size of the earth but if you're sailing west to get to east there is left-hand, something called north america, south america, and he has no knowledge of that, none, none. he thinks it is ocean between europe and china and then shrinks that ocean. columbus comes up with his proposal and tries to pedal his wears and he needs sponsorship. he needs someone to finance what could be an expensive voyage, like going to the moon, okay, going to mars, cost money. columbus has to find the money. he go first to this man, henry the vii, tudor, king of england, known as the biggest skin flint in europe. henry the vii listens and says no. columbus then decides, well, england is not going to sponsor the voyage, so he goes other places. he tries francois i, king of france, but the french nation at this particular time is somewhat in crisis and francois i is not willing to support him either, and so columbus begins to go and visit with other people and here you see a wonderful depiction. here he is making his proposal to a group of people and goes to portugal and makes his pitch to the portuguese and the king

woman: here is north america, so it's english first.of french between a sea... you know, in a sea of... english. narrator: this sea of english is a source of concern for the québécois. althoe largest population french spearesides in quebec.out canada yet alof them are surrounded, not only by english canada, english-spki count in thegion: . anmost influenal pierre-etienne la porte is the director of a government-run research organization called the french language council. translator: one has to keep in mind that quebec is in a very special situation as a result of its proximity to the american giant. from a geo-linguistic perspective, english has an influential presence here, because we are deeply integrated into american civilization, which is the civilization that surroundss. narrator: nearly half of quebec's seven million people live in the city of montreal, and it is here that the battle between french and english is most heated. the québécois recognize that protecting language is the most effective means of preserving culture. to h

narrator: by the 1960s, north america's place atop the automobile manufacturing world seemed unassailableut just around the bend waited an unimagined challenge. in the 1970s, sales of japanese cars in the north american market soared, american automaker's profits disappeared, and the red ink forced massive layoffs and plant closings. but a geographer's review of the auto industry's struggles reveals a surprising insight into the state of making cars in north america. in recent decades, global competition and the japanese auto manufacturers have had a tremendous impact on the industrial landscape of the american midwest. dr. james rubenstein is an economic geograer at mia unirsity in ohio. the pasten yrs, he'sn trkd of japanese automobile production techniques. rubenstein: one of the results of having a glob production system now in the auto industry-- a handful of producers working around the world-- is a diffusion of the technology from one area to another. the principal direction of diffusion has been from japan to north america, particularly in the 1980s and still continuing in the 199

the tallest building in north america-- the sears tower-- rises over downtown chicago. is the trademark of this city's skyline and a symbol of urban america's vitality. but in 1992, sears fled its downtown home and moved 5,000 employees here-- 30 miles outside the city, into the cornfields. working farm communities surround the chicago area, but to many, this farmland is better suited for growing something other an corn. ses reca soan tmployees, ke mrg now they have what they've always wanted-- a house in the country. ow'sarommu it's a rural community. it's just... it's a feel-good kind of place to live. come in this route and... narrator: just down the road, tim edmonds is building a whole new community for people like margot brown. soon his efforts will transform this farmland into corporate office parks, a golf course and 4,600 new homes. this is, indeed, an edge city. as you look at suburbanization of america and following transportation corridors, both north and south-- whatever the geographic area happens to be-- it is, uh, an example of that. people here are commu

. >> so when did the kind of colonization of north america -- >> the colonization of north america doesn't really begin until early in the -- permanent, to the early 17th century. here you see the route that john cabot takes in 1497. but it won't be until jamestown and st. augustine is established. yes. st. augustine. 1565. but a few generations away. from permanent settlement on the north american continent. think for a moment, what would the attraction be here. if you can come down here, cortez, the other conquistadors are finding these enormous civilizations. rich beyond measure, that's the attraction. who wants to go up here? what's the attraction up here? at this point not a lot. not a lot. you don't really want to go to maine, do you? not in the winter. down here. so it will take a while but yes, it comes later. this is first. and here we see an example of the spanish and portuguese explorations between 1400 and 1600. look at this. it's an incredible accomplishment. it is these navigators, these spanish and portuguese. before the french, before the english. french and english come in

