can you stand over there by the palm tree?there are more interesting things to photograph in here than me. no, really, i'm serious. i... i need you in the picture to give the picture a sense of scale. but i... i don't know. please? well, since you've gone out of your way, i guess it's the least i can do. alright, yeah, stand over... that palm tree to your right. right there, perfect. alberto: yes, and turn... yeah, turn around a little bit. there, there you go. yes, yes, yes. what time is it? you look great on camera, thank you. oh, we have to go. hold it right there. my bus leaves in less than an hour. hold it, hold it. alberto, please. there's only one bus a day. i have to make it on time. ( sighs impatiently ) thanks. ( police siren wailing ) oh, man, a cop. hi. do you know how fast you were going? mmm-- maybe 65? 80 miles an hour. license and registration, please. registration. registration, license. officer, let me explain-- we were just trying... i'll be right back. i hope he doesn't give you a ticket. you can say that a

before that, this coastal plain was sand, palm trees and tourist homes.nds of migrants from spain's interior have colonized this ancient desert and make a living beneath a sea of plastic. ( speaking spanish ) translator: could you explain to me the principle of this type of farming? ( man speaking spanish ) translator: well, it's simple: there is 20 to 25 centimeters of sand, which we bring from the beach or from the quarry. then we x that th manure, and that's all, that's how it works. ( gabriel speaking spanish ) ( man speaking spanish ) narrator: although irrigation and climate control make growing here highly productive, such food factories only strgthen andacía's agricuural economy. produce is loaded on trucks like this bound for the great consuming markets of the european heartland. they travel on improved highways in spain and link to the larger system in the rest of the region. it's part of spain's evolution, according to sidaway. sidaway: in andalucía and in spain, there's a century-long project of becoming european. that what spain has been seek

before i came here, i had a name. 4 palm trees faced us when we landed loomed like guardians to pass the golden gate we tell them what they wanted to hear. on this island of desperate dreams we shed our skins and wore new once. we burned our parents name and let our past curl into smoke. no longer my father's daughter. no longer my husband's wife. only the sea gulls know who i really am. for months we were held in separate rooms the dampness went through the bunks and gnawed our bones the wales of ghosts kept us awake. 32 steps to my father's house. 4 windows facing north. 24 steps to my uncle's house, 2 doors facing south. i have 3 sisters, 2 brothers, 4 cousins on my father's side. now i store the memory in a drawer along with bitter herbs and rhinoceros horns we dine at restaurants on the better side of towns with pink table cloths and real flowers in the vases. we hardly go to china town. before i came here, i held his hand. now my heart is a chinese box of riddels, no one understands. i blew hot soup for her on foggy nights. she trims the ends of my thinning hair, still she can'

greenery and even russia's most famous old bolshevik gets a tropical setting lead in the lung the palm trees wonder if people would ever have such an exotic sexy. but much of the city's other old detection has a classical touch. this guy was called so with plastic you can see it looks like bath and and is widespread all over the idea was that people need to be held in. to rest. so it was like a real palace. it might be known internationally for being lympics but for decades sochi has been russia's favorite seaside resort. who is still flocked to the beaches here every summer hotels are the place to cope with the expected increase in demand. you're always guaranteed to get down here. the weather can be very unpredictable. they go to. the lake or quick getaway. and this was no wooden restore. fortunately the almost black funnel stayed well out to sea but i was soaked and decided it might not be a bad idea to head away from the beaches and up into the mountains. you might think that a city on the sea would have all the fish that it could handle but it seems in sochi there's always room. and the

warming benefits at least one country in the world right yeah i mean if putin said moscow with palm trees what's so bad about. changing gears a little bit let's take a look at russian perspective here simon how is russia doing it compared to its emerging market peers ok because we still have a lot of turbulence out there yeah absolutely i mean russia's highly impacted by the quantity prices it's brazil and its base had actually fallen off a cliff and india is doing very badly. i mean we're having rolling blackouts across india china i mean china we haven't you know between seven point two and seven point five percent growth i was talking to a construction bank of china and they said that that feels like an absolute recession thank you imagine a seven that's a gross recession a great i mean a seven half percent is just i mean our profit friends in western europe would die for that so yes seven and a half percent but it fails very very bad and that's not is not a great thing erica so rusher in comparison is doing now we've had a slowdown but where if you know would run for four percent you

