bringing a national city to its knees. can you call the area recovered? katrina after the storm, it's the "inside story."

bringing a national city to its knees. can you call the area recovered? katrina after the storm, it's the "inside story." welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. new orleans is still deeply scarred by hurricane katrina. it's easy to see if you stray far beyond the central business district or the french quarter. but the city is undoubtedly rebounding. the question is how? is the city not just back to where it was before the storm but transformed by it? al jazeera's jonathan betz is in new orleans with more of the changing face of the city. >> ray, new orleans is growing into something very new and very different. it's attracting a lot of young people, from the natural disaster and the ruins of that they saw opportunity. but with that comes change that many fear is not welcoming at all. for generations henry and emanuel's family have called new orleans home. she can't believe how different the city and the people look. >> i hope a lot of the black people come back. >> this city will be chocolate at the end of the day. >> how to make sure some people are

had been ignored, left out of the national discussion and left to watch as crime soared, as the nation's cities burned, its youth denounced authority and its war in vietnam marched into another year without a plan for peace. nixon's words that night spoke to a variety of concerns but they centered on the issue that would come to define the campaign. indeed, a generation of campaigns. the issue attracted a variety of labels, from crime in the streets to law and order but it was probably best described as the social issue. a phrase that captured the broader i mag la mags of anxieties that exploded on to the scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s. indeed, in the minds of many americans as one commentator as written, get to riots, street crime, anti-vietnam marches, poor people's marches, drugs, pornography, welfarism, rising taxes, all had a common theme. the breakdown of the family of social discipline, of order, of concepts of duty, of respect for law, of public and private morality. and strikingly, the institution allegedly responsible for causing much of the erosion of the moral fabric of ame

and as a result, new orleans has become a model for the nation as the first city, the first major cityo and veteran -- to end veteran's homelessness. [applause] which is a remarkable achievement. you are also becoming a model for the nation and it comes to disaster response and resilience. we learned lessons from katrina. the u.s. army corps of engineers learned more stricter standards for levees. in the louisiana, we built a $14 billion system of levees and pump stations and gates. a system that stood the test of hurricanes past. demandto say, there is a -- a man named craig that runs fema. his team of across the country have done extraordinary work. me frosonmeme craig. [laughter] he gets excited when there are disasters. he gets restless if everything is just quiet. [laughter] but under his leadership, we revamped fema into a stronger and more efficient agency. in fact, the whole federal government has gotten smarter at recovering in preventing disasters. and serving as a better partner to local and state governments. and as i'll talk about next week when i visit alaska, making our

announcer: the c-span cities hear around the nation to from local historians, authors, and civic leaders every other weekend on c-span book tv and american history tv on c-span3, and this month with congress on its summer recess, it is on c-span each day at 6:00 p.m. eastern. today, we look at the history of core a lot of springs -- of colorado springs, and we start pikes peak, named for the explorer. have for as long as people lived here, pike's peak has been a marketing tool, and we have used it to help identify this location. pikes peak protrudes out onto the eastern plains. as wethe first 14-er, call it, the first 14,000-foot mountain when you are coming west across the plains towards denver, and that is a beacon, in many ways, for people traveling towards the mountains. i remember many times, growing up in the midwest, coming to colorado and know when you're almost there when you start to the distance.k in you can see it a hundred or more and it seems here, to pull you in as you're coming west. now, we are at crystal reservoir on the pike's peak highway. we are about 9500 feet in an

you will see things like the national city bank of kansas city, missouri. that is my hometown. this got to be so popular that eventually there was something like 14,000 different charters issued. the government printed these notes. they are some of the most widely circulated notes at the time. the lower denomination one has a president that most people don't remember. andrew jackson is on several notes, thomas jefferson, lincoln, madison is also on a large sized $5,000 note. mckinley is on the $10 bill. in today's smaller notes, he was on the $500 bill. here is a new president popping up, james monroe on this $100 silver certificate of 1878 through 1891. george washington appears the most on currency. he appears on 10 different types of large sized banknotes, five different denominations. then he appears on all of these fractional banknotes. washington was a very popular figure in this day and of course today on the one dollar bill. do we need to keep going here? oops. the portraits vary quite a bit on the notes of this period. these are all portraits of alexander hamilton that

and as a result, new orleans has become a model for the nation as the first city, the first major cityo end veteran's homelessness. [applause] which is a remarkable achievement. you are also becoming a model for the nation and it comes to disaster response and resilience. we learned lessons from katrina. the u.s. army corps of engineers learned more stricter standards for levees. here in louisiana, we built a $14 billion system of levees and pump stations and gates. a system that stood the test of hurricanes past. i have to say, there is a man named craig that runs fema. his team of across the country have done extraordinary work. i love me some craig. [laughter] he gets excited when there are disasters. he gets restless if everything is just quiet. [laughter] but under his leadership, we revamped fema into a stronger and more efficient agency. in fact, the whole federal government has gotten smarter at recovering and preventing disasters. and serving as a better partner to local and state governments. and as i'll talk about next week when i visit alaska, making our communities more re

