christensen: sniplaba. loz: snipplema. chisholm: snipplema. christensen: the southern nevada... baca: public land... lopez: management act. chisholm: snipla. anderson: truly horrible acronym. baca: it's one of the weirdest acronyms, but i love snplma, yeah. ensign: this bill fixes the faulty land exchange process. loz: john ensign was the sponsor of snplma at the time, and senator reid and senator bryan were the senate champions for getting that legislation through. reid: we'll change the way we do things in the state of nevada regarding land. anderson: snplma, as it's lovingly referred to, was the seminal piece of legislation that created the land se paradigm for the las vegas valley. lopez: the concept was instead of exchanging land, just auction public land to the highest bidder. that way, you bring market forces, and you just put it out in the open and you auction land. man: open this bid at 250,000. open this bid at 11 million. reid: ha a public auion and none of this tding business. man: now0... mber 179 high bidder. baca: it creates a level playing field for everybody. ma

christensen: family-friendly, resorts for young people... [crowd clamoring] christensen: resorts for retired people. reid: i watched las s vegas gro, not realizing g at the time that it w was growing like e it was,t asas i look backck, it grew vevy rapidly. [bell dings] i'm from searchlight, and i went to school in henderson, which, so v vas was always big to me, and i probably didn't recognize the growth that was taking place before my y eyes. man: we're growing, in the last couple of years, by any measure you wawant, faster than evereryy cocould have p predicted.. [power saw whirring] female tv reportrter: a new houe is built every 20 minutes in clark county foror a populatatin in flux--6,000 new residents each month. male tv rereporter: lalas vegas, with a population of 1.6 million. it's the fastest-growing metropolis in the country. christensen: this explosion of population also led to an increase in dedemographicc diversity. las v vegas became increasingly latino, asian american, on top of its historic african american population and th

christensen: there are a lot of different ways of using political power. one of the ways is bringing people together to craft a solution, but sometimes it's using power behind the scenes. sometimes it's making a phone call. man: one of the most important energy sources for the nevada power company is the reid gardn power plant, located just off interstate near moapa. the plant supplies arly 40%f the power for the las vegas community. man: reid gardner was the main power plant to te electric to las vegas when they first put it in. they located it out here next to the reservation, which is not unusual. it rlly justorphed into the big pollutiofactor that just put jury onto the rez. man:roblems first arose in the unfinished boiler complex, when a variety of construction tradesmen began complaining of respiratory prlems 2 wks ago. woman: when i was growing up, i didn't realize that we were being affected. my friends, thinking back on my life, they would cough all the time. my brother was working down there. he'd always be covered in black. his clothes would be

a mr trump announced and tested positive for the virus christensen is joining us live from new york christine i understand of course that many of these reactions can all this can be attributed to. them as an automations of computers basically reacting to preprogramed situations just talk us through what the markets have been doing particularly around the world. well markets are lower around the world then it looks like the united states is going to follow suit the opening bell just sounded and already markets are declining the dow is down more than one and a half points the s. and p. also down more than want to have points not quite as low as predicted by the futures markets but again we're in early early part of the day here it's only been a few minutes and the markets of course are reacting to the shock of the news about the president and what this will mean not only for the election but also for the economy moving forward so that is something that they're going to be considering all day long the. of course this could have an impact on the president and his

tourist highlight of instrument a major cultural institution alongside the museums in berlin and christensen's is going to win other words it made for a pretty backdrop but how did east germany handle the pressure in legacy into. now that's up to him lover to do they are off into the could it changed over time in east germany. after world war 2 the general tendency was outwith the old to create some distance to the past and that was probably true elsewhere too well not just in me but here in history was regarded as a creed to sesa to the german empire or even naziism and that it was feudal is unacceptable. for the skies are as tight as kinds of isis or their eyes forgetting does not. accept or changed over time starting in the 1960 s. or 1970 s. at the latest restoration on the state palaces and gardens began and the funds needed to do that began to flow up to a long enough you haven't done. that a lot has changed around here in the past 30 years which was the 1st task taken up after reunification it's a funny thing as an art historian i was the custody and of the sculpture collection . the 1s

good judgment common every crisis that is christensen's times we can do better we should. everyone is contributing it's your own way but we also know that this crisis not go on forever the challenges created the response has been massive so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect the. water they escaping climate change poses the same threat right now alaska seems some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast and that means the river is 35 closer than how big was 4 i think were part of the earth from. just russia was so cool. in modern russia or it would be hard to find anyone who hasn't heard of yelena hunger she's worked on television since the late 1990 s. boosting several popular talk shows including russia's 1st t.v. show to discuss sex. the british and the spy that people should reduc

the dow jones and nasdaq have opened lower on wednesday let's get more on the straight away from christensen amy in new york and kristen everybody oversee very nervous in the financial sector about what's going on worldwide. yes absolutely lots of uncertainty right now the dow jones industrial average and the s. and p. the 2 major indices here in the united states are down more than 2.2 percent for the s. and p. this is the 3rd day and counting that stocks have been lower coming off of their september high by about 5 percent and this does seem to be across sectors and in response to the concerns about the corona virus which continues to surge here in the united states almost a half 1000000 new infections recorded in just the last week more than 70000 cases for the last 2 days in a row those are new records and they tallies have been climbing a bit as well there and so we're seeing investors ditching stocks across the boards boeing announcing job cuts are likely of course they're tied to the travel industry being an aircraft manufacturer delta airlines down as well oiled prices are also down

