massive gorge it was who gave it the name we know it by the grand canyon. in the grand canyon there are rocks some one point seven billion years old that makes them a third as old as the planet where the only just exposed rock from ations on earth late bad by the colorado river and its tributaries and helped by rock falls and landslides also caused by the red rivers unceasing erosion of the bankside cracks. the geologists the grand canyon maps the history of the two pilin years ago this part of the earth is covered by season vast lakes when they recede if they left immense deposits of sand munt and shell live volcanoes emitted love on top of this allow a structure petrified into some stone and shape. later the masses of rock were broken up and restructured by tectonic forces pressure and heat on the mountains were raised again the land was flooded again the seas receded after millions of years again huge deposits remained and in this way one lair after another was created. the landscape was given its present shape some forty or fifty million years ago when

somewhere around here after travelling for twenty days the expedition reached the grand canyon the storygoes that the sites so stunned and overpower the men that they fell upon their knees and prayed. they spent three days on the rim without finding any way down into the canyon with their water and provisions running out they returned baffled and disappointed the quest for the cities of gold had failed and from that time on the grand canyon was forgotten by the white men for centuries. then in eight hundred fifty eight the paddle steamer explora struck concealed rock. joseph five sent his crew were bound operative from the mouth of the colorado in the gulf of california to establish how far it was navigable but they were forced to turn back. not till eight hundred sixty nine did major john wesley powell take a boat up the river that expedition marked the start of serious attention to the. massive corps it was to who gave it the name we know it by the grand canyon. in the grand canyon there are rocks some one point seven billion years old that makes them a third as old as the planet they

visitors, employees, and nearby residents, including yosemite in my district, yellowstone, zion, the grand canyon and death valley. these include a wide range of services, including emergency

and nowhere is that more clear than the grand canyon state of arizona. headed from the strip to the desert to show you how to explore the new landscape and live the american dream. i'm gonna help real people who are facing some major problems, explain the bold plans that are changing how americans live, and take you behind the gates of properties you have to see to believe.

hopefully a donkey through the grand canyon. >> jimmy: you're going to ride a donkey through the grandjimmy: really? >> this isn't a gag. people are going to watch this, and think that there's a gag. i'm actually doing this. >> jimmy: you're going to hitchhike. you think you can get like all the rides from here all the way to los angeles? >> i -- yeah. i think i'm going to do pretty well, but hopefully we're going to mix it up, and there's going to be some other things besides hitchhiking like, you know, i'll get on a hot air balloon. i'll meet up with, and maybe do a little forrest gump. >> jimmy: you've just got to get out there. you've got to get going if you've got to get there by friday. >> yeah, i just need a ride asap. >> jimmy: here's one. ♪ >> jimmy: hey, that's a$ap rocky! >> anybody call for a ride? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: dude, this is working out. >> there we go. >> jimmy: you guys, the new 30 seconds to mars album, "america" is out this friday. follow jared leto on insta, and all the socials. we'll be back with more "the tonight show." bye, guys! ♪ [ cheers and

here are the best vacations for your budget, grand canyon topping the list, breath taking nature there. williams burg, virginia number two, a lot of colonial history. fort myers florida came in third with its great beaches followed by albuquerque and national parks and wildlife refuge. >> i don't think you can go wrong with any of those places. >> exactly. >> 4:41, coming up here on "today in the bay," kari hall is tracking another beautiful day. >> it will be a nice day, we've got to get to work to make the money for that vacation. here's a live look outside in palo alto as we get ready to hit the road this morning. here's a look at our temperatures later on today by 11:00, 64 degrees, mid-70s again today, it's going to feel like summer. we'll let you know when that ends. it's coming up next. >> our live look at the dublin camera shows a smooth drive here, here's the dublin interchange and we're looking at traffic smooth off of 680 and we'll give you the rest of the commute coming up. >>> good morning, i'm bertha coombs live at c dbs global headquarters. wall street could start the tr

entrance fees to $70 per car at 17 of the nation's most popular parks, including yosemite and the grand canyon. that was immediately criticized by the public and by many lawmakers, who said those higher fees would keep many americans from enjoying national parks. the fee hike was designed to raise $70 million per year to pay for parks service, maintenance projects within the service. >>> it is a beautiful day in the city. it is a great day for baseball.>> a sellout crowd enjoyed the beautiful weather in san francisco for opening day at at&t park. giants fans were feeling good about the 2018 season, despite the fact that their team came two games sort of winning last year. they signed three veteran stars during the last season, a move that helped to boost optimism. it was a tough home opener as the team lost to the seattle mariners yesterday afternoon.>> ♪ >> a beautiful ceremony and a beautiful day for the first home game of the season. it started off with a bang for the mariners. they put up 4 runs in the first inning. the giants offense came to life for the first time this season. more peopl

