i see the colorado plateau. this bowl is from american museum of natural history and that's where it is now. that's the storage place. where it was from before is pueblo bonito in chaco canyon where there were rooms filled to the ceiling with bowls stacked within each other, bowls like this. all their designs, you can kind of get a glimpse around this. they have this flawless symmetry blending all the way around. it looks like that place. it looks like that landscape. i look into this and i see the sharp edges of the land. i see the way the earth is shaped out there. i see the routes in their vessels. i mean, to understand these, this one came out of a 13th century site in southwest colorado and i would sit with these bowls for hours and hours, drawing them into my sketch book because that was the only way i could really understand the complexity of how they got their symmetries to match up because i could never get them to match up in my drawings. i could never do a 100 percent accurate rendition of these becaus

i see the colorado plateau. this bowl is from american museum of natural history and that's where it is now. that's the storage place. where it was from before is pueblo bonito in chaco canyon where there were rooms filled to the ceiling with bowls stacked within each other, bowls like this. all their designs, you can kind of get a glimpse

the colorado plateau is covered with chert, a glassy rock that is really really good for making tools, making very sharp edges. you find there are pieces of chert all over the place and you can still cut your skin open very quickly with it and it's been sitting out in the open. >> where does chert come from? . >> it's a marine rock that's mostly silica. you find it in these layers, sandstone layers. if you are especially in a marine or water environment, you will find this layer of chert. it's in all colors, purple, green, red, blue. it's a beautiful rock. . >> one thing i wanted to ask you, the review in the paper recently on sunday said that your book is different from all the other books about the anastazi because you brought out some of the non-flattering parts of their culture like violence. how did you conclude that they were a violent culture? . >> well, i didn't necessarily conclude they were a violent culture, i just concluded there was violence in their culture. the evidence is very clear where you find masker sites, where every place you drop a trench there are bodies, unbu

his work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. the book, house of rain, is craig's latest book. please help me welcome craig childs. . >> hello. i come to you from out of the desert. i'm coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people w

was when the moon reached the gap they lit the fire so the signal went out so everybody across the colorado plateau would know the needle has been threaded. and i imagine that day people in chaco canyon all standing there, facing north, looking at a fire tower that would have delivered a message down into the canyon. i imagined people all over the four corners all facing the same direction at the same moment, maybe this didn't happen. everything is conjecture out there, but you know something was going on. how much do you want to know? when i saw that granary up in the cliff, i wanted to know what was inside of it. i thought i could easily break the seal around this stone. i had a good knife with me. it would be very easy to cut a square around it and just pop that stone out and i would see what's inside of a granary, what these people left behind. it was something for their survival, something that they could return to, something very important. i spent years going through museum collections and opening up drawers in the basement of the peabody and the american museum of natural history wh

offered by the gentleman from colorado, mr. polis. the chair: the gentleman from colorado, mr. polis, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: one of the best practices we've learned is having alternative authorizing agencies. p 2 states have created alternative authorizing authority. it may be mayors, university board of regents or state boards of education as alternative authorizers. it ensures that both ideas for charter schools brought forth by parents and others are more likely to be considered if there's an alternative authorizer instead of what's already in the bill, which should be present, which is an appeals process. that sets up a kind of adversarial relationship. we have that as well in colorado, when i served on the state brd of education, we heard appeals processes. if a district turned down a charter school, we heard their evidence. what has fruvene work better is having an alternative authorizer in addition to the appeals possess so districts that don't want to be in the charter authorizing

there is where the president was today in denver, colorado. watch this. is is where he has been in the last couple of weeks since giving his jobs speech on september 9th, raleigh, north carolina, richmond, ohio, california, seattle. this is 2008. four of the states the president has visited, red states, red states, red states and red states. these were states that george w. bush won. take a peek again. nine red states in 2004, see them, were blue states for obama in 2008. that's what makes this map so fascinating. at the colorado stop, the president promoted his ideas for job creation and he tried on a new more populous line to counter republican criticism that his plan to raise taxes on affluent americans amounts to class warfare. >> you know what? if asking a millionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber makes me a class warrior, a warrior for the working class, i will accept that. i will wear that charge as a badge of honor. the only warfare i've seen is the battle that has been waged against middle class families in this country for a decade now. >

