meet maria hernandez [ ruben speaking spanish ] tao tracked her down outside loreto. agent howard arranged to have her flown up. [ maria speaking spanish ] [ smooches ] this is a good thing, julio. thank you. gracias. [ sniffles ] thank you, julio. thank you for finding my mother. sure. sure. you be good to her, okay? that's your mom. [ whispering indndtinctly ] go on. mmm. [ sniffles ] [ speaking spanish ] [ sniffles ] [ chuckles ] [ sighs ] [ police radio chatter ] [ maa and ruben speaking spanish ] [ elevator bell dings ] [ exhales sharply ] julio, i thought you left. perdone, seora. est* usted casada? no. no estoy. um, i'm not married. [ exhales sharply ] do you have a boyfriend? no. no. well, then, um, how would you and ruben like to have dinner with me? i'm sure agent howard has other plans. uh... i do. thank you. he took me to the firing range with him, and he shot a bull's-eye from over 1,000 feet away -- is. >> it's monday, november 16th. isis if syria, french police carry out looking for suspected terrorists. president obama is meeting with terrorist leaders

how is he adapting to the spanish lifestyle? >> he's more spanish than me. >> really? >> yeah. need a siesta. >> it's interesting to see how you've made the transition. cheers. >> cheers. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> first off, this. bacalao salad. salt cod, egg, black olives, oranges, tomatoes, dressed in olive oil. remember, this is holy week. maria jose is preparing recipes that go back through the family so far that nobody knows exactly where they even came from. migas, another iconic dish of andalusia. informally referred to as the shepherd's lunch. born as a way to use old, hard bread and combine all the week's leftovers. i'm told every household in spain has a variation. what changes is what you put on it. today it's sardines, cod, chorizo, melons and peppers. oh, man, that's a lot of good stuff in one bowl. so how often do you eat this well? >> every lunch is like this. >> every lunch in your life. >> every day i'm here. but lunch is -- >> big. >> big lunch, siesta. but you can't -- you know, i used to try to resist siesta. you can't do it here. society will not

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i asked him, why do you need someone to speak spanish? and he said, do you know spanish?eah, i do. >> can you tell me something in spanish? [ speaking spanish ] his eyes lit up. to me it's so normal, like hello, i'm puerto rican and colombian. i was okay. why do you need someone to speak spanish? >> and he is just like, i need someone to go to colombia. >> i was like, really? my grandmother is from there. it was always a dream of mine to go colombia. and he lowered his voice. and he was, well, i need someone to -- >> bring some drugs back for me. >> it was kind of like, are you serious moment? drugs? okay. i was kind of, you know, alarmed. but at the same time i was kind of curious. i was just thinking no job. i know there is money involved. what are you going to do, viv? he was, well, give me your phone number. i'll call you later, you know. so we can meet up. >> okay. >> okay. take care. >> basically crunch time. it's either i'm going to do it or i'm going to stay in the same predicament. [ ringing ] >> peter called me like around 5:00, 5:30. >> okay. >> he is like, wha

as part of the spanish empire you don't learn of the treaty of guadalupe.in to bring peace to the southwest it involve promises from the united states from those that were living there. and those promises that were not kept by the government in southern california is a long history with us stockade id jamestown already a well-established city much older than jamestown spanish and culture were routed into the united states for 500 years. it is in the main part of the story but to understand america you have to understand that part of the story. but knowing our history also builds down with a growing debate around immigration. >> host: you are on the air with author ray suarez "latino americans." >> caller: listen. i was going to ask you why talking more about jamestown then st. augustine? the oldest catholic supplement in the united states? all those missionaries all going out to california. the great contribution they made to our country is just unfounded. thanks for taking my call. >> guest: there are thousands of americans in the morning and never thinkin

] >> [speaking spanish] óoó?""" [cheers and applause] naomi: hey. hi, everybody. um, so, we're actually going to start with a little video, uh, sort of trailer for the book, if you don't mind. so roll the trailer. in december 2012, a complex system scientist walked up to the podium at the american geophysics union to present a paper.