and betsy de vos had the scandal because she abandoned a bunch of kids on a school trip to the grand canyon. a lot em people think she shouldn't have done that. but recently everyone is talking about scott pruitt, head of the environmental protection agency and love child of george w. bush and a baked potatoe because you see, he has taken cabinet scandals to a whole new level. >> president trump is standing by epa administrator scott pruitt and the growing ethics scandal. >> let me put a list of all the other things that have come up. there is the condo that he rented from energy lobbyists. he approved raises apparently for two aide salaries after the white house had declined the request. he had security to cut through trask traffic, rea siendz staffers when they raised concerns about spending, requested a 24/7 security detail on personal trips that racked up tens of thousands of dollars. >> trevor: hold up, hold up. am i the only person who was shocked when they went to page twoment like when your scandal resume goes to the second page, you're done [bleep]ed up. that is so much scandaling.

the hikes impact 117 parks including yosemite, yellowstone and the grand canyon. the new fees take effect june 1st. >>> when we come back here tonight, something you will remember seeing right here on this broadcast, when we took you to the syrian border four years ago. well, we have an update for you right here tonight. feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin and relief from symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity and live claritin clear. ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin. and i take trulicity once a week to activate my body to release it, like it's supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen. and it works 24/7. trulicity is an injection to improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. don't use it as the first medicine to treat diabetes, or if you have type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. don't take trulicity if you or your fa

representative said they will continue if lawmakers don't startot negotiating and the teachers in the grand canyon state are playing a lot off things over funding for teacher pay so let's talk about it with the republican lieutenant governor. >> it's great to be on your program shannon. shannon: you have an interesting perspective because you arere married to a teacher so what are discussions like? b >> i think the best teacher is my wife. and throughout my career we have i school and middle school student so you run the gamut and just had the but as a father who cares aboutdu public education but as a father who cares about public education have a couple of experts to say what they teachers are telling them describing tuition of textbooks that are more than ten years old because there are faulty heaters in buildings not properly maintained some districts are four days a week they cannot hand -- handle classes five days a week amended woman adjusted for inflation according to the left meaning center what do you say to that of their budget and. priorities? >> let me state what has been passed but r

let's check with alecia in the grand canyon state. with can you tell us tonight? >> we heard a big cheer go up at the watch party here, republican here who found out she has been victorious in the special election race to fill the seat of republican trent franks. it has been a race no one thought was going to be a race. this is a republican stronghold in arizona. a very deeply read district made of white retired republican, very conservative active voters and they have come to the call of republicans but the reason we are here and watching is this is a district in which since 2012 democrats haven't even put up a candidate. this time they did, a doctor in this state, a democrat who was able to out raise the republican here. she had attack ads, some headline is coming up, gabby giffords coming to her assistant she was able to close in a little bit but couldn't pull through because when it comes down to it this is a district donald trump won a big by 21 points in 2016 so not a surprise that she has won, the big question was the spread, whether she could pull out a do

visitors, employees, and nearby residents, including yosemite in my district, yellowstone, zion, the grand canyon and death valley. these include a wide range of services, including emergency medical service, ambulance transport and clinical services. they treat colds. they set broken broken bones. they stabilize heart attacks and strokes. they ooh vack wait the severely injured -- evacuate the severely injured and treat thousands annually. these are typically located in remote areas which means they are often the only option patients have to receive timely medical care, especially in emergency situations. in the case of yosemite, the medical clinic has operated in the valley since 1929. like other medical clinics in our national parks, it serves the parks and employees and families and tens of thousands of daily park visitors. the yosemite medical clinic is a million-dollar a year operation. it has sophisticated medical equipment to treat and stabilize any number of serious illnesses that confront the population of a moderately sized town. but here's the problem. any other medical clinic would b

the entrance fees to $70 per car of the nation's most popular parks, including yosemite and the grand canyonc and by many lawmakers, who said the higher fees, keep a lot of americans from enjoying national parks. the fee hike was designed to raise $70 million per year to pay for part maintenance services. >>> it was a tough home opener for the giants and their fans as the team lost to seattle yesterday afternoon.>> ♪ >> it was the first home game of the season and it started off with a bang for the mariners. seattle put up 4 runs in the 1st inning. the giants offense finally came to light for the first time this season, including the third home run of the year for joe panik. the giants could not compete -- complete the comeback. take a look added again and first pitch is 4:15 pm at at&t park. >>> the oakland a's lost to the oakland rangers -- to the texas rangers. both teams sent out their number one pitchers. he gave up a big one last night. that is joey gallo hitting a homer and that there inning. he has allowed four homers in two starts this season. the a's bullpen looked pretty good. the

