after alaska came under u.s. control the russian american company lost its influence and the russian settlers were offered a choice either return to russia or live in the reservation like settlement of check. what became of the money earned in the alaska deal was shrouded in mystery. the official version claimed that the whole payment reached russia and was spent on the construction of railways. rivers persisted however that the ship carrying the gold received for the sale of alaska had sunk in the pacific. issues that seem to me i mean in the real. mission. what is the relevance of the claim. and should be questioning the logic of an institution that. would give you the future. and. the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world technology update. as. she. was born and raised in alaska like many alaskans he refers to other states and the lower forty eight gary is sure that americans have a poor impression of the forty nine most people in the lower forty eight don't know that alaska is

after alaska came under u.s. control the russian american company lost its influence and the russians were offered a choice either return to russia or live in the reservation. check. what became of the money. was shrouded in mystery. the official version. was spent on the construction of railways. however the ship carrying the received for the sale of alaska had sunk in the pacific. like. most people in the lower forty eight. when they're here. i've actually had people. lived. here. few english words gary however doesn't speak russian my grandfather passed away a couple of decades ago and my grandmother. passed away soon after that just some distance from here my father and most of my relatives and one day. too. right after the peninsula was sold to the americans the village was built on the sea shore all of the employees of the russian american company who refused to move to russia had been banished here by the u.s. government one of the older buildings is right down below us doesn't have a window in it and buil

claimed alaska. one of the friends together with his family is listening to his story although his name is of russian origin he doesn't know a single word of the language spoken on the other side of the bering strait nor does he know much about where his last name comes from. what my mom told me in the morning and her russian for sure they were taken people after drawn through there underneath your honor and they couldn't say our last name so of a russian. spy you don't seem you enough doesn't need to speak russian all services in the orthodox church in kodiak city are held in english. father in a county was born in new england a place that is far away from here he has no russian roots nevertheless he decided to serve as an orthodox priest in alaska but it was a long story. it's a story of growing up in a christian church a protestant church but always running and seeking out for a face for experience of the faith and trying to do that in order to see it as a yellin and eventually answering the call

after alaska came under u.s. control the russian american company lost its influence and the russians were offered a choice either return to russia or live in the reservation like settlement of. what became of the money earned was shrouded in mystery. the official version claimed the whole payment reached russia and was spent on the construction of railways. however the ship carrying the gold received. had sunk in the pacific. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. like many alaskans he refers to. the lower forty eight. of the forty nine most people in the lower forty eight don't know that alaska is part of america. but many believe that it's own country and they wonder what kind of money they're going to have to use when they're here and. i've actually had people. you sound just like. gary has lived in the small settlement. since birth. here is. a few english words gary however doesn't speak russian my grandfather passed away a couple of decades ago

the scope of alaska i have no idea about that stuff like nothing i don't know anything about that alaska is cold. it was cold a box of ice a polar bear garden and wall russia but in the language of the indigenous peoples the word alaska means the great land. sven haakanson is steering his boat out of the narrow bay of kodiak island his ancestors have lived here since time immemorial. over the thousands of years they to solve this seascape each time they put out to sea to hunt. but they use mineral canoes with a couple of paddles instead of comfortable motor boats with powerful engines in the past yes it was very very difficult to hunt as an individual you need to group in order to. actually capture for example you look at the sea lions over here in order for you to hunt one of those in the several people. on a summer day and seven hundred forty one scores of natives of the land set out on a hunting expedition in canaries they spotted odd looking ships on the horizon. those big sail boats belonged to an expedition led by a russian explorers bearing and cherokee. that was how kodiak island

when the russians came to alaska the lives of the indigenous people changed. many of them began to work for the russian american company jobs involved hunting for sea otters fishing and taking part in the building of new settlements russian priests and monks visited alaska and baptized the locals into the orthodox faith russian men married local girls. russian men had local women and their children were called creole. creoles were well educated they held top posts in the russian capital to ship as well as in the colonial administration book in alaska. surrender how concerned lives a life entirely different from his ancestors to him putting out to sea is more like fun than work. as proud of his traditional bathhouse he sees it as a symbol of successive generations and imbedded russian traditions. when the russians came. the thing that is similar are the rocks and the heat and steaming the washing inside the vanya and that's something that we've been doing for centuries and that's a tradition where now we have a wooden house which is a russian vanya which just a

