shani went through a rebranding campaign. things onine is great the horizon. you conceive coming into the community, we are quite noticeable. >> commented people live here? >> 31,000 people. population is probably 70 to 100,000. city limits proper comey are at about 31,000. >> who lives here? what are folks doing here? who does it draw? >> we are far enough from oklahoma city that we are our own community. we have been in it -- been in existence for over 100 years per we are close enough to oklahoma city that we benefit from that proximity. we have a number of people who commute to oklahoma city for work. our largest local economic drivers include four area tribes, oklahoma baptist university, 2200 students and several hundred employees. >> right now, we are driving through oklahoma university. tell me about the university. how does that play into the general feeling of the city and the population? >> i think it plays in hugely. we are a university town, in many senses. it has been here for over 100 years. it started on 60 acres of land and $100,000 that the c

watch c-span cities tour of shani, oklahoma saturday at noon eastern on c-span2 of booktv and sunday at 2 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3 working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. at a capitol hill meeting conference chuck schumer had a proposal on guns that includes closing loopholes and improving gun background check system. this is 15 minutes. >> okay. hi everybody. [inaudible conversations] thank you for squatting. waiting, everyone ready well okay, good morning. now, i'm sure many of you in this room and many americans around the country watch the president's meeting on gun violence yesterday and were rather stunned and surprised many of us pleasantly by what we saw. first, i would like to give credit where credit is due. the president said a lot of things right yesterday. he seemed to strongly endorse universal background checks to ensure that people who shouldn't have a gun don't have access to one. he seemed open to an assault weapons ban and other measures

shani was settled in 1931. they opened this area of pottawatomie county and they were four main people the claimed mistakes. shortly after the land run in the belt of the first house in shani. they lived in that cabin only a short time, for about a year before they built a larger residence. now, it is located on the grounds in pottawatomie county. this is just north of the depot. the records indicate that it was [indiscernible] that named the town. several people got together and it had been called for city because this is timberland here. there is names thrown around and there were several other names thrown around. in an all-night discussion of james who named the town, finally came up with a compromise to name the town shawnee after the shawnee native american tribe. the pottawatomie county museum is housed here in the santa fe depot. started -- the construction was started in 1983. 3. 1903, this kind of looks like a european cathedral. a lot of people call it the castle when they come. a lot of locals call

the governments these girls they need security we thank you so much joining us from a puja bookie shani barry founder of the girl child africa and strategic team leader for the bring back our girls movement we appreciate it. thank you. all now in other news and we're heading to iraq the city of mosul there last summer iraqi forces pushed out the so-called islamic state after which had taken control of the city for three years but the battle to drive out the extremists left the city in ruins the u.n. estimates that rebuilding its infrastructure will cost more than a billion dollars and take years to complete the reopening of a school in the old city is a sign of her new hope. events a day of celebration for these children now the first school in muscles all town is reopening. under i.i.s. rule there were no lessons here children were not allowed to attend school now three hundred pupils are able to study here one small and iraqi volunteer group raised ten thousand u.s. dollars to rebuild the. from a bombed out shell. with. a girl recites poetry at the opening ceremony. read handprints le