when paul ryan announced he's retiring, that opened up vacuum the size of the grand canyon and now everyone is looking to fill it. and paul ryan has been a weakened speaker since donald trump got into the white house. very surprising if paul ryan makes it past the summer and you have other shoes to drop. at least 10 more republicans are going to announce their retirement, more shoes to drop in the mueller investigation, a lot will happen, it make its tough to hang on if you are paul ryan. >> dana: speaking to the mueller investigation, here is what nadler said earlier today. >> the president is subject to law and should know he would be held accountable to the law. statements like these, reports that the president considered numerous times over the last year firing mr. mueller and threats from congressional republicans to "impeach" doj officials, department of justice officials who refuse to cooperate in conspiracy theories are clear threats to the rule of law. >> dana: terry, do you think democrats would like for the president to fire bob mueller, special counsel, because it would create a

so when we think of the sublime, we think of the grand canyon, the enormity and power of niagara fallse view -- andtop of a colorado we may not use the word sublime to describe that feeling, but the cultural framing is still with us. last week we were thinking about the early 20th century. we consider the notion of the technological sublime in the context of the hoover dam come this great piece of american engineering worth marveling at come and this is an idea that folks also applied to viewing a nuclear test. something a lot of people did as part of the work at the test site or the locations in the pacific where the u.s. conducted nuclear testing. fascinating oral histories from folks who view tests at the test site and in the pacific that has been recorded in video and audio and transcripts. if you're interested in to dig into those firsthand accounts, but we might look at a couple of images taken by government officials for tests at the nevada test site. so i am looking for observations. we read this landscape? i have this caption at the bottom, but this is one test in the series t

how much more it will cost you to get into the 117 parks that charge fees like yosemite and the grand canyon charge a fee won't be affected by the hike. the initial plan was to raise prices at many parks to $70. >>> a san francisco city leader is trying to clear up a rumor that officials want to outlaw scooter rental services. this follows claims by bird that san francisco supervisors plan on enacting emergency legislation to ban rental scooters. supervisor aaron peskin fired back saying the city is only working to develop regulations for scooter rentals. many people have complained about scooters being ridden on san francisco sidewalks. >>> ford is catching on to the electric bike idea which seems like a necessity with all the hills in san francisco. ford announced the partnership to expand the go like fleet with 250 e bikes. the sear -- mission bikes can get up to 18 miles an hour. you'll start seeing those starting on april 24th. now your morning money report. tuesday is the deadline to either file your tax returns or get an extension. >>> time is ticking. 90% of taxpayers will now file t

entrance fees to $70 per vehicle at 17 of the nation's most popular parks including yosemite and the grand canyon. but the plan drew immediate resistance from the public and lawmakers. the interior department says changes are being made now in response to the backlash. for now, fees will remain the same. >>> in just the last few minutes, president trump signed a proclamation to send national guard troops to the u.s. border with mexico. coming up, details on the plan and when the white house says those troops will be sent. >> and later new at 6:00 the suspected serial car burglar arrested after police caught him in the act. what we're learning about the suspect. >> and a san francisco police officer convicted of felony hit-and-run learns his fate in court. coming up at 6:00. ♪ ♪ hi! leaving a career to follow a calling takes courage. a personalized financial strategy can give you confidence to take the next step. hi guys! aw yeah! see how access to j.p. morgan investment expertise can help you. chase. make more of what's yours. >>> white house officials say president trump signed a proclamation a

the arizona education association says teachers in the grand canyon state are planning demonstrationsut not necessarily walking off the job. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: mike tobin, thank you very much. finger-pointing and oklahoma over funding for teacher pay and upgrades to public schools. let's talk about with the republican lieutenant governor todd lamb. welcome, sir. >> shannon, thank you. >> shannon: you have an interesting perspective because you happen to be married to a teacher. what is the discussion like in your house? >> i married i think the best teacher in the state of oklahoma, my wife. i have leaned on my wife monica for a lot of advice and counsel and in education issues throughout my career. we have a high school student. we have a middle school student. my wife teaches elementary. you kind of run the gamut and what i personally am involved in, not just as the lieutenant governor or a candidate for governor but as a dad. i look at these policies to the lens of a father that cares a lot about public education. >> shannon: i want to read a couple excerpts from "th

