the kansas nebraska act as central and the reason for that is the kansas nebraska act is 1854. it passes in 1854 and it's enormously important because it's an act that passes congress that condenses northern man on the make that there is the slave power, that the country really is in danger of falling under the power of a very small class of slaveowners who are going to monopolize the executive and legislative branch and with the passage of the kansas nebraska act which negates the missouri compromise they had previously guaranteed that the northwest, a huge huge piece of land would stay free and be accessible but that's now going to be open to slavery and like it says it's only a hop skip and a jump until slavery is national. as the passage of the kansas nebraska act passing the senate in may of 1854 there's this really cool meeting that takes place in washington in the rooms of edward dickinson from massachusetts and another member of the house of representatives. he's a fun character because his daughters emily dickinson who visits her father sometimes in washington. they ma

the kansas nebraska act is central and the reason for that is the kansas nebraska act is 1854. it passes in the spring of 1854 and it's anonymously important because it is the act that passes congress that condenses northern man, north and men on the make that there is the slave power that you mention, that the country really is in danger of falling into the power of a very small class of slaveowners who are going to monopolize the executive legislative branch and the court and it passes the nebraska act which negates the compromise that guaranteed that the northwest a huge huge piece of land would stay free and be accessible to poor man. that is now going to deal with slavery and lincoln said it's only a hop skip and jump until slavery is national. after the passage of the kansas nebraska act to the house of representatives in may of 1854, the people point to wisconsin's birthers is this really cool meeting that takes place in washington in the rooms of edward dickinson from massachusetts and another member of the house of representatives and he is a fun character because his

what role did the kansas and nebraska act play in that? >> it is my favorite event in american history, the first i ever memorized, one of the fewer canallers come up with the reasons for that is the kansas and nebraska act july 1854. it is enormously important because it is the act that passes congress that convinces north man on the make that there is a slave power. under the power of of very small class of slave owners were going to monopolize the executive, legislative and the court. and with the passage of the kansas nebraska act which negates the missouri compromise which had previously guarantee that the northwest to my huge, huge piece of land was stay free. so the passage of the kansas and nebraska act to the house of representatives in may of 1854, bears is really cool meeting that takes place in washington. the rooms, and another member of the house of representatives. he's a fine character. this is a father sometimes. then me in their rooms. they actually picked up room because that boarding house has the best food in washington

we had gul ball size hail across kansas, nebraska, shifting east tomorrow. with the moisture from the south, flooding is possible. flash flooding and general river flooding could be an issue throughout the day on thursday and friday over this area. 2-4 inches of rain look to be coming done as the storm pushes eased. >> thursday and friday it pushes across the east coast, bringing in cooler air, a big drop in temperatures you'll notice, especially over the northern plains by the weekend. >>> curious visitors turned occupy on the coast of alaska. thousands of walruses crowded on to the shore. the reason to celebrate is not something to celebrate. >> no, it's not something to celebrate. they are headed to the shore, largely because they have no choice. it's a symbol of the changing climate. >> reporter: the photo shows 35,000 wall are youses crowding the -- walruses crowding the coast. the walrus resist have to come because there's not enough life at sea. >> this is an historic moment for the arctic, because of the change in the sea ice. essentially in 20-30 ye

he's not planning to run but focused on the midterpands plans to travel to kansas and nebraska and northolina and georgia before election day. this is molly line fox news. >>> the balance of pour in the senate on the line, one of the closest watches is in colorado. we focus on the race and the path to the american dream. it is a dream that is seemingly out of reach. can the dream be realized and which candidate will help? >> all of the people trying to make a better life are entitled to an american dream. it is not only america but the world. >> they should specify who comes in and pay taxes. >> reporter: they are trying to expand their business and they want a candidate to make it possible. >> can you replicate it at another store and keep the range back and control everything. that is some of the things about government. it gets bigger and bigger and harder to keep in check. >> american dream on the ballot anchored by bret baier. two california brothers create an amazing field of treme for halloween fun seekers. we'll check out the world's biggest corn maze. i'm an idaho potato farmer

louis, to just the 40's, and 30's, back through nebraska, kansas, and the list goes on, where it is so much chillier behind that first front, and there is another one that's going to come along and reinforce the chill for thus weekends. quick check on the pollen report, no worries, ragweed still the issue, 1.1 the level here today, the highest we'll finds, then the levels just stay really really low. i mean, at this point of the year, pollen just doesn't become too much of an issue for us. seventy-five, 75 degrees, though, later today, what a great excuse to get outside. your a talking 12 solid degrees above seasonable average for the daytime high. still flirting with 07 tomorrow. that's when the cold front crosses so it bridges in more clouds, shower here and there, call it a spotty shower, so you can get away without an umbrella if you really want, to then thursday, brightens right back up, the sun, but it is cents cooler, and that trend keeps going. to the point that on saturday, jess, we can't hit even 50 degrees. >> that's jim ' looking forward to later today, thanks, katie. good

