springs but one of the great economic boosters of the state of colorado. nouncer: the garden of the god is some rock formations. up next in our tour, the history of the park, which was given to colorado springs by the children of a railroad magnet, charles elliott perkins.

had beenion in exact given to nonprofits in the state of colorado. it means that we have a downtown a worldnter, we have arena, the broadmoor world arena, courtesy of his money. the visitors center at the air force academy is courtesy of his resources, so the legacy of aencer penrose really is better, higher-quality of life for all of the citizens of the region and the state of colorado. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: nikola tesla was an inventor and engineer known for his contributions to electricity distribution, x-ray, and early attempts at wireless commic

these included the national federation of women's clubs and its colorado chapter, the daughters of the american revolution, the colorado legislature, and the colorado delegation in washington. state democratic and republican organizations. and local business and civic groups in boulder and wells county. support was friendly from the beginning. so, too, was we mills' old friend john muir. i'm heart lay with you for your plan for a national park in colorado, he wrote mills in february of 1910. i will call attention of the sierra club to the proposed new park. nowhere was mills' role more critical than with respect to the colorado mountain club and the general federation of women's clubs, whose educational committee chair was mary belle king sherman, the wife of a prominent chicago newspaper man who had spent several summers at mills' longs peak inn and who would eventually buy a vacation cottage of her own across the road. it is safe to say that without mills' personal encouragement and involvement, the colorado mountain club would not have been founded, and the very influential general

regiment, federal soldiers, and part of the first colorado regiment attacked a peaceful encampment of arapaho'ss. the native people were camped along the banks of small creeks, sand creek. and became one of the flashpoints in the wars, and also an important emblem of how the civil war played out in indian country. >> how many victims? >> that is disputed. 100 --- 150 225. the overwhelming majority of people killed were women children, or the elderly. this was a camp under peace chiefs, made up of people who believed they had forged an uneasy truce with authorities and colorado territory earlier in 1864. >> alexa, the 150th anniversary of the massacre was last year. can you talk a little bit about the connection of the massacre to the civil war? >> honestly, ari will be the best answer that. prof. kelman: the way in which the civil war is remembered and popular memory is as a war of liberation. i have a seventh grader who learned in elementary school that president lincoln died so the knotted states might live. a raise -- so the united states might liv

had beenion in exact given to nonprofits in the state of colorado. it means that we have a downtown a worldnter, we have arena, the broadmoor world arena, courtesy of his money. the visitors center at the air force academy is courtesy of his resources, so the legacy of aencer penrose really is better, higher-quality of life for all of the citizens of the region and the state of colorado. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: nikola tesla was an inventor and engineer known for his contributions to electricity distribution, x-ray, and early attempts at wireless communication. he came to colorado springs in 1889 because the altitude was suitable. we close out today's c-span cities tour of colorado springs with nikola tesla, his scientific breakthroughs, and his rivalry with thomas edison. richard: nikola tesla became with this new creation going on in the world of electricity. country, he t

this is the high san juan mountains of colorado, where there is a long history of mining going back a century. you know, metals that helped ,uel the industrial revolution out of these mountains. there are about 30 in the immediate area. out of those, four or five have recently been causing a lot of discharge. talks his dischar they were working a couple of mines in the area. they had slumped dirt around the gold king mine. the contractors and the epa were up there, trying to clear debris from the opening of the mine. as they were trying to clear that out, they inadvertently triggered a deluge of an estimated 3 million gallons of .his heavy metal laced waste it poured out, it took out a suburban vehicle -- it was great, i think it is now yellow -- the employees weren't hurt, but that is what set off the mustard plume that you saw in utah.do, host: we have a special line set and new mexico residents. we are interested in hearing stories from residents in those states, especially if you have been impacted by the epa's spill . otherwise, our lives i set up by region. if you are in the eas

professor bryan delay is a native of colorado springs. he grew up in of the springs -- i am a former resident of the springs. he obtained his bachelors at the university of colorado and his

if there's a starting point in the modern story of the colorado, it's here. built in 1935, these two and a half million cubic meters of concrete changed the course of the river, and american history. even today, looking up close at the hoover dam, the scale of it is just breathtaking. in the context of the 1930's, this was the most expensive project this country had ever undertaken. suddenly it was possible to divert water from the colorado to areas once considered uninhabitable. the dam made it possible to create lake mead, the largest reservoir in america, to act as a savings account for water in the west. we're heading out onto the lake with don martin. he's been sailing here for three decades - and seen it change dramatically. >> these islands right there. those were underwater. >> that entire land mass was underwater? >> yeah. that was completely underwater. just the tops of those were sticking out. >> when the lake was full, the water reached the top of the canyon. now all that's left is a white ring all around it. a reminder of more abundant times. >> t