tonight's stop steamy alaska. not the weather. the feud is between two candidates of three we are live in anchorage to give you the inside story. three candidates squaring off today in a forum. murkowski running as a write-in. tea party0#zl4 favorite miller d mayor mcadams. you will hear from each of the three tonight right here. first joe miller. miller knocked out murkowski in the republican primary. senator murkowski refused to back down. miller went on the record. nice to see you. delight to watch this forum today. you talk about feel good forum policy what did you mean and what would you do about afghanistan now? >> that's a very difficult issue we are committed there. the one thing i will tell you for sure, we to support our men and women in uniform. they to get the support they need to protect themselves to accomplish the mission. >> greta: are they getting that now? >> they could use more. i'm happy with the troops increased. frankly, where they are at right now with the deaths occurring it clear we can do more to support

i was voting for alaska's interests. that is really what it should be about. >> i guess i would take issue with the concept of voting for alaska's interests being that we are such a infrastructure poor state and one that needs federal investment to vote against $1.6 billion in federal projects including a research vessel for u.a.f., the hospital in nome, to vote against 11 appropriations bills of 89 projects totaling $400 million. i have come back to your office and advocated for a budget to vote no on those types of projects and come back and issue a press release to take credit for things you voted no on makes no sense to hrfrbgens. -- alaskans. >> back to the reporters asking questions. you have 45 seconds to answer these, laurie. >> mr. miller, based on a comment on your website you suggest it wasn't appropriate for the federal government to assist after hurricane katrina. are you suggesting that if alaska were to suffer another major earthquake we should not get federal aid? >> i'm not sure what comment you are refe

the mandates do not fit the state of alaska. no child left behind is not fit the state of alaska. it is not about whether federal funds are collected. it is about who is in the best position to spend it and decide. i am confident that the state of alaska and the teachers and educators are better fit to make those decisions. >> when it comes to help reform, we need to understand how a one size fits all approach does not work for us in a state like alaska. i have introduced a legislation several years back and we continue to work on it. is the accountability act. we want to make sure that all our kids receive the best education. eight. snapshot in time that dings school in one area does not recognize the good that comes out of our schools. we need to violate our schools on the progress that they have made. i have provisions within my legislation that would help to advance us as a rural state and not compromise the games that we have made. >> now, this is the top kennedy to ask questions of each other. please make your questions brief and to the point. responses can ask -- can last a

alaska wasn't even a state yet. and they got all sorts of wonderful entries with polar bears and everything else you'd relate to alaska, eskimo images, those sorts of things. but he simply went with the big dipper, which is a part of ursa, the great bear, because he saw strength in the people of alaska. and then he also included the north star, because, whether it was his foresight, his hope, whatever it might be, he saw that someday alaska would be, or he hoped it would be the northernmost of the united states. >> his hope became a reality in 1959, when alaska became our 49th state. today, alaska remains our nation's largest state geographically, but our smallest in terms of population. with "flag facts," i'm kristen. >>> coming up, i'll take you to the yankees' home away from home. >>> this season we were invited to do some behind-the-scenes reporting on the new york yankees. here's this week's segment. ♪ >> reporter: sunshine and baseball. welcome to tampa, florida, home to the yankees' spring training. are you

it's about alaska communities. it's about alaska's people. it's about sending somebody to washington, d.c. that recognizes that we are a young state, an infrastructure-poor state, that we're a state that has a case to be made before a national audience that we need to be invested in with the help of washington, d.c. you know, the environment nationally, of course, alaska does i said own thing. in fact, alaska politics often run nationally to what's going on nationally. we believe we're going to peak at the right time. >> now you'll go to a lightning rod. you'll each have 15 seconds to answer these questions. you'll hear the bell when your time is up. dave? >> should we extend the bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, which means those making $200,000 or more? mr. mcadams. >> no, we should not. we should allow the tax cuts for members of the population who make more than $250,000 a year. >> mr. miller? >> absolutely. we're entering into a double-dip recession. cutting taxes will exacerbate the problem. we need to stimulate the econom

former governor of alaska is speaking in orlando, florida. let's take a shot of this. she is joining republicans like mark rubio and michael steele for a final 2010 victory fund-raising rally, weeks after sarah palin and michael steele got voters excited for election day out west. phil keating has more on this. >> reporter: sarah palin just to took the stage to the delight of the crowd to about 2,000 people here. the let's hear what the former of the governor of alaska is saying. >> i spent my time.... [ inaudible ]

