but then ray got bad news. was headed back to prison. >> my mom told me that ray was went to the parole office drunk. honestly, i guess he wanted to come back. >> roy served another 15 months in prison, then was paroled again. we visited him five months later. >> i was on borrowed time last time you interviewed me. i didn't have my own place, you know? i was staying with my folks. love them to death, but i didn't have no independence. and then i was lonely on top of it. i got to drinking a little bit, and that turned into a problem. i went to the parole office after drinking. i wasn't drunk, but i drunk the night before. i had to do a breathalyzer test and it came up hot. and here i am, trying it again. the mistake i made last time was because i drink. so even when i get off parole, i'm not going to drink because it can become an issue, and i don't want it to be an issue in my life. >> pet cat stevens. >> roy's pet cat isn't the only thing he has to keep his mind off alcohol, he also loves his job. >> day to da

bill and janet ray call it home.ddled together underneath a doorway in their second-floor apartment. >> and the next thing i knew that i was flat on my back and janet was laying on my chest. >> their home has dropped a dozen feet into the garage on the first floor. >> her head is right here. we're surrounded. >> the third floor has collapsed on top of them. leaving a space for bill and janet about two feet wide by two feet high. >> it reminds me of a coffin. i could feel my wife's breath. i'm sure she could feel mine. >> why couldn't you move her at that point? >> there was glass or wood that was cutting into her. >> help does come. their apartment manager hears them and promises to return with rescuers. >> i was almost euphoric. i was just absolutely confident we were going to get out of there. >> and was she? >> yes. >> what bill and janet don't know is that the quake has ruptured both gas lines and water mains. >> while we were driving down you could really see water like a creek running down the middle of the str

" with ray charles?yeah. >> we saw the movie later. people now know a little of the life and legacy -- you were there with brother ray. talk about ray charles. >> he was intense. one of the most high-energy people i've ever met. i don't know if -- if i've told you this story before, but this is how it all sort of began for me. i came to l.a., i wanted to do is -- to do a book with ray charles. i couldn't secure an interview. i went to western union, they told me i could send a telegram to the blind in blackmail. i beg -- in to the blind in braille. i started typing, you will understand why i have to do your story. no one in the office knew how to read braille other than him. they gave him the telegram, and i was over there the next:4ykmv. and we hit it off. he knew i was genuine. but he was -- and it was a gig that i should not have gotten because i didn't have -- >> the experience. >> the credit. i had the chops even though i didn't understand at the that point that i had the chops. but his intuition to

fire ray's tank platoon narrowed down a trail.es return to the scene in the kall river gorge. what all comes down this forest path? >> well, initially only myself. and then so i started down the trail and i suppose i had gone 100, 150 yards when my tank struck a mine and it blew the track off and that blocked the trail. >> artillery hit that area. one of his nco's were killed. tanks were damaged. the tanks would go a matter of a few meters on this slippery, muddy slope. >> what's this track look like at that point? >> it's a mess. >> fog, mist, rain. artillery fire. they couldn't see anything. they didn't know how bad the trail was. >> we were being outgunned and outshot. >> and what are you thinking? >> what the hell am i doing here? >> ray flag's platoon of sherman tanks has to fight their way down this narrow forest trail and things go downhill from there. stay with us. . with centurylink as your technology partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure, and dedicated support, free you to focus on what matters. centurylink. your l

or you can follow me @ray suarez news. in washington, i'm ray suarez. ♪ >>> sweden, officially recognizing the palestinian state during angry criticism from israel. ♪ >>> hello, welcome to al jazeera, i'm martine dennis in doha. also to come on the program, tension in jerusalem after the police shooting of a palestinian, suspected of an attack on a jewish activist. >>> more homes are destroyed in egypt as people are forced out to make way for a buffer zon

