new mexico would have a territorial status. in other words, california would skip the territorial states. why? california's population zoomed from 6,000 to over 80,000 to 90,000 practically overnight. why? they discovered gold in the sacramento valley, and people, namely people in the north, came out there to find it and take their share, so that was that. as for the slavery, the slave trade in dc. see, dc is controlled, and congress does have that authority, and he said it would be inexpedient to outlaw slavery in dc, one side, but it would be expedient to end the slave trade in dc. see the balance? for the south, now both new mexico and california would eventually be free, and the north, everybody knew that. what's the south going to get? a tougher fugitive slave law. slaves were constantly running away and getting help from northerners, and some northern states had laws that forbid its police to do anything about capturing those slaves and returning them to their owners. that had to be stopped so that webster's arguments on

texas and new mexico quarreled over their border. texas was going to send troops and clay comes up with a proposal that if texas will back off and surrender any claim through the mexico territory we will pay the texas debt acquired before indexation. said texas get something but it gives up something. is quite remarkable they could see how they were connected. cannot just deal with new mexico to say it will be a territory. texas will say that is mine. you have to get them to back off. how do you do that? then this is what clade did. i am not sure i am answering your question maybe it is something i forgot to mention. >> excellent presentation. what about the comments that if the war had been fought years later the south probably would have won? >> it didn't happen. >> right. but you said that was because the north industrializes so much in the intervening 10 years. do you think the north north.deliberately got on dap footing or it was serendipitous? >> it was a process they had the railroads and the industry they have the men and one

that reservoir, that is new mexico. further saw another further south another 80 miles, lost crew says. it should be full of euribor water, but there is none to be said. farmers will have to look underground. afterears ago, generations of bitter argument, farmers on either side of the border struck a deal, but in the two states that involve an this farmer feels betrayed. >> i am always suspicious when someone comes from the government and says they are there to help. i believe most times that is not much of a help. it is more of a hindrance. >> and the texas border town of el paso. come to aande has dusty and. it is irrigation season. there should be water here. >> can you believe how dry this is? look at this. absolutely no moisture. 9. >> at the end of the day what texas feels is the water is entitled to from the compaq is not getting from elephant butte reservoir, 90 miles north of here. that is what started this war. >> selling and forming the arid southwest is the very stuff of american folklore. water wars are har

and working with land grant rights issues and cooperatives in northern new mexico. peggy terry's one of my favorite individuals. she is an appalachian my grant who came -- migrant who came from a klan family initially who migrates to uptown chicago on the north side of chicago and becomes a welfare or rights activist. and she goes to washington, becomes a spokesperson for poor whites there and is able to bring black welfare rights act visits, white welfare rights activists and chicano activists together s. and she ends up getting so much credibility through the campaign, she is tapped as the vice presidential candidate for the peace and freedom party which is a very sort of, you know, small third party in 1968 that doesn't win a lot of votes, but she's the veep nominee, and i don't know, i can't remember how many states now, but like ten states. and so it was an opportunity for women, um, to, you know, flex their muscle in some sense in issues and directions that now do not really allow them to or really gave voice to. so, yeah, so that's a great question. and, of c

, colorado and california meet down to the chijuajua area of new mexico. there was one excavation along the way i remember out in the desert nears winslow, arizona. the desert out there is just a still life with a few landmarks on the horizon and this empty hole, the little colorado river desert, the painted desert, and we were working on a 500-room pueblo dating back to about 1400 ad. i just remember the wind just hailing down on us for days and you would be working down with trowels inside of a trench and if you stop for too long, the sand would start to fill up your hole again because it was blowing so much and everybody was turned away from the wind. so it looked like some kind of religious thing was going on here, all these people bowed to the ground for days and days tinkering with some unimaginable smallness in front of them while the wind just pushed harder and harder, sand blasting across you, filling up all the rooms that you just emptied out as if the desert is rolling back over itself. because even where trails are left, trails disappear out th

