long-range plans for expansion focused on the potential for continued demand in europe, asia and south america america. so these are data that we'll look at. >> i'm glad to see the east coast, just turn your attention to the west. senator barrasso here from wyoming, we have tremendous opportunities right now between wyoming and montana here, looking at west coast opportunities. and getting back to where is the expansion occurring? over in asia. west coast terminals become very, very important. >> understood. and i recognize the low sulfur content. >> thank you. >> yeah. >> thank you, madam chair. secretary, one of the areas i'm pretty excited about right now just because we're seeing such rapid change is the area of power storage where capability is increasing at a pretty good clip. costs are coming down quite quickly as well. and i'm wondering if you could take a few minutes to talk a little bit about what you see as d.o.e.'s role in accelerating this technology sector that could really change the way we think about energy, change our generation needs, really facilitate time shifting and move us forw

president obama has arrived in panama to attend the summit of the americas along with other leaders from canada, central america, south america, the caribbean, and for the first time, cuba. obama and cuban president raul castro are reportedly due to meet informally at the summit, marking the first time presidents from the two countries have sat down since meanwhile, on thursday, obama 1956. announced the state department has finished its review of whether cuba should be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, but said he would wait to act until receiving final recommendations white house advisors. >> as you know, there is a process involved in reviewing whether or not a country should be on the state-sponsored terrorism list. that review has been completed at the state department. it is now forwarded to the white house. our interagency team will go through the entire thing in the present it to me with a recommendation. that hasn't happened yet. amy: fights broke out ahead of the summit wednesday when anti-castro cuban demonstrators tried to lay flowers at a bust of cuban patriarch josÉ martÍ near the cuban embas

america as the child of immigrants. growing up in america and taking shots at the president today on israel on cuba on south america and central america. >> there he is with his family, his lovely family, holding up his son his two youngest boys and older girls. >> he talks about the fire in his belly giving up his time with his children, he says i'm willing to sacrifice and step away from my family in the next year to campaign for the highest job in the land. >> they're going to want to know what is your position on immigration reform, what is your position on foreign policy. it's a tough road for him in some sense because there he was in part of immigration reform and he had to back away from amnesty. how do you think about that? >> i think he has the opportunity to do that and also, remember everyone knows who hillary clinton is, she's the democratic front runner no question. out here he's against ted cruz, against rand paul. the question is at what point do the republicans spend money to define him and they talk about jeb bush as being the front runner with all the money. but if he can get out the message who he is

not just united states of america, but material from northern canada, what today is alaska down through canada, what does become the united dates, central america, and south america. we cans be to the history of all of these america's through these different components of this election. his name was thomas gill kreis. he was born in louisiana, but as an infant, his family relocated to indian territory because his mother was a quarter creek indian. one of the acts of congress that brought the gilcrease family to the creek nation of indian territory was an act that essentially broke up the tribal holdings of indian land and a lot of land to individuals indian people, on the different nations' roles. the creek nations, as in a child of a mother who was a quarter creek indian, thomas gilcrease received an allotment and fortuitously for mr. gilcrease it ended up sitting on top of one of the most productive oilfields in american history at the time about 20 miles south of tulsa. by the time thomas gilcrease is a young man, 20, 21 years old he is a millionaire, circa 1910 and what's happening in the united dates at the time is the automobile is becoming a primary means

south america had an official policy of whitening-- brazil did, mexico did, cuba did-- and whitening was the subsidized immigration of europeans into those caribbean or latin american countries to brighten the color of the country. south americaica, has been in denial about its black roots. it's been in denial about that 11.2 million figure to the point where these countries would allocate millions of dollars to pay europeans to come move to mexico, move to brazil, move to cuba, move to dominican republic, move to wherever, intermarry, and lighten the country. they were trying to change the ratio of black to white, and hope, through miscegenation, that they would lighten the country. and they even had theories about... in brazil, through gilberto freyre, was called "racial democracy," but in mexico, 1925, josé vasconcelos wrote a book called the cosmic race. >> hinojosa: that's right. >> and he said, "we are all the races," but he devalued the black element. he wanted the black element to disappear in a mestizanal kind of fantasy land. >> vasconcelos is in 1925, in his famous essay mestizaje, suggests that these other races are just a stepping stone for the mestizo race to come and take over. the mestizos, in his view, are th

america. not just the united states of america. material from northern canada. central america. and south america. cas through the collection. his name was thomas gilcrease. he was born in 1890 in robe line, louisiana. as an infant, his family rose a kid -- relocated to indian territory because his mother was a quarter creek indian. one of the acts of congress that brought the family to indian territory was the dawes act. it essentially allotted land to people on the different nations' roles. they received an allotment of 160 acres. this allotment ended up sitting on top of one of the most productive oilfields in american history at the time. they drilled for oil about 20 miles south of tulsa. for a while, tom gilcrease is a young man, and he is a millionaire. and the united states at the time, the automobile is becoming a primary means of transportation. and then his business activities as a young man produced the wealth that allowed him to become the collector that he will become, to collect the art the anthropological, archaeological material, and the archival material. i think in many regards,