dropping to the freezing mark but you could wake up to some frost on many surfaces there around kansas and nebraska dave warren there today mark the opening of an enormous impressive work of art in the national's capitol, a lands scape portrait made from more than 3 ,000 tons of sand and topsoil. a handful of high precision satellites to create this. more from washington. >> eye lashsz here, the white of the eye. >> that's right down there, bridge of the nose from the ground, mid wages between the lincoln and world with a 2 mem mothers it's not clear these are more than except trically swirled sand and soil but from the monument, it becomes clear. a web cam is people withing the image around the world. there is the almost constant air traffic above from which to view the privately funded installation called a pluibism s, out of many, one, the mato long associated with the u.s. the heaaircraft created it by c bying the beaches from dozens of why unmen of all raises he photographed around the mall. then came the process of tra translating the image into 2000 tons of sand and 800 tons of soil using pe

nationally tomorrow look for sort of a line of showers actually from colorado through parts of nebraska and kansasver to missouri, parts of southern minnesota through illinois and idaho into ohio and parts of kentucky, west virginia. otherwise, aside from those states, looks like a mainly calm day tomorrow nationwide. across the state of california, sunny, warm from chico to sacramento to yosemite and fresno, 84 in los angeles. 92 in palm springs. here in the bay area tomorrow, afri after early morning fog, a sunny day with lows ranging from low 60s at the coast to low 70s around the bay to upper 80s inland. speaking of fleet week weather, a few segments ago, here's how things will look around san francisco on thursday, friday and saturday. mainly sunny afternoons through the three-day period. warming up on saturday so should be great viewing conditions for the air show performances and for anything else you may want to do on fleet week here in san francisco. larry and ama? >> thank you, spencer. >>> still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, why a mother was turned away from a public pool because of what

system progresses along, becoming a firing line for some of that severe weather, anywhere from nebraska, kansas into missouri, that would be the core of that. that could be the core between these two fronts where we have the heaviest rain. with the cooler temperatures could be wintery stuff especially in the higher elevations. this moves into the great lakes tomorrow and friday. back to you guys. >> ebola is diagnosed on u.s. soil. >> health officials promise they will keep the virus contained. we'll talk to the infectious decease specialist about the chances that ebola can spread beyond just one patient. >> a los angeles suburb rocked by tragedy. the town's mayor is shot and killed by his own wife. why she is not facing charges this morning. >> caught on camera, a bus and a car colliding, what the bus driver was doing right before it that kept the patch safe besides being tossed around. >> $3.5 billion is the big number of the day. >> there are new financial ties between doctors and drug makers. >> today's big number is $3.5 billion. the federal government says that's how much drug and medical

work with deb fischer from kansas, deb fischer a republican from nebraska on world broad ban. >> you you're woking across the aisle. but 97% indicates you do support president obama. has he been doing a really good job, good enough you support him 97% of the time? -- i have - i do voted in the interest of minnesota. now, on president obama, i've been disappointed in his inability to deal with this gridlock. but i've also been disappointed in the gridlock that's been created especially by the tea party. >> let me talk about gridlock for a minute. to ale you made a comment franken his party was a -- i can tell you as an outcider, as a usinessman -- outsider who was taught to take responsibilities dad, i don't understand, congress has been horrendous. republicans say it's not our fault. we don't control the presidency. the democrats don't. they say we can't work with the house. i believe that la franken is one of the most partisan senators in the senate. >> why have senator roger wicker, a republican mississippi in the th me to reign credit agencies on wall street. >> may i answer? >> g

kansas city. it was flown to omaha nebraska where photo journalist ashoka mukpo is being treated. he is scheduled to receive the blood transfusion some time today. the idea is brandly's antibodies will kickstart mukpo's immune system. brantly also donated blood to another patient who did recover from ebola. >>> and we will take a break now and come back with more news in just a moment. >>> we are living longer than ever before. a new government report is showing life expectancy is at an all-time high. >> it's true, the life ex-p pe- tency expectancy inched up to 78.8 years in 2012. a child born in 2012 is expected to live 78 years and 9 months. that is a record high. there are some differences between men and women. for women, they're living longer. women live more than 81 years. men are living below the national average. now, life expectancy was nearly 76 1/2 years. and it's not clear whether genetics plays a role in that. the lead author of the report that says that behavior probably does. now, researchers say that men and teenage boys usually participate in more high-risk activ

