cynthia bittinger: they were teenagers.ctually, when calvin was vice-president, they were still at home in northampton. and as i mentioned before, that was difficult. cynthia bittinger: so grace and calvin conferred with admiral boone who was the assistant white house physician and some others, and decided that the boy should go to mercersburg academy in mercersburg, pennsylvania. and that would only be a couple of hours from the white house, and maybe she could see them a little bit. cynthia bittinger: and also, after talking to admiral boone, she felt it would be a good place to have the boys. they would have good leadership with them, and they would become fine young men. so that was pretty much the decision. susan swain: and their sons' names were john and calvin jr.? cynthia bittinger: john was born in 1906; calvin, 1908. so they were fairly close together. she felt she really raised them at home, because calvin commuted to the general court in massachusetts, which was in boston, and she's the one who put out the train

cynthia bittinger: they did vote. they voted publicly and she even organized some effort in her town of north hampton to get women out to vote. susan swain: what was happening, this was within the second women could have voted, what was happening with women in politics as a result of their ability to participate with the vote? amity shlaes: well, people suspected they might another way than their husband but they didn't. i think that was one of the big surprises of the '20s. and then you want to ask should they be in politics? and there were a few female appointments by coolidge but not many and no -- there were no big ones, no cabinet ladies. so it was -- it was more modest than might have predicted or hoped for by the suffrage, wasn't it? susan swain: so this was also, as we said the time that the talkies came into being, the first films that actually had sound attached to them. and so, this becomes the first president and first lady that we can not only see on film but also hear. coming up next is short clips of ca

cynthia: sure. mr. wheatley: when we lived in noris at first, as i mentioned, we lived there seven months in the attic on pine road. charge.s in i had good neighbors, but with my $150 forward, i had to spend 300 or $400 to get it takes so it would be reliable and i had a --pool for seven months and let's see. we had three other people this 1937self, but ford, even with new brakes would go out of adjustment. at that particular year was noted for that. we wouldhree days drive with the brakes and the last three days we would drive with the emergency brake only. so, i would spend my time on the weekends getting the cables so it would run next week. none of my carpool never left me and i never understood why with some of the experiences we had. three notable ones. i almost ran a fire truck off the road. the second one was, on the old road going into clinton, you have to go down in the center of the city and we would shift gears into second as we started down the hill and as we came up over the hill, there wa

nobody. >> i said do you have a plan for me and cynthia as well and you said that cynthia is fine.t means you must have a plan for me, too. >> are you kidding me? like that? >> cynthia's fine. she doesn't need anyone to take care of her. she got $140,000 of my money, a whole life and family and stuff like that. i can't do that for you right now. >> you want me to wait? >> i don't want you to do anything. i don't need your help. i planned this out as something i would do by myself. >> reporter: joannah's vacation is over. she tells konrath she is getting another room in the hotel, but she's secretly plotting her return to indiana. how long did it take you to get out of there? >> a day, and then i stayed at the airport, until that flight. >> reporter: but she does one more thing before she leaves. she waits for konrath's paycheck to clear, and empties their joint checking account. you took some money out of the account. >> a joint account. >> reporter: why did you do that? >> it was our money together. i had to survive. >> reporter: a day later, joannah's back in indiana and she's no

number two, cynthia salazar. but a new romance wasn't enough to cure what ails this >> i used a knife. my heart. and then i tried to slit my throat and missed my carotid, which i was trying to hit. i mean, pretty bad for a surgeon. >> reporter: were you becoming man planning to commit murder? >> more convinced he wouldn't talk about the gun at all. >> do you own any firearms? >> does that have to do with this, that threat thing? >> just a simple question. do you own any firearms? >> yeah. i want an attorney for that one. >> reporter: finally the ever-talkative dr. konrath realizes it's time to clam up. and as hours pass, the cops may have a motive, but still don't have a crime. >> well, at this point, you're free to go. >> reporter: detective rogers will search this humble rental home konrath and joannah were sharing. and in the garage, they hit pay dirt. >> this is a photograph of the garage. the gun was actually located in this bag. >> and we found everything he said he had laid out in that house. >> reporter:

oral history collection. >>> cynthia kelly, what is the voices of the manhattan project? >> the voices of the manhattan project is a website that contains 300 oral histories, and we hope someday will be the central repository of the memories of the manhattan project veterans. >> well, tell us about the manhattan project itself. what was it and what does that name mean? >> the manhattan project was the effort in world war ii by the united states and its allies, primarily great britain and canada, to build an atomic bomb. the name manhattan is just as you think. it's after that island. now it's part of new york city. but the project was run by the army corps of engineers. while they toyed with a name that would be something like "special materials project," they thought such a name would arouse suspicion, because it was sort of clumsy. they named the project after the place where the projects headquarters were. its headquarters were at 270 broadway in lower manhattan, hence it was called the manhattan engineering district. and we call it, for short, the manhattan project. >

the attacker was cynthia apkaw. >> apkaw is extremely violent.everely assaulted that inmate to the point she needed facial reconstructive surgery. so that's why we do what we do now for the precautions of these people. >> she disrespected me so i beat the crap out of her. i went out there and i beat her ass in the cell and i pulled her out. dragged her in the middle of the hall and started beating the [ bleep ] out of her. i stomped on her face and beat her head in the floor. >> i don't think you can ever prepare yourself for everything. for something that brutal, we've had fights before, but that one probably is real close to the top. it was very violent. and the young lady in question that was injured looked to be passed out with the last few kicks and she could not defend herself. so it was very bad. >> we're going to check the lock, apkaw. >> because apkak got to her victim with blocking her lock with magazine pages, detention officers follow a strict protocol before entering her cell. first they cuff her up, then instruct her to lie down on

our cynthia mcfadden has the story. >> this is the furthest northern tip. >> they are not just patrolling the coast, they are protecting a way of life. >> this is a native assistant area. there is no costco up here so we eat off the land. >> down below, barrow, alaska is celebrating another successful whale hunt. bonehead whales, some over 200 years old and 100 tons had harpooned, carved up and shared with the community. >> everybody gets fed. nobody goes hungry. >> whale has kept us alive for thousands of years. >> reporter: but can the beat that has echoed here for so long survive? >> that is our jaw of the bonehead whale. >> this whaling captain said climate change is making it harder to pull the massive whales out of the sea and changing the migration patterns of the caribou and the seal. >> we've been seeing it and living it and we know our world is changing. >> earth that has been frozen forever, now melting. threatening their underground utilities. >> our community's sustainability is at risk. >> this whaling captain isn't just worried about the weather, he warned that oil profits

nbc's cynthia mcfadden takes us there. >> reporter: there's no better way to see what's happening in the arctic than to arrive by boat in kotzebue, alaska. when mr. obama lands here, he'll become the first president to visit the american arctic. >> they've all flown by. >> reporter: willie goodwin jr. is the town's former mayor. >> what would you like to say to the president when he gets here? [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> reporter: which means? >> welcome to our land. >> reporter: but his land is changing fast as temperatures warm twice as rapidly here as the rest of the planet. nbc news has spent the past four months reporting through america's vast arctic, a place of tradition and dramatic change. nowhere are the problems more urgent than in shishmaref, which scientists say is just one bad storm away from being wiped off the map. the ice that once protected their fragile shoreline from big fall storms is melting. and now they're losing as much as 20 feet a year to erosion. >> the ocean comes in pretty good. the water comes up pretty high. >> reporter: and because they're s

