Nevada

( tranquil theme playing ) Here in Southern Nevada, man is changing the bleak face of nature.

Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky. Oh yeah.

How was Nevada?

Nevada, up in Farmington.

You can call this a cubicle warrior.

These are the schools we are sending them to

Then Roger Kennedy, who was the director of the National Parks Service,

Now, two weeks ago, that dream took a step forward, when the state of Nevada granted Google's self driving car the very first license for an autonomous vehicle, clearly establishing that it's legal for them to test it on the roads in Nevada.

California and Nevada border on each other.

You can pick it up in Nevada Arizona, New Mexico.

We met in the Nevada desert 18 months ago.

And so this is something that maybe a lot of people don't realize.

I said to him, Probably right here Elko, Nevada. Our nation's high at 79 today.

But outside, I've got reports of the blue stuff making a scene here in Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.

It's right on the eastern border of Nevada.

It was a very productive silver mine.

And when I went to college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas when I was 18,

You think we could get the state of Nevada to outlaw gambling?

I didn't read music, but I played synthesizers and drum machines.

Moving across to the West coast, you see San Francisco and Los Angeles big low traffic zones across Nevada and Arizona.

It was made clear you were never again welcome in any nevada gaming establishment.

So we looked all over the U.S. We found them in New York, we found them in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Florida.

Let's get some coffee and get the fuck out of Nevada...

It's a boattail. 264 caliber bullet manufactured by Winchester in 1989.

And I assembled this in my garage, and it now lives in the physics department of the University of Nevada, Reno.

Things not that different than what I'm describing happened in places like Modesto and Stockton, California, and parts of Miami and Nevada and Arizona.

led us to Eastern Nevada, to America's newest and oldest national park, which is called Great Basin National Park.

There, about 45 scientists from the University of Wisconsin, the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and others have been working to answer a central question about global warming.

Because of that, because of that, Mexico cedes over all this area, so California, and all of the rest of, you know, Nevada, Arizona, and with the part of New Mexico that didn't come along with the United States, didn't already have.

Our cars have been able to drive hundreds of thousands of miles all across California and some of Nevada, in downtown areas like San Francisco, on busy highways.

This was a government sponsored robot race in which autonomous robots were asked to drive through the Mojave desert from California to Nevada along 141 miles of really punishing desert terrain.