in new mexico there was a ballot initiative that was started again by christian fascists dark ages forces to ban abortion after twenty weeks and this was not only it's an attack in albuquerque new mexico women but it was an attack on women nationwide because. at this point there are only four doctors in the entire country who openly do late term abortions two of them are in albuquerque new mexico and this is for women who are really most abortions occur in the first trimester but for women who are in extreme circumstances who desperately need a late term abortion because of a health complication because they couldn't get access earlier because of all the restrictions it's a small percentage but it's a very important percentage of women so this would have been abortion at twenty weeks in albuquerque but it would have had national repercussions and i have to say it was an incredible victory and outpouring of people to defeat that initiative to stand up for women's right to abortion on demand without apology but it's sort of a bittersweet big victory because the fact that fundamental right of women could even be put up for a vote is completely illegitimate and shows how far ba

search the site in the secretly use them as a key in their sting another operation agents in albuquerque new mexico gave a brain damaged drug addict with little knowledge of weapons a tutorial on machine guns hoping he could help them find could find them one as if the nipple late in the disable wasn't bad enough a.t.f. agents also reportedly used untracked of female officers to trick teenage boys into buying guns and laws so it's really no excuse for these parents it's just fear fear . coming up each year state governments hand out billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to corporations so that those corporations will do business within those state lines while the corporations are getting favorable treatment you and i are getting screwed so how do we stop these taxpayer funded corporate mega deals once and for all tell you it's too to early . dramas the truth be ignoring the. stories others the few still notice. the faces changing the world right now. so picture of the day you no longer hear from around the globe. local. t.v. . so sometimes you know it you know and sometimes you know what you don't

site in the secretly used him as a key cogged in their sting another operation agents in albuquerque new mexico gave a brain damaged drug addict with little knowledge of weapons a tutorial on machine guns but we need to help them find could find them one as if the nipple late in the disabled wasn't bad enough a.t.f. agents also reportedly used to track to female officer to trick teenaged boys into buying guns and drugs it's really no excuse for these tendencies they're just fear fear. coming up each year state governments hand out billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to corporations so that those corporations will do business within those state lines while the corporations are getting favorable treatment you and i are getting screwed so how do we stop these taxpayer funded corporate mega deals once and for all tell you that i'd still take. i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question more. fully on your comment like these. they face you know. pleasure to have yo

. >> october, 2004 the drama unfolds at the albuquerque, new mexico balloon festival.tower that carries 50,000 watts of electricity. >> hit the tower. >> basically on top of a 700-foot radio tower and the basket is weaving back and forth. >> inside the basket, a retired forest ranger and two young boys. an air rescue is too dangerous. their only option to climb down the tower. workers shut off electricity and the three maneuver themselves on the ladder. >> it is remarkable the bravery it took to not only get out of the basket but to climb down. >> the descent takes three hours but the three make it safely to the ground. panic in a laundromat when this man inadvertently locks a baby in a washing machine. >> what on earth can you be think something may 11th 2012 camden new jersey. a security camera captures an ill-fated game of peek-a-boo. a male friend of the baby-sitter places the infant in the machine. shuts the door and sets back. what the man doesn't realize is the door automatically shuts. >> it starts spinning and filling with water with a baby inside. >> i was so

. >> reporter: it's along the serene rio grande river that runs through albuquerque, new mexico where mike scott feels most at peace. why do you come to this forest here? >> it's a place to reflect, and it's a place to escape my anxious little world for 15 minutes or an hour. >> debilitating memories of his time in the military still haunt him more than a decade after his honorable discharge from the 82nd airborne division of the united states army. mike never served in combat, but he's been fighting an internal war for years. >> you get better for a while and crash back down. it's endless. >> mike says another soldier sexually assaulted him in 1998. he didn't report the incident because he was too afraid to speak up. >> i thought god would protect me. god didn't protect me. and that's the toughest betrayal of all. i also feel betrayed by the government and the military. >> there are nearly six times more men than women in the military, and females are more likely to be targeted. but according to a 2012 department of defense survey, approximately 14,000 active duty service men said th

in albuquerque, new mexico, for the first time ever we had a flat-out criminalization of abortion care before viability. a direct contradiction to roe versus wade. they put it up on a ballot measure, a referendum. we defeated that. its allies defeated that by 60%. we had a ten-point margin. 60% of voters said no, we don't want that kind of restriction on abortion care. yes, the republicans -- there's a number of municipalities, too, in virginia, that are trying to criminalize abortion. i think it's going to backfire significantly. it's really interest iing to se what happened in virginia. and, in fact, in many ways that gubernatorial race, ken cuccinelli, mr. transvaginal ultrasound against terry mcauliffe, who said i will keep the abortion clinics open, make sure that women have health care, that they have birth control. i will make sure that women have the things that they need. by campaigning that way, terry mcauliffe was able to win. it is very important to recognize that he won -- it was really the african-american women vote that won the day in virginia, but it was also young vot

