as it was for kay mortensen. it was november 16th, 2009, just before thanksgiving. >> hi, this is -- we have the police on the way to help you there, are you sure your dad's cold to the touch? >> kay did not shoot some intruder as he'd long promised he was prepared to do. no, somebody killed him. without firing a shot. and the man on the phone reporting the crime? roger mortensen, kay's eldest son. >> sliced his throat? >> yes. >> it wasn't long before kay's wife darla had made it to the mouth of the canyon and was led to the command post that had been set up just down the hill from their home. that's where they gave her the news. >> your life just comes tumbling down. you know, you have it all planned out. you think you know what it's going to be. and then everything's gone. >> kay caught off guard? not kay, thought darla, impossible. but that seemed to be just what happened. at least that's what roger and pam told the police, and later us. and a very strange story it was that began, they said, when pam received

as it was for kay mortensen. it was november 16th, 2009, just before thanksgiving. >> hi, this is -- we have the police on the way to help you there, are you sure your dad's cold to the touch? >> kay did not shoot some intruder as he'd long promised he was prepared to do. no, somebody killed him. without firing a shot. and the man on the phone reporting the crime? roger mortensen, kay's eldest son. >> sliced his throat? >> yes. >> it wasn't long before kay's wife darla had made it to the mouth of the canyon and was led to the command post that had been set up just down the hill from their home. that's where they gave her the news. >> your life just comes tumbling down. you know, you have it all planned out. you think you know what it's going to be. and then everything's gone. >> kay caught off guard? not kay, thought darla, impossible. but that seemed to be just what happened. at least that's what roger and pam told the police, and later us. and a very strange story it was that began, they said, when pam received

the family marked the grim anniversary of kay mortensen's murder. pam said she was offered a deal, if she turned state's evidence, against roger. >> if you just tell them what they want to hear, then you could go home. but, for me, i was not going to lie just so that i could be a free person. >> reporter: roger's public defender, anthony howe, believed his client was innocent. >> i was looking for that piece of evidence that would be, ah, that's the thing i can't explain and there just was nothing. >> but here's the rub. new juries and his trial approached, he was deeply unsettled. >> i was worried he was going to be convicted, regardless of what i tried to do. >> why? >> because this is the kind of case where a jury would be worried that if they didn't convict, that they would be letting a murderer go free. >> reporter: but howe didn't get the opportunity to defend his client, in court. the reason was that phone call to the utah county sheriff's office. a call from a woman named rachel bingham. and, here's what she had to say. >> what she had been

mortensen himself plays willis‘s son, john, who, along with his sister sarah, played by laura linney,home to california for his own safety. but willis is a ball of rage, deriding his son for being gay, lashing out at anyone who tries to help him, and goading everyone into rows and arguments with whichjohn staunchly refuses to engage. you said you wanted to come live near me and sarah. "as long as it has a garden," you said. why isn't your sister here? is she out wasting money on women's crap with your mother again? it's a school night, for christ's sake. sarah lives in ventura with her family. she's coming for dinner on sunday. intercutting between two time periods, falling makes clear that willis‘s anger issues predate his current health problems — even as a younger man, when he's played by sverrir gudnason, he's character who it's very hard to like. so now, i can't relax and have a smoke in my own home. but henriksen, a veteran of genre favourites like near dark and aliens, breathes real life into a character who makes bruce dern in nebraska seem warm and cuddly, delivering his most

aragorn, academy award nominee, viggo mortensen. >> stephen, stop.these camera guys after me all over the world. >> so, you're not doing it? >> no, i can't do it. i already told you, and if you keep harrassing me i'm going to have to sic my lawyers on you. >> okay... then, reprising his role as frodo, elijah wood! >> yeah, (bleep) it, i'm in. ( cheers and applause ) >> a film 20 years in the making. >> concentrate, young padawan. use the force. >> stephen: come on, man, that is "star wars!" ♪ ♪ this shot looks? >> stephen colbert presents peter jackson's "the lord of the rings" series, "the hobbit: the desolation of smaug's" "the laketown spy" is darrylgorn, in "darrylgorn rising: the rise of darrylgorn." the prequel to part one-- chapter one. >> stephen: am i invisible? because i can see me. should i be able to see me if i'm invisible? and there's nobody here. oh, here comes the evil! ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) ♪ eers andpplause ) >> sen: thank you to per natural beauty of new zealand and have the adventure of a lifetime! we'll be right back with s

