this is an incredibly famous map made by alexander humboldt from secret trip kept in mexico city and it showed better than anyone else than any other map with that bit of southwest what i call the united states but was then mexico looked like. you can see the inaccuracies to it. it shows the land too narrow and there is just a single mountain range going through. but for jefferson that was extremely interesting indeed because he saw it as another route, the southern great to the pacific and it looked so easy. once you are over the range of mountains you're down to the river to the other side and that will be the way the second route will be found. and so he borrowed the map from humbled and gated to wilkinson. wilkinson copied it and shared it with his protege who used about two years later when he explored into that area. now it was more wilkinson new more than just the map. she knew more than anyone else what was happening down there because he had a wonderful protege called philip noel and who was a horse breeder and used to go into that area to round up wild mustangs and break the

hen reportedly made his way to mexico city sand board add plane to london. after arriving there, authorities denied him entry into the country and notified the u.s. arrested once he touched back down on american soil. >>> emergency officials are telling people in bossier city, louisiana, to get away while you still can. water is flowing over a levee and the levee could breach. if that happens, 4,000 people could be trapped. the water started spilling from a near-by-yew over the weekend and some home are already flooded. they want you to get out while you can. >>> if you've ever texting while behind the wheel, you want to hear this. new york outlawed texting while driving yesterday. your view, whether you think it should be adopted in your state, if it hasn't already. >>> some people have been worrying about how safe the h1n1 flu vaccine is. everyone seems to be talking about it. starting today, an independent health group will watch how it's working. they're not expecting problems but want to reassure people and dispel fears out had. one pregnant woman with

it was made by alexander von humboldt which was kept in mexico city and it showed better than anyone n any other map, what that bit of southwest of what we now call the united states but then mexico looked like. now, you can see the inaccuracy to it. there's just a single mountain range going through. but for jefferson, that was extremely interesting indeed. because he saw it as another route, the southern route to the pacific. and it looked so easy and once you're over the range of mountains there's bound to be a river down to the other side. and that would be the way a second route, western route, could be found. and so he borrowed the map from humboldt. and gave it to wilkinson. wilkinson copied it and shared with his protege who used it about two years later when he explored into that area. now, it was -- wilkinson knew more than just the map. he knew more than anyone else what was happening down there. because he had a wonderful protege who would break the mustangs for the spanish army so he had direct information about how you might very well go in there or alternatively you cou

general wilkinson died in mexico city in 1825 working for the mexican government.in the one short year that wilkinson was governor of louisiana territory in 1805, he created a lot of chaos over corrupt land deals. he was a co-conspirator with aaron burr in the 1806 attempt to invade mexico. but he betrayed burr and saved himself. at birth was indicted for treason and wilkinson narrowly escaped indictment. merriweather lewis was present at birth trial, for treason, after he returned from the expedition. lewis served as jefferson's eyes and ears at the trial and report back to him. windlass accepted the position of governor of louisiana territory, his first responsibility was to root out suspected burr writes from position of power and influence. ehrenberg brother-in-law, joseph brown, had been wilkinson's territorial secretary. the territory was filled with brights and they were determined to get rid of merriweather lewis. i present evidence in the book pointed to a new filibuster plot to liberate mexico and obtain the wealth of its silver mines, and speculate that

invited to stay at friendship house free of charge for as long as they need treatment at nearby mexico city hospitals. reading and playing with the children as they wait for their chemotherapy treatments. but the home is involved in more than just facilitating the medical treatment for its youngsters. daily life and a sense of normalcy is protected as much as possible. >> for more on this and other exciting advances in medicine, just go to our website, cnn.com/vitalsigns. >>> one of the cops credited with taking down the ft. hood gunman is becoming a hero on twitter. early yesterday sergeant kim munley had just a few followers on the site, but as the news came out about her role in stopping the ft. hood mass chur, hundreds of people signed up to follow her on twitter. many are leaving her tweets to say thank you and wishing her a fast recovery. >>> the u.s. army says it's even a flood of support on social network sites after the ft. hood tragedy. people are adding messages like such a terrible thing to happen to our brothers and sisters in the armed forces. keep the families in your prayers

