others prefer "heartland" and "hinterland."hatever the terms, andalucía is a remote region in spain, which itself is far from the center of europe. in this case study we will examine: the relative location of a european hinterland; the historical geography of a region at the crossroads of civilizations; the economic geography of a region wishing to grow from agriculture to industry; and the development of transportation infrastructure to overcome the disadvantage of distance. the expo "cartuja '92" commemorated the 500th anniversary of the discovery of america, which began from here in andalucía, spain. celebrating the frontiers of science and technology, promoters hoped the building complex would attract hi-tech firms after the expo ended. ( speaking spanish ) translator: the expo helped us, but now it's over. what we're going through now, is a post-expo recession. ( interviewer speaking spanish ) translator: what do you think of the expo? translator: very nice, but now it's over and right now things have never been worse in a

western europe, the port of liverpool was a thriving maritime gateway to the english manufacturing heartlandforged in the first age of global commerce, it received the bounty of the british empire. but containerized shipping technology has drastically reduced the labor force, permanently changing the urban and economic geography here. can liverpool make the transition from an industrial-revolution seaport to a center of the information revolution and the service economy? ( kids actively conversing ) merseyside in the beginning of the 21st century. this is the small city of bootle, just north of liverpool. neighborhoods like this have fallen on hard times. what never changes is the love of soccer. ( crowd cheering ) in a pub around the corner, the grownups root for the liverpool football club. it's a passion. ( yelling, cheering ) the old men here once worked the docks downtown. for the young men, that's rarely an option now. ( oohing ) this is a tale of two nearby cities, united perhaps only by their support of liverpool soccer. one is the story of gritty neighborhoods that once housed the d

. >>> some wicked weather in the nation's heartland. the damage from a tornado. ,, >>> storm chasers in illinois got a good look at a tornado yesterday. the storm brought winds blow into the street. and uprooted trees and not a good day. no reports of injuries. >>> will enjoy some more beautiful autumn weather. so no few patches of fog this morning. for a few large yesterday going to love to dead. " fifties in toward the interior rally. this afternoon here comes the sun shine. what the '60s and '70s as you make your way inland. getting caught in the central valley about 95 in fresno and 91 in sacramento. one fault autumn sunshine but after been. temperatures or two more back into the high 90s vote for the ballot. the measures for today looking at 78 in san jose 76 impala of so i 72 degrees and oakland 66 in oakland. little toast the bread for the weekend. temperatures in the upper 60s may be low 70's. cooling down towards the beginning of next week. >>> heading toward the golden gate bridge where traffic is so far so good. not too bad t

how is health care playing in the heartland? >> you know, ed, what north dakotaens understand is that health care is really personal. that preexisting conditions matter, getting health insurance matters, getting your kids on health insurance. one thing you haven't been talking about is the million-dollar cap. i met parents, young professionals, engineers, did everything right, have a baby with spina bifida. they know they are going to be impoverished the rest of their life through no fault of their own. everybody has a personal story how this affects them. once you start talking about this and say let's keep the good and fix the bad and quit playing politics with health care, people in north dakota get it. >> doesn't this leave somewhat of an opening for democrats who are running for the senate including yourself? now that mitt romney has actually said there are certain portions of the bill he's going to keep. you folks are out there campaigning on making it better than it is now. doesn't that play to your favor? >> well, i don'

we wanted to find out if this was also a problem in america's heartland. so we went to darke county, ohio right near greenville, ohio. the county has a population of something like 13,000. and we set up to see what would happen. by the time the investigation was over, we learned that even in this little town in ohio this was a problem. >> put your hands in the air! >> turn around. turn around. >> i'm going to read you your rights. if you have any questions -- >> you have the right to remain silent. anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. >> take a seat. watch your head, okay? watch your head. >> in this case, as in the previous investigations, we worked with the computer watchdog group perverted justice. its decoys go into chat rooms posing as 12, 13, 14, 15-year-old kids home alone, open to the idea of a sexual liaison, but they go into chat rooms and they just wait. and they never make the first contact, and sometimes in a matter of minutes a man is approaching them online. the online chat becomes sexual, and the next thing y

the heartland is the town of fifty kilometers north of london. an old working class town now plagued by employment in two thousand to in the car industry learn some thirty thousand workers were laid off. its two hundred twenty thousand residents including a large number of muslims so the five thousand of them live in the neighborhood around the grieve road. and all the women wear veils. of the founder and leader. and agrees to meet us in a. somewhat unexpectedly it's a beauty subtle as clients come to. top off that time since. the movement's headquarters is temporary it's a squat and a construction site. the following day there's a protest. rankest the rallying point just how hamlet's want to blunder the most difficult areas the messages are nothing new. england club it only if it was all. cut socially. what if we were free to fill files about. fifteen hundred. maybe more two thousand. people anybody wants to go to have it because the first of all it. would show. as you know. the people don't care. we can almost tell how it's so how do we. how do

