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Of federal control to local and state control and not popular with the federal government or with the american people. every since the creation of yellowstone park in the 19th century people are control with the federal government controlling the wide open spaces. kate? >> that map is unbelievable. you're talking about the blm land, the land publicly federally owned across the country? that's what they want given back over? >> reporter: when they talk about land transfers, this's what they're referring to starting in this county 87% federally controlled and spread out and that's a massive unwi...

Of the interior. if you don't believe in it, come out into the resources, go on to some blm land, go up to alaska where the perm ma frost is melting, go into the sierra which used to retain a lot more water in its frozen form. >> reporter: but dissent is growing. it is prompted in part by new measurements that show global warming has basically stalled for the last 15 years, and there's a lot more to it. jon, back to you. jon: doug mckelway in washington, thanks. alisyn: jon, there is an alarming new study that finds the obesity epidemic is worse than expected. how the findings in this study co...

Can't dare let guns go into the national parks and, of course, the rapes and murders and robberies and assaults are down about 85% since we did that. and now everywhere in the united states, if you're following your state laws, you can carry your gun to either protect yourself or whatever. the fact is violence has decreased, safety is up. the only place you can't do that is on corps land. corps land has more visitors and more rapes and more murders and violence than we ever had in the parks but for some reason they don't want is to express a second amendment right. we ought to harmonize what t...

We need a force multiplier for the border patrol. they can provide that. that's one of the things we're doing. but we're also doing additional stuff. bill: i'll get to that. establish operational control along the border? >> that's correct. bill: that a fence, is it personnel, both? >> 700 miles of fencing, which right now needs to continue to be built. we were in areas of new mexico and arizona where unlike what we saw in el paso where our law enforcement officers can now deploy behind the fence to protect themselves, we were in situations where the border patrol agents were wide open to atta...