but, you know, you go there and i've been in other places in central america, south america where, youlue eyes. it's really not that strange in brazil and i would say argentina as well just because there's a long tradition of northern european immigration to that -- to those areas, to those countries. thank you for that story. >> yes. i'm william thompson, former chaplain at hampton sidney college and now residents. i've heard you before on this casey, at various local venues and i want to make a comment about a local confederado theme here. i'm a retired southern presbyterian minister. in 1867 the southern presbyterian denomination established a -- its foreign mission field in brazil. now, this was not as it turned out to be an evangelical approach to the native population or to protestants wishing to change from the roman -- wishing to proselytize from the roman catholic church there, but the reality is that -- and i can speak to this because presbyterian seminary was located at hampton sidney, there were several of our initial southern presbyterian evangelical missionaries who went

they have tentacles throughout south america central america.has below operatives have been arrested in the united states. why? why would they want intercontinental ballistic missiles? because they mean is great harm at the end of the day and if they get the means to do it they we will. it does not have to be conventional firing off a missile. the possibility of an emp attack. >> ideological enemy has infiltrated our education system and dropped the young minds. >> two things i want to get to in the book. a short amount of time. so many things you want to get in there. especially the universities. number two which i want to mention quickly the belief in islamic prophecies. it's fascinating. isis believes that these are the last days and t it's fascinating. isis believes that these are the last days and that they are the guardians of the caliphate and apocalypse and believe there will be a showdown with the west and syria one day. they disagree on some things , but isis believes the last days are at hand they are the vanguards of islam and a clim

iran has its tentacles about south america, central america. hezbollah operatives have been arrested in the united states. why, again why would a ban and hezbollah want a president in the western hemisphere? why would they want intercontinental ballistic missiles? because they made us great harm at the end of the day. if they get the means to do it they would use it. look, it doesn't have to be conventional firing off a missile, intercontinental. it doesn't have to be that way. there's anyways iran can strike the united states. and hezbollah to its proxy, construct the united states. we have the possibility of a electromagnetic pulse, and emp attack, which iran has studied and tested. many possibilities. none of them good. >> do you tell in your book how this ideological and it has infiltrated our education system, especially at the higher levels? >> yes spent also down to the california school-age children who are having to pretend -- [inaudible] how can we topple so the intellectual minds, our young minds are not fooled by this? >> there's tw

south america but from spain or greece or others in their reflects the positive thoughts of the world. one of the major positive developments internationally for a long time was taking place in south americaover the last 15 years. for 500 years south america had been dominated by foreign powers by the countries themselves were typical structures as a small european mostly white elite extremely wealthy in a sea of misery and poverty. they had the second hole in the riviera. there is little interaction with the south american countries but these were the most religious students of the neil liberal policies of the world bank and imf in treasury department. with the last tender 15 years for the first time it is the major change of of world affairs. south america used to be regarded as our backyard. they did whatever we told them know it is out of control with the hemisphere conferences united states is isolated. the primary reason obama made steps to normalize relations with cuba because we were isolated in the whole hemisphere. there were trying to get your arrangements before the south america's us it is such huge change what the conference was in south america with there were participants

south america. it reflects some of the positive developments in the world. one of the major positive developments internationally in the past for a long time has been what has taken place in south americaover the past roughly 15 years. south america for 500 years since the early conquest had been dominated by the foreign power, the south american countries themselves where the typical structure was a small mostly white elite extremely wealthy in this sea of misery and poverty they were oriented towards the outside. they had very little reaction on the countries that were the most religious students of the neoliberal policy structure policies of the world bank and the imf and the treasury department and they were the ones that suffered the most naturally. but in the last ten or 15 years they pulled out of this for the first time. it's a major change in world affairs. the south america used to be regarded here as what was called the backyard. they did whatever we told them. now south america is out of control. you take a look at the conferences the united states is isolated in fact the primary reason why obama made some steps towards normalizing relations with cuba is that they were utte

of iran has its tentacles throughout south america, central america. hezbollah operatives have been arrested in the united states. why, again, why would iran and hezbollah want a presence in the western hemisphere? why would they want intercontinental ballistic missiles? because they mean us great harm at the end of the day. and if they get the means to do it, they'll use it. it doesn't -- look, it doesn't have to be conventional firing off a missile intercontinental. it doesn't have to be that way. there's many ways iran can strike the united states and hezbollah, its proxy can strike the united states. we have the possibility of an electromagnetic pulse, an emp attack which iran has studied and it'sed. none of them good -- and tested. >> ideological enemies has infiltrated our educational system, especially the higher -- [inaudible] >> yeah. >> -- down through the california school-aged children -- >> right. >> -- [inaudible] those sorts of things? the intellectual minds, our young minds are not fooled by this, you know -- >> there's two things i rea

