my name is joyce bollinger, here with southern arizona senior pride. we want to thank cox communication for sponsoring this venue, faderman is appearing as a result of senior pride. [applause] >> we're pretty thrilled about that. and ms. nutt by the tucson medical center. [applause]. >> and jim is here on his own, i guess. >> evidently. >> the preparation will last an hour, including questions and answers and we want to ask you to hold your questions until the end, and we hope to allow plenty of time for questions. immediately following the session, the authors will be autographing books in the sales and signing area in the ua bookstore tent on the mall. it says booth 141. books are available for purchase at this location, but miss faderman will be 20 minutes late since she's going to be interviewed by c-span. we hope you're enjoying the festival and invite you to become a friend of the festival today. you can text friend to 520214 book. or 5202142665. our visit to friend of the festival booth number 1110 on the mall. your gift makes a difference in ke

i think astronomy and optics are worth about a quarter billion a year in the southern arizona industry. employs a lot of people, we have research and telescopes. >> host: professor, before we get into your book, can you go back to the football field and the spinning mirrors. what was that about? >> guest: well, telescope size seemed to have reached a limit. it wasn't exceeded for decades. the russians tried but it was a crappy mirror. but big mirrors are expensive and hard to move around. roger angel, one of my colleagues, invented this way of making mirrors large, thin, very accurate. the way you do it, the trick, the secret sauce, is put the glass walks in the oven, and you spin it fast enough to take the shape of a parabola and you take it out and have a large mirror that is light and not as extensive. >> host: what is the connection to the football field? >> guest: at the team, that was the only place with a big enough space to do this. you need vertical and horizontal space. you just have to avoid game days. it is underneath the stand. and the university said it was available spac

it's really southern california and southern arizona, the only places in the west.ank you. >>> this morning, 21 states attorneys general are issuing a public outcry against education secretary betsy devos after her reworking the student loan programs. it's raising concerns she could undo president obama's overhaul of college financial aid. much of the student loans were moved away from banks and private institutions to the federal government. in a letter the ags warn we should be looking for ways to ease the burden not enabling the student loan servicing industry to manipulate and exploit students. student loans make up $1.3 trillion of debt, over $137 billion in loans are currently in default. >>> speaking of former president barack obama, he could be in store for a very big payday. fox business reporting obama agreed to give a paid speech for $400,000. he'll be speaking at a wall street health care conference run by investment bank canter fitzgerald in september. >>> serena williams is responding to ratist comments about her unborn baby. the mother to be writes on

northward, sunshine in southern a ri to be had in this country in areas of southern california and southern arizona. >> we'll talk more about the forecast for tomorrow which will bring more rain to the west. >> look at this road mishap in australia. it could have ended a whole lot worse. a motorcyclist is riding through a tunnel when a mattress flew off a passing truck. look what happens? it gets lodged in the bike's front wheel. fortunately the mattress broke the man's fall and he walked away with a few minor cuts. police tracked down the driver of the truck and fined him. >> it kind of looks like in slow mo that he hopped off onto the mattress. >>> just ahead, the controversy over a new kendall jenner pepsi ad blowing up social media. that's next. rememb... what. she washed this like a month ago! how's a guy supposed to move on?! the long lasting scent of gain. now available in matching scents across your entire laundry routine. it's realizing beauty doesn't stop at my chin. roc®'s formula adapts to delicate skin areas. my fine lines here? visibly reduced in 4 weeks. chest, neck, and face cream f

. >> agents tell people that all residents are suspect simply by virtue of living in southern arizonas need to police our border. rick understands that. he's an air force pilot that served in iraq and afghanistan. now, he's based in texas where he found he had to pass through checkpoints all the time. >> there's no way to leave the border town without going through a checkpoint. >> the checkpoint he had to pass through most often is 67 miles from the border. i started to feel like i was asking ter mission to leave that town. i'm just traveling in the united states and i haven't crossed any borders and i didn't really like that feeling. >> he installed cameras in his car. >> i wanted to be able to prove the truth of events. >> i'm asking if i'm pre-to go and if they're going to detain me. >> here, he's on the phone with a lawyer. >> they're standing around and not telling me. >> the fert courts said they can conduct brief stops for the limited purpose of verifying residence status. they could not involved the searches of individuals or interior. >> if the person says, yes, i am, they s

batista diaz, and early soldier for the spanish government, created his own trail from basically southern arizona up into california and up as far north as monterey, california. so mr. bautista went back to the spanish government and got permission to lead an expedition following the same trail, and in 1776, mr. diaz led a group of 240 people, this is a mix of different native americans, different spaniards, people of mixed races, across on this overland trail and they ended up , in monterey. a couple months later, his lieutenant led the remaining group up to the presidio in san francisco where they settled for , the next six months. at that time, the governor of california was looking for a way of having a civil establishment beyond just the presidios and missions, but a civil type farming community that would act for supply station different establishments, and at the time, you had mission santa clara founded here in the late 1776, that is known by the missionaries at that time, it had rich agricultural potential, movedroup of 66 settlers down from the presidio in san francisco and came here to