the current governor says the president can probably win colorado he's got a lot of work to do. is there enthusiasm in your state for the president and the plans that he wants to lay out for the country in the second term? >> i absolutely agree, thomas. first of all, good morning from denver, colorado. it is absolutely going to be a challenge for the president to win colorado. do i believe he can win it? absolutely. there's work that's going to have to be done. i spoke with some of his team members yesterday. we've got a lot of work to do in colorado. it's possible. we've got to get to work. >> the work was done before for senators fighting off the tea party wave winning state elections in 2010. in a presidential election, mayor, the democrats can they carry the president across the fin irline in colorado or will his campaign need the independent surge that we saw the last time around? >> oh, absolutely. colorado's going to have to be a very concentrated effort. in addition to the democrats, of course, so i think with both sides we have work to do. and i know the president and hi

the giants one of the colorado rockies. their deep straight win and it keeps playoff hopes alive. so the final score was 12-5. the oakland a's octel to detroit today. the final score there, 3-0. the emmys showcased the top shows on television. and there were a few surprises in this special presenters. we have all the details and to agree. or are >> walking year entertaining is a man in the box office critics are praising the movie turns staying away from special tax and to focus on creative we performed an act photographs stunts. in second place, the contagion. get also includes a star-studded cast. at number one, a disney classic rereleased in 3-d. ticket sales for the lion king surprised executives who expected considerably less. 29.3 million. elaine can break in just 10 million more than when it opened in 1994. today at the emmys, modern family cleaned up. >> one of the most talked- about actors last season, charlie sheen made a surprise appearance as a presenter. he had a message >> . from the bottom of my heart, and she nothing but the best for this upcoming season >> . james

the little cat who wandered from boulder, colorado, to the big apple. five years, 1,800 miles later, she's ready to go home. >>> good evening tonight. we are all talking about apple juice. the apple juice nearly everyone of us has in the kitchen. the juice we give our children and grandchildren. a television program by the influential dr. mehmet oz sounded an alarm about the presence of arsenic in apple juice. then, his findings prompted a passionate rebuttal from our own dr. richard besser. the two doctors squared off today on "good morning america," on the issue of food safety, and we will talk to them again, both, in just a moment. but first, to lay out this debate, abc's sharyn alfonsi. >> arsenic in apple juice? >> reporter: it was the show that sparked national anxiety about apple juice. >> some of the best known brands in america have arsenic in their apple juice. >> reporter: the story frightened some parents and enraged some doctors, including abc's own dr. richard besser. on "good morning america" -- >> mehmet, i am very upset about this. i th

hutt was selecting logs in the mountain, a trailer slipped and pinned his toes on his right foot. matt croso from colorado has the rest on this unbelievable story. >> reporter: it was an early state start to a typical day of logging trees for this year's winter logs pile. >> i went up to get a load of logs friday morning. >> reporter: but in a split second, everything changed. >> i caught my foot between the axle i was standing on and i tried all i could think of to get out of there. >> reporter: with his toes crushed beneath tons of steel, bleeding and alone -- >> i looked it over and i thought, well, i'd better cut this off before i go into shock or drop this pocket knife. >> reporter: john hutt made the decision to turn the only thing he had into the thing that would save his life. >> got the boot cut away. then i could see that those toes had been crushed basically off. >> reporter: he feared shock was setting in and worked vigorously, cutting all five toes. >> i just decided i'd better get it done while i could. >> and with a final cut -- >> so i cut myself loose. >> hoping his toes could be saved, h