i'm ray suarez. a man with ebola present himself to the hospital and was mistakenly returned home. but when he came back he eventually died, but not before infecting one of the healthcare workers treating him. in spain healthcare workers accuse authorities not equipping them. there is a lot to know about ebola. we look back at the early days of this outbreak and forward to prevention. >> we have to rethink the way we address ebola control. even a single infection is not acceptable. >> what has been called a breach in protocol as the first transition of the disease on u.s. soil. >> it's a detailed investigation to better understand what might have happened with the infection of the healthcare worker. we look at what happens before beam go into isolation. what happens in isolation, and what happens when they come out of isolation. >> over the weekend a health worker in dallas fell ill with ebola after treating patient thomas eric duncan. he went to the hospital in dallas. despite the fact that he had t

or you can follow me @ray suarez news. in washington, i'm ray suarez. >>> on "america tonight", doubling down on democracy, al jazeera demonstrates whether a controversial campaign against voter fraud may suppress legitimate voters. >> we know they exist. >> with midterms around the corner - are some states protecting or vote? >>> also - equality under water. we dive into the issue of women

hello, i'm ray suarez. governors have been reengineering state government in unconventional, press setting ways. for critics, who claim that there's no distance between the parties, governors have taken on big battles between employee unions, underfunded state pension plans, and what they called blotted state government. they have not necessarily been cheered. governments are fond of saying that it's the state, not the federal government that functions as a laboratory for new ideas. and voters are not prepared to say they're happy with the results. with just under two weeks to go before the midterm elections, president barack obama has hopped on the campaign trail. gubernatorial campaign trail. across the nation, ther six governors may lose their seats for the first time since 1984. on monday, obama made his way to chicago to cast his vote for the democratic candidate, pat quinn. the incumbent is only up by a hair in the polls. on sunday, obama through his support behind maryland's governor, anthony brown i

or you can follow me @ray suarez news. in washington, i'm ray suarez. >> now western allies look to see if it's enough to turn the identify against the group. when the rocket exploded after lift off it destroyed a dozen experiments designed by young students. we'll talk about what happened to all their hard work. >>> an update on the hawai'i town where a slow-moving lava flow is threatening dozens of homes. all that and more at 6:00 on al jazeera america.

i'm ray suarez. you'll probably hear it a thousand times between this moment and election day. turn out is going to be low. nobody comes out for the mid terms. okay, it's a commonplace observation but is it a verdict? does it have to be that way? today on the program a political strategy session, a candidate, party or campaign decided that low level of participation isn't good, not for them, their party, or the country. is there really anything anyone can do about it? we'll talk about the tools, techniques approaches to voters that might break people out of their current willingness to take a pass on the next election. let's begin with a look at the situation. as it stands today. in less than 50 days voters will head out to the polls for the li midterm elections in the run up, republican and democrats campaigns are ramping up spending and plasmatiing opponents. >> who is behind the effects of kay hagin, oil industry billion narrows. >> washington, d.c. the land of politicians, lawyers and lobbyists,

i'm ray soares. in california, a political meophyte is taking on one of the state governors in history. a former governor who has changed parties. in wisconsin, the governor is facing the voters for the second time after just four years in office, and maybe people don't remember the saga of scott walk, betsy, but he faced a recall election. >> and he became a national star as he won that recall. republicans saw him as a hero, someone who could take on the unions, but now he's 47-47, and he's hanging on by the skin of life. >> and yet john case okay, who did some of the things that walker did in wisconsin, is coasting. >> kasich is out by a think it's 20 or even more points over his democratic challenger, fitzgerald. and it comes down to how important candidate selection is. because walker and kasich are running tough campaigns in states where the democrats usually walk away with. the governor has had trouble fundraising and very little political i.d. he was in a scandal with a woman who wasn't his wi

i'm ray suarez. the fight for kobane is going on right on turkey's border. turkey opposes iraq and isil. and it opposes the syrian government. and it opposes the syrian city. with a big ref see problem and isil on its border, surcky is frustrated with the obama administration because it meant aiding an enemy, the syrian kurds. the dam broke in recent days with iraq agreeing for iraqi kurds to join syria as they dropped weapons to the syrian kurds. it's complicated and a sign of how vital the american government and the rest of thew. world thinks it is for kobane >> clashes flair between the kurdish fighters and the islamic state group, dropping supplies from planes. >> last night, the planes dropped weaponry and food and medicine los to the city of kobane. and this is the first time that they have dropped help inside of kobane and also to the fighters. >> on monday, turkey's government announced that it's also helping the army known as the peshmerga by allowing fighters access to its borders. >> iraq