we can make beautiful music together here in the southern half of north america. but he didn't want to get in unless the british were going to get in, too, and make take joint project. you probably know what the prospects historically have been for successful joint operations by france and england. that one was kind of starting out under a doomed ill fated start. so those tensions first. and the idea of an even larger pan european intervention was being knocked down primarily by russia. russia saw the united states as its best friend in the world. they were the two rising new powers. they had europe bracketed on each side and russia very much wanted to see the power of the united states sustained. then there was an arc of the war and 1862 kind of runs like this. it starts at a very low point. lincoln on january 2nd actually talks to his friend, john dal gasoline, about what dal gasoline talks about the bare possibility of our being two nations. first time lincoln had ever entertained the possibility that he might not be able to save the union. that's his mood on t

she comes to north america. she is brought to north america, enslaved. suffering on the cross of america. price paid. and she would say, 'twas mercy brought me from my pagan land, taught my benighted soul to understand that there is a god, that there's a savior too. once i redemption neither sought nor knew, some view or sable race with scornful eye, their color is a diabolic dye remember, christians, negros as black at cane, may be enjoined and join the angelic train. they would be those who can enjoin the angelic train. but they had to go through a process. they had to work up to it. they had to pay the price. the perspective of these individuals in the knowledge circle was that they were given a gift from god called liberty. their freedom, endowed with inalienable rights. providence, circumstance, had caused them to be in bondage. so they believed they could communicate with god. so when they prayed to god, they believed that god would hear them. as we see a clear example or explanation of this in a sermon delivered by reverend jones on january 1, 180

had the confederacy succeeded, you would have had at least two republics in north america. we all love canada. you would have had two republics in north american that were vying for a greater part on the world's stage. those two together sko not possibly have wielded the influence the united states did and has wielded and continues to wield for good or for ill. it does because the united states triumphed during the civil war and the con federalcy did not. i think that's the greatest legacy. >> so union victory was important? >> i do believe it was, yes. some people don't. and sometimes they send you e-mails. i got one last fall wishing that i would develop a case of virulent pancreatic cancer, because i'm mean to the confederacy. virulent. not just regular pancreatic cancer. the virulent kind. >> the prescription is terrible. >> i'm finished. >> tanihasi? >> the best way for me to illustrate this, i don't have a particularly objective answer. i have an entirely

we accounted do a lot of nice things and make beautiful music together in the southern half of north america. he didn't want to get in unless they could make it a joint project. you would probably know what the prospects have been for successful joint operations by france and england. that one was kind of starting out under a doomed, ill-fated start. the idea of a pan european invention was being knocked down by russia. they saw the united states as its best friend in the world and they were the two rising new powers against the old powers of europe. they had europe bracketed on each side and they wanted to see the power of the united states sustained. then there was an ark of the war and 1862 kind of runs like this. it starts at a low point. lincoln on january 2nd and he talks to his friend about what they call the bare possibility of it being two nations. that's the mood on the first day. in february, with 12,000 men they go into tennessee and strikes the fastest most efficient and most dramatic blow against the south of the bir war. he captures in the space of a week and the entire wester

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let's go into north america, because we have severe weather erupti erupting. thunderstorms erupting today in the southern plains and up towards the ohioduring your ove see some pretty nasty storms already in kansas and oklahoma. we've had reports of large hail, and also tornadoes touching down. the good news is on tuesday this is going to start to weaken off as it heads east, however, there's another storm coming in from the west. this one is moving along the u.s.-canada border. it will create severe weather for you from southern central canada into the central plains. quite a wide area of severe storms expected on your tuesday from the afternoon. one of the reasons that it's going to be so far north, we don't usually see the severe weather reaching quite as far is because the heat is reaches up towards central canada. we have temperatures now in the low 20s. winnipeg, 23 for you and 23 in chicago. that will increase to 30 into tomorrow, 28 in oklahoma city, hitting 30 already in atlanta and 29 in houston and mechanixi city. 12 in seattle and 11 in vancouver.