it destroy their way of life forever. >> once you have an accident, there is no turning back. >> cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, barrow, alaska. >>> we're back in a moment with a big could protect you from diabetes? what if one sit-up could prevent heart disease? one. wishful thinking, right? but there is one step you can take to help prevent another serious disease. pneumococcal pneumonia. if you are 50 or older, one dose of the prevnar 13 vaccine can help protect you from pneumococcal pneumonia, an illness that can cause coughing, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and may even put you in the hospital. even if you have already been vaccinated with another pneumonia vaccine, prevnar 13 may help provide additional protection. prevnar 13 is used in adults 50 and older to help prevent infections from 13 strains of the bacteria that cause pneumococcal pneumonia. you should not receive prevnar 13 if you have had a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine or its ingredients. if you have a weakened immune system, you may have a lower response to the vaccine. common side effects were pain, redness or

news 4 has learned that their owner, cynthia oliver, has been arrested 37 times before. >> unbelievable. >>> also on staten island, police say that they've arrested an 18-year-old man in connection to an attempted rape. investigators say that shazim akbar attacked a woman near her home last tuesday. she started screaming and he took off. akbar is charged with sexual abuse and burglary. >>> this morning we're learning more about the arrest of rutgers star receiver. he was arrested 48 minutes after saturday's game. he's charged right now with assault and a domestic violence incident. he was suspended indefinitely. six other rutgers players were kicked off the team in the past two weeks. two charged in home invasions, the other four face assault charges. >>> 4:40. we're going to turn to presidential politics right now. donald trump planning a big rally today in los angeles. that is on the eve, of course, of the next gop presidential debate. last night he fired up nearly 17,000 supporters. this is at the a thrown in dallas. he not only called for tax cuts for corporations and the middle cla

>> the victim lies in the cold snow for 28 days before she is found and identified as 23-year-old cynthia mcewen, a young mother who leaves behind a 5-year-old girl. by then, rhodes has made a clean getaway, skipping town with his wife and daughter, telling them it's time to move, to find a new job. the cold-blooded nature of the murder has all the hallmarks of being the work of a psychopath. >> there's a profound lack of empathy and remorse for victims if the offender is a psychopath. that means they can put it behind him. he leaves colorado and continues the assaults as he ultimately ends up in florida. >> the fatal assault is just the beginning. he is about to start a string of perverted attacks on unsuspecting women. >> were you a predator? >> i had obviously become one, yes. isn't it beautiful when things just come together? build a beautiful website with squarespace. i can offer you no interest sittifor 24 months.oday thanks to the tools and help at experian.com, i know i have an 812 fico score, so i definitely qualify. so what else can you give me? same day delivery. the ottoman? t

. >> the at the entrance of the hall, cynthia mccloud will be greeting the pope and everybody toward staging area once the pope mobile comes to a halt and the program begins. you can see dignitaries waving once again waiting on the right side of the stage. >> you see mayor nutter up there as well, governor wolf is there his wife, the the first lady, i saw senator pat toomey earlier, senator bob casey is expect to be there so a lot of dignitaries but again, as we go on from washington d.c. and this is thing that gets a lot of people about pope francis, he is just as confidentable with the famous and the dignitaries as he is with the homeless, and those who really need him. you could perhaps say really favors those who are afflicted in many ways, the the downtrodden, and he spend an incredible an amount of time. when he was in washington he did a big speech there before congress, making history, addressing the the crowd and then guys, thanks, i will skip out on lunch and go visit with the homeless before i go to new york city. >> i heard a story not long ago he ordered swiss guard to s

oral history collection. >>> cynthia kelly, what is the voices of the manhattan project? >> the voices of the manhattan project is a website that contains 300 oral histories, and we hope someday will be the central repository of the memories of the manhattan project veterans. >> well, tell us about the manhattan project itself. what was it and what does that name mean? >> the manhattan project was the effort in world war ii by the united states and its allies, primarily great britain and canada, to build an atomic bomb. the name manhattan is just as you think. it's after that island. now it's part of new york city. but the project was run by the army corps of engineers. while they toyed with a name that would be something like "special materials project," they thought such a name would arouse suspicion, because it was sort of clumsy. they named the project after the place where the projects headquarters were. its headquarters were at 270 broadway in lower manhattan, hence it was called the manhattan engineering district. and we call it, for short, the manhattan project. >