i'm ray suarez. the math is not that complicated. the republicans need 51 senate votes to run the place. the democrats need 50. with vice president joe biden president of the senate has their tie-breaking vote to maintain control. it's easy to come up with combinations of outcomes that feature 50 republicans, 49 democrats, and greg orman. the kansas independent trying to unseat republican pat roberts in kansas. still with us betsy woodruff is a politics writer. michael shure political analyst, and ari robinoff is host of "agenda" on sirius xm radio. you can run similar placings six ways to sunday, and end up. >> you'll see fundraising promises of other types of protection, promises of legislation, promises of prominence being tossed by both parties. i don't think that greg orman is going to win in kansas. i think that's a long shot. i think as you get closer to the election you'll get more and more dissatisfied voters rico alessing around their natural parties because the senate is so close, because electability is an issue and democ

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i'm ray suarez. some of the richest and most powerful countries on earth are gathering intelligence, making war plans and getting ready to pound the army that's taken over much of northern syria and western iraq. have you seen the news reports, the convoys, the pick up trucks, the rocket -propelled grenades and machine guns. who are those guys? who is willing to drop everything back home and fight in northern syria? if you're a 22-year-old guy in chechen capital or the british capitol of london, what could someone say to you to get you to smuggle you are way into syria and join an army that is murdering its way across a big chunk of the middle east? the shutting off the flows of fighters loom as a strategic goal as important as shutting off the flow of weapons or money. >> president barack obama met with military leaders from 20 nations in andrews air force base . >> there is going to be a long-term campaign. as with any military effort there will be days of progress, and there are going to be period

hello, i'm ray suarez. in the last 30 years when the price of a barrel of oil has zoomed it's been painful. household budget strain. industry struggling to keep up with cost. pressured upwards to the making and moving goods. in the last few months the cost of a barrel of oil has fall finance $115 to $80. good news, right? but like any good tale involving crude, the answer is more complicated than that. prices at the pump are finally helping to keep pocketbooks plump. the average cost of gas per gallon around the u.s. is now $3.04, the lowest since 2010. >> we travel a lot more. go home more. it's nice. >> in 17 states the price of gas is under $3 a gallon. only deal necessar dealers in hawai'i charge more than $4. since june oi gas has dropped 0.005 per day. in june the international oil said that the u.s. beat russia in energy extraction. now a barrel costs around $80. but only analysts chris edmunds warns this bottle of the barrel price could spell trouble for domestic producers. >> at $80 to $85, you beg

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i'm ray suarez, dr. bosh, officials believe they have gotten control of this thing and ceased the spread from person to person. that the other countries affected in west africa are closer to getting a handle on this. >> unfortunately, we're still a long ways away. there has been a necessary upscaling of the response in recent days and weeks, which is of course a positive development, but we can't use the same strategies that we've used in the past. we have too many cases in liberia and sierra leone to think that we can follow each individual contact. we have to use broader strateg strategies. so still a very serious situation in liberia and sierra leone to a somewhat lesser extent than guinea. i think it will be with us for many more months. >> how will we know that things are getting better? are there some signs. some numbers of new cases, numbers of new deaths are the public health officials in those heavily infected countries will know that they've turned a corner? >> well, exactly right. we do follow

i'm ray suarez. autumn brings cooler nights, falling leaves. baseball playoffs, and nine powerful men and women back to the supreme court of the united states to begin another term. after sessions packed with bloc buster cases, hobby lobby strike down closed union shops, requiring warrants for police searching the contents of a cell phone, what deliberations and decisions will make news in the coming terms. again and again we turn to the nation's highest court to rule on statement limits, the state powers over individuals, and relationships in business. and by declining gay marriage cases, wins for the gay rights cause. >> reporter: the justices turning down petition dealing with same-sex marriage law. it doesn't mean that a marriage case won't appear before the court this year. gay marriage advocates hope that they'll rule di finishtively in their favor. since the court ruled against the defense of marriage act and california's prop 8 in 2013, marriage bans have foul no one a dozen states. cases in

