>> stephen: the state of north dakota may not exist. it's like south dakota's canadian girlfriend. she's up north supposedly really cool and beautiful, but nobody has ever seen her. this shocking revelation comes from 82-year-old john robinski, who noticed a discrepancy while reading the north dakota state constitution because that's the most exciting thing to do in north dakota. [laughter] he's a thrill seeker. now, turns out the u.s. constitution requires all state legislators, executives and judicial officers to swear an oath of allegiance to uphold the u.s. constitution. but north dakota's state constitution omitted that requirement for its governor, which means technically north dakota isn't a state, which brings me to threat number three, fake states. nation, and i'm not talking to you, north dakota, there are now over 670,000 foreigners masked

dakota.ecause you know how disgusted and angry americans all seem right now? >> they are. we tell them that this is the fight that they sent us here for. you know, there are 87 new freshmen that came, and we came to change the way that washington, d.c. does business. i would love to tell them i'm working at it. >> compromise sometimes means compromise. >> it's not just compromise. it's common ground. >> reporter: she's due in the speaker's office later today. she'll be looking for common ground. he will be looking for her vote. among the chandeliers and the priceless works of art, for all the talk of reform from the newcomers around here, changing an institution as old as the congress is easier said than done. for one thing, the sheer size and scope of the place. if you move the white house from across town, you would see it's easily dwarfed by the capitol and the surrounding office buildings for all the members, and the place is filled with 30,000 plus people who work here, whose loyalty is

he got off in dakota territory, which is a brand-new town. it had only been established about four or five months earlier. there were about 300 residents of this town, permanent and transient residents that included minors in lumberjack, former buffalo hunters and ranchers and cowboys. ranching was unlike any cattle operation in america today. it was open range ranching, which you may be familiar with it just as roosevelt said, ranchers would buy a venture capital and turn them loose along the missouri river and the cattle would roll around like wild animals. in the rancher would build a house wonderworker come his, his headquarters with corrals in and out nothing. the ranchers didn't own the land. they were squatters. the land belonged to the federal government or american people or railroads. in fact, the rancher who applied for title was seen as suspect because they wondered why would he do that? said this was the wide-open west. twice a year of course the ranchers would have to round up cattle and brand them so they could tell -- is the o

matt's roots are deep in north dakota. he returns every chance he gets with his family, his wife and his children, elderly come and meet and will come his sister, susan, is with us as well. as i said, i've known this family for a very long time coming and they are the best that it gets. his father was the chief of staff to the man the white defeated for the united states senate. and so i know how good he really is. van passed away three years ago, but i know he's looking down with a twinkle in his eye today proud of matte and all that he has accomplished. you know, after defeating the boss for the united states senate, i came here with some trepidation of what my relationship might be like with a van and his wife, the treated me with the greatest courtesy over time the cancer indifference. the highest quality people that our state has to offer, and i believe that the highest quality of people in the country. these are the americans through and through. you're father would be so proud of you at this moment. he would be look

, what is now north dakota close to montana. he just didn't go west as one urged as a young man. he was compelled to go west. events forced him in that direction, and we will get to that, but before we head off into the badlands, i want to give you a brief background on the roosevelt. the aficionados are probably familiar with this, but points 20 -- to touch on. he was a city kid in new york city, member of a social elite, the nickerbockers who traced ancestors back to the does back in the 1560s. it was an old new york family. his grandfather was one of the five richest man in manhattan. they made money on glass, producing a lot of window glass that new york city needed as it grew. they were also into banking and a lot of wise invest. s in new york real estate. young roosevelt was an avid outdoorsman and hunter. he was sickly as a child. he suffered from as ma and from the stomach ailment related to stress. it was something that left him sickened for days at a time, and this would pop up, you know, as i said during times of stre

of core trust bank, a $660 million asset bank in south dakota. as a third generation community banker, i am pleased to represent icba's nearly 5,000 members as this important hearing. as this committee considers the development of national mortgage servicing standards, i have an important point to make. community banks are successfully servicing their portfolios and don't have the widespread servicing problems reported in the press. i urge you to ensure any effort to create national standards does not added regulatory burden of community banks, we must preserve the role of communitybacks in mortgage servicing or you will see further consolidation which will only harm borrowers, especially those in rural and underserved housing markets. corstruft bank was founded in 1930 and was built, tested and proven under historically economic conditions. we survived the great depression and numerous recessions by practicing conservative, commonsense lending. we have emerged from the recent crisis well capitalized and ready to lend to support the recovery. cor

