people were pushing for a large city park in other places. it was a political compromise. >> between lincoln and fulton and the beach. >> you're saying, why did they decide that exact plot? they brought someone from new york to come up with a park plan. they eventually made it a rectangle. they had the panhandle part. the panhandle was the same with as golden gate park, but there was dealmaking going on between park commissioners and they decided they would buy the land and cut off part of the panhandle. >> the development of lincoln park is interesting. you can see the cemetery. >> on the map, it is a cemetery. >> what happened to that and all of the bodies? >> they decided around the turn of the century the land was too valuable to bury people. where uss is now there were four cemeteries. they moved all of the cemetery's out -- cemeteries out. the heir did not want to move one of the places. there are two people -- two places where people are buried in the city. the other ones were moved out. >> the big scandal of lincoln park, someone want

san francisco is often known for being a large city, in this case, we have a unique history with the death penalty. during his reelection campaign of 1999, terrence hallohan said that they would not seek the death penalty for any offense in san francisco. he was reelected by a close margin a few years later, and she took the position that she would not bring any death penalty case. and she was reelected with the same conditions as part of the reelection campaign. harris was elected to be the state of the new general, and gavin newsom elected george gascon to be the district attorney. when asked his position on the death penaltiy, hy, he said he wouldn't rule it out. this raised a lot of concern among opponents of the death penalty who thought this would be a step backward. he has written against the death penalty, and adheres to san francisco values. san francisco has not had a jury return a death verdict since 1989, which was 10 years before he said his office would not seek the death penalty. we thought this particular issue wanted a discussion and we are pleased to have a palace h

we only have several large cities that you need to make sure you have some control over. tripoli being the key one. what does it take to get some stability? what does it take to get the oil refineries cranking out product they can sell? that sort of input needs to go in. nato is the right organization to do this. they have the wherewithal that can help libya. >> thank you for coming in. >> that brings us to the end of today's broadcast. another busy day. you can find constant of developments on our website. thanks for watching. see you back here tomorrow. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. ♪ >> union bank has put its global financial strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news america" was presented by kcet, los angeles. nouncer: this program was made possible by: >> chuck e. cheese's, proud supporter of pbs kids, who know of all the things a kid can learn, one of the mos

i live in a large city which could be any large city. there are these derelicts who are picking up trash, some put their containers in canisters. it says on the side, property of u.s. post office. how much they cost and why nobody doesn't do ything about this tremendous waste. my second question -- the same with the little plastic grip buckets. sanitation picks them up and disintegtes themn the back of the trucks. in this day and age of electronic communication and all kinds of gadgets, why is the that will go to track, you have no communication with the driver? you would not have to attract if a package did not take five days to go from philadehia to new york. i'll hang up. why do you let this practice continue? that is a tremendous waste. why can't you track? guest: i don't know how much those cameras hampers cost -- canvas hampers. the flattops or buckets cost about 50 cents apiece. you find them somewhere and somebody uses them as a trash can. we have gone out and rounded these things up. we go and get that. you have people who unfor

the business is in the mid-sized to smaller communities who have even fewer resources than the large cities, less expertise. if you take options off the table, it will be, well, what we've done for the last 40 years, and right now we have some real challenges. so any good manager is going to want to have a maximum number of options. allbee: you've got to have a serious conversation with your constituency about what it costs to deliver the service that you're required to deliver and to deliver the service that they want. paolicelli: and i think, ultimately, the responsibility is going to be down to the user of this commodity. it costs money to operate these systems. there's a need to continually invest in these systems. there's going to be new regulations. it's all going to cost money. allbee: for all practical purposes, people are going to have to pay about twice as much for these services as they currently do. because a lot of the pipe that went in, a lot of the plants that went in, went in with very sizable portions of federal grant money, mechanisms that are no longer in place. narrator:

the challenge of urbanization in delhi and the challenge of urbanization in our large cities is huge. >>reporter: the country is looking to create 15,000 kilometres of new roads and highways at an estimated cost of30 billion dollars. >>however 90% of indians live in villages or towns far from the great new highways, where vital infrastructure improvements are often overlooked. >>mccartney: making rural roads passable in wet weather conditions. the boring, low key, small scale infrastructure but nevertheless makes a big difference to lives of ordinary people." >>reporter: that said, the project has made a real difference to many rural indians, especially farmers. it's estimated that 25% of perishable goods rot, because bad roads stop produce getting to market on time. >>singh: there is a lot of progress, there are national highways here. earlier we had problems transporting our produce. now there is no problem at all and we are benefiting from this progress. we are getting very good rates for our potato crop. >>reporter: however as always there is dissent; while many farmers feel the b

