kansas did not earn the name what he kansas by accident. when the kansas-nebraska act was signed in 1854, the very act of just signing that piece of paper was viewed by missouri as an act of war. from the very beginning, every colony, all those original colonies assumed what was to the west of them was theirs. virginia settled kentucky, settled missouri. with that settlement went the mores of the culture and the values, the same from north to south. it was assumed that missouri would settle kansas, making it a slave state. seenansas-nebraska act was as a pro-southern act. it was viewed as a proslavery act. when northerners decided popular sovereignty will decide the fate of kansas, we are going to send people to settle. that was viewed as an act of war by many missourians who assumed that had it would be theirs. it is so important to note that before there is a slave or issue in kansas, there is economic opportunity. nobody would have cared. nobody would have come had there not been economic opportunity in kansas. we look at the wide open s

his travels in the kansas territory. up next on the c-span cities to work, a state archivist reads portions of samuel reader's diary. michael: samuel reader was a kansas pioneer, farmer, soldier, artist and photographer, among many other things. he capped a daily -- kept a daily journal from 1849 to 1913, from age 13 to 878, i believe. the diary was donated to the society by his daughter right after his death in 1914. he created 15 journals over his life, but we only received 13 because in 1890's farmhouse burned and they were only able to save 13 of the journals. two, volume one and four, perished in the fire. he was influenced by the reading of journals of the lewis and clark definition. he wanted to keep a journal like they did and was interested in the illustrations. he wanted to illustrate too. 1849aily journals began in and proceeded his whole life until 1913 and he became too sick to continue. these are the diaries we have. have items ofs particular interest. example, is, for the most lavishly illustrated volume a

visit of the evening by kansas city. so far in the first three tritches, three points and two -- trips, three points and two giveaways. so the broncos down to one time-out. phil: a couple of ways to play this. i would think gary kubiak, if they run the football, is going to call a time-out immediately. that would be their last time-out. then the two-minute warning. they would give peyton manning, if you hold them to a field goal, enough time to drive this team in field goal position. jim: second and goal. knile davis. knile davis to the end zone for the touchdown! phil: alex smith almost falls down. dangerous handoff but like lsh look at this side. demarcus ware up the field. everybody else goes inside so there is nobody there to block. jim: he got tripped up trying to come back out of center but it's an eight-yard untouched touchdown scamper by knile davis. no mistake in the red zone on this occasion. on red thursday in kansas city. extra point, again this year, from 33 yards out. look at bruton go over the top. phil: h

kansas city once again, good field position. i mean, jim, the chiefs -- if they don't win this game -- they've had so many chances tonight where they've had everything going their way. field position, momentum and they squander it, make a big mistake, call the wrong play. of course, giving credit, too, to the broncos hanging in there and changing their offense and finding a way to score some points -- points. jim: the markoff puts the ball all the way up to the 39. charles surround by three broncos this time. including sylvester williams. phil: he was going to break outside but danny tremendous vathen came out of nowhere and made -- trevathan came out of nowhere and go back inside. jim: chiefs about 25 yard away from being in field goal position. second and 9. it's kelce. he has the catch and he's got all kinds of running room. down to the 27. phil: almost looked like the same play that we saw from o'shaunessy. it's a blitz and bruton, number 30. kind of goes for the play. goes underneath. again, when it's a blitz, cover your gu

kansas city once again, good field position. i mean, jim, the chiefs -- if they don't win this game -- they've had so many chances tonight where they've had everything going their way. field position, momentum and they squander it, make a big mistake, call the wrong play. of course, giving credit, too, to the broncos hanging in there and changing their offense and finding a way to score some points -- points. jim: the markoff puts the ball all the way up to the 39. charles surrounded by three broncos this time. including sylvester williams. phil: he was going to break outside but danny tremendous vathen came out of nowhere and made -- trevathan came out of nowhere and go back inside. jim: chiefs about 25 yard away from being in field goal position. second and 9. it's kelce. he has the catch and he's got all kinds of running room. down to the 27. phil: almost looked like the same play that we saw from o'shaunessy. it's a blitz and bruton, number 30. kind of goes for the play. goes underneath. again, when it's a blitz, cover your