the new one is "camp x-ray." kristen, always happy to see you here.anks for coming to see us. >> thanks for having me. >> that's the show tonight. thanks for watching and keep the faith. >> for more information on today's çñshow, visit tavis smiy at pbs.org. >> hi. i'm tavis smiley, join me next time for a conversation about latinos in the midterm elections and marty stuart. see you then. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> rose: welcome to the program. we begin this evening with an appreciation of oscar de la renta the greatest fashion designer who died and later this week we'll have a full appreciation of his life and talk to his friends, but tonight we remember what an inspired life he lived, appropriate for a man who began life wanting to be a painter, as he told me in a conversation. >> it just happened they went to art school in the dominican republic, and then at the age of 17, i went to spain to continue my art studies, in madrid, and it's while i was in spain,

i'm ray suarez. since president obama called out the coalition last month, airstrikes video increased by isil remains a threat. what were the limits to what air power alone can accomplish. mr. ambassador, you were speaking before the break about military response, and root now, the azidis, who have been terribly dealt with by 24 army in iraq, are once again cut off and trapped in the series of mountaintops, sinjar, most notable among them. and really afraid that the next assault could kind of wipe them out. the military seems a very blunt instrument in dealing with kind of thing. even if you take out forces circling sinjar, threatening the azidis. if isil wants to really start killing them wholesale, if you won't put infantry on the ground, it's going to be hard to do that. interpreter i agree with you and i have long supported boots on the ground in major military formations, and certainly very robust advisory teams down to the battalion level. i think this is absolutely necessary. and in fact, you

i'm ray suarez. egg freezing, that is setting aside a woman's eggs to use them later to get pregnant is not new technology, but it's only recently been certified as something other than experimental. opening it up to a different type of status or insurance or healthcare. maybe a woman is getting to an age where conceiving gets tougher, but sees no partner, and sees that as a vital pre-condition for having a kid. maybe a woman is in a career are leaving the workplace to have a baby does not seem to be in the cards. or maybe you want more control over the timing of children in your life period. egg freezing is now a new employee benefit. if you work for facebook or apple the option to put off having children for a decade may an click away. this week the two silicon valley titans announced their benefits packages for female employees will offer two rounds of egg freezing treatments, a procedure that can cost close to $20,000. apple said in a statement that we want to empower women at apple to do the bes

. >> coming up tonight on cspan 3, a conversation with university of wisconsin president ray cross, on challenges facing higher education. then the senate narcotics caucus, examines heroin use in the u.s. later, a discussion on alternative treatments for drug abusers, and that's followed by an event marking the 50th anniversary of the surgeon general's report on smoking. cspan's washington journal recently interviewed presidents in the big ten universities. next university of wisconsin president ray cross, this is about 30 minutes. >> and this morning's cspan bus is on the campus of the university of wisconsin in madison and joining us on the bus is ray cross, who's the president of the university of wisconsin system. thank you for being here. let's begin with this distinction of being the president of the university of wisconsin's system. what does that mean? >> within the university of wisconsin system, greta, there's 13 four-year institutions and 13 two-year feeder institutions extension is in all 72 counties, in addition to that, there are 180,000 students throughout the system. 40

and here's one showing a little kid's ray rice, he's ray rice with a doll.ake this one, please. worst costume ever, chuck? >> it is the worst costume ever. and what is it about halloween that brings out in people this urge to be completely inappropriate and biggoted at the same time. it's like how do i get my completely disregard for social politeness and biggotry to come together in the perfect sandwich of offensiveness. that's what halloween has become. i liken it to when a little boy who pulls a girl's hair. people who do the black face thing. i want to be black so bad, but my conditioning won't allow me to do it in the appropriate manner. this is what happens. >> someone knocks on your door dragging a doll, in black face, and they want you to give them candy. >> i would say, this is halloween and things are supposed to be scary. domestic violence is really scary. but this isn't the way to go about addressing it. why don't you volunteer at a shelter or read up about the issues, and that way you would never even think to dress up as ray rice for halloween.