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in san francisco last time i have been distancing reminded the connection between this city and the united nationser cities and place incredulous as proudly as san francisco the values of diversity equality, and inclusion it was from this building some 70 years ago that harvey milk helped to set and train americans gay rights resolution a revolution that continues to this day not only in this country but around the world he advocated here heros to protect the people from discrimination are the same majors that today we advocate to governments everywhere the arguments he made not only about tolerance but to inclusion and acceptance are the same ones we eyed today as we convince the government to embrace protect and value all of your people including those how are lesbian gay, bisexual, and transgenders as secretary of the united nations i've been traveling many countries as everywhere there is discrimination i talked to heads of states of government sometimes i've been successful one day for example in just forgot the country and name - i'll come back (laughter) i talked to the president quietly qu

nation. overall cities with fast growing economies and strong job growth have the worst traffic. >>> new safety technology in our cars is also changing crash tests. the group known for crashing cars now looking at preventing accidents. 14 cars with auto brake technology earned a superior ranking. that technology helps to avoid front end crashes. the insurance institute for highway safety tested some of those cars including acura and bmw. >> technology is available to us today that wasn't available 30 years ago is making it possible to focus on crash avoidance. >> the insurance institute for highway safety says about half of new 2015 vehicles have available front crash prevention technology and roughly one in four has auto braking as an option. >>> a southern california man tried to take a selfie with a rattlesnake and now he is in danger of losing a hand. alex gomez of lake elsinore spotted a 4-foot snake in a field by his family's ranch put the snake around his neck -- and was bitten on the hand, which then swelled up and now gomez is being treated with antivenin but his mother says the skin o

and if you're in some of the nation's biggest cities, go ahead and double that number. here's nbc's tom costello. >> northbound at the 5 three-car crash block the number one lane. >> reporter: it's a story of good news bad news on the nation's roads. while the great recession is over, so is the congestion recession. more jobs mean more people, more cars and trucks, fueled by cheap gas round the clock. in suburban washington, d.c. realtor david giles has learned he has to take a deep breath at the start of his daily commute. the drive is 26 miles each way. what should take 40 minutes instead takes an hour each way. >> is there a time of day when the traffic dies down or has this become the norm? >> this is the norm. >> reporter: no surprise the washington, d.c. metro area tops the list of the worst commutes. the average commuter spends 82 hours each year in delays here. los angeles follows close behind with commuters spending 80 hours in delays. then san francisco, the new york tri-state area, san jose, boston, seattle, chicago, houston, and riverside, california. taken t

. >> the experience of this city is completely exceptional but how different are the patterns of habitation that we are seeing here and nationally other cities across the country. not anme just say i am expert in new orleans and i am here with the folks who are. much on the shout out and the amazing team at the data center. datave a network of open network partnerships and they are rock stars in that group. if you look at the larger picture you have to remember when you look at data that you are talking about the places people live. a lot of the science research tells us that they have confirmed what we instinctively know, places where people have built the social fabric of their lives and neighborhoods that was so deeply disrupted. places where people also access opportunity. to buildn opportunity a city which does a better job of creating access to the infrastructure that helps people strengthen their lives and improve it. disasters tendd, to -- was already suffering from population decline and challenges for affordability and it was already suffering from income disparity and all of that grew worse to the crisis. when you loo

setting themselves apart from mainstream cities and locations on purpose and believing, then, that not only people of other faiths or ethnicities or nationalitiesthe united states government was the biggest enemy. >> the question that recurs is what was the connection between tim mcveigh and elohim city? tim mcveigh said he never went there. there are people, however, who claim to have seen mcveigh at elohim city, and probably the strongest evidence that he was there is a ticket he received from an arkansas highway patrolman about four miles into arkansas from oklahoma on a road that takes you straight to elohim city, so if he wasn't at elohim city, where was he? >> timothy mcveigh made some calls to elohim city. he drove near the area, we know, but beyond that, any connection to elohim city or the notion that there were others involved is speculation heaped on top of speculation. >> but even assuming others were involved, why would mcveigh so strongly insist that he acted alone? >> he believed that in lying, he would protect the others, so they wouldn't be convicted. and he spun a series of lies to shield the others. >> i think it's possible t