it's a big event in missouri, it's a big event in kansas, it's a big event in nebraska, it's a pretty darned big event for anywhere in the midwest except st. louis. larry? >> i like the idea of win it for larry. i'm all for that. i am puzzled by the guy who is not telling his wife he's doing a television interview with you. give us your sense, because we covered the super bowl together in new orleans a couple years ago with the 49ers and 2010-2012 for the giants. the level of enthusiasm for the royals fans. it's been three decades nearly since they have had anything like this to celebrate. are they in a complete frenzy? >> reporter: i wouldn't say they are in a frenzy. i think they have the feeling that they should be in this world series and they think they have been through hardship, okay? these kansas city royals fans, they don't know hardship. they didn't wait from 1954 to 2010 to win a world series. it's only been since 1985. of course, i talked to one fan today, i said what did you think about all that. she says i wasn't born the last time they won a world series here. one other

nebraska hospital. >>> royal blowout. giants dominated kansas city game one.ion, next. >> chilly start to the morning around bay area, san jose 49. radar looking dry for the moment. seeing changes ahead which will bring rain back into the forecast. >>> as we watch the commute building up at bay bridge toll plaza, tracking two more, issues of a crash in hayward and a crash out of san francisco as well. >>> live look at downtown san jose, calm. giants fans in the south bias well. we'll be roaring come 5:00. it's wednesday, october 22, this is "today in the bay." >> announcer: from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >>> good wednesday morning. thank you for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> i'm kris sanchez, in for laura garcia-cannon. santa claire ra county coroner trying to identify a

what new york needs is different than what nebraska may need, is different than what kansas may need, is different than what florida may need. so the cdc will come up with general operating protocols, but the states are free to design their own protocols. if there is a region in the country that has more differences than new york, new jersey, i don't know of one. but this will be consistent. it will probably be somewhat safer than what cd comes up with, once they come up with their definitive protocols, but i'll take that criticism, if you want to call ait a criticism tht i want to be safer than cdc says, fine. >> tell us about the health care workers -- >> our white house correspondent kristin welker has been watching this with us. we just heard the iallusion abot the work with the white house and when the white house will be coming out with its suggestions and he was discussing the cdc. you and i were talking about this a handful of hours ago that we should be hearing something in the last several days and the white house has been working on this throughout the weekend. >> that's ri

. >> we'll see -- nebraska, texas, kansas, oklahoma. the nurse next door? >> this is good.ds of them. >> they don't want to put you in hospitals. >> nobody wants to get old at the old folks home. you want to stay home and get old. basically 1300 job by the end of the year. 10 to 35 bucks per hour. they need companions. they need people willing to be assistants within the home. they have the mommy shift. it's special shift they made. it's 9 to 2. so when your kids are in schl, you can do this particular job. they also have another type of program called wiring the welderly. where you go in and teach senior citizens how to use skype, use the internet, use facebook, so they can connect to people. they can connect to grandkids and things like that. it's also to help them in the home. >> final one. >> it's more like technical support, mobile companies, wireless company, telecom financial companies. this could potentially be work from home. if you are full time, you do get benefits and they have tuition reimbursement. 4,000 jobs by the end of this month. another 10,000 by the end

nebraska. a few watch boxes near missouri and kansas. you can see the storms are moving quickly, around 60 miles per hour. we'll watch out for this severe weather, as a low pressure continues to deepen across that region. that's going to shift our chance of severe weather eastward across the united states, over the next 24 on to 48 hours. we have summer along the east coast and autumn, winter time for the northern plains and into the midwest. with the temperature clash, the possibility of severe weather into thursday. 34 million people under threat for a slight risk of large hail, severe winds and can't rule out the possibility of a tornado as well. from chicago, dallas, and laitte rock. some of our computer models are showing a chance for snow near minneapolis, minnesota. i'm from the midwest. i like to see red this time of year on your weather maps. we're talking about a 10 to 15-degree celsius temperature drop for the next three days. from thursday to saturday for chicago, also known as the windy city. 20 degrees fahrenheit, below ave