the director of colorado. please join me in toppling him. >> thank you for the invitation to join new. unlike some of my comrades, i believe the debate about drugs is a healthy one. it is my hope there will be as well informed as possible about the various issues. hopefully i can bring some perspectives on the legalization of marijuana and the war on drugs that he may not here. you certainly will not here in of the ads the marijuana industry will run in the lead of to the 2012 election. i've been a lawyer for 33 years. i been on dozens of panels discussing drug laws and reform. that has led me to some very interesting observations. the people on the panel have either been academics paid affiliate's of public policy editorialists or politicians and areas of great affluence. they have jut infested neighborhoods for a system that lived in there. this may be a coincidence. i do not think so. i think your experiences in life have a lot to do it your views on these subjects. i have noticed over the last 20 years that

they are playing the colorado rockies, game time 7:15. go giants! d mild, 67 degrees. [ laughter ] >> go giants. [ laughter ] >> see you in march. [ laughter ] >>> all right. let's hit the road. you have time to enjoy an extra cup of coffee this morning across most parts of the bay area. across the san mateo bridge, we are doing great. starting to get a little more crowded westbound 92 but check out the bay bridge. only slight delays in some of the far left cash lanes. overall, though, fastrak users get by just fine. this is the our busiest spot, westbound 580 at portola. we had this crash approaching the center divide. and it is still slow behind it. what are you guys doing? are you guys doing rap moves or tae kwon do? i can't tell. >> he is on cup number 6 of coffee. >> now we know why frank brought the 5 pounder the other day. >> i plead "the fifth." >>> with the economy still struggling the amount of traffic in the bay area remained constant. the average bay area driver deals with 50 hours of delays per year. that number has stayed the same for t

their new home was fort carson, on the outskirts of colorado springs. since the start of the iraq war, this city has experienced an unprecedented murder spree. in the last six years, 15 fort carson soldiers have been charged or convicted in 14 murders and manslaughters. on friday nights, downtown is full of soldiers from fort carson-- some trying to forget what they've experienced, others celebrating their homecoming. ( music playing ) ( siren wailing ) >> narrator: the soldiers of third platoon hit the bars of colorado springs as soon as they got home. >> in the first six months, you know, you're just happy to be home. and then, after that six months, i just... problems started-- depression, anxiety, paranoia. getting the feeling that you're in iraq all over again. seeing people that you know died in iraq in crowds. constantly checking the rooftops as you're walking down the street. ( chuckles ) oh, man. >> narrator: between 2002 and 2009, the number of fort carson soldiers diagnosed each year with post-traumatic stress disorder, or ptsd, rose from 26 t

we also have another project with another participant in my program, will be taking a flight to the colorado film festival where he one a prize for a film he did about his brother in hunter's point. i will be running a right's of passage at joe lee. so our number, 4 one 5. 824-4098. i can give you a whole slew of activities. >> i just wanted to say, we had been in a conversation with maya and we are planning with a pilot program to develop an 8-week program where mondays would be career explorations. they are going to visit art musicians and bank of america and the career paths they have chosen and then there are discussions about attitude and hygiene. how do you present yourself so people want to engage with you. we are trying to work with the mayor's office and d.c. yn. >> there are a couple of youth empowerments. and the whole goal of that fund, which john may know about the details is to empower the people to be the victors of their destiny. it's a way to let youth identify their dreams and be the leaders in terms of allocations. they dole out grants. so the youth empowerment fund is an

. >> the cal koe wandered 1800 miles from colorado to the big apple which made for a big adventure andhomecoming. here is abc's john berman. >> reporter: the musical "cats" ran for 18 years on broadway. willow, the cat, ran for 1,800 miles, that is. yes for five years willow was a cat on the lam, disappearing from the squire's home in colorado in late 2006. >> we thought she was eaten by a local owl or coyote. >> reporter: while the squires had given up willow for lost, willow was headed east. the exact route we will never know. you have some secrets don't you? it could have easily included whiskerville, arkansas, kitty hawk, north carolina and garfield, new jersey. willow was on the prowl until this week, found on the streets and turned over to a shelter. >> her coat is great. her eyes are clear. she is enjoying new york i think. >> reporter: how did they realize this was the squires' missing colorado cat? a microchip implanted between willow's shoulder blades that had her owners' contact information. >> we never dreamed we would get her back. >> reporter: cat experts told us that wil

