this is a real american city, the motor city, really shrinking.this is a city with its own baseline. remember this super bowl commercial for chrysler from eminem? of course you do. imported from detroit with eternal base, rhythm guitar and gospel choir. i live in another musical city that's been emptied out, new orleans. also very great, and also very american with its own american way. even before hurricane katrina, new orleans had begun to lose new orleanians. after katrina whole neighborhoods were empty and ruined and not all of them were brought back. many of the neighborhoods, like the lower ninth ward have lost way more than half their people. new orleans has been going through its own triage, a painful process of trying to decide which neighborhoods to support and which will simply fade away. these are two american cities. each confronting a smaller future. and we talk as a nation about doing big things. in detroit's case, the mayor has come right out and said what's very difficult to admit. that detroit has to get smaller. that he can't co

this is a real american city, the motor city, really shrinking.uit. this is a city with its own baseline. remember this super bowl commercial for chrysler from emnen? of course you do. even before hurricanekatrina, new orleans had begun to lose new orleaneans. many of the neighborhoods, like the lower ninth ward have lost way more than half their people. new orleans has been going through its own triage, a painful process of trying to decide whichç neighborhoods to support and which will simply fade away. these are two american cities. each confronting a smaller future. and we talk as a nation about doing big things. in detroit's case, the mayor has come right out and said what's very difficult to admit. that detroit has to get smaller. that he can't continue to support every neighborhood at the same level, because the city can't raise enough revenue. sound familiar? i want to keep focusing in on detroit here, because i think it's a good example of the hollow prize. you win something. and because of what's happening at the time you win it, the th

, a city known for its relations not just as an american city but a city that offers relationships between the people's republic of china and the people of the united states and offering cultural exchanges as well as sports exchanges, and i am constantly reminded of that because we have a chief of protocol. charlotte schulz has been such a wonderful participant in our government here, and to make sure that we keep attention as an international city, so i find myself as part of history, being very lucky to be the mayor of the city at this time and also finding ourselves to be so fortunate that we remember 40 years of history, 40 years of building relationships between our two countries, and i continue to feel that i am is a student of this activity because there's so much in our futures in our country working with china to understand how we could help in that relationship, help people to people, culture to culture, and then realize that we are as a city, a gateway to so much of this activity, making sure that we can celebrate this but also helpin

and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the syst

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well when we look at the heart of the economy we look to american cities and states from wisconsin to now minnesota like we just talked about it since states are suffering from the same symptoms plaguing the federal budget are you correspondent moralists or gives us another look at the toll it's taking on americans all across the country. actually it's the reality america cannot escape with the city's roughly two hundred eighty million dollars that more and more people are talking about bankruptcy and news of debt like that hitting cash strapped cities and states all over the country all together it could amount to two trillion dollars and a bill many may not be able to pay the problem of the state and local dept is more serious than the real estate bubble serious because with millions of americans still unemployed and losing their homes there isn't enough taxpayer money to pay creditors local governments which aren't allowed to operate in the red must come up with the cash this means some may be choosing between default or devastation in many cases it will be fairly simple for cities

one thing that plagues american cities is the maintenance budget for maintaining public streets and public right of ways. we know very well that you have very high taxes and you have very high parking fees. could you talk about who and how you maintain your infrastructure and the streets? is that just a given, you decide to build something and somebody maintains it, or is there an agreement with another department to maintain it? >> the authorities in amsterdam, the infrastructure and transport department and municipalities, they financed it, they planned it, they build it, construct it, and they maintain it. i think that is the logical route. and is paid by the community's -- and is paid by the communit ies, and also from the state department. [inaudible] >> in the netherlands, if a road is really bad they will fix it. >> ok, there is a question in the back. >> our director of public works was in the back. he has a real problem here. maintenance is a huge bill. we do not have the wherewithal to maintain what we have. putting in new facilities increases the cost. then when you bring in dif

[laughter] lexington beat out 100 other american cities based on data regarding how much they exercisehow many hours of tv they watch a week, and how many video games a year they buy. some of the popular video game titles included: "wii hammock" and "call of duty: let it go to voicemail." [laughter] so lexington, in recognition of your non-achievement, i am presenting you with this year's golden reacher-grabber. put in on your mantle proudly. i know what you're thinking -- that mantle you want to put it on is high and unreasonably far from the couch which is why the golden reacher grabber comes with a second reacher grabber. [laughter] you pick that up there. there you go. so congratulations lexington, kentucky. be sure to show this award to some friends you haven't seen in a while. your feet. [laughter] we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is here to talk about his new project for the troops. good, i'm glad somebody has a plan for them. please welcome gary sinise! [cheers and applause] hey -- [cheers and applause] thanks for

