fort point is a replica of that famous garrison built to protect the fort from confederacy fighters. in 1981, george watson gave us this look at four point and the army's presidio as the army prepared to hand it over to the parks service. >> reporter: they didn't actually involve the presidio itself. the main coastal defense was entrusted to fort point. the base of the cliff that used to support the old spanish fort. it was thought to be in the verge of seizing the fort from the rest of the united states. that was the thinking in 1961. fort point was reassuring and at the same time no doubt impressing. but alcatraz was designed to throw fear into the heart of any enmy. it was thought to be enpregnable. it was the hub of the san francisco bay. 1861 to 1865. alcatraz was the most armed with cannons. alcatraz was known then as the triangle of death. one point of the triangle guarding the bay. alcatraz was the strong point, for symmetrical as well as armed reasons. it was obsolete before it was completed. any ironclad ship could have reduced the fortifications to rubble. and as for the g

to either crissey or fort funston with me on the weekends. let's not pretent that the dog parks in san francisco are equivalent to the experience you have taking your dog to kris z- field or fort funston. they are not. some of the san francisco parks are great. some of them are glorified dog runs. they smell bad. they're small. these are not appropriate ways to -- for me to get exercise and for my dog to get exercise. i'm very concerned about the 75% compliance, as are many people. i see it as the equivalent to, you know, if 10 people run a red light, then you close up the intersection and tell everybody to walk. i think we need better enforcement for people who are violating than we currently have. i think there are ways to make the status quo work with better enforcement, better sensing for these protected areas, clearer signage and education. one of the other concerns that i have that i wanted to mention is that part of the fort funston plan has us getting our dogs down to the beach on leash. i would like and i would challenge anyone in th

and i've been taking my dog for over 30 years to fort funston for our exercise. and i have to say that i have not experienced one serious problem in all those 30 years. and you would think that in all that time i would have seen -- except i was around the time a man stabbed a dog. i didn't think that was the dog's fault, that was a human problem. it seems to me in listening to all the environmental organizations that came forward this afternoon, it seems incredibly disingenuous to me that they would single out dogs as the sole or the primary cause of disturbance of the environment without considering human events, like fleet week, when hundreds of people go to chrissy fields and trample the habitat without any restriction or guidance from ggnra. or what about the turkey trot, where 1,500 people ran down ocean beach right through that area, and that was encourage bid ggnra. and then, what about -- how does this work? turn it over? ggnra themselves thousand dollars over a section of ocean beach in 2007 that was the plover habitat area. that's why they are not resid

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this blaze is now 70 miles from fort worth.maller fires that flared over the weekend have merged into one. >> just very scary. and hope that god protects our homes. and if not, we've got the most important things out, which is our family and our animals. >> reporter: texas battles wildfires every year. but this spring the state is extremely dry, with no end in sight. >> the main factor causing these fires is the drought. and it's not just the garden variety drought. in some areas here in west texas it's an exceptional drought, which is like a category 5 hurricane. >> reporter: except this fire storm will not be making a quick exit. the road behind me runs right through one of the biggest fires in the state right now. and it is just an hour outside of fort worth. with these tinderbox conditions firefighters, brian, believe they are simply outmanned here. >> janet shamlian on the fires in caddo, texas for us. janet, thanks for your reporting. >>> overseas now to libya, where nato admitted today its air strikes are not enough to s

ron mott, nbc news, fort sumter, south carolina. >>> that's our tuesday broadcast, april 12th.hanks for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. that led to the suspected killer. >>> now new information into the newsroom on charges against the 15-year-old accused in the killing. >>> and setting our sights on a brighter future, the governor going green. why some say it's the biggest thing he's done

as well let's talk about what some of the pros and cons could be brother being moved to fort leavenworth here apparently allegedly he is going to be given a little bit more freedom healthy eating with the other inmates will have three hours of recreational time but it's also put them in a very far away from his attorney and how about his friends and the visitors that come see him here on the east coast. there's actually some even those questions are some benefits his father and his brother sister live in oklahoma now they can visit him much more easily in kansas that actually has him closer to his family where he grew up a part of his childhood he also his lawyer is in rhode island so it's a plane flight you do able lawyers for years that is a little bit longer but he still has that access i think there's no question he would never learn katrina quantitive the quantico korean command showed it could not treat probably many fairly they were going to keep him in these kind of torture conditions no matter what the public pressure was i'm sure this took a telephone call from the white house