their families are invited to stay free of charge for as long as they need treatment at nearby mexico cityter volunteers help the time go by at the hospital. reading and playing with the children as they wait for chemotherapy treatments. the home is involved in more than facilitating the treatment. daily life is protected as much as possible. >>> for more on this agd and other exciting advances to medicine go to cnn.com/vitalsigns. >>> it will be a tough day tomorrow for commuters in philadelphia. talks aimed at ending a transit strike broke down. bus drivers and subway and trolley operators walked off the job last tuesday t. union is demanding an independent audit to make sure pension funds are secure. governor ed rendell has been negotiating these talks. he urged union members to vote on a contract proposal. no new talks are scheduled. >>> the first battle for health care reform is over and it is a victory for president obama's top domestic priority. the house of representatives has also approved a health care reform plan but it was a close call. the measure passed with only two votes to

families are invite to do stay at friendship house free of charge for long as they need at nearby mexico city hospitals. volunteers help the time go by as they wait for the chemotherapy treatment, but it's involved in more than just facilitating treatment. daily life and a sense of normalcy is protected as much as possible. >>> a special shelter in mexico is providing care for low-income children who have cancer, but it's giving them up much more than medical help. for more on this and other exciting advances, just go to our website, cnn.com/vitalsigns. >>> it was a dirty job, but a 33-year-old mystery has been solved. >> she said i think i have something that belongs to you, and, you know, immediately it flashed through my mind what it was. >> long-loss treasure a a little boy found while digging in his backyard. >>> all right. it's the weekend, you want to enjoy the weather, by i hadda is making is a little tough. let's check in with reynolds wolf. >> it's been a quiet year for us tropicalwise until the last couple days, a hurricane downgraded to a tropical storm. ida was a pretty powerful

particularly, between copenhagen and mexico city for 2010 if that's the deadline that's set for the climateagreement. i think we'll see some important progress in copenhagen. if the objective is the final legal agreement, there are some is difficult issues that need to be worked through. i think it will be important for the ongoing engagement at the leader level, in order to deliver a successful conclusion to the second round of negotiations. >> i think what the discussion of the u.s. and china are doing seems to be brought more explicitly into the contributions that each make within global framework for a greater concentrations of greenhouse gases that adds up to a solution. that adds up to the avoidance of the climate change. when you put things in that framework, you start to ask how to question about how much needs to be done. so i'd like the bilateral discussion of these things to be put more explicitly into a global framework with integrity. >> yes, sir? >> i'm mark with the atlantic council. i have a two-part question. it's very encouraging to listen to the progress in process. when

mexico. today lawyers for the plaintiffs called the ruling a landmark decision. >> today the people of the city of new orleans are vindicated. because they cannot hide behind an immunity, they have to pay, so it's time for the people of this community to be compensated. the larger message to be compen. the larger message here is that this corps is not the same corps that built the panama canal. >> the judge issued his ruling in a lawsuit brought by six people and one business affected by katrina. they were awarded damages ranging from $100,000 to $317,000. now, katrina, the hurricane killed more than 1,800 people and flooded nearly 300,000 out of their homes. >>> afghan president hamid karzai officially started his second term today. he was sworn in this morning and promised to fight corruption and drug trafficking. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton had a front-row seat. president obama is deciding whether to send up to 40,000 more troops to afghanistan. >>> the arkansas officer who tasered a 10-year-old girl has been suspended for a week for not wearing a camera to record that incident.

cities. are the mexican cartels and jihadist groups emerging? guest: some groups are using middle easterners to come up through texas and mexico under false names.t connected to hezbollah or hamas or other terrorist groups. host: parkersburg, west virginia, on our line republicans, go aheaäì(lc@&c+ caller: thank you for accepting my call. i agree with what the gentleman says. two very important points need to be made. i am 51-years old. i served in the military. when i was growing up in school, we were taught americanism. we pledge allegiance to the flag. we are now taking that out of our schools and taking the god of our schools. our kids have nowhere to turn accept board hearing people convert them. we need to enforce our country's laws and we do not need to enforce everybody else's rights. when they come in this country, they accept our laws, our constitution. that is why they come to our country, to get the freedom to do what they want to do. instead, they go against our laws. we are backing them up. we need to enforce the constitution of the united states. we need to put got back in our schools and we need to teach americanism. host: we wil