alaska does their own thing. in fact, alaska politics tend to run counter than national politics. >> we will now go to a lightning round. you will each have 15 seconds to answer and you only hear the bell when your time is up. >> should be extended the bush era tax cuts for the wealthiest americans which means those making $200,000 or more? mr. mcadams? >> we should extend them for the middle-class, but we should allow the tax cuts for members of the population to make more than $200,000 per year. >> absolutely. we are going to enter into a double-dip recession. it will exasperate the problem. we need to stimulate the economy and it is not by raising taxes. >> during a recession is not the time to raise taxes. we need to extend the 2001-2003 tax cuts. whether we will be able to do them beyond one year or two will be taken up in november. >> clarify for me, is that contradictory to the goal of raising the national debt? >> reducing the debt needs to be done. we have expanded the federal government so far beyond th

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this is bp's giant prudhoe bay oil field on alaska's north slope. it represents 8% of america's domestic oil production. but opened more than 30 years ago, inadequate or deferred maintenance here, too, has workers worried. >> the pipelines are rusted where insulation has fallen off. >> narrator: managers won't talk, but workers like marc kovac, protected by their union, explained how, back in the '60s, everyone thought the field would last 20 years. they were wrong. >> all of the modules were designed in 1966 and put in place in the '70s. and the expected lifespan of the field and that equipment was designed to last till 1987, and then it was supposed to be pulled out. after they started drilling, they knew that the pay zone was a lot deeper, but we're still using a lot of the infrastructure that was supposed to be pulled out in '87. they're going to run everything to failure, which means that everything here is going to be worn out completely by the time they decide to leave. >> there is so much money here that they're kind of in the quandary of ha

seat in alaska. check this out a conservative think tank poll has mcadams six points off joe miller. he was got a real shot at winning this thing. joining me now is alas -- from alaska is scott mcadams. scott, you're a big guy from a small town. that's what the information says on you. you're a former football coach. you were the president of the association of alaska school boards, a former commercial fisherman. you know what it's like to work with your hands and you've got the labor folks behind you. can you win this election now that there's a write-in candidate in murkowski? what's the landscape? >> ed, thanks for having me on the show. yes we can win this election and we will. when you take alook atla,,as ca first of all share with your audience that this state is far more reasonable and rational than it might seem from look outside. i tell you alaska while we do tend to vote republican often in this state, this state has the third highest concentration of union employees in the united states. w

alaska. go to alaska. you brought that up a minute ago. could a democrat be elected senator against alaska against two republicans? >> here's what's going on there. you know this anecdotal evidence but in the anchorage in the business community now the anchorage, okay, that were -- think of them as sort of the ted stevens' coalition. okay? the late-ted stevens. the people who want to do business in alaska, and they sit there and they say, we don't think joe miller's a guy that's who understands how to get federal money back to alaska, how everything works. they're very nervous about him. they prefer murkowski. but they're not convinced that this writing campaign can work, and so you see mcadams benefitting from a pretty amazing fund-raising quarter for alaska. he's getting real money now. and there is a bed hedging, you have conversations going on in alaska circles, talking about this idea of what to do. the preference is murkowski but if she can't win and then their second choice is mcadams. >> chris, just really quickly. >> go ahead. >>

that's anwar and alaska, national petroleum ereserve in alaska, drilling on the coast. natural gas and nuclear energy. this administration democrats are wedded to a policy of solar and wind, which are sweet and nice, and theoretical but they're extremely uneconomical. >> bret: so you're pro-solar panel on the white house? >> i'm not against it. it's a nice accoutrement but not solution for energy problem. >> bret: that's it for the panel. stay tuned for a weather report unlike any other. >> bret: finally tonight, television news is fast-paced. you have to be on your toes because sometimes the camera comes on without warning. so when local news teams head to their weather centers, sometimes this happens. ♪ >> this is eyewitness news, the news leader. [crashing] >> oh, hello

. >> and speaking of joe miller, the tea party-backed candidate in alaska and sarah palin backed over lisa murkowski whom he defeated trying to nail murkowski and prevent her write-in campaign from taking off with sort of a throw-back to an old-fashioned ad. this is mad man come to politics. let's watch. >> hello, voters. look at the ballot. now, look at him. this is joe miller. now, back to the ballot. you see his name. now look at her. back to the ballot. sadly, she is not on the ballot. why? because she lost. she lost to joe miller. look up. it is joe miller. vote for joe miller for united states senate. [ whistling ] >> well, it is a parody of the old spice ad. >> yes, the rhythm of the voice was viral, and people caught on it to, and in many ways joe miller has that sort of alaska plaid shirt-wearing and loves the outdoors sort of old spice kind of guy, so in a way it reinforces his image as well. >> but at the same time, it is a very hard race to poll, because you don't know how many people are going to try to write-in. it has not happened since strom thurmond in 1954. >> yes. >