what about south america and central america? they are our closest neighbors and a lot of turmoil down there. whats our interaction with them? >> it is a very good question and your question is a reminder, we're talking about the asia pacific, you can't take your eye off anywhere because all of the world is connected in a way it didn't used to be and we have global responsibilities. for south america and central america, instability fueled important by by narcotics, the narcotics trade is a centrally important dynamic there and it leads to terrorism the revolutionary groups to migrants illegal migrants into the united states and so forth. it would be really unfortunate if we found -- let me put it this way the kind of thing you see every day in the middle east in that close to our own borders. so what we're doing there is working with the militaries of that region, trying to build their capacity, make sure that they behave with the same skill and same values that we do which are necessary to long-term -- even keep short term orde

for crying out loud, china is investing in south america latin america. they will spend another $250 billion over the next 10 years. did it not occur to anyone that this might also be a national security breach, a problem along that line? ms. leonhart: someone doing a security adjudication could look at that and find that those are reasons why a security clearance should be suspended and revoked. mr. palmer: were they, for any of these people? ms. leonhart: for bogota, the clearances were never looked at. mr. palmer: who is your immediate supervisor? who has the authority to hold you accountable from the other side of the dea? ms. leonhart: the deputy attorney general. mr. palmer: have you discussed this the with the deputy attorney general? ms. leonhart: i briefed him on these cases. mr. palmer: did you advice on how to proceed? i want to ask you more specifically -- did the deputy attorney general express any reservations about how the dea has handled this, and was there any discussion about how to respond to the request of the inspector general? ms. le

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, jim, in his words, the external environment in south america has deteriorated to where we were a few months ago. >> that number in south america, that has been by the way a terrific line item for some of these guys. it does appear south america is in major turmoil. you will hear that from whirl poly. it does a gigantic result of it. the currencies are weak there. a lot of people talk about venezuela, as a failed slip. >> although north america, they see operating margin up a tick. >> and the f-150 is going to get there. i also didn't think asia pacific was all that bad. but north america can't carry i. one of the things is that you know i'm wondering, ford and gm. the european line is bad. i'm beginning to wonder if it's because they don't have the right costs. holy cow, some of the german companies, i think when you see fiat. i think there is something the matter with gm hopeful. remember i told you i ate crow last week i will eat more crow. it's like when you go to the restaurant. you say i'll try the crow again. maybe it's better than the last time. i got salt in the wounds from gm i say you got to be careful with these, wi

america, south america australia and antarctica. admittedly, there've been periods in history where homosexuality has flourished including the biblical cities of and gomorrah imaging reason during the roman empire. none of these civilizations survived. only in the last few years as what has been called gay marriage and given equal status with biblical male-female unions. in fact, today only 18 countries in the world recognize the legitimacy of same-sex marriage. america appears to be on the verge now a dean number nineteen. god help us if we throw the divine plan for humankind on the ash heap of history. to put it succinctly, the institution of marriage represent the very foundation of human social order. every enough value since i'm not a period in the two shins, governments, prosperity, religious liberty and the welfare of children all depend on stability. when it is weakened or undermined, the entire superset or can begin to wobble and that is exactly what has happened during the last 45 years. the american people didn't demand the change that is occurring. in fact, the population in 31 states voted one at a time on the definition of marriage and every one of them a firm that being exclusively between one man and one woman. those proclamations were ensconced in their state constitutions. now however, many of those popular elections are being overridden by imperialist federal judges who are changing the course of history. in mid-2013, only 13 state

china is investing in south america, latin america. they will spend $250 billion down there. did it not occur to anyone that this might also be a national security breach or a problem along that line? >> someone doing a security adjudication could look at that and find that those are reasons why a security clearance should be suspended and revoked. >> were they for any of these people? >> for the bogota case, their clearances were never looked at. >> let me ask you this. mr. chairman you brought this up. who is your immediate supervisor? who do you report to? who has the authority to hold you accountable for the oversight of the dea. >> the deputy attorney general. >> have you discussed this with the deputy attorney general and how to proceed with this? >> i briefed the deputy attorney general on these cases recently. >> did he make any recommendations about how to proceed? >> yes. the security clearances are currently being reviewed -- >> i want to ask you something more specific. did deputy attorney general express any reservations about how the dea has handled this and the

south sudan: country of dreams only on al jazeera america >> the president is at the summit of the americas, a hemisphere get together in panama. for the first time in a long time being able to participate in a pan american conference like a normal country. it's part of the thaw between u.s. and cuba and takes that issue off the table. it's the "inside story". >> this is "inside story" from al jazeera america, i'm ray suarez in washington. during the height of the cold war, cuba was frozen outs but the world kept changing. the soviet union assess assess ceased to exist. one thing didn't change, cuba still wasn't welcome and it was becoming a sore spot in bilateral relations, didn't want to see cuba kept in permanent pariah status. 2014, president obama announces a major change in step. president raul castro was among heads of state participating in the hemisphereic confab, and cuba well be removed from the list of state sponsoring terrorism. saturday president obama will meet with raul castro, the first u.s. cuba summit in more than 50 years. cuba ton way back but not all the way back this

