this stccoh smells like a campfire, i love. - you like campfires? - yeah. on february 26th, 1836, santa anna begins the offensive. he fires cannon volley after cannon volley, beating down the wall of the alamo. this goes on from february 26th, 1836, to march 5th. they're tired. william travis, in one of his last letters said, i keep asking for reinforcements and nobody's giving me anything. they send, like, 30 tejanos, but i'm screwed. could you help me out a little bit? mm, nope. and then finally, in the early morning of march "thix," general santa anna says, i will take my breakfast inside of the walls of the alamo. and prematurely, one of the soldiers yells, viva la santa anna! and that alerts all of the defenders in the alamo that the attack is coming. william travis rallies the troops. the mexicans are at 1,800 strong against 200 alamo defenders made up of europeans, jews, two slaves, women and children, and mexicans who just want to fight for their land. there's no way that they can win this. [dramatic music] ♪ colonel william travis, he runs to the f

it turns out to this very day together people around the campfire and kindle a campfire, blood pressure drops and our stories and chapter turns from the everyday to the realm of the imagination. from the realm of the possible and the realm of the mythical and those who are not evident on the surface and this can even be replicated in the lab with just the sound of crackling can fire is enough to reduce our blood pressure and change the texture of our minds. in a relationship with trees right from the very get-go and when the human species invented fire or brought fire under humanities control and i had been there all along through lightning and other sources of didn't involve the human hand and so when we brought fire within the circle of human agency and human control that was the origin of human culture. human culture is not just about the chitchat of everyday matters but about imagining the future and imagining relationships and that happened because we were in relationships with trees. beyond that what else's -- it is not music. music city, usa. the minute you get to the airport you

they would have uniforms, they would march around and sit around the campfire and listen to german propaganda. >> he had a place for the girls. he wanted them to be strong and they'd do various exercises to build up their bodies, build up their bodies for what purpose? to be strong mothers. to give birth to the future. >> they would support nazi policies and serve as a potential fifth column possibly down the road. and more importantly, a recruiting pool from which they could draw intelligence assets. >> one man especially valuable to hitler was walter cappy. he worked at a factory making farm tools before he became a journalist in chicago at a german american newspaper. in 1935 he applied to become a u.s. citizen, but he was denied. >> cap became the press chief for the german american bund. >> by the late 1930s their success began to worry some americans. j. edgar hoover was only too happy to investigate. >> president roosevelt asked hoover to conduct an investigation to let them know what the scope of their activities were and how dangerous this was. before long they had a pretty good sens

but have with the lure to do a campfire leave the can of the palm of the people who are worth it all. he believes this knowledge will go a long way to help save the species and into its own way to my own human here thomas and one. of the proud owner of the no woman who could we should all of whom we wish a part a mother to watch into the ocean of whom my mother did the children said to the kids you're. and i want to. cuddle a financial public over to you he says one thing they've learned is that the cute lazy creatures most people see in captivity are nothing like their wild cousins. you know where. they are. so you can argue. with you shall we. while the vision shows pandas can be vicious to each other. humans are their biggest threat. in. the next day we see that threat on the edge of a nearby reserve. an entire city has sprung up here. wildlife conservation expert new jersey says they've been pushing the government for decades to limit human encroachment into panda areas the best the panda have used to be remote and the quiet now you have many people in it so quality. paps are not

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i just wanted to put the hot dogs on the campfire and say keep talking.g this. >> you may think this thing is human, stands on two legs. but we're created in the origin. >> you worked with dog so many times before. >> yes. >> so you knew that he could pull off the role of this fish-man, if you will. >> i did. i think i had more faith in him than he had in himself. >> having worked with guillermo, this is my sixth movie with him. i've heard him talk about cockamamy stories before, but i knew his midas touch would turn it into gold. i knew it would happen this time. >> this creature is not capable of language and understanding emotions? >> what was it like seeing the creature for the first time? >> extraordinary. he had been working months and months making it unique and different. it went through a number of different color changes. he was obsessed with getting it perfect. >> when he looks at me, he doesn't know how i am incomplete. he sees me as i am. >> and you have two lead characters who don't really speak. >> that's another one. they don't speak, but