] >> [speaking spanish] óoó?""" ♪ captioning and audio description provided by the u.s. department of education. >> bokara: i'm bokara legendre. join me and my guests-- scholars and scientists, spiritual teachers and philosophers-- as we explore the boundaries of religion and metaphysics, of science and spirituality. join me and some really fascinating people as we try to figure out what life's all about and how it can have meaning for each one of us.

] >> [speaking spanish] >> oh, dear.ell, i'm not a young person. i'm not a woman. [laughter] i must be indigenous somewhere. [laughter] uh, thank you to kenny and nina and the bioneers for having me. having grown up in bloomington, indiana, it's really interesting to come to california. we always wanted to do that. [laughter]

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and then someone says -- [ speaking spanish ] >> it's pigs, wild pigs.nd that's exactly what it was. we hear helicopters, black hawks have a really distinct sound to them. kind of real low, throaty. we would all kind of look at it, but it's impossible for them to see us. we were certainly kind of under guard, but we weren't restrained. our hands were never bound. we also really didn't talk about escaping. that was a step that i don't think we were prepared to even think about. there was opportunities. they were kind of careless with their weapons. they would just leave them around. sometimes they would forget them. but then once you escape, where do you go? we didn't have provisions on us. then we really would have been on our own. frankly, we didn't have a lot of our own survival skills. then that evening another group of soldiers arrived. >> you recognize those men? >> they were the soldiers that went into panama. they had heavier mortars, russian squad machine guns. the commander that originally took victor reassures us that victor is going to be comi

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okay. [ speaking spanish ] >> right now we're on the river in between mexico and guatemala. that's guatemala, that's mexico. this is where you would give your passport, passing from one country to the other. all these boats in the distance here everything happening here on the river is illegal. >> the majority of the people when they see you they say, can can you give me some money, i he haven't eat nothing. they say like they're hiding you know or they're running, the people, they get killed. they want to kill them or something. >> chavez operates the rafts. he says many migrants are taking new routes now to avoid being captured. >> people are more afraid to cross the river now. i think there's another point to cross. but not here anymore, right here. it's dangerous already. >> reporter: on this day there were fewer migrants taking the risk so he took us south accreditation the border into gooment where guatemala. we have crossed into guatemala and we are seeing if there are any migrants there. [ speaking spanish ] >> tens of thousands of migrants pass through guatemala on

, for my poor spanish abilities. my students, the other day ... i sort of met, the opportunity. i said "what are some other opportunities you'll have to interact with german." i through out duolingo, ad, all of a sudden, the students said an we have a duolingo competition? who can get the most points in duolingo." it was this really wonderful, sort of value-added part of our person-tl- person interaction, which, at least in my view, is the ideal setup, this hybrid online-and-in- person setup.i think that's one of the limitations of a puely-online setup for languages, that i'm not sure one can learn a ... in fact, i was telling my students the other day, trying to encourage them to speak up in class, participate. i said "i don't know that anyone can leaean a language purely in his head, without that person-to-person contact, without some sort instructor elicititng a comment from you, correcting something, or just making you feel eager or hopeful for speaking." what's interesting with duolingo, for example, is it has t

sports wag or any of the spanish sports was a way, unde another way of reben against the spanish crown. i think that's really what it became so ingrained in the culture that it was a rejection of all things spain. and an embrace of the united states in a way. anyone else? are right. well, if there is no other questions i just want to thank you all for coming. if you want to buy a book i will be glad to sign them. thank you. appreciate it. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> booktv this on instagram. follow was for publishing news, schedule updates and behind the scenes pictures and videos. instagram.com/book underscored tv. >> many a vicious presidential candidates have written books to introduce themselves to voters and to promote their views on issues. here's a look at some of the candidates' books. but to be is covered many of these candidates. you can watch them on our website, book tv.org. good morning, thanks for coming out on this gloomy halloween day. it is my privilege to introduce to the distinguished historian, writer, and lecture doctor bella. she has taught history in

