i moved it to niagara falls under a new name. i am proud that we put hundreds of people to work, who are still working there today. after selling that company in 1997, i ran for congress in 1998, up in the niagara falls area, knowing that my business experience would benefit the citizens of new york, and offer a new perspective in congress. after being humbled in that race, i spent the next 10 years as an entrepreneur, investing in and helping to stabilize dozens of bankrupt and financially distressed companies, saving and creating hundreds of jobs here in western new york. in 2007, i was recruited to run for erie county executive, to turn around the affective bankrupt county. i was elected, and by applying the principles of lean six sigma, turned around the short's finances in 18 months, all the while honoring my campaign pledge to work for $1 a month. one of the many companies i invested in was a small drug development company, innate immunotherapeutics. aids.ere focused on ultimately their focus shifted to multiple sclerosis.

i did this because i did it my way. >> have you ever been to niagara falls? >> i have.ar. that is how we start a monday morning. >> relaxing and refreshing picture of niagara falls. good morning. it is monday, august 13. pam has the day off. >> i'm dave clark. let's talk about our weather in the bay area. it is good to see steve back. >> travel plans to the east, it will not stop raining. from new york to boston you could encounter some trouble delays. it has been nonstop rain for them and nonstop high pressure for us. it looks like it's backing off today. low clouds will kick in today. 50s and 60s on the temperatures . it looks cooler. east bay temperatures more upper 50s and 60s. 57 blackhawk. 85 moraga. there's the onshore breeze gusting up to about 30. low clouds going from not much to a big fog bank. a few high clouds above attempts cool enough. 60s and 70s and now more 80s inland. >>> sal is concerned because he thinks all the schools are coming back. >> three districts that we know of are coming back. maybe more. that means that here in august we will see changes

he had just completed capturing the immense power of niagara falls and he was able to put it through a series of generators and distribute that electricity 26 miles above buffalo, new york and an amazing 400 miles to new york city. to give you a sense how unbelievable that is thomas edison approached sending electricity called direct-current could only send something for half a mile. what tesla invented using alternating current, new york times referred to this as the technological accomplishment of the 19th century and they said to tesla belongs the man who made this project possible. there is a statue that commemorates his work. this was 1897. he just did this and he is thinking this is so today. i am bored with today. this is a real accomplishment. i want to think about something new. i will create a new field of science. we would refer to it as robotics. and and and flashy places at madison square garden. he set up a pool or pond in the middle of this exhibition area to demonstrate this material, 3 months after the battleship maine exploded in havana harbor. we were at the beginn

these abandoned fields were once home to a g thriving workass neighborhood on the western edge of niagara fallslanew york. luenny and her family moved in nearby in 1969. >> and we thought, oh, what a nplice ideae to raise these boys. it turned out to be quite a dis >> thompson: a company called hicooker ch had dumped 22,000 tons of toxic waste in an unfinished canal nearby. love canal. those chemicals started seeping into residents' basements and backyards, bubbling up on the school's playground. >> my child, i sent to school every single day, was sitting on top of a toxic dump. the chemicals were oozing to the surface and my son was sick. >> thompson: lois gibbs, a virginia-based environmental activist, was a mother of two who lived a block from love canal. she led the fight for justice there. gibbs' activism let to president jimmy carter issuing an emergency declaration in 1978. hundreds of families were evacuated. >> i mean, we were a small, blue-collar community you know, we weren't scientists. yet we were able to do it, because we stood together. >> thompson: love canal became known

after selling it in 1997, i ran for congress in 1998 up in the niagara falls area.f new york and offer a new perspective in congress. after being humbled in that race, i spent the next ten years as an entrepreneur investing in and helping to stabilize dozens of bankrupt and financially distressed companies saving and creating hundreds of jobs hear in western new york. in 2007, i was recruited to run for erie county. i was elected. turned around the county finances in 18 short months. all the while honoring my campaign pledge to work for $1 a month. one of the many companies i invested in is a drug company. ultimately that focus shifted to a treatment for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, one of the deadliest autoimmune disease known to mankind. i have been an avid and unwavering supporter of innate immuno-. over this time, my affiliation with innate immuno-therapy has prompted attacks. i believed in the company and still do and in the potential of a drug that had the real possibility of improving the treatment options for secondary progressive multiple scler

and move it to niagara falls under a new name.to work who are still working there today. after selling it in 1997, i ran for congress in 1998 up in the niagara falls area, knowing that my business experience would benefit the citizens of new york and offer a new perspective in congress. after being humbled in that race, i spent the next ten years as an entrepreneur, investing in and helping to stabilize dozens of bankrupt and financially distressed companies, saving and creating hundreds of jobs here in western new york. in 2007, which was recruited to run for erie county executive to turn around the effective bankrupt county. i was elected, and by applying the principles of lean sig sigma, turned around the county finances in 18 short months, all the while honoring my campaign pledge to work for $1 a month. one of the many companies i invested in was a small drug development company, innate immunotherapeutics that was working on a unique cure for hiv patients suffering with aides. ultimately that shifted to a treatment for second

