>> guest: yeah, they're looking for gus, and they're also, you know -- c-span: gus shooting the white: and the idea that a white man could lick all of those blacks in that room. >> guest: yes. and pulls out a gun, went out and shot him down. c-span: how effective was monroe trotter in stopping anything in regard to this? did he get anything changed in the moviesome. >> guest: not of any real substance. this the boston hearings before mayor, you know james michael curley the legendary boston mayor, curley, in the end, disappointed trotter by saying the movie could go on. contextually, i think trotter had every reason to expect that curley who practically coined the phrase banned in boston in any number of ways. but this gus scene curley told griffith that that was the one scene that gave him a little bit of a pause. he asked griffith if he would trim that a bit. and griffith gave him some lip service, as he did in other cities. he was always tinkering with his film anyway so sometimes he made cosmetic cuts, and sometimes he didn't but said he did. or if he did he'd restore it. it was k

gus happened to be doing something else in the world. i said, why would anyone need to know this? he said, so you know who you're waving at mommy. >> 1500. >> did you ever look up in the sky and wonder? >> i do yes. >> his endless questions are frustrating to his mother but not to siri. >> what bus is are running today? >> there was a huge amount of time where he was and still is anxious about thunder and lightning. so to be talking about scattered thunderstorms versus isolated thunderstorms i could only do it for ten minutes but siri could do it for an hour if that's what he wanted and siri could give him answers to things i couldn't being not a meteorologist. >> how is the weather this week? >> nice weather coming up this week. >> what do you know about the people who developed siri. >> nice thing i heard about is, theone of the people who developed it, the man from norway, it was named after a beautiful young girl from norway, a weather-woman. one wonders about his predilections, whether he is somewhere on the spectrum himself. >> getting information about train schedules and t

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are. >> reporter: gus' mom judith says the introduction was purely by accident. >> you know how buzzeed has 21 things to do with your iphone. and it was ask siri what planes are above your head. i said why would anyone in the world need to know this? and, you know, he said to me, so you know who you are waving at mommy. >> which planes are flying over. >> reporter: do you ever look up in the sky and wonder what they are doing? >> yes. >> reporter: what began as a way to get answers has developed into a dialogue, something gus had never had with anyone else. >> at the time that it struck me after like a week, that he was spending a fair amount of time talking to siri, was when he said, you are such a nice computer and you always help me. is there anything i can do for you? and she answered back something like i have very few needs. >> reporter: judith wrote about the budding friendship in the "new york times" and it became the most viewed article of the month. >> reporter: how much has siri changed the interactions with every day people. >> without wanting to tout siri as a kryt mirac

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what did gus do here in town? the adams memorial. gus, another eminent american sculptor walked over to burn up and grabbed him by the hand and said, look here old fellow, do you realize this is the greatest meeting of artist since the 15th century? in other words, what happened back in florence and rome was being reincarnated here in the united states. here is a statue of the republic by daniel chester french. what this was was we were trying to show those damn europeans that we can do it too. [giggling] dr. wilson: the first of the world fairs was an in london the crystal palace. prince albert was very much behind us. this is where people came and showed their stuff. this is where you brought your plows, your engines, your art, and there were many other world's fairs. another important inspiring what is going on here is the 1889 paris world fair. we actually had tried their back in 1876 in philadelphia. the centennial. it is interesting to read the commentary on the world's fair. this is american exceptionalism and so forth, they t

gus rosendale reports. >> reporter: here in norwood, a sort of coyote curfew remains in effect. we're getting a look at how close they came to the school and how that's changing life around here. >> the eighth grader showed me the location of the latest coyote sighting in this town right on the front of norwood public school just before classes started this morning. and it's why he says he will carry a bat when he walks his dog tonight. >> you're walking your dog while carrying a bat? >> yeah. so my friends are walking a dog, carrying a knife. >> viewers sent us these photos showing the bold trip. parents and kids are now on alert. >> this is the first time we told them -- >> there's a place you can walk and a coyote might be there. >> you're a little scared? >> yeah i'm scared. >> monday night, police captured and killed one coyote that bit a neighbor near summit street. but two coyote dens have also been found near the school. traps are set and students are being kept inside. >> no activities outside during the school day, lunch recess which is hard with kids if they want to u