. >>> multiple crews in southern arizona are working around the clock to get a massive wildfire under control. the fire started yesterday morning 40 miles south of tucson. so far, it's burned more than 1500 acres. a dozen people have been evacuated as a precaution. at last check, the fire was 5% contained. >>> and significant cleanup in store for parts of tennessee after three storms sparked major flooding. thsystems hit the middle tennessee area between friday and saturday prompting a flood warning. moisture creeks and rivers crested. and a teenager was arrested after getting stuck in a creek while riding his bike. >>> error better that is tracking when the bay area could see rain. >> we need more rain, right? i was at rio del mar beach. and it was incredible to see the slippage of the hillside. and this was a common scene just running along the beach and taking a look at the hillsides. that's all due to the rain we received this past winter. and we have more rain in the forecast. at this particular time light showers and a few snow flurries in the high sierra. we did have a little b

batista diaz, an early soldier for the spanish government, created his own trail from basically southern arizona up into california and up as far north as monterey, california. bautistautista, -- mr. went back to the spanish government and got permission to lead an expedition following the trail. mr. diaz led a grup of 240 people, this is a mix of different native americans, different spaniards, people of mixed races, across on this overland trail and they ended up in monterey. a couple months later, his lieutenant led the remaining group up to the presido san francisco where they settled for the next six months. at that time, the governor of california was looking for a way of having a civil establishment beyond just the presidios and missions, but a civil type farming community that would act as a station for these different establishments. so with the known, at the time he had mission santa clara founded here in the early 17 -- late 1776, that is known by the missionaries at that time, it was a rich agricultural -- had rich agricultural potential for farming. so that's where, in november of 1

. >> we have one of the largest wilderness areas in a national wildlife refuge in southern arizona, andder patrol has been driving over it for close to a decade. >> brangham: cyndi tuell is an environmental lawyer and border lands conservation advocate, who says she's seen border patrol in places they're not supposed to be. >> the main focus of my work as a conservation attorney, is to try to get border patrol, department of homeland security to follow the law. >> brangham: she spends part of her time travelling the back country, looking for signs of border patrol's impact on public lands. she says their vehicles can crush vegetation and erode soil, and that habitat is destroyed when they build bases and surveillance towers. >> every time i'm out here, though, i interact with a border patrol agent, or i see the signs of militarization. i see tanks, i see heavily armed men. i see vehicle tracks two or three miles into a wilderness area, that i know shouldn't be there. >> customs and border protection has to be able to be on the borders, whether it's in environmentally sensitive land or n

colburn and i took the oetd not to texas, was not to south texas, was not to southern arizona. it was to the country. it was what was needed to best protect america. now we're looking to go forward. >> you talked about the goal being to impede, to deter. in israel thashs is about a 15-foot fence. you can see through it, which was important design consideration. >> yes. >> i think that's important. but the whole purpose was to give them about a five-month response time. >> exactly. >> they have a five-minute response. it can't be clipped. you'd have to have a pretty good saw. it takes time so you have enough time for the border patrol in israel to respond. is that boisk what you're -- the primary goal of the fencing? >> absolutely. it's to deter and impede the flow and create that time and dnls that's so critically important. depending on where you're building the fence, it could be minutes, it could be hours. in some cases it could be longer than that but the border patrol needs to impede. >> you're talking about the specific challenges in texas. i'm not going to identify the m

sightings were reported in southern california and arizona. >>> a connecticut teenager is making medical history. the device she is using could change the lives of diabetes sufferers. >> clair suffers from type one diabetes and keeping her blood sugar in check is a struggle. >> it's hard to do between musicals and track and school work. >> the active 14-year-old said this small device is going to simplify her life dramatically. she is one of the first patients in the country and the first pediatric patient to receive the artificial pancreas since it was approved last year. >> it gave me .2 units of insul insulin. >> it measures her blood sugar and delivers insulin 24 hours a day with less interaction from clair. the doctor at yale children's diabetes program said reducing that is huge. >> you have to test and dosing what you are eating, but this will do a lot of important safety work in between meals and during exercise and at night. >> those are the times clair's mother would worry about blood sugar dropping the most. >> i lept all night last night. >> clair is looking forward to a futu

arizona, correct? areas we have seen most prevalently is southern california and southern arizona. >> how did they bring it across the border? ,> on vehicles or bodies pedestrians coming across the border at ports of entry. people come through legally through ports of entry, and either way, legal or illegal, they are coming through? >> legal. where we are not detecting it is between the points of entry. we are seeing it come and between designated points of entry. arrests are being made by customs and border protection. they are coming across the border and not picked up there. we arehe land border, not seeing it come between the ports of entry. in the united states, it is generally detected at the express consignment hubs, where packages are cleared by cbp, or at international mail facilities around the united states. recent data comes from 2015, am i correct, or do you have more recent data for 2016? data through 2016, but we have also released a quarterly report through 2016, and that is death data. i think what is helpful is, with the funding this past year, we have stood up the surveillance system