robert speaks in spanish and english, so if we have spanish language media, he's your guy.fter mayor garcia speaks, he will turn the microphone over to one of our distinguished faculty, michael la forte. michael is very familiar with our students who are traveling abroad and nohemi specifically. also joining us here today, our long beach promise education partners. we have long beach city college president eloy ortiz oakley, and we have long beach unified school district superintendent christopher j. steinhouser. so we're very grateful to have our education partners with us today, as we strive to move through this grieving process. so, please hold your questions until after everybody has had a chance to comment. once they are finished commenting, i will come back up and we will go ahead and do what we can do to resolve your questions. please know that this is a minute-by-minute process. we can only share with you the details that we know and have confirmed. if we have information that is not confirmed, we will not comment. so please know that. and we think that that's very

so again, we see an african-american who, although he has combat experience, and the spanish civil war, relegated to a servant's role. he volunteered for combat in 1944, and was assigned to the 12 armored division. on march 23, 1945, his unit came under attack while advancing. he led a patrol towards the town, but all of his men were killed or wounded. all of them. despite being hit five times, carter destroyed to enemy two enemy positions, killed several german soldiers, and captured to others. -- two others. they also provided his unit with important intelligence information, so capturing those prisons was important. it allowed u.s. forces to advance. so this is the action for which he was decorated with the medal of honor, which was retroactively awarded a nation -- in 1997. seven. carter remained in the army after the war, but was denied reenlistment in 1949, due to unfounded suspicions that he was a communist. who this was related to his of -- this was related to his upbringing in china and to his service in the spanish civil war. again we see a postwar story that is not the happi

who this was related to his of bringing in china and to his service in the spanish civil war. again we see a postwar story that is not the happiest. so returning home to america didn't always mean a happy homecoming, victory and liberation parades. by many african-americans, coming home -- homecoming was a bittersweet experience. a very disappointing experience to come back to an unchanged america. the one important element to the story is the postwar story. served,ion americans black americans served in uniform during the war. many hoped that upon returning home, their service record would mean something. it would mean something to fellow americans. and most were bitterly disappointed. we hear stories of people disembarking the ship, coming home to america and white serviceman had to go one way and black serviceman had to use another ramp and go the opposite way. of africanies americans returning home after having served, had to ride in the segregated train car. of course, next to the: engine. oal engine. that's different from white americans, who were returning home to ticke

be like, "no, (speaking spanish)." you know? "mexico"!and i could just get out of there. >> is the story about-- is-- is the story about going to walmart with your nephew osama, is that a true story? >> that is-- loosely true. (laughs) i mean, i have a nephew named osama. and i just thought what would be, you know, i went out with him one time and we're taking him out. and i thought to myself, like, i was about to call out for him. i'm sitting' there... "osimmmm... ssssss... sammy! sammy come here". he looks at me... "no, my name's osama". that's not something that actually happened, per se. but it's based off of the realities of where we living. we're currently living. i can't even call my nephew's name. because what it causes, psychologically, in the people around me. and the paranoia that it instills in them. and the paranoia in me. like, i don't wanna attract that. it's a very sad state to be in. you should share what your name means. you should share where you come from. you should share this stuff. and that's why i felt like i had t

and this was related to his of --upbringing in china and to his service in the spanish civil war. again we see a postwar story that is not the happiest. so returning home to america didn't always mean a happy homecoming, victory and liberation parades. by many african-americans, coming home -- homecoming was a bittersweet experience. a very disappointing experience to come back to an unchanged america. the one important element to the story is the postwar story. 1.1 million americans served, black americans served in uniform during the war. many hoped that upon returning