kansas the fines that. it is all hammered out here in kansas. kansans are the ones who do find it after the war. after the homestead act is enacted, you have all these civil war soldiers moving to kansas. it becomes known as the soldier state. we are the soldier state long before we are the sunflower state because of all these civil war veterans coming west. i don't think you can overstate the role of kansas. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> we continue with d.w. carter, author of "mayday over wichita: the worst military aviation disaster in kansas history." it is about the 1965 crash ofan air force tanker into an african-american neighborhood in wichita. the crash killed the plane's seven crew members and 23 people on the ground. all of a sudden the house was shaking and i looked out the window and the house was on fire and i raced downstairs to get my sisters and brothers. i came do

there we are near seneca kansas. this is the pony express highway highway 36 and i like this picture with the truck in it because it shows you the oregon trail. it's actually the saint joe road here but that's what it looked like. there we are, that's next jack russell terrier olive oil who was the hit of the trip. we would give them a lecture about the covered wagon and they would say can we play with olive oil now? once we got further out west she would run circles around me. another shot of us going along. this is some people who want to talk to us at the side of the road. der oregon trail people here. this is the view. this is the over the ear's view. this picture expresses collaborating dna but the reason this picture significant is a place at rutland station -- rutledge station and extreme southeastern nebraska. we can't in places like this all the way across. this is rock creek station originally a pioneering camp meant. then became a pony express and stagecoach stop. it was visited by a famous place all of th

lucky for you, kansas.e on the show we reported on what appeared to be not just the single most radical thing that sam brownback had tried yet, as far as i can tell it is the single most radical thing tried in any state in the country by anyone for years. because what he did in june is that he signed a law which told judges in the kansas state court system how he wanted them to rule on a particular case. unless the courts ruled the way he told them to rule, he said he would abolish the whole court system. he would completely defund the kansas judiciary unless they ruled the way he wanted to on this case. enjoy your judicial independence. >> on that case a kansas judge issued the ruling and surprise, surprise, he did not rule the way sam brownback instructed him to rule. now there is a crisis in kansas. as soon as this judge made the ruling an he ruled contrary to how sam brownback told him to rule, this law says the court system has to be shut down. the court system loses its funding as a consequence of the

i think the people who live here are very aware of their role in preserving kansas history. they take very good care of the house. it is a very good library-slas h-museum open to the public. >> as we continue our tour of the literary life of topeka, we hear from the readership of 12 million people. for,ss clementina paddled devoteddle furred was tos paddleford was dedicated boutng, writing, and going a food. the name of the book is hometown at the tide. clementina paddled paddleford. clementina -- paddleford was a woman before her time. she knew at an early age that she wanted to be a journalist, but not an assistant journalist. she wanted to be a famous journalist. and she was in 1898 graduated with a degree in industrial journalism from kansas state university in 1921, she knew that she would have to go to new york to become famous. she also knew that journalists. -- she alsow that knew that journalism was a man's world. that was going to be a big challenge during the 1920's. clementine was head of the home development section of the "christian herald." during this time, c

he recruited someone to bomb the event in kansas city, the kansas city stair climb. he thought he was communicating with someone sympathetic to his cause but it was an fbi informant and it was being recorded. he encouraged him to build a pressure cooker bomb similar to the one used in the boston marathon bombing. if convicted he could get up to 20 years behind bars. >> let me ask you. isis has carried out a --

thank you for welcoming me to do kansas city. want to particularly thank you and i imagine you been from kansas city is legendary to promote books or take others they have not heard of yet been do just a wonderful job to promote them to hold events like this to a large crowd. i am thinking of them and all the name of independent bookstores in small towns and resorts and places like to go with the bookstore to be the spiritual anchor. i thought i would tell you how i got involved in this book and how what happened. five for six years ago i was working on a journalism peace and i decided to go up to see the flint hills. with quite a history with many other civil war or mexican war general start. so the part of the country thought was beautiful and significant but i had not been there. i was looking just outside washington kansas near the station it is a convenience store and i became mesmerized and fascinated by the trail. one and the motive that draws me to it is the real history that i discovered in the trail journals and by some