want to see him without being monitored and now that there's been an announcement of his transfer to fort leavenworth. and the announcement also

where it began at fort sumpter.re-enactments and performances of marching bands recanting the start of the nation's bloodiest and most painful war. you said you had been there before right? >> two years ago. i went and the beautiful weather and the downtown areas and they have the fort and you can do the tour. a nice little trip. it is on my list of things to do. >> i'm veronica dela cruz. this is your first stop of the day on your nbc station. >>> well an unmanned capsule launched by the soviet union sold for $1 million yesterday. the business man who bought it says he intended to return the capsule to its home. >>> well if you want to visit graceland now you have another choice besides memphis. a museum is opening in denmark. it is stocked with 6,000 of the star's personal effects. the owner a presley fan hopes to attract 75 to 125,000 visitors a year. >> all right if you have tried yoga you know the downward dog right? but what about the upside down monkey. it is a new exercise spreading throughout canada. it let

criticism but rather is simply a matter of policy as quantico is only for short pretrial stays and fort leavenworth as a military facility is more suitable for manning's continued long stay as he waits for his trial to begin now depending on his risk assessment and evaluation that will be conducted as soon as he arrives manning will allegedly be receiving three meals a day in the dining facility. with other inmates and have three hours of indoor and outdoor recreational time each day including access to a computer in the library so is this a promising move for many join me to discuss it is kevin zeese co-founder of voters for peace and executive director of come home america kevin thanks so much for joining us tonight now the military is denying that this move had anything to do with public pressure with the increasing to attention being paid to manning's case but what do you really think is going on here i mean is it a little conspicuous if you look at the timing i know there is another very large rally being planned on behalf of bradley manning i know that his defense attorney was als

would be moving private first class bradley manning from a military facility at chronicle virginia to fort leavenworth kansas private manning is suspected of sharing secret documents with the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks and since the time he has been in custody nearly a year now he has been held mostly in solitary confinement has no contact no communication no daylight for twenty three hours a day and manning himself has said in addition he has been forced at times to sleep naked the criticisms against his treatment had been mounting and many say they simply want to know more want to hear it from manning himself i'm joined now by one man that is the un special rapporteur on torture cruel inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment one thank you so much for being with me today thank you for your additional and when you recently asked to have an unmonitored meeting with private manning what were you told what i asked to see manning as far back as january and we've been in negotiations all conversations with the united states government since then in march i was told that i could s

a rapidly moving wild fire west of fort worth texas burns 150,000 acres and destroys more than 50 homes. it was the biggest oil spill in u.s. history. one year later, what's become of all that b.p. crude? captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. we begin tonight with breaking news. the first lady's plane was forced to abort a landing after it got too close to another plane. bob orr in our washington bureau is following the story. bob, what can you tell us? >> katie it's an amazing story. it happened yesterday as first lady michelle obama was returning to washington from a trip to new york. a review of air traffic tapes shows that mrs. obama's plane got too close to a larger cargo plane that was flying just ahead as both of those jets were preparing to land at andrews air force base near washington. an f.a.a.rules require that the planes be separated by five miles. but an apparent mistake by a controller at a regional air traffic facility near d.c. allowed mrs. obama's pl

that instructor was major robert anderson, union commander inside fort sumter. all the pent-up hatred of the past months and years is voiced in the thunder of these can none, and the people seem almost beside themselves in the ex-al tags of a freedom they deem already won. >> reporter: the signal to fire the first shot was given by a civilian a virginia farmer and editor who had preached secession for 20 years. of course, he said, i was delighted to perform the service. 34 hours later, a white flag over the fort ended the bombardment. the only casualty had been a confederate horse. it was a bloodless opening to the bloodiest war in american history. >> the first gun that was fired at fort sumter sounded a death knell of slavery. they who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced. >> woodruff: more now on the history and the legacy of the civil war. we're joined by three historians who have studied it closely. the president of harvard university. she's written a number of books about the civil war. a teacher at howard university

