"my name is jodi williams." >> jodi williams, what role did a pamphlet play if your life?> i was living here in washington, d.c. it was february of 1981, i was rushing to the metro trying to get on the train early and get home to virginia. some scruffy looking individual shoved a policeman threat -- pamphlet at me. you and i are old enough to remember -- the ink came off my hands. i was getting a tad irritated. i looked and it said el salve so when i saw juxtaposition, i was curious and instead of throwing it away, i read it. the next thing i knew a week later i went a meeting. i was stunned to hear about u.s. intervention there. i ended up volunteering shoving those same brochures in to people's hand in d.c. gloition who handed it to you? >> guest: it was an organization. i volunteered for eight months, then decided that our philosophies to dealing with the region were slightly different. i thought since the reagan administration was taking a regional approach to central america, the response should be regional. they didn't share that point view, so i moved on. >> host: w

today, nobel peace prize winner jody williams. won the prize in 1997 for her efforts towards a worldwide ban on landmines. then at 8 p.m. eastern booktv prime time. tonight, the focus is on what booktv viewers are reading this summer. >> over this congressional recess, the service employees international union is lobbying to convince congress to pass immigration reform. this morning from washington to talk with one of the union's leaders about why they're doing that. this is about half an hour. >> host: our focus is immigration and our guest is eliseo medina who is the secretary-treasurer of the service employees international union. thanks so much for being with us. >> guest: thank you so much for having me. >> host: as a look at the debate over immigration and it is front and center in the august recess as members of congress traveled to the respective states and congressional districts, what do you think the immigration bill needs to include? what would it look like? >> guest: i think what we need to do is have a bill that woul

today, jody williams won the nobel peace prize in 1970 -- 1997, her efforts on getting a worldwide ban on landmines. then at 8 p.m. eastern, booktv in prime time. the focus is on what booktv viewers are reading this summer. tonight on c-span's town hall, a look at how the media handles war. we'll take your calls, e-mails and suites under in -- tweets. it begins at 7 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> tomorrow night on c-span's encore presentation of first ladies,. >> if you invite a guest of the medicines are part of the intimate circle of family and friends who would be invited into the dining room from the drawing room. and here, dolly madison would in an unusual setting for the period with said at the head of the table. her husband, james, would sit at the center of the table. dollywood direct the conversation and james would be able to engage in intimate or lively conversation with people to his immediate right and left. this table the day is set for eight people, but there could be as many as 20 people served in the dining room. that was not -- that would not be unusual. the only medicine

jane velez-mitchell is author of a brand-new book "exposed brand-new life of jodi arias." >>> did you watch prince william dad. we'll hear more of it. first, let's get the news from michaela. >> look at the news developing this hour. stalled front will bring more rain from the gulf up through the carolinas and more rain in the forecast and that means more flash flooding for some already hard hit areas. gulfport, mississippi, slammed with more than a foot of rain leaving a church parking lot flooded out following sunday services. >>> olympic sprinter oscar pistorius charged with preita premeditated death. he was indicted on what would have been reeva steenkamp's 30th birthday. his trial scheduled to begin next year. >>> hosni mubarak has been acquitted in one case against him and remains in custody facing his most serious charge related to the deadly crackdown this spring. putting the u.s. and europe in the difficult position of reevaluating aid. >>> army private bradley manning could learn today just how much time he will spend in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wikilea