don't want you to know about some of the world's richest and brightest are descending on bohemian grove yet again this year we'll take you deep into california's redwoods to find out a little bit about what goes on there. and speaking of secrecy one delaware based tech company is quietly leading the way in surveillance infrastructure and serving as the middleman between law enforcement officials and your personal information coming up will expose the secrets of the company that already knows yours. and speaking of secret surveillance one government agency is actually spying on its own employees heads of the f.d.a. have been monitoring scores of e-mail correspondence between scientists and congress so this is the latest incident in the war our war on whistleblowers will question more. hello there it is monday july sixteenth four pm in washington d.c. my name is christine and you are watching our t.v. . well it's one of the longest running annual gatherings in this country and yet it's one of the least well known bohemian grove is a two week gathering for some of the most wealthy and powe

about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent. here at the gates of the bohemian grove a line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the layer of the one percent abby martin r.t. what they do you know california and earlier i spoke to abby for an update on what she witnessed take a look. i think people are recognizing that this is the one percent of people in the world we have million heirs billionaires i mean you cannot you have to be pretty pretty rich to get in there there are one hundred twenty eight camps of twenty to fifty people in these camps each one has a full barn. very rich wealthy elite going in there from all ends of the society and what really happened this year was the first time that the occupy movement recognized hey the bohemian grove is really something that we should be calling now and occupy and so they made an event occupy bohemian grove just as they have before just dovetailing off this whole movement of the ninety nine percent versus the one percent and they had an event a month late

about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent. here at the gates the bohemian grove line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the layer of the one percent. are they do you know california. and that's going to do it for the news for tonight but stick around the big picture is coming up at the top of the hour on tonight's edition of the show host tom hartman will sit down with congressman dennis kucinich to ask about the department of justice's criminal case against major wall street banks and the ongoing libel rate and scandal later time we'll tell you tell you how iran's writings are influencing more than the literary world a change in american politics as well and for more on the stories we covered go to you tube dot com slash our team america and for the latest information on the stories we cover today and a few that we didn't get to check out our website our team dot com slash usa and you can always follow me on twitter i'm at christine for now i want to thank you for watching have a great night.

the people in the grove are about to be conquered. activists felipe in the siena worries about dangerous policies that are drafted from within the redwoods the nuclear program was discussed here and then developed later the fact that reagan was here in eighty and then afterwards we had the reagan revolution we know you're very well known and an event with so little transparency has bred theories some of them pretty wild about what goes on on the inside especially at the creation of care ritual where grove members burn a coffin effigy to a forty foot. peace and justice activist cindy sheehan speculates on the lack of media coverage as they are part of that you know they're saying they're the propaganda arm for the one percent the corporate media is the one percent. i mean if you look at it that way n.b.c. m s n b c c n n fox they are of the corporate one percent they're not going to do negative stories about themselves about capitalism about global empire and war. how can someone own a two thousand year old redwood grove that's the que

about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent. here at the gates of the bohemian grove a line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the layer of the one percent. r.t. month they do yo california all right it is time now for some world updates. gyptian president hosni mubarak has been ordered back to prison after doctors said his health has improved mobarak was admitted to a military hospital in the mid june following reports he had suffered heart failure eighty four year old former leader was sentenced to life in prison last month for his complicity and me killing of protesters during last year's revolution which toppled him. heading to canada now where police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting at a barbecue that left two people dead and up to nineteen injured in toronto it's thought a nother shooter may have been involved in the incident which followed what is being described as an altercation around midnight the two fatalities were eighteen h. girl and a twenty year old man and much alrea

asking about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent. at the gates the bohemian grove line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the layer of the one percent. r.t. what they do you know california. are in just about will be joining in a tussle with the business for now the state of pakistan the start of the arts the world updated so where two thousand people are marching in the northwest protesting against the reopening of nato supply routes into afghanistan demonstrations began on monday with hundreds of pakistanis rallying in the city of peshawar as i'm about to close the supply routes for seven months after twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by american helicopter gunships. in turkey a huge gulf to the forty two story skyscraper paula made up of residential apartments and offices hundreds of people were evacuated nobody was hurt and now it is believed the blaze is painted the cause of the fire yet to be determined but a technical fault is suspected. a russian soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked wit