america, in south america in australia, in europe more or less at the same time. and that is a pretty clear indication that it was moved around by people. no one knows exactly how but one of the theories is it was moved around on a frog called the african clawed frog. and what's interesting about the frog is it was used back in the '50s as a pregnancy test. if you inject an african clawed frog with the your rip of a pregnant -- urine of a pregnant woman, that frog will lay eggs within hours. physicians used to keep these frogs in their offices. people got tired of them or whatever, and they let some of them go, and now there are naturalized populations in different parts of the world. and african clawed frogs carry this fungus, this bd fun fun --gus -- fungus but they don't seem to be affected by it. it's not clear if that's ooh a correct theory, but it's one theory. as i was saying, people realized this was what was killing the frogs in central americaor one of the things, certainly, that was killing frogs in central america. and in this particular case they could literally watch this move. this fun bus was moving east, killing frogs moving in an easterly direction. so some scientists in 2006 american and panamanian scientists decided to try to get out in front of this disease and try to save a population of panamanian golden frogs. so just before it got to this area in central panama that they live in they -- some biologists scooped some of them out of the rain forest to preserve a remnant population. and at that point they had nowhere to put the frogs. so the frogs quite literally ended up living in a hotel. [laughter] yeah. but then they rushed to build this center -- this is it's an amphibian conservation center, and this is now one of the few places that you can still see panamanian golden frogs. they are now classified as extinct in the wild. i've worked few way from the end of the book to the beginning. i begin with the story