. >>> well, todd and former alaska governor are dismissing talk with a rift with joe miller. according to a leaked e-mail reported yesterday from a blog up in alaska, todd was angry with miller for stepping around the question whether or not his wife is qualified to be president. yesterday todd released this statement, my family has worked hard in supporting joe miller. so when i heard he said something less than supportive of my wife's efforts, i responded. but it turns out we'd gotten our wires crossed and joe hadn't said anything like what i had been told. so there's no story here except the fact that the press put our personal e-mails online again, and again couldn't even be bothered to conceal. when asked yesterday if sarah palin is qualified to be president, miller responded much as he had before all this controversy saying the former alaska governor meets the requirements spelled out in the constitution and it's not his role to comment on races other than his own. >> any one of which make a far better candidate than what we have right now in the oval office. her decisi

senate race in the state of alaska. i have been asked about various candidates throughout the country during this race. that's not my role to comment on nose candidacies. megyn: somebody has released a private email exchange twin and todd palin. he says, hold off on anything more for joe. sarah put or blank on the line for him and yet he can't answer a simple question, is she qualified? he says, joe, please explain how this endorsement stuff works? is it to be completely one-sided. sarah spent all morning working on a facebook post for joe, and she won't it's, not now. he has since come out and said, i misunderstood what joe said to chris wallace. this is much ado about nothing. i want to give you a chance to respond. >> we have been consistent about this from the beginning. the palins are good friends of mine. critical in the primary. but what we don't want to fall into is the trap the media is trying to create, this misguide idea that what's going on in alaska is a feud between the palins and the murkowskis. what's go

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i have eight episodes documenting alaska resources, what we can contribute to the rest of the u.s. to contribute it to the union. family comes along the ride because i am family. they come along to document the eight episodes for learning and discovery channel. karl is wrong right there calling it a reality show. >> chris: your series starts on the cable channel tlc november 14. here is a brief clip. >> let your foothold. you always wanted to be a rock climber, sarah. >> was it a rock climber, or a rock star? about halfway up the rock, i did not know if i was going to be able to finish the task. a couple more inches and i can have my knee on it. a little more. >> you're almost there, honey. >> oh, god. >> chris: cliff hanger, i don't want to know what happened, did you make it out alive or not? i'm going to tell you what i think, i'll be bill o'reilly. you're having too much fun, you're making too much money, you're a big player in national hospital. you don't have 100 people like me chasing you around saying what do you read in the morning? i don't think you are going to run. >> t

murkowski even leaning on the late alaska senator ted stevens. >> she's working for alaska every single day. >> reporter: that ad was recorded just before the popular senator was killed this summer in a plane crash. murkowski got his daughter's blessing to use it. but miller is getting some big-name help, too, from sarah palin, who in an e-mail to voters, is taking a swipe at murkowski, whose father was once governor saying "public service should be an honor, not a family dynasty." it's still unclear whether murkowski voters will be energetic enough to not only fill in her name on the ballot but they have to circle in that oval next to it. they have to do both those things. otherwise the vote doesn't count. just another logistical hurdle in a race that for now is still neck and neck. brian? >> lee cowan on the big alaska race tonight. we mentioned another of the big high profile races in this entire election season going on right now right here in california. and if you don't like political ads, by the way, it is not safe yet to go near a tv. jerry brown, who was the youngest california

scott mcadams in alaska may prove it. if you think it's your time to run, run. >> a democrat could win up there. chris? >> i was going to add to chuck's point. in real estate, it's location, location, location. in politics, it's timing. everybody said a senator named barack obama just got elected, he's going to run in 2008 against hillary clinton? that makes no sense. barack obama new times. if you're beau biden, son of the vice president, you've got to bç kicking yourself a little bit because as you said, there are a lot of races that may decide the senate majority. this isn't one of them. he went from a guy who was a decided underdog on september 13th when we thought mike castle was going to be the nominee. >> any candidate who thinks back what could have happened is crazy. beau biden has no idea what events would have taken place had he gone in the race. like those movies where you go back in time and screw up everything because something different happened. >> chris -- >> i'm sorry. chuck. >> if my aunt was never min