work with deb fischer from kansas, deb fischer a republican from nebraska on world broad ban. >> youay you're woking across the aisle. but 97% indicates you do support president obama. has he been doing a really good job, good enough you support him 97% of the time? -- i have - i do voted in the interest of minnesota. now, on president obama, i've been disappointed in his inability to deal with this gridlock. but i've also been disappointed in the gridlock that's been created especially by the tea party. >> let me talk about gridlock for a minute. to ale you made a comment franken his party was a -- i can tell you as an outcider, as a usinessman -- outsider who was taught to take responsibilities dad, i don't understand, congress has been horrendous. republicans say it's not our fault. we don't control the presidency. the democrats don't. they say we can't work with the house. i believe that la franken is one of the most partisan senators in the senate. >> why have senator roger wicker, a republican mississippi in the th me to reign credit agencies on wall street. >> may i answer? >>

nebraska to see this game. they never got farther than the parking lot. live in kansas wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> i'm not rooting for the royals but i feel bad for her. >>> wayne tweeted this photo a few hours ago from inside kauffman stadium just before batting practice and before the fans filled the park. wayne will continue his live reports from the world series tomorrow. you can follow his digital updates and many of them are hilarious. follow him on twitter and on his facebook page. pablo sandoval with an rbi double and the giants have a 1-0 lead. >>> we know a lot is riding on the outcome of this series. if the giants win, the mayor of kansas city will sing at church. if they lose, mayor ed lee will read to third graders in kansas city. senator feinstein is wagering brioche, chocolate, cowgirl creamery cheese and steamed beer. clare mccaskill is putting up beer. nancy pelosi is betting chocolates against barbecue. >> lot of barbecue being tossed around here. >> bring it on. >>> let's get a check of the forecast with meteorologist sandhya patel. >> yeah, we are

you can see the heavy rain coming out across the kansas city area northern parts of missouri and extreme eastern parts of the state of nebraskaarly this morning. it will continue through out the day today. there are flash flood watches in anticipation of the rain that's going to continue. meanwhile across the southwest we have tropical moisture some heavy rain forecast out there. but in terms of travel across parts of the great lakes and across parts of the east coast we are looking pretty good. areas outside of that cold front region are going to be relatively quiet we are going to see a lot of sunshine and relatively cooler temperatures. ahead of the front on the hot side upper 80's in dallas, 90's in dell rio. take a look at what's happening coming up on saturday heather and ainsley. cooler weather down in texas and oklahoma even across kentucky and the mid atlantic. >> looks good. some people will be excited about that. >> a 113-year-old time capsule found outside of boston being opened today. what is outside? it is believed to hold photos and a map of boston and newspapers from 1901. the statue was taken down for repairs

he was on a road trip, he pulled over in kansas city, went to a blood bank, donated blood, they flew it here to nebraskae today, that's going to be put -- transfused into the patient here. now, the difference between here and thomas eric duncan in dallas is that this is a person who caught his disease early. fortunately for him, he saw the symptoms when he was over in liberia, when he was with dr. nancy snyderman. had a slight fever, felt achy, went to the doctor. it was caught early. he was sent over here days later. and so he is relatively speaking, in fairly good condition. whereas when i was in dallas and we were covering the situation there, it was quite a different story. unfortunately, thomas eric duncan's disease had already progressed quite a bit by the time he got into the hospital. >> quickly, kate, because we're out of time. mr. duncan started showing symptoms on the 24th, but he did go to the hospital two days later. but was sent home. so on the similar time line of seeing symptoms and going in for medical care, seeing that duncan two days later did seek care and was sent home. >> right. i

for example, in nebraska, there were like five all-black towns. there are all-black towns in kansas, oklahoma. oklahoma still has all-black towns. boley, oklahoma. which is the site of the all-black national rodeo. montana had two all-black towns. texas had some all-black towns, etc. so, washington's legacy was let's have our own. let's have our own thing. yes? >> [indiscernible] >> the new york business, what >> on saturday, i went to pleasant hill and a lady gave us a history lesson thet the fast -- about past. she said nowadays -- if you look around, you will see those houses that were nice back in the early 1900s, they are not in mint condition anymore. they are just poor. and you said the national negro thosess league funded communities. what happened to it? >> integration. when integration came, many blacks found it more attractive to live, work, spend money in predominantly white communities instead of their own. student coming out of junior high school into high school when integration supposedly happened.