after weeks of coded nineteen closure chris mortensen this. the appeals and installed here at paris's pompidou centre welcomed the first members of the public to come head over three months no doubt over the d devastatating r cultural centers like this one forcing them to be online.. not mananagement are looking to well you kinda visitor or not alsls may not we transformed our website to enter a digital plan move all the senses resource. being in traffic was from. out of the thousands of people who looked into online w works on exhibition. there were many people who never came to the museum. people that we normallly have t trouble readingng. the revision can get above normal so hopefully they'll want to come here and see everything for real. well i may contact the activities of. most of harrrris's museums and god have now re opened t the doooors including the chrome palais was to say this week the chance to take in the pompey exception put on hold during the crisis. when we've had to adapt conditions. adopted the visitors have to wear masksks

donna mortensen died who almost reached her goal to live to 100ier. four people died the next day. one of them would you sue stevenson. the times records that her data tried to lift her spirits with facetime calls, only to respond, i love you, bye. emily died an hour after sue stephen son, a korean war veteran temporarily in the facilities. and beers at the local bar. not long after that marjorie blackman, a nurse at the home, was put on a ventilator, as her daughter begged for blood plasma for her mom on facebook. marjorie died just a day later. eunice an loni was a londoner. she met her husband during word war ii, he was an american soldier. she eventually came back to america to raise a fay. she died two days later. constant told her daughter, i don't want to live anymore. i have tried. i'm done. 48 hours later, alice ford died, louise johnson passed away the next day, as did harry nash, a local bookshop owner, spend spending time usually winning chess matches. 48 hours later five people dude includes russell, a magician who was still performing balloon animal shows twice a woul

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expert chris mortensen with us.ou look for when you get these reports that come out of the region, what do you particularly -- how do your ears perk up and on what? >> i am looking for the cases, a lot of people have been talking about this program before. we can take these numbers out of china with a big grain of salt but what they are showing us it's still a increase in the cases, this thing is not like sars, not like the flu, has very serious complication rate, it has a fatality rate that set it apart so when i look at this, i now see it in 23 countries and everything i'm looking at says this is a pandemic and it is spreading. >> neil: compared to sars, what is it looking like? what do you look for that is similar, dissimilar? >> first, this looks like it is spreading much more ineffectively, has a higher transmissivity rate. sars did not spread from person to person until a person has symptoms. so they had a fever or something like that and then they would be spreading it to another person. they looks like it ha

mortensen himself plays willis's son, john, who, along with his sister sarah, played by laura linney,ne into rows and arguments with whichjohn staunchly refuses to engage. you said you wanted to come live near me and sarah. "as long as it has a garden," you said. why isn't your sister here? is she out wasting money on women's crap with your mother again? it's a school night, for christ's sake. sarah lives in ventura with her family. she's coming for dinner on sunday. intercutting between two time periods, falling makes clear that willis's anger issues predate his current health problems — even as a younger man, when he's played by sverrir gudnason, he's character who it's very hard to like. so now, i can't relax and have a smoke in my own home. but henriksen, a veteran of genre favourites like near dark and aliens, breathes real life into a character who makes bruce dern in nebraska seem warm and cuddly, delivering his most fearsomely uninhibited and bravely unsympathetic performance. there is a sly cameo by canadian film—maker david cronenberg, who directed mortensen in eastern promi

on thursday, we will be joined by the actor, direrector, writer viggo mortensen about his new film calledlling." thursday's performance here in salt lake city -- rather, in park city, egyptian theater of howard zinn's "the people's history of the united states." howard zinn died 10 years ago this week. i will also be speaking at 2:00 on friday here in park city at the park city museum right next to dolly's bookstore. you can check it out at democracynow.org. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

we can speak to professor neil mortensen, president of the royal college of surgeons of england.tely surged during the pandemic? is that the direction of travel for most of these sets of statistics we look at in the nhs? good morning. i have only just seen in the nhs? good morning. i have onlyjust seen them, too. if you think in october 2019, the number of people waiting was 1321. it is now over 160,000. that underlines the devastating impact of the pandemic. this is obviously something that is really concerning. overall, the waiting times have been increasing throughout the pandemic, despite lots of heroic efforts by nhs trusts and staff to get things back to normal. but that hasn‘t really happened. i suppose most hospitals getting round to about 50, to 70% of previous capacity. it is adding to this massive problem. i think the total waiting list is now 4.45 million, up on the previous month. it is all right to think about figures, but these are people and in the lowest priority groups, these are people with hip and knee operations, ear nose and throat problems, for example. the