>> over the years, drought has driven many bears down from the mountains into the city of albuquerque, new mexicoe such bear became legend. at that time, janet blair was a network news reporter. >> we kept getting calls in the newsroom. there's a bear loose in our neighborhood. so we loaded in our news units, and we headed up there. >> nbc news camera man, barry mootz. >> bear loose in the heights, you know. great way to start your day off. >> a bear presumably on the hunt to find her missing cub. little did she know the cub was safe and sound. officials caught him wandering through town the day before. >> and i said, now that they have baby bear, the big question is, where's mama bear. >> the answer, fast approaching a busy intersection. >> so we get over to tramway and montgomery aent bear heads for a power pole. and so, immediately, i'm thinking to myself, can bear climb a power pole? >> when a bear feels cornered, instinct tells it where to go. straight up. now, getting her down safely is up to game and fish officials like mark burkehouser. >> it is just looking for a place to get away and fi

joining us from albuquerque, new mexico. mikey weinstein. military religious freedom foundation.t's not use loaded questions. we had 18 members of the united states military that came to us because they were very very upset and concerned about what they viewed as a violation of their civil rights. they didn't feel comfortable going up their chain of command for fear of reprisal and let prix biewtion so they came to us. that's the reason over 35,000 members of the military have come to us. we went to the pentagon. we made it clear we thought this was completely not inappropriate but unlawful. and as they have done in the past the pentagon thought about it for a thought about it and agreed with us. we don't have mrff storm troopers to invade guantanamo. they made the right decision and we applaud them. >> calm down. storm troopers? ridiculous. the 18 that complained to you. did you release their names? do you have their names? spl no. we are not going to. that's part of the reason they came through us is they want anonymity. >> i got it. >> we had -- >> is there anyone among the 18

host: from jim over to dale, in albuquerque, new mexico, republican caller. dale. caller: how's it going? mcconnell, losers is isa and boehner. host: why? caller: why? guys have made america look foolish, ok. silly as heck for a long period time. and these are the republican leaders. just like that last guy that called, hey, absolutely no problem the republicans not obamacare.for ridiculous. these have given people a chance, a chance to have some of healthcare. the people that are being kicked off their plans are the richer the society that can afford to buy private insurance in the first place. attention. to pay because people like yourself that have a good job, you can to pay just a little bit more to help the poor and the want that --o not don't think of it as paying for think of it as for your mother or grandmother's healthcare. that's what we're talking about. you. host: ted cruz make morgue news this morning. he'su haven't heard, telling others that he's hired lawyers to renounce his canadian citizenship. from the "dallas morning news." the junior senator is

betty in albuquerque, new mexico. democrat. thank you for accepting my call. this particular congress that we now -- i believe the th -- hasnd 12 -- 112 title of the greatest do-nothing congress in the history of the united states. they have been held hostage by a small group of people. those group of people refer to as the tea party. they have been led by the most the housepeaker of probably in the nation's history -- mr. john boehner. obama should not fire anyone. the people who should be fired in congress. they have over and over -- over voted to repeal this has already been deemed the law of the land. useless spending the taxpayers money in the most useless of -- these are the people who should go and they will go come the midterms. president should not fire anybody. tout thisbe proud to program. it will be his legacy. it will be consumer driven. we will hear more and more wonderful stories in the next or so.ths i think the president for coming out and doing what he did yesterday and i hope he thingues to do the same right now through the 25th of december.

right now in new mexico, albuquerque of 41, salt lake at 17, elko at 14.at system moves out and we're going to be seeing those colder temperatures pushing out towards most of the area. up towards the north, though, lincoln nebraska is at 20, denver is at 9. we're going to see those temperatures out towards the east still stay warm, 50s and 60s for most people on the east coast. have a great night. ... ... >>> welcome to al jazeera america. i am john siegenthaler seei. we are here with top stories. >> one family with a net worth -- >> the president says the economy income gap is threatening a dream. he says one solution would be an increase in the minimum wage. >>> thousands say they won't show up for work tomorrow. a one-day strike to demand higher pay is expected in more than 100 cities. workers average $9 an hour.

old route 66 runs through new mexico like a collapsed vein, right through santa fe and albuquerque.ike magic once. families loaded in a massive chrome and steel chariots with powerful v-8 engines and took off down that blacktop highway. they slept in whimsical motor lodges and bungalows, swam in kidney-shaped pools. then it all went redundant. route 66 was decommissioned, chopped up, largely forgotten, except by desperate and lazy travel show hosts. >> does anyone else at cnn do this, like drive around 10:15 at night looking for tacos? >> yeah, probably. >> i'll say this. the strip takes on a much more interesting look at night. you can imagine dennis hopper huffing nitrous and dismembering somebody over an unrolled tarp in any one of those sinister-looking motel rooms. cool. >> hopefully the tacos first, because after you do the meth you really aren't going to want to eat. in ancient times, drivers would hang the testicles of their enemies on their rear-view mirrors. >> best case scenario around here, in my humble opinion, taco truck, of which there are quite a few. parking lot, th

in new mexico, people there are digging out as much as six inches of know fell in albuquerque, closing schools and bringing that city virtually to a halt. in colorado, residents dealing with a deep freeze rarely seen even in that mountainous state. denver airport tieing a record low of minus 15. and more cold is expected there today. alicia acuna is live in denver for us now. this cold, alicia. more than an inconvene we hear the hospitals are filling up there. >> reporter: they have colt related injuries. this is dangerous cold that blasted our state. right now in the city of denver it is zero degrees but forecasters say it feels like negative 17 and the impact that can have on the body can be permanent if not careful. we're hearing about problems like folks who have as marks respiratory issues. they're having additional problems because of the cold. emergency rooms here in the denver metro area are seeing injuries like broken bones from falls and injuries from car accidents. they're also treating people for frostbite which is happening in a matter of minutes because folks think they c