why did you make us go to all this trouble of spanish to english to spanish ? why do you do that ? - i only speak a little. i think you speak a little more than a little. tell him about the retraining program. i can arrange for you to have the services of a part-time worker, someone to be here when maria is in school. i can't afford to pay another worker, even part-time. you don't have to, mr. hernandez. the salary is paid for by the city. - why would they do that ? - it's a city program... to help unskilled workers learn a trade, instead of going on welfare. so what do you say ? - my family does not accept charity. - please ! - this isn't charity. - it's a trade. you get a worker for free. and that person learns a commercial skill. and you do all this just so that maria can finish high school ? - yes ! - then what ? - then she can go on to college. - and will the city pay for college ? if maria keeps her grades up she'll be certain to get a scholarship. what if she doesn't ? all these hopes, all this work. all this time wasted dreaming empty dreams. she needs

it became known as the spanish flu because the spanish were reporting the numbers. the french lost 1.4 million. 1.4 million military deaths. germans, 2.2 million. no one knows how many the russians lost. second, following the battle of --, there were five battles. it never fell. it was reduced to rubble, but never fell. doctor anddoctor, a a soldier, he was helping when he could, trying to save lives. after 17 days, he sat on an ambulance wagon and wrote the following poem. poppiesers fields, the blow. now we lie in flanders fields. the torch be yours to hold high. if you break faith with us who died, we shall not sleep where poppies glow in flanders field. a friend rescued it and send it to london. it went "fire role." went "viral." it if anything could go viral. i love that blood red poppy they wear for remembrance day. we call it armistice day. created the veterans the buddy poppy. it was sold when i was a kid. in des moines, we would walk down the street and people -- you would see every corner, someone selling these. widows and orphans of the war were to benefi

[native language] [spanish] let's give our audience a little taste. [native language] [native language] >>> all right ladies, i'll see you next year. good job. don't go away. when we come back the woman who has the tough job of selecting the top 25 most attractive latinos in massachusetts. we'll have her right here on revista hispana. realized. fulfilled. won. leadership isn't given. magazine" que ya lleva 7 aos en la ciudad de boston ha nominado por segundo ao consecutivo a los 25 ma atractivos. en esta edicio n especial y divertida, no so lo se resalta la belleza exterior sino, que tambie n las cualidades personales y profesionales de los finalistas. 25 ma s atractivos" del 2015 , el equipo de candela magazine realizo un evento nocturno en candibar en boston donde ma s de 200 vip' [native language] all right. we'll return and talk about an event taking place later today to highlight the strong bond between cubans and dominions here in massachusetts. all of that right here on s longest standing latino social club, in association with two leading domi

and learn about savings at myrbetriq.com >>> try to learn spanish, real spanish, from an authentic mexicano. none of that watered down stuff from rosetta stone, i'm learning directly from the course. >> kenneth brown will soon serve a 24 year sentence. he's using his final days inside louisville metro to expand his horizons. >> number 15. >> and what is that? >> that means i will shoot you. so if you break in my car, or if you break in my house or i catch you in there -- hopefully you understand that. if you don't speak spanish, you better learn. then i got i'm sorry. i'm going to tell them i'm sorry after i shoot them. >> you just got handed a 24 year sentence. >> yeah. >> so what are your plans on using spanish? >> i don't know. i mean, if you got 24 years, you got a lot of time to learn a lot of stuff. why not take advantage of it? >> while his spanish might help brown bridge some cultural divides, it might not quell the hatred some inmates feel towards him. after his conviction for murdering shizz. de shawn powell has been especially incensed. >> if you're going to be in the day room,

sports was away, another way of rebellion against the spanish crown.i think that's really what it became so ingrained in the culture. the rejection of all things spain it and then and embrace of the united states in a way.