lawrence took us on a journey to the anaconda's heartland. remote bonito. >> hey! bonito.come. >> reporter: we unloaded the boats. the stream cool and clear. i'm kind of hoping we don't find one so i don't have to go in the water. >> don't say that. come on, man. >> reporter: you get to defend yourself with that and i have this. >> no, this is not what you think. >> reporter: and our date with an anaconda approaches. what are we looking for? >> if we see a thick branch that swims, that's the anaconda. >> reporter: we found the stream where just months before, lawrence found this monster. >> the head was giant. as thick of a dive tank. that was a dinosaur. it was a snake that when i look at it, i say, "wow." >> reporter: our local guide is tracking these waters for 50 years and seen these snakes take down a capybara. watch in this video. an anaconda crushes the capybara's bones and begins to swallow. but they only feed a few times a year. >> they feed off pigs, dogs, chicken. so, the natives don't like them. >> reporter: soon enough, they spot one. >> there's a small one. r

in the a lot of heat nation's heartland. and inorms around here the deep south. are a refreshing headed our way. >> a developing story in philadelphia. authorities have given the all after a phone in a threat flight.irways flight from philadelphia to just taken off when a claimed somebody on board had a bomb. the plane was ordered back custodyn taken into while the plane was searched. police now believe it was a hoax. the man has been released and onsengers are being put other flights to dallas. escalatorth is in the metro system is again at the rosslyn station in arlington. stopped working around 8:30 this morning. two were originally brought back before being shut down again. they were all back in service as of 20 minutes ago. >> the democratic national charlotte, tonight president obama will take to the party'so accept the nomination for president. this comes on the heels of a speech by former president bill clinton. the details from brandi hitt. bill clinton.for thank him fora endorsement and for standing behind his economic policies. not better off than offi

both president obama and mitt romney stop in key swing states jan crawford on the battle for the heartland >>> ohio has a rich football tradition but in the election it will also be a key swing straigh swing state in cheeringn his alumni miami of ohio. >>> if you have a coach that is zero and 23 you say it is time to get a new coach >>> mitt romney has been playing offense during storm damage in louisiana and making campaign stops in ohio and florida >>> and we're taking this country back will get america strong again for you and your children >>> the campaign looks to take advantage of momentum getting in his before the democrats start their convention in charlotte. president obama already on the offensive >>> the tug a lot about me, a lot about him, that is a much about you >>> the president was in iowa. >>> this thursday night i will offer you what i believe the better path toward a path that grows the economy creates more good jobs strengthens the middle class. >>> end zone not to college football the white house relieved release the president's official beer recipe democrats hold thei

does that jive with what your sense is in the california heartland? >> well, sort of. mean, i've heard stories about, i mean -- there are a lot of mexican farm worker, and a lot of them are growing pot, some are growing pot for anglos. there was one story a few years ago about -- actually, a friend of mine knew a grower up there who littered his site with tortillas and beans and leftovers there. [laughter] that scam was actually going on so that's one instance. who knows what's gypping on in the national forest, but i didn't see how it lent itself to organized -- >> like a boogieman. >> why would you do that if you have -- if you could access growing it there in mexico? >> yeah. thank you so much, everybody, for coming. thank you. [applause] >>> next weekend on the national mall, the national book fest vailing will be taking place sponsored by the library of congress, and one of the exhibits at the library of congress tent will be booked that saved america. here's a little bit about that. >> well, there's a new exhibit at at library of congress called "books that saved

mostly 70s in the heartland. 80s in the southeast.ng may be shrinking, the texas twang. >> whew. >> it's okay. relax. researchers from university of texas are on the case. their texas english project find that the twang is very much alive, but it is now more of a matter of choice. >> yes, you can -- you can still hear expressions like, down yonder and y'all. but it depends on who the texan is talking to and what they're talking about. see, i happen to think the southern accent -- oh. >> if you really want to hear the twang of texas, you got to go out to dallas first, johnson county, wise county. >> i don't know that i have that much twang. i don't think people have lost their twang. >> i lost my twang, texas as a whole i don't think it any lost. >> researchers say what is changing the twang is urbanization, mass technology and influx of newcomers and it comes alive if you ask a texan to talk about texas pride. >> i happen to like the southern accent. i think a little -- the twang is kind of sexy for the ladies. i don't know, i like it