supervisors this year on january 8, leading to the vote that we first cast for the first asian-american mayor in the city county of san francisco. this was a vote that came about because you, the people of san francisco, elected four asian- american to the board of supervisors. and not just three chinese representatives, but the first korean-american representative, and i am so honored to represent the four of them, to welcome you here to this celebration. we have decided to implement a new yearly award, with each of our district supervisors recognizing a 11 awardees representing the best, brightest, most impact low in our community we will be honoring as part -- most impactful in our community we will be honoring as part of apa heritage month. in district 1 -- in district two, alexander ong, district three, mr. byung, district four, the store manager of the sunset district good will, martin lamb, in district 5, rodney chen, district 6, steven lee, the leader of aspire, district 7, a longtime democratic activist, district 8, the founding executive director of the chinatown community development center go

have a better shot at than, say, other places where large distances have to be traversed in most american cities to kind of get to the places you want to get. here in san francisco, we have been blessed by the geometry where our trips are short where 40 years ago we realized that this was the way we will have to kind of meet our future. the iron call part of that is at the same time europe also discovered that and they made strides to towards actually implementing these alternative choices, we have found it very difficult to kind of wean ourselves from the convenience of being able to. i say it is still convenient to drive. as long as the alternatives are not just as convenient, we won't be able to make our case about our travel modes as contribution to the detriment of the environment or to the detriment of our health as we all know the sun is by date getting madder at us and angle grier at us and we are getting fat. we got to do something about it. this is the time to do it. we have the best opportunity here with these four guests from the german marshall fund and i was hoping that supervisor

the dust storm that swallowed up an american city. tonight, the incredible images and what it was like to be in the middle of it. cheating scandal in a major u.s. school system, perhaps the biggest ever. tonight we learn who's being accused of cheating and why. and the end of an era as america's space shuttle program prepares to come to an end. the first american to orbit the earth says we're making a big mistake. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening, our lead story tonight is in the what will they think of next category, on it's deadly serious because it has to do with the latest ways terrorists are figuring out to bring down an aircraft. we talk a lot about airline security, what get s threw, wha doesn't. and this scenario, a warning by the feds may be a nightmare scenario. explosives inside a passenger, surgically placed within the body of a living human being who is willing to give their life to the cause. it's a grisly business, but just the threat of it could disrupt air ravel

petersburg, florida, presents his thoughts on the revitalization of american cities. this is just under an hour. >> so good morning and welcome to this breakfast forum by the manhattan institute's center for state and local leadership. my name is michael, and i am the newly-appointed director of the center, and it's truly an honor to be with you. one week on to the job, and what a great event to kick things off. it's an honor to be here with everyone. as you know, for over 30 years the manhattan institute has been a national leader in advancing the ideas of greater economic independence and choice and individual responsibility. we have our roots, as you all know, in cities having led the movements from welfare to work and from broken windows to safer cities. and during the coming weeks you'll be hearing a lot about our new center for state and local leadership. whether it's examining public employees and their relationships with the public, the governments for which they work, their pension systems, their retiree health benefits, whether it's talking about new public

who was a government accountable trade on your own american city since he was born maybe on american soil this is a shame as three men each get twenty five years in jail off an f.b.i. sting operation questions are being raised about u.s. tactics in homegrown terror. they are watching us he welcomes the crowd the top story now greece is now set for a lifeline from the e.u. after parliament passed a vote on how to implement tough new austerity measures but cuts tax hikes were a condition for twelve billion euro rescue catch however the move sent thousands of angry protesters on the streets of athens and this center first reports plans to sell off greek assets to the highest bidder also fanning the flames. greece is not for sale the knesset from the theory is public as plans to sell off many greek assets pushes ahead quicker incredibly proud of their heritage many people feel that the privatization proposals. being grace the public at that potentially at the grabs the lenders banks was a company in chain operators among many more at stake in a large telecommunications company aig he is

energy supplies moved by see the move through the streets of four months which is controlled by an american city fleet. street which controlled by the american seventh fleet chinese are very sensitive to this and they they worry about the fact that the united states could sort of put it on their energy joggler again and so they're they're very. tense and now they're concerned about keeping those sea lanes open and that's why they are so. pushy about the south china sea i think that the stake on the part of the chinese that there is they've been a little overly pushy or some of the smaller countries in the region and that has allowed the united states to get a foot in the new work but this is part of a worldwide competition for energy resources and to learn number one and then number two powers in our energy users in the world and the fact that the united states has pretty much surrounded most of china with bases there always from central asia to the north pacific that's the context in which this takes place ok we've got not the stories coming your way this hour find out how orthodox religion fir

the american cities double; they're--they're doubling in population every 10 years when the nation as a whole takes 20 years. religion, too, is just going through an exuberant period; it's what historians refer to as the second great awakening. but what happened is that the old-line churches lost their financial support. in time, all churches in america are turned into voluntary associations. and the people are moving west, and there are no churches going with them. it's--it's expensive. c-span: what--what are the old-line churches? >> guest: the episcopalian church, which was the church of england; the presbyterian church; the congregational church is a dominant church in new england. those are the old line churches. the methodists are a new group that grew--they began in the--the bosom of the church of england, but they break with the church of england, they break with episcopalians, become a separate mesc--methodist episcopal church in america. and then the baptists--now there had always been baptists in america, but they were very small sects. but they--what's happened is that the