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says his biggest goal is to bring people together through his paintings sounds a little bit like a campfire. better lungs burning on cameras than real ones burning from tobacco smoke fans are viewed this video around seven million times on instagram. and this burning lion spread through the internet like wildfire. both other creations of dino tomic an artist living in norway. he makes art with gunpowder. he carefully arranges the blank grains of gunpowder and then sets fire to them. and the image burned itself into the paper or canvas. compared to normal paint it's you use gunpowder grains that are like tiny grains that you just like poor out of the bottle and they're like they're all all all over the place and then you'd like to use the small like i use a scissor and just put it all in place and if you can't breathe you can't move the ground too much the climate needs to be good so you can be more storing or anything so it's so many factors that go into it to make it work so that's what that really makes it different. twenty seventeen deno tomic was experimenting with salt and sugar and go

he says the goal beyond getting better is to bring a bigger audience together sounds a bit like a campfire. better lungs burning on cameras than real ones burning from tobacco smoke fans are viewed this video around seven million times on instagram. and this burning lion spread through the internet like wildfire. both other creations of dino tomic an artist living in norway. he makes art with gunpowder. he carefully arranges the blank grains of gunpowder and then sets fire to them. and the image burned itself into the paper on campus. compared to normal paint it's you use gun powder grains that are like tiny grains that you just like poor out of the bottle and they're like are all all all over the place and then you'd like to use the small like i use a scissor and just put it all in place and if you can't breathe you can't move the ground too much the climate needs to be good so you can be more storing or anything so it's so many factors that go into it to make it work so that's what that really makes it different. twenty seventeen deno tomic was experimenting with salt and sugar and got t

around this campfire, the bonds of military service, loyalty and honor are being passed down. >> whatt you to know is the last thing your dad was thinking about was you. >> reporter: to children who share the loss of a military parent. >> makes me feel like i'm not forgotten and other people care. >> reporter: a soldier's child foundation was started nearly ten years ago by daryl mackin, a retired navy cook who saw a need after a neighbor's son was killed on the battlefield. >> these are boys and girls who have lost a mom or dad during active military service. so it's any type of death. it can be combat related, k.i.a., heart attack, stroke, training accident, suicide. >> i like them dangling around my neck because it's close to my heart where i keep my dad. >> reporter: the charity maintains a schedule of outreach programs throughout the year like this golf outing with veterans. the goal is simple. to let these kids know that despite losing a parent, they remain a part of a bigger family. >> another guy from my team. >> i wanted to come because there's a lot of people like me, like m

around a shared campfire in the middle of the night, it can feel like a glimpse of utopia. as i write, it is autumn. soon winter will come. routine layoffs will start. the nomads will pack up camp and return to the road, moving like blood cells through the veins of the country. they'll set out in search of friends and family or just a place that's warm. several journey clear across the continent. all will count the miles which unspool like a filmstrip of america. fast food joints and shopping malls, fields dormant under frost, auto dealerships, mega-churches and all-night diners, featureless plains, feed lots, dead factories, subdivisions and big box stores, snow-capped peaks. the roadside reels past through the day and into darkness until fatigue sets in. bleary-eyed, they find places to pull off the road and rest. in walmart parking lots, on quiet suburban streets. at truck stops amid the lullaby of idling engines. then, in the early morning hours before anyone notices, they're back on the highway. driving on, they're secure in this knowledge: the last free place in ameri

. >> around this campfire, the bonds of military service, loyalty and honor are being passed down. >> dad was thinking about was you. >> to children who share the loss of a military parent. >> makes me feel like i'm not forgotten. and other people care. >> a soldier's child foundation was started nearly ten years ago by darryl macken, a retired navy cook who saw a need after a neighbor's son was killed on the battle field. >> these are boys and girls who have lost a mom or dad during active military service. so, it's any type of death. it could be combat related, kia, heart attack, stroke, training accident, suicide. >> i like them dangling around my neck because it's close to my heart where i keep my dad. >> the charity maintains a schedule of outreach programs throughout the year, like this golf outing with veterans. the goal is simple. to let these kids know that despite losing a parent, they remain a part of a bigger family. >> another guy from my team. i wanted to come because there's a lot of people like me, like myself, where they have gone through the same struggle i have with

about to turn over looks like december fifteenth or fourteenth he basically the reward from the campfire is over at the f.c.c. the bet is going to be the big day when they overturn net neutrality and then like comcast rise and all them can control the speed of the internet does a bad day come and i hope that we all keep paying attention about what. has any real historian will tell you the unilateral destruction of the native american people and nations that once stretched across north america was as much a factor in the rise of the united states as the winning of the revolutionary war and tragically that ugly history of violence and oppression that snakes its way throughout us history still exists today exposing itself in the treatment of the water protectors during the dakota access pipeline protests and most recently and the police shooting death of a fourteen year old native american boy our taste david miller brings us more on this tragedy currently playing out and wisconsin jason peril is being described as your typical eighth grade fourteen year old boy pairs grandfather olen pair