america, some in south america. amy: vietnam? >> vietnam and asia, cambodia, angola is a herbal one bosnia. anywhere that conflict -- internal conflict in particular is where those weapons are used. there are cheap and easy to use. you ram them in the ground, walk away and you don't care who they kill. but our strategy was to include organizations from the producer states, from the states were people were being killed. and bring them all together with a common cause, even though we were working on many other issues individually some of the common goal was getting rid of the landmines to me getting countries to donate resources for victim assistance and to get the minds out of the ground. and we found a core group of governments that share the same goals. because as much as we could protest, and i think it was similar leymah's example, we could protest until the cows came in, but if the government doesn't by the treaties if the rebels and the governments don't negotiate a peace accord nothing happens. so we found governments that cared and we changed how people thought about weapons. we really made it not seem like an esoteric theme and the u.n. on a conference on disarmament. this is stuff that affects people in their blood and bone. amy: and really powerful psa's you put out. >> this affects everyone. amy: blowing up children in a playground. >> but we brought the bombs to the u.n.. i was so frustrated one day with them negotiating. they spent a whole day talking about changing the treaty, and they change a comma to a semi colon and call it work. post furious. i said i want to pick up your table and put it in the biggest minefield and cambodia and not let you men out and not show you the safe way out until you negotiate a treaty banning these weapons. it didn't happen, so we had the most massive, creative -- everybody brought their own skills. we had people who came very shortly with a simulated minefield. and we put it in front of the door to the negotiating room so they had to walk through it. we had landmines survivors give them one million signatures from people around the world calling for a ban. we had a clock on the wall counting the number of victims as they droned away at negotiations but did nothing. it is all that refusal diplomats looking at the beautiful alps in geneva pretending your conversation means something. amy: when did the treaty get signed? >> it was in 1997 amy:. amy:a few months before you won the prize. >> yes. amy: did you feel like you had accomplished a tremendous amount and you could move on? >> no. just like she was talking about earlier, that was just the beginning. words on paper, terrific. especially few are a writer. but a treaty, a law, a u.n. resolution not implemented is fundamentally irrelevant. and i think the governments were cheering the negotiations were done, we of the treaty, they thought we would go home. instead, we had part of our campaign ramming out a strategy -- planning out a strategy for the next year sang, ok, this is what this -- ok, this requirement of the treaty requires you to do this and this and this. and we wrote out a strategy for what this campaign was committed to doing to make sure this thing was implemented. and we handed out as the negotiations were ending. so they had no doubt that we were in it for the long haul. i think that is one thing that hard-core activism understands. it is to ally, oh, six months we're going to do a new campaign to make poverty history or any of the things that are flash in the pan. you have to stay committed to the goals. amy: take that to killer robots. half the people listening are not even going to know what you're talking about. >> immediately using drones. the drone is not a killer robot. even though it challenger conception of ethical and moral just, if anything such exists, i don't happen to think so, but the drone flights some itron honestly. it can go over thousands of miles by itself. but there is still a human being somewhere in the drone-based looking at a computer, the he or she looks at you and goes, hm she is not an appropriate messenger in the media. she doesn't talk about war is a glorious thing, therefore, the enemy. in a human being has to push the button to blast you into eternity. they're making weapons now that will take the human being out of the system. imagine the drone that has now been programmed so that once it takes off, that drone by itself flies around, decides that this whole room is a target, and blows it up. all by itself. who is accountable? who is a cannibal? is it the man who programmed it? is it lockheed martin who belted? israeli can bring the drone to trial. and to make us even more concerned, there are starting to use those weapons for crowd control. i recently saw a picture of a medium-sized spider-like drone and it has been equipped with tear gas for crowd control. amy: walking on the ground? >> no, flying. we have launched a campaign to stop that. in the u.s., the lead of making them, and things we should keep the door open to them. there's nothing wrong with drones, they say. there's human involved in real-time killing. amy: are you also talking about robots that actually walk -- >> in the air, on the land, and in the sea. swarms. they have a vision of swarms of killer robots -- planes swarms they can attack the opposition. amy: and who is controlling them ? for the radio audience? >> oh, sorry radio, i can't lift my arms to the radio. it would be the commander who decided to use the swarm and push the buttons to release -- amy: to begin with, but not once it is flying. >> not once it is flying. they don't want men -- amy: what are you doing about it? >> we launched a campaign in april 2013 in london with our friend the killer robot we brought in front of parliament. and within nine months, we were able to force the governments of the world to come together in geneva and start discussing these weapons. and they thought they would fly under the radar and they would be out there before we knew what hit us. a small group of people can and do change the world. amy: we are going to break and come back to our discussion with three nobel winners. three nobel peace prize winners. jody williams, leymah gbowee and mairead maguire. we are broadcasting live from the world forum at hague the in the netherlands. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting live from the hague, from the world format the hague. actually, right nearby is the peace palace. this past week, the second female statue was dedicated. it was dedicated to dr. letter james, who was one of the founders of the women's international league for peace and freedom, called that session 100 years ago where 1000 women came in the midst of world war i, 1915, to say, no, to war. now we are joined by three nobel peace laureates, jody williams won in 1997 for her campaign against landmines. leymah gbowee is with us from liberia. she won in 2011. she was fighting the liberian civil war nonviolently, organizing throughout liberia. and mairead maguire is with us, who won in 1976 along with betty williams in northern ireland as they fought against the violence there. none of you are -- your activism has stopped. you did not go out, you laureates, on your laurels. mairead maguire, i remember visiting phil berrigan in jail. you are the next person to visit him. i left, you can in, but you did not leave. i think you are arrested on the spot. why did you refuse to leave? phil berrigan, the well-known plowshares activist who based on the philosophy of turning swords into plowshares, had done yet another nonviolent action against nuclear weapons in the united states. >> i've always been inspired by the american peace activism from when i was a very young woman because i think it took tremendous courage and phil berrigan is one of my heroes. at island also been to iraq and met with the iraqi government and people like that. we knew there were no nuclear weapons in iraq. and crying out for dialogue. amy: this is before the iraq war. >> yes. we were coming to americasay to the diplomats into the government and to walk with the american people, these problems come before without following each other through dialogue and negotiation. so i came to america to be part of that process. but we can campaign against war and militarism but until we change our consciousness and our mindset that we really have to stop killing each other, because we're technological giants. we have a great deal of knowledge. we know how to kill each other and we can't undo that knowledge. what we have to do, in our own minds, decide we're not going to kill each other. amy: you also went to syria? >> we went to syria twice. and we went into syria with a delegation of 40 iranian peace activists. and the whole message coming out of these countries is, don't occupy us, we can solve our problems through negotiation and dialogue. it comes back to the, if you listen to news, people are in despair. oh, my god the role is coming apart, what can we do? but there is a wonderful world and

commercial opportunities that allow both north and southern hemispheres both north and south america as well as central americase tradetise. i was encouraged by the support of many leaders for the trade facilitation agreement which would boost regional trade and for the transpacific partnership with its high standards for trade and strong protects for workers and the environment. thanks to panama's leadership the summit included a special program on how countries can expand access to education. our partners pledged to continue their support of our 100,000 strong in the americas it initiative to encourage more exchanges between our students. the nearly $70 million in investments that i've announced in jamaica will expand education and training and employment programs for young people across latin america and the caribbean, including the marginalized communities. and the young leaders of the americas initiative that i launched will help young entrepreneurs and civil society leaders across account entire region access the training and the resources and connections they need to start new ventures including the sma