when we think of the sublime we think of the scale of the grand canyon, the power of niagara falls, maybeeview of the top of a high building. we might not use that word, sublime, did describe -- to describe that feeling. it is the literal awesomeness of nature still with us. last week, when we were thinking a little bit about the early 20th century, we considered this notion of the sublime, or the technological sublime in the context of the hoover dam. thinking about american engineering, this human structure that is worth marveling at. this is an idea that folks have also applied to nuclear tests. it was something a lot of people did as part of their work at the test site. there are some really fascinating oral histories to have been taken from folks who view tests both at the test site in the pacific that has been recorded both in video, audio and transcripts, if you're interested to dig into those first-hand accounts. i thought we might look at a couple of images taken by government officials that puts them in the public domain, from tests that made it at the nevada test site. i am loo

ago when you visit somewhere you see pictures of the lincoln memorial or you see pictures of the grand canyon and when you are there it's absolutely a different experience than just hearing about it or seeing it. i threw this on michael and said i want you to give us the history that i want you to help us understand what it is like being a camp david so you're on. >> the best way to help you understand is to buy the book. [laughter] but other than that. >> fred shed string a lot. that is what he called what is called camp david. he commissioned it. he took the sailor off the presidential got into them to camp david. he needed to get away from white house and you like to do that but he couldn't go to hyde park but he said he can't go on the yacht because of the war years to find me a place nearby. the from this old campsite from this billion conservation corps area and he called it my shangri-la and so he started it when he turned 75 is old last year. were now in the 76 year and the 14th president to use it since. president eisenhower we named it kim david after his grandson was named to anoth

. >>> also, since it's tuesday it's special election day in the grand canyon state.ave you voters in arizona's eighth congressional district picking their next congresswoman. two women running to replace frafrpgs. franks resigned early in december after allegedly offering money to a staffer to carry his baby. the president won this place by just about 21 points in 2016. so, no surprise that the republican in today's case, debbie lesko is the favorite to win there today. she served in state government since 2009 calling herself the conservative choice for the district. the democrat has never run for public office before. she is an emergency room dubt and public health advocate. both candidates are now making their final pitches to voters. president trump, of course, may be watching this, this is now the eighth special election in his administration. the president is currently at the white house, though. he has been meeting with french president emmanuel macron and we're getting our look at the two of them in the oval office. he want to listen. >> mr. president, they'r

let's check in with alicia acuna come alive on the ground from the grand canyon state. what can you tell us? >> hi, shannon. we heard a big chair go appear at a state senator ws lesko, se just found out she was victorious in a special election race. filling the seat of disgraced republican congressman trent franks. he left in december. it has been a race that actually no one thought was going to be a race. this is a republican stronghold here in the state of arizona, a very deeply read district that is made up of mostly white, retired republicans come a very conservative, very active voters, and they have come to the call of debbie lesko and republicans. however the reason we are here and watching is because this is a district in which, since 2012, democrats haven't even put up a candidate. this time, they did, dr. tipirneni, a doctor in the state, a democrat who was able to out raise the republicans here. jet attack ads, she had some headliners coming up, gabby giffords coming to her assist, and she was able to close in a little bit in polling but couldn't pull it thro

to the basement, took every vaccine ampule, and the family sedan and went to stanford via the grand canyonand petrified forest with the liquid nitrogen refrigerator strapped in the backseat. this will come back to bite him at stanford when nih's chief investigator of waste, fraud and abuse, they began a company began selling the cells, highly problematic. and getting the whole story. and the take-home message, so heyflick cells prevented thousands and thousands of lives being lost particularly to rubella. this child happens to be in south africa during the apartheid era. this baby died of measles which invaded his lungs. 6 billion vaccine doses have been made in heyflick's cells or copycat cell line, an aborted fetus in 1966. [applause] >> i don't know if i can compete with that kind of story. thank you to everybody for coming and dan for moderating and various sponsoring and all this, we appreciate it. i told you i would tell you about the origin of my book "not a scientist" and what the point is. basically it got started when i got a full-time job as a staff writer@factzoobacheck.org, sp

when you factor in bonuses, the gap becomes the grand canyon.o be blunt about this, but it has been an ipod or -- an eye-popper. goldman's report came out as 56% gap in terms of salaries, but then jumps to 72% if you add in the bonuses. david: let's be clear, there is no reason to believe this is a u.k. specific problem. they have actually required companies to report it. what would happen if the united states if we required companies to report this? peggy: with these companies, bonus toewed a pay and roughly equal portions. i really think that it is being underestimated how much globally companies are now starting to think. tons of companies have operations in the u.k. and all of the world, but if you are looking at your pay and the u.k., you got to be thinking hr department across the world and at the u.s. are thinking, do we need to start potentially giving people more bonuses and salary? david: and also moving up the ranks. that ihave more room and suspect if you have more women running the companies, you wouldn't have -- i suspect that if y

