let's talk about nebraska. why does trex the company, want to put its waste water in nebraska?hat do you think of this? >> you know i think people think that nebraska is just this fly-over country and now they think we are just their dumping ground as well. from my perspective, they can't get permits in other states because fracking laws have become so difficult but now nebraska is essentially the wild wild west. we were seen as an easy target for them to get a permit. >> what's the danger here if there is any, from what you know? >> well there are 16,000 disposal wells in kansas over 600 in nebraska still using 120 or so. they haven't leaked. all right? there's no sense in scaring people in nebraska. they should be able to make their own choices but it doesn't make sense to scare them. you have these wells. it can be done safely. sally jewel, the secretary of interior, says fracking can be done safely and disposal of the water can be done safely. >> do you believe, that jane? >> no. transcanada told us they could do it safely as well and they had 14 leaks in their first year o

the nebraska territory on missouri's border is poised to join the union. u.s.enator steven douglas proposes a controversial plan splitting the territory in two, kansas and nebraska. >> the kansas/nebraska act made the decision on whether a new territory would be slave or free to the voters. >> it will impart peace to the country and stability to the union. >> from the chaos the voice of reason emerges in abraham lincoln. >> white man takes the place in nebraska now who will inform the negro that he is free? as much as you do not object to my taking my hogs to nebraska therefore i must not object to your taking your slave. i admit it is perfectly logical if there in fact is no difference between hogs and negroes. >> despite lincoln's efforts to kansas-nebraska act is passed the decision that expands slavery. the vote settles nothing and ignites a fire storm. violence divides nebraska and kansas and battle lines are drawn in jesse's hometown. face off against abolitionists. >> these were men on both sides of the union-rebel divide fighting at a local level using

the nebraska territory on missouri's border is poised to join the union. u.s.enator steven douglas proposes a controversial plan splitting the territory in two, kansas and nebraska. >> the kansas/nebraska act made the decision on whether a new territory would be slave or free to the voters. >> it will impart peace to the country and stability to the union. >> from the chaos the voice of reason emerges in abraham lincoln. >> white man takes the place in nebraska now who will inform the negro that he is free? as much as you do not object to my taking my hogs to nebraska therefore i must not object to your taking your slave. i admit it is perfectly logical if there in fact is no difference between hogs and negroes. >> despite lincoln's efforts to kansas-nebraska act is passed, the decision that expands slavery. the vote settles nothing and ignites a fire storm. violence divides nebraska and kansas and battle lines are drawn in jesse's hometown. face off against abolitionists. >> these were men on both sides of the union-rebel divide fighting at a local level using

it wasn't easy for the town of bellevue, nebraska.urse of the tournament, they beat frontage roads, corn mazes, universal remotes, oboes, mason jars, and the musical note b flat. so, well done. and now, this is very exciting. we actually are going to speak right now via video chat with the mayor of bellevue, nebraska, rita sanders. hello, rita! [ cheers and applause ] congratulations. we are here to announce that you have actually won the "late night" tournament of things. congratulations to you and people of bellevue, nebraska. >> thank you. we're happy to accept the national championship of "late night" tournament of things! [ cheers ] >> seth: yeah! look at the good people of bellevue! [ applause ] very exciting. very impressive security, mayor. [ light laughter ] everyone seems very happy except the police officer to your left. so tell me, how are you going to celebrate tonight, mayor? >> well, there will probably be dancing in the street as well as city hall. but we also named our park -- we proclaim april 6th to be "late night w

john, like most people, could not afford it a lawyer to hand this will case in nebraska. he lives in california. just so he had to represent himself in this case. and be up against a federal prosecutor who knows all the tricks in the book and is extremely aggressive and unfair as well. >> this is where you stepped up in, you were advising him until he got an attorney, right? >> yes off and on. >> i really couldn't represent him because he couldn't afford to pay me anything, really, and i tried to speak to the prosecutor on his behalf, and she wouldn't even speak to me. why? because i hadn't entered an appearance in nebraska to represent him which would have meant that i would basically be stuck with a case, a very small case in nebraska without getting paid and also without local council not being in a nebraska lawyer i could not appear in that court without a local council. >> you didn't have enough money to pay david but you're driving around with $25,000 in your car. how did that happen? i'm sure people are wondering. >> no, that was my life savings. i stole a lot of t