and not generally in north america. it's only when people get so concentrated, and the big epidemics of small pox you hear about were all in indian refuge communities, where they had been concentrated, and there were too many people who could not move around enough. so nothing like the mortality in north america. that people are often given to think. yell. go on, charlie, yell. >> i -- i -- it's interesting you're using soils maps to determine the ecological zones in which native peoples were living. i did the same thing in my dissertation for tobacco. when i looked at the map you had, which is based on the smith map of the rappahannock and the location of tribes, want to hazard a guess as to why there are more tribes on the north shore of the rap panic than the south? >> i agree with morris who remarked on it back in the 1940s, and he said that -- probably political reasons for it. tribes on the rappahannock were under pressure to join the organization. they had done so, at least officially, but if they wanted to make

just like a lot of birds that live here in north america.an get blue birds or chick adees if you put up a bird house in your back with yard. >> sold your hand out flat and see if she'll take it. >> nice. good job. so this next thing i'm going to ask you to take a quick step back. we're going to let him wonder the table here. he's a little bit -- he's a little freaked out. this is an arctic fox. you can see the white fur there. he's in the process of molting his white winter coat and getting that gray/brown summer coat. so an amazing adaptation that he's guys have. even up in the arctic, summer only lasts for a month or so, but in order to, you know, sort of be camouflaged in the non-snowy environment they get this gray fur. these guys are eating birds and small mammals. in the wintertime they follow the polar bears out onto the sea ice. so with things like climate change with the sea ice going away, not only are animals like polar bears being seriously threatened, even those these guys are doing well, who knows what will happen to them as th

there is an economic benefit for north america. the caveat is this is good, but we want to see improvement as you do it. >> some have said you haven't improved enough. we don't want to build that pipeline to buy canadian oil? but there are other customers? >> oil demand is huge it places like eastern asia and others. the u.s. is our key market. we have geopolitical interests together. we already sell most of our oil to the u.s. and that is the case. >> in calgary, the chinese have set up shot in your city. they are clearly interested in buying canadian oil, and the chinese are not going to say to you can you enforce the regulations? >> that doesn't matter. we have to produce it here in canada, and canadians expect that. we have to pay attention to what the consumer thinks. we have reduced per barrel emissions by 26% since 1990. that needs to continue. we have some landmark changes coming up. we need to ramp up water reddick makes. >> thank you for joining us. >> we will have more from canada later on in the course of the program. l

tons of wreckage from the disaster are believed to be nearing the western coast of north america. >> the tsunami unleashed debris on an unprecedented scale, some 5 million tons were swept out to sea. while most quickly sank, noaa estimates 1.5 million tons of tsunami generated debris is still afloat and being driven by winds and currents toward the west coast of north america. >> begich said large quantities of fishing nets and plastic items are already washing ashore in the states of alaska and washington. lawmakers expressed frustration at the federal government's failure to lay out a plan to retrieve and dispose of the wreckage, cited complaints of residents of coastal communities. the lawmakers demanded the government provide information before debris washes ashore. japan's government is also discussing what it can do to help clean up the debris. deputy chief cabinet secretary tsuyoshi saito told top ministry officials the issue will take on an greater urgency as more debris starts to reach the north american coast. saito told them to forget about conventional ideas and come up w

tons of wreckage from the disaster are believed to be nearing the western coast of north america. >> the tsunami unleashed debris on an unprecedented scale, some 5 million tons were swept out to sea. while most quickly sank, noaa estimates 1.5 million tons of tsunami generated debris is still afloat and being driven by winds and currents toward the west coast of north america. >> begich said large quantities of fishing nets and plastic items are already washing ashore in the states of alaska and washington. lawmakers expressed frustration at the federal government's failure to lay out a plan to retrieve and dispose of the wreckage, cited complaints of residents of coastal communities. the lawmakers demanded the government provide information before debris washes ashore. japan's government is also discussing what it can do to help clean up the debris. deputy chief cabinet secretary tsuyoshi saito told top ministry officials the issue will take on an greater urgency as more debris starts to reach the north american coast. saito told them to forget about conventional ideas and come up w