backseat of his car alongside his kids can the family sedan and the went to stanford the event grand canyon and the petulant force with the cells have liquid nitrogen refrigerator staff in the backseat. this will come back to bite them at the height of his power at stanford went nih chief investigator of waste, fraud, and abuse came after hayflick had begun a company began selling the cells. that was highly problematic, but i would encourage you to i hope you be interested in buying the book in order to get the whole story because i do want to give it all away. and with that i just want to get the take-home message, which is that hayflick's cells has prevented thousands and thousands of lives been lost to go to rubella. this child happens to be in south africa during the apartheid era. i was a medical student and it took this picture and two days later this baby died at of meas which invaded his lungs. in all more than 16, 6 billion vaccine doses have been made in either hayflick's wi-38 or a copycat post felt by the british also from an aborted fetus in 1966. that's it. [applause] >> i don

there is the everglades there is the everglades national park, the grand canyon... mount rainer.... park. nasa shared the pictures for national park week. ( darya ) coming up at 9 on the kron 4 morning news... it's the beginning of a new era. north and south korea have signed a peace treaty. ( darya ) plus... the suspected golden state killer is making his first appearance in court today. and we're learning how authorities used ancestory websites to make an arrest. ( darya ) and... after 20 years in prison... a bay area mom is up for parole. but her family wants her to (darya) good (darya)(darya) good morning i'm darya folsom..(james) and i'm james fletcher. lets start the morning of weather and traffic... (mabrisa rodriguez)upper low over the region will keep daytime highs unseasonably cool with temperatures generally in the 60s with lower 70s for the warmest interior valleys. this pattern stays in place through saturday. on sunday the upper low ejects inland but no big changes. a secondary cool trough drops down the coast early next week keeping temperatures unseasonably cool with

the 32-year-old adventurer has seen it all from the heights of the grand canyon to the depths of thes to every national park service sight in the country, all 417 of them, in one trip. so this has been your home for the last -- >> for the past two years, yeah. i sleep in parking lots and have driven over 44,000 miles in this sucker. >> and this is your map of your journey? >> in the last two years micah has traveled nonstop in his van, visiting more than 300 national park sites, coast to coast. he has one more year to go. it's a trip inspired by micah's father, larry, a lutheran minister with a love for the open road. he passed away when micah was just 19 years old. >> it just totally changed my perspective as far as tomorrow is not guaranteed. my dad often joked if he hadn't been a pastor, he probably would have been a trucker because he just loved driving so much. >> being on the road with him were some of your fondest memories. >> uh-huh. >> do you feel like he's along with you on this journey? >> totally. i mean the life values i would have gained with him on those road trips, i

i think i'm going to get on a donkey in the grand canyon, maybe do a little spelunking as well.lly -- i hitchhiked yesterday and got picked up by a trucker from wisconsin and it was great just to hear his story, to hear his thoughts on america and it's certainly eye opening and you meet such incredible people across the country. it's amazing. >> you mentioned that you're going to ride on a donkey so maybe i should say what's the craziest thing that's happened so far and what's the craziest thing that's going to happen? >> the craziest thing i think yesterday we were at least five different states in a single day. it's a bit of a plains, trains and automobiles and will end up in l.a. for the album release on april 6th. but we're visiting a lot of cities that we're going to be on tour this summer in june and july across america, the monolith tour so it's a great way just to get out here and see people. i have gezebel up front driving and getting me through dallas here, a local. how is it going up there, gezebel? you okay. >> it's going good, yeah. >> doing a good job. we're still

see the grand canyon. no picture, no movie, no helicopter movie. nothing can prepare you for the grand canyon. mesa verde, olympic national park in the state of washington, the redwoods and the sacoyas in california. shenandoah just a few hours from here. st. john in the virgin island, yellowstone, yosemite and zion. these are gems. it's become a commonplace to reference ken burns' statement that the national parkers america's best idea -- parks are america's best idea. starting with yellowstone but spreading across the country and they mark our history. they mark our tremendous natural resources. and they are just pure inspiration. i hope that our colleagues can go - if only for one day. if you have one day, you can leave washington and be in front royal, virginia in an hour and a half and drive down the then dough -- down the shenandoah parkway and be to the national park. these parks are every place. there are so many gorgeous and extraordinary places among this system. in maine we have two -- one is a