robert ray is standing by.robert. >> yes, john indeed, the cavalcade of vehicles will likely come down this street any moment with the 29-year-old nurse who has just landed from dallas. they have just begun to block off the road and a bus driving by. indeed this nurse when she arrives here the ambulance will take her into a special area here at emory. she will likely be taken off a stretcher inside into the quarantine unit that the hospital has. let's just take a look at this hospital now john. >> robert what's different about this hospital than the dallas hospital? >> reporter: well, this hospital is clearly used to treating people with infectious diseases. the centers for disease control and prevention designed the quarantine units in conjunction with the folks here at emory. they did that over ten years ago and they have already taken care of three different ebola patients. so as more police continue to come down here you don't to understand the ambulance that will be carrying the 29-year-old nurse, even the

i'm ray suarez.nother day, another data breach. this one is huge. involving one of america's giant bank combines jpmorgan chase, and they used the beach head at morgon to burrow into the digital vaults of other institutions. among them deutsche bangs and bank of america and five others like hs b.c. and citigroup reported they were attacked by the same virtual vandals that penetrated jpmorgan were fiddling with the locks at their place. the size of the breach and ambition is troubling, and this had a national security aspects as tensions over the russian invasion of ukraine rose, officials up to the president watched closely, suspecting a russian hand behind the computer attack. >> reporter: that old saying may tell you cash is king. the crown july -- jewel is plastic, visa, mastercard, american express and discover reported 546 million cards in use. the sensis card said the number tops a billion. how safe is your number, money and personal information. hackers and leaves never sleep. >> it's the resu

i'm ray suarez. we don't make decisions about getting paired in a vacuum. we have families, home towns, ethnic and religious backgrounds, weekly wages and levels of education that all push a little like hands on an ouija board towards making a conclusion for ourselves. striking numbers of children are born to single women. couples are building long-term relationships, sharing property, retirement savings, while never planning to marry. the number of adults who have never married is steadily rising as are the divorce rates for people over 50. during the rise of no-fault divorce commentators lamented the number of failing marriages. will we now turn our attention to those who have decided to do without marriage all together? it may strike you as surprising, but moments like these captured in photographs of a happy young couple starting out on a new life together as husband and wife are becoming less common. nowadays the face of marriage, who does it, at what age they choose to do it, with whom and why

i'm ray suarez. after a doctor coming home to new york after treating ebola treatments in west africa submitted himself to treatment, and a nurse landed in new jersey's newark international airport, worry about the disease spread in the country's most densely populated region. governor chris christie puts the nurse in involuntary quarantine even though she's show nothing symptoms of the disease. he backed off the absolute form of mandated quarantine for people who showed no symptoms over the weekend. the obama administration was critical of both' approaches, noting mandatory quarantine for volunteers made it less likely for volunteers to head to west africa where their help is badly needed. the u.s. is trying to figure out how to treat the trickle of potential cases landing here. over the weekend a child checked into new york city's belle vue hospital center with a fever. >> he had a low-grade fever this morning. he has as was noted a travel to one of the three affected countries and has a fever. tha

. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. the he's almostic state of iraq and the levant, isil, has disrupted the long-settled map of the middle east. the guerrilla force trying to establish what it callings the islamic state is fighting the government of syria, the u.n. air force and kurdish in syria, and now a new alliance in middle east forces in iraq. with all that firepower aimed at them, isil is still on the verge of taking a major town on the border between syria and turkey. how it's happening, why it's happening is all part of the tangled story of friends and enemies in one of the world's most complicated neighborhoods. islamic state in iraq and the levant or isil, have bee sieged the syrian town of kobane for weeks. the reports from the kurdish fighters defending it say that 9,000 have pushed the defense. so close that the turkish troops have been wearily watching but have not yet engaged in the fight. >> you see what we go through. they behead our children and set our houses ablaze. they play dirty games on kurds. >