they are out to prove they are the best in north america. >> but to do that, they have to take on oneman living here. charlie cross introduces us to the great vince. >> for anyone who has picked up a golf club, they'll have no problem taking you about the game's ups and downs. out in one a minute, it will lift your spirit, and the next, it will break you heart. then you meet vince. he tells you how the game is to be, simple, effort less, and fun. >> laughing. >> and you saw that, vince plays the game with just one arm and one very big smile. >> what is a bad die like for you -- day like for you? >> bad day on the golf course is shooting 85 and above. >> reporter: and with that swing, putts that often find the bottoms of holes, vince tonight have many bad days. >> it's all about golf. >> it started when he was just a toddler. he liked to go out in the backyard with a plastic club and a very large plastic golf ball, and he would hit around the backyard. and he used to call it walk ball. >> reporter: born with vibe bell palsy, he has always -- cerebral palsy, he has been unable to use ri

as we head into north america, severe weather is erupting during your overnight hours in kentucky, ohio into michigan as well. we have tornado warnings posted here. that storm is going to weaken as it heads east into wednesday. however, in its place another area of severe storms from ontario down through the central plain is in the cards for wednesday. out toward the west it's going to be much cooler here, 14 degrees in seattle and 12 in vancouver. still seeing some snow in the mountains. and that's pushing the cold air -- the cold air is going to be pushing along the u.s./canada border bringing winnipeg's high down to just 14 degrees. you were looking at about 23 yesterday and tomorrow down to seven. so a big drop in temperatures for you. keeping the heat in the midwest 27 degrees in chicago. that's one of the reasons that we're seeing this severe weather breaking out so far north. as we head now into north america, into europe i should say, not much change apart from our storm system is heading further down to the south. more heavy rain for portugal a bit of a break for the british is

parts of it, like the motorcycle, have already reached the western coast of north america, but it is only the beginning. untold amounts of debris are expected to begin arriving soon. and this has residents worried. caroline hazelteen works at a bed and breakfast near the shore. one of her jobs is to clean the beach almost every day. normally she keeps the occasional things she finds at home, but this year it is different and the local authorities have yet to decide how to dispose of all the wreckage. >> none of this at all. we had nothing like this at all. we have never had anything like this. it's unique to this year. >> reporter: it's not only the amount of debris that has the locals worried. people are also wondering whether the wreckage is radioactive. one of the municipalities on the island installed radiation detectors in march to try and ease concern. >> it's just from the anxiety in the community, particular things showed up drifting across on the oceans and, you know, i tested it and it was radioactive, that's the only way i can see now. >> reporter: however, because of limi

columbus, 1492, we know today has found the route to north america. that wasn't his goal. this guy achieves his goal. this is a portuguese seaman, explorer, digamma. he looks pretty ferocious. i don't think i'd want to sail under his command. in 1498 digamma following that portuguese route along the coast of africa, around the cape of good hope into the indian ocean, it is digamma who reaches india, 1498. he finds the water route to the east. and begins of course, because of digamma begins the development of the portuguese empire in the east. what about columbus? what's he done? well, we don't really know that for certain until 1520 when this fellow, portuguese, magellan, set sail, passes under latin america, through the straits that bear his name today, straits of magellan, sails through the straits of magellan into the pacific ocean. a vast oceanic world. it is magellan who crosses the pacific, arrives in the philippines, an encounter with native peoples and magellan was actually killed in the philippines. but his crew and his ship continued their voyage and get home. it