south america and central america was fueled by narcotics as a centrally important dynamic and it leads to terrorism and the founding of revolutionary groups to migrants and it will be unfortunate if we found the kind of thing that you see every day in the middle east so we are working with the military of the region to try to build the capacity to make sure that they behave with the same skill and the same values that we do which are necessary to the order by force. we try to instill that and it's worked while. the best example is columbia. it wouldn't be that way without the partnership of us that there are still challenges and this is my you can take your eye off any part of the world. >> good morning mr. secretary. one of the obstacles that existed in the reported cases is the fact that the jury is often times the same person in the chain of command and i was wondering what you thought of the efforts to make the ant adjudication process outside of the military. >> it's a good question and it's been a point of study and debate and contingency. let me give you the two. it goes on. let

america, south america, australia, and even antarctica. admittedly there have been periods in history where homosexuality has flourished including the biblical cities of sod dom and go morrah in ancients greece and during the roman empire. none offers these civilizations survived. only in the last few years has what has been called gay marriage been given equal status with biblical male-female unions. in fact to date only 18 countries in the world recognize the legitimacy of same-sex marriage. america appears to be on the verge now of being the number 19. god help us if we throw the divine plan for humankind on the ash heap of history. to put it succinctly, the institution of marriage represents the very foundation of human social order. everything of value sits on that base. institutions governments prosperity, religious liberty and the welfare of children all depend on its stability. when it is weakened they're undermined. the entire superstructure can begin to wobble. and that is exactly what has happened during the last 45 years. the american people didn't demand the sea change that is occurring. in fact the populations in 31 states voted one at a time on the definition of marriage and every one of them affirmed it as being exclusively between one man and one woman. those proclamations were ensconced in their state constitutions. now, however, many of those popular elections are being overridden by imperious federal judges who are changing the course of history. in mid-2013 onl

commercial opportunities that allow both north and southern hemispheres -- both north and south america as well as central america to prosper if we deepen those trade ties. i was encouraged by the support of many leaders here for the wto trade facilitation agreement which would boost trade and for the trans-pacific partnership. thanks to panama's leadership this summit included a special focus on how countries can expand access to education. i want to thank your private sector partners who pledged to continue their support of our 100,000 strong in the americas initiative to encourage more exchanges between our students, the nearly there are 70 million in investments that i've announced in jamaica will expand education and training and employment programs for young people across latin america and the caribbean including the impoverished and marginalized communities and the young leaders of the americas initiative initiative launched across the entire region access the training and connections and resources they need to start new ventures including the small businesses that create so many jobs in the region. finall

commercial opportunities that allow both north and southern hemispheres -- both north and south america as well as central america prosper if we deepen those trade ties. i was encouraged by the support of many leaders here for the wto trade facilitation agreement which would boost regional trade and for the transpacific partnership with its high standards for trade and protections for the workers and the environment. the summit included a special focus on how countries can expand access to education. i want to thank our private sector partners who pledged to continue their support of our hundred thousand strong in the americas initiative to encourage more exchanges between our students. the nearly $70 million in investments that i've announce end in jamaica will expandedcation and training and employment programs for young people across latin america and the caribbean, including the impoverished and marginalized communities and the young leaders of americas initiative will help young entrepreneurs and civil society leaders across the entire region access the training and the resources and connections they need to

south america. >> that's right. the flooding in north america is pretty routine. i don't mean to make little of it but it's along list of weather fronts as it goes through kentucky. we have warm air from the south and cold air from the north and here we are in louisville looking at a lot of flooding. now we'll take to you south america. i'm specifically talking about the flooding. now zoom in and look at the region. now there were 24 millimeters of rain when this storm system occurred. that is the equivalent of 14 years of rain in this particular town. they've had similar events in 2012, 2014, and 1991 in recent times. it gives you an idea of how infrequently this occurs. in one particular location we had 24 millimeters in 24 hours. that's staying dry at the moment i think we're going to see further problems as the death toll continues to rise. >> thank you so much. now exactly 40 years ago two childhood friends started a company they called microsoft. one of the founders, bill gates, is the world's richest man but it's been a bumpy road for the software giant who

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south of mexico that they're coming. what makes you think the number gicize is going to go up? >> it's people from central america, south american that will take advantage of this. i am already tracking this and see a large number of africaens and caribbean islanders using this same pathway already this year. the surge last year was record breaking when it came to underage 18 minors traveling alone. and they're saying this year will be a slightly smaller surge. i'm concerned about that. first of all, the preparation they've been making added resources are not to secure our border. those resources are going to accommodate these illegal entrants that they predict will come. plus they say it will be slightly fewer than last year's. they don't know. they were caught by surprise last year. >> they were saying things got so bad there, they had to come here. and things so far have not gotten any better there which makes you think the message from last year is if you come, you can stay. >> absolutely. and that's the difference. that is the message that resonates in central america right now. it's not what it previously was, don't try t