it lead to better prosperity in kansas. i don't think it's a problem. >> what are you saying, in the early innings of seeing what happens in kansas, louisiana. >> of course, these things take time. like anything, it takes a lot of time to take prosperity and destroy it. look at detroit. when romney put in the income fax in michigan. they were a prosperous state. look at them. it took four or five, 50 years to destroy it. >> they did it. if you watched for the migration from california, and the slow down of growth. california is no longer the grown state. it's having a lot of problems. >> last night in the debate we heard a lot of people talking about - a few people talking about equality. conservatives are saying it's time for a change, bringing relief to the middle class. what do you think about that. >> i think there's a lot more than just tax cuts. obviously tax cuts are 50%, 14" of income. it's a big issue. if you tax people who work, and pay people who don't, don't be surprised if a lot of people do not work. what you

wonderful kansas city weather out there. i was worried about you people with snow and how i have to be worried about you with torrential downpours. it is so good to be back. it is so good to be back. it is always a lot of fun to come back from casanovia college, in upstate new york, where the snow comes and comes and comes. it is wonderful to come from here to here. this is one of the best venues to speak in the entire country y. the truman forum room has the wonderful ability to be scholarly and intimate at the same time. coming here to the truman forum is something i look forward to every single year. we started talking about this talk, henry and i, six or seven months ago. for anybody in the pr business, you know when you get invited someplace, they immediately want a blurb about what you will talk about. this is six months before. i came up with this concept, talking about the myths that persist about the 1952 presidential race. i had no idea what i was going to say about them six months ago, but i kept this idea of myth

welcome to kansas city public library. i'm director of kansas city public library, pleasure to have you here tonight to prove once again, the library represents all political views. tonight it is as always of pleasure for me to introduce my longtime friend jack cashill. we have known each other almost since he was in short pants in new jersey where he was born a little bit after a graduated from siena college and got his ph.d. at perdue and american studies. the only dissertation that actually defended the notion of american capitalism in american fiction because there is no american capitalism in american fiction. jack and i something like 35 years ago founded something jack named the boosters club which was a political discussion club in which jack ran for a number of years when i escaped from the city briefly and he has always been provocative which i admire about him. we agree about lot of things, we disagree about some. last time i introduced jack, in his book about president obama's writing, he tried to prove bill ay

. >>> kansas governor sam brownback is known for blowing up the finances of the state of kansas.lled a real live experiment in conservative economics. so far the results of that economic experiment include kansas having its credit rating downgraded multiple times and some kansas school districts having to shut down early because they ran out of money before the end of the school year. governor sam brownback came in as a proud radical conservative ready to experiment, lucky for you kansas. but in june, here on this show we reported on what appeared to be not just the single most radical filed an emergency motion and got the judge to stay his ruling. they are going to appeal to the state supreme court. if the entire judiciary gets shut down there is not going to be a kansas supreme court to appeal to. they are getting rid of it. even the lawyer who won the case agreed to put his victory on hold. as he said quote an independent branch of government would have ceased to exist. if the kansas supreme court keeps its funding long enough to hear the appeal of this case there is also the

and welcome to kansas city public library. i'm the director of the kansas city public library and it's a pleasure to have you here tonight. to prove to you once again the kansas city public library represents all political views and tonight it's always -- it is as always a pressure for me to introduce my long-time friend jack cashill. jack and i i have known each other almost since he was in short pants, in newark, new jersey, where he was born a little bit after he graduated from siena college and got his ph.d at purdue in american studies. i think the only dissertation that defended the notion of american capitalism and american fiction, which is hard to do because is no american capitalism in american fiction. jack and i something like 35 years ago, founded something -- the zenith boosters club, political discussion club in which jack then ran for a number of years when i escaped from the city briefly. and always has been provocateur. the last tomb i introduced jack i said in his book about president obama's writing, that h