how can someone own a two thousand year old redwood grove that's the question that the occupiers are asking about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent right. here at the gates of the bohemian grove a line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the lair of the one percent abby martin r.t. month a.t.o. california. tara just a moment on the tasher with the business first out of pakistan to start off the r.t. world cup made its way up to eight thousand people are marching in the northwest of the country protesting against the reopening of nato supply routes in afghanistan demonstrations began on monday hundreds of pakistanis rallying in the city of peshawar islamabad close the supply routes for seven months after twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by american helicopter gunships. in turkey a huge fire engulfed the forty two story skyscraper pull out tower that's made up of presidential apartments and offices hundreds of people were evacuated no one was hurt another blaze is believed to have been contained the ca

>> i have no idea. >> the night weighs heavily on billy groves as well.ed up in the intensive detention unit. >> this is the woman i love. this is me and her. that's me and brandy together. this is on our first visit. >> earlier in the day, groves' girlfriend, brandy, was caught attempting to smuggle tobacco and cell phones into the prison during her visit with him. >> bring him over this way. >> the following day, groves is questioned by internal affairs. >> i'm going to ask you straight up, you want to give me any statement on this or anything like that? >> no. >> no statement at all? >> no statement at all. >> now, she went home friday. i didn't send her to jail. i'm going to get a warrant for her arrest for misdemeanor trafficking. it's all on you right now. do you understand that? >> yes. >> she'll never be allowed to visit at any prison ever again. all right. anything else you want to say? >> no. >> all right. go ahead and take him back to idu then. >> but alone in his cell, groves did have something to say. he used the camera our producer left with

asking about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent. here at the gates of the bohemian grove a line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the lair of the one percent abby martin r.t. month a.t.o. california. time now for some other stories making headlines around the world egyptian president hosni mubarak owl's been ordered back to prison after a doctor said this health has improved mobarak was admitted to to a military hospital in mid june following reports he had suffered heart failure eighty four year old former leader was sentenced to life in prison last month for his complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's revolution which toppled him. hundreds of demonstrators rallied in the city of peshawar in pakistan protesting against the reopening of a nato supply routes into afghanistan as follows the one thousand strong rally held on sunday and the southern pakistani city of karachi islamabad close the supply routes for seven months after twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by u.s. drone att

about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent. here at the gates of the bohemian grove a line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the layer of the one percent. r.t. montevideo california. time for that hour katie good to see you again the wall street bankers. said but what on earth are they doing exactly that question they're ready for action but at the moment i'm not really sure if i'm entirely sure because sorry i'm not sure if i'm entirely still there we go because what we did was we opened up with gay and now we've gone into losses a lot of that is because ben bernanke the federal reserve chairman he's actually disappointed some more because it's looking like this is not going to be any stimulus not he signs of a slowdown in economic activity this year and stubbornly high unemployment so right now it's a little tough so in the first hour trade for the u.s. market is one cousin so you saw it goldman size was stocks dropping eleven percent in the second quarter because of the deteriorating market so tha

well you care the world's most powerful leaders gather in complete secrecy it's called bohemian grove and it's about to kick off in california it's been happening for over a century and it's sad that some critical foreign policy decisions are made there but why doesn't anyone know about this are to correspondent abbie martin's looking for some answers. there it is right and wrong they do know california about a lot of you have never heard the place but it really is quite interesting for the next two weeks and much of the world that we will be walking into a secretive orgy of power where they party into a bohemian style where they give talks network discuss policy and drink heavily those powerful men's only club has been meeting for the last one hundred thirty three years. even the idea for the manhattan project which led to the creation of the atom bomb came out of the grove in one nine hundred forty two. two pretty powerful stuff but who actually attend the gathering is packed with oil tycoons politicians business leaders and foreign diplomats who all make the pilgrimage to this year