you can be in new york in 31-degree weather. 2 1/2 hours later you land in the bahamas with the palm trees sand. it's such a quick flight. i think people think of the bahamas as nassau and a couple of other islands. >> right. but there are 700 of them. >> hello! >> and what i didn't realize is there are 50 international airports with their own customs and everything else. so people are flying in from all over the world. guess how they are getting there. >> brace yourself. >> there has been a merger of two major airlines. and it's on the cover of "bloomberg" magazine. this is how they're getting here. ♪ let's get it on >> that's right. that's what we call the friendly skies. >> all right, you guys. we've had so much fun since we arrived here at the atlantis. i mean, so much fun. there are a lot of water activities. >> and water scares you, really. philosophically you don't like water. >> well, i don't like it because i've got hair issues. you know. anyway, we decided to risk beauty and we snapped on these beautiful caps. >> yes. they told us they were beautiful. >> yeah. you know how you do

the world's tallest building over half a mile high, and man-made islands shaped like a palm tree sproutinghotels and an indoor ski slope in the desert oasis, located at a shopping mall. when tourists come to spend money, they are like walking job stimulus programs. fritz is the ceo of starwood hotels and resorts, the company that owns the sheraton and westin and w hotels. it's remarkable considering dubai's small 2 million people. >> 20 or 30 years ago, people didn't think about going there. if you are in russia, it's a place people go. >> dubai aims to create 950,000 jobs fueled by tourism and related sectors. >> the idea that a small city state could create a million jobs in a decade. that's an enormous amount of growth. >> dubai's success in tourism comes at the perfect time, because the industry is booming across the world. countries like china and brazil and india have rapidly growing middle classes that have come to see the world. almost 18 million chinese expected to travel outside their country this year according to the chinese government, and that number is expected to be over 10

the world's tallest building, over half a mile high, man-made islands shaped like a palm tree, routingy hotels. there's even an indoor ski slope in this desert oasis, eventually located in a shopping mall. dubai stops at nothing to woo tourists and when tourists come and spend their money, they are like walking job stimulus program. >> create about a 1 million jobs by the end of this decade just from travel and tourism. >> reporter: fritz van houten is passion is t ceo of starwood hoe tells and resorts, the company that ounce the sheraton, wednesday and w hotel brands. starwood has 15 hoe necessary cube by more than any otherity? world, except new york. that's remarkable, considering dubai's small size, a little over 2 million people. 26r7b89s 0 or 30 years ago, people didn't think of going there now if you are in europe, especially if you are in russia, it is a place people go. >> reporter: by 2020, hotel guests are expected to triple and dubai aims to create 950,000 jobs, fuelled by tourism and related sectors. >> >> this idea that a small city state could create 1 million jobs in a

i just have to work from a warm area with palm trees and sand. still a tough go coming in out of the manassas making your way past the car rest area. the car is on the shoulder there. you will find delays on 66 leaving fair oaks. checking for accident activity in triangle. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. etraffic. . >> thank you. >>> to politics now. it is day two of the democratic national convention. >> former president bill clinton will speak tonight and our area played a major role in last night's kickoff. maryland governor mart uno'malley, house minority leader steny hoyer and tim kaine were among the local leader to address the crowd. the san antonio mayor julian castro gave the keynote address. first lady was the headliner. she talked about her family and defended her husband's policies. >> when it comes to rebuilding our economy, barack is thinking about folk like my dad and like his grandmother. he is thinking about the pride that comes from a hard day's work. that is why he signed the lily ledbetter fair pay act to help wom

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we had one hidden in a palm tree that could zoom in with enough clarity to read a license plate on a that was down the block. >> he pulled in the driveway. >> is there anything i need to say? chris? anything you want me to say? >> i like your picture. >> you like his picture. he's in the archway. making the turn. approaching the back door. on the step town. >> i made some chocolate chip cookies and left them on the table. >> the online decoy wasn't there. he thought he was talking to a girl named liz. now emily has to play the role during the conversation. >> i really like your picture. i can't wait to see you. >> i know. >> it is because of that conversation with the doe coy that suddenly they say okay, there is a real girl f there's a potential of fulfilling this fantasy i have. and they walk in. >> what kind of alcohol did you bring? >> i brought absolutely citron. i brought mandarin orange. i brought a shot of jagermeister. i got bush. >> did you condoms? >> yeah, i did. >> with all that it sounds like you got a pretty big night planned, huh? >> what was your plan here? >> my pla