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this is is doctor mark vando and he brought his wonderful dog with him gus a 15 year-old terrier. he is just as beautiful as he was when he was a puppy. you do your specialist in small animal internal medicine. we want to talk about feeding your pet because you see a lot of the gi problems, that goes on. >> um-hmm. >> what are people doing right or wrong with their animals when it comes to feeding from what you have seen. >> i think what people are doing right is buying high quality pet food, there are plenty of great products. >> what makes a high quality food. >> i think -- >> a main first ingredient that is a meat. >> a brown rice or something. >> i think you want to look for the first ingredients to be some sort of meat protein source or carbohydrate source that you recognize. >> not a biproduct or a filler. >> exactly. >> what are they doing wrong. >> well, most of the time it is feeding food that are not pet foods. for some dogs that is okay. some dogs tolerate that but other dogs feeding food from the table can really mess their gi tract up and put them into a bad state. >>

. >> hello, i'm erica him 3-year-old ben and six months nephew gus and may be one day my other child will attend school full-time and so, yes. we're concerned about a big project just feet away from them and surprised to learn that the proposed project would be so large and close and we were even more surprised to find out we had just one week to evaluate the proposal and register opposition only on the 21st that the parental community essentially lender the details of one 50 van ness you've heard from many apartment and will hear from more seeing the signatures collected they're concerned about noise level and air quality and sunlight i share particularly the air quality and noise because the study didn't take taking into account the presence of so many sensitive folks on a daily based some parents have spent hours in attending the meetings and i too applaud did vendors so for responding quickly we simply need for time to fulfill evaluate the project and propose measures for our concerns are sub i can't stand and engagement with conversation with the developers and others perhaps ou

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the national transport safety board said the cause of the tragedy was a design flaw in the bridge's gus et plates, metal squares that connect one steel beam to another. at the time of the collapse the bridge was listed as structurally deficient. casey is with the american society for civil engineers. every four years they evaluate the state. now. >> we have 60,000 dredges with physical problems, that need maintenance, rehabilitation, and to put it in perspective, that's one in nine bridges in this country >>> one in nine. fast-forward. since the report, the numbers have gone up, not down. the don't of transportation find more than 61,000 bridges in the country are deficient. the trust fund faced revenue shortfalls since 2008, and every year >>> next, roll tide, a campus election apt the university of alabama exposes a machine that ran political racism since stand. >> and an education behind bars. wednesday on "america tonight". solo dad o'brien goes inside a juvenile lock up. now taking a new look at that's wednesday on "america tonight". >>> is this a teachable moment. recent events -

talked about how sweden was one of the few european countries that has really open its doors to the ref guommunity. >> so this is good thing to do to give people refuge but if you ask the syrian people who fled from syria, what do you want? they don't want to flee syria because of the war. they want to end that war. that's their aim. that's our aim. so i think it will help people in -- if you give people refuge the rest is to help them going back to their country. >>> an ohio man is due in federal court facing federal charges he provided material support for terrorism. prosecutors say he travelled to syria to train with an al-qaeda-linked group and was planning an attack in the u.s. >> reporter: the government alleges that this man, travelled to syria for terrorist training. he allegedly made this trip just two months after gaining american citizenship. >> the benefit of being american is he has good paper. that means he is able to travel he has the u.s. passport. that is a goal. law enforcement has been concerned about this travel pattern for quite a while. >> reporter: the fbi said he le