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south america. she decides to stay in cuba where she stays until 1990, george began south america. i guess that worked well for cora. eventually, she took the children to florida to wait for george. they return to washington dc. betty begins keeping a diary of her day-to-day activity. it reads like this, went to the library of congress, it is all marvel. they move in social circles in washington again parties, one for president coolidge and his wife. betty notices that manners can be useful and good manners are actually rather useful to hide behind, a skill that will serve her later in life. betty now seeks excitement. she is bored. any kind of excitement, even fear. she wrote, i remember when we were very gone, i always ran past the finish line and ran until i dropped, until my endurance ran out, i just couldn't stop for that. my brother george would go mad say, you are crazy, why don't you stop? that he couldn't stop -- betty couldn't stop. now it is 1921, george's posted to hawaii. the thorpe's begin to write magazine articles while they are in hawaii. cora writes a book of stori

at the same time, it could potentially endanger america's existing alliance with south korea. so, americane in terms of balancing what japan's and chest are -- interest are with the u.s.. >> ok. we will leave it there. they give for joining us -- thank you for joining us. , reporters update their stocks to watch when we come back. you're watching "first up." ♪ >> that is a beautiful look at the imperial palace. the nikkei down a third. wall street. a bubble burst in 2000. in sydney, commodities was the name of the game in terms of recovery. we are seeing that extend this morning to australian equities. kospi gaining fractionally here. have got the south korean won see the longest rally since october 2013. futures pointing to a higher open earnings this morning. welcome to the stock exchange. let's check in with training underway in asia. a lot of buzz. [laughter] >> look at this. that's why. [laughter] >> let's go to mine and then we can go to yours. , ¥300 billion. short of even the most pessimistic. the stock is down. >> why is that? >> it is really counterintuitive. profit.europe opera

south america standing there. raul castro will be there. does that take a roadblock out of america's conversations with these other countries that changes significant things, not just an irritants like the one you had in cartagena? >> i think so, over the five years i was ambassador, i can't tell you how many times i spoke to ambassadors, when are you going to change your policy to cuba, you've got to let it go, we're one of hemtion hemisphere. that kind offish tant was taken offof irritant was takenoff the table. >> the panamanian flag carrier that's the kind of thing that's just waiting to happen now that things are becoming more normal. >> i have my doubts. i don't know that it's an issue of capacity. i, i was briefing this morning with a state department official, they are foreclose had a what cubans want are big big deals with a marriott for example or large companies coming in creating a lot of jobs. is the capacity there to manage? they have one person sounded you assigned orassigned ortwo people assigned. it's going to take a longer time than people thinking. >> pleasure to t

america is the biggest area of strength for ford. what about south america, europe where other automakers are having trouble? guest: fortis doing better in china, which is a very orton market. south america and europe are the real challenges. ford is making europe harder on it self playing the long game. they are pacing market share. gm is pulling up in russia. we are just selling cadillacs and some high-profile chevys ford is starting to make a four-door fiesta. they are trying to the in position for when russia comes back. they see that as being a big market in the long run. betty: thank you so much. always good to see you. apple does it again. higher prices and more market share, there is no stopping apple. you can see it is a percent. scarlet who joins us at the breaking news desk. it feels like apple can do no wrong. scarlet: even on the strength of earnings, it's not going to change the tenor of the stock market at the open. u.s. futures are indicating a decline or it --. will be limiting the dow to drop. the fifth heaviest number of the dow industrial. let's look at the highlights from the second quarter. revenue increased 27% overall an margins are back about 40% for the first ti