colorado... an explosion in pot use and marijuana edibles. the dark side of the rocky mountain high >>> thank you for joining us for in special edition from "america tonight". i'm lori jane gliha. we'll start in colorado, recreational marijuana brought in massive amounts of sales, tourism and grow houses like this one. it brought unexpected consequences, that some have prompted a change in the state law. >> i had really lost touch with reality, and started projectile vomiting in the car. >> you thought you were going to die. >> i said it 20 times. when jordan kooums took his family to the fair, he never expected to od on marijuana. >> it's like i got poisoned. the 40-year-old father and vado game designer, said they parked the boys with their father and checked out the pot pavillion, one of the major exhibitiareas. there wasn't supposed to be pot. it could only be sold at licensed sites. convinced he had nothing to worry about. he approached a boost. >> it looked like a willy wonka thing. i was joking saying, "there's no t.f.c. ", thi said they are not allowe

residents of colorado springs. they came in 1873 as a prescription for on going health troubles she was suffering. but by the time she arrived here she was already a famous author. so she made quite a splash in colorado springs. her first book of poems versus was published in 1870. she published in addition to writing books she published in magazines like the century atlantic monthly. this is her writing room, her study. it's her personal study. we have some of her books throughout the three rooms of the home. what we love about having her house in the museum is that we can interpret her life based on these objects. you can see that helen loved beautiful things. she is a victorian woman of her era. and so she has these beautiful water color paintings done by alice stewart hill who was a friend of hers here in colorado springs and has her own cabinet of curiosity if you will. she has put together an eclectic set of artifacts based on travels and interests and of the natural world. we know she loved nature. in fact,

is the way we think of it, and many people may know, but pike's peak inspired the poem that became "america the beautiful," by bates, who came here to teach a summer course in colorado college, and she took a wagon ride up the mountain, and the view down from the planes and inspiredpoetry -- the images that capture the poetry of the united states, so we think of pike's peak as not this oneolizing location but in many ways the isuty of it, it's majesty for the whole nation. continue the c-span cities tour with the story of wilmette -- william jackson palmer who helped bring railroads to colorado.

state of colorado, millions of litres of waste spills to local streets >>> a state of emergency has been declared in ferguson, and authorities bracing for unrest. largely peaceful protests marked the death of michael brown, and another black teenager shot by police. kristen saloomey has more. >> activists gather in a church in st. louis, preparing to be arrested. >> we march, and march with a chance of all of that. >> church leaders and peace activists take part, including a philosopher, west. >> you have head of homeland security, who is black and still can't deliver justice for poor people and black people. now we are moving towards pressure on the federal government. some have come from out of state. this girl is from ferguson. >> they'll see we are serious. they'll take us seriously instead of thinking us as a joke. >> all in all, a couple of hundred people acting under the banner of action descended on the courthouse with a message from the department of justice. >> about 50 climbed the barricades, pushing up against police as the crowd chanted and cheered them on. in less than an h

state of colorado, a state of emergency has been declared. more than 11 million liters of toxic sludge was released into local streams. that's three times more than the amount previously thought. workers accidently caused the spill. don olson is the executive director of the citizens alliance. he says the long-term effects of the spill are unknown. >> we are saddened as well as worried about what the future implications of the spill will be for communities up and down the rivers, even to the colorado river. it would be wrong to say we were surprised. we have been living with pollution from abandoned mines in the head waters for decades, if not over a century. it's unfortunate that this event happened, that there is a silver lining, it raises the spector of the pollution issue that's been playing our community for a long time. it's hard to know. we are still waiting on critical data from the epa with regards to what the contaminants are. we don't know right now. we know that the immediate impacts were less worse than they could have been. so f