eastern, an interview with atomic heritage foundation director cynthia kelly. then benjamin burteson recalls the atmosphere of secrecy around the project and his own work in creating the ig anything switches. american history tv each night this week on c-span3. >>> a signature feature of booktv is our all-day comage of book fairs and vest falls avoss the country. beginning this weekend, we're live from the 15th annual book festival from our neigh's capital. we're in new york for the brooklyn book festival. in early october, the southern festival of books in nashville. the weekend after that, we are live for the austin texas book festival and near the end of the month, we'll be covering two book festivals on the same weekend. it's the wisconsin book festival in madison and back on the east coast, the boston book festival. we'll be in portland, oregon, for word stock. at the end of november, we're live for the 18th year in a row from florida for the miami book fair international. that's a few of the book fairs and festivals this fall on c-span2's book tv. >>> now

cynthia, this is an incredible tale.he epipen around. >> they conducted a marketing campaign. one of which was legislative. they helped push through legislative that made it a mainstay in schools. i think that helped the brand gain awareness among parents with childhood allergies on the rise. they were able to grow the brentess of epipen as of -- as a brand. scarlet: the also raise prices? cynthia: they were pushing through price increases on the drug which is not uncommon. and the more prominent it becomes as they go to therapy, the more they can charge in an environment where they're all not any real competitors. of them reminds me jacking up the price of that till from $15 to $750. nynthia: what happened with tar was how they can get called out when they do it so suddenly. epipen as a gradual and going on for a number of years. epipen is not unusual at all. it's a very common practice. drugmakers are able to push through the price because there is not as much scrutiny on the strokes. usually -- scrutiny on these drugs

. >> cynthia and dennis run this place and come highly recommended.rated and cooked, it happens to be toxic if you don't handle it right. now they say the best -- >> in jamaica. >> anywhere. >> and yeah, also some banana. that is delicious. cynthia's friends joy and margerie have restaurants on the beach, here too it's in danger of redevelopment. and all this might disappear into the everchurning wheel of, ♪ >> it is a public beach. it has been one of the best beach in jamaica. the beach was left to give the poor people of jamaica. >> so the government takes it over, supposedly to make it a public space, but they want to sell it to, what a hotel group? >> yeah, they want to make like a resort. >> there were a lot of islands on the caribbean where you're not allowed to own a beach. meaning all beaches are public. even if it's an exclusive hotel, at least theoretically, anybody can go. >> right. >> here it's different. here if you can buy a house and the beach, if you, you're a hotel, you can make it a private beach. meaning, they don't let the locals o

the owner, cynthia oliver, has 37 prior arrest joos 6:08. in presidential politics, donald trump plans a rally this time in los angeles. this is on the eve of the next gop presidential debate. last night he fired up nearly 17,000 supporters in an arena in dallas. trump not onl calling for tax cuts for corporations and for the middle class but he talks once again about building that big wall along the border with mexico. >> it's disgusting what's happening to our country. we are a dumping ground for the rest of the world. we are a dumping ground. >> outside of the arena hundreds of people marched in what they called a dump trump rally. >> very controversial. >>s in this morning's cnbc money report. it may only be mid september, not even the end of september, but the holiday shopping rush is already in full swing. cnbc's landon dowdy is joining us. >> more than 32 million americans say they've already started their holiday shopping. a new survey by credit cards.com say 4 million have checked everything off of their list. 1/4 of people expect t

owen the deputy city attorney that provides the board with legal advice and the process clerk i'm cynthiadstein the board's executive director we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before the board scott sanchez planning department and representing the planning department and planning commission and joined by