professor neil mortensen, president of the royal college of surgeons of england says this is a national are getting round to about 50, 60, 70% of previous capacity, so that‘s just adding increasingly to this massive problem. i think the total waiting list is now 4.45 million up on the previous month. so, it‘s all right i guess for us to just think about figures but these are people and in the lowest priority groups, these are people with hips and knee operations, for example, ear, nose and throat problems and they are already waiting for many months and now they are going to have to wait many many more months, in pain, needing painkillers, maybe off work, maybe their mobility decreasing, so it‘s a real national crisis. and i suppose the college of surgeons of england‘s view is that whilst we understand that the immediate, if you like, effort for everybody is to get over the pandemic, there will be a moment where we have to reconsider this enormous problem. there needs to be a national strategy to sort out this waiting list problem, a kind of new dealfor surgery so that we can make some

we would also like to think it's got mortensen, and senator mcgovern's daughter, and senator mcgovern as well. scott, your final thoughts, if i could, since you are the presidential author, what is the legacy of george mcgovern? transformed the democratic party in a way that very few have ever transformed the political party. his food for peace, his humanitarian efforts, those may be his greatest legacy is. who knows how many are alive today because of george mcgovern. something i forgot to mention, bill clinton, his texas coordinator. he spawned a lot of young idealists who went into politics and made a name for himself. for a man who lost the presidential election, he had a lot of influence. >> thank you both. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> we are not >> we are not content with things as they are. we reject the view. pres. trump: biden's record is a shameful rollcall of the most catastrophic betrayals and blunders in our lifetime. careerspent his entire on the wrong side of history. mr. biden: our current president has failed in the most basic duty to our

thank don simmons, rod brown, lori langland, kevin kengle, head librarian at the museum, also jack mortensen paul ishofull, jay van took and senator mcgovern's daughter, ann, and thanks to jules witcover and scott farris. scott, can i end with you, your final thoughts if i could since you're the presidential author here. what is the legacy of george mcgovern? >> well, again, he transformed the democratic party in ways that very few people in american politics have ever transformed a hit cal party. of course, his food for peace, the way his humanitarian efforts on behalf of the world and the nation's hungry may be his greatest legacy. who knows how many millions of people are alive today because of george mcgovern. one thing we forgot to mention, we saw a clip from one of his legacies, bill clinton was his texas coordinator. it spawned young idealists who wept into politics and made a name for themselves. for a man who lost, he probably had more influence on a lot of men who won the election. >> scott farris, jules witcover, thank you both. ♪ up next, looking back at c-span's video library at

we also want to thank jack mortensen, jay van duke and senator mcgovern's daughter and and senator mcgovernell. a big thanks to our guests jules witcover and scott farris. can i end with you scott farris, with your thoughts, since you the presidential author here. what is the legacy of george mcgovern? >> again, he transformed the democratic party in ways that very few people in american politics it ever transferred political party. of course, his food for peace, the way he's humanitarian efforts on behalf of the world in the nation's hungry, it maybe his greatest legacy. who knows how many thousands if not millions of people are alive today because of george mcgovern. one thing we forgot to mention as we saw a clip from one of his legacies, bill clinton with his texas coordinator. so that campaign also spawned a lot of idealists went into politics and made a name for themselves. for a man who lost a presidential election, he probably had a more influence than a lot of men who won the election. >> thank you both. up next, we look back at c-span's video library at the 1972 democratic nationa

we want to thank the george and judy mortensen practice fund on this event. we couldn't do this great work without you and all of our supporters and finally thanks to all of you for a watching this and for playing the most important job in art democracy that of an informed citizenry so on behalf of all of my colleagues at the miller center who have worked hard with the center for transition to pull this together a big thanks to everyone. >> this is the university of utah in salt lake city were vice president mike pence will face democratic candidate kamala harris tomorrow night. the debate stage is being set up in this hall and the agreement whether plexiglas should be installed between the candidates and whether the candidates will sit at separate tables are stand but they agreed to be separated by 12 feet after president trump and several white house staff tested covid-19 positive. >> i honestly will tell you i don't think when the dust dust settles in this election is going to be whether america becomes more republican are more democrat, whether we are mor