on june 4, under -- 1932, stern grove was dedicated. kshe formed the nonprofit association stability that comes to its work to be free and design for everyone's interested. it is a special place, and natural amphitheater surrounded by giant eucalyptus, and edwards -- redwood. this reflects the commitment to making sure the had exceptional programming and deserve a diverse audience. the music festival is a bay area tradition and something we look forward to. performers have been there, the opera, ballet, ladysmith black mambazo, roberta flack, and sheila e and the escobedo family. we are very lucky to have this festival. i wanted to bring these folks out here to thank you. it was not for your hard work in organizing the volunteers who are helping and making sure that the program ran smoothly, i did not think we would enjoy the program the way we have. i want to bring you out here to recognize the 75th year anniversary but to think you very much. with us today are few folks who make it happen. douglas goldman and steven haines, monica war

bush all attended the grove before they grace the oval office even media. big wigs are stable with the likes of the hearst dynasty and walter cronkite now replaced with rupert murdoch and c.e.o.'s from c.n.n. and l a times so if the media is there americans should know all about what's going on right so have you heard a bohemian grove i have not not really no not at all i don't have a clue no no i'm afraid i don't the world's most powerful players get together and discuss policy party and also do mock sacrificial rituals together oh no that's and that's basically first newest i have i heard about it they sacrifice a coffin effigy to a giant forty foot i will it's kind of like a modern day stonehenge i don't think it's cool at all i don't think so on if that truly does take place i think it's great that's scary that's really i did hear they were talking about like a new world order in like two years something like that maybe that's what they're planning it's also just the new whole order no way you can really fight it and it's completely different than now r

and, you know, grove/lantic is a mid-sized publisher. we do not publish children's books, reference books, travel books. we're in the business of 100,000 of prose -- [inaudible] and i think the physical book is probably going to stay around for a good while. >> jonathan karp, same question. >> well, that 30% number is a good number, and i'm going to stick to it. [laughter] there was some market research done, i think, by a guy named jack mckind, and he found that about 50% of the people surveyed in independent bookstores were buying e-readers. um, and of that 50%, 50% of them said that they'd still want to keep buying hardcover books. they were in bookstores when they were full, so you could subtract for that. still, 50% are not buying e-readers and do not intend to. and i've seen that a couple of times, and i don't know whether that number will change as behavior changes. and it probably will. but i do also think that a lot of people are going to keep buying regular hardcover and trade paperback books. >> has the publishing world, in yo

there's a collision in rockville on shady grove road near 370.of rescue squad on the scene with this accident. metro rail on normal service. back to you. thank you. vincent gray supporters plan to make their voices heard today. dozens of people expected to gather at the wilson building for a rally this morning. three people died to his campaign to pleaded guilty to campaign fraud charges. the mayor says that he will not resign. investigators looking for the person who brutally attacked a well-known democratic strategist. >> surveillance video shows david mercer walking into a northeast d.c. 7-eleven on thursday night. at one point a suspect appears to swipe his cellphone and then mercer confront the man. both men left the store. a witness describes what happens next. >> when the man came outside, he -- the man just knocked him out cold. he hits his head on the concrete. >> a friend says that mercer is improving but still has a long road to recovery. police have identified a suspect but have not made an arrest. >> pushing 80 degrees on this wednes

. >> i'm the executive director of the national aids memorial grove. it's an honor to speak before the commissioner and general ed -- general manager. like to a knowledge the relationship you have had. 25 years ago, when nancy pelosi was running for office, this city had lost nearly 15,000 of its residents. the impact upon the community was profound. on that run, she knew there was not a voice in government, there is not anybody standing up speaking on behalf of what was needed to move on for word. most importantly, she gave voice to those in those cities that needed it. fast forward five years later, the growth of was founded. over the last 25 years, we have had the honor of hosting nancy pelosi honor 10-year, 20 year, and 25-year anniversaries or she commemorated those milestones with citizens of san francisco and those that needed a voice. this last april 21, we celebrated her 25th anniversary in that growth. after the advent, alice wrestle shapiro left a voicemail on my phone network saying we have all these years nome, look at and honored the work

