these craft items were all made by specialists who worked at the ancient maya city of copan. between a.d. 400 and 800 this magnificent city flourished as one of the major centers of maya art and culture. copan was built in a broad mountain valley on the western border of honduras. at its height, the economic system of the copan kingdom supported a population of some 27,000 people. a tiny percentage of them were the nobility, the elite of maya society. they were the ones for whom the fine objects were made.

europeans were amazed by catherwood's written descriptions of ancient maya cities. architecture, sculpture and painting -- all the arts that embellish life had flourished in this overgrown forest. who built this city ? in the ruined cities of egypt, the stranger knows the story of the people whose vestiges are around him. america, say the historians, was peopled by savages. but savages never reared these structures never carved these stones. we asked the indians who made them ? and their answer was "quien sabe ?" -- who knows ? during the next century, other explorers revealed the amazing variety of new-world civilizations. a great city, teotihuacan, dominated the basin of mexico. atop a hill in the valley of oaxaca, sits monte alban, the royal center of a mighty kingdom. and in the forests and jungles of guatemala maya city states once reigned over thousands of square miles. this is mesoamerica. at about a.d. 700, three great civilizations had emerged here. the realms of the maya. the power of the great city of teotihuacan. the zapotec kingdom of monte alban. for m

these craft items were all made by specialists who worked at the ancient maya city of copan. between a.d. 400 and 800 this magnificent city flourished as one of the major centers of maya art and culture. copan was built in a broad mountain valley on the western border of honduras. at its height, the economic system of the copan kingdom supported a population of some 27,000 people. a tiny percentage of them were the nobility, the elite of maya society. they were the ones for whom the fine objects were made. to better understand the economy of copan archaeologists must discover who made these beautiful objects and how the elites acquired them. no one knew the answers until it was discovered that a catastrophe had occurred here a thousand years ago. [ rumbling ] for the maya the earthquake was a calamity. but for archaeologist dolph widmer it was an opportunity. when the roof collapsed, it did something wonderful. it collected for us, in place, in the place that they were originally used, a whole series of artifacts and tools. and these were found right here in this room. this ro

. >> sreenivasan: maya wiley is a counsel to new york city mayor bill deblasio. her mission is to make high speed internet more accessible to new yorkers, especially for people who can't afford to pay for basic broadband. she considers it a social justice issue. >> no matter who you are and no matter your financial resources, you will be able to get online for free and get high speed internet. >> sreenivasan: so the city is focused on rolling out free wireless like with these vans that double as mobile computer labs and wi-fi hubs. they're usually parked in front of public housing apartments. the city is also expanding wi-fi underground and in public spaces like madison square park. and later this year, the city will turn defunct pay phones into free wireless hubs. public libraries are also joining in, lending out free hotspots-- mobile devices that transmit a wireless signal-- that low-income families can check out, much like books. been and her sons took one home. >> when the library closes on friday, it closes really early, but when i go home i can finish doin

maya. but to be in new york city she passes away the day before. i could not walk into this convention center here in new york without doing a tribute to her and it was after doing that tribute that the idea came to actually put my relationship down on the pages of this book. >> she gave you a lot of advice. >> a lot of it. >> tell me the best advice she gave you. >> she said very simply to me but repeatedly john that we find our path by walking it. for all the advice examples shared counsel delivered to me she ultimately said you will only find your path by walking it. and i knew that meant i had to discover things on my own. she could not tell me my role in the world, help my find my voice. hi to walk my path and find it for myself. >> she was tough but gentle with you it sounds from this book. she didn't always agree with your journalistic approach. >> right. there were a number of things we disagreed about. i said to her my role as an advocacy journalist is to raise issues that need to be raised. if i can hold clinton and the bushes accountable

city, it hit between 12:40 and 1:00 p.m. at the warner theater where oprah was speaking to unveil a stamp in memory of poet maya angelou, the lights disappeared. during her address. smithsonian museums along the mall and elsewhere went dark and were evacuated and the power company pepco says it was all because of an equipment failure at a substation in southern charles county maryland that caused a fire a transmission line to fail and a voltage struck which in buildings in the city, power systems automatically switched to backup power and buildings went mainly dark. >> that's why in some locations people saw what appeared to be a power outage. it was really the system switching over from the primary system over to the backup system. horace: at the ceremony at the warner also attended by first lady michelle obama, nobody panicked and a lot of people thought it was part of the show. >> i thought it was planned. >> power outage from here up to maryland. >> really? wow. horace: and the pepco spokesman said it cost a powerful ripple effect from southern charles county as the power came here to d.c. also, another impact here was

maya? amy:tavis: when i was 21, i was an aide to the mayor of los my city, and as aides are assigned to do, the honor to present her a letter, a proclamation, and i was literally in her presence for just five minutes, amy, but enough five minutes, i felt something so powerful and so strong that i vowed to myself at some point in my life i have got to get myself back into this woman's space. i had no idea that some years later i would be invited by her to go on a trip to africa for almost two weeks. my assignment literally was just to carry her bags, and for two weeks, i carried her bags around africa, but that did not stop her from allowing a friendship to blossom. i mean, she was already iconic at that point. this was in august of 1993 sewing january of 1993, she of course i delivered that: that bill clinton's first inauguration, so she is already world-renowned, and i'm just a nobody but we are hanging out for a couple of week and she enveloped me, she embraced me, and 28 years later, until she passed away last may, what a wonderful friendship. nermeen: could you explain? you talk about a

city, it hit between 12:40 and 1:00 p.m. at the warner theater where oprah was speaking to unveil a stamp in memory of poet maya angelou, the lights disappeared. during her address. smithsonian museums along the mall and elsewhere went dark and were evacuated and the power company pepco says it was all because of an equipment failure at a substation in southern charles county maryland that caused a fire