same thing in nebraska. nebraska is a nominally nonpartisan legislature, but overwhelmingly dominated by republican and conservative legislators. nevertheless, conservative nebraska just passed a bill to repeal the death penalty in that state. and they passed it by a big margin. it's not a done deal, it has a couple more votes it has to go through. there's talk of a filibuster, there's talk from the nebraska governor that i knew he might veto the repeal. but if that repeal bill keeps passing the same way it did last week, in nebraska, they've got a veto-proof majority to repeal the death penalty. in deep red republican nebraska. so there's this weird dynamic going on that's making all of this really unpredictable and really fascinating. you have the process of lethal injection, logistically becoming totally chaotic. it may get struck down by the supreme court in this case next week. even if it doesn't, there are almost no states in the country that actually have a way to get the drugs that are used for letha

i think in ncaa terms bellevue, nebraska is kentucky.'t just mean that people only spend a year in bellevue, nebraska, then go to the nba. what i mean is they are enthusiastic, and so i think if you really -- if you like mason jars, you got to get all your friends who like mason jars together and you have to create a voting block, otherwise bellevue, nebraska is going to blow right through that. so please go online and vote. here -- sometimes when i say this, we put up a website. again, i said it yesterday, i don't know why, i don't think anybody is at home writing down a website. "oh, "late night seth, i missed it." but please vote. it's very exciting to us. and again, the outcome of this could not matter less. so, please, please waste your time with us. [ applause ] you guys, we have such an excellent show for you tonight. kevin bacon is here. [ cheers and applause ] so happy to have him back. from the nbc show "undateable," chris d'elia will be stopping by. [ cheers and applause ] and we'll be making tuna carpaccio with the chef and c

the kansas- nebraska act is passed and expands slavery. and the vote ignites a fire storm.s nebraska and kansas and spilling over in western missouri and battle lines are drawn in jesse's hometown. and bush whackers face off against the abolitionist. these men on both sides of the divide fighting in a local level and using brutal tactics. on the james' family farm she is busy shaping the next generation of bush whackers and she sos it as her duty to fight for the confederacy. >> don't take anything from the yankees. it is every man's responsibility to hang o. >> her coaching is what criminalologist is violence conditioning. we own slaves and no one is taking that away from us. seeing violence as a way of life he absorbs that attitude from her. the family farm is a confederate strong hold. frank and jesse are a force that the north will have to reckon with. on april 12th, 1861. the civil war begins. and frank james is plunging in the battle and fighting with the confederate army. she knows that jesse will join him and both sons will be at war for the cause. >> you are going

the gentleman from nebraska is recognized. mr. smith: mr.er, i request unanimous consent to allow mr. brady of texas to manage the time for the ways and means committee. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. brady: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. brady: i appreciate the gentleman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i thank the gentleman from nebraska for his leadership on ending this terrible tax. can you imagine working your whole life to build up a family-owned business or a farm and then upon your death uncle sam swoops in and takes nearly half of what you spent a lifetime building up for your children and grandchildren. can you imagine in this case, my friend from washington talked about this was a farm that had been in this family since the 1880's, five generations. it didn't start that size. it started small. they built up over years and years and generations and generations. when the young woman went back to texas, she worked up here, went back to texas to

the morning after the passage of the kansas nebraska act. they came together with their friends. regardless of what party they were from, about 30 of them met in the rooms of edward dickinson from massachusetts here in washington. he is interesting because his daughter is emily dickinson, who is not yet a recluse. she visits her father in washington. she is not there during this time. the picture that room, the two men from massachusetts, because that boarding house has the best food in washington, not kidding. they all go into this meeting from all these different parties and they come out saying, we must organize a new party to stand against the slave power that is taking over our government and turning it into an oligarchy. they suggest they could take the name republican after jefferson and the declaration of independence. and that is, i think, the most important foundational moment for the republican party. it takes a long time to get people to sign up. in 1854, 1855 people get elected on anti-nebraska tickets. they're people who do not like the law. they do not yet have a c