man-made islands shaped like a palm tree, sprouting with luxury hotels there is even an indoor ski slopeert oasis, conveniently located in a shopping mall. dubai stops atting in to woo tourists. and when tourists come and spend their money, they're like walking job stimulus programs. >> they'll create about a million jobs by tend of this decade just from travel and tourism. >> reporter: fritz van passion is the ceo of starwood hotels and resorts they own the sheraton, westin and w brands. >> 20 or 30 years ago people didn't think of going there now if you're in europe, or especially if you're in russia, it's a place where people go. >> reporter: by 2020, hotel guests are predicted to triple. >> this idea that a small city state could create a million jobs in a decade, that's an enormous amount of growth. >> the rest tomorrow at 8:00 and 11:00 eastern and pacific time. >>> she is a tv personality that you either like or you don't, but one thing is for certain, nancy grace is passionate about the law. we love nancy grace here. she answers questions from ireporters and talks about the murde

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we even have one in a palm tree that could turn 360 degrees and can zoom into the license plate on a car at the other end of the street. >> he's coming around back. he is on the steps, opening the door. he is going to come right in. watch it, emily. he's in, heading towards the kitchen. he's in the kitchen. call out. >> hey, i'm in here. >> call again, call again. >> hey, i'm about to put on my bra and panties. come on in. >> good job. he's coming around the desk, heading towards chris. >> this is the second time that we worked with emily as our on-site decoy. naturally, she was a little nervous. with that under her belt in ohio, she was much more confident in florida. how are you doing? why don't you have a seat over in that chair, please. sit down. put your hands up top so i can see them. what are you doing here? >> just coming to meet somebody. >> who were you coming to meet? >> just a girl. >> a girl named -- >> um -- i'm not even sure what her name is. >> how old is this i'm not even sure what her name is? >> 15 or 16. >> 15. and how old are you? >> 30. kenneth forton had driven

i loved the palm trees. would have thought in the 1970's, who would have thought it would become a petry dish for socialism in three out of four districts in the united states and doing it themselves. gretchen: by the way, i wasn't there in the '70s, i gotcha. [laughter] >> i was there in the golden age. charles: 2005 she was there. gretchen: no, but it wasn't the '70s. stuart: all right, everybody, back to the november election, please. president obama still has the lead over mitt romney in most of the polls. the president's appearances on shows like "the view" give mimm a wide audience, a wide appeal of the cross section voting of the public. and the rnc reince priebus joins us now. welcome back. the conventional wisdom is that mitt romney has had a horrible week and yet, he's not really behind that much in the polls. and here we have the president going on "the view" and going on letterman. is it possible that governor romney is just too nice and not playing good politics? >> well, you forget about obama'

many years after i moved to joshua tree and twentynine palms, just a few years later i met my partner, angela garcia who happens to be sitting in the audience tonight and has also written a wonderful book in many ways about the desert called the pastoral clinic about addiction. i met angela far away from the desert, but she is from the desert. that is one of the things i fell for immediately about her, the fact that she was a desert girl, a western girl with a capital w., from new mexico, albuquerque in the south valley. we ended up living in new mexico to get there while she was doing research for her dissertation on addiction. she's a medical anthropologist. we have some stanford people wrecking unshed representing here tonight. i followed angela on to another landscape, northern new mexico, which i had dirty scene. i'd been a couple times as a tourist when i was younger. but with all of the northern mexico represented artistically, whether it's as a little postcard in the carousel at a truck stop or ansel adams, georgia o'keeffe, the santa fe artist colony painters, the writers, jo

thereafter i arrived in then the first thing that i saw next to a sign that said 100 miles 29 palms easter joshua tree. you know, negative would treat? he then the album. you know, what the tree looks like? [laughter] crazy arms. i want to to go further out to something existential was driving the further out into the big empty. and also the rent got cheaper and cheaper so i was paying $275 per month on 5 acres of land on the edge of 29 palms right where the sign said and that is where the book begins with a personal crisis it was no accident i arrived here. the desert was the site of a pilgrimage and at that moment i was not aware that i am in big trouble i must go he'll in the desert but that is the space and tiered. realized later the symbolism was there to begin the process of healing to get to know the place that included dealing with the fact i was arriving on a landscape add as many problems as mexico city with drugs. coming from addictions and the pain and the struggle that goes with that where meth labs were exploding and young marines were training in doing drugs to escape. five lead after a