director for k state's game against kansas in november. going on? >> who cares ? >> all i saw was the enterprise. what did you see? >> i saw a duck succeeding off the enterprise. who cares? it is a college football game. everyone is drunk and they are about to do terrible things in their dorm rooms with one another. if thig they are -- if anything it is a band of art. they did a great job. i can't walk in a line like that in unity with other people. that was straight out of north korea. >> all i see is the enterprise. i don't even know what they are talking about. >> i can't make any sense out of what is going on there whatsoever, but i will say that the enterprise has a lot more important things to do than might the jayhawks. they have to introduce the declaration of independence to some people. the enterprise is a busy, busy space ship. >> jedediah, you love nerds. is john moore attractive to you now? >> i am trying to control myself. there is somebody between us. i think people see where their mind is. if you are prone to having a filth

referring to terry nickels that was supposed to meet up early that morning at their storage space in kansas. nickels seems to have abandoned his friend at the most crucial moment. this leaves mcveigh with the back-breaking task of loading the truck himself. >> he is transferring sack after sack after sack, these 50-pound sacks of fertilizer and fuel up the ramp into the ryder truck. the weight involved in actually doing this bomb building is enormous. >> after mcveigh has almost finished loading the truck, nickels finally shows up to help. >> there was just no turning back at this point. no cold feet. terry nickels was fully on board. >> mcveigh is furious but this is no time for emotion. nickels jumps in and helps transport the remainder of the material from the storage unit into the truck. they then go to a nearby locations mcveigh found to build the bomb. >> mcveigh has been looking for sometime for a place where he can build the the bomb without being spotted. ultimately, he chooses this place, a little park called gary lake. it's fairly remote, although not all that remote. >> gary lak

all of her papers want to kansas state university when she died and for all reasons, they had no archives. these papers went into storage and they did not come out of storage until 2001. i would like for people to know about clementine as a person who definitely was a pioneer, someone way before her time that pave the way for women into journalism, in general is in journalism. period.in journalism she did become a famous food writer she always wanted to become. the c-span out city's tour of the literary life of topeka with a trip to lawrence, kansas, 30 miles west. donald hader markle about his book "transgender rights in politics." >> traditionally when you think about lgbt writes, you think .bout discrimination as these laws have been considered, often times to include language like gender identity, many people believe that would be a poison pill addition to legislation, that it would kill any chances that bill could pass if you were to pass -- attached terms like gender identity to it. whether that is true isn't clear but it meant most of the time that language was not included or fail

take vo los kansas city chiefs se enfrentaron a los broncos de denver.. los detalles en deportes. el deportivo blanca ♪ ♪ crece conmigo ♪ y sigamos el mismo camino ♪ tú y yo ♪ ♪ crece conmigo ♪ y sigamos el mismo camino ♪ y será lo mejor ♪ tú y yo ♪ gabriel blanca, cesar, arranco la segunda joranda de la nfl con el partido de jueves porla noche entre los broncos de denver y los jefes de kansas city.. take vo vo agarramos la accion en el ultimo cuarto. los broncos se encontraban abajo en el marcador 17 a 24. peyton manning conecto con emmanuel sanders para una anotacion de 19 yardas despues jamaal charles con su segundo balon suelto de la noche le costo el juego a su equipo. bradley roby lo regreso 21 yardas para dejar el marcador final de 31 a 24. vamos a ver a los compromisos para los equipos de la bahia esta joranda. take gfx gfx primero juegan los 49ers, estaran visitando a los pisttburg stellers que perdieron su juego ante los patriots. por su parte losniners llegan sin reggie bush que estara fuera por lesion. por otro lado los raiders juegan mas tarde, ellos estaran en casa n

