seven miles away, on a dirt airstrip, five more people, including a u.s. congressman and three newsmen, lay dead. murdered by gunmen from the temple. >> all of a sudden i heard pop, pop, pop, pop, and they were coming at us, and they were shooting people. >> never been before, and never since, a member of congress assassinated in the line of duty. he's the first and only one. >> three decades later, the madness of those few hours, the mayhem of mass murder and suicide, still defies comprehension. >> this wasn't some group of zombies who followed a man down to the jungles of guyana and killed themselves. >> i've met people that have said, not me, i would never have been in a situation like that. i always say to them, and it's true, you know what? they were people just like you. same position in society. looked like you. that were there. ♪ we're a happy family yes we are ♪ >> 913 people died there. you know, and for every one of them there was a story. >> when i walked out of jonestown i made a promise to those people that were being murdered there that day

the airstrips are ccc. and the one out at treasure island. long beach, burbank. this is oakland and the whole built line railroad was redone. 19 is a pwa project and our great amphitheatres are from that time. this is santa barbara bowl. this is the forest theater in carmel and these are ccc workers putting huge bolder. here's 6 thousand people getting ready to enjoy oklahoma in that theater. big basin is a ccc project and this one, on the east river, new york. a project built where people from the lower east side could see performances and still do. our parks and recreation. almost all from them. that's the conservatory garden and i photographed that all the time. this is up at jeweliard park. i thought i would show you san francisco. i read they improved every park. i didn't believe this at first. this is the fly casting pools. here was a fly casting champion ship. here it is today. it's still in use. the stables out there. they are meant so the public would have the opportunity previously only available to the elite, as it so often the case, as is with golf. l

so that the planes had to come into this grass airstrip with metal mats on it.metal mats named after where they were built. the planes had to come over -- and, again, they were doing this in fog, at night. it was 24 hours a day and on instruments only. the clearance of the apartment houses to come into the runway was 17 feet. and many pilots swore that there were tire marks on the roofs of those buildings. [laughter] then in a short runway grass airfield, they would practically have to dive in. at that time the landing, lowest allowable landing ratio in the united states air force was 40 to 1. that is for every foot you went down, you went forward 40 feet. the landings at the airport were 10 to 1. they came down like this, and they hit so hard that it would rip up the metal, rip up the ground. and as they landed behind them would rush german work crews, mostly women, mostly wearing the only clothes they had, sometimes bathing suits, sometimes evening gowns, who almost with their bare hands, -- the russians had taken all the construction equipment -- would fill i

expect 1,045 new cadets on thursday and they are going about it as planned but they are allowing the airstripto be used by the forest service right new. >>shepard: what else do we know of the possible hit to tourism in is that just talk? or are things happening? >>reporter: in colorado springs they have closed a lot of the i vacation hot spots there, and north of me, near ft. collins the 897,000 acre fire that is burning, they is closed right hire at the start of the season, a lot of areas this. what is more, you talk about the rafting companies that would usually take folks down the river, right now they are actually helping firefighters get across it normally inaccessible areas to help them put out and do some of the mopping up in that area, so, yes, it is actually making an impact of the $5 billion tourism industry right new. >>shepard: thank you, like from denver newsroom. thank you. and now our meteorologist. we have problem on the gulf coast. huge problems in colorado. it is a mess. >> i am sure the folks in the gulf coast would donate the close to 30" of rain they is gotten from tropic

[laughter] the united arab emirates went on record saying that only built the airstrip. sheiks and others use it for recreational purposes. what recreation the cia was pursuing better, the emirates couldn't say. shamsi they assured the world was never operated or controlled by the united arab emirates. and so, we still had our drone based in shamsi, and no skittish ally had to take the blame for having handed it over to us. [applause] >> so that's a little bit about the book goes. that is the best part. [laughter] it's not that whole section but that part about the slime. [laughter] i think is the best. i am not an expert on the militant. i'm not an expert on war. my gig is politics. that's what i pursued as an activist and what i studied as an academic, and what i talk about on television. this book is a book about politics. it is about the politics of going to war and the politics of not going to war, and the politics of ending wars that we are in. the consternation over the vietnam war led to a multi-front effort to make sure that we did not end up in a mess like that