cnn, new mexico. >> turns out building a pressure cooker bomb is just as cheap and easy as it looks.s all done with about $75 worth of common household ingredients. >>> governor brown has a neighbor to thank. sacramento police say a man tried to break into the fwovrner's locked building sunday night. a neighbor saw him on brown's balcony and called 911. police arrested him on suspicion of prowling. the governor told the story today in a rally for crime victim's rights saying he intends to make the state safer. >> i know the feeling. i know the anxiety, and i want to do nothing more than make this place safe, but i got to make it actually happen. >> the governor says something similar happened about a year ago. he says three men tried to break into his house in oakland while his wife was home alone. according to brown, the men claimed they were looking to buy real estate in the neighborhood so police let them go. >>> well, you may have seen it in the skies today around the bay area, that weird flying machine. it's a swiss-made solar plane. it took a 16-hour test flight around san fran

i've been convicted in new mexico on three separate occasions for rape. >> he was convicted of threeold us he had raped 22 women total. so i knew there were 19 other women out there who he had attacked and terrified. he wanted to remain anonymous, because he was getting out soon and he didn't want any of these victims to see him, because then he'd have to go back into prison. >> when we met him, he was coming up for parole on a 44-year sentence and it wasn't his first time in prison. >> my first rape was in 1975. and i picked up two to ten years on that and i served two. and i was released on parole, i lasted about a week and again was picked up and charged with a rape. i was returned to the santa fe state penitentiary from 1980 to 1986 when i was released again on parole. i lasted on that parole, for about two weeks. and then i began again, serial raping. >> in this rare interview, the inmate went into great detail about the preparations, tactics and execution of his crimes. and while his comments are disturbing, they offer valuable insight into the mind of a dangerous criminal. >>

what about the big picture i'm tom harben coming up in this half hour a county in new mexico has become the first county in the united states to outlaw gas and oil extraction why did that county choose to fight back against big oil and are more communities across the country planning to do the same thing and bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world and some workers are among the most it's lloyd in the world but despite its poverty in third world conditions bangladesh still has more of a backbone or moral compass than the united states at least when it comes to corporate criminals i'll tell you why and i'd still take. it as the rest of the news despite its wide wide range of environmental and health consequences the practice of fracking or extracting natural gas from shale rock beds is on the rise across the country and because of this growth in fracking the oil and gas industries and even the mainstream corporate media haven't been shy about saying how much our nation could benefit from this natural gas production boom even president obama noted in his state of the union

in colorado and new mexico, native americans built thriving towns. in the rain forests of mesoamerica, the ancient maya created magnificent city-states. here three million people once lived. in the earliest cradle of civilization, ancient mesopotamian farmers once made these deserts bloom. halfway around the world, in california, are clues to understanding the fall of mesopotamia, as farmers here struggle to overcome a threat to this fertile garden land. the ruins of ancient societies may hold keys to our own survival as, out of the past, archaeologists explore one of the greatest of mysteries -- the decline and fall of grand civilizations. mission control: ignition... and liftoff. liftoff... keach: for more than five millennia, humankind has seemed to dominate earth, both creating and destroying grand civilizations. each of these human experiments has changed our planet. this high vantage point brings us a new and sobering view. for the first time, we behold our world as finite, limited. on the darkened face of earth, the lights of cities record the

he was serving a life sentence at the penitentiary of new mexico. >> it was our last day of filming, and we were getting some b roll of a particular inmate, and clapsy was the inmate next door to this guy. and clapsy started talking to me through this cell door, and he started telling me that he was serving a life sentence for the torture/murder of his girlfriend and that he would like to be on the show. >> and we warn you, the interview that took place was one of the most disturbing we've ever conducted. seven years earlier clapsy was working for a cell phone company we he met a 24-year-old woman studying to become a medical animator. her name was mary alice. >> she was, you know, 5 foot nothing, 100 pounds. beautiful, caring. i considered her like an angel. i mean, she was this pure little thing. i mean, i wouldn't smoke around her. i would curb my sailor's tongue around her because it was mary alice and she was fragile. you know? >> during the few months the pair dated clapsy says he often used drugs, including methamphetamines. then one day clapsy says he discovered two movie tic

meanwhile in new mexico, republican governor susannah martinez, a real rising star in her party. she gave probably the best speech of the republican national convention. she's very charismatic. she's supposed to be a different kind of 21st century republican. on friday governor martinez had a seemingly nonpartisan, noncontroversial bill sitting on her bill. a bill designed to make it easier for veterans and their spouses to get jobs. so for military families, new mexico would recognize professional licenses issued in other states. the idea was to cut the red tape for veterans and their spouses to make it easier for them to reintegrate after coming home from deployments. governor martinez vetoed that bill. and then immediately signed a bill that was identical except it singled out only straight soldiers' families as being able to benefit from the provision. so she vetoed the one that included all families and then signed the one that was just for straight people. same bill but 100% less gay. the republican party says it does not want to be known for this kind of fire and brim ston