north dakota, you can see showers in the mountains of wyoming. we can see thunderstorms as we head throughout the afternoon. a closer look at some of these showers going through idaho. light stuff right now. this is where we can see the stronger stuff by this afternoon. you can see the stronger stuff right there. also in parts of north dakota. starting out in the cool side, it is warm in salt lake city. casper checking in at 69. the forecast for today, mostly cloudy skies in seattle. all up and down the pacific northwest. >>> all right. not too bad, although looking at some strong storms in the northern plains. that would be the hot spot for today. >> good thing to keep an eye on. >>> consumer spending dries up. at&t makes promises, and talk about ceos you're probably not going to like. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> what's forcing george clooney to give up a coveted upcoming film role. >>> coming up, ryan howard hits the century mark. benches clear, and you want basketball? we got it. you're watching "early today."

we have a photo essay from south dakota's black hills and more on the history of the native american land claim. plus read ray's blog post about somalis suffering from the famine and the political strife in mogadishu. that's on our global health page. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> suarez: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on thursday, we'll have a newsmaker interview with republican presidential hopeful and former utah governor jon huntsman. i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access

in south dakota, the bill was proposed that would make it legal to murder a doctor who basically provided a portion care. it would make it legal to kill the doctor. we have another bill, the international violence against women act, a sister bill to that which is the domestic bill. it creates a comprehensive program to address the violence and places women at the center of u.s. foreign policy for the first time in history. it supports measures to prevent violence,. text survivors, and brings perpetrators to justice. we have one of the three lead it drafters of this legislation. the bill was signed by the senate foreign relations committee and has a long way to go for passage. when you think about it, besides the incredible trauma violence is inflicting on our globe, the

kansas, nebraska, north dakota and south dakota. and just to their west using the same baseline a tier of mountainous states less good agriculture with four degrees of height; colorado, wyoming and montana. and if you look at iowa, it has almost exactly three degrees of height. but more to the point what we see here is that jefferson's vision of states being created from a mathematical prototype has finally emerged on the map. in fact, congress also started frequently making these new states with seven degrees of width; north dakota, south dakota, wyoming, colorado, washington and oregon all have seven degrees of width. washington and oregon, you know, give or take because of the coast. others come close to seven degrees of width. so we have this prototype of jefferson that emerge. so we go from jefferson to robert lucas to samuel vinton to steven douglas, and jefferson returns to the american map. well, here he is again. when you leave here today, you will know why stephen douglas was famous before he debated a one-term congressman

you know, we're dealing with fannie mae and freddie mac or south dakota housing in our case they all have their standards of when they expect us to make contact with customers, etc. we're concerned about is a cost that they're looking at to document that we're doing what we're doing. that we are having the contact with the customer. but i think, again, our results show that we're there. so what we're looking for is that anything you're doing doesn't add cost and burden to us and we have a carveout if we're meeting certain standards. >> so -- go ahead, finish. >> our delinquency rate would prove at 1.7%, where we're 1/3 of the national average, that we're doing the jobs we're supposed to be doing. we've only had a handful of forkse -- forks -- foreclosures over the past few years and i'm talking 23 last year. i mean, that is not -- out of 5,000 loans, that's not an excessive number of foreclosures. those are typically life-event type things. a divorce, loss of job, etc. that are causing those issues. >> all right. let me ask for maybe some of the council here, does the panel acknowled

germany's dakotas plunged, but closed just over 2% down. investors sheer remain nervous over faltering u.s. economic growth and the debt crisis. both factors have been rocking global stock markets in recent weeks. since the beginning of august, the dakotas has shed a whopping -- the dax has shed a whopping 21%. stocks aren't attracting investors at the moment, but as a report says from the frngfurt stock exchange, some still have a triple-a reputation. >> nearly everything that investors consider risky assets was sold this friday. gold, on the other hand, was in great demand and also, german government bonds. the bond futures, the benchmark for the 10-year german government bond grows to new highs, which means the yield for debt was never lower. germany's reputation on the financial markets profits from the concerns about other e.u. countries, while the stakt is still suffering because of them. >> let's take a look at some final numbers now in frankfurt, germany. the d. ax closed at 2.19% down. u.s. stocks closed at 2159, down 2.15%, and th