the late alaska senator ted stevens. >> she's working for alaska every single day. >> reporter: that message was recorded just before the popular senator was killed this summer in a plane crash. it was a sensitive, even risky move to run it, but stevens's own daughter gave murkowski her blessing. miller has his share of endorsers, not the least of which is sarah palin. her nod and the financial support of the tea party express helped miller whose ads say his race with murkowski is history. he calls him a constitutional conservative and he resonated with voters who see him as the voice of an angry populist. >> lisa murkowski represents all the things they don't like about washington. >> reporter: while he's raid a lot of money he raised aot of eyebrows too. it was just ruled his records needed to be made public. last week his security team hand cuffed a reporter at a town hall meeting who was trying to ask questions about it. once leading, miller finds hymn in one tight race. >> here's the difference between me, joe and lisa. they think the campaign is all about them. >> reporter: eve

in the alaska senate race, joe miller, supported by pail and i know the tea party, took the g.o.p. nomination from incumbent lisa murkowski, who is now waging a write-in campaign. democrat scott mcadams is far behind. ben tracy now from anchorage. >> we are going to win. >> yes, we are! >> reporter: pressing the flesh at a hockey game in anchorage, republican u.s. senator lisa murkowski never expected to be on such thin ice. >> nobody was more disappointed than i was. >> reporter: she's the incumbent from one of the state's political power families. >> i'm joe miller, the true conservative choice... >> reporter: yet an unknown attorney and tea party insurgent beat mur kousk net republican primary. she is now running as a write-in candidate. the race is a dead heat. >> this will be a republican seat. the real question to alaskans will be which republican do you want to represent you in washington, d.c.. >> reporter: miller, who denied repeated requests for an interview, questioned whether federal programs such as social security, medicare, and unemployment benefits are constitutiona

. >> reporter: tonight, the big game in alaska is all about hunting votes. neal karlinsky, abc news, anchorage. >>> and in less than two weeks, readers will be able to get their hands on "decision points," the new memoir by former president bush. but today, we learned some of what the former president reveals, including something startling about 9/11. martha raddatz has more. >> reporter: so you can be alone in there and that's where you write the book? >> well, you know, that's where i'm planning on writing a book. >> reporter: president bush has been working on this book for years. a book that "the drudge report" today described as "strikingly personal," but one that takes few shots at his critics, even steering clear of president obama. drudge reports that bush himself was the one who gave the order to shoot down planes on 9/11, and thought at first that the u.s. military had shot down flight 93 over pennsylvania. this book is all about decisions. from the decision to go to war in iraq to his opposition of stem cell research, the book's first chapter is c

voters in alaska will soon find out. judge ordered release of the republican employment records from his time as a part-time attorney at the fairbacks north star bureau. joe miller be a guest in the next hour to talk about the ruling and his controversial advisor as well. stick around. >>> we have a new member of the fox familiy to welcome today. meteorologist maria molina joins us with the forecast and hurricane richard. welcome. great to see you. >> thank you, shannon. great to be with you. yes, you're right. we have hurricane richard just been upgraded in the past couple of actually hour-and-a-half around that time. it is currently a category one hurricane. sustained winds at 85 miles per hour. so a powerful hurricane. we can see it here right off the coast of belize. that will continue to move on shore. it's really got its act together in the past couple of hours. that area that you do see in red is really where the heaviest of the rain is, concentrated around the storm system. further intensification is expected wit

. >> a little bit of humor out of former governor of alaska. also, in the state this weekend, showing how important florida is playing for both parties, tim kaine the former virginia governor is the democratic national committee chairman, he was down south, outside of miami, campaigning for kendrick meek who was in pretty much of a long shot bid for the florida senate seat. >> rick: this is primarily a fund-raiser, right? >> reporter: yes, without a duty, tickets ranged from $20 to the multiple hundreds of dollars and we don't know exactly what they garnered. but look at this midterm election cycle, going from election day, when president obama won the way to the white house, all the way through mid-october, this is according to both parties, they tell me that the democrats actually have the lead fund raised, look at the two year cycle, democrats pulled in $193 million and republicans, $167 million and just look at last month, september, the democrats say they gathered $17 million, compared to $10 million for the republicans as to explain that,