wires, legalistic barbed wires with the sharp, hard barbs of prejudice and ignorance. and still, i remained silent. but exciting, positive things started happening. the california legislature, both houses, the senate and the assembly, past the marriage equality bill in 2005. it was a landmark event. it was unprecedented. all it required was a signature of our governor to become the law of the state. the governor will happen to be, at that time, arnold schwarzenegger. when he campaigned for that office, he said "i'm from hollywood and i have worked with gays and lesbians in some of my best friends are gays and lesbians." i thought surely he would sign the bill. when he vetoed that bill playing to his archconservative republican base, we were enraged. but we were at home watching the news. on the news, we saw young people pouring out onto santa monica boulevard venting their rage on arnold schwarzenegger and we shared that bridge but we were at home, comfortable in bed. and we talked about it and that's when i decided i've got to speak out on this issue. we are getting s

barb. >> everywhere i live i talk about the buildings and height.o put the whole project out there it's the other side who wants to hide the fact if you look at the models there's some real stunt to enjoy the waterfront and talking about red herrings. what louis mentioned about the sewer that's a redundant sewer system that the city a having and the project sponsor is helping with an easement. thargz to work closely that the puc engineers of the city and by unanimous vote going forward with the plans. talking about red herrings and misleading campaigns remember where's the beef where's the wall on the waft that the adverse talk about. it's half the height of the 6 floor believe on the waterfront but it should be looking much higher. that's been sliding in their campaign literature and they ignore the benefits on the waterfront >> well, we've only used the builders plan. if you look at the litter pit forward by the prop b folks it doesn't show the height and if you're going to stand in sue bear man park it's a wall. and as i say this sets the precede

it's time to get out of here. >> barb and adam paddle back safely, having been up close and personale 40 ton buhemoths. when barb posts the video online, it immediately goes viral, garnering more than 7 million hits with lots of surprising viewer input. >> we got all kind of comments from wow, oh, my god to, oh, my god, this is fake. where is the wake from the whale and it got out of control and i just finally took it down. just let the footage speak for itself. >> barb is in disbelief about the close encounter, yet after her experience, she's still torn about the relationship she and other whale watchers have with these marine mammals. >> it was really a tug of war of wanting to be close to them and, at the same time, knowing, hey, we're in their space. >>> coming up -- you might have heard about snakes on a plane, but a snake on a windshield? >> we were like, is this really happening right now? >>> who needs novocain when a mini motorcycle will do? ♪ [ male announcer ] let's go places. but let's be ready. ♪ let's do our homework. ♪ let's look out for each other. let's look both way

those laws to me looked like barb wire, legalistic barb wire with a sharp, hard barbs of prejudice andgnorance. and still i remained silent. but exciting, positive things started happening. the california legislature, both houses, the senate and the assembly, passed the marriage equality bill in 2005. it was a landmark event. it was unprecedented. all th it required was a signate of our governor to become the law of the state. the governor who happened to be at that time arnold schwarzenegger. when he campaigned for that office, he said, i'm from hollywood. i've worked with gays and lesbians. some of my best friends are gays and lesbians. so i thought surely he would sign the signed that bill. when he vetoed the bill serving to his arch conservative republican base, we were enraged, but we were at home watching the news. and on the news we saw young people pouring out onto santa monica boulevard, venting their rage on arnold schwarzenegger. and we shared that rage but we were at home, comfortable in bed. and we talked about it, and that's when i decided i've got to speak out on this is

i did not want to write a story about women behind barbed wires. rather, i want to get to know each family and to share their tragedy with my readers. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. >> look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for the authors in the near future on the booktv and on booktv.org. >> during booktv's coverage of this year's national book festival, biographer david nuzzo spoke about joseph kennedy. spent finally, kennedy couldn't figure out the mind games, whether churchill was teasing him or was so drunk that he forgot from the day before that kennedy didn't drink. they dislike one another intensely but the war was over. there had been an intense suffering, and churchill said the kennedy, he held out his hand and he said, i'm so sorry for your loss. joe, jr. had died during the war, and churchill was sincere. and he said to churchill, what good was it all? and churchill looked at him, and believing, world war ii had d

and a look behind the barbed wire r t gets rare access inside the notorious one tunnel prison. we've heard about it like several movies but you don't really this is a place that people forget about we don't ever think about it we're talking sergeant or rebecca wood from the guantanamo media team of all the why she actually loves her job. ever warm welcome to you if you're just joining us here on araa to we're live from moscow you with me to mom would say to our top story right now. the united states has avoided a potentially catastrophic economic default by the skin of its teeth with just hours to go the house of representatives approved a deal to raise the debt ceiling and reopen government services which have been paralyzed for over a fortnight live to washington d.c. and artie's and he said now with as. america's d. faulting would have bludgeoned other countries' economies what the politicians when they really going to let this happen or do you sense that it was just some kind of dramatic posturing. well just hours before the deadline the so-called eleventh hour really comin

