomes available. this is why water tables are falling. >> reporter: 18 countries are overpumping, including china, india and the united states. saudi arabia wanted to be self-sufficient in wheat but will soon stop growing the crop because it has depleted an underground water source. when it comes to food, the worl...

Pipeline project. on one side you have the canadian company trying to get oil down to refineries in texas. on the other side, you have environmentalists who say, hey, this project just threatens a massive underground water source for people in eight states. caught in the middle of all this could actually be the white house. this is a big story coming to us from nebraska, and thats where we find steve brown. hi, steve. >> reporter: hey there, jenna. yeah, the obama administrations under a lot of ...

fewer americans filed first-time jobless claims last week. the labor department says that it got 395,000 initial claims. thats a drop of 7,000. it is the first time the number dipped below 400,000 since early april. united nations says that the drought ravaging the horn of africa has not peaked. that means a long-term threat of famine. the u.n. says 12 million people, if you can believe that, are at risk. desperately needs more than a billion dollars to feed them. musician and activist...

>> we were on a second short break and heading to the fieldhouse. he collapsed outside the fieldhouse. >> the heat proving to be fatal in georgia. two high school football players collapsed while out practicings under the sun and the heat. they both later died. if you have kids who say, mom, dad, the coach says i have to practice, i have to be out there, maybe in full pads, i want you to listen to the father of one of those high school players who just passed away. >> when your body te...

security checks but veterans benefits, other -- >> right. >> thats a scary process. >> starts to get mathematical. we have to figure out what gets paid and what doesnt get paid. another big story right now, a massive and dangerous heat wave is gripping much of the nation. heres how it looks and feels across the country. take a look at the red quarter. temperatures expected to reach 104 degrees in parts of texas today, in the southeast, temperatures are expected to reach the upper 90s a...

hotels and other sites killed almost 7,000 people. mallika kapur joins us live from mumbai. first of all, tell us, i know there was a lot of people during rush hour. what do we know about this? what are you seeing? >> reporter: the explosions took place in three areas, three very, very busy commercial areas. they took place a little over an hour ago, three of them within 15 minutes of each other. we have heard from the prime minister just a few minutes ago, and he has confirmed there w...

Right here. this is coming to us from nhk, which is japanese television. this is what is supposed to happen. water pumps in. it cools the reactor rods in the reactor core. after the tsunami, unfortunately, that power source became lost so they went to their diesel-powered backup reactor. the diesel pumps kicked in and eventually they failed. then go to their battery pumps but unfortunately the battery pumps only continued working a number of hours and they also went dead. why that happened is st...

The raw material for nuclear weapons. but second, beyond the nuclear waste problem, nuclear power production is kind of a high-wire act, when the whole idea behind what youre doing depends on this plant controlling a nuclear chain reaction, you really cant afford anything that might interrupt your control. if theres any disturbance, say an earthquake, the chain reaction process is immediately shut down, control rods drop into the hot nuclear core to stop the fission process. even when it is not ...