. >>> it's that time of year when the hogs take over the black hills of south dakota. the sturgis festival is going on. celebrities, custom made bikes and hundreds of riders take part in the 55-mile wild ride. >>> we turn to nbc's bill karins, with your forecast. good morning, bill. >> have you ever owned a motorcycle? >> do i look like a biker chick? >> i don't think you've ridden on a motorcycle. >> i have ridden on a little vespa action. don't judge, bill. come on. >> i picture you on your honeymoon. let's talk about the weather forecast around the country. showers and thunderstorms continue to control around the plains areas. that's starting to kick out of new england this morning. expect a dry morning commute there. a lot of wet weather yesterday in southern portions of georgia and florida. that's dried out. we have one last area of thunderstorms that's severe weather, too. rolled through tulsa about an hour ago. now, headed north of ft. smith, arkansas. in kansas, serious thunderstorms with large hail reported. that's going to slide down to wichita, kansas, about

it is an extreme western north dakota. he didn't just go west as horace greeley might have is a young man. he is compelled to go west. events forced him in that direction and we will get to that. but before we head off into the badlands i want to give aid reef background on theodore roosevelt, the roosevelt aficionados will probably be familiar with this but i heard there were high points in his life we need to touch him. started life as a city kid in new york city and he was a member of the abbey social elite, the knickerbockers here where people who could trace their ancestry american back to the dutch that arrived in the mid-1660s. he was a fairly old new york family. his grandfather was one of the five richest men in manhattan. the family made their money on glass. they produce a lot of the wind of glass that york city needed as they grew. there were also into banking and a lot of wise investments in new york real estate. young roosevelt was an avid outdoors person almost from childhood and also an avid hunter, but he

territory and what in what is now north dakota. close against the montana border. it is an extreme western north dakota. he didn't just go west as a young man. he was compelled to go west. events forced him in that direction and we will get to that. but before we head off into the badlands, want to give you a brief background on theodore roosevelt. the roosevelt aficionados are probably going to be familiar with this but i think there are some high points in his life that we need to touch on. he started life as a city kid in new york city and he was a member of a social elite, the knickerbockers, who were people who could trace their ancestor in america back to the dutch who arrived here in the mid-1660s. he was a fairly old new york family. his grandfather was one of the five richest men in manhattan. the family made their money on glass. they produce a lot of the window glass that new york city needed as it grew. there were also into banking and a lot of wise investments in new york real estate. young roosevelt was an avid outdoo

later today, temperatures in the 90s and 100s will dominate the plains from texas to south dakota, itin the northeast with storms arriving by this afternoon, some of them severe. hazy, hot and humid weather accompanied by scattered storms in the southeast. west coast sunny with seasonable temperatures. >>> sports a tense game between the tigers and angels. in the seventh, carlos guillen showboated on a solo home run. jared weaver immediately threw a pitch over the next tiger batter's head. he was ejected. eighth, tiger's justin verlanders four outs away from his second no hitter of the season, gave up a two-out rbi sing single. detroit beat them. >>> ibanez doubled in, 6-5 win over pittsburgh. philadelphia leads the national league eastern division by six games. >>> in milwaukee the brewers prince fielder singled to drive in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning the central division leading brewers hung on to beat houston 5-4. milwaukee won six in the row. >>> in the nfl plaxico burress has gone from jail to the jets. the former wide receiver spent 20 months in prison on a gun convict

cnbc's brian shackman is live in kill dear, north dakota. how does this work? like this. you're in the baake next shale deposit. there's 24 billion barrels of recoveriable oil. billions of investment dollars have come in creating thousands of jobs. we have a dynamic in willston, north dakota where they have more jobs than people available. they don't have housing for people. they're paying $15 at a local mcdonald's because everyone wants to work in the oil business. the walmart is understaffed. they sell out of things every day. unbelievable stories. one story a man came in from spokane, washington, they stayed overnight in the walmart parking lot. woke up, got a job for $90,000, he was making $30,000 a year before. one day he has a job fracing. >> i've got to ask about the environmental concerns. >> reporter: it is an issue. if it was restricted this place would go away. right now there's no big picture environmental concerns. they're going full bore, full speed ahead with it. right now it's no problem out here. >> brian, thank you so much. proosht it. love th