the invitation of the mexican government to settle here they were being chased out by the new president of mexico was also a general of the army is there. and they had to defend themselves against santa ana as armies that lasted for about a year but finally general sam houston leading these volunteers defeated santa ana at a place called saniel sento and in defeating the president general of mexico they were able to force him to sign a treaty. the treaty formed a new nation so that he would never again come across the rio grande river to bother of the people in texas any more treaty also said. the land of texas. belonged to the people who lived on the land of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas now it is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the us doesn't belong to the federal government it launched of the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land in texas they have to lease it from a spring there are military bases school. ok go not. fall off the hip. if. what the republic of texas is t

david mattingly, cnn, new mexico. >> perspective on this.ning every day, stopping someone before they can commit an act like this is very difficult. more difficult than we even imagined sometimes. however, what made the difference at the marathon was how people responded after the bombs went off. tremendous energy, tremendous know-how and triage, and the more they understand about these bombs and what they can do, the better first responders can limit the impact and that's part of the equation how we stay safer. >>> we're going to take a break. emotions of anger, disbelief, heartbreak from the mother of the boston bombing suspects. she speaks out to cnn. what she says, when we come back. this day calls you. to fight chronic osteoarthritis pain. to fight chronic low back pain. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did something for your pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a pain reliever fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your

so for military families, new mexico would recognize professional licenses issued in other states. idea was to cut the red tape for veterans and their spouses to make it easier for them to reintegrate after coming home from deployments. governor martinez vetoed that bill. and then immediately signed a bill that was identical except it singled out only straight soldiers' families as being able to benefit from the provision. so she vetoed the one that included all families and then signed the one that was just for straight people. same bill but 100% less gay. the republican party says it does not want to be known for this kind of fire and brim stone social conservative activism stuff but in states where republicans are in power like kansas and new mexico and states where they have the governor's mansion and majorities in the legislatures, republicans have never been this aggressive, never been this radical on abortion in particular and on a lot of other social conservative issues. no matter how many retired republicans support gay marriage, the ones still in power are still going out

killing our planet our leaders in washington have sat back and watched the world current now one new mexico county has taken matters into its own hands and banned oil extraction within its borders this is the future of the fight against global warming and believe it or not the united states could learn a thing or two about social justice from bangladesh i'll tell you why i feel the. need to know this at a surprise press conference earlier this morning president obama told reporters that he wants to close the guantanamo bay detention center think it is critical for us to understand the guantanamo is not necessary to keep america safe. it is expensive. it is inefficient. is. hurts us in terms of our international standing it lessens cooperation with our allies on counterterrorism efforts it is a recruitment tool for extremists. it needs to be closer than senator obama vowed to show you can't do. in his initial presidential run in two thousand and eight but three months into his second term as president it remains open in as controversy as ever at least two thirds of guantanamo's detainees hav

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mexico, but it is not always easy for them to find something worth watching on television. parents of their children are concerned about the problem, and so are the tv stations. we're looking for newograms to broadcast. eta great, a producer in mexico, says their policy is to reject programs with violent content. >> we think violence starts at home, and it is going to be very hard to eliminate violence when we have a problem that is not only coming from external sources, but from our own homes. >> reporter: that's what cardena decided to air a "superbook" special on the life of jesus this easter weekend. while the new "superbook" series aired for the first time in mexico, this church hosted an event, allowing children to meet gizmo personally and watch the "superbook" special. she invited some of her neighbors, not just two or three, but 22. >> i want to share the story of jesus with these children. otherwise, where we live, it will be very hard for them to know about him. >> reporter: he didn't miss a detail of this story. >> this proves to me that jesus is is the son of god. >> reporter: as a teacher, he rarely sees children paying attention to anything for long periods of time.