this is the largest rodent in north america. >> it's a rodent?> speaking of animals that could show up in your back yard, sometimes beavers do get into cities and towns and they build their dams and they cause flooding. >> it's not their fault. they're doing what they do naturally. >> if we plan smartly we can work around it. >> thank you, dave mizajuski. >> these guys are just babies. i know you guys are going to be brave. and let's see. you guys want to hold them? this is a baby wolf. yeah, go ahead. these guys are 5 weeks old. now, you just want to be careful because their nails are a little bit sharp. >> and stinky, too. >> these guys are another animal found all across the northern hemisphere. in north america they were once found throughout all of the lower 48 states. we wiped them out, too. and unlike the beaver these guys are struggling to come back. in alaska they're still doing well but in most parts of the lower 48 these guys are still in trouble. national wildlife federation worked to get these guys re-introduced into the yellowstone

called "love is a four-letter word" and announced a tour that will take him to asia and north america. we're glad you've joined us. g.m.a.'s robin roberts and musician jason mraz. coming up right now. >> every community has the martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard. but a place for wal-mart stands together with your community. to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: robin roberts is co-anchor of abc's "good morning america" who lost talked about her book "from the heart." for her latest book she's teamed one her mother, lucimarian roberts, on the new text "my story, my song, mother-daughter reflections on life and death." she jones us from where else, else, new york. good to have you on this program. >> always good to spend time with you, tavis. tavis: my love to your mother and hope she's watching in mississippi. i met her as you know many, many years ago. and i adore your mother. when i saw the cover of this book, i realized how much you really are you

the scenario of warming and sudden shelling of north america, europe and asia the southwest was drier and farmers hit hard in the south with the u.s. dry air. europe got a lot colder. the climate in northern areas like siberia. people started moving south from scandinavia because it was too cold to live there. globally 10 to 25%, massive famine in china because they couldn't get all those people because of increased crop deals. in this scenario this is for pentagon planning. the best guess as of a few years ago. the u.s. has to secure borders to keep out starving emigrants from caribbean leaders in mexico and south america. basically aggressive wars over resources. this is the worst-case scenario. and suffers on the realm of 1930s depression or worse. the world becomes resources haves and have nots and that is what the world would become the that abrupt climate change in area. is that going to happen? nobody knows. science is not there to predict whether the climate will shift abruptly but in complex systems complex systems can undergo tipping points. predicting is hard. if a top is s

two in north america that were vying for a greater part on the world stage. but those two together could not possibly -- have wielded influence that the united states wielded. and it did that and has wielded and continues to wield for good or for ill. but it does -- because, the united states triumphed during the civil war. and the confederacy did not. i think that's the greatest legacy. >> so union victory was important. >> i do believe it was. i do believe it was. yes. some people don't. >> no, i know. >> some times they send you e-mails. i got one last fall. wishing that i would develop a case of virulent pancreatic cancer. because i am mean to the confederacy. virulent, the virulent kind. >> they're right. but the prescription is terrible. >> i'm finished now. >> good. good. >> the best way for me to illustrate this. i don't have a particularly objective answer. i have a subjective answer. >> none of us are subjective. >> all right, i think it is the most important legacy. my favorite. it's virtually impossible for me to think about my very existence with

i talked about hydrofracking for the gas reserves of north america. the marcellis formation, and the problem is it's going to destroy the northeast to get at it. so shale gas is trapped in rock. so, yes, there is a lot of it. no question there's a lot of it. although much less than they're saying. the most recent report from the energy information administration is, they've lowered by 60% their estimates of north american shale gas. just so you know. but even so, to get at it, we're not talking about a joint reservoir that if you stick a drill in and you suck up the gas. you're talking about rock formations. you have to have a drill every half a mile over hundreds thousand, tens of thousands of square miles. so all of pennsylvania is now going to be covered with these drills. invading the entire countryside. and if they have their way, new york state is next. two-thirds of new york state is targeted for this invasive procedure. everybody -- every half a mile, and the water supply of new york city is at risk in this process. so don't think we're going