>> vice chair cynthia crews: thank you very much. i'm very excited about this and excited that we might have an intern available to work on it sooner rather than later. certainly i have always been interested in having a robust pipeline of things that lafco would work on just as things are winding down or winding up however you would look at it with cca. i did have a question for mr. fried. the bold sections that you have outlined is that set in stone or is that sort of a guideline of early information? >> combination of the two. it's not necessarily set in stone. you can say we don't want to see any particular area done, if something is not listed, you can do that as well. i don't know the to say it's set in stone. if you said go ahead and do the report and there were no comments made, we would be looking into these areas. some of the areas that are maybe done in other parts the country but not here in southern california. so part of the discussion is what is the state law and if it's allowed or not and what would be done at the sta

cynthia mcfadden had spent a lot of time out there looking. she says some of these natives will become some of america's first climate change refugees. >> so many things have been connected to climate change, the western droughts, the melt of the glaciers. how is it effecting the population there? >> the ice has now melted as the climate changes. they're losing inches and feet of their community. >> all right. >> thank you very much. >>> now to the stunning new stance on abortion from pope francis. >> today the pope said he'll allow all roman catholic priests to absolve all women of abortions they repent. the pope has given priests permission to absolve the sin during the church's year of mercy. >> i think it's generous of him, but i still think it's the woman's choice to do what they want to do. >> i believe in forgiveness. i think it's the only way forward. >> here in new york, cardinal dolan says priests have had the discretion to forgive abortion for decades. it is considered a moral sin by the catholic church those who seek it are usually

>> vice chair cynthia crews: thank you very much. i'm very excited about this and excited that we might have an intern available to work on it sooner rather than later. certainly i have always been interested in having a robust pipeline of things that lafco would work on just as things are winding down or winding up however you would look at it with cca. i did have a question for mr. fried. the bold sections that you have outlined is that set in stone or is that sort of a guideline of early information? >> combination of the two. it's not necessarily set in stone. you can say we don't want to see any particular area done, if something is not listed, you can do that as well. i don't know the to say it's set in stone. if you said go ahead and do the report and there were no comments made, we would be looking into these areas. some of the areas that are maybe done in other parts the country but not here in southern california. so part of the discussion is what is the state law and if it's allowed or not and what would be done at the sta

. >>> a bronx woman accused of unleashing her two dogs on a man is due in court. 55-year-old cynthia oliver is charged with numerous assault and reckless endangerment charges. this video last friday, it was all to see, police say she sicked her two pit bulls on 62-year-old francesco bovay. the dogs malled him for 7 minutes, all caught on camera. this is not lthiver's first run-in with the law. she has 37 prior arrests. >>> if you watched any football this weekend, you probably saw ads for fantasy sports websites promising huge payouts. now a new jersey congressman is calling for a hearing to examine their legality. frank pallone wants to know the relationship between professional sports and sports betting. pallone says the fantasy league s s investing in fantasy payout sites. >>> and coming up here on news 4 new york at noon, massive rescue efforts are under way out west after a wall of water swept away women and children stranded in flooded cars. coming up, the latest on the flooding and rescue efforts. >>> plus make a campaign contribution with one tweet. how twitter makes it easie

conlon >> margaret mary conner >> cynthia marie lise connolly >> john e. connolly jr. >> james lee connor >> jonathan m. connors >> kevin patrick connors >> kevin f. conroy >> brenda e. conway >> dennis michael cook >> helen d. cook >> jeffery w. coombs >> john a. cooper >> joseph john coppo jr. >> gerard j. coppola >> joseph albert corbett >> john j. corcoran iii >> alejandro cordero >> robert joseph cordice >> ruben d. correa >> danny a. correa-gutierrez >> james j. corrigan, retired >> carlos cortes rodriguez >> kevin cosgrove >> dolores marie costa >> digna alexandra costanza >> michael s. costello >> charles gregory costello jr. >> conrod k. cottoy sr. >> martin john coughlan >> john g. coughlin >> timothy j. coughlin >> james e. cove >> and my brother angel perez. i miss you. it's been 14 years. haven't stopped thinking of you. >> and my uncle who we love and miss every day of the year. >> andre cox >> frederick john cox >> james raymond coyle >> michelle coyle-eulau >> christopher seton cramer >> denise elizabeth crant >> james leslie crawford jr. >