together every dollar i could to buy the westinghouse gear division here in buffalo and move it to niagara under a new name. i'm proud that we put hundreds of people to work that are still working there today. after selling it, i ran for congress in 1998 in the niagara falls area knowing that my business experience would benefit the citizens of new york and offer a new perspective in congress. after being humbled in that race, i spent the next ten years as an entrepreneur, investing and helping to stabilize dozens of bankrupt and financially distressed companies, saving and creating hundreds of jobs here in western new york. in 2007, i was recruited to run for erie county executive, to turn around of the effective bankrupt county. i was elected, and by applying the principles of lean six sigma, turned around the county finances in 18 short months. all the while honoring my campaign pledge to work for $1 a month. one of the many companies i invested in was a small drug development company, innate immuno therapeutics, which was working on a unique cure for hiv patients suffering with aids. u

patrick's cathedral, niagara falls -- these guys work just like single guys.hey bring them across state lines. let's go to new york. i will take you to st. patrick's. i will take you to a broadway show. we will go to niagara falls. you will be sexual abuse, but you'll have a great time. i wiwill get you a hat and we wl take you home to your family. we need 49 more grand jury investigations is what we need. amy: in all of the states. -- shaun dougherty was molested by a priest from the altoona-johnstown diocese in pennsylvania. bob hoatson is a former catholic priest and president of road to recovery, which assists victims of sexual abuse. when we come back, we're going to detroit to speak with rashida tlaib. stay with us. ♪ [ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we turn now to look at congressional candidate that is poised become the first palestinian american woman and first muslim woman to serve in congress. a democratic is socialist who supports the palestinian r

david is joining us from niagara falls, new york. a federal employee. caller: thank you for c-span. how can we afford to pay jared kushner and his wife $82 million a year and then cut everybody else's pay because they need the money. host: we are not paying them $82 million a year, you are thinking about the end, they earn through their investments. caller: why don't they donate some money to the federal government? host: what do you do for the federal government? caller: i work for the army corps of engineers. host: how long have you been with them? caller: i just retired. host: and joining us from columbia, maryland, another federal employee. hi, i am sick and tired of this. i'm sorry. what we were supposed to be doing amazing under president trump? such a well oiled machine, gdp of 4.1%, but we, federal employees, who are the ones who are really doing the work, doing the service to this country, we are not going to get a pay raise? it does not make sense at all. i get it, some folks believe that we do not do anything. believe that we are inefficient and i will give him the fact t

he moves to the waldorf-astoria but then after he and westinghouse did the niagara falls project westinghouse is a little bit stressed -- stretched and jpmorgan ruthless banker that he w was trying to take ovr westinghouse has accompanied and turned to tesla who have this contract for every host power of motor that came out which was worth billions of dollars. westinghouse said to him i'm about to lose my company. can you help me? tesla and unbelievably horrible businessman a negotiated that he was said have always been kind to me.g you are the one who's going to bring my ideal of this great american motor to fruition. let me tear up my contract. he gave up a billion dollars and to be honest he died a poor man alone in the hotel new yorker. he was supported only because a few scientists at the westinghouse company realized he made the company possible and gave them a stipend for his room at the hotel new yorker. any other questions? >> i would like to know in modern times the technology that we have used was do you think you'd be surprised or do you think he would be proud? >> i still think y

technology, new photographic technology, some of the first images you will see our exotic landscapes like niagara falls and then naked women. the biggest collection of the earliest stanhope's are all of these women you could look at and imagine you are with them. owners of these gems could enjoy them discreetly anywhere at anytime. u.s. soldiers were highly voraciousnad readers. slightly younger than their confederate counterparts and less like you to be married with children, they referred to in the discussion about this legislation. this explains the concern that arose among civilians about what kind of men they were becoming. sharing photography with his men and flouting the behavioral expectations, colonel pierce was a bad role model. second lieutenant james graham of the nef ohio was a good soldier. he enlisted in as a private and received raise from his fellow soldiers. he served under grant's command. he endured the kind of hard fighting that had not yet come east. he kept a diary. advanced on vicksburg. he hoped the campaign would slow. the 21-year-old had time to himself. at night, they

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[video clip] >> we spoke to five of the lay --an soldiers at mi james of man -- of niagara falls of don'tgary crossley rio, texas. of tarponl bernard springs, florida. >> it's going to be a free-for-all. you can shoot anything that moves. >> shoot everything, men, women, children. every living thing. that was sort of the order. this is something a soldier has to do. take orders and carry them out. >> run around yelling kill kill kill to get it in our heads. wethat morning about 7:00 boarded the choppers and went into the village. when we got off the chopper we started shooting. >> there were infants. it makes you think you and if they were considered beasts that you would think maybe a water buffalo calf or a low pay glick would fare better than -- a little piglet would fare better than a child. >> why give them an opportunity to grow up? >> how did the guys look? >> they look like they were having a good time. >> did you see anyone not? >> i think everybody was busy. >> what do you think a war crime is? >> i consider a war crime being over there. the idea of being there. host: david maraniss