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writing had run its course, the police had plotted their action over 54 square miles in the nation's largest citymore than twice the size of the entire island of manhattan. harlem, or south chicago seems the most likely to produce those northern explosions that were predicted and white america's anxiety over the room negro revolution. no one expected the flashpoint of discontent to be in this 400 square square miles of los angeles. it happened there, in an area -- 1/6 of of the the negroes. they are streets of trim the lower middle class homes and there are squalid areas of condemned houses. two thirds of the adults have less than a high school education. one in eight is illiterate. of every 10 homes, nine were built before 1939. one in five has deteriorated. lowest average income right, $4000 a year, compared to $8,000 a year for the white community. almost 60% receive some sort of welfare against an unemployment rates that holds around 30% one out of every three teenagers comes from a broken home. the school dropout is more than twice that of the city overall. tot residents are newcomers, join

grew up in columbus, came to the city as young people and because of their vision, they were able to make differences. they were able to make a difference in the nation as a whole. >> fort benning is home to more than 30,000 active duty and reserve soldiers. it was named after confederate general henry benning. the c-span city's tour spoke with the national infantry museum about the history of fort benning. >> sound off! >> the group of americans has given more in defense of this country than the united states infantry. has lost more eyes, more arms, more legs, and more lives on the battlefield than any other group of americans. and it's all because they were willing to go out and give their lives in defense of the country. fort benning was established on the macon road in columbus, georgia on approximately 85 acres of land. in october of 19, caroline benning, the daughter of henry lewis benning from the fort was named, raise the first american flag over the cap. they knew immediately that 85 acres of land would not be for trained modern infantry soldiers and a road out and spoke with a local businessman who owned a lot of the land around here and he

he is the chief investment city national rockdale.n had the want to raise rates so badly in september but she can't seem to get the inflation numbers she is looking for. lockhart,oday from something about china is making their jobs more difficult. is it possible that the rest of the globe is going to drive the fed decision making process in september? >> i think it is certainly a greater influence than was a week or two ago. ultimately, what yellen really wants to do is normalize interest rates. by beginning to lift off in september, i think she will demonstrate to the u.s. investors and investors around the world that she has enough confidence that the economy continue -- can continue to grow despite what's going on in the rest of the world for us to tolerate a small increase in rates. we don't think it's the start of a steady rise in rates. we think it will be low and gradual over the course of the next couple of years. despite what fed futures are saying which have indicated a much lower probability in september, we think what is r

supporting our homeless veterans, and as a result, new orleans has become a model for the nation as the first city to end homelessness, which is a remarkable achievement you're also becoming a model for the nation when it comes to disaster response and resilience. we learned lessons from katrina. the u.s. army core of engineers developed stricter standards here in louisiana, we built a $14 billion system of improved levees and p.m.p stations and gates. a system that stood the test of hurricane isaac. we revamped fema, and i have to say there's a man named craig few gate who runs fema and has been doing extraordinary work on its team all across the country, every time there's a disaster. i love me some craig fugate. it's a little disturbing, you know he gets excited when there are disasters, he gets restless if everything's just quiet. we revamped fema into a stronger more efficient agency. the whole federal government has gotten smarter preventing and recovering from disasters. serving as a partner to local and state governments. as i'll talk about next week when i visit alaska. making our communi

garcetti will also make the case for the $15 minimum wage that was recently adopted by the city of los angeles. the nation's second largest city. on june 13th, it was signed. mayor garcetti's plan calls for incremental increases in the minimum wage over the next five years. mayor garcetti will also highlight los angeles's leadership in water conservation as california battles the historic west coast drought. this is mayor garcetti's first national press club event since he took office. he was elected may 21, 2013. following 20 to 30 minutes of remarks, the mayor will take questions from the media and club members. the event will be in a news conference format. we will moderate the questions and it will work pretty well. and, autumn kelly, if you would raise your hand, our on-site coordinate, will play vanna white and pass around the microphone, that way everybody can be on c-span which is covering the entire event with a back to basics agenda, mayor garcetti has focused on job creation. since he took office, los angeles has added more than 85,000 new jobs and registered almost 60,000 new businesses, reducin