below us, the sea and a sandy beach for bathing and on either side coconut palms and other fruit treesr a landscape painter to feast on... what appeals to me most is the people, and every day brings a ceaseless coming and going of island women in colorful faded finery with their infinite variety of graceful movements. narrator: gauguin returned to paris late in 1887 and sold some of his martinique paintings. the perceptive critic octave mirbeau was spellbound. reader (mirbeau): there is an almost religious mystery, a sacred, eden-like abundance in these forest interiors with their monstrous vegetation and flowers and their tremendous sunsets. narrator: gauguin returned to brittany in 1888. two years earlier he had left as an observer. he returned as a prophet. reader (gauguin): i love brittany. here i find wild and primitive features. when my wooden clogs resound on this granite ground, i hear the muffled and powerful thud that i seek in my painting. narrator: finding pont-aven too touristy, he took lodgings in le pouldu, a fishing village on the atlantic ocean. the hotel buvette de la

you made this look like a palm tree. >> you're going to use a pineapple anyway.he pineapple and then start carving out the meat of the pineapple. as you can see, it's a base so it's flat. >> so great. >> it stand up. >> the pineapple tastes really good, too. >> little monkey in there. and you made your own lace. >> this is pretty easy. i used a string. i made more like a bib necklace because i don't like the flowers behind so i took these pretty flowers and glued them. >> hot glugun? >> requests but be -- yes, but be careful. what i learned, you know a pineapple is ripe -- a lot of people smell them, but you can pull out the top of the leaves. i like to do straws with the flowers and curly fruits. i've glued a twisty tie on to a flower. >> that's it? >> and put on there. stick it on there. >> that's so easy. >> and you can also make these cute little curls because that instantly says tropical drink, cut limes or lemons, cut the meat out and full and twist it. >> i wish we had more time. that's so great. i love what you did over here, decorated your hat and made c

palm oil plantation. ian singleton is especially outraged that trees were logged and canals dug before a permit was even issued>> there's a saying -- the law of fait accompli. after you've built or destroyed something, then you get permission. it's a question of price, and knowing who you have to pay. >> the company responsible is kallista alam - a name that combines the greek word for beautiful with the indonesian word for nature. even though they're a member of the indonesia palm oil association, they refused our request for an interview and a representative shrugged off concerns about association members' alleged practices. >> there might be one or two companies that aren't completely clean in the way they go about transforming land into palm oil plantations. but they're the exception. you cannot make the whole industry responsible. most companies follow the law. >> one thing that's never been tried seriously is just enforcing the law. the best education, the best way to improve people's behavior, is to just let them know that if they break the law, they will be prosecuted. >> back at the orangutan station.

palm springs upper 70s to mid 80s for san diego and l.a.. >>> new this morning from placer county, emergency crews safely rescued a base jumper stuck in a tree70 feet above the ground in auburn, calfire responded under the forest hill bridge before 9:00 last night. it took crews several hours to free the man but got him out of the tree about 2:15 this morning. base jumping involves a parachute to jump from bridges or other high objects. >>> french court has just rule the magazine that published topless photos of prince william's wife had to hand them over within 24 hours. the prince and the duchess continue a 10-day asian tour. this is video of them yesterday on the solomon islands. lawyers for the couple went to court in france yesterday asking the judge to block photos. today's ruling only affects one french publication. other magazines in ireland, italy have already published the photos and more photos. >> i hear they are doing future photos trying to get court action some law, so they can deal with it future. >> right there's also the deterrent factor. >> interesting what is privacy? with the camera lens this big, you know -- >> a long w

below us, the sea and a sandy beach for bathing and on either side coconut palms and other fruit treesr a landscape painter to feast on... what appeals to me most is the people, and every day brings a ceaseless coming and going of island women in colorful faded finery with their infinite variety of graceful movements. narrator: gauguin returned to paris late in 1887 and sold some of his martinique paintings. the perceptive critic octave mirbeau was spellbound. reader (mirbeau): there is an almost religious mystery, a sacred, eden-like abundance in these forest interiors with their monstrous vegetation and flowers and their tremendous sunsets. narrator: gauguin returned to brittany in 1888. two years earlier he had left as an observer. he returned as a prophet. reader (gauguin): i love brittany. here i find wild and primitive features. when my wooden clogs resound on this granite ground, i hear the muffled and powerful thud that i seek in my painting. narrator: finding pont-aven too touristy, he took lodgings in le pouldu, a fishing village on the atlantic ocean. the hotel buvette de la