organizers wanted to hold it virtually after trump was diagnosed cried a virus but the president refused christensen only has more from new york. the commission for presidential debates had wanted to make the october 15th a big virtual because it would be about 2 weeks after the president tested positive for a coronavirus. president refused to do that he didn't want a virtual debate he wanted to push it back if anything joe biden didn't want to push it back so the commission announced that the debate has been count of in fact both of the candidates have rescheduled events for that evening public events for that evening and we heard from president charm tonight he gave his 1st on camera interview in which he talked about how good he was feeling and. how he wanted to get back out there talked about how the drug regeneration had helped him this experimental drug has been helping him and also was asked about his test results from the most recent test because we'd yet to confirm that he had tested negative now for the virus he gave a rather vague answer on that from saying that he was at the bottom of th

downplaying this virus that has killed more than 210000 americans all right thank you very much christensen to me. well for the 1st time europe has recorded more than one 100000 coronavirus cases in one day as a number of countries struggle to suppress a 2nd wave of the 19 france has seen a jump of more than 20000 infections for the 1st time 4 major cities is set to go into maximum within hours italy recorded more than 5300 new cases in the past day the 1st time the country's top 5000 since march and confirmed infections in the netherlands rose by $5900.00 on friday as the country sees a wiring spike giving it one of the highest per capita infection rates in the world well me and mars reporting at least a 1000 new corona virus infections every day case numbers that have been soaring for months now after the country appeared to have avoided the west of the pandemic just a month ago the country had fewer than 10 deaths now 535 people have died scott heiler reports. officials declared an all out war on code 19 as the number of cases continue to steadily increase in yang gone myanmar's largest

the crown of us his 2nd debate against irvine is being canceled trump refused to hold virtually christensen amy reports. i don't lot of people that appearing on his favorite news channel president donald trump was feeling positive i feel really really strong and a lot of people don't feel that way sometimes for a while he credited a still experimental antibody treatment for his speedy recovery from corona virus are you tested i heard you i heard you said you were going to test again today have you been retested. i have been retested and i haven't even found numbers or anything yet but i've been retested and i know i'm at either the bottom of the scale or free. that's not likely to appease his critics. question his plans to host crowds for an event on the white house lawn on saturday less than 2 weeks after his diagnosis. it was shortly after this event in the rose garden that he and several people who attended tested positive. president eager to get back on the campaign trail is also planning to hold a rally in florida on monday that's despite that 9 people who attended this rally in minnes

judge dana christensen said it is "fiction" that montana will fall prey to widespread voter fraud. meanwhile, in wisconsin, a federal appeals court has reinstated a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in november. in other voting news, the new york city board of elections has announced plans to resend absentee ballots to nearly 100,000 voters after a printing error led to the distribution of defective ballots. in kentucky, a federal judge has delayed the release of recocordings o of grand jury proceedings in the case of breonna taylor, a 26-year-old african american medical worker who was killed last march by white louisville officers in plainclothes who burst into her homeme while execucuting a no-kk warrant. republican attorney general daniel cameron had asked the judge for a one-week extension to make the recordings public. the judge allowed him to delay their release until friday. this week cameron admitted he never asked the grand jury to consnsider murder charges for re three police officers who o shot taylylor. in aririzona, tohono o''odham ld and water defenders

thank you for that christensen and we in new york and as we mentioned france is expected to announce a nationwide lockdown in jest under an hour we're expecting at present a man in my car to speak. in paris so or what are we expecting the president to announce. while we do know there is the french president a man or mark raul will certainly be announcing tighter restrictions exactly what those restrictions are yet are yet to be confirmed we have to wait to hear what he says but there is no doubt that there are a few options on the table that have been widely reported in french media one is the possibility of another national knock down a lock to knock down that could be perhaps a little bit more flexible than the very strict lockdown we saw in france in march april and may another possibility would be to continue the curfew that was put in place now and less than 2 weeks ago nighttime curfew and also add to that a weekend curfew so effectively people be locked out of the weekend and in the evenings but daytime during the week would still be ok people still be allowed to go out and do

couple of hours ago investors are jittery after president trump announce he had tested positive christensen he joins us live from new york and kristen the markets like certainty and this is nothing like certainty. yes you're absolutely right the news sent markets around the world tumbling and here in the united states the tech heavy nasdaq index is down the most at more than one percent the dow is down about a half percent elsewhere in the world in japan the nikkei down point 6 percent closed down at point 6 percent some other asian markets were closed for holidays in europe we're seeing the dax down point 6 percent in the footsie down slightly as well as you say the markets don't like uncertainty and this is something that they are still processing this news that president trump has tested positive for the coronavirus and investors want to know not only what this means for the president's health and for the upcoming election but of course for the economy and there are a couple questions that investors are waging weighing in as this news develops and that is what impact this will have on at

coronavirus his 2nd debate against joe biden has been canceled after trump refused to hold it virtually christensen amid reports. i don't lot of people at a pairing on his favorite news channel president donald trump was feeling positive i feel really really strong and a lot of people don't feel that way sometimes for a while he credited a still experimental antibody treatment for his speedy recovery from corona virus are you tested i heard you i heard you said you were going to test again today have you been retested. i have been retested and i haven't even found out numbers or anything yet but i've been retested and i know i'm at either the bottom of the scale or free. that's not likely to appease his critics. they don't question his plans to host crowds for an event on the white house lawn on saturday less than 2 weeks after his diagnosis thank you it was shortly after this event in the rose garden that he and several people who attended tested positive. president eager to get back on the campaign trail is also planning to hold a rally in florida on monday that's despite news that 9 people who a