we had done the affordable care act, as senator barb said. no longer being a woman is a pre-existing condition. remarkable. remarkable. then the violence against women act was accomplished in a bipartisan way eventually and finally. and that was important. but we were just focusing on the workplace. just specifically, many items on the agenda, we wanted to prioritize, what could transform the respect for work of women in the workplace? and we listened to women across the country and we developed and worked with associations like the fair pay coalition, aauw, ywca. they had been working on these issues for a while and came one these three things that had been emphasized. pay, raise the minimum wage. 62% that get the minimum wage are women. we must increase the minimum wage. we did it the first 100 hours when we had the majority in the house and senate in 2007. we raised the minimum wage. but it's time to raise it again and it's long overdue. raise the minimum wage. as senator mikulski has been the lead on, the paycheck fairness act. it's about

and a look behind the barbed wire. relaxes inside the notorious one tunnel prison. we've heard about it like several movies but you don't really need it and this is a place that people forget about we don't ever think about it we talk to those working in the guantanamo detention camp who say they actually love their jobs. learn from moscow this is our until you're with us here oh you're with me to them with a let's take a look at our top story this hour the united states has avoided a potentially catastrophic economic default by the skin of its teeth president obama has signed a long awaited deal that puts the government back on track and raises america's borrowing limit but it's just a temporary fix as an isa now reports from washington d.c. . well just hours before the deadline the so-called eleventh hour really coming down to the wire here the house of representatives passed the senate bill to raise the debt ceiling and restore government funding after a sixteen day shutdown barely avoiding a default on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in borrowings after

legal appeals to have the painful practiced stop that's a little of the daily reality behind the barbed wire the notorious one time of a prison r.t. gained rare access to the facility to see things for ourselves here's what the u.s. military tells us. transparency is a word repeated by u.s. officials working at guantanamo like a mantra by those few who are comfortable speaking on camera you see the conditions under which the detainees live you get to talk to the people who are responsible for garner we make it is transparent as possible and those preferring to remain on identifiable like the majority of officials we were permitted to speak to every week we get media like yourself international media local media whatever and they're welcome to come you know we tell them what we have any journalists workflow at guantanamo starts with a mandatory introduction to media rules the so-called operation security briefing or the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it divides by our policy here even though transparency is a word brought out by all the personnel we talked to on t

. -- barbara barb are mckul ski. and most delighted to welcome somebody who is not a stranger either to prince george's county or maryland or the fourth district, our democratic leader nancy pelosi. [applause] >> i want to take a special moment to thank even in his absence pastor john jenkins senior and i -- i first baptist church of glen arden and the sha bot christian academy. we had a chance to take a tour of the academy and see some of the amazing learning being done at the earliest age here at the academy, so it's our delight to be able to be here and share that with first baptist of glen arden. truly that you're such a great partner in our community on a whole range of things and at this church you don't view just what you do inside the walls but you say your service is outside the walls of the church, and it really shows in the academy and in the faces and energy of those young people. i also want to acknowledge and i see them. so many of our elected officials from the region and i want to take a minute to ack

archie goes behind the barbed wire at guantanamo bay prison where the u.s. military gives us a carefully guided toward. john's lot angler america has been spied on by the n.s.a. for over a decade that's according to the leaks of published by germany's the magazine the surveillance goes back even before mccoll became the country's leader and this week it's been revealed of thirty five world leaders have also been closely monitored by america's national security agency europe has voice anger complaining that its trust in washington is now. undermind former french prime minister dominique de villepin says that if the u.s. continues to strive for world dominance it could lead to conflict. we knew that. some practices were existed but the search and overall system this came as a surprise for everybody in fact what we are seeing today is the incredible privileges of the u.s. administration over the control of the world system we knew that the u.s. were controlling the financial system through the banking dominance of some big banks through the dollar currency as a

right now actually close behind the barbed wire at guantanamo bay prison the way the u.s. military gives us a tough league guided tours stay tuned for that. the fact that the military is practicing in at any given moment in palestinian towns on palestinian people you know doing false arrests which is basically like like a normal arrest that you actually drag somebody out of his house in the middle of the night don't know difference is that the person that you are arresting is not really wanted for anything this is just for practice for training the soldiers now obviously one of the reasons that it's being done even older to actually train the soldiers which is problematic bites but i would say that if you look at the whole of the testimonies of hundreds of soldiers you will see that the main mission around this. is to declare the palestinian society as a whole not just the gunmen men women and children everybody needs to be afraid of you because that creates affective control over the palestinian population in. the city. first street. and i think the trick. on our reporter