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los habitantes de kansas y di preocupa que este tipo de de hechos violentos se han vuelto repetitivosgrantes es agridulce porque aÚn permanecen bajo vigilancia todavÍa se enfrentan con la amenaza de deportaciÓn. vamos con salvador durÁn. salvador: el servicio de inmigraciÓn empezó aliberar grupos de madres con sus hijos menores de edad. estas madres que corrieron un terrible camino para llegar a los estados unidos pasaron la noche en este lugar para luego reunirse con sus familiares. >>esto es un paso para la libertad. pero si es para proteger la vida de mi niÑa y la mÍa lo volvería a hacer. tras ser detenidos por meses disfrutaron de su primera cena en libertad salvador: ahora que los niÑos estÁn con sus madres llegarán a diversos estados de la naciÓn. aunque sienten alivio algunas madres dice que su libertad es a medias porque las autoridades migratorias las obligan a todas a usar un rastreador electrÓnico. madre: en nuestro caso o nos obligan a usar esto... salvador: el servicio de migraciÓn dijo a univisión que los grilletes no son una medida disciplinaria sino que buscan garantiz

in kansas city until the fourth awe. >> good evening.t one point it looked like hunter had a really bright future with the 49ers but acl injury appears to have ended the prospects. hunter was waived by the niners and reached injury settlement and the tail back wilnol er be with the team. on injured reserve list and team could have brought him back after week 6. not the same explosion or quickness after come from the tear. so instantly now a free agent if he doesn't sign with anybody else and still possible he could come back to the red and gold t.wild finish in kc tonight. thursday nature football broncos and chiefs up 7 nothing. peyton manning intercepted by marcus peters and take back 55 yards. 14 nothing kansas city and people say oh, he's done. lollipop arm and all of. that hang on. late fourth quarter. broncos down z.zipping it in to sanders for 19 yard touch down with 36 seconds left. chiefs don't kneel take it to over time. the what have could happy fumble. scoop up by bradley about robe. scoop and score and that is the game winne

joshua goldberg planned an attack on an event in kansas city. federal documents show goldberg spoke with an informant online about his plan and said he was thinking of using pipe bombs, also planning to use rat poison to inflict more casualties. >> the very idea that someone would use rat poison in constructing a bomb shows that the intention is to be more vicious than it might otherwise appear. >> josh goldberg is now under arrest. a again-year-old from orange -- a 20 year-old from orange park florida is facing a possible 20 years in federal prison. >>> stephanie rawlings-blake will be causing it quits after her term. she will not be running for reelection. she says she wants to focus instead on preparing the city for the upcoming trials of the six police officers charged in the fredz di gray case -- freddie gray case. the mayor also says she will spend the next 15 months on the city's recovery effort in the aftermath of the spring's riots. >>> a man is fighting for his life after being hit by a vehicle in bowie. sky 9 flew over the scene at an

look at video out of kansas a little earlier and did spark a tornado. it made its way through the hillsdale kansas area and a campground there. amazing footage of that tornado came in earlier today. been kind of quiet around the country and today we had severe weather. that same front will make its way and help produce shower activity. overnight, 50s to mid-60s. 65 in annapolis. a very nice start to our saturday. tomorrow afternoon plenty of sunshine and it will get warm if not hot. 88 in leesburg and it will be humid. washing the car showersibly monday and tuesday, you might not want to do that in the yellow. redskins game not bad breezy and cooler. and evening jog. we have the cold front that moves through. something else going on. andrews air force base. thunderbirds comeing in right by us. hot and a bid humid. high in the upper 80s. that was nice right? >> nice sound effects. >> bring an umbrella for shade. i mentioned that flow, high pressure moving off the coast. that will allow the area of low pressure to the south to move up. because of that we

of on top of kansas city tonight monday at the ball with seven biff about football fans go across the bay raiders for the first time. since 2013 won a game on the road and have big-league this one out to the finished against the cleveland browns nonetheless

welcome to the kansas city public library. it's a pleasure to have you here tonight to prove to be once again the kansas city public library represent all political views. and tonight it is as always a pleasure for me to introduce my longtime friend. we've known each other almost since he was in short pants in new york new jersey where he was born a little bit after he graduated from siena college. the only dissertation that affected the notion of the capitalism which is hard to do because there is no american capitalism something like 35 years ago jack sounded something and being that the booster club which he ran for a number of years when he skipped from the city briefly. he's always been a provocateur which i've admired about him. we disagree about some things. the last time i introduced him i said about president obama but he tried to prove that bill ayers and the radical had actually written the author biography. some of the things he's been writing lately i occasionally have my disagreements. whether people should be re