and the remnants of the storm are churning north, dumping heavy rain on the country's heartland.ack in louisiana, isaac has left behind mess and misery. thousands can't even go back to their homes yet because of all of the flooding. homes not protected by the new levee system like the one belonging to bobby landry. his newly renovated house all but swept away by the floods. >> this house never had a drop of floods during katrina. we figured if we had a hurricane it would increase the wall, and it sure did. >> let's find out how isaac is going to affect us this holiday weekend. topper shutt. >> the silver lining here, as you mentioned, the remnants are moving north into the midwest. they need some rain there. let me show you the radar and show you where the remnants are. pushing out of missouri, at least northern missouri, and then up into southern sections of iowa. but notice also some showers well to the east in the ohio valley. so even though the center is pretty far back to the west doesn't mean you can't have some showers well ahead of the center. so let's talk about the be

this is the heartland of president assad and his community. there is space to mourn his troops. the syrians who die at their hands do not get that chance. this lieutenant makes his final journey up the steps of his family home. his mother waits. in this war, grief is not just personal. he is not her son, nor mine. his mother is syria, his aunt tells me. as grief wells up, so does anger. "we are good muslims," she shouts. "those who slaughter violate every religion." for many here, this war threatens their very identity. that is why members of this minority sect are ready to defend it and their president with their lives. >> another young man buried him, another soldier dead -- buried, another soldier dead. in villages like this, their support for their president, bashar al-assad, and syria, has not died. >> their are two sides. -- there are two sides. we do not like the conflict. we do not want it. but we do what we are compelled to do. >> syrians are dying everyday. many more on the other side. everyone says they want peace. with each new grade, it seems further away -- new gra

. >>> powerless along the gulf coast as remnants of isaac move through the drought-stricken heartland. why heavy rain turns out to be the last thing they need right now. >>> at risk. thousands of visitors to of the country's most popular tourist spots, warned they may have been exposed to a deadly virus. >>> record highs. gas prices soaring, more expensive on a labor day weekend than ever before. >>> field of dreams with an eye-popping price tag. one high school taking friday night lights to the extreme. >>> good evening. they are the traditional sign posts of summer's last gasp, labor day, back-to-school shopping, the start of college football and in this election year, the start of the two toughest months in politics. this half-time weekend between the republican and democratic conventions has given both mitt romney and president obama plenty to say as they crisscross the country today. romney fresh off his nomination, trumpeting the anti obama themes in this gop convention. the president on the road to charlotte today reminding voters of what republicans didn't talk about. in a mom

the nation's heartland and rocky mountain states. most of the south will stay dry.ted thunderstorms are possible in florida. pacific northwest is also expected to stay dry but smoke from fires in that region will cause air quality problems. in sports this morning they are calling it the immaculate misconception. the controversial decision made by the nfl's replacement referees at the end of monday night's football game is the talk of the country. it's raising questions about the league's lockout of its regular officials and becoming a talking point on the presidential campaign trail. >> reporter: nfl says controversial ruling in monday night's seahawks/packers game will stand, replacement referees made the call in the last seconds of the football game when the seahawks receiver and the packers defender went after the same pass. referees say seahawks caught the ball. but replays show a different story. >> touchdown. >> on tuesday the league admitted a penalty should have been called on the seattle player for pushing. but said the results of the game is final. >> it's

from the northeast today, mid-atlantic, all the way through the middle of the country through the heartland. the green on the m is the rain, white and gray is the clouds. upere in newglanus lin. had a shower moving through maryland just north of d.c. now trying to cross into delaware. just south of pittsburgh, we've had steadier rain. so everyone in the new england area today should have an umbrella with you and the kids, it won't pour all day. it will only be hit and miss showers. pelye he lleumer temperatures won't be too bad, though. it's actually a mild day compared to yesterday. for the heavier rain, we shift into areas of ohio. looks like louisville and kentucky, heavier rain that will shift down on you in the next half hour or so. so if you're lea your house inisville,ouinely ne the umbrella. as we move further to the west, the worst weather in the country looks to be central illinois, 64s crossing 57. mount vernon, a thunderstorm you're dealing with. and further to the west, just light rain for you in in kansas city. but right rough theiddl of crywhre dealing with numerous areas of

shanghai provided access to china's heartland market, and perhaps just as important, access to the well-educatedrk force critical to hi-tech manufacture and development. hsu: the third wave, basically, the i.c.... i.c. industry, and they look for some talented people, engineers, not just for cheap labor. and basically inhina, the chang jiang delta is one of the most developed areas in china, particularly in industry structure and also if you look at education level. okay, so, this area is... is good for marketing and also recruiting engineers. narrator: but the move to shanghai is not just about selling computers. it's about an opportunity presented by something geographer hsu calls the "interface region." "interface region" means... okay, means we have... silicon valley is a socioeconomic space, and china is another one. okay, and taiwan just overlapped these two regions. narrator: in this triangular space connecting silicon valley, taiwan and china lies the prospect of a mutually beneficial exchange of ideas and know-how. and taiwanese firms are uniquely qualified to facilitate that exchange.