we want to show you the state of colorado. te if you've been here, but 15,000 mines dot this area. the gold king mine, that's area of interest, this mine was abandoned back in the 1920s. and officials knew there was a minor leak here. but what the epa had been doing in the last couple of days, trying to find a way to stop the minor leak that's occurring. one of the officials potentially pushed the backhoe and moved sediment. that pushed farther downstream. rio of the los animus. that was silverton, colorado tremendous area for tourist activity. here we have anything as far as kayaking, fishing, water for irrigation, all of that has been suspended as the state of emergency is issued. and guess what happens beyond that? you work your way into the san juan river. eventually feeds into lake powell. even folks in los angeles and san diego get water from areas around lake powell. so the concern is at that wide-reaching impact. and you take a look at the area where the spill occurred and how it impacts further downstream, it could imp

state of colorado. n 11 million liters of toxic sludge was released from a disused gold mine into local streams last week. that is three times more than previously thought. our correspondent is in durango. >> reporter: this is what the river looks like as it flows through durango in the state of colorado on tuesday. pretty idyllic, frankly. that's part of the problem. we saw the neon toxic plume that flowed here last week, with heavy metals. we also know it left - -- sediment behind. we don't know what long-term effects that is going to have. it may not have that weird yellow color anymore, but that of course -- that was the iron, which is perhaps one of the least frightening metals. the plume has moved inside has moved into new mexico into utah towards the colorado river heading into lake powell and perhaps on to the grand canyon itself. as it moves it will get less neon, less toxic, but still no definitive answer as to what all of this pollution is doing to such a key ecosystem here in the southwest. >

streets turned into rivers in parts of colorado. in illinois, listen to this. quite a crack of lightning. in lan sang, michigan, semitrucks plowing through blood waters. ginger zee has the live radar. >> reporter: the same system that did that in central michigan is moving to the northeast and mid-atlantic. tonight is the start of it. tomorrow morning we stop the clock along that warm front in new york city. a flash flood watch in effect for one to two inches of fast-moving rain. it will be out of here by the afternoon and evening. south carolina and north carolina may even see some marginal severe storms. the heat advisories from texas to mississippi all the way to alabama. jackson, mississippi for example has been 95-plus degrees for 29 days. they should break a record tomorrow. a quick look at the red flag warnings anywhere from northern california to montana. >> ginger zee with us tonight, women's see you in the morning on "gma." >>> to the west tonight, new wildfires raging in northern california where those warnings continue. the jerusalem fire erupting a

she found a mom in colorado who said that marijuana worked wonders. >> we were on dozens of drugs and each one worst than the next. >> reporter: paige figi is that mother. she lived in colorado springs. and her daughter charlotte was diagnosed with dravet as a toddler. >> she was on seven daily seizure drugs at two years old and had failed every drug at two years old as well. >> reporter: charlotte was so sick, she was in hospice care. paige's husband, matt, was a green beret. deployed to afghanistan for much of this time. >> reporter: paige felt very alone. >> i hit rock bottom with her. the hospital said there's nothing left. we don't have anything left to do. we're sorry, you should just go home and deal with this at home. >> so when they tell you, just go home and deal with this at home, are they basically saying, go home and watch your child die? >> i literally i brought her home and i put her on a "do not resuscitate." my husband had to sign it from afghanistan. and i was just going to say goodbye. and every night it's -- actually, and i'll say this. i was praying for her to die

says the plume of the spill has traveled more than 100 miles through parts of colorado and new mexico since wednesday and is headed for utah next. but the source of the spill, this abandoned gold mine, hasn't been plugged yet and is spilling out at a rate of 500 gallons per lsnute, carrying high levels of toxic metals. initial e.p.a. estimates say at its peak, the plume carried at least 200 times more arsenic and 3,500 times more lead than is considered safe for drinking. ryan flynn heads up the new whxico environment department, frich is running its own testing center separate from the e.p.a. >> we're really frustrated with the e.p.a. well, first and foremost, they didn't tell us about it for 24 hours. so that's just unacceptable. >> reporter: james adkinson came d the testing center today because he depends on well water from the river for everyday life. if you don't have your well water, what are you going to do? ve take my chances. r reporter: do you have any other resources for water? >> no. no. >> reporter: the e.p.a. says they will keep the animus river closed for at least anot

professor brian de lay is a native of colorado springs. w up in of the springs -- i am a former resident of the