. >> more than 5 inches fell north of kansas city leaving scenes like this, cars stranded in flooded streets. also reports of downed trees and power lines. >> take a look at this. the scene overnight at kansas state, the water rushing down those steps at one of the university's buildings. another showing a classroom with water surrounding the desks. >> that system is on the move in the central plains, radar showing it stretching across several states, damaging wins and major flooding still possible for areas in its path. >>> looking at the northeast most of the rain moving out from d.c. to new york but rain still likely from boston to maine. >>> happening now on the west coast a fire exploding in size, southeast of sacramento, california, flames scorched 15,000 acres. evacuation orders are in effect. eight buildings have been lost. more than 10,000 customers have lost power and schools across the area are closed. unclear how the fire started. >>> as the nation marks the solemn anniversary of 9/11 new security threats this morning, al qaeda calling for the assassination of top u.s. bu

city, kansas. at a campground and in the chicago area, streets were flooded after heavy rain last night. some drivers were stranded in lake forest and other places. >>> pope francis' historic journey to cuba is now underway. it's the initial stop on a tour that will include his first visit to this country. francis left rome for havana and among other things he will meet with president raul castro. president obama spoke with castro on friday about progress in normalizing relations between cuba and the u.s. that the pope helped to advance. >> then the pope will fly to washington on tuesday for a meeting with president obama and an appearance before a joint meeting of congress. he arrives in new york on thursday and wraps up his visit in philadelphia next weekend. allen pizzey is traveling with the pope and filed this report from rome. >> reporter: the flight aboard the plane shepherd one kicks off a trip that is complex, an understatement of the first order. pope francis will fly for 29 hours over a

kansas city, it's a tough one to lose. it will hang over them for the year. jim: five turnovers for the chiefs and the broncos comes up with a game-winning touchdown on defense. final thought from you. phil: the broncos, even though -- the defense is fast, they're going to be a tough team no matter how the offense plays because their defense can make big plays, like we've seen. jim: so the broncos take this one 31-24. coming up next on cbs, your local news except on the west coast. don't miss the late show with stephen colbert followed by "the late late show" with james corden. tonight only cbs. for more fble, the "the mazda postgame show" continues on nfl network. phil, look forward to seeing you next week for the giants and redskins. what a way to start our "thursday night football" package. thanks for watching "the mazda postgame show" from kansas city. you fifteen percent or more on huh, fiftcar insurance.uld save yeah, everybody knows that. well, did you know that playing cards with kenny rogers gets old pretty fast? ♪ you got to know when to hold'em. ♪

he recruited someone to bomb the event in kansas city, the kansas city stair climb. he thought he was communicating with someone sympathetic to his cause but it was an fbi informant and it was being recorded. he encouraged him to build a pressure cooker bomb similar to the one used in the boston marathon bombing. if convicted he could get up to 20 years behind bars. >> let me ask you. isis has carried out a -- >> it's something law enforcement is looking into. isis has made these claims before and a lot of the information they're claiming to obtain is actually public information but in july fbi director james comey told us they had picked up signs of terrorists having an increasing interest in using cyber as a weapon of attack. norah? >> thank you so much. people across the nation will pause today to remember the victims of the september 11th attacks. people are already gathering in lower manhattan where 2,700 people were killed in the attack. this morning a giant flag was draped over the pentagon. more than 108 people died there. the obama will join staff on the whi

hold of oklahoma and kansas. chicago i don't tell hammered with three -- chicago got hammered with 3 or 4 rounds. she had flooding. that was an issue yesterday. this front pushing through in chicago, much midwest will be severe weather free and much, much cooler and drier. very pleasant temperatures in the 60s and 70s. out west, the heat will rebuild over the next several days. you had a nice little cool shot to give the firefighters a break. fire danger will be an issue going through the next several days. thunderstorms across central u.s. and parts of florida fin unseasonable warm across northeast. enjoy your summer saturday. that's a check on the national outlook, here's what's shaking locally. >> reporter: good morning, everyone, i'm meteorologist chris sowers with the accuweather update. the cold front will swing through the delaware valley and cool us down in the seven day forecast. in the meantime we have patchy fog and showers across cape may county east of morris town and off the coast of stone harbor an