in deep red republican nebraska. so there is this weird dynamic going on that is making it all really fascinating and unpredictable. you have the lethal injection case, to is chaotic, there are almost no states in the country that have the way to get the drugs that are used for lethal injection anymore. that is happening at the nuts and bolts level. it is becoming just impossible to do it. then in politics the broader vote on the right to have republicans change tack on criminal justice issues including sentencing reform and drug policy and all of this other kind of broad criminal justice stuff but that apparently extends to changing conservative views on the death penalty. it's conservative groups and republican addvocacy groups, on the eve of this supreme court case there is oklahoma oklahoma the inventors of lethal injection in the first place now introducing the newest form of execution, which they say doesn't have the participation or even the input of doctors or scientists of any kind. >> people have made fun o

. >> white man takes his man to the slave and as much as you do not object to my taking my in nebraskaerefore i must not object to your taking your slave. now, i admit this is perfectly logical. if there, in fact, is no difference between hogs and negros. >> despite lincoln's effort, the kansas, nebraska, act is passed, the decision that expands slavery. this settles nothing and ignites a firestorm and divides kansas and nebraska and battle lines are drawn in jesse's hometown. they face off against abolitionists called jayhawkers. >> these were men on both sides of the union rebels divide fighting at a local level using brutal tactics. >> on the james' family farm, zerelda is busy shaping the next generation of bushwhackers and sees it as her duty to fight for the confederacy. >> don't you take anything from those yankees. you hear me? it's every man's responsibility to hold on to what they got. if somebody isn't holding on to what is theirs, you just take it. >> her coaching is the beginning of what criminologists call violent conditioning. >> she said we own slaves and nobody is goin

host: let's go to nebraska. tom, good morning.aller: i'm curious, talking about the oil going over the aquifer. i live in nebraska. i have a pipeline that they fixed 2500 feet of it. that is hauling crude oil from canada and it is a two to three foot type line. it actually goes under the south platte river. it has 10 in there since 1953. host: what is your question about it? caller: i don't have any problems and it's been there since 1953. guest: age is an issue with gas. tom is talking about an important pipeline. supporters of keystone say we've already got this 60-year-old pipeline. let's not eat so concerned about keystone. a good operator that inspects that doesn't have to worry. the keystone one pipeline had a dozen small leaks in its first couple years of operation. they shut down proactively for a little bit. environmentalists say how can we trust them to patrol this. this furthers the debate about who should be in charge. the question we often get is does it matter what's moving to the pipeline? host: are oilsands more co

now, here's the thing, we picked a tiny town of about 50,000 people in bellevue, nebraska.n't realize is, of course, unlike mason jars, where no one really has -- feels strongly about them, bellevue, nebraska, obviously has people who live there. they've done very well in the tournament because -- but here's the thing. this tournament was supposed to be about friendship, about joy, about love, and we're very disappointed because the city of bellevue tweeted this today. here's a photo. you can see two police officers arresting a mason jar. [ laughter ] that is just not cool, you guys. that is not what this is supposed to be about. so, look, if you -- bellevue nebraska, if you feel like they're playing by the rules, go ahead and vote for them. but if you want to help those poor mason jars, you can go ahead and vote for them too. we're going to have the results -- i have no idea when. anyway. [ laughter ] could be months, could be next year. probably monday, though. so, anyway, make sure you vote. you guys, we have a great show for you tonight. ludacris is here. [ cheers and a

. >> um, it's in nebraska. >> seth: okay.know, we picked things we thought people wouldn't feel strongly one way or the other about. but of course, by picking a town, bellevue, nebraska, those people feel strongly and the people in bellevue, i feel like they're really going online and voting this thing up. if you care at all about "b" flat or if you want to stick it to bellevue, you got to -- you got to get online and vote. so go to latenightseth.com or i think actually any website has this now. it's that popular. go to anything.com and it will be one of the first things there. obviously it's taking the world by storm. [ laughter ] you guys, we have such an excellent show for you tonight. jesse eisenberg is here. [ cheers and applause ] can't wait to talk to jesse. also from the adult swim series, "children's hospital," the very funny, my friend, rob huebel will be stopping by. [ cheers and applause ] and we willll have music from years and years. they are great. [ cheers and applause ] can't wait to hear them. now, we mentio