helps is that it was 2011 was wet. 1950s were more severe in terms of oklahoma, west texas and new mexico. their address that lasted 10 to 20 years. what was mentioned by alof the witnesses today with the viability of systems during multiyear droughts is what causes into question. we've done a fantastic job. in the late 1800s we can develop the colorado river. are actually viable for managing risk. what comes to better if the comparison between this drought 2011, 2012, 2013 and potential for increased severity of drought condition from temperature. when you add a temperature increase, were not sure what we get. it could be more surprising than we think as occurred in 2002. they lasted through previous strauss. 30s, 50s. the magnitude of the drought immense. the top row, the number of years we've seen other droughts like this. >> dr. pulwarty, one question for you at this point. what are the opportunities for markets and marketplace for he says to improve the situation? you-all studied they are at the clean energy debater at the university of texas. i want to go back to school and study th

. >> at least 12 states are under winter storm advisories watches and warnings from new mexico to iowa. >>> we know it's considerably calmer, but mike, you can see the camera bouncing around a little bit out there. >> it's gusting pretty impressively. you can see a few whitecaps as we look from emeryville back towards the golden gate bridge, but 24-hour temperature change, it's much warmer. i'll tell you how long it will last. >> cheryl: also, the sweet taste of success. milestone that has >>> happening now, families of the contract school shootings are lobbying lawmakers to pass strict gun law measures. vice president and eric holder echoing their concerns. >> cheryl: you are looking at live pictures this is in washington, d.c. and many are delivering remarks calling on congress to pass what they are calling common sense measures to reduce gun violence. you see them at the table and stricter background checks. >> senate democrats are holding a lunchtime meeting to discuss strategy. republicans plan to block any laws to curb access to guns to law abiding citizens. >> today is national

. >>> new mexico investigators are looking into had cause of a deadly school bus crash today. the driver was killed and 9 children were injured. two of the children have serious injuries. police believe the driver was taking a curve when the bus crashed. investigators are expected to be there late into the night. >>> the cal women's basketball is back home after a heart breaking loss in the ncaa final four playoffs. but it was still a great season. >> very exciting. really fun. we had a blast. good year. fun teammates. cool program. it was awesome. >> the bears lost yesterday in new orleans to louisville. the bears had a 10 point halftime lead but couldn't hang on for the win. this was the first bears final four in the school's history and the first appearance by northern california women's team other than stanford. >> we have been saying new orleans since this summer so it was expected. i hope for the kids returning it will -- >> cal head coach says this is the most inspirational, incredible group of women she has ever been around. many are looking forward to the wnba draft.

david mattingly, cnn, secora, new mexico. >> imagine that on a crowded street. that's what happened. >> incredible reporting from mattingly. >> we'll be back with more after this. [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need without any surprise fees. ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. >>> welcome back, everyone. eight years ago today a certain website opened what changed what people do on the internet. youtube opened on this day in 2005. this was the very first video posted. >> all right. so here we are at the elephants. >> that's the co-founder at the san diego zoo. look at those images. pretty primitive by today's standards. careem and his partner sold to google the following year over $1.5 billion. that's the first video. what about the most popular video? >>. ♪ gangnam st

ambassador, former new mexico governor.e is in an upright position, ready to fire, the question, how can we know if this is serious? and how serious is it? >> well, it's -- it's very serious, but we don't know exactly what is going to happen. two things could happen. one, it's in an upright position. a musudan missile, medium range. could be in preparation for a launch, or it could be a deception move. a move to unnerve the international community. either way, the north koreans have achieved making everybody nervous what we have to watch here is asian society, asian leaders, savering face here is very important in asia, now, the problem is that the north korean leader, the young leaders maybe put himself in a corner, and to show to his north korean military that his main audience, going to have to do something. that is worry some. >> sounds like this may be for domestic consumption to bolster his image, this young leader. but if he paints himself into a corner, what is the way out? how do you take an off-ramp, try to figure

and they were just driving on a nice, sunny afternoon in the state of new mexico. >> the driver of thehat killed them turns out to be lloyd larson, a man with nine prior duis. >> when we took his blood that night, it was 0.28, which was over two times the legal limit. he's serving 20 years for four counts of vehicular homicide. >> this desperate chase is all caught on camera, but it need not be played for valverde to remember. the awful event is seared in his mind and probably will be for the rest of his life. >> like nothing i've ever experienced. you can be doing nothing wrong, just driving down the highway, minding your own business, and something like this pops out of nowhere, and your life is taken. driving is probably the most dangerous thing that we do every day. >>> coming up -- a driver has a mysterious car accident. >> what are the chances that a cat jumps out the window and you're rear-ended by a cop? >> but it's what the cops do about it that's shocking. [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient bu