for example, in nebraska, there were like five all-black towns. there are all-black towns in kansas, oklahoma. oklahoma still has all-black towns. boley, oklahoma. which is the site of the all-black national rodeo. montana had two all-black towns. texas had some all-black towns, etc. washington's legacy was, "let's have our own towns." let's have our own thing. yes. >> black business, negro business league, what happened to it? on saturday, i went to a local community called pleasant hill. a lady was giving a history lesson about how in the past, all these black leaders, doctors, and lawyers in a community. if you look around at the community, you will see those houses that were nice in the early 1900's, they are not in mint condition anymore. they are just poor. you said the national negro business league funded those black communities and towns headed by booker t. washington, so what happened to it? >> integration. when integration came, many blacks found it more attractive to live, work, spend money in predominantly white communities instead of their own. i was a student coming o

the digital prairie here, low unemployment rates in places like south dakota, nebraska, doing pretty well. and even kansasadded since governor sam brown back has been in office. and they have lowered their state price on work even further for anyone self-employed. no western income tax in deans like we have been. you see the condition contrast california 16. and a half and nevada less than half a officers. 10. even vermont at 13.3. it really makes a big difference huh-uh run your state. >> that's right. that's why america transforms itself by people voting with their feet and taking their wallet. we can look at a number of things here. we know for example in the midwest, we have got people lowering the price on work in places like oklahoma. that's why they continue to do well. infrastructure and transportation contributing to this. and of course we cannot go into analysis and jobs report without talking about the lone star state responsible for 252,000 jobs. loading job growth for the fourth straight year. quite remarkable. without texas, merge would be a lot weaker on our national economy. >> there is no

nebraska area. and this is a pretty strong line of thunderstorms that's racing eastward about 60 miles an hour. we're going to monitor that. we also have severe thunderstorms near kansas missouri border. it's all thanks to a low pressure system that's deepening across the upper midwest through the early parts of the weekend. it's going to shift our chance of severe weather eastward as this cold front looks east. but look what's building in behind it, the coldest air of the season. we want to hold on to these temperatures as long as we can. i'm from the midwest, so i know. but unfortunately, the warm weather will go away. when we get these temperatures colliding, cold and warm air, 34 million people under threat of severe weather, a slight risk from chicago all the way to dallas. large hail, severe winds, can't rule out the possibility of an isolated tornado this thursday as well. this is a storm system that marches eastward. we even have the possibility of some snowfall late friday evening near maept, minnesota. look at these temperatures, we like to see the red this time of year across the eastern half of the united states. pay attention to chicago and minneapolis. w

nebraska, at debate for the open governor's seat. the candidates in that race democrat if it candidate chuck hassebrook facing republican pete ricketts. one of the other races we are following is the kansasate contest. polls show a tight race between incumbent republican senator pat robinson greg gorman pitted democrat has asked to have his name taken off the ballot. we have an update from a reporter. >> roll call is out today with this list of the 10 most vulnerable senators in the midterm election and number four on the list, kansas senator pat roberts republican are you joining us on the comp phone is the political reporter at the "kansas city star." thanks for being with us. >> that afternoon. great to be with you. >> a lot of developments in the race including the ruling by district judge's and a new poll out showing that this race is very close. in fact right now senator roberts is behind. tell us what's happening. >> he has been behind consistently in polls throughout the year. he ran as you may know he was involved in a very aggressive primary in the state of kansas in august against the tea party candidate named snowball was then in that race pat roberts -- pat robertson has bee

kansas city. interstate 70 is going to be a slow trek. here's that widespread area of moisture. one band already going through still lingering in missouri and another behind that in nebraska. then it spreads, heavy rain especially a corridor from missouri into illinois, three inches or more possible, so we already have flood watches and warnings out this morning. here's kind of the core of where you could see that, also gulf moisture enhanced along this line, so that will be another spot we'll ever to watch through the course of the day. there's the severe weather side of all of this, yesterday already a lot of wind and hail reported, we could see more today. >> concern this morning over the potential spread of ebola in the u.s. >> especially in texas where that infected patient came in contact with several people, including children. we are joined next to break down what health officials are going to be looking for. >> doctors are trying to stop the spread of enterovirus, affecting children now linked to four deaths. what you need to know. >> caught on camera, thieves trying to pull off a beer heist. it just didn't go off as planned. >> $2 trillion is the big number of t

nebraska asking him to donate his blood. he happened to be on a road trip at the time, pulled over in kansas city.ere and will be administered to the patient here, ashoek ka mukpo today. the hope is that the antibodies in the blood from brantly will help him fight off this disease. he is also getting an experimental drug. the same drug that's being give ton the patient in dallas. that patient's family along with jesse jackson went to the hospital on tuesday to try to visit. they weren't allowed near him. it's said that duncan is still in critical condition. his college-age son spoke out for the first time last night saying, he wanted people's prayers, and thanking the hospital for keeping his dad alive. natalie? >> kate snow for us in omaha. thank you, kate. the fbi is asking the public to help them identify a masked man who appears in an isis propaganda video released on the internet last month. he speaks both english and arabic and officials believe he may be from the united states or canada. he's shown presiding over what appears to be the execution of syrian prisoners. search teams have found