bellevue, nebraska, versus oboes. third largest city in nebraska because we felt like, "oh, no one will feel strongly one way or the other about it." but, of course, people who live in bellevue have taken up the cause. it's been in the paper there. so i feel like that's your one seed now is bellevue, nebraska. [ laughter ] with that said, i would ask the good people of bellevue if you live there, if you don't like the town, you can vote for oboes. there is top secret. i know you're worried we're going to release the results and people in town are gonna say like, "hey, if you like oboes so much, you can move to omaha!" [ laughter ] but we're never going to publish it, so vote with your heart. if you got a couple bummer parking tickets lately in bellevue, you know, show some woodwind love. i don't know. [ laughter ] guys, the point being is this is so -- these brackets are so very dumb. but you can go online and vote. here's is the place can you go online. although, i never know why we do this. it seems to me in this da

now, in nebraska, there is a zoo.e your kids to the zoo and then you have your little machine which has a camera and records everything. uh-oh. roll the tape. >> i think he is about to do something crazy. >> look, they are looking at us. >> oh, man. [ laughter ] >> whoa. >> i guess he didn't want his picture taken. you have got to ask them. you do have to ask nicely. straight from pot to gorillas, we are doing it all. 375 kajito. he had been asserting his masculinity with some of the other male gorillas in there. these people arrived at exactly the right or wrong time to witness this display. but it makes you feel a little better that there are 31 and a half inch panes of glass answered only broke through the first one. so not a problem. >> were the urchins traumatized by this are they in therapy. >> they were in therapy. little girl was beating her chest, but the little girl was beating her chest. she was pretending to be a gorilla. i think he didn't like that. >> i have no idea. but i resent any gorillas asserting t

. >> in the spring of 1861, 24-year-old william hickok turns up in rock creek, nebraska, a tiny stope pony express where bill does odd jobs, keeps to himself and stays out of trouble. >> not yet. i told you not to call me that. >> well you tell him i'm coming back. you tell him i'm coming back for what is rightfully mine. >> if you knew what a wholesome disregard i had for liars and rascals, you'd stay out of my way. >> i'm coming back, bill. i'm coming back. >> the station was owned by a tough local character who was named dave mccanles and they hadn't been paying their rent. mckrchl anles was always coming by and harassing people at the station. >> mccanles was a bully. >> hickok's dislike for bullies traces back to his time as a young boy. he grew up with abolitionist parents and his family was part of the underground railroad that helped slaves escape to freedom. >> the underground railroad was a network of trails and safe houses that helped people escape from north and then on to canada. >> it's illegal to do what they were doing but many would be involved for what they would ca

nebraska, wild bill hickok and horace wellman stand trial for killing through men.m defensive company property at the trial. >> you have been found not guilty. you're free to go. >> hickok leaves town to avoid becoming a target for retribution and finds a cause worth fighting for. as the civil war comes to the american frontier, hickok continues in the family tradition of fighting against slavery by volunteering for the union cause and returns as a scout in the federal army civilian calvary. >> he was renowned as a dead shop. >> hickok develops his signatures reverse draw, or twist draw, that will soon make him famous. >> i have seen sights that would make the wicked sick. what i say is true. >> after four years of bloody battles, with over 620,000 casualties and nearly a million more missing in action, the civil war finally comes to an end. hickok heads south to springfield, missouri, looking for new opportunities. >> wild bill hickok may be an honorable man with a strong sense of justice but his clothing choices and hairstyles, facial and otherwise, are kind of ha

om nebraska. mr. smith. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on h.r. 1105, the at the time tax repeal act of 2015. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the opportunity to stand here today. i rise in support of repealing the estate tax. repealing this death tax is a top priority for nebraskans, farmers, ranchers, and small business owners. not just nebraska's farmers, ranchers, and small business owners but folks all around the country. agriculture, particularly raising cattle and crops such as corn, is a land and capital intensive process. these nebraskans aren't sitting on piles of cash. their assets are the land and the equipment they use to help feed our nation and feed the world. they pay income taxes on what they earn, and they pay high prop