. >> reporter: butting a gus has been doing her job for 27 years. >> that is the biggest myth.e families. they are mothers. they are fathers. they are not just teenagers. >> reporter: and like agnus, they are willing to take to the streets to make their voices heard. >>> japan has overtaken china as the largest foreign holder of u.s. debt. it's the first time in six years that china has been knocked off of the top spot. both countries own the most american government bonds and recently swapped places. china's slowing economy means it now needs to use the money at home. and third place is a group of banks, and pension funds based in the caribbean. belgium is fourth. the real number one spot belongs to the u.s. treasury. it is the overall largest holder of u.s. debt. meaning the u.s. is effectively loaning it's a the most money. one expert says this shows the strengthening of the u.s. economy. >> i think what this really reflects is just the difference in direction between particularly the u.s. economy and the japanese economy. just because in the u.s. things are improving over t

. >> how much of this is dependent on the economy continuing to improve, gus? >> all of it is depending on the economy continuing to improve. we expect to see solid economic growth leading businesses to hire more workers, more college gradiates. i think the underlying economic fundamentals continue to look good. i think we will see continued good labor market for college graduates. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. rchlths still ahead, peculiar market patterns. why the bulls might take back control of the m >>> a peculiar thing happens in the stock market. why the bulls may have something to get excited about. >> tax deadline is coming. that's the bad news. the good news is stocks tend to rise but only after the deadline is passed. every year i get the same question in response to the same phenomenon. the market seems to stall in the two we ten to recover. usually some people throw money to pay taxes. data provided to us seems to bear out this piece of mythology, since 2005 in the ten trading days before april 15 the s&p 500 is only up 30% of the time with

( laughter ) ( applause ) now, now here's where the ( bleep ) gets real i wonder if there's aninal gus event where we could test fox's feely to this principle of restitution. >> does benghazi ring a bell. >> a bunch of new questions about benghazi. >> benghazi. >> benghazi. >> benghazi, benghazi benghazi. >> jon: first of all, benghazi isn't "beatlejuice." you don't say it three times. if you insist, let's use that example. it's a tragic event where americaned died like ferguson. but if the analogy is to hold, who will play the role of nation-dividing, anger-stoking, rhetorititions before the official government investigation was completed? >> special report investigates death and deceit in benghazi. >> susan rice willingly went along and lied on sunday chat shows. >> the c.i.a. warned that there might be an attack on the 9/11 anniversary. >> during the attack they didn't send help that was waiting in tripoli c-130 to assist these guys. >> coming up, they could have saved four americans but instead, our government told them to stand down. >> jon: so basically you're saying the governme

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." >> reporter: the italian coast gu guard has now started to dread good weather. a flat, blue sea can spell disaster, triggering a flood of refugees to attempt the crossing at once. >> we have never seen something like this. >> reporter: captain leopoldo manna is the man who receives those desperate satellite phone calls from migrants abandoned by smugglers at sea. his coast guard command center in rome works around the clock knowing that if their boatss don't take action, the migrants will likely die. >> it's difficult to explain that sometimes we have 25 boats asking for rescue. we don't know exactly where they are, and they all ask to be rescued. >> reporter: you can't rescue all of them. >> it's not possible to rescue 25 altogether and you don't knowre where they are. >> reporter: do they understand the risk? >> i believe they understand the risk.el >> reporter: but it doesn't stop them? >> i believe they are so's desperate that nothing will stop them. >> reporter: so it's like these smugglers are putting a gun to your head. >> something like that. they put a

and john glenn and gus grissom and on and on and on were figures that we talked about. those days, i think it was very easy to answer the question, "what is nasa for? "but as we're not,(laugh) emphasizing man space flight human accompanied space flight as much, is it a tougher sell? >> you know, nasa's heyday is today to be quite honest. our best days are ahead of us and today is the best day for young men and women who want to be in aeronautics and in the aerospace field. you ticked off several of the things that we've done just in the past six years. and i'm incredibly proud of the 18,000 civil servants and almost 40,000 contractors now who make up our family. and i have to remind people all the time, we are not, everybody thinks of us as a technical organization. we are a people organization. >> oh, no knock at at today's nasa. and i know you've got your virtual and physical fingers in a lot of different pies. but i think it's probably less well-known by the general public at large, and part of that must be that what concentrated our eyes on getting to the moon, that