if we have to keep on helping our spanish friends, our spanish relatives, we'll keep doing so. this is not about money. this is about freedom. especially in the line this is about democracy. we should be able to hold this vote, and then we should be able to implement the vote. the only way we have to ask about this issue is to use original action which took place last month. and the referendum. the result of that election was a clear mandate for independence. of course, we'll always be open to have proper negotiations. we'll continue to try to achieve this negotiation. >> thank you very much, indeed. >> talking to us from bar barcelona, thank you. >> thank you. >> five months after taking office, yes, five months, nigeria's president said that it is in his cabinet swearing in 36 ministers. the president himself, well, he's taking the oil portfolio, the oil minister's job. he had been criticized, but he wanted to make sure that all candidates were properly vetted. he said he would tackle corruption and mismanagement. al jazeera's yvonne ndege is in abjua. >> what they're waiting

[speaking spanish] [laughter] stay right here. coming up next, healthy when we >> the organization foodcorps partners with schools to serve healthy meals for healthy kids. this holiday they're making sure those healthy recipes are on the table. jamisha williams is here to tell us more. what is the program? i'm not familiar with it. >> okay. so foodcorps is a team of americorps leaders, and we all do the same thing but in different places. foodcorps is in 18 states around the country, and our mission is to connect kids to real food. i have a service site which is a local organization, and mine is wellness in the schools. >> shout out to them. [laughter] >> i had to do it. >> all right. >> yeah. so what i basically do is i help out in the cafeteria. i want them to eat at their salad bar, actually try their lunch. since our menus are the alternative menu, and they have so many good options. the food is so good, i love eating there. >> all right. we're talking about healthy they weres for trimmings for this holiday. tell us what we're

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and it's basically to say to young women who write in spanish... >> women 35 and under who write in spanish who live in mexico or the united states. and you get... if you win, you get $10,000, and you get residencies in three writers' colonies-- ledig house, santa maddalena in italy, and ucross in wyoming. and we gave the first prize last november. we had the most extraordinary fundraisers. we were so lucky at the last fundraiser, because it was at two weeks before the crash. >> hinojosa: mmm. >> and in one night we raised $80,000. you know, we have enough to give the prize now for... you know, we need more. >> hinojosa: well, you know what, francisco? what we can leave our viewers with is that if they want to learn more, they can go to auraestradaprize... >> auraestradaprize.org, yeah. >> hinojosa: and we can read your new book. and the title of your new book is? >> say her name. >> hinojosa: say her name. and it's about your life with aura. >> it's a novel, but it's about aura. yeah, that'll be... >> hinojosa: francisco, thank you so much for opening your heart to us here and in your writ

the spanish were noble energy company is facing tough choices.y have to decide whether to chances one their settlement. on the edge of coming spain's biggest corporate bankruptcy case. the french finance ministers says it is possible the paris terror attacks that affect the company's economic growth. he says the budget rules will not affect priority. french president that's all heads-- francois hollande to moscow today. a task made complicated by turkey downing a russian jet. ryan chilcote is in moscow. great to have you with us. changes -- things have changed a lot. take us through the agenda. ryan: it is going to be a competition agenda for a long -- four hollande. the firing line of russia's economic retaliation for the downing of the jet. they appear to be food imports but banning car imports did a lot of this coming from the russian newspaper. you have to see that on the back of tour operators canceling the trips. russia's relationship with turkey is going to be a big issue when it comes to how he deals with hollande. jonathan: ryan chilcote

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independence.lawmakers in catalonia have approved a plan in which the area would seperate from the spanish government by 20-17.catalonia is spain's most north-eastern area and shares a border with france.the spanish prime minister isn't happy about the development.in the past - he's vowed to take legal action against catalonia's parliament if they were to appove plans to suceed. the world bank says climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030.that's according to a report released over the weekend.the report says it will disrupt agriculture and fuel the spread of malaria and other diseases.it says the world's poor are woefully unprepared to deal with climate shocks like rising seas or severe droughts.how to help poor countries is one of the big issues that will take place next month at a u-n summit in paris. coming up on the cbs 2 news at noon - why star-bucks is facing criticism over their red holiday season cups. cups. ((pkg) (pkg) sot"i love having different kids of friends, don't you?" to celebrate the uniqueness of every child, sesame street launc

