additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by tfrontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. >> narrator: the orontes river valley tells the story of syria. it reveals a warring nation that is breaking apart. in this valley, neighbor is fighting neighbor. every day is a struggle to survive. a land where regime and rebels are fighting to the death. this is the story of the people who live and fight on both sides of the front line-- neighbors now divided by religion, ideology, and the river that runs between them. ahmad is 20 years old, and works in his dad's garage. nine months ago he defected from the regime police force to join the rebel free syrian army. >> (translated): i was a policeman. we were sent out to quell the protests, and some of us would open fire on demonstrators. but i used to hide. i'd throw my bullets away. here is my photo. i looked evil when i was serving the regime. i was full of hatred. now i look better. this photo was taken after i joined the free s

additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by tfrontline journalism fund, supporting investigative reporting and enterprise journalism. (man speaking japanese) >> (translated): on march 11, there was a relaxed atmosphere at work. i was at my computer, writing reports. before that day, we'd had a few earthquakes, around magnitude four. then, i think it was about 2:46 pm, i felt an incredible rumbling in the earth. it was like nothing i'd ever experienced. >> narrator: the earthquake that shook the fukushima dai-ichi nuclear power plant was the most powerful to strike japan since records began. the company that operates the plant, tepco, has forbidden its workers from speaking publicly about what followed. but one year on, they are starting to tell their stories. some have asked for their identities to be hidden for fear of being fired. >> (translated): i saw all the pipes fixed to the wall shifting and ripping off. >> (translated): it was getting stronger and stronger. this was no ordinary quake. >> (translated): we

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org." anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. this week in the streets of boston, we were reminded once again that civilization is too often a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart, with those who would commit acts of violence trying to disrupt and even destroy the fragile commons we call society. fortunately, there are people who will not be deterred from the work of civilization, who will even from time to time go up against authority

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. mo infortion at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. inequality matters. you will hear people say it doest, but they are usually so high up the ladder they can't even see those at the bottom. the distance between the first and the least in america is vast and growing. "the washington post" recently took a look at two counties in florida and found that people who live in the more affluent st. johns county live longer than those who live next door in less rich putnam count

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport fountion. the hn d.nd catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org." anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. you may think you know about martin luther king, jr., but there is much about the man and his message we have conveniently forgotten. he was a prophet, like amos, isaiah and jeremiah of old, calling kings and plutocrats to account, speaking truth to power. yet, he was only 39 when he was murdered in memphis, tennessee on april 4th, 1968. the march on washington in '63 and the march from selma to montgomery in '65 were b

additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, with a grant from millicent bell, through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. >> it's been a week since the shooting. (bell tolling) for most of the journalists in this newsroom, they've never covered anything that came close to being as horrific as this. it is a singular event in the history of connecticut. (bell tolls) >> narrator: a week after adam lanza massacred 20 children and six adults at sandy hook elementary school, church bells tolled across the state. memorials were erected to the 26 victims. president obama read out 26 names. but there was a 27th person murdered that day-- the gunman's mother, nancy lanza. >> nancy lanza is the person adam was closest to in the world. she was the first person he killed. he shot her four times in the head while she was in bed, and then he went off to sandy hook elementachool. if we can begin to understand adam's relationship with nancy, we probably can begin to understand adam. >> one of

committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world.additional funding is provided by the park foundationedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund. with grants from scott nathan and laura debonis, and millicent bell, through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. major funding for this program is provided by the kendeda fund. >> chicago is now under full national security. >> a no-fly zone is in effect, except for the world leaders who are landing at o'hare, as president barack obama and a number of world leaders... >> hockenberry: it was a big weekend in chicago. last spring, the president was in town, along with the leaders of nato, to discuss threats to global security and nuclear proliferation. at a huge convention center, the eyes of the world were watching. >> ...that demands global solutions. we came to chicago... (police whistle blows) >> hockenberry: but across town in a small hotel ballroom, the

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. we lost a great journalist this week. anthony lewis was a longtime reporter and columnist at the "new york times." i knew him during my years in washington when he made his reputation as our foremost interpreter of the supreme court and the impact of its decisions on civil rights and liberties. as one legal scholar noted, lewis had "an incredible talent in making the law not only intelligible but also in making it c

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that's funded by the rockefeller foundation look or foundation how wallace woodcock foundation park foundation so it's you know its staff and its salaries are there engaging in lobbying in washington they continue to. put on the conferences but the real. in terms of social change. or media it's from the bottom up and they seem to wast contact with the bottom up idea that we're in the media folks who aren't there a lot of young people the congress has got an expensive war we're not participating so we think it's very important to keep a radical edge to the movement to be talking about what's going on in the you know in the war the war in the middle east the printer war with north korea and by our mother wasn't even environmental journalism workshop sarabande gilder progress magazine how to create one at the last minute so we're seeing the pretty crass as an important piece of media change in the country certainly in a washington. but not the cutting edge of where grassroots activism is happening. peter mickey have their current director product censor wrote an article in response to two years a

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. e herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. in the sweeping wilderness of yellowstone, the grizzly once ruled alone. unmatched in size and strength, no creature could challenge the mighty bear. then came the return of a formidable rival... tall, rangy wolves from the north now stake their claim to yellowstone. and somewhere in the back country, an epic battle unfolds. it's a clash of wills -- and opposing skills -- that echoes all through yellowstone. in the cauldron of th

. >>> in honor of earth day, the state park foundation is hosting all kinds of projects at state parks across california today, including here in the bay area. some of the projects planned as part of the 16th annual earth day restoration and cleanup include trail and camp ground improvements, trash cleanup, building bridges and planting trees as well as wildlife restoration. if you want to know the specifics about bay area events, you can go to calpark.org/earth day. >>> now, let's check in with rob mayeda to look at the forecast. >> it should be pretty nice to be outdoors today. you'll notice the winds pick up at times heading into the afternoon and this morning. you may actually need a bit of a jacket. 44 degrees in napa and santa rosa to start your day. 45 in morgan hill. 49 in san jose. 50 in san francisco and oakland. not much wind except as you get close to the car quinn as straight. some of our weather headlines through the next 24 hours. we'll have a few patches of low clouds in a few spots this morning. high clouds heading into the afternoon. cooler finish to the weekend as th

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. rb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> "live from lincoln center" is made possible by a major grant from metlife. metlife. [snap] i can do this. [applause] [fanfare] with additional support from the robert wood johnson 1962 charitable trust, dedicated to enriching the lives of all americans through medical research, education, and the arts; thomas h. lee and ann tenebaum; the robert and renee belfer family foundation; mercedes t. bass; and the national endowment for th

thoundat park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org." anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. in the aftermath of the boston bombings and the massive manhunt which led to the death of one suspect and the arrest of another, both of them muslims, there have been calls for increased surveillance and scrutiny of the public at large and muslims in particular. on fox news the other day, new york congressman peter king said, "if you know a threat is coming from a certain community, that's where you have to look."

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. e herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org." anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> the following is a co-production of kqed and the center for investigative reporting. >> in california's fields, things are changing. crops are less plentiful. >> we're seeing two-thirds of a reduction in volume out of our southern growing regions. >> insects are more abundant. >> our temperatures have increased by two to three degrees fahrenheit, and that seems to be enough to keep them from being frozen out during the winte