. >> the holy father's trip include a tour of independence hall and has a personal guide in cynthia mccloud, the superintendant of the the national park. >> before the pope arrives, thousands of pilgrims are here in philadelphia taking part in the world meeting of families, the real reason for the pope's visit to the united states. now john rawlins is live with more on that. >> it's a busy place here, 18,000 people signed up and most of them are in the main hall at lunch time, they come from all parts of the compass and share the passion for the family. >> the world meeting of families in full swing and thousands of participants, this is a convention of believers, in the hall rendering of the pope and health force that locked on to the painted image and dispenses a prayer. >> touch the virtual buttons and perhaps a blessing from the pope. >> it's the belief that a functioning society begins with god centered families. >> they have different sessions about families that pray together and the old cliche they stay together, it's true. >> and they say the biggest threat is selfish individualism

cynthia harris is on the phone. can you hear me. >> i can. glad you are with us. quick question.little bit. how many people are you expecting to hit the road. >> this is an interesting question gas prices have definitely affected the holiday season the holiday is not the biggest holiday of the year but acoring to storm of the stats that we have, over four million californians will be traveling, roughly a 1% increase. gas prices in the state of california are the lowest they have been since the year 2010 when we were paying $3.06 for a gallon of unleaded regular. today, in california, we are paying $3.30. and this is really the lowest price that we had in some time a year ago, we were paying $3.84 at this precise time. so that's good news for consumers and it's obviously affecting a lot of people's plans in the sense that they are willing to get in their cars and drive longer distances. >> it's affecting me. i'm loving it. what are the average trips that people are taking during labor day? >> that's interesting. in the bay area, school started already. a lot of parent s are just t

cynthia mcfadden reports. >> reporter: it isn't easy getting to the front lines of the new cold war.for safety. survival in arctic water is mere minutes. we're heading 20 miles up to sea. the cutter is part of the coast guard mission, "arctic shield." landing is terrifying and thrilling. captain seth denning welcomes us aboard. with no deepwater ports in the alaskan arctic, they're at sea for 60 days. >> we left gnome and are in this vicinity right here. >> reporter: the rapidly melting ice is bringing new opportunities and new headaches here, including more sea traffic. part of the coast guard mission is to scope out who's up here and why. from november until may, ice makes these waters impassable, without ice breakers. so after october, the hailey's not coming up here? the maps are old and incomplete. even open water can be dangerous. so you're guessing when you're going through here? >> right. >> north of gnome, there are a lot of blank spaces. >> reporter: melting ice is now making the famously treacherous northwest passage passable. if it becomes reliable enough for internationa

. >> reporter: maggier lives in the same building with the dog's owner, cynthia oliver. oliver's same dog involved in this attack bit her earlier this year. when you walked past the dogs, what happened? >> they jumped on me and the one bit me. the punctured the skin. i had to go get a tetanus shot. >> reporter: we tracked down the manager of this building. they s nt multiple letters and made calls to ask oliver to remove the dogs from the premsis. the company started a legal process to have the animals removed. >> i'm not surprised at all because they were a time bomb waiting to happen. >> reporter: madeline lives here, too. she was talking to oliver when fran ches co pulled up and approached the dogs. >> he said, you have beautiful dogs. i have a pit nose named gina. hesh got out with his keys in his hand. >> reporter: madison says the dogs attacked moments later. >> he went down to pet the dog. once he reached his hand out, the male dog grabbed him by the arm and started to shake like as if he was a rag doll. >> i had seen the man on the floor and dogs just on him. the