but also unexpected success in places like colorado and defeating bad legislation in virginia in new mexico, in texas, for example. so yeah, if we can't do it on the federal level we're engaging on the state level. the american people need to stand up and we're doing it. if we keep this up, we will change things. >> colin goddard. sam seder is home host of ring of fire. it is not the time to despair. not the time to be a cynic. thank you for creating inspiration. >> congressman charlie rangel will join me to talk about the harsh world of sequester cuts. >> john: it is time for our thing of the day. tonight is our world incident of the day. legos will no longer make its return of the jeddi jabba's palace kit even though it was just based on the jabba the hutt scene in return of the jeddi which opened 30 years ago next month. austria's turkish cultural association said it resembled an offensive muslim stereotype with the vaguely islamic building design and hans solo frozen in carbonite. legos pulled the toy for reasons having nothing to do with the complaints but an international incident was

the guy they're looking for lives on coach street in new mexico. you going back over there? yeah, i'll go back over there. throw this in the back all right? four-charles-400. four-charles-400. there's two in custody. we're back en route to ( blip ) south el paso for positive i.d. three-charles-133. they went out with weapons so if it's an agg-assault... let's see if this guy can i.d. both of these guys. he was pointing at them. where did he go? are they going to be standing by? do you think? who was the complainant? um... wearing jeans and no shirt. he had a cut on his nose and on his forehead. you want to watch-- there he is. yeah, i got them. there's our complainant. ( speaking spanish ) i don't speak spanish. you don't speak spanish? you speak spanish? ( speaking spanish ) okay. he's saying they took his wallet. they popped him. they took his wallet. man: senores... get out of here. go back inside. while they were beating on him they reached in and took his wallet out of his pocket. that's going to be a robbery. he says they just beat him up with his... no weapo ( speakin

we commissioned the experts at new mexico tech to do this demonstration for us.hey were telling me that it usually takes less than $100 worth of materials and access to the internet for anyone to possibly try to build one of these. but these experts were careful in the way they were handling this because this was a very, very dangerous device. >> all right. david mattingly thank you very much. $100. that is just -- it's just incredible. stops you dead in your tracks when you think of how little for so much life. >>> authorities stop another terrorist attack. this one on a train between new york and canada. >>> and later, pausing to remember the victims one week later. hi there, mark. welcome back. nice to see you again! hey! i almost didn't recognize you without the suit. well, this is my weekend suit. weekend getaways just got better. well, enjoy your round! alright, thanks! save a ton on our best available rate when you book early and feel the hamptonality. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinit

do not. 6% of voters believe osama bin laden is still alive. 21% say a ufo crashed in roswell, new mexico in 1947 and the u.s. government covered it up and 7% think the moon landing was faked. >>> state lawmakers are considering four bills that would regulate drones in california. one of the measures would create tax breaks to attract the drone industry to california. supporters say that industry could be worth $82 billion by 2025. but opponents say the use of drones raises privacy issues that have outpaced current laws. lawmakers are considering a bill that would require police to obtain warrants for most drone surveillance operations. >>> it turns out a winnie the pooh drawing auctioned off for thousands of dollars was a fake. it was donated to a goodwill store in sonoma county and last week, goodwill auctioned it for more than $7600. it was out thought to be an original. but goodwill did not authenticate the drawing before putting it up for auction. luckily, the buyer had not paid for it and goodwill's ceo has apologized for the error. >>> delegations from sacramento and san francisco

. -- >>> police in new into mexico questioning a 24-year-old man accused of stabbing four people today during church services. police say he jumped over several pews at saint jude in new mexico and walked up to the choir and started to stab people. an off duty officer helped to subdue him until police arrived. all four are expected 20 survive. >> >> conflict of syria took center stage on sunday talk shows as lawmakers grappled with the question of a u.s. response. now that the white house concedes it is probable the regime used chemical weapons on its people. republicans point to president obama's own declare racial that use of chemicals would be a red line republicans say america could attack aryan air bases with missiles. >> the greatest risk is a failed state with chemical weapons falling in the hands of islam ickes and pouring into syria the longer this goes, the more likely you will have a failed state and all hell will break loose. >> democrat lawmaker called for more assistance. the u.s. said it is currently senting supplies such as night vision goggles and body armour to the sy

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