. >> [speaking spanish] >> [speaking wolof] >> but for aadama, maymuna's little sister, these are open questions. >> [speaking wolof] [children chattering] [child crying] [rooster crows] >> [chanting] [dog barking] [rooster crows] >> [speaking wolof] >> on the morning of tabaski, maliki buys bread as a breakfast treat. new clothes are given out as presents. [ram bleats] >> [speaking wolof] [ram bleats] >> [chanting] >> [speaking wolof] >> [chanting] >> [speaking wolof] >> the ram slaughter follows religious guidelines. the ram lies with its neck facing mecca, and the men say a blessing as the throat is cut. >> [speaking wolof] >> [speaking wolof] [laughs] >> [speaking wolof] >> [speaking wolof] >> for the tabaski meal, people eat in groups. all the girls, the boys, the men, the women, traveling to each compound to share some of each family's food. >> [speaking wolof] [laughter] [drum beat] >> [singing in wolof] >> [speaking wolof] >> [singing in wolof] [laughter and chatter] >> [speaking wolof] ÑÑwww

mandarin or spanish speaking are most popular. >>> two people have died after taking counterfeit xanax. a man died after taking it at a party. another man overdosed in his home. investigators are not sure where the pills are coming from. they have also seen three deaths in san francisco. >>> a mother who overdosed on painkillers talked about why drug companies don't make drugs that are not addictive. and we will show you how they are paid to get high. >> reporter: a doctor convicted of killing three young men who overdosed on painkillers she recklessly prescribed. >> we are devastated. >> her mom is not alone in her grief, every day 44 people across the us die from abusing or misusing powerful prescription opioids and many become addicted. >> why cannot we find a treatment for pain that could not kill you? >> reporter: one approach is to come up with a new pain pill they are trying to come up with ways to prevent abuse among addictive pain management - - medicines. the goal is to see if realized drug users enjoy taking them as much as current pain pills. they hope they don't. >> need w

the spanish government filed an appeal with the constitutional court to prevent the split, which the court has agreed to hear. >> a resolution is tearing apart the democracy. it is liquidating the spanish constitution, which was approved by the greatest majority of spaniards and laid out the rules of coexistence. it expressly states that it's not going to respect the law that is in force and which will not need to pay any attention to the constitutional court. it is completely out of place and that it breaks up everything. >> china's economy may be slowing but it's ecommerce giant has set a new sails record on singles day within the first eight minutes of the biggest shopping day of the year. selling $1 billion worth of goods. from beijing adrian brown reports. >> he has been counting down the days to this moment. he's part of china's growing middle class. >> i want to buy a couch. i want to buy a storage box. i want to buy clothes for my daughter, and a new handbag. >> the only time she goes out to shop is for fruit and vegetables. everything else is ordered online. >> they will giv

he spoke spanish, would it be enough to find him?ates away, as you're about to see, would it be enough to help find brooke? >>> coming up, police track down a suspect in the new mexico kidnapping case and start to speculate about his m.o. >> this is not the first time he's done this. you don't start grabbing people in broad daylight when you're almost 40. >> was it possible this wasn't his first abduction? when "bringing brooke home" continues. >>> on a november night in 2004, albuquerque police were on a manhunt. a man had kidnapped a 22-year-old student off the street and sexually assaulted her. but when he carelessly tied her up and left her in his car in this apartment parking lot, she bolted, run naked into traffic and, thankfully, been rescued by this woman. >> that could be my daughter. she's a human being. she did not deserve to be running down the road with no clothes on. >> now albuquerque police officer ed taylor was among those looking for a suspect, a white male with a shaved head wearing a cap. police learned from a wom