only a few large cities are usually affected. but as we just talked about and as george was talking about, the density of the east coast adds a different dimension. jeff ranieri is here to dig a little deeper and explain the difference. you do these maps for us all the time. this is a little different. >> definitely coming to the east coast, this is something to talk about in california, getting a 5.8. as we heard, one of the strongest earthquakes in over 100 years hitting here just outside of washington, d.c. there have been two aftershocks, a 2.2 and 2.8. i'll continue monitoring that. let's get the wider view, this earthquake as far south as georgia. up to new york city and report of it being felt in toronto. i talked to somebody in that area. they said where they are in toronto it shook for about ten conds. there's a lot more solidarity in the ground in the east coast. you don't have a lot -- as many fault lines splitting it up like we do in california. i those waves, that motion te o spread further. that 5.8 had wide impacts

as we said, one of the scariest things about this hurricane is that ast zit's zeroing in on so large cities. look at the map. the entire i-95 corridor, tens of millions of people are in irene's path. are the big cities ready for this challenge? dan harris has been looking at that from here in new york. >> reporter: some of the largest metro areas in america in the cross-hairs tonight. philadelphia, population nearly 6 million, boston, more than 4.5 million and the biggest of them all, new york city, with 19 million people. >> i'm always worried about storms. this i-95 corridor is going to go through one of the most pop lated areas on the east coast. i'm concerned. >> reporter: tonight, many of the forecast models show the center of the storm marching straight through new york city. there are dozens of these models and they do change quite a bit. one this morning had the center of the storm coming up fifth avenue, past the iconic lions of the public library. and then, right up the west side of central park. so, is a city like this, which has only seen five hurricanes since 1851, truly ready

throughout much of the 20th century large cities tended to have, you know, several -- multiple different newspapers. but they became valuable properties and so people who could afford to buy them up and consolidate them did and so cities that used to have many papers would begin to only have 1 or 2 and so in a formally diveers world there's more room for these icon oclass particular newspapers to flourish in the 1960s people thought they were more bland and consensus-based. the corporate structures undergirded these newspapers were looking for sophisticated trained journalists and the news diets of many americans changed. i think this helps to explain why -- one of the reasons why these underground newspapers were so attractive to young people. underground journalists claim a privilege. they had a sense that only those people who were deeply implicated in the new left rebellion could really understand what it was like. that you had to be sort of in the rock or drug or in the protest culture in order to know what was going on and if you were a salary journalist who, would in the suburbs t

cnn's sarah sidener is in libya today where she saw rebels fighting for the last large city before reachingpoli. >> there was quite a bit of celebrating going on in the city today. but what you see when you go into the city square is destruction everywhere. there is a hotel that was quite a nice hotel. it is completely bombed out inside. all the windows are missing. pieces of building have been blown away. there is an administration center which is collapsed. and so we saw a lot of damage. it was very similar to what we saw in misrata on a much smaller scale because this battle only went on for a few days as opposed to a couple of months. >> u.s. officials say gadhafi may be preparing for a last stand in tripoli. >>> two americans locked up in iran on spying charges learned today that they have each been sentenced to eight years in prison. iranian officials say the two men crossed the border from iraq illegally. cnn's reza sayah is watching developments in this case for us. >> this is obviously a very bad news for the parents of joshua fattal and shane bauer who were hoping the deal would b

this was the third saturday of pocketbook protests in large cities across the country. they want the government to take action. they have promised to set up a committee to address the protestors concerns. >> the man that was convicted as the ring leader of abuse in iraq is a freeman tonight. he was released from military prison today after serving more than 6 and a half years. he was giving a numbs up sign behind naked iraq prisoner. all 11 military personnel were convicted with prisoner abuses. he is the last to be released from prison. >> the hacking group anonymous brought down tosses of u.s. law enforcement sites today in retaliation for arrest. fbi agents arrested 16 supporters of the group in a sweep. 70 websites were hit today. all sites were apparently run by the name media company. anonymous also claimed it stole 10 gigabytes of law enforcement data. some of the data includes sensitive information including crime tips and profiles of gang members. >> taking the financial sting out of buying school supplies. >> and a unique celebration to honor one of american t