the fully on a campfire with all of their fault and glory fell and flashed away like snow at easter. nothing that remained. subsequentits regime. later, he told his old friend and comrade our cheese sing should like to see rome.gus mimic of ancient on his way to meet president roosevelt in newfoundland in august 1941, churchill read these splendid novel "captain set during the napoleonic wars. and again he would quote from nelson's trafalgar memorandum. 1941, the king offered churchill the lord warden ship and he accepted, despite being daunted by the cost of upkeep, largely because of its tremendous historical connections to wellington. about her father, he said we should not be wiped out. our history will not come to an end. king stood by a big map of it oncerica and stated all belong to egypt. churchill was not going to let him get away from that and it once replied, he could not remember when, but to the best of his believe it belong to turkey before the italians took it. "rather sunk the king." needless to say, churchill was right. those tribes made incursions into egypt rather

that night, he sees in the valley below, hundreds and hundreds of confederate campfires. he has heard that she is heard great, within 48 hours, a battle will be fought and that valley below. he was correct about that. s third sees is ap hill' core. they would be about here, if they were on the map. some elements of henry eads division of hill's corps are done watching the mountain passes around jack's mountain, this eminent, right here. it is called the fairfield gap. there is the past three here, a nifty covered bridge in. these troops keep an eye on it. there is also a great water source, called tom's creek. it runs along here. in the morning of june 30, buford's men are up late. their mission is to get to emmitsburg because deford needs to see john fulton to talk about what he has found and spotted. forgive me for digressing. whenever this happens without notes. sometimes you forget things and they come back to you. i want to give you an example of what kind of guy john buford was. on the 28th of june, outside of maryland, memory -- lieutenant john makes spotted a guy

i am so happy that dana and i chose to be campfire girls.ement. >> brian: dana perino, is it involvement of our culture to realize we shouldn't just hug people because we are related? >> dana: i am a hugger. i think it's good. trying to remember, if you see your family once a year, christmas time. you get to the ranch and there is uncle joe. i want to give them hugs. it's a moment. >> brian: fine, even if his "make america great" hat falls off during hug. juan, may be worried about girls being in uncomfortable situations. >> juan: i don't like it because i have granddaughters and a daughter. >> brian: and you want a hug. >> kimberly: would you tell them don't hog? >> juan: i am sensitive. if the little kid said to me i'm uncomfortable, i would say why is that? >> kimberly: i think that's different. complaining about something that maybe has gone on. >> dana: i would never force somebody. >> juan: i would listen to the child. if you look at the statistics, the people who are most likely to assault or attack a child -- >> kimberly: oh, my gosh

the next day, campfires are lighted to hold off the autumn chill. same weekend sans nationwide demonstrations supporting american gis in vietnam. the two day protests ends with over 600 arrests and the widespread opinion that the demonstration made everyone a loser. on october 21,, 1967, 100,000 vietnam war protesters rallied in washington, d.c. they marched to the pentagon in arlington, virginia worried more than 600, including author norman mailer were arrested. peacethe vietnam commemoration committee hosts a panel discussion on the march on the pentagon. we will hear from activists who participated in 1967. this i

in santa rosa, it still smelled like a campfire from time to time. the town was really quiet.t didn't have the hustle and bustle it normally has. once we get this rain and know the fires are 100% contained and hopefully this rain will put them out we can get back closer to normal for folks. walnut creek on 680 50 degrees there. seasonal highs and sunshine today. cool lows and more fog develops tonight and waves of rain friday through monday. a look at today's temperatures. let's go with the coast. 64 to about 67 around the rest of the bay. inland, 70 to 73. south bay, 68 to 7 0 up in the north bay. get out there and enjoy it. 44 to about 52 is our spread tonight. you can see more fog developing, the white and gray right there. our next storm nothing impressive. you don't see the curl. the low will develop rapidly. hit the pacific northwest and slide down towards us. inducing moisture thursday night after the sun sets through friday morning. some of us could have a wet commute. friday evening through saturday morning steadier. light to moderate rain. looks like most of saturday

question jeff, it is that for me, this book was sort of like those moments when you sit around a campfired you put your jacket back in the closet when you come home. and then, a couple months later, you come back to the jacket and you can... "oh, it sort of smells like a fire." and this book, for me, stays with me all the time. i keep thinking about it. and what i also love is, as a writer, is that this is not a long book, and it is an incredibly efficient, well constructed book. and so it does all these things at once, in a way that is really, for me, has lingered months and months and months after reading it. >> brown: it's very up to the moment in its concerns, right? refugees-- >> right, it's about refugees. >> brown: about immigrants, but in an extremely creative telling. >> right. >> brown: okay, ann, what do you have? >> "less" by andrew sean greer. this has been a depressing year for a lot of people, and i really wanted a book that was going to make me laugh. and the number one thing that people come into my bookstore and ask for is a book that is smart and funny and has an uplift