i teach a course at florida national interview city, my students are young and so they often left or they think they do. they are complaining that complaining that they can use it in miami, i said you know why you can't use uber? because an established industry called the taxicab, and the owners of those medallions have used their influence on the county commission to ensure that no one can compete against them for pay. other eyes lit up and said that looks that looks wrong to me and i said welcome to the conservative movement. [applause]. the truth is if you bury an industry with a bunch of regulations the big companies are going to be able comply with them, they're going to hate it but the higher thousand lawyers in the best lobbyist in washington figured out. you know can't know can't do that? at the person who's trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home because not only are they in violation of the zoning code, they cannot hire 1000 lawyers to help them navigate it. so regulatory reform, not just an ideological talking point, it is critical to being global

we'll leave behind a city and a nation that's worthy of generations to come. that is what you have gotten started. now we have got to finish the job. thank you. god bless you. god bless america. [applause] john: that was president barack of newn the ninth ward orleans commemorating the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina, talking about the devastation 10 years ago. the progress that has been made since then, and the work still left to do. mark, what did you think about that speech? mark: he wanted to use this moment not just to address the city which is a big responsibility for this president and for the next president and beyond, but also to talk about national issues and to use the progress that has been made -- economic recovery, education, business recovery -- to speak to the broader aspirations of the country. at the top, he referred to the growth figures and gdp figures. this morning. day, is on a busy news busy newsweek, huge thing with political implications and economic applications. promise,he country's including new orleans problems, salt more eas

nation. overall cities with the fastest growing economies and the strongest job growth tended to have the worst traffic. >>> a group of women kicked off the napa valley wine train on a tasting tour getting an apology. 11 members of a black book club were told they had to leave for being disruptive. the wine train's ceo apologized publicly yesterday. the ceo also offered to have the members back as his personal guests. the women feel they were targeted because of their race. >> it felt like stories that i would hear my grandmother talk about, you know, in her experiences of not being able to go into places. ying we were loud. i think -- i don't think we were loud. i think when you have a group of 11 there's a certain amount of noise to go with that. >> the company will try to prevent it from happening again. >>> investors are expecting another unpredictable day on wall street. stocks are mixed in asia and mostly down in europe but dow futures are up. yesterday the dow lost all its gains before the closing bell. allen martin spoke to experts who say the worst could be far from over. >>> reporter:

did with national city options that impact of global stability and impact american lives. so that's a given. democratic or republican president, you know, they all have, they all have huge domestic agendas and spaces for the election by a large but the global security situation has a way of coming to the door of every president of the united states, whether they welcome that or not, it's there. so the psychological aspect of this is that light to what -- is at play. it gives a president deniability. that's why this has had an inbox of one president after another. there's not a survey president who did know that hezbollah, sponsored by the iranians, killed our marines and love our embassy in the early '80s. every president has known that. and then again go bar towers and every president serving a time and after that new that. but no enacted -- khobar towers. i think that's part of it. who understand the psychological aspect of decision-making and he's using it to his advantage. the competition that he's using to use our words is a hybrid this graduate doesn't confront the u

nationals, curtis, what do you think about that. >> welcome back. >> thank you. >> good to see you. you bring us wonderful nice about our mets. >> last night at citi field, nationals-mets. this may be the biggest regular season game of citi field. need we say more. mets trail 1-0 in the third when they go long ball. curtis granderson started barrage, hitting two-run homer. his 11th. give the mets 2-1 lead. almost missed it, daniel murphy, deep and gone. into the pepsi porch. just the 7th of the year right there. putting mets up 3-1. after sespadis got his first hit as a met. lucas duda. off the foul poll. mets led 5-1. they sweep the nationals, the share of first place in the nl east. wow. what a week it has been for the mets. chick, yesterday, yankees white hooks, wrapped up three-game series. red hot mark teixeira goes deep, 29th of the year. he is mvp candidate. big game from stephen drew, had a single, double, triple and drove in four. the two-run double put yanks up 9-0. taking two of three in the at monmouth park, triple cron oner american pharoah in the haskell invitational. >> a living legend, american pharoah up by three. he will could ha