cynthia l cynthia l cynth cynth cynth cynthia lummis would make a terrific one., well liked and at least according to ralph, they are unafraid. >>> all right, brace yourselves. unbearably cute clips here. two bear cubs. final farewell back into the wild in western russia this week. orphans rescued and raised. before being freed, they were fitted with microchips. we can monitor their movements. the organization plans to release over a dozen other bears in the coming days. >> they're cute now. they're very cute right now. very cuddly. wait until they grow up. it has been so amazing to cover the pope and cover all of the amazing amount of enthusiasm about it. >> it is. and it's great. i actually had a chance to go to rome and see the pope there. and when he rides in the pope mobile, you catch an elbow. when people barely get a glimpse, being part of the excitement and the spiritual experience. >> you went to rome to do it. people went for hours. we're looking live where it's fi filling up. they've got dancers there to entertain before the pope comes to the main show

nbc's cynthia mcfadden has the story. >> reporter: it isn't easy getting to the front lines of the new cold war. a war many think america is losing. the suits are for safety. survival in arctic waters is mere minutes. we're headed 20 miles out to sea. the cutter, alex haley, patrolling as part of the coast guard mission arctic shield. landing is terrifying, and thrilling. captain seth denning welcomes us aboard. with no deepwater ports in the alaskan arctic, they are at sea for 60 days. >> we left nome. we're in this vicinity right here. >> reporter: the rapidly melting ice is bringing new opportunities and new headaches here. including more sea traffic. part of the coast guard mission is to scope out who is up here and why. from november until may, ice makes the waters impassable without ice breakers. >> so after october, the haley is not coming out here. >> no, ma'am. >> the maps are old and incomplete. even open water can be dangerous. >> so you are guessing when you are going through here? >> right. north of nome there are a lot of blank spaces. >> melting ice is making the treache

tonight the company's president tells cynthia mcfadden why he believes the big gamble is worth it, as many claim it cannot be done safely. >> reporter: anger, outrage and claims of hypocrisy over the obama administration's decision to let shell explore for oil in the arctic. inside shell's command center in anchorage, they are focused on the race to see if their $7 billion gamble on oil here is going to pay off. this is realtime? >> this is realtime. >> reporter: the president of shell invited us to see their alaska operations. there's got to be a big pay-off to justify a $7 billion investment. >> the potential scale of these resources is enormous. >> reporter: some say up to 13% of the world's undiscovered oil is in the arctic and with climate change and more and more melting ice, that oil is now more accessible than ever. locals here are divided about drilling. this man was the mayor of alaska's north slope for years. what was your campaign slogan? >> no drilling offshore. now not only no, but hell no. >> reporter: other leaders say they need the tax revenue and other money new oil

commissioner swig will be absent this evening to my left a strident attorney and the clerk alec i'm cynthia goldstein the board's executive director we're joined we we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. in the front row is carli short and we'll be joined by joe duffy senior

. >> reporter: cynthia torrez graduated from the school six years ago and is now a classroom teacherin oakland. she and other allumns accomplished a go fund me site to gather money to keep the school open they also want to actively recruit students to boost the numbers up. >> we're not asking the district for money. we're not asking the district to add more students we're not asking them to do any hard work. everything we're doing, we're doing ourselves. >> i would be losing my family. my second family. >> reporter: the students and parents plan to plea their case to the san lorenzo school board at a public hearing scheduled for next month. then the board is expected to make their final vote in november. rob roth, ktvu news. >>> fall is on the way and it certainly feels like fall. >> sure does today. >> we're checking in with bill martin. what a difference. >> it is. tomorrow is the first day of fall and it does feel like fall out there. today the last day of summer. temperatures dropped a good 20 degrees. with the cloud coming in from the south feels like fall around here. with fire