>> the two areas we have seen it must prevalently is in southern california and southern arizona. the vast majority has been detected. >> how do they bring it across the border? >> in personally owned vehicles or bodies people coming as , pedestrians across the land border at ports of entry. >> so people walk across? or people come through legally through ports of entry, legally or illegally they are coming through? >> legal. we are not detecting it between the ports of entry. we are seeing it come in at designated points of entry and it is being protected and seized and arrests are being made by border protection. >> but another with places we are not seeing it. they are not picked up there? >> on the land border, we are not seeing it detained the ports of entry. it is also through express consignment packages and mail at hubs where all consignment packages are cleared or at international mail facilities around the united states. >> thank you. the most recent data comes from am i correct or do you have more 2015. recent data from 2016? we have data from 2016 at a quarterly report

vegas, florida, new mexico, arizona, southern california got hit bad.esurgence now. i think overall attitude of the direction we're going is giving people confidence as what is going to be in the future and they can own again because a lot of people obviously went through tough times, gerri. they couldn't own again. i think we're in a good spot. gerri: that brings me to the next question, we have a long period of time, housing is bad, don't own your own house. which i completely disagree with. how are americans feeling about this issue right now? >> there was a period of time where people weren't able to own again. so they had to rent. now there is a different feeling. now they want to own the american dream. they want to be able to do it. they want it fit within their budget. so yes, i think the american dream is alive and well. is there anxiety? there is a lot of scars, gerri, what happened years ago. people were treated badly by many havers of loans and lenders and they're a little gun shy -- listen what you are selling and buying are memories. think

. >> reporter: the march is going to continue to san jose and through southern california and even arizona. they're trying to gain support for sanctuary laws. a proposed bill would prohibit law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal immigration agents. they're going to be back this way around may 1 and they're calling for a nationwide worker strike on may 1. >> thank you. >>> right now in moscow, rex tillerson is getting ready to meet are russia's foreign minister. >> as the world continues to call on the kremlin to help in the syrian civil war. >> it's clear to all of us that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. >> reporter: tillerson talked tough tuesday ahead of a planned meeting with russia's foreign minister over last week's chemical weapons attack against syria civilians. russia is assad's biggest supporter. >> is that a longterm alliance that serves russia's interest or would russia prefer to realign with the united states, with other western countries and middle east countries who are seeking to resolve the syrian crisis. >> reporter: tillerson landed in m

now the system developing down in southern california or into arizona and i'll show you that in a seconds. there are some 30s up into mendecino and lake county. kelceville's 35. wood side 42. menalo park 43. even pacifica at 46. cool on the coast. arcata 47. high wind warning out for the higher elevations also if you're heading over to southern california even down to the desert they have great advisories. it's going to be 99. no it's not. it's cloudy and it's gong to be in the 80s. -- going to be in the 80s. it's not that hot for phoenix. for us we do have clear skies. it will be nice today. sunshine with warmer temperatures. there you can see the morning low. that's what's going to play into today and also for the weekend. so 70s on the temps. 60s for a few but upper 70s helps along with that north wind. highs still farther offshore. warmer tomorrow as we head into saturday. still nice just a tiny bit cooler on sunday. then signs of a pretty good warm up early next week. the following weekend looks significantly cooler. >> yeah, you're still seeing rain. >> i remember the last time san

. >>> firefighters in arizona have a new challenge tonight. this fire in the southern part of the state just doubled in size. investigators believe someone set this fire on purpose. >>> and check it had out. it's wildlife officers in texas someone's back pool. that's outside houston, nobody got hurt. maybe that guy was just trying to cool off a bit. >>> and one young dude is tearing up the streets of little rock after neighbors helped him find his bike. you've got to hear from him in a minute. >>> and as the underarmour slogan goes -- under armour's slogan goes protect this house, highlights on the wizards just one win away from advancing to a conference semi. if itu's usually because you were driving too fast or you didn't look before you turned or you didn't stop for someone in the crosswalk. always be alert. pedestrians don't come with airbags. with tempur-pedic.t our proprietary material automatically adjusts to your weight, shape and temperature. so you sleep deepl