in new york and was headed for fort lauderdale, florida last night. the plane was carrying 94 passengers. it landed safely. no one was hospitalized. there's no word what caused the smell on the plane. >>> federal investigators are trying to figure out what led to one plane clipping another on a runway at j.f.k. international in new york. it was captured on amateur video yesterday when an air france, the largest passenger jet in the world, clipped a delta airlines flight. nobody was hurt. the planes are grounded until they investigate and review the damage. >>> muni is reviewing tape that could cost a bus driver -- a bus driver his job. several passengers dahled to complain after -- called to complain after watching the driver scream at a couple who tried to board the bus with their child in a stroller. they say the driver ordered the family to get off his bus. muni did not identify the driver who had only been working for the company for six months. >>> a legal fight could be brewing in mountain view after a crumbling hillside left three homes teeteri

. >> before and 150 years after fort sumpter what sparked the first shot in the civil war and how much people really know about the battle. stay [ jerry ] look at this! you got a state-of-the-art man-cave, but the savings account of a cave-man! hey sports fans check this out. [ beep ] oops, my bad. earn more with interestplus savings at capitalone.co that's new school banking, baby! ooh, 3-d! instead of earning bupkus, your savings could be earning three times the national average! three times more. go online to capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? what's this do? [ beeping ]  >> it was 150 years ago today that the civil war began with 36 hour bombardment of fort sumpter. nobody died during the ballots but we learned an irish native here in the middle of the plaque died during the surrender of the fort when a cannon exploded pre-may tuvrment he was the first death of the civil war. occasion is being marked around the country by historian, civil war reenac reenacter and average people many still wonder exactly what this war was all about. tj explains. p

i go to fort fundson. i take my kids down to the beach, go down the stairs often and dogs are around and we enjoy their presence. a lot of people maybe don't feel the same way but we've enjoyed the presence of dogs at there. white house what's really been -- what's really been hard and difficult about this discussion, we have environmentalists and dog owners and dog owners which include environmentalists kind of pitted against each other and it's really been hard to have a real good dialogue at times about it because the tensions are really high and i really look at it in the broader context. we have the context of the federal government about with two weeks ago cut $40 billion from the national budget and we know that the national park service across the country has been cut dramatically as well. so we don't have the ability, the national park service and their arm at ggnra, don't have the ability to do the enforcement work that they needed to to be able to protect the natural habitats and what comes out

northern stations indicated that they do not recommend amplification at the location at fort mason at the safeway and at lower hate between lower scott and buchanan. any sound systems must point away from residential buildings. the other two baby station and park station just says recommendation for approval and didn't indicate that they had any issues with specific location. so again, staff is recommending granteding this permit but with your consideration with some conditions related to live d.j.s or bands that area is within a hearing distance, if you will, and then the start time to be considered seriously. so pam is here and her assistant to answer any questions you might have about specific locations and then i'll just be happy to take direction, specific direction going forward to issue this permit. president roja: ok. commissioners, any questions? none? my question would be -- is it possible for your event to comply with the request from the different play stations that have made the requests? >> yeah, it is. definitely. no, we started putting -- we've got an application now f

the positive effects of having dogs at the fort is that i've never seen a homeless encampment, which i have seen in other parts of the city, and i have seen my dogs playing with the ravens, who might hear are attacking swallows. i heard that from a ggrna person. so the ggrna as a huge number of problems, and i think this is the least of their worries, and i really thing that the board has done a wonderful job of stepping in and stepping up to the plate. supervisor wiener: thank you. next speaker. >> ok, my name is justin. i am a san francisco resident and am also an engineer. i want to thank you for giving us an opportunity to actually speak about this. public, it was really not being taken like this at the other meetings. taking a pretty broad look at this document and more of a scientific look as far as environmental impact statements go, i find it totally deficient in scientific data. i do not see the normal scientific data that is in these reports. there are not very many studies that are in the document. there is no base line, from what i can tell, that was taken by the national