and he is so -- and so many of the bases in my state, including our niagara air force base, including our fort drum are so much the better because of john mccain's great work. i wish him all the best and commend his staff, including senator inhofe and senator reed's staff for their work on the john s. mccain national against authorization act. on the supreme court, as we return from state work period, the republican majority continues to steam forward on president trump's nomination to the supreme court, announcing that hearings will begin on september 4. this is 12 business days from today, yet the senate cannot do its due diligence on the nominee because we have a tiny percentage of his records. why is this? senator republicans are in the middle of a blatant obstruction of the supreme court nominee's record. denying the senate and the american people critical information about this potential supreme court justice. the entire record of judge kavanaugh's record for three years as staff secretary in the white house is being deliberately, deliberately withheld from the senate and from t

they were james burkle, of niagara falls. keurig a fellow of stockton, california. gary crosley of del rio, texas. bernardo simpson of jackson, mississippi. michael bernhardt of tarpon springs, florida. this is a freefall, you can share anything you want. >> man, woman, children, the whole bit. every living thing, that was the order. >> it's something that i soldier has to do, you take orders. >> we were running around, kill, kill, kill. get that feeling that you can do it. >> at about 7:00, we went into the village and we got off the chopper and started shooting. >> it makes you think that even if they were considered beasts, that you would think that maybe a water buffalo calf or a little piglet would fare better than a child. >> they feel that when they grow, they will be beasts anyway. >> how do they look when you are doing this. >> like they were having a good time. >> everybody was just a busy. >> what you think a war crime is? >> i think a war crime is being over there. >> just the idea of being there. >> infants, women, children. teenagers. civilians. >> lie

james berthold of niagara falls, new york, gary garofolo of stockton, california.y crossly of del rio, texas. fernando simpson of jackson, mississippi and michael burn heart of tar upon springs, florida. >> you know this is going to be a free for all. shoot anything you want. anything that moves. as long as it's not one of your own. >> shoot everything. man, woman, children. the whole bit. inferring that from b, to b, to c. every living thing. that was sort of like the order. >> this is something a soldier has to do, take orders, carry them out. >> run around yelling kill, kill, kill just to get it in our heads, to get that feeling that you can do it. >> that morning about 7:00, we boarded the choppers and went into the village. when we got off the chopper we started shooting. >> they were infants, in fact. it makes you think that even, even if they were considered beasts, that you would think that maybe a water buffalo calf or piglet would fare better than a child. >> we figured the babies had they grew up would be vc anyway just about everybody was busy. >> what

he was an engineer on the niagara frontier he was mortally wounded. this style is - >> here is the plane and i think it must have been move, or maybe they filled in some of this depression here. this is still on the west point cemetery. west point remained the primary commissioning source for new officers throughout the jacksonian era. usually we think other jacksonians are small democrats , egalitarian populists. they are often pretty impetuous and radical. they talked a lot about west point having an aristocracy , or it would be like the british standing army with an american cromwell. you could say that was enter jackson. [ laughter ] >> but jacksonian rhetoric was very anti-west point and authority. very anti-officer. jacksonian writers and newspapermen propaganda would say, get rid of west point. all of the officers should be promoted. first be privates, than soldiers and then officers. or the officers should come from the militia, they should be citizen soldiers. not people paid by the government for 10 to 30 years. >> they would draw parallels

mudslides, swollen rivers, waterfalls usualry with a nice amount of falls, looking like niagara fallsthe water and clouds were hitting the east side of the island and volcanos would suck the water out of the clouds causing the problems. back on maui, we've had rain at times, winds and surf at times, but generally look a rain storm. you go further east on the island and there's actually two brush fires. there were three at one point. so, kind after weird situation, even fema talked about it. anyway you look at this, there's still the possibility of a flash flood or a possible mudslide depending on the bands that's breaking up. nailing one area of the islands and officials here say do not let your guard down. >> doesn't mean it's over. we'll have rain, wind, local flooding and we need to be vigilant and we don't want to let all of our guard down. >> we pre positioned the equipment to remove debris and employees across the state are prepared to respond should there be ponding or backups. >> and we could actually smell the smoke here this morning. the fires would be to my left. if you loo

niagara falls. >> what you like, you go around this city, you know there was a lot of money, industry0 years ago. there's a lot of these great old buildings -- >> absolutely. >> i'm only kidding. i have heard its a good place to be from. >> the millennials love to go there. new hot spots. >> minneapolis i can see that. >> ten thousand lakes. >> great time to be in the midwest or slightly to the east there. interestingly, over labor weekend, we've got taylor swift performing on friday and saturday night, which is clearly pushing that into a top trending market. the taylor swift effect, absolutely. >> st. louis, they finished recently that area around the arch -- >> beautiful place to be outdoors especially over labor day. great weather that time of year. >> i don't think you need to put orlando on there as someplace new, obviously. new orleans is back. boston's the greatest city in the country. >> these are always in the top places to visit. we also have trending cities and minneapolis is one of those but madison, wisconsin is another. they've got a lot of great restaurants. farm to ma