encontrar a cuatro personas desaparecidas, como consecuencia de la explosion en una mina de virginia occidental, que provoco 25- muertes el pasado lunes... el equipo de rescate habia descendido unos mil pies bajo tierra con el objetivo de encontrar a cuatro mineros desaparecidos tras uno de los peores accidentes en la mineria de las ultimas decadas en el pais.... el primer candidato latino a un escano en el consejo municipal de herndon, virginia buscara eliminar el acuerdo que permite a la policia local colaborar con las autoridades federales para identificar a indocumentados para iniciar los tramites de deportacion... maria rosa lucchini trae el informe... se convertiria en el primer hispano que ocupara un escaÑo en el concejo de herndon... daniel alvarado busca representar a los inmigrantes en una ciudad que rige medidas contra los indocumentados... "tenemos que revertir lo que esta sucediendo aqui, nos estan viendo como delincuentes, nos estan viendo como criminales" el ambiente anti-inmigrante que se vive en la ciudad es constante dice esta latina.... y se necesita un

socorristas tuvieron que suspender las labores de rescate de varios trabajadores en una mina en virginia occidental, tras encontrar humo y senales de incendio en el interior... los esfuerzos continuan para rescatar a algunos trabajadores que podrian haber sobrevivido al desastre minero.. segun los expedientes un inspector de seguridad encontro que la administracion de la mina consideraba mas importante la produccion que la seguridad del personal...las anotaciones del inspector estan incluidas en un informe de 140-paginas que funcionarios federales dieron a conocer este viernes... el juez de la suprema corte john paul stevens, anuncio hoy su jubilacion, dejandole al presidente barack obama una segunda vacante para ocupar en el maximo tribunal de estados unidos... stevens dijo que se retirara al comenzar el receso de verano de la corte, a fines de junio o principios de julio, y expreso sus esperanzas de que su sucesor sea confirmado con bastante anticipacion al comienzo del proximo periodo judicial en octubre... grupos hispanos esperan que el sucesor del juez stevens comparta su vision en interpretar

la medida se decreta una semana despues que explosion en virginia occidental matara a 29-mineros delrbon...el recorte de los fondo habia sido impuesto durante la administracion del ex gobernador tin kaine, para ajustar el deficit presupuestario... ahora el departamento de minas y de energia volvera recibir 750-mil dolares para trabajar en la seguridad publica... alrededo de 5-mil personas trabajan en las minas de carbon, principalmente en las zonas rurales del r-oeste del estado... el vaticano anuncio hoy por primera vez que los obispos y otros lideres catolicos deben informar a la policia los casos de abusos sexuales de parte de clerigos, tras acusaciones de encubrimiento durante aÑos... las victimas seÑalan que la iglesia catolica ayudo a encubrir los delitos al no difundir las acusaciones de abuso y no reportar los casos ante las autoridades... los obispos estadounidenses lograron un acuerdo con el vaticano y asumieron esto como su politica despues de que enfrentaran un el senado regreso del receso de primavera y unas de las prioridades es el tema de desempleo...legisladores conte

nobody is suggesting for a second that he didn't have access to elite institutions occidental, columbia, harvard law school, but he didn't is faith that experience either. i don't care if he grew up in hawaii, even in hawaii, which prides itself on multiculturalism except for one thing all the black people are on military bases except a couple kids here and there. so it was a really difficult struggle for him. >> and how does that and for his personality, his outlook, his world view? i mean, chris had ali was a good friend of his, and pfizer of his often describes the experience of living in america as a black man you experience something that he attends to deep muscle tissue bruising. not the kind of thing that you might be able to see that the kind of thing that you sort of fuel and the eight that makes itself present in the will you might feel arthritis in the reign. it's there and is surfaces and let you know that it's there from time to time. from the extent he has that how has that informed? >> chris headley, the dean of law school at berkeley and has known obama for quite a while

sprick in reading the autobiography i was interested in the part of the movement from occidental andthe columbia and particularly the purpose of columbia where he is withdrawn and seems to have been very reflected and i wonder in your research if you uncover anything particular about negative period and people who influence and and when you made of that time because it seems important. >> that is a great question he spends his first two years at occidental which is a small college in los angeles but not downtown it's kind of closer to pasadena and he wants a more open school, a bigger school. he wants to be closer to an african-american population center and as you know columbia is in harlem. and when he gets to colombia by his own admission, his own description to be in an interview but also some classmates all the way out is the hardest period to report fully and there's a reason for it he becomes not just serious but solve serious, righteous almost monastic he reads a lot and takes runs in the park and takes walks, at first he is a roommate named phil berger with whom he kept a co

. >> in reading his autobiography i was very interested in the part about his movement from occidental to the colombia and particularly the period in colombia where he is withdrawn and seems to have been very reflective. i wondered in your research if you uncovered anything particular about that period and people who influenced him and what you made of that time because it seems important to me. >> is a great question. he spends his first few years at occidental which is a small fine collagen los angeles but not downtown. is closer to pasadena. he wants a more urban school. he wants a bigger school. he wants to be closer to an african-american population center and as you know colombia is right near home. when he gets to colombia by his own admission, his own description to me in an interview, but also some classmates although i found this the hardest period to report out fully and there is a reason for it. he becomes not just serious but self serious. righteous, almost monastic. he reads a lot. he takes long runs in the part e-echo at first he is a roommate named phil berner with whom

i am a moderator today's panel and a professor of history at occidental college and one of the jurors from the "l.a. times" history book prize winning in 11 categories i would encourage you to do that there are great books to be had. today first will introduce our panelists then i will make a few introductory remarks offer a few themes for discussion then get over to the panelists then after that to the audience for questions. we have a fascinating and diverse group of authors each of whom approach the past in the very recent past from multiple perspectives. four phillip kearney the book is his first entitled under the blue flag my mission in kosovo published 2008 by the knicks books. it details his experiences as united nations prosecutor in kosovo in 2001 -- the international criminal tribunal at the hague 2007 merhige prosecuted war crimes. -- he has a law degree from the hastings school of law and before joining the united nations mission in kosovo he worked for 17 years for the san francisco district attorney's currently an assistant united states attorney in san francisco. richa

>> guest: no, barack obama started out at occidental which is a small liberal arts college just downhe road in eagle rock >> host: i should've known better than to go down that road. los angeles, thanks for holding. you are on with charles kesler. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i would like to know compassionate conservative, was that coined by the liberals as a way to control the party, the term compassionate conservative? did they use that term to try to influence the conservative party in the direction of liberalism? thank you. >> host: thanks caller. >> guest: the short answer is no. i think the term was actually coined, at least the first time i was familiar with it being used was in a book i am engineer , one of the founders of jacobs engineering and mr. jacobs used it in a book to describe himself. i think it was essentially an autobiography called a compassionate conservative but it was george bush, who took that term which was sort of in the air, marvin oleski had written about compassionate conservatism too and turned it into the creed of his campaign in 2000 also