and they just enlisted in droves of the smallest tribe in north america of maine, 500 of them enlisted and their chief. and again, they weren't citizens but they felt that their country was in danger and they went to war. now, one of the benefits of this was that most of those indians who enlisted at that time were still native speakers. it already even in world war i the germans were very good at intercepting messages, and you know, how are we going to fool those darn germans. one fellow who had indians in his unit, talked to two choctaw boys and said would you mind sending messages in your language, and you know, maybe we can make something happen here that the germans won't understand. of course, for many of the indians the words that we use don't exist so like poison gas, you know, things like that, so they call poison gas, bad air. and they use those kinds of words to convey things but suddenly they said we've got something here so the choctaws became major code talkers about but other tribes also were code talkers, the sioux, the cheyenne, couple of the pueblo people. so you know

so nothing like the mortality in north america that people are often given to think. yell. go on, charlie, yell. >> it is interesting you are using soils maps to determine the ecological zones in which they were living. i did the same thing in my dissertation for sweet tobacco. when i look at the map that you had and the location of tribes, want to hazard a guess as to why there are more tribes on the north shore of the ar rap poe haan knock than the south? >> i agree with marcus who remarked ton back in the 1940s. he said there were probably political reasons. the tribes were under pressure to join an organization. they had done so at least officially. if they wanted to make independent decisions because they were getting contacted by more northerly peoples, they didn't want powatan to have such an easy time zapping them. it didn't make any sense for the tribes villages to be on the northern end of the northern neck when powatan is on the south side. he could send warriors and zap you quick. if you are on the north side, you can see them coming. does that help? i didn't po

tsunami generated debris is still afloat driven by winds and currents toward the west coast of north america. but there's 3 million pounds of plastic trash which will flood into our inner tidal ecosystems and is already here. we've read the press reports of soccer balls found on the middleton island in my state and the fishing floats and styrofoam insulation washing up on kayak and montague islands. these are mostly the high windage item which float high in the water and are pushed by wind. then there's the ghost squid boat which was sunk by the coast guard. i want to thank you, admiral, for doing that. evening the harley-davidson which washed up in brit irk columbia. from alaska to washington the reports of tsunami debris are coming in. including reports of containers of hazardous materials such as oil and solvents, not surprising when you consider that entire cities, their gas stations, garages, warehouses, stores and industrial plants all washed into the sea and now becoming a threat to our shores. one of my constituents, chris pollster of the gulf of alaska worked on marine debris issues

others would say that we are only about western europe and north america.f we are only about that, what about the policies of 1952? but not 2012? if you see where we have been oriented for the last 10 years, we need the alliance to be global. not by membership, but by exercises, training, and military cooperation. we have a lot countries that very much want to be part of that discussion. why would we turn that down? why would be say no to australia, japan, and south korea? >> on libya, what is your response to the following? as you know, not everyone in the cabinet room agreed, necessarily, with the libyan operation. i think they're arguing not so much about the success of the operation, but the uncertain aftermath. what about the chinese and russian objections that turned out to be regime change? we were not so sure that we were in it as seriously, so we do not have a resolution. what is your answer to the chinese and russians about syria drawing from libya and focusing the question on that? in general, what action would you take as nato toward syria with

environmental disaster that will far exceed any single pollution event to hit the west coast of north america including "exxon valdez" and the santa barbara oil spills. i'm submitting his letter for the record and one from the juneau-based marine conservation alliance foundation which has helped coordinate marine debris efforts in alaska for years. since the event, noaa's program has monitored the incoming tides of debris. they've modeled drift patterns and track reports as they come in. i know noaa has further plans to monitor this but my constituents to be honest with you are asking with this debris already here, what's the plan, how are we going to deal with this? and how are we going to clean it up? in some cases, some think it's a little late. now just this summer, but over the years this debris will be arriving to our shores. that is the purpose of today's hearing, give the debris -- give the clear threat what is our national plan to stem the tide of the tsunami debris. while i heard the debris carries no threat of radiation since it went out to sea before the reactors' failures, i want

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