a certain mineral had a long-term importance in this part of colorado. >> all over the colorado plateau, we are surrounded by morrison rock. we find a lot of dinosaur bones, fossils, and that has intrigue scientists for a long time. the other thing we find in the morrison is a rock hard carna tite. it contains radium, which was used by marie curie. is it also includes a mineral, vana dium. carnatite also includes uranium. announcer: a congressman was largely responsible for development through his legislation. >> he fought the bottle to reserve -- the battle to reserve water for western c colorado to make sure we got our fair share. how did he do that? beginning in he is state -- beginning in his state career, he was able to exercise more power than you might normally have. certainly in the united states congress, where he was able to make sure colorado and western colorado would be treated fairly in any divisions of water. his first major success was the passage of the colorado river storage project in 1956. announcer: see all of our programs from grand junction sundayy at 7 p.m. and c

toxic sludge is still coming out of colorado dam. but in an email the agency is taking steps to stop discharge, addressing risk of more downstream impacts. we're treating water by lowing acidity levels and removing dissolved metals. epa says newly treated water is cleaner than preevent conditions. the mayor of durango, colorado, told our sister network, fbn they were able to get ahead of the plume and shut off the supply pump. >> we have state approval to fill our reservoirs from our alternatives to higher level to assure that we have stock of water for, for our citizens. >> reporter: new mexico governor susana martinez says her state is planning legal action against the epa. on "america's newsroom" she expressed her frustration to bill hemmer. >> it is very dangerous. we are not aware of all of the toxins that are in the river. the epa has not been communicating and has not been forthcoming with the state of new mexico as to the different types of toxins. >> reporter: colorado governor john hickenlooper said in his disaster declarati

heavily dependent on agriculture and tourism. >> this is not only one of the most beautiful parts of coloradoe of the most beautiful parts of america. durango is open for business. >> reporter: but the governor with close ties to the obama administration could not say when recreational businesses could begin using the river again or when it would be safe to drink. neighboring governor, republican susanna martinez of neksz took a much different tone, going on fox news channel to criticize the epa for not being forthcoming. >> it took them a little less than 24 hours before they even told us, number one. number two we're not told what toingss are in the river. >> reporter: governor martinez says her state may sue. >> we cannot have different standards for private industry and for the federal government. and we are going to hold them accountable. >> reporter: the epa says it has teams on the ground, testing and retesting water in multiple states that depend on this river water. as the sludge moves downstream and dilutes, crews at the source of the blowout have created collection pools to treat t

she is director of colorado's department of public policy and financing and that is colorado's medicaid and chip programs. she is going to tell us about the bridge and what gets in the way of those efforts. our final panelists is a family physician and she is founder of a phoenix nonprofit that brings private and public sectors together to help those experiencing homelessness. they will describe the innovative housing model and what gets in the way of this approach. so we've arrived to the part of the program that also has some substance to it. here's barbara. >> i really appreciate so many people being here today. i think it really is important about the growing awareness of how healthcare is changing the country and in particular the impact that housing has on health status. the national healthcare for the homeless council represent many healthcare facilities and the homeless individuals they serve. over 1 million patients are being seen in these facilities each year. the lack of housing is really an issue not only for the health centers but the larger healthcare system that we are lo

this to cause people to re-examine things. >> rich, thanks very much. >>> and stunning images out of colorado. this river bright yellow tonight after a massive spill. 1 million gallons. contaminating, with heavy metals in the water. zntly unleashed by epa workers. dozens of miles closed, stretching to new mexico. the epa now apologizing, saying the drinking water is safe. no word yet on the impact on wildlife there. >>> and another headline out of colorado breaking. news on james holmes tonight. convicted. the movie theater massacre in aurora. tonight, the decision has just come in. clayton sandell with the breaking news. >> reporter: over a 15-week trial, the jury considered more than 300 witnesses and 2,700 pieces of evidence. and has now sentenced holmes to spend the rest of his life in prison. >> i've got seven down in theater nine! seven down! >> reporter: the jury's decision coming just hours after they asked to re-watch gory footage taken inside the movie theater in july 2012. where 12 people were murdered, 70 more injured. after rejecting his insanity plea and convicting him last mont