. >> too bad the good folks at kqtv outside kansas city, missouri, missed that show.t a month later, they too will endure the kenny strasser experience. >> thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> may 2010. kyle martin and arion jenkins are the anchors and producers of "hometown this morning." >> we kind of have a lot of freedom doing the morning show. it was a lot of fun. >> small market. we're limited to so many resources. >> so when a yo-yo champion passes through the area, pitches himself to the show, they jump on it. >> i do remember some e-mails that were going back and forth through kyle and i with the company zim-zam productions. we thought it was a legitimate company. >> but when k-strass shows up on the set, the red flags start flying. >> he comes walking down the stairs getting ready to go on and i saw him and i was like, his outfit. >> i'll never forget that yellow hat. those green shorts. >> you go around to schools. >> and the suspenders. >> not only is the outfit outlandish, but so is k-strass. >> so we went on the air and i thought he was for real. >> in

we now return to "confessions of btk." >> january, 2004 in wichita, kansas. dennis rader was 58.ing in the house on independence street still a compliance officer for park city. still an active member of the christ lutheran church. he was married 32 years. his son and daughter were all grown up now. the other dennis rader, the brutal strangler who so far got away with all those murders all that time and hasn't been heard from in 25 years. >> he was going to go off the face of the earth. >> or so he says, soon enough an excuse to grab the limelight. the wichita eagle published an article about the mysterious killer known by the name he had given himself, btk for bind, for sure and kim and committed his first murders 30 years earlier. it was year ago he found his exploits weren't first page anywhere. he says it all made him feelichy. >> zpi read that in the paper. i always thought, i like it. but should i? and i think i reached a point in life the kids were gone, i was kind of bored. >> and something else, rader knew a local lawyer was writing a book about him or about btk, that is

and that early club scene, we opened the mud club, we played cbgb's, max's kansas city, hoorah's, uh it was so exciting cause other bands, you know, uh, blondie, devo, talking heads, you know we were all like, they came to see us and it started this buzz, yeah, and they were like and patty smith and all those that were punk, the ramons, you know were our icons. and when we started we weren't that aware. i mean we were in our own athens bubble, so we started writing, it was just, i think that's why we were so different. we didn't really have a prototype exactly to follow, which is like our crazy blend of everyone's personalities into a genie in the bottle brew, so um, when we went to new york, that was very friendly, you know debbie harry and chris stein invited us to their apartment, and we saw their gold records like um, on the floor, sort of leaning against the wall and we're like whoa, so it was very exciting to meet all those other bands and have them be supportive. it wasn't a rivalry, and also people started dancing. and that wasn't typical. a lot of people were leaning against

area in yellow, kansas city, columbia, through st.lin, springfield, almost to oklahoma city. about 6 million people are at risk of severe weather today. we may see an isolated tornado or two. we'll keep an eye on that. that will be late this afternoon. as far as your friday forecast goes it still feels like summer. almost 100 degrees today in dallas. 94, oklahoma city. on the east coast, another beautiful morning, low humidity and this afternoon is perfect. temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. humidity is so low it really feels comfortable. then your weekend forecast. fall begins to slowly take over. temperatures really dive from st. louis and oklahoma city, instead of 90s, you're in the 70s. east coast gets another fantastic day. not a lot of bad weather out there. for the people who are going to do the soccer stuff and activities with kids outdoor, saturday you're fine. friday night football looks great. sunday for the nfl games, what a great ending to our summer temperatures comfortable 70s and refreshing air. i mean this is quite