what you have in your poll is what i experienced in nebraska.obody thinks the president is taking tough enough stand in my state. bill nuclear neaping shun with iran is the right thing to do or people in nebraska say what about that? >> iran has about 19,000 centrifuges trying to enrich uranium right now. the obama administration started by saying they would get them down to 1000. now they're talking about 6,000. when you ask people in nebraska how many centrifuges should iran have to enrich nuclear material? the answer is zero. republicans and democrats are united in real america. only in washington, d.c. is a deal this bad have any momentum. bill: why then, explain this, is the administration pursuing it with such vigor? >> i think it is really hard to understand what presidents sometimes do when they're in legacy mode but we should be clear. iranians mean the world ill. the iranian state that has nuclear weapons will stimulate an arms race in the middle east. it will be the end of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. if you have iranian nuke

louis and texas nebraska and is coming to williamsburg after starting in ontario.so the actually in some ways and i don't mean to be disrespectful because there's something very worldly about all of this, he is seeing america this crucial moment. is that now part of the journey that a religious person will take? >> without speaking in global terms now i don't think so but it wasn't then either. one of the things i realized from speaking to a lot of his classmates in seminary is what really set him apart was that his travels intellectually and physically were very different than three people were emerging from small-town german midwestern southern texas let's say life and kind of going straight into seminary. doing your time there and you go off to a small town congregation and off you go. you would probably see that as moral majority. he set himself back -- apart even and because the 1950s he is reading george santa ana. he is physically and intellectually elsewhere. i would say today to your question basically what it cosmepolitan experienced -- be the norm for an

when it collapsed he felt horrible and responsible so he decides we will leave town and moved to nebraska which i should also mention that was day prerequisite you have to leave where you are from to start your life over in a new place in order to pass the issue cannot pass if everyone knows who you are. so he says they will move to nebraska then along the way they decide they will pass as white their daughter mary sell white man and they have the baby and the attending physician says i cannot write the baby is whites on the birth is to begin because clearly the baby is not white. i don't know what to do. it is awkward. is essentially the of white husband end up suing the wife to get the marriage annulled to claim that he did not know that his wife was black and was passing until the baby was born. so there are many cases with heftier like a cautionary tale you don't want to pass because you never know down the line or the next generation might give your secret away. thank you for your question. >> you teach interesting courses and i presume that you use the book in your courses and what

that includes parts of southern texas and northwestern kansas southwestern parts of nebraska. those are the hire risk areas of large hail damaging winds and tornadoes. but the entire region from parts of southern nebraska to southern texas are looking at the possibility of bigger storms. further east across the gulf coast how much heavy rain we have picked up. we have seen showers and storms over the last several days and the forecast is for several more inches of rain through the panhandle georgia alabama and further west through louisiana. flash flooding continues to be a concern. parts of colorado and wyoming we are expecting about two feet of snowfall. that had been ongoing. here's a forecast over the next couple of days we are expecting another additional 1-2 feet across parts of colorado. significant snow out there. when you take a look at the temperatures across the country the only cold spot is where we have the snow across parts of colorado and also wyoming. most of the nation looking spring like. temperatures across the eastern u.s. in the 70's and 60's for many of y

we are looking at parts of nebraska all of the way down to portions of mississippi.ornadoes possible on this day. deep keep that in mind. it will eventually be in the southeast for the weekend. here's a look at the high temperatures in the nation today. in the 90's now in places like dell rio and in the northeast behind our cold front a lot cooler only in the 50's today new york city. low 40's in cleveland. >> let's talk about the rain and problems it can cause. two families forced out of their homes after living on the edge of a dangerous sink hole. years of erosion has swallowed backyards in the new jersey neighborhood. heavy rains making it worse. they are trying to figure out iffy rouges can be stopped. >> a volcano in chili ee -- chel li chile erupting not once but twice. 4,000 people in 12 miles are being evacuated. >> 20 minutes until the top of the hour. hanging up the shocking numbers about the irs not answering taxpayers as we learned, it has employees getting some big time bonuses. >> a fugitive on the run for four decades turns himself in. the reason why