[applause] and so please join me in welcoming our favorite senator, pat senator barb.applause] >> good morning everybody. i am just delighted to be here at this forum and making sure that america's children are taking care of in the best childcare program that the world can offer. and shouldn't a great country be able to do that? [applause] and for me it's a delight to get through the last 17 days that we lived through a slam down, shut down politics and to be here with this wonderful team of donna edwards and speaker pelosi working on real issues that american families have that we can come up with real solutions. this is what i am so delighted to be here. during the last several days there has been a lot of focus on obamacare. obama does care and that's what we are going to about here today. [applause] then it's going to be what can we afford? somehow or another we can always balance time and take care of the needs of the american people and begin to build our country again. [applause] i am so pleased to be 15 and honored to be the dean of the women in the united sta

legal appeals to have the painful practice stopped that's a little of the daily reality behind the barbed wire at the notorious guantanamo bay prison r t gained rare access to the facility to see things out for ourselves here's what the u.s. military chose to show us. transparency is a word repeated by u.s. officials working at guantanamo like a mantra by those few who are comfortable speaking on camera you see the conditions under which the detainees live you get to talk to the people who are responsible for garner we make it is transparent as possible and those preferring to remain on identifiable like the majority of officials we were permitted to speak to every week we get media like yourself international media or local media or whatever and they're welcome to come you know we tell them what we have any journalists workflow at guantanamo starts with a mandatory introduction to media rules the so-called operation security briefing or the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it abides by our policy here even though transparency is a word brought out by all the personn

the soviet union enterprise leaders surrounded the town with double row of barbed wire fence and gated and guarded it, taking them from los alamos. in a selected for political and ethnic reliability. those are mostly -- so people who are russian or ukrainian nationality. there's a lot of locals around. they didn't. here's classic workers. it's a dupont brochure and it's pretty amazing photo. they didn't have enough male workers and added a lot of women and put them in the most dangerous jobs in the chemical processing plant. here's a soviet, more contemporary photos of soviet city which is so close and walled off. i couldn't ever entered. and here are the soviet workers. here's an aerial shot that the cia took in the 1960s. francis bowers was just flying over ozersk when he was down in his u2 plane in 1962. this was one of the shots he was trying to get. this walled off complex that was

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wires, legalistic barbed wires with the sharp, hard barbs of prejudice and ignorance.nd still, i remained silent. exciting, positive things started happening. the california legislature, both houses, the senate and the assembly, past the marriage equality bill in 2005. it was a landmark event. it was unprecedented. signatureuired was a of our governor to become the law of the state. the governor will happen to be, at that time, arnold schwarzenegger. when he campaigned for that office, he said " i'm from hollywood and i have worked with gays and lesbians in some of my best friends are gays and lesbians." i thought surely he would sign the bill. when he vetoed that bill playing to his archconservative republican base, we were enraged. but we were at home watching the news. peoplenews, we saw young pouring out onto santa monica boulevard venting their rage on arnold schwarzenegger and we shared that bridge but we were at home, comfortable in bed. and we talked about it and that's when i decided i've got to speak out on this issue. we are getting so close and we have peop

he realized i had pulled the barbs out. he looks at his back-up officer as to say, what are you going to do? this guy is not falling. >> after being tased a fourth time -- >> i understand -- >> why are you shooting him with the taser? >> z falls to the ground. >> all we were asking for was his i.d. >> the police report states z pushes an officer in the chest and injures another officer in the hand with a handcuff. the charges, battery and resisting a law enforcement officer. z pleads no contest. the plea avoids prison time but ends z's chances for a job he always dreamed. >> you are all going to be charged with crimes. >> a career in law enforcement. >> this is not justice. >> i am not an enemy of those who serve and protect. quite frankly, i forgive the officers for what they did to me. >> i have been assaulted. >> you're in handcuffs. >> i have a license to carry. >> an unloaded gun, brass knuckles and a pocketknife are found in noel's backpack at the time of her arrest. she pleads no contest to carrying a concealed weapo

a hash tag was created and "stop bullying sf barb and hash tag and generated 3 million personal impressions and 1.3 million followers within the last 24 hours. [applause] isn't that incredible? we talked about some of the dangers in social media today and i guess that's part of the beauty of social media and the video is part of that as well, so on behalf of all the childrens and families and parents and communities in the district i want to thank everybody for coming for all the work that you do. i feel optimistic in all of work that you do. thank you and go forth and do great work. >> welcome, welcome welcome. to the ground breaking new strands theatre (clapping) this is i've been dreaming about this for 20 years and it's to incredibly tlifrl it's fm happen p were on central mark we've got government on two side and an incredibly rich neighborhood filled with defy ideas and we hope to be part of the amazing dialog. we're next door to our custom shop and it was the incubator ofor neighborhood. we have been know eleanor. when they arrived from san francisco we looked at where we're here and