we have three last games remaining in the season as the giants host the colorado rockies 64 degrees, clear skies. for the most part tonight it will remain mainly clear and then we will have some stratus that's lurking off the coast into the 50s and into the 60s. here's your week ahead. this is what you need to know. first off it's going to be warmer tomorrow than what it is today. wednesday will be an offshore flow. and then by the weekend, we have more rain possible. both saturday and sunday. meanwhile take a look at our futurecast and what do you see? not a whole lot. a little bit of low clouds and fog. that's the marine layer offshore. for the most part, that's where it's going to remain. we have this area of low pressure well to the north of us taking plenty of precipitation into the pacific northwest. otherwise, high pressure firmly building in. temperatures rise for your tuesday. seasonal levels at 84 degrees in san jose. 70 in half moon bay. east of the bay this will be the warmest location into the low 90s. otherwise north bay temperatures from 63 to 87 degrees. the fall weeke

wgn news @ 9 more warnings tonight about the colorado cantaloupe blamed for 13 deaths comes from the th listeria help officials say it could take as long as three weeks or somebody who eats the fruit gets sick but you did not want to let it get that far. >> if you have a cantaloupe labeled with something other than jensen farms it is okay to eat but if the label looks like this jensen farms is not safe to eat throw that away. reports more than 70 illnesses in 18 states linked to the contaminated melons. major bank hitting it's debit card users with a big feet next year bank of america will charge customers a $5 monthly fee to use a debit card goes into affect sometime early next year another move by bank to generate revenue and are slumping economy bank of america not alone chase and wells fargo reportedly testing out similar debit card fees. nokia plans to cut $3,500.3500 jobs, factories will be shut down second time this year the cellular phone maker shut down jobs. chief executive says cutting expenses will help it compete in the smart phone market. bizarre because membership forme

other day you know you couldn't build the hoover dam today because they discover a snail darter in the colorado river and the e.p.a. would stop it you know and let's compare for a second the plans that we have here in the u.s. to china people you know people would be displaced animals would be killed and trees would be cut down but whatever it is that needed to be built in china most likely would get violent so i'm wondering what you think you know if we want to get these dogs going will there need to be a drastic change in some of these regulations. sure i mean often it feels like i think it could be a low over done it often feels like the one thing that everyone can agree on and united states right left and center is to stand in the way of a good project that we obviously need on the other hand we are capable of getting things done we want to get them done even if they do a lot more than damage some snail habitats etc we are fighting multiple wars with real human casualties every day we do it live with fifteen million unemployed people twenty five million on him under employed people we live

the colorado rockies, in to usher in that historical night. bottom of the third, two on. mike fontenot sends one over dexter fowler's hit. ryan vogelsong and torres score on the triple. vogelsong, ripping the cap off a cinderella season. mark ellis strikes out. top of the sixth, things would get a little hairy. kevin kouzmanoff groupeds into an inning-ending double-play. vogelsong finishes with 13 wins and a 2.71 e.r.a. the giants win game one of the three-game set. and for vogelsong, a fantastic season and just the way he'd like to go out. >> that was my whole mentality. i just wanted to have a good one and finish strong for them. they've been behind us all year. especially me personally. they've been withes me the whole season. and i felt like i owed it to them to go out and put together a good start. and gives us a chance to win. >> how about the a's? mariners, final series of the athletic's season. hideki matsui. weekes comes home. 1-0, oakland with the early lead. smokes it to right. three-run home run, 4-1, seattle. and the 15th of the season. and the a's fall by th

woman: all the growth and everything that's occurred in southern nevada has been with colorado river water. without it, the west as you know it today couldn't exist. narrator: to sustain their growing community with its limited supply, las vegas learned to be extremely efficient. mulroy: this is a desert, and it has its own beauty, but you have to get beyond what you're used to. as long as