here's a guy you don't want to mess with, a visitor at the nebraska zoo recorded this video on his cellilla rushing toward the window cracking the glass. officials say a cracked window nothing new although it is rare. i would lose it if he came flying at me. the visitor posted his video to youtube as you can imagine it has received, thousands millions. >> reporter: that happened to me at the philadelphia zoo. >> you were attacked by a gorilla. >> reporter: i was sitting there mining my own business and that guy targeted me and went away he was laughing, because i was on the other side -- >> you flew. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live double scan as we look outside there's sunshine, there's wilmington sky6 live hd a pretty day buildings, great day for shorts and t-shirts. 65 in philadelphia. 65234 wilmington. 63 in trenton. in the upper 50s in allentown. all these numbers on their way up big time. winds not a factor, we're seeing them climb in a couple double digits in a couple of spots. any clouds dover overnight receded to the south. it's working into western pennsylvania. overall, tod

. >> the manufacturer is making these in lincoln, nebraska, and they will ship them at about 10 to 12 month. mike: they are also more attractive. >> the old cars were definitely showing their age. mike: the first impression, the flooring is different, not just old dirty carpet. also, the additional signboards chewing the real-time location of the train and other information. drivers are happy to see that the aisle ways are slightly wider and the seats are bigger. >> it will be great. mike: they are also happy to hear the automated station announcements. >> this is the blue line train to the largo town center. next stop is braddock road. mike: for now they will only appear on the blue line eight car trains, but metro will begin using them on other lines soon. mike conneen, abc 7 news. kimberly: ahead --allergies with a vengeance. we are breaking it down in explaining why you have been coughing this season more. and the forecast. (brad) holy cats! has, has anybody else been experiencing a snail infestation? no? i'll tell you later. polygons. without them: no shapes. without shapes, our

. >> when the kansas-nebraska act was signed in 1854, the very act of signing it, of just signing that piece of paper was viewed by missourians as an act orf war. when northerners decided the popular sovereignty would decide the fate of kansas, we will send people to settle, that was viewed as an act of war by many missourians who assumed this would be theirs. there are rates back and forth across the kansas border almost a medially. in may of 1856, john brown, his sons and a couple of followers dragged five men from their cabins and they are shot and hacked to death with broad swords. that clear that area of southern settlers. >> here in topeka, if you look at the school just standing outside, you would be hard-pressed to determine whether white students are african-american students attended because this do board -- the school board did provide the same materials that the white schools offered. what is even more interesting for most people when they visit is they find out that after graduating from elementary school, african-american students attended integrated middle and high schoo

the guides are paid too little for their work. >>> severe storms swept through areas of texas and nebraska. more expected this evening. thousands left without power in texas, a day after storms battered parts of the region with rain and high winds. other areas experienced flooding and tennis-ball-size hail. >>> executives at time warner and comcast will try to save their merger meting to address antitrust concerns. the $45 billion deal will unite the two largest cable companies. according to bloomberg a deal may never happen as d ox j could move to block it without changes. >> a recall for the mini cooper. b.m.w. is recalling 91,000 mini coopers due to a defective air back. it includes 2005 to 2008 models. and the mini cooper s. the passenger side mat may not sense someone is in the seat. the recall is said to begin. they will replace it for free >>> a final story takes us to the top of the world, to mt everest. this year the death of 16 sherpas killed by an avalanche in 2014 is drawing attention to their low pay and the dangerous conditions in which they work. we have the report from kath

>> a frightening trip to the zoo for several families in nebraska.ideo shows a gorilla suddenly charge and then slam the glass with its huge fists. you can see a couple of those terrified faces in the reflection. the glass, it cracked, and everyone just ran off. the zoo administrators say the people were never really in danger. the glass, even if cracked would not break. wouldn't want to risk it though. you might say this guy is the world's most patient pet owner in tokyo. he's been seen taking his 200-pound pet tortoise for a walk. a lease you arely stroll might be a better phrase. photos are all over social media and the pictures are going viral. especially this one where the turtle is wearing a frilly pink dress. that wants surprise me to see this on the streets of san francisco. lisa? >> the marine heyer is shallow it won't take long for the fog to pull back. 72 in oakland with 76 in fremont. and the look ahead. the warmest day is today and tomorrow and then cooler. >> thank you lisa. and thank you for joining us on the abc7 saturday morning news