>> any large city has a big spread of population and newark is no different.ng sure, we literally are going out in the streets to look for people that might be homeless from areas we know from recent surveys. we are getting our shelters ready, inviting everybody there. trying to create an environment that is inviting, making sure we have adequate food, cots and generators. we are having people check the internet or even as people know through social media it's not enough. we are making sure we get up on local tv as well as using our public housing authority, using our school system. to get word out in more of a manual way. >> some of this is door-to-door or block-to-block. do you have the money and the staff to do that to the extent you would like to? >> the staff, absolutely. we are very pleased we had just such a robust amount of help. all our police officers and firefighters are coming in in droves offering to help out. we are coordinating with a great county government as well as other organizations from colleges and universities through the public educati

so you have an army deploying and encircling a very large city, and you have these stakes that are deploying. because it is closer to the center of syria, you're getting more and more reports of what is happening there. so is it actually worse? i would say it's in the same category of overwhelming use of power against unarmed protestors. and in terms of human rights violations it fits within the same pattern except that now we're seeing it after weeks and weeks and months and months of this. >> nadin, is there anything that the international community can do to stop the violence? sanctions sometimes hurt the least of these, as they say. so what can be done besides boots on the ground? anything to stop the violence by the international community? >> sure. the international community has a bunch of options. first, it's important to the security council to condemn the violence. to show syria that it's actually beyond the veil, it has no friend at the security council. two, in addition to the sanctions it should push for access to ind penependent obser, journalists, human rights activists but a

but it is understandable in a city like tripoli, a very large city with two or almost 2 million inhabitants and with the opposition forces coming, many of them from the outside of the city, so mistakes can take place. but anyway, i am not sure whether saif islam was in the hands of the opposition or not but mohammed, certainly he was there. >> thank you very much, mr. ambassador. i've got an expert here. put this into some kind of context for us, because, clearly misinformation is part of life in libya. it's very important for the credibility, i guess, of everyone involved here that we can believe what we're being told by the rebels. what do you make of what's going on? >> obviously a lot of confusion and misinformation going on. it's hard to know who has the upper hand. but there's one thing we can be absolutely certain about. six months ago moammar gadhafi controlled the entire country and today he controls a few scattered neighborhoods in tripoli, so the end is near. whether it's the next 24 or 48 hours or whathaveyou it's time to think of what will happen next? what will libya look like

live, as a veteran, doesn't and if you live in a small village in alaska with 50 people, or a large urban city, how we make sure we get the health care that they need, they are owed in a timely basis. so i will be anxious forr

i live in a large city which could be any large city. there are these derelicts who are picking up trash, some put their containers in canisters. it says on the side, property of u.s. post office. how much they cost and why nobody doesn't do anything about this tremendous waste. my second question -- the same with the little plastic grip buckets. sanitation picks them up and disintegrates them in the back of the trucks. in this day and age of electronic communication and all kinds of gadgets, why is the that will go to track, you have no communication with the driver? you would not have to attract if a package did not take five days to go from philadelphia to new york. i'll hang up. why do you let this practice continue? that is a tremendous waste. why can't you track? guest: i don't know how much those cameras hampers cost -- canvas hampers. the flattops or buckets cost about 50 cents apiece. you find them somewhere and somebody uses them as a trash can. we have gone out and rounded these things up. we go and get that. you have people w

throughout much of the 20th century, the large cities tended to have multiple different newspapers. they became valuable properties of people who could afford to buy them and consolidate them could and so the of many papers and began to only have one or two, and then so in a formally diverse newspaper world there was more room for a pingree opinions to flourish, and then by the early 60's, the newspaper said some people thought that they were more bland and consensus based. the corporate structures that undergirded the newspapers were looking for sophisticated professionally trained journalists and so the news by its of a lot of americans change, and i think this helps to explain why one of the reasons why these underground newspapers less attractive to young people. underground journalists plan for themselves a kind of estimate privilege. the had the sense that only those people who were deeply implicated in the new left rebellion could understand what it was like. you have to be sort of in the drug or protest culture in order to know what is going on. and if you or a salary journa

i live in a large city which could be any large city. there are these derelicts who are picking up trash, some put their containers in canisters. it says on the side, property of u.s. post office. how much they cost and why nobody doesn't do anything about this tremendous waste. my second question -- the same with the little plastic grip buckets. sanitation picks them up and disintegrates them in the back of the trucks. in this day and age of electronic communication and all kinds of gadgets, why is the that will go to track, you have no communication with the driver? you would not have to attract if a package did not take five days to go from philadelphia to new york. i'll hang up. why do you let this practice continue? that is a tremendous waste. why can't you track? guest: i don't know how much those cameras hampers cost -- canvas hampers. the flattops or buckets cost about 50 cents apiece. you find them somewhere and somebody uses them as a trash can. we have gone out and rounded these things up. we go and get that. you have people w