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the executive director of the national aids memorial grove spoke about the location and is a location nancy pelosi spearheaded and made a national memorial. as recently as 1996, it was a place that was incredibly neglected in golden gate park. it was overrun and through committee members and the memory of one of the greatest public health tragedy's this country has faced, the aids memorial grove is one of the most beautiful spots within golden gate park. it is a national memorial, akin to the vietnam veterans memorial, about rushmore, the u.s. arizona at pearl harbor, which are also national memorials. naming this street after nancy pelosi and honor of her effort and work for the committee to make that cite the beautiful living memorial is is extremely appropriate. >> we have a motion and a second. all those in favor? all opposed? hearing none, it is unanimous. [applause] >> we are on item number seven, o lord of job order contract for capital projects. -- toward a job order contracts for capital projects. >> commissioners, and a director of capital and planning, this is a very brief

it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in park

traveling shady grove road at i-370, near the shady grove metro station, a crash involving a ride-onus an another vehicle. this is in the process of being towed right now. your closure on shady grove road, closed in both directions right nows a i-370. >>> later today you may see delays but right now no delays on the rail. >> danella, thanks. >>> 5:42. coming up, why this muddy mess in baltimore is going to be an ongoing problem for drivers. ongoing problem for drivers. >>> plus, you you could soon be chances are, you're not made of money, so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico, see how much you could save. the middle class is shrinking. in this day and age you can only accomplish so much without a degree, and traditional institutions are simply not set up to accommodate people who have jobs and families. university of phoenix works for those people who have real lives and real demands. the degrees that we offer are things where people can fulfill their goals with even brighter hopes for the future. my name is katy white, i'm committed to making a difference in people's live

in those groves and in local victim ages, and the problem -- villages. and the problem is there isn't enough water or food to go around so, that's causing problems among the local residents there. we've also heard that they had been rejected from hospitals when their children had needed medical attention. so this is a problem as the situation worsens in aleppo, it's going to worsen in those towns and villages and it's really stretched to breaking point. >> pelley: charlie d'agata, thank you very much, reporting from inside syria. tonight the biggest blackout in history has left nearly 10% of the world population without power. a massive failure in india that started yesterday, doubled today. knocking out power to 22 states and 700 million people. traffic and trains ground to a halt. the cause isn't clear, but india's grid is rickety. smaller blackouts are part of daily life. american businesses depend on india for customer service call centers and data processing, and we checked on that today. we found out that many of those businesses have backup genera

we do haven't an accident reported shady grove road near 370. watch out for that. 95 northbound seeing some volume as you head up toward the mixing bowl. 395, no incidents reported for you. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. >>> our top story, just a horrible, horrible accident that we've seen far too many times as of late. >> i huge tree fell on top of a car killing the driver. this happened along georgetown pike in great falls, virginia. fox 5's melanie a.-- melanie alnwick on the scene. >> we moved around to the other side to give you a better picture of the totality of what is going on here. this pile of branches behind me, this is from the 100 feet tree that fell last night. these pieces are huge. they are absolutely amazing. this is part of one of the branches and the upper part of the trunk. see how this is thin. we'll talk about that how this is hollow and rotted out. that is part of the rope why they are working on this tall are tree back behind us. this is a twin tree that was pretty much just like this one her