. >>> new details out of colorado this evening. that river contaminated with 3 million gallons of toxic chemicals. the epa now saying the water is safe. tonight the agency facing possible lawsuits. this new image, the governor of colorado 2349 last 24 hours drinking the water from the safe. >>> next to the video of a terrifying ride to school for children on a bus today, a surveillance camera catching this, the bus clipping that suv and slamming into a store. 11 children on that bus have been rushed to the hospital tonight. here's abc's gio benitez. >> reporter: tonight watch the startling video. that's a school bus slamming right into a liquor store just after 8:00 a.m. watch again, it runs into an suv before that final stop against concrete. >> one is a school bus with several students on it. we're taking count of the injuries right now. >> reporter: this man owns the store right across the street and rushed to help, seeing the 11 kids in that bus. >> they couldn't walk. they had to carry the kids out of the bus and put them on th

springs is home to academy.force and we close out the c-span city's tour of colorado springs colonel mark welles talking bout his book "courage and air warfare" the allied accrue experience in the second world war. when many people think about air there are a number of images and potential that come to mind. the first instance was in the world war arguably and i think for the public in general for his torians glamor, a sense of nights of the sky, wind in the wire kind of thing. nights of the air fighting chivalrous combat the reality. life spans were short. airplanes broke down and people ere killed at a pretty regular basis. i decided to do the comparison based on o air forces the fact that for faculty way afforded the pportunity to study in britain in 19 ninety-eight being an airman and interested in air power history, i had a case study that was the royal al air force and bomber command and u.s. army air force with the ighth air force or both conducting a sustained air germany. against nazi so i had this test case and i was curious in particular about dimension. th

they think of marijuana. >> this won't get you high. >> you can set the whole hippie population of colorado on this plant and you're just going to be looking at a bunch of disappointed hippies. >> the stanleys are not concerned about disappointing hippies. they're they've seen this plant change lives. they have a brand new lab, manned with scientists who are turning their plants into medicines. brother joel stanley is in charge of that part of the business. >> it wasn't a world that i knew, so we kind of had to dive into this and learn how to make plant extracts. >> joel was reluctant at first to get involved. he avoided marijuana most of his life. but the spring of 2009, he was working in texas on the oil fields when his oldest brother, josh, asked him to join the new family business. >> and i laughed because i thought it was just a foot in the door to legalization. i didn't think it was medicinal. the first three patients i met were cancer patients who looked me in the eye and told me if they didn't have the anti-nausea effects and the appetite stimulant and the help sleeping that they wo

. >> next on "the communicators," representatives diana degette of colorado and jim langevin of rhode island discuss the internet and cybersecurity. then remarks by veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald. after that live a preview of pope francis' visit to the united states. >> c-span created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> host: and this week on "the communicators" we're going to talk with the congressional co-chairs of the privacy caucus and the cybersecurity caucus in congress. first up, representative diana degette, democrat of colorado. she serves on energy and commerce committee and she is the privacy caucus co-chair. representative degette when it comes to technology, where do you draw your personal line between privacy and security? >> well, i think that most people who are putting information onto the internet whether it's their social security number or other personal information they think that it's going to be secure most of the time but unfortunately as we've learned all too

says the department takes full responsibility for spilling three million gallons of mining waste into a southwest colorado river. the contaminated water contained high levels of arsenic, lead, and other toxic-heavy metals. >> three million gallons of toxic waste dumped into a colorado river by the people charged with protecting it. a major embarrassment for the u.s.a.'s environmental protection agency, now at the center of an investigation into the accident. >> this is a tragic incident. i am absolutely deem sorry that this ever happened, but i want to make sure that we react positively and in a way that's credible and we move this forward. reporter: the spill was unleashed during a routine attempt to stem a slow toxic waste from an abandoned mine. it was initially bright owner in hue, but is now harder to detect. with the contaminated water flowing through utah, into the colorado river, and the grand canyon, extensive water testing is now underway to assess just how dangerous the spill could be for water quality and wildlife. but the governor of colorado is already optimistic about the results. >> put in

>> yeah, i did the reporting of colorado getting ready for recreational marijuana. t there are similarities. i remember being in colorado with the owners with the recreational business. the same thing is happening with the business owners in jamaica. they are going into the warehouse and saying i envision this i envision that, they are getting ready for the big business is what they are hoping will be happening. >> when you were walking into the area of the farm, it isn't exactly a farm as we conceive of it in the united states. this is quite different from the sort of modern marijuana industry in the u.s. and jamaica. >> a lot of things over here, it is grown indoors and in jamaica, we had to drive massive miles to get there. we didn't know -- >> they didn't give you an address. >> no, the first farm, we're trusting the driver to take us where we needed to be. there was a big maze we had to go up a hill and up into this area and we hiked a few minutes before we actually got to this place. he said here is this, technically you are not allowed to plant more than five