but the stories you hear around the campfire out there are just, i mean, it's so beautiful.please. >> thanks for doing this, and i notice as a journalist you probably do a lot of surveying. and i'm going to ask, do you frequently survey your audience? because today i got here, and i do that a lot as somebody who likes to watch people. there are a lot of gray beards like myself here -- [laughter] and i think it's utterly important that younger people be aware of this phenomenon, because it's affecting our country dramatically, and it's something that i think they need to be cognizant enough of that if they don't start analyzing it, it could be upon them quicker than they think. but is this ten call of an audience -- typical of an audience that shows up to your book readings? thank. >> sure. man, i want you to come on tour with me and do the surveying, because i'm really just trying to keep it together up here. [laughter] >> i roam america too. >> all right. yeah. so i've got to say it really varies. i talked to a couple hundred high school students which was funny. this was i

columbia pike and they literally mentioned that it was union soldiers said it looks like an ocean of campfires beside the road. and they marched by all night long and were never stopped. r the next morning, hood and the army wake up.oaas they get on the road and start chasing schofield to try to catch him before he gets to nashville. he gets to franklin and all the bridges are washed out.he digtt he knows hood's army is is just a couple behind him. that's why the battle of franklinba happened. so those that don't know the battle of franklin, there were more llcasualties in five hours than there were on the d day beaches. it is all on 1100 yard wide front.ay to then the big debates happened. is cheatham swore up and down i never got the orders. hood's lying. hood died in 1879 and cheatham outlive d him for years. i can get in an argument over anything and if i outlive you by 11 year, guess who's going to win the argument. and that's exactly what happened. basically, historians have largelarge ly sided with cheatham because hood wasn't around. so i'm going through hood's papers and i come across

areink the greatest defense the stories that are told around campfires at meetings and at reunions. in the columns of the national tribune and fighting over those columns, going back-and-forth defending the record of what they had done and insisting at a time when it was decidedly unpopular that the work of this war goes on. >> they have to make the argument that we saved the country? right? why is it that america is still being attacked. appomattox there is one chicken soldier who comes to mind who is cantankerous and he is already grumbling that northerners who have bought into this. the reunion was after the initial aim to move quickly beyond these issues. they had no language to talk about the trauma and the pain of the war. let's move quickly beyond those issues. sympathy to beat quite frank about it for the african-americans but it time you get to the 15th amendment you have northern states like , minnesota and connecticut which are putting on ballot referendums to oppose >> suffrage. union veterans, they find aemselves isolated because to large extent and there is a good scho

as a thought provoker to you folks, your job is so vitally important, we can't throw water on the campfire of american innovation and ingenuity. i would submit if we want to create opportunities, if we look at our own nation's history, if washington would just get out of the way, in many regards, the american people are more than capable of creating their own opportunities through innovation and ingenuity and i think that is an important thing for folks to remember. i see the attitudes of the commissioner that is what you are trying to do. let me ask one quick question, it will be easy for commissioner o'reilly. in 2013 it was reported the justice department had spied extensively on fox news reporter james rosen collecting his phone records, two days worth of his personal emails and tracking his movements to and from the state department so in the 32 seconds i have remaining, did this raise first amendment concerns for you at that time, yes or no? come on, follow mister o'rielly. >> being committed to the first amendment and everything we do for this agency. >> that is an interesting quest

around a campfire. the tribe of malicious gatherers. they burned blue. and flared green.children could do it. i gave up a white glow. some say arabic. it was in china 2000 years ago that fireworks were invented. fire in a confined space. they knew already about the power of fire and water. one hundred bc. in alexandria. they produced the steam powered engine. the earliest depiction of a compact dump -- gun power weapon. the silk banner. the first one. the english used units and a siege gun. in 1503. the first battle won by the one by the power of rifles. they cut down the battle in southern italy. explosion of blood in smoke. mostly farm boys. how did guns come to north america. headline in the new york times. divers and discovered the santa maria. one of the lumbar to canons was stolen. in cortez took mexico. the 1679 constructed the seven cannon bark. on the first entering of the continent. the sky darkened by the terror of the birds. the chorus. as the echo of the first astounding explosion. the crew blinking as the wind of their wings springfield arsenal. rock island