back to our live pictures, here's 270 at shady grove road. really looking good down to the point where the lanes divide. i'll be back with more traffic coming up at the end of the show. in the meantime let's go to anny. the dog days of summer. >>> yes, monika. we have a heat advisory starting at 11:00 till 9:00 p.m. because of the increased humidity. so we're really going to feel that heat and humidity, especially by late this afternoon. here's a look at your day planner for the rest of today. temperatures in the mid-90s by lunch time so it's going to be hot and steamy. temperatures topping out in the upper 90s. we do have a better chance of scattered showers and storms this afternoon and early this evening. some of those storms could be strong or severe. now, we're seeing hot and humid conditions today because of the bermuda high that's feeding in the humid air and we'll see temperatures getting close to record highs once again. currently 80 in downtown. 79 in college park. 74 degrees in great falls. our michael & son weather camera, isn't t

bohemian grove. >> this is the club picnic. >> you talk about this picture. the thing that enables us about what happened is how many relationships go back long before anyone is in politics. >> this is the brahimi and grove in the summer of 1967. bohemian grove. richard nixon on the left, that some are nixon was giving a big speech about hoover. we really wanted to do is meet with reagan. reagan was actively seeking the 1968 nomination. he is beginning to contest some primaries and pick up delegates. he has the right wing of the republican party completely won over. he has people like william buckley saying there's no one else to vote for it except for ronald reagan. here is dick nixon thought he would have a chance. this combination and this newcomer from telephone now, who he had met just to go in 1947 when he was a young congressman. they had known each other for a long time. they had correspondents are much of the 1960s. by this time, they are on opposite sides. as we found throughout the story,

so i met her about a block on grove. i would say about 20 minutes. 20-25 minutes. >> and did anybody join the conversation between you and your wife in those 20-25 minutes? >> no. >> ok. just you and your wife? >> yes. >> so going back to that path. they made a couple calls to find an attorney. is that accurate? did you and your wife make a couple of calls to find an attorney at that time? >> no. that was not accurate. it was much later. >> ok. when did you make a couple calls to find an attorney? >> probably had to be after 6:00 -- 5:00-5:30 or 6:00. >> was it before or after the sflenches >> it was a conversation in the first conversation of the date. linnette peralta haynes was a recommendation as i was on my way to the lafco event with an attorney but i was already terribly late for that event. >> ok. and then the next part of this passage after the part that says they made a couple calls to find an attorney. the next part is, and he said lopezed that idea of having their friend, linnette peralta haynes a domestical

thanks to the stern grove association they renovated the concert meadow. it used to be a rolling grafsy area. put in a new stage and stage building. they put in terraces. we get from 8,000 to 12,000 people. and the meadow next to the concert meadow is full of people even though they can't see the music they hear it. i walked into the meadow several times and they don't even care. we do have literally events going on day and night. the concert association has kids days during the week. the performers come out for hundred 200 kids. now, the truckadero truck house gets rented out for weddings and retirement. the croquet clubs and horse shoes. 2 play grounds, tennis courts. we have from 25 to a hundred dogs here. it's like bisons going across the mid west. there are so many dogs they are covering the ground cht it's a get together. all the dog walkers know each other. if you go to pine lake day camp now, you will see 50 kids there. the r directors are wonder. >> the pine lake is natural. they take of the area around the lake. they plant natives that are drough

it has a lot of hills, there's a lot of dense groves. once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. you are very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south

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broken down by station, shady grove and franconia have more than 600 unused permits. that's 12 and 13% of all spaces in the garage empty and offlimits during peak hours. greenbelt, 419 available, or 12% of the lot. new carol ton and huntington have more than 300 each, making up 10 and more than 11% of the total. all told, more than 5,000 spaces go wasted, enough to fill the entire shady grove launch. >> some are overutilized and some underutilized. we're trying to make the balance. >> reporter: after 10:00 a.m., anyone can park in the reserved spaces. any time before that, and you risk a ticket. metro is reevaluating its reserved parking spaces. in some lots, it could be opened to the public, or the price lowered to 45 or $50 to encourage more users. >> i think there's about 10 stations we're analyzing now that will probably have lower prices for those reserved spaces. >> reporter: there's a balance between having enough parking for everyone, not just those who arrive early, but those who may need to come later. >> otherwise the people that need to come after 8:30 hav