in the kind of meeting the meeting announcements that went out at the time i was in north dakota. and that was you know it's not a it's not a large state it's not a populous state i guess it is a large state so a populous state like that but they are very politically active in north dakota has traditionally been at the forefront of a lot of different movements for the last hundred years so i was interested in going to some of these meetings i went to a couple and originally i was very sympathetic they were basically people who for the last i would say twenty years been getting screwed by kind of the direction. of american economics toward more attention to wall street and start profits and less attention to a middle class income. but so when was it they have you decided that the fiscal issues when it came to of course like i said protesting wall street bailout protesting health care reform now not wanting the debt ceiling to be raised when as if he had decided that it was really more about religion and more about creating a christian nation as he said. well i think that the the th

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. >> ahora bien la actividad de lluvia mÁs bien se esta concentrado desde las dakotas en todo el medio >> han tenido un verano placentero y ni siquiera temperaturas que han sobrepasado 85 grados, tenemos los remanentes de lo que fue la tormenta tropical y mientras tanto vamos a cono kwen strarns con temperaturas en 3 dÍgitos y para maÑana se repite mÁs de lo mismo en el sur de paÍs. >> ustedes en el norte contamos con temperaturas en 76 y Ángeles en 75 grados, contamos con mÁs de primer impacto. >> (♪). >> muchas gracias jackie mientras tanto es un mito que las ollsoya es buena para la sa de la mujer, comprobÓ que los complementos a base de soya no ayudan a controlar los malestares de la menopausia. >> una verdadera crisis humanitaria viven los habitantes de somalÍa una sequia ha incrementado problemas de sanaciÓn y se estima que 640 mil niÑos estÁn severamente desnutridos, han sido vÍctima de hambruna mientras las naciones unidas luchan por combatir la falta de alimentos. >> celebraron a sus hermanitas, cuando tenÍan solo un aÑo de edad fueron trasladadas a los Ángeles para ser separa

you know, we deal with fannie mae and freddy mac or south dakota housing in our case. we have standards of when they make contact, ect.. we are concerned about the cost they are looking at to document that we're doing what we're doing, that we are having the contact with the customer, but i think again our results show we are there. what we're looking for is that anything you're.cc doesn't add cost and burden to us and we have a carve out if we are -- if we're meeting certain standards. our late -- >> so if you -- go ahead, finish that. >> our delinquency rate proves at 1.7%, one-third of the national average, that we're doing the job we need to be doing. we just had a handful of foreclosures over the last few years. by handful, i'm talking 23 last year. i mean, that is not out of 5,000 loans, it's not an excessive number of foreclosures. those are life event things, divorce, lost a job, ect., that are causing those issues. >> all right. let me ask some of the council here. does the panel acknowledge that it is a conflict of interest for mortgage servicers to have an o

barney horner, who is the great grandson of chief john grass from standing rock reservation in south dakota. one of the songs he gave me before he passed on, on indigenous people's day in 1995, was a song that he called the blue horse special. the blue horse special is the song that i have been fortunate enough to be able to play in a lot of different performance contexts. it's a song that was made by a man named matthew too bold, a very well respected elder whose wife, ellie, just recently passed on. both of them were very well respected for their singing skills. when i thought about doing an arrangement for today, the blue horse special came to mind. i thought i wonder if i can bring a cedar flute into an air, i thought, i wonder if i can take a pala song and turn it into a reel. what i will do is sing you the original pala song, so you can hear that, then we will go into an arrangement that also includes a little something at the end for my grandparents. (singing) . >> on march 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on mutanabbi street in baghdad. mutanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni area.

severe storms from the dakotas to michigan and the northeast.derstorms from omaha to kansas city to little rock, new orleans and the carolinas. heavy monsoon downpours from albuquerque to denver and salt lake city. >> a mild 74 in seattle. 93 in boise. 99 in colorado springs. near 90 in minneapolis, chicago and detroit. dallas hits 107. still way too hot down there. new orleans meanwhile at 94. atlanta 93. 91 here in new york. 89 in boston. >> i'm glad it's cooled off relatively here. >> nice little break. >>> there's a new kind of rodeo wowing crowds in idaho and there's not a horse, cattle or cowboy in sight. >> instead, the western states rodeo is all backhoes and hard hats. it's a search for the best heavy equipment operator in the northwest. every participant has to demonstrate their skill in several events including tire stacking and navigating through an obstacle course. >> that's tricky. the top contenders will compete at the end of the month for a chance to win a heavy-duty pickup truck. i could use one of those. >> very nice. i hear th