philadelphia, a weekend that includes a personal tour of independence hall for pope francis with cynthia mccloud, from the independence park. it's a true honor for her. >> his presence to us today reminds us of the very important events that happened in the hall, in 1776 and 1787 our declaration and constitution, and it reminds us how vital history is. >> and mccloud says that the best part is that the park looks great and the city is just about ready to host this major events, i am proud and excited as are all of us in philadelphia. >> park officials want everyone to be aware that independence hall is open today and tomorrow until 7:00 and 5:00 until friday and obviously closed on saturday and reopen on sunday, and if you come to this part of town, give yourself a lot of time, security restrictions will only increase with each passing day. reporting live, walter perez, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> over on the ben franklin parkway workers are putting in long hours to make sure the infrastructure is in place for the festival of families and the papal mass there. there is sti

our cynthia mcfadden toured alaska with shell's north america president four weeks ago.time, he was cautiously optimistic about the operation. today he said the news was disappointing. shell won approval to drill from the obama administration in mid-august for the first time in 24 years. it was a move fiercely fought by environmentalists and some of the locals. >>> a fascinating snapshot showing how immigration is reshaping our country. a new pew study finds that 13.7% of the current population was born outside the u.s. the number is expected to hit a record 14.9% by 2025. also notable, 47% of immigrants in the u.s. are hispanic. 26% are asian. after the middle of the century, asians are expected to pass latinos as the largest immigrant group. >>> after a nasty dugout scuffle in which nationals' reliever jonathan papelbon grabbed bryce harper by the throat yesterday, the team has suspended papelbon for four games, combined with a league suspension for a separate incident last week. he's done for the season. appears he was angry at harper for not running out a flyball. ha

kouming up at 8:00 p.m., interview with cynthia kelly. then at 8:15, ben man bedderson recalls secrecy and his work designing the bomb's ignition switches. plus other oral histories on the project and all of that tonight on american history tv on c-span 3. >>> actor and screen writer matt dylan talked about his trip to mayan maran the community living there. they have been stateless despite living for generation in mayan bar, formerly called burma. most lack food and health care, separated from the rest of society. the speech took place at the national press club. >> thank you. i want to thank you. that was a lovely introduction. and i want to thank kasia and everybody here at the national press club for hosting michel and myself. the rohingya of myanmar are currently the largest stateless ethnic group in the world. estimated somewhere over 100 million -- i'm sorry, 1 million people. get those numbers right. 1 million people. at least 1 million people. and having served on the board of refugees international for the last seven years, i've

there's no cynthia isn't forgivable, as long as we sincerely repent. >> the church's year of mercy beginsecember 8th and runs until november 2016. >>> parents at a catholic school on the main line got an explanation surrounding the controversial firing of a gay teacher. a parent at waldron mercy academy in merion station spoke to nbc 10 after a private meeting. margie winters was let go in july after concerns they would lose their affiliation with the church. winters was the school's religious instruction director. officials said her same-sex marriage which they knew about when they hired her years ago was against church dock trend. an archdiocese spokesperson told us he wasn't there for the meeting but sent us this statement, however, i will reiterate that the personnel decision in question was not made by the archdiocese or influenced by the archdiocese. at no time did anyone threaten to revoke the catholic standing of the school. >>> students in the chester upland school district will go back to class for a new school year, even though their teachers aren't getting paid on time. commun

hours today, cecile richards defended her group's government funding to republicans like wyoming's cynthia lummis. >> why do you need federal dollars? you're making a ton of dough. >> we don't make any profit off of federal money. >> reporter: republicans have been pushing to block nearly half a billion dollars in annual funding after undercover videos showed some planned parenthood doctors bluntly discussing the harvesting of fetal tissue from abortions. richards argued that the highly edited videos were part of an unsuccessful three-year sting by antiabortion activists. >> they continued to badger and badger and badger our doctors to try to get them to dmit comit to something that was unethical or illegal. >> reporter: ohio congressman jim jordan wanted to know why, then, richards initially said he was sorry. >> and i personally apologize for the staff members' tone and statements. >> which statements were you apologizing for? >> it was really the situation >> that's not-- but, miss richards that's not what you said "p" you said, "i apologize for statements." >> reporter: democrats defen