americas. leaders of north, central and south america will gather. for more of the issues sure to be raised at the summit and the u.s. agenda join us for "the week ahead." >>> coming up smashing protons, the big discoveries scientists hope to make from the smallest particles. particles. >> reporter: modern life appears to have sped up everything, including the american national pastime. >> i love baseball for 14 years, it gets a little boring. when you sit and wait 10 minutes for someone guy to come back to the bat. >> reporter: with baseball games lasting 10 hours, few sit in the stands. change is introduced. baseball is on the clock, setting off a national debate. >> every three hours. >> you have been watching baseball your life and you grew up with it. it's so far out of hand they need to change it? >> reporter: professional baseball is big business. 70 million fans follow each year. the business slow down in the stand. every generation there's doomsday stories. i don't see it. the sport is popular, but it could be suffering a little bit because of the slow pace. i think major league soccer has the right idea with trying to pick things up. >> reporter: watching sport is a lifestyle in the u.s. it's as much as barbecues in the sun shine and a face off between pitcher and batter. traditionalists like their traditions. >> they'll mess up the game. leave it alone. don't change it. >> let's go. >> reporter: the younger generation wants things faster. >> a little more extra. ♪ a little less conversation ♪ ♪ a little more access ...♪ >>> the new rule requires a pitcher to deliver within 10 seconds. the batters have to keep a foot in the batter's box unless there's a wild pitch or a foul ball. under the old rules they can step occupant and stop play. >> they are going too far with not stepping out of the box. it was too much, every pitch. >> breaks between innings are 2.5 minutes, and pitchers have the same amount of time to warm up. >> you have to appeal to people that want gratification. >> whether it puts more fans in the stand, it's a debate that will not end when the rules come in effect " box. it was too much, every pitch. >> breaks between innings are 2.5 minutes, and pitchers have the same amount of time to warm up. >> you have to appeal to people that want gratification. >> whether it puts more fans in the stand, it's a debate that will not end when the rules come in effect " particles. >> reporter: modern life appears to have sped up everything, including the american national pastime. >> i love baseball for 14 years, it gets a little boring. when you sit and wait 10 minutes for someone guy to come back to the bat. -- line >>> it's billed as a new era for science, the largest particle accelerator is back up and running after a 2-year upgrade. as nadim baba reports, it's more powerful than ever and could shed light on the mysterious world of dark matter. >> reporter: back in action more powerful than ever. over the last two years they've been busy upgrading the biggest particle accelerator deep under the swiss bored. on sunday scientists fired two particle beams along the 27km circuit known as the lhc. these are baby steps for the researchers, at the european organization for nuclear research. >> it will take 2-6 months to establish the first stable collisions. we have to commission all the instruments, all the systems one by one. >> reporter: in 2012 they announced a breakthrough. >> i think it's a great day. >> reporter: scientists discovered the higgs bossan an elementary particle that gives mass earning it a nickname the god particle. peter higgs and francois emgla got the nobel prize in fittings. >> there'll be no atoms, nuclei molecules, which are the building blocks of all matter and therefore there would be no stars, no galaxies no planetary system. no earth, and eventually there would be no life on earth. >> the lhc contains a ring of superconducting magnets with structures boosting particles as they hurtful down the tunnel. soon they travel at the speed of light. analysing the collisions could reveal scientific secrets. they'll look at areas like dark matter, the invisible matter that makes up 84% of the universe but can only be detected on visible matter. there could be more discoveries over the lifetime of this underground science city. >>> well let's play ball the major league baseball seen gets under way, and for fans complaining the games are too long, there are new rules. helped reports from schick. >> reporter: modern life appears to have sped up everything, including the american national pastime. >> i love baseball for 14 years, it gets a little boring. when you sit and wait 10 minutes for someone guy to come back to the bat after you swing. >> reporter: with baseball games lasting 10 hours, few sit in the stands. change is introduced. baseball is on the clock, setting off a national debate. >> they have to speed up every three hours. >> you have been watching baseball your life and you grew up with it. it's so far out of hand they need to change it? >> reporter: professional baseball is big business. 70 million fans follow each year. the business slow down in the stand. every generation there's doomsday stories. i don't see it. the sport is popular, but it could be suffering a little bit because of the slow pace. i think major league baseball has the right idea with trying to pick things up. >> reporter: watching sport is a lifestyle in the u.s. it's as much as barbecues in the sun shine and a face off between pitcher and batter. traditionalists like their traditions. >> they'll mess up the game. leave it alone. don't change it. >> let's go. >> reporter: the younger generation wants things faster. >> a little more extra. ♪ a little less conversation ♪ ♪ a little more access ...♪ >>> the new rule requires a pitcher to deliver within 12 seconds avoiding time wasting at the mound. the batters have to keep a foot in the batter's box unless there's a wild pitch or a foul ball. under the old rules they can step our and stop play. >> they are going too far with not stepping out of the box. it was too much, every pitch. >> breaks between innings are 2.5 minutes, and pitchers have the same amount of time to warm up. >> you have to appeal to people that want gratification. >> whether it puts more fans in the stand, it's a debate that will not end when the rules come in effect >>> i'm erica pitzi in new york. the news conditions with thomas drayton. hi. >> ready to see a game. good to see you, happy easter. this is al jazeera americayton in new york. let's get you caught up with the top stories of the hour. [ gunfire ] >>> in syria hundreds of people from the yarmouk refugee camp on the outskirts of damascus escape to safety as i.s.i.l. fighters take control. houthi rebels take advantage in yemen as the saudi-ledle collision agrees to let the red cross deliver said >>> prayers for those killed in the kenya university attack. officials confirm one of the gunmen was a the slain son of an

americas. it's an economic and security conference with leaders from north, central, and south america. cuba which had previously been banned from participating is being allowed to take part this year. while no meetings are scheduled, there is a good chance president obama will run into cuban president raul castro. >>> east bay family is looking for answers and wants help finding an east by driver that struck and killed a motorcyclist. investigators say a car hit pack and pushed him into a concrete barrier on the connector from highway 101 to eastbound 92. he fell 60 feet over the edge. pack's daughter is asking the driver to come forward. >> just please do the right thing and give my family the closure that we need. give my father the respect that he deserves. that's it. just please help us. >> investigators say they don't have much to go on. they are asking anyone who may have websited the crash to contact them. >>> april is distracted driving awareness month and the chp is shifting its campaign to stop the dangerous practice into high beer. ktvu fox 2 michele 2 mike mibach did a test