new hampshire, a state with no income tax, and, of course, a higher unemployment rate than north dakota. huntsman's campaign says scaling back regulation, including epa regulation, will be a major part of his jobs creation plan, because it will create certainty. joining me now is jonathan capehart, msnbc contributor, thanks for joining me tonight, jonathan. >> hey, lawrence, nice to be with you. >> jonathan, it's hard out there for a president trying to talk about the economy when you have these republican candidates able to say whatever they want, beginning with the really wild bachmannism of i can turn this whole thing around in 90 days. how can the president change his rhetoric and how does he have to change his rhetoric to deal with the world where bachmann is considered a credible economic manager? >> she is at this point a credible republican candidate for the nomination for president. i think the president has to keep doing what he's always been doing, that's being the adult in the room. i know that's taken on an aura because people want to see him get mad, get angry, fight a lit

as far as the dakotas getting drenched, look at this, basically the entire state of north dakota is underflood alert, two to three inches of rain, bismarck and huron, the bigger picture for the good old u.s. of a, we'll show you the beautiful air mass out west, that's the place to be. we have scattered storms pushing through portions of the midwest. that's a quick look at the national picture. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >> all right, everybody, happy saturday to you. jeff, over to you. >> lonnie to you as well. >>> up next a wild week on wall street, as the dow fell sharply. so did your 401(k) likely. advice on how to protect your retirement money. you're watching "the early show" here on cbs. 7 ♪ thank you! ♪ phew! [ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. hey, uh, what's up with your naked toilet paper? yeeaah, i noticed that, man. inappropriate. naked toilet paper? i don't know what you're... your cottonelle roll just sittin' out? seriously... it's primitive, man. yeah, y

we share a border with north dakota and barely missed visiting the mayor of oslo, north dakota. their entire town, they had a dike and that is the only way that they survived the flood. i appreciate the difference that weather forecasts have made. st. paul, minn. -- decisions were made because we had so much flooding, how high the sandbags have to be, completely based on these forecasts. and they're completely dependent on them and made a huge difference in reducing damage and the loss of life. i must applaud what the weather bureau is doing. a tornado with the bleachers were found two blocks away. not one person died there. this is all neighborhoods for the got the warnings, the sirens went off 25 minutes at a time. a couple with 40 kids with only life scart -- high-school lifeguards. the high school kids to across the street to a basement. this is because of emergency warning. basements made the difference. in some unique things that we're doing with let's now, literally there are cameras on the flooded areas and towns all over our state so that citizens can watch the river so

you have a high dakota and all the sudden, who changed it? at&t says that planning is fine. it is the right height. how could that be? it blocks of the entire golden gate bridge. but that is only my view. and all of my other neighbors from the roof, that is the only access i have to the outside. never mind that we have 420 signatures of registered voters in the very small area that says no, we don't want it. the thing they are a little bit off on the handwritten letters. i know for a fact that we turned in 18. i think they are more like 25 to 20, somewhere in there. i have at&t. my cellphone works fine. i have broadband and it works fine also. i can take my computer across the street and one block behind me, and my laptop works perfectly at my friend cozy house. they're also taking away for parking spots. i thought the city was big on parking. so besides blocking the view of every person on the roof, we're at the very low end, there is nothing else of of us. we are at the bottom of the valley. every roof deck is being blocked. i still say they have a high cut. when did they

issues took place and they were filing these complaints because things were happening that were not dakota. -- up to code. i would feel sympathy for the homeowner and someone was looking over every single thing they ever did. it seems a shame, i love the idea of community boards. as for this permit, they can go back and ascertain whether or not it has exceeded the 50%. there is no nov issue attached, so that's not an issue. i feel like it would be reasonable because sa picture depicts plants on a roof from another house. the very fact that they have access and someone has done that means they have not respected somebody else's property rights. it is perfectly reasonable for this board and to require that a screen be erected on that's to -- that stoop on that wall, and i don't see how it will do any harm to the enjoyment of that stoop to the neighbors. all you can ask is to realize who lives next door. they are sensitive to noise and other things that take place on that property. maybe you have been of great neighbor already, but be a little more sensitive to their issues. commissioner pete