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inhaling this, these fine particles of death, there is almost undoubted ll ll silica, like inhaling barbedg claim, not yet proven by air tests. a reason to visit it geneva mine. >> do you think your business gets a bad rap. no one has ever gone goody there is a gravel mine moving into the neighborhood. >> sometimes i wish i had a cannedy store. i've don't think people come plane about candy stores. >> repor that isl clyde. his grandfather started geneva rock when eisenhower started building highways his family helped turn mountains into sky lines. >> if you look at the buildings and see the skyline, here is where it came from. >> came from here. >> it is such a necessary business when i seep ki kids on skateboard park, that's their recreation. >> as the the community grew closer to the mine, so did the chorus of complaints. five years ago, without admitting guilt, geneva rock was form forced to cough up $1.7 million in fines and improvements. after caught violating air quality standard. the company says they have not received a major infraction since. clyde insists they're going above and

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are trading barbs over a bitter political stalemate. they're growing increasingly frustrated as the government's partial shutdown entered its second week. democrat and republican lawmakers are refusing to compromise on provisions in budget bill. some government operations remain closed due to the impasse. republicans say they'll approve the bill but only if it includes a provision to delay major health care reform. democrats won't give any ground. president barack obama made a visit to the federal emergency management agency. he said many workers remained furloughed and unable to respond to disasters. obama urged republicans to pass the budget bill and raise the government's debt ceiling to avert a default. >> i am eager and ready to sit down and negotiate with republicans on a whole range of issues. >> the senate and house of representatives have resumed deliberations on the spending bill but lawmakers appear no closer to a breakthrough. >>> french magistrates have dismissed charges of illegal fund-raising against former president nico

but just a few hours ago they forced fighters in the barb bush behind me. here are the soldiers here they took over the base on tuesday a few days ago. this base belonged to the fighters and the government fighters came in and forced a number of fighters into the mountains and hills behind them. they are in kee control and this are far from over. the village chief we met him along the way and he said he is scared. he heard that the fighters dispursed they scattered all over the place. they are moving from one side of the national park to the other side of the mountain. people believe they are trying to regroup. another question is where the leader? people think he may be trying to get it back together for conty newfcontinuity to regroup. and things are worrying and driving on the main road is a scary experience. there is a section of a road where the army has to he i escoe civilians. on saturday a passenger bus was attacked and people were killed and several people were injured. and people are quite tense and local lengthses ar lengths e eln november 10th.

don't get stuck on the barbed wire! [grunts] playtime is over!s really, really quite amazing. you gave birth in a tub? yeah, it's a really nice transition from womb to world, you know. kinda like a big womb. um, so you're in the tub with everything? oh, yeah, the afterbirth floats, yeah. must be like the tide at omaha beach. oh, no, it's actually really hygienic, creed. after the birth-- i'm done. me too. (michael) hey, hey, no, no, no. no, no, no. no, no. this is the birth story. it was beautiful. it was beautiful. this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. [voice breaking] and i should have been there. i should have been there to witness this. i could have helped-- i know you're sad about this.

but so far the wind barbs, if you will, be showing an offshore breeze. nice to warm. maybe a slight cooldown by the coast instead of those 80s, more 70s. high pressure doesn't want to let go right now. that's for re

on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. there is water in the science there's nothing really bad and i hear just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place when you get around all the other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy camp delta house as a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it and we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is a agent who will numb the area or if they want olive oil to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of the will like it in fact some of our patients are so. used to this

there's just line, a borderline of barbed wire. that separates it. >> one nation underground. we want to put up. if you'd like to log on, again, exhibition at the triton museum here down the street in santa clara. consuelo, thank you so much for your knowledge. >> thank you. >> now here's what's happening on "comunidad." >>> here is our address. our e-mail address and also follow me on twitter. my handle is @newsdamian. be sure to pick up a copy of our newspaper and support your bilingual weeklies all across the bay area. doing a great job at keeping the institution going in the south bay for decades. we thank you once again for sharing a part of your sunday with us. we will be back here on "comunidad del valle" nbc bay area next week. we all have our little tricks. mom swaps one of my snacks for a yoplait. i don't mind, i mean it's orange crème. and when mom said bobby was too edgy... 'sup girl. i just swapped him out for tyler. 'sup girl. mom never questioned bobby again. two can play at this game. [ female announcer ] swap one snack a week for a yoplait. and everybody wins.

and a little behind the barbed wire our team gets rare access inside the tour has gone tunnel to is. heard about it like several movies but you don't really.