the nation's heartland and rocky mountain states. most of the south will stay dry.ted thunderstorms are possible in florida. pacific northwest is also expected to stay dry but smoke from fires in that region will cause air quality problems. in sports this morning they are calling it an immaculate misconception. the controversial decision made by the nfl's replacement referees at the end of monday night's football game is the talk of the country. it's raising questions about the league's lockout of its regular officials and becoming a talking point on the presidential campaign trail. >> reporter: nfl says controversial ruling in monday night's same hawks/packers game will stand, replacement referees made the call in the last seconds of the football game when the seahawks receiver and the packers defender went after the same pass. referees say seahawks caught the play. but replays show a different story. on tuesday the league admit ad penalty should have been called on the seattle player for pushing. but said the results of the game is final. >> it's different era. no

. >> reporter: the nation's heartland has been hit hard by the worst drought on record. isaac's path cut directly through that region bringing much needed rain. in some places such as pine bluff, arkansas too much rain. >> 7 plus inches worth of rain in a very short period of time causing a lot of flooding. >> reporter: it was the opposite problem for the mississippi river -- runoff from isaac's remnants doing little to raise water levels. in missouri and illinois, a mixed blessing. for this corn, it's too little too late. the rains that are coming down now won't make much of a difference because the growing season is nearly over. but it will make a difference for these soybeans. >> maybe up to 5% difference. the soybeans i'm sure will take that up rather quickly and help fill out the seeds. >> reporter: a good start but nowhere near what is needed. >> they'll need steady rains during the cool season, above normal rainfall or precipitation. a good winter snow pack. >> reporter: for now biel will savor what little rainfall he gets. nbc news, belleville, illinois. >>> in c

gwen: the candidates, the polls, the issues, the voters, we are in the heartland tonight. covering the week, charles babington of the associated press, nia-malika henderson of the "washington post." jim tankersley of "national journal" and jeff delaney of the "new york times." >> this is a special election 2012 edition of "washington week with gwen ifill and national journal". public funding for "washington week" in st. louis" is provided by -- >> we know why we're here, to chart a greener path in the air and in our factories. to fund cleaner, more more efficient ways. >> and harness our technology for new energy solutions. >> around the globe, the people of boeing are working together to build a better tomorrow. >> that's why we're here. >> this rock has never stood still. since 1875, we have been there for our clients through good times and bad, when their needs changed, we were there to meet them. through the years from insurance to investment management, from real estate to retirement solutions, we have developed new ideas for the financial challenges ahead. this rock

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job at anticipating patterns associated with this drought that's gripped the world's agricultural heartlands. if patterns have changed, not only will new farming systems and seeds need to be developed, new methods in weather prediction will be also needed. one solution, called "precision agriculture," uses predictive analytics. let's talk with lloyd treinish. he's an ibm scientist & global expert on weather prediction. lloyd, give us the thumbnail explanation for this. > > well, precision agriculture or precision farming is about having better information for farmers to schedule their various operations. weather is a key component of that. the idea is that we connect precise weather forecasts to those farming operations. > > that's the theory, but has it been proven? is it an actual data-crunching system that's being used here? > > well, it's a combination of advanced computing technology from ibm and advanced software, but also sophisticated mathematics and the science behind meteorology. we used data from many sources - data coming from the national weather service, data coming from farms

next week, to the heartland, st. louis, missouri, for a live audience show.oin us then and keep up with live developments with me on the pbs news hour and

well, it's heartland values the work ethic. if you work hard and play by the rules you can get ahead but for too many people that is not happening and it it has to do with who is writing the rules and to whose benefit. and it's crystallized in the choice facing the nation and voters in wisconsin too. >> democrats have been a strong presence in wisconsin and yet governor walker with the moves to tighten up on collective bargaining, there was the effort to recall him from office that did not work. democrats have taken a beating in your state. how do you -- do you view yourself as the underdog fighting back? >> i think of our state as having a long, deeply and evenly divided tradition. if you think about it in the last since 1984, wisconsin has always gone blue in presidential years. but usually by a thread. and i think we are returning to that even division right now. but you are right. we have had a lot of recall races. we've had nonstop elections in the state. one of the things i can say is both parties are as organized as we h