fort sumpter, after 34 hours of shelling the fort fell. the american several war began. 11 southern states he is seed from the union. first south carolina then in the or of secession, mississippi, florida, alabama, georgia, louisiana, texas, virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina. these states were' grayer ann societies then, dependent on slaves working the fields. economic entities with cultural hierarchies the states were unwilling to give up. together the formed the kurd states of america and elected jefferson davis as their president, opposing president abraham lincoln, who governed the union. the military general was robert e. lee. ulysses s. grant served as general of the union. the bloodied conflict ended four years later, almost exactly to the day, april 9, 1865. when the fighting did finally stop, lincoln's union forces had won. 600,000 americans died. slavery was abolished. the union held. question, is n from the mainland. ofofofofofof secede. item, texas. 18% would vote to secede. texas republican governor rick perry

and we have a plan to create a network of these chargers in the dallas fort worth area and the houston area. so those will be the first two major urban areas in the united states that are basically have the infrastructure to support electric vehicles in a major way. >> susie: are there enough electric vehicles on the road to justify that kind of expansion? >> well, there are absolutely not enough electric vehicles as we stand here today in april of 2011. but by 2012 there could be 10 or 11 plug-in vehicles available to the american consumer. and the reason we've gone a little early in sort of building out this charging network is because we want the american consumer to get over this range anxiety issue that comes with electric vehicle ownership and get to range confidence. very few people want to buy a car that they don't know where they'll be able to quite. and by having these charging stations around dallas, fort worth and houston, people will have confidence that they can use their car anywhere they go in the urban area. >> susie: all right. good luck to you on all of that. thank y

harbors in crescent city, fort brag and santa cruz were the hardest hit by the waves and surges caused by that earthquake in japan. >>> nearly one year after the gulf oil spill bp wants to resume drilling in the gulf of mexico. the giant oil company is asking to be allowed to go back to drilling ten development wells it had already started when the deep water horizon exploded last april. b.p. says it hopes an agreement can be worked out in the next month. supporters say the moratorium that was imposed on deep water drilling after the gulf oil spill is driving up energy prices. >> we need to develop more leases. but also once a company has a lease we need to let them produce. >> bp officials say they will give government regulators 24 hour access to the company's drilling operations in the gulf. but critics say that's not enough. and the government needs to wrap up its investigation of the accident before approving any new drilling by bp. >>> prosecution testimony is expected to wrap up today when the barry bonds perjury trial resumes. drug testing expert will be on the witness stand on

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will forte. >> uh-huh.te grew his neck beard? >> yes. he is so weird. >> jimmy: you just screw the hair around here. [ laughter ] >> he's so weird. he's so weird with his hair. >> jimmy: weird dude, right? >> he would put -- he would shave. like, i don't know how much i can tell. but he would shave his beard, and then he would sprinkle his hair on people's keyboard. [ laughter ] like an animal. >> jimmy: he's a great, great man. >> he is an animal. >> jimmy: megan mullally is -- >> yes. and, but my dream -- my dream is, you know -- we have this character that we talk about on the show but you never see. which is the mayor of pawnee. my dream is -- like -- >> jimmy: i love his name. what's his name? >> mayor gunderson. >> jimmy: mayor gunderson. >> and his dog's name is rufus. and we talk a lot about his dog. >> jimmy: yeah. >> but we've never seen him and i -- i'm just like dying. i think bill murray would be amazing. and i don't know bill murray. i met him a couple times, nicely, at "snl." >> jimmy: yeah.

they fled in a fort door light colored nissan. >>darya: we will be right back and looking from our roof can it is getting even greater.yer.programming note, exclusive coverage of the 100 zazzle, bay to breakers on kron4 that will be sunday, may 15th, beginning at 8:00 a.m. and of the >>mark: we're going live to buckingham palace where is going to be ed giant media zoo. william and kate's big day is this week. and say that with clenched teeth. it is this friday at westminster abbey it so everybody is lined up to get a look at the procession. don riddle is in london with the latest on what to expect. >> reporter: london is buzzing with last-minute preparations said that everything is perfect as a fairy tale friday. at common girl is married and man who is likely to be king. it resembles the royal wedding nearly 30 years ago. but i remember watching dianne and charles wedding many years ago. >> reporter: it is not just hitting brand but the world beyond. >> everybody is happy. >> reporter: the guest list has celebrities at and dignit