kansas city royals:ed much the al central. they beat the mariners 10-4 giving them the title.t is first division title since way back in 1985. they won the al west and went on to win only world series championship. >>> last night the first yankees home game since yogi berra died. manager joe gerardi placed a wreath at home plate. yankees beat the white socks, 3-2. carlos beltran hit a big three-run homer. jason day was favorite to win the season long fedex cup. he may have a fight on his hands. hendrick stenson shot a 7 under 63. a win by ten ton or any other player will win the cup. 30 million-dollar bonus goes to the winner of the cup. does every shot count. nicole: i love to watch the ball go straight into the cup. fed chair janet yellen held firm on a interest rate hike. >> most of my colleagues and i anticipate economic conditions are likely to require raising of interest rates over quite gradual pace over the next few years. nicole: the fed chair did falter at end of her speech. she was helped off the stage. we'll have details. investors believe the fed chair's comments,

her career has included serving as president of the kauffman center for the performing arts in kansas city, and as executive at the kauffman fund she served as the vice president of external relations for the union station kansas city. the national gun of the arts after serving as the nda acting top executive. as the chairman, jane chu said she wants to continue the conversation about the importance of the arts and arts education. with the shifting demographics of america this is a great opportunity for the arts to the epicenter. she also said that art is an equalizer. please join me for the national press club welcomed his duty to jane chu, national endowment. [applause] thank you for joining us online to kick off the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the national endowment of the arts. i want to acknowledge a few special guests that are sitting at the table that have been called out and are helping here to celebrate our milestone. abel lopez associate producing director of the hispanic theater, the latino hispanic theater is located here in washington, d.c. and is a longtime

. >> check out farmer on a drone in kansas. he actually caught this fish. >> a topless street performer got busted by nypd. this is the area where it went down near times square. they offered cocaine to a police officer late sunday night. it was there when it all came to an and at the hotel. they put handcuffs on her and her friends. regulars had been waiting for her. >> the mayors complemented these efforts by offering regulatory solutions. i spoke with others who are proud of what they're doing. >> maybe they don't want to show their breasts all the way. that's okay. >> it's weird because those girls usually don't come out here that early. >> i'm asking councilmembers for their reaction i'll update you when i get there information. >> so they're getting busted for prostitutes and cocaine. at the end of the day prostitution is illegal, going topless any where in time city is legal. >> coming time spent with those women, and why did i have to allegedly offer herself. tours were taking pictures of these naked women, they were pr

there was no injuries or damage. >>> south of kansas city kansas friday night, there were some minor injuries at the campground. and in the chicago area, streets for flooded after heavy rain last night. some drivers were stranded in lake forest and other place. journey to cuba is now under way. it will also include his trip to this country. president obama spoke by telephone to president castro on friday about progress in normalizing relations between cuba and the u.s. that the pope helped to advance. >> from cuba the pope will fly to washington on tuesday for a meeting with president obama. and an appearance before a joint meeting of congress. he arrived in new york on thursday and wraps up his visit in philadelphia next weekend. allen pizzi is traveling with the pope and filed this report. >> reporter: the flight aboard the plane kicks off a trip the vatican describes as complex. pope francis will fly for 29 hours over a distance of 11.5 thousand miles. visiting six cities. he'll make 26 speech, four of them in english. the welcome at his first stop, havana, is expected to be more

it's like a sea of flowers and it's attracting a big crowd and kansas.been growing sun flowers for about 30 years. look at how beautiful. they're like huge. more than -- huge. >> 10,000 visitors came to see them in 2014. and the popularity of that sunflower patch if you want to call eight patch because that's a really big patch is growing year after year after year. just like all those sun flowers. >> sunflower maze. >> ooh, you could do a sunflower maze. >> i would ab billionaire. >> that's not a bad idea. >> cool getting stuck it in, would be fun. >> like the corn corn mazes, yeah. there you go. what's not going to be fun is the massive amount of sun beating down on us around here. >> no snow. >> snow sounds refreshing. which would you want the sun or the snow. >> i like both. i do like both. >> i do, too. a little bit of a mix. look it will be hot. the kids are going back to school. >> that's what i worry about. >>> i do, too. 88 degrees today. just a taste of what is on the horizon. you know lucy it should be 81 this time of the year so we're running