. >>> i want to bring in the great nina totenberg, it's really nice to see you this evening, thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> can you give us a layman's understanding of what the court could have done and how much they did within that realm of possibility? how far did they go and how emphatic was this ruling? >> it was pretty emphatic but still pretty limited because all this was about was the temporary restraining order, the stay on the government from continuing to enforce that executive order. so now comes the question of whether the order itself is constitutional or not within the statutes and there are lots of arguments on that. >> do you think the washington state attorney general who we just heard from is right in assessing probably the next step is that this is going to be back with the trial court judge? back with the district court judge and it will be a matter of working this out on the merits, taking depositions, using discovery to get to both the intent and impact of this order? >> i think that's probably right although you can neck be sure. i would doubt th

but not as furious as their constituents are. >> o'brien: nina totenberg, marcia coyle, two of the best court watchers in the land, thank you both very much. >> my pleasure. >> woodruff: nearly half the world's population, three billion people, cook using stoves that burn bio-mass fuel, like wood or charcoal. that seemingly-harmless act is silently killing millions every year because of regular exposure to harmful smoke. an international alliance is on a mission to reduce those deaths by distributing 100 million cleaner stoves around the world, but some health experts doubt whether those new stoves can truly save lives. as hari sreenivasan reports in a story produced with global health frontiers, researchers in ghana are trying to find the answer. >> most of our communities and households in ghana-- actually, in africa-- are rural by nature, and therefore they depend on wood to cook their food, to heat their water. >> reporter: dr. kwaku poku asante is the head of research at the kintampo health research center of the ghana health service. he's leading a study on the effects of wood smo