well, it's heartland values the work ethic. if you work hard and play by the rules you can get ahead but for too many people that is not happening and it it has to do with who is writing the rules and to whose benefit. and it's crystallized in the choice facing the nation and voters in wisconsin too. >> democrats have been a strong presence in wisconsin and yet governor walker with the moves to tighten up on collective bargaining, there was the effort to recall him from office that did not work. democrats have taken a beating in your state. how do you -- do you view yourself as the underdog fighting back? >> i think of our state as having a long, deeply and evenly divided tradition. if you think about it in the last since 1984, wisconsin has always gone blue in presidential years. but usually by a thread. and i think we are returning to that even division right now. but you are right. we have had a lot of recall races. we've had nonstop elections in the state. one of the things i can say is both parties are as organized as we h

we'll take some of this rain as we're in a severe drought across the heartland. again, accompanying a severe threat. 72 in billings for friday, still hot hot hot in the southern plains, 87 in louisville. we'll have the 80s and 90s across the east and we'll track this system as it moves that way and brings more scattered showers and storms, unsettled weather for saturday, sunday we trim down, where most of these showers are it clears out in atlanta and places like louisville. monday looking quiet across much of the country from the east to the west. 76 in los angeles and a nice 76 in louisville. still pretty hot and muggy across the gulf coast. here's your tuesday outlook, tuesday a few showers over the colorado rockies. we'll be wautching the tropics, something to tune in for as we track two systems in the atlantic. you can always "wake up with al" and stephanie weekday mornings 6:00 and 10:00 a.m. right here on the weather channel. every time someone chooses finish over cascade, it sparks a movement. look ! no ugly spots ! and see that shine ! you've got to try

a tornado tearing through the heartland. the damage being assessed right now. >>> football fury. fallout ongoing from that blown call monday night. new questions. why were refs fired from lesser leagues allowed to officiate one of the league's biggest nights? >>> and last dance. the first elimination on "dancing with the stars." why is everyone talking about the biebs? >>> good morning, everybody. good to be back. well, all roads on the presidential campaign lead to ohio today. president obama and mitt romney, both return for rallies in the battleground state. >> and it is great to have you back, rob. >> thanks. >> the stakes could not be higher, with the latest polls showing the president pulling ahead among ohio voters. abc's tahman bradley joining us this morning from washington with a preview. good morning, tahman. >> reporter: good morning, paula and rob. this is the first time in two months both president obama and mitt romney will be in the same state at the same time. in fact, they're both holding rallies today at the same time. giving a voters a sense of how crucial ohio

. >>> what's left over from isaac, the storm spinning off tornadoes now across the heartland. this funnel cloud, slicing across arkansas. tonight parts of the midwest and the south facing the threat of even more severe weather. let's bring in abc meteorologist ginger zee. great to have you back on the desk and out of the bad weather but there's lots still out there tonight. >> there is. that tornado there was an ef-d., a pretty intense tornado. we still see the rotation. all relevant, back from illinois, the real threat is for parts of kentucky, central tennessee, northern alabama, and mississippi. that is where we find those outer bands still interacting with other systems. a tornado watch extended till 11:00 p.m. eastern, all those areas in yellow. a lot of big cities. >> and there are others as well? >> right. this is all from yesterday. we know this system is capable of producing tornadoes. this from missouri, an ef-0 rating. doesn't matter. a strong tornado that hits the ground and that's what we're worried about tonight. >> luckily no inries. >>> in the meantime, finally

. >> mostly 70s in the heartland. 80s in the southeast. >>> when we come back, the latest on that breaking news this morning. the big deal between the nfl and its real referees. >>> plus, one of the searing images from last year's occupy protests. students being pepper-sprayed. now, they're about to see a major settlements. >>> also, tense moments on the tarmac at jfk. passengers brace for impact. and then, a sudden turn of events. >>> welcome back on this thursday, everyone. a new round of encouraging news on the housing market. the median price of a new home soared more than 11% between july and august. that's the biggest one-month jump on record against new homes. the price, $256,000 is the highest in almost 5 1/2 years. and the number of new homes on the market was near an all-time low. >>> and speaking of records, a record number of families are dealing with student debt. more than 22 million households, almost one in five, had college loans in 2010. that rate doubled in just 20 years, with college enrollment growing, tuition costs soaring, and more than well-off families taking out p