the site labeled san jose the nation's most promiscuous city with 75% of the men they talked to claims in a year or maybe they're better storytellers. san francisco among the least promiscuous, according to this site, among what they're calling the popular men. >> mild, manners tech engineers by day. leave it at that. >>> 5:52. we know the guy or gal in the corner office makes more than the other employees but wondered how much more? >> today the cec scheduled to vote on a rule to make those numbers known. the pay gap has gotten extra tension as workers from companies hold protest for raising minimum wage. investors sometimes have problem with the pay difference. last year, ceos made more than 300 times as much as the average worker. >>> a story we can all relate to. netflix the latest company to offer a very generous parental leave package. >> unlimited time off with your new baby up to a certain point. should you want it? >> for the first year, right. come and go as you need. baby needs you, go home, stay home, come back whenever and netflixes will keep paying you your regular salar

supporting our homeless veterans, and as a result, new orleans has become a model for the nation as the first major cityend veterans' homelessness -- [ applause ] >> -- which is a remarkable achievement. you are also becoming a model for the nation when it comes to disaster response and resilience. we learned lessons from katrina. the army corps of engineers developed better levies. we built a $14 billion system of improved levies and pump stations and gates, a system that stood the test of hurricane isaac. we revamped fema, and i just have to say, by the way, there's a man named craig fewgate, who runs fema, and has been doing extraordinary work and his team all across the country every time there's a disaster. [ applause ] >> i love me some craig fewgate. [ laughter ] >> although it's a little disturbing, you know, he gets excited when there's disasters, because gets restless if everything is just quiet. [ laughter ] >> but under his leadership we have revamped fema into a stronger more efficient agency. the whole federal government has gotten smarter at preventing and recovering from disasters, and s

shining rails in every part of our country are aimed at grand central station, heart of the nation's greatest city, drawn by the magnetic force of the fantastic metropolis, day and night, great trains rushed toward the hudson river. sweep down its eastern bank. flash briefly by the houses south of 125th street. dive into the two and a hlaf mile tunnel beneath the avenue. and then, grand central station. crossroads of a million private lives, gigantic stage on which are played a thousand dramas daily. just imagine listening to that on the radio and the image that would conjure in your mind. since then the terminal has threaded itself into popular culture even more. "mad men's" roger sterling forged himself on oysters and martinis there. cary grant called his mother from a phone booth before fleeing town on the 20th century limited. animals romp in the main concourse in "madagascar." a tightrope walk beneath the station. it was one of the first multiuse buildings. stores, offices, all the diversity of a city within the confines of one building. i have to admit i'm not sure i believe this story but "

city. national thrift store day. city officials are heading to a housing store in tribeca to encourage new yorkers to considering donating to or buying from secondhand stores. >>> the nwa bio pic holds the highest august opening for an r >>> you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans. >> we are looking today at what will be a good day to get to that. be careful because today there might be a moderate risk of rip currents on the south facing shores of long island, maybe new york city beaches. low risk down the jersey shore. southwest wind that you see this afternoon, 10 to 15 knots, a sea breeze creates a relationship at the beaches. we have record heat on the way today. 96 degrees could probably feel like 100. tomorrow we are near the record high, so, there you go. today. your commute. weather and traffic every seven minutes. >>> we will show you pictures from newscopter 7 and show you the brooklyn bridge. brooklyn bridge heading into brooklyn, all lanes closed. ov

[laughter] the whole city employment. just the national impact. i owned by city. i knew every single block of it. if i wanted to how people thought about it issue, it was manageable. when you go to congress and you start getting into the lobby on so many different interests groups, for every pro there is a con. when we vote on it issue, the impact at the national level is the most sobering moment. we say freshman, but i like to say fresh woman. it was a time when the president asked for the right to initiate military force. that was so -- we went to take care of the city. if there was a bad guy, you need to be trained and skilled to do that. to use military force was a very sobering moment. i missed the intimacy of my constituents. i love going home for district time. i get to touch the people and hear from them. i get that energy. mi meeting my mark? -- am i meeting my mark? to give an example, the highway trust funds, we talk about issues about minimum wage. education. these are issues we are talking about. i know the intimate impact on our federal laws right do

. >>> a request for president obama tonight to declare a plaza outside the stone wall a national monument. city controller scott stringer wrote to the president last week pushing for christopher park to get the distinction. the stone wall is a private business and is not eligible for national monument status. the iconic gay bar where rites took place is considered as the birthplace of the modern lgbt movement. >>> good news for drivers in the garden state. gas prices in some parts of new jersey dipping below $2 a gallon. prices as low as $1.97 offered at this gas station in wood bridge. this is the ninth straight week gas prices have dropped. the state average is $2.32 a gallon but prices are expected to keep dropping through the fall. >>> growing concerns over topless women in time square. now the state officials have stepped in. why they were questioning the nearly naked panhandlers today. >>> the new security measures amtrak is putting in place for passengers on their trains. >>> no hospitals, no doctors, just two good samaritans that helped deliver a baby on the side of the road. i'm rene s

talk about what it was like then, what the nation saw in its cities. >> i think it made people terriblyink people who didn't know what the conditions in these black cities were like, or these black sections of the cities were just shocked. and querylous. >> helped to clarify what really happened. >> j. edgar hoover and president johnson and a lot of people bleefbelieved that somehow these riots were organized. >> conspiracy? >> there was conspiracy here, we absolutely determined that was not true. that hostility was so high, that any random spark could set them off and that is whad happened. so we said what happened, there was no conspiracy here. >> seven months of investigation led to the kerner commission report, a 426 page bold indictment of race relations if of 1960s america best remembered for a single line. >> our nation is moving towards two societies, one white, one black, separate and unequal. >> discrimination and segregation have long permeated american life, now threaten the live of every american. this deepening divide is not inevitable. the movement poord can be aparte sto

extent, we have an issue that is perhaps more serious in many cities in the country but only also indicates what is happening all over the nation. wasefore the crisis, there an affordable available unit for low income people for only one out of three people in need in the city. today, there is only one out of every four people. a federal housing assistance was not available, that number would be zero. >> to ask a stupid question, james, this sounds like an opportunity for a developer, right? there is a tremendous demand. rents are very high relative to income. there is a pent-up demand for housing stock, so why isn't the right stop being created? sayet me just cause and press is absolutely right, it is a tale of two cities. some are doing remarkably well and there are some neighborhoods that could be doing better. it is also true that like the north fork could not be doing worse. a this question of looking at community with so much demand, if there is so much opportunity for a developer then where is the housing? i think the challenge is, have gotten to the point where there is a huge amount of need but i think it has already b

the sfmta for making that a reality and looking forward to the full 7 day service we urge the city and national park service to move forward for fort mason our past leader was responsible for reviving the plan through the historic tunnel and saw the exhibitions were a natural fit with our restaurants and attractions we needed that extension soovrn and bend to having attractive streetcars to the jerry dell square and the hiding and the muni pier and fort mason we hope you'll all join in supporting it. >> thank you. >> thanks john and representing the southern end we're pleased to be joined by katie the president of the rincon hill mission bay association she's been a unifying voice in government and other organizations to improve the quality of life many evenings down pier 40 where the group has it's meetings and she's a great advocate and critic when need to be but a great partner in improving things in that part of town please join me in welcoming. >> good morning neighbors i see a lot of the familiar faces i'm so excited to be here on behalf of the rincon hill association welcome to the e lin

>> i figure my neighbors will of what out for me. >> reporter: despite the national narrative of a city of control, baltimore is a collection of neighborhoods. one size won't fit all. but all in need of heroes. remember sean? he's now considering a major career change. >> i'm actually in the process of becoming a police officer. >> reporter: is that right? >> yeah. with everything going on now, why not me? >> reporter: it may not be batman, but it is a heroic notion. for the record, we reached out repeatedly to the mayor's office and the police department. they never responded. >>> next, inside the rape trial rocking an elite prep school whose distinguish graduates include john kerry. is the campus culture to blame? to support your energy, immunity and metabolism like never before. centrum multigummies. see gummies in a whole new light. you can help children all around the world grow up strong, thanks to walgreens partnership with vitamin angels. when you get vitamins here... ...you change lives everywhere. walgreens. at the corner of happy and healthy. so, what did you guys they think

nation. continue the c-span cities tour with the story of wilmette -- william jackson palmer who helped bring railroads to colorado. ♪ palmer saw possibilities, and i think it might be the mountains that he fell in love with, and it is right up against pike's peak and this wonderful place, that what he saw as the economic driver was the climate and the mountains, and the fact that people's -- people like himself from the atlantic seaboard would be drawn here, so here for a few weeks or a month or to come and visit and decide to stay, that they would be drawn by the helpful climate and in natural beauty, so he saw this place potential. he built colorado springs along the rail line, and then the rail line connected further south, and this town in particular to be his home, and he always saw it as an anecdote, if you will, to eastern industrialization. for this young man who grew up in the second largest city in the entire country, he looked to the west, and we have this vast, open expanse of land, seemingly limitless, and he envisioned a place here where people could come and live warts stay an

the first national city bank of new york, you know it as citigroup. building in old havana. u.s. certified claim, $27 million. next up, western union, now the cuban telephone company, u.s. certified claim of $4 million. you see a big line out front there. those are cubans lining up to refill the minutes on their phones. you were just talking about coca-cola. the headquarters of coca-cola, painted red and white for the cuban flag. that u.s. certified claim is $118 million. the sears department store. it must have been a very pod dern building at the time. it is now a computer center, u.s. certified claim of $16 million. g.e.,great location on this g.e. property, now empty, certified claim, $25 million. here is the issue with certified claims. for the u.s. embargo to be lifted, one of the conditions in it is that these claims must be settled. i asked john kerry about this when he spoke recently at the council on foreign relations. >> for the embargo to be lifted against cuba, the law requires that u.s. claims against cuba be settled. what's your positio

. >>> san francisco's cable cars are a national treasure. today city officials said those who operate them should be treasured as well. and after two accidents thus year that seriously injured operators, there's a new safety campaign. carolyn tyler joins us along the powell street cable car. >> reporter: you know these cable cars move pretty slowly, about 10 miles an hour. some motorists try to pass them. if you're caught, that's a $238 fine, and it also threatens the safety of the passengers and operators. for the past 15 years, derek johnson has been an operator on san francisco's iconic cable cars. >> most rewarding job. >> it can also be dangerous since the cable cars stop in the middle of the street. in april, 53-year-old santiago montoya suffered a broken leg and fractured rib when hit by a car while helping passengers get off his cable car. another operator is fighting for his life after being struck by a motorcycle in june. >> these two incidents this year on the cable car have redoubled our resolve to make sure that not just the whole system b

. >> reporter: tens of thousands of people packed into guatemala city's national park.s widespread anger and frustration at a political system people say has failed them, with calls for the president to step down. >> translator: we are tired but we know that now is the time to rise up. guatemala has never been poor. the government has stolen from us. we need to rise up, because we want to show the world that the people united can achieve change. >> reporter: the president televised deny on sunday only served to bring more people to the streets. many schools and businesses were shut to allow students and staff to take part. they were joined by groups who have been blocking roads around the country for days. guatemala might be a country of sharp divisions with rich and poor, urban and rural, seldom coming together, and that's what makes this protest so unique. people from across the country uniting forces for a common goal. >> reporter: the president watched the demonstrations on security cameras from the safety of a government office. just days ago a judge indicted the f

. >>> wallet hub ranks 62 of the nations biggest cities from the best to the worse. san jose was ranked number four. san francisco is tied in eighth place. by the way the city of oakland was ranked number 23. >> all right. it's a nice place to live. >>> more good news for donald trump. what we are learning this morning about the republican presidential race as the first candidate to get ready for a big debate. >> tragedy under the big top during an east coast storm. what we now know about the collapse of a circus tent that trapped 100 people inside. >> good morning. we are looking at the south bay commute and it looks pretty good here. >> some very good news for the firefighters in lake county. it's this morning. in fact i've seen a couple tweets from the fire people who said it's much cooler. 51 and 52. look at the humidity. upper 80s. having necessary school supplies can mean the difference between success and failure. the day i start, i'm already behind. i never know what i'm gonna need. new school, new classes, new kids. it's hard starting over. to help, sleep tr

it's a powerful image seen across the city during national night out. it's hard to forget another image we've seen on city streets over the last few days. it was a violent weekend in new york. grainy surveillance video captured a shooting scene at a house party in east new york. nine people were shot. in red hook, five were shot on monday night in a drive-by. one of the victims, a 19-year-old pregnant woman. she survived. her unborn baby didn't. >> it was senseless. she -- this is an unborn child. this child was innocent. >> reporter: the police commissioner and mayor de blasio tried to send a message. despite the violence we've seen lately, the city is safer. >> look at the facts and stop the hysteria. >> reporter: the nypa says overall crime is down 6% but murder is up 9%. the commissioner believes it's events like these that are crucial to improving reducing crime. also. we cannot do it without you. >> reporter: parents told us they were grateful to police for providing a safe, fun night out for them and their kids. >> it's great and wonderful what th