this one shares the continental divide with can colorado river. so this is indicative of what happens in spring of 06. the dark bars are what it was on april 01 and this is may one a month later. most of these lost 50 percent of their snow on one month period. many my favorite is went from 176 to normal and 0 percent in one month. this is a spring time warming trend that's quite son certain. this is provided by the national resource office in new port land. the trees are containing the manager's and it's been my pleasure to work with connie and she a long with dave and a few others reconstructed this going back five years and we're looking at a 20 year average dating to about 1500. what's interesting is the tree ring is 13 point 5 acre point feet and historical is 18 point 1. with this no one cares about individual years and what's more important is the run, the sequences of drought and this is where the trees na >> some of them use temperatures and some use global climate models and some both. there are lots of future greenhouse gas predictions.

the senator from colorado. mr. udall: i would like to talk briefly about the legislation that i asked for unanimous consent. this is a bipartisan bill. i filed it, and it's -- mr. shelby: i object. the presiding officer: objection has already been heard. mr. inhofe: there are two motions, but go ahead. i am objecting to a discussion of the amendment at this time until i find out how long he is going to be. mr. kerry: mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that the senator from colorado have three minutes to make his comments. mr. inhofe: fine. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: i thank the senators for his courtesy. the reason i have offered this consent agreement today is this would help literally hundreds of small businesses create hundreds of thousands of jobs at no cost to the american taxpayer. i did want to in the spirit of bipartisanship mention the cosponsors of the bill. the cosponsors start with the majority leader from nevada, and it's followed by senators snowe, collins, schumer,

those are plausible in colorado. the,y axis is number of years in which we get plugs out of records. 78 years. there are two things to catch from this. one, is first of all, the vulnerability of the relative moderate increase of flow in the colorado. a ten percent increase in flow. changes the number of years with uncontrolled spills, floods, from six out of 78 in the data case to 16 out of 78 years some more than doubles the ten percent increase, more than doubles the years you have uncontrolled spills and different colors, blue is little spills and most are red the big ones. sorry the smaller one. you don't get really big spills undercurrent conditions. but when a 20 percent increase in flow your getting more inflows. the system is sincetive to climate. the second important point here is, this whole project. assessing the risk, assuming we operate the system the same way thomas we operating today, we were told when we proposed the project we could not change the operating rules that reservoirs and could not change

but why colorado springs, 1,000 miles from the mexican border? law enforcement officials say it's the interstate highway system-- stretching north out of juarez into colorado and then branching off to points east and west. kevin merrill runs the d.e.a.'s regional headquarters. >> when the focus of law enforcement along the border is high, that makes the traffickers seek out less hot areas and so colorado springs, being right off the i-25 corridor literally only you know about ten hours from the border by vehicle, it is a good place to be because it's a prime location for them to, to set up shop. >> reporter: el paso county sheriff terry maketa, whose jurisdiction surrounds colorado springs, says the mexican cartels operate quite differently than the columbian cartels that dominated the business in the '80s and '90s. >> it's a lot more sophisticated when, when it's run as a business. i mean they have the head of an organization, they have business plans, they have networks set up. in some of the cases we've been involved in there have been very, v

the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i agree with my colleague from california that to the extent we can grow american markets we need to work together in a bipartisan way to do that. i join my colleague on letters to the president, as colleagues on both sides of the aisle, to encourage the further development of trade relationships. certainly starting with trade agreements that are very near completion with colombia, panama, and south korea. also the opportunity to host the honorable ambassador from panama in my district of colorado not too long ago, and i was able to introduce him to a number of colorado businesses which stand to benefit from this. of course as a matter how this comes to task, these efforts cannot be initiated by this body. we cannot have an amendment to a c.r. if this was an open rule, we could not have an amendment to an appropriations bill which contained a trade agreement. it has to be negotiated and delivered to us by the administration. i know that president obama has been committed to del

the colorado river is in it's 7th year of drought and record low levels on the reservoirs. the other ss get water from california. which wildly fluctuates. so i think i don't gamble i just work in california water. you get the same sensation of putting it on the line all the time. we have a large capitol improvement program and it's part of the analysis and it mately the response we have done to some of these challenges. let me show you where our transmission line is. we go from the northern border to the mexican border. three thousand miles of pipe. it's now about 13 feet in diameter and we serve 3 point 2 million people a year and serve an economy of billions. there is my life. you are here. there i am. i'm that corner at the bottom of the pipes in a really bright orange yellow area. we get an average of 8 inches of rain per year. so we - there is very little we can do related to rain fall and local run off. our strategies have to be radically different than strategies that edward and chuck have sitting in portland and seattle and i think if there's anything you take away

as my first years general manager. , brad will talk first hand he's on the faculty of university of colorado the director of university water assessment and was one of the great names in western law and politics. our next speaker doctor dan will repeat that entire lunchtime presentation except he'll talk really fast and do it in ten minutes. our third speaker barry nelson,

as my first years general manager. , brad will talk first hand he's on the faculty of university of colorado the

>> exactly. >> reporter: there are more pot dispensaries in colorado than starbucks. too close for some. >> how die teach my kid it's an illegal drug, federally it's illegal. what kind of signal do we send to our young people? >> what does it send to your children when you have a fully stocked refrigerator with coors light or budweiser in it? >> reporter: it's a debate that raging on in colorado and across the country as the medical marijuana movement brings us closer to imagining what the legalization of pot might look like. >> you can see more of the reporting on this to her on a special program "marijuana usa" tonight at 10:00 eastern on cnbc. >>> no engagement is complete without them. photographs of the happy couple, prince william and kate middleton. they were taken by fashion and celebrity photographer mario testino, a favorite of princess diana. >>> up next, star turn. getting in character by going to extremes. ever had a heart attack. if anything, i thought i'd get hit by a bus, but not a heart. all of a sudden, it's like an earthquake going off in your body.

colorado has tried to collect. wouldn't kind of streamlined sales tax method be performance bl to these individual state kind of attempts to do different things? >> guest: well, the states are trying to, other than colorado, the states are trying to define what is physical nexus. and -- physical presence, in essence, trying to push the boundaries and find out where the boundaries are. that's what the new york case is, that's what north carolina did, rhode island had done that. so those are all within the rubric of the quill decision. now, i think we'll see more of that, more attempts, and i think that other states are all watching what happens in new york and in north carolina in the court cases to decide whether or not they want to take that, take that step with this affiliate tax in creating nexus. but in many states the marketers who have affiliates have just canceled those -- in rhode island they just canceled them. so in rhode island it probably is a loss, they had a tax loss doing this because they lost incom

the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i yield the gentleman from florida the opportunity to submit a statement for the record. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. >> i thank the gentleman for the opportunity to submit my statement for the record on behalf of thousands of florida students, businesses and family. mr. polis: i have no additional speakers on this side. i'd like to inquire how many speakers the other side has. mr. wool -- ms. foxx: we have several speakers. mr. polis: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: i would like to yield four minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. lincoln diaz-balart. mr. diaz-balart: thank you. i think it's unfortunate that the way the majority leadership has treated this issue. see tha bringing the stimulus and the cap and trade and the health care legislation, all of the political capital that the president and this majority leadership had has been exhausted and after receiving that defe

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addiction recovery advocates in colorado got to enjoy a day at the ballpark as they attended a colorado rockies baseball game. the home team went on to win the game and the attendees even got a shout- out on the big screen. dawn farm hosted their 36th anniversary jamboree in ypsilanti, michigan. the goal of the event was to raise awareness about the tremendous power of recovery and to raise funds that enable dawn farm to continue their mission to provide services for those who have no other resources. the free event was open to people of all ages and featured tons of activities for all to enjoy, including live music, hay rides, pony rides, and a silent auction of donated items. in honor of recovery month, recovery advocates in michigan gathered on the lawn of the state capital in lansing for a rally for recovery. highlights of the event included guest speakers from the treatment field, policy makers, and the voices of those in recovery. additionally, there was live music and fun activities for kids. in honor of recovery month, the focus ministry at gethsemane baptist church hosted a fai

still to come, christmas career from colorado. úç>?[ozo >> bret: federal authorities trying to determine why mexican drone was in texas air space before it crashed in a backyard in el paso after sunset tuesday. no one was injured. the drone was returned to mexican officials. checking world headlines now. mike mullen believes the pakistani military can shut down taliban hide-outs on soil to prevent them from moving back and forth along the border. pakistani officials say missile strikes killed people and they pulled the station chief out of pakistan after threats made against his life. north korea has is threatening defense strikes if there are drills in the coming days. earlier exercise from the south prompted last month's shelling of an island by the north. white house anti-terrorism chief brennan says they're watching up efforts to capture or kill militants. he met with the yemen president today. he told him yemen must do more in the fight against terror and told usa to yemen isn't arriving fast enough. in coming years part of the ba

senator from colorado, a democratic presidential candidate in 1984 and 1988. he is a professor at the university of colorado and an author of "the thunder and the sunshine." he joins us tonight from denver. senator, good to have you back on the program, sir. >> it is a pleasure, mr. smiley. tavis: let me start with the question of the democrats and how or if in fact they can get their mojo back. you have been around for years in politics, so you've seen these kinds of ads and flows. what strikes you about what has happened and democrats -- to democrats in november? >> i think the democratic party must define the future in terms that the american people can understand. there is a sense in this country that we are stagnant, that we are if anything moving in circles and not forward. not only for our generation but for our children and future what my party has to do, and indeed all of those in public office, is construct a narrative that explains to the american people how investment today profits this country in the future and offers us more hope and promise, and

new mexico and colorado tonight dallas tomorrow night, and christmas, it will hit atlanta. also on christmas, another storm is expected to hit southern california. erica. >> hill: can't seem to catch a break. bill whitaker, thanks. millions of americans, meantime are, heading home for christmas tonight, most of them by car. it's estimated 93% of this year's holiday travelers are driving, that's nearly 86 million people. and as don teague reports, they face skyrocketing prices at the pump. >> have a good christmas! >> reporter: in dallas texas eric parmers and his family are on the road to grandma's house 700 miles away in colorado. >> it's not too far for us to drive. as a family, we're always taking long trips. >> it's only 12 mowers. >> reporter: a trip that will cost much more this christmas with gas prices on the rise. nationwide, the average price for regular, 3.01 a gallon, a 43 cent jump since last year, first time it ever topped $3 at christmas. >> this is the highest i've ever paid. >> reporter: the palmers are among the more than 92 million americans on the move t

. >> la apariciÓn de bombas provocaron la evacuaciÓn de varias tiendas en colorado. >> las peligrosos persecuciones que preocupan a muchas familias en el [ locutor ] ¿tienes un resfriado? ¿y no sabes que tomar? haz clic en el buscador de alivio robitussin. sólo haz clic sobre tus síntomas y obtén el alivio adecuado. el pasillo de catarro y tos hecho más simple. el buscador de alivio robitussin. es así de sencillo. >> el departamento de seguridad dice que sÓlo en el aÑo 2000 dÍas fueron deportados mÁs de 400.000 personas indocumentadas, en muchos casos las parejas son deportadas aunque estÉn casados con estadounidenses, viviana nos muestra como una familia de chicago logrÓ reunirse para celebrar la navidad despuÉs de un aÑo de separaciÓn. >> tal y como lo habÍan anhelado la familia nÚÑez logro celebrar esta navidad en chicago. >> no habÍa muchos regalos, pero el regalo mÁs grande de todos fue que estuvimos aquÍ juntos y felices. >> este regalo de navidad fue posible gracias a una visa que solicitaron al departamento de seguridad interna, argumentando que estaba ca

still to come, christmas career from colorado. next up, not so cheery subject. fighting terrorist in cyber space. ! " # $ / 0 i stella: hmmm. we're getting new medicare benefits from the new healthcare law. jane: yea. most people will get free cancer screenings. and 50 percent off of brand name prescription drugs if you're in the donut hole. stella: you read my paper. jane: i went to medicare.gov. it's open enrollment, you know. so i checked out all the options and found a better plan to fit my budget. stella: well, you know what they say...knowledge... jane: knowledge is power. >> bret: federal authorities trying to determine why mexican drone was in texas air space before it crashed in a backyard in el paso after sunset tuesday. no one was injured. the drone was returned to mexican officials. checking world headlines now. mike mullen believes the pakistani military can shut down taliban hide-outs on soil to prevent them from moving back and forth along the border. pakistani officials say missile strikes killed people and they pulled the station chief out of pa

anyway, try tulowitzki to stay in colorado through 2020. it's a wrap for frank gore. the top offensive weapon for the 49ers, he receives ruffle 50% of the team's offensive catches got hurt last night in arizona, suffered a fractured hip, and the 49ers 27-6 win, he's placed on injured reserve. that means he cannot return this year. mike singletary on the exit of gore. >> frank is a big part of what we do, you know, heart, soul, everything. he brings what you want. but thankfully, bryan westbrook is mature, experienced, leader, and i think there will be a good mixture between bryan westbrook and dickson. >> how much will they miss? we'll find out on sunday when they play the packers in green bay, and the sports illustrated sportsman of the year is drew brees, not only honored for his super bowl-winning play on the field, but also a key component say the people of that area, following the tragedy of hurricane katrina. he did a lot of good work in the area. i will give you you -- what's that? >> of all time, them and the maple leaves. >> i know you're bored. >> ten years,

we move from boulder, colorado, to mission bay. tremendous success, beautiful laboratories. we ultimately sold the laboratories to merck, and i took over a nectar and essentially got the same call. and appropriately so. mayor newsom has been a visionary. we are here with about 150 employees. we are a growing company. we will be bringing more employees to the site and hiring employees right here in mission bay and san francisco. i think the mayor for all of his insight and vision -- i think the mayor for all of his insight and vision. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, and welcome. it will come home. i love san carlos. i had a change in my rhetoric a little bit. it is not all about san francisco. it is good to see these clusters of innovation take shape. it is his heart started many years ago. the city and county of of san francisco. we had this great vision of taking this old industrial space, the old shipyard, the old railyard at mission bay and put it together and try to create this biotech park. it was great to get all of the plan is passed. everybody had these

dave is working with colorado springs utilities and others including at least one here in california the short answer is absolute . but are they great? no. but we have to start using them. >> we typically rely on models we get to create in terms of what we think demand and that drives what we build and design things. we have taken into perspective climate change but it's a different challenge in the white water side of the business that have to rely on councils and governments because of population growth and often times their relying on funds that come through the federal funds and their held and bound to using certain models and criteria. so it's getting very complicated when you go into regional planning to flood control to water and all the sets and different for legal reasons as apposed scientific. >> the problem is not the models. there are plenty of models. we have lots of tools. the problem i would argue, is not even the scenarios. there is problems with precipitation. i think the problem is politics and management decisions about who's going to take responsibility for changi

the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. udall: madam president, i'm pleased and proud to follow my colleague from idaho, and what we're hearing about here is that of all the challenges that face our nation -- and there are many of them right now -- that this massive set of annual budget deficits and the overall debt that we face, it's a crippling debt, probably are the most serious and difficult efforts that we have to -- we're facing right now as a people. a strong country -- i heard senator wyden say this, in affect -- is an insolvent insolt country. and conversely, a broke country is a weak country. i heard erskine bowles, cochairman of the commission that we're talking about today, he was asked why are our interest rates low and why are our bonds still desirable. and he said, let's not fool ourselves, and senator chambliss would appreciate this because he used a southern turn of frayed. he said, look, we're still the best-looking horse in the glue factory, that's the only way our interest rates and our bonds are still s

caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> good morning. it is tuesday, december 21. i'm sydnie kohara. >> i'm juliette goodrich. too many now 6:30. topping our news this half hour, one man is dead after police open fire after a high- speed chase. sharon chin is in oakland where another suspect is still on the run. sharon. >>> another suspect is still out there. also investigators are trying to figure out what made police open fire in the first place in the city's sixth officer- involved shooting this year. now four of those shootings have been fatal this included. oakland officers shot a man after he and three others led police on a three-mile chase. it started when they spotted last week's shooting suspect in a red car with guns inside. officers tried to make a traffic stop yesterday afternoon. but the driver sped off and led police on a chase on the highway and city streets of east oakland. the car crashed into a house on the 3300 block of 13th avenue. police say the four men ran in different directions. >> one of the occupants in the vehicle was shot by our office

california colorado and we'll see if they'll be any others will definitely be watching steve thanks so much for being here thank you well coming up next we'll tell you about prison protests underway in georgia and we'll bring you details on a sobering study people who are incarcerated for petty crimes are spending serious time behind bars because they can't post bail so is this just a glaring example of justice being applied differently in this country we're going to speak with someone from the u.s. human rights watch program after the break. what. world leaders. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around russia . we've got the huge earth covered. all right so it's time for show and tell on the lower show now last thursday we asked if you think that obama should face a primary challenger in two thousand and twelve and if so who would it be so here's some of your responses on facebook tommy a dragnet field said i would like to see howard dean come back maybe with fine gold or grayson we need a white house they can whip congress into doing the right thing then gear mor

when you left colorado, did you have any idea what was in store for you? no, i had no idea what was in store for me. i didn't even have a good map. i had a highway map, $500, and a pack full of food. and that was the toughest winter. i lived on beans and pancakes, and i was really lonely. it was terrible. but you know, that was just part of the journey. (calvin) when you found those hardships, what was it that kept you going forward? was it the people? no, it was just the dream of the adventure. you know, even my own dad didn't give me any encouragement in what i was doing. he thought i was crazy. and, you know, in many ways he was right. a young person...i could have died out there. you know, my dad...he was a great guy in many ways, but i saw him settle down to a job that he really hated. he had to work night shift in a power plant, and he lost his hearing because of it. there's a lot of people that work a job they don't like all their life so they can retire when they're old and do something they like. well, i wanted to flip-flop that. i always wanted t

as the heavy weather moves east tonight, bringing snows to colorado and threatening the upper midwest by the new year, searchers near lake tahoe have made a grim discovery. a reminder of just how dangerous these conditions are. nbc's kristen welker is in tahoe city with our report tonight. >> reporter: good evening, lester. this powerful winter storm surge is on, bringing blizzard-like to some areas and arctic, frigid air to others. but it has brought tragedy here to lake tahoe where a missing snowboarder has been found dead, a casualty of this forbidding weather. for two days, search teams combed the lake tahoe wilderness in nearly whiteout conditions, looking for 25-year-old chante willis. she was last seen snowboarding with friends on tuesday. this morning, a crushing discovery. her body found in a tree well. her family inconsolable. >> chante is our life. she's our life. >> reporter: rescue crews say the blinding snow made finding her nearly impossible. >> the weather did not cooperate with us at all. it was our -- it fought us every step of the way. >> reporter: the storm continu

people that can afford to live along the coastline are more insulated than the ones living in colorado or, elcentro. so at the bottom was an account of the increase for these events at this particular model at this particular point which i'm not doing to be labor. finally, the next one. so, i'm going to finish early, brad. as was mentioned, several times, there's a, range of warming we can anticipate but it looks like there's a threat this warming could happen disproportion nightly has we get away from the insulating nature of the ocean that absorbs heat over a water column and ture temperature you get sitting over a continental land surface. the heatwave essentially, is doing to start earlier, if you believe these models. there is an electrical energy and probably other energy implication of all of this, in terms of cooling and power demand. there or this certainly has environmental justice implications, and finally i would say this issue brad mentioned about trying calculate the environmental water demand. that is how much of our water that's delivered is lost to eva evaporation or t

rick salinger is in colorado with the latest on the whiteout. good morning, rick. >> reporter: good morning, rebecca. snow continues to blanket parts of western colorado with forecasters predicting enormous depths. some areas of the mountains could get up to eight feet of snow. a winter storm is bringing heavy and constant snow to colorado's high country, creating dangerous driving conditions. ice and slush made it difficult for vehicles without snow chains to stay on parts of interstate 70, too tough for the snowplow. >> too much slush. a lot of spin-outs. >> reporter: a new storm across the midwest dumped up to eight inches of snow in parts of minnesota. slow going for drivers in the twin cities as slippery conditions caused dozens of crashes, stalls and spin-outs like this one on i-94. >> what do you think it's going to do with six inches of snow on the ground? you can live your life at 10 miles per hour. you will be okay. >> reporter: the congestion got worse as thousands headed to minnesota for the vikings' first outdoor home game in 29 yea

heavy snow also closed highways in south dakota, minnesota, colorado, nevada and arizona. >>> well, a sad update in the search for a missing snow border in the sierra. rescue teams yesterday found the body of the 25-year-old woman missing since tuesday from alpine meadows ski resort. shawnte marie willis got separated from her friends while snowboarding. rescuers aren't sure whether she intentionally left marked trails. >> i really don't want to second-guess her. she was skiing with people. at that particular time, they chose not to go in the same direction. >> her body was found near the base of a tree where it appears that she crashed. an autopsy is scheduled for next week. >>> 4:49. let's check in with tracy. >> hey, good morning. well, our forecast as we move into the big holiday, we will start things off again on a cold note and these temperatures are colder than they were at the same time yesterday morning. 33 in livermore. 34 in concord. temperatures just at or below freezing from fairfield to napa to santa rosa. 32 in vallejo, 37 in san rafael. 37 in oakland, 38 in fremont. 43

. ♪[ music ] >> the musician turned artist died yesterday here in northern colorado from complications related to multiple sclerosis. his album ranks number 58 on rolling stone magazines 500 greatest albums of all time. in the 1980s he turned full time to art and painted for galleries worldwide. he was 69 years old. >>> relighting the lane. effort tonight to bring back the halliday lights stolen from a street in alameda. >>> an early christmas treat for hundreds of bay area christmas kids. how they got to enjoy some presents a week before christmas. ,,,, this holiday season, chevy's giving you more. like a 100,000 mile/5-year powertrain warranty. that's 40,000 miles more than ford. and now we're giving you our best offer of the year. 0% apr financing... plus $1,500 holiday allowance... plus no monthly payments until spring. on most chevy models. but hurry, because your chance to get our best offer of the season ends soon. see your local chevy dealer now. texting...blogging... all this technology, but you're still banking like pilgrims! it's time for new school banking, bubbie. interest

. >>> a colorado woman set up a camera should check on her dog, but saw this instead. a burglar in her bedroom. he apparently found her spare key in the mailbox. he rummaged for ten minutes before leaving with $500 worth of personal items. police are now looking for any leads. >>> organizers of times square's new year's eve extravaganza conducted their annual air worthiness test. handfuls of confetti rained down on the crowd below from an eighth floor window. this year's 2,000 pounds of confetti will feature personalized wishes for 2011 for people around the world. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. obviously, bill, as we talked about earlier in the show, it is so frustrating for the folks in the west that are already dealing with another major system. >> just like to have a break. they would like december to be over with and never do anything like it again. yeah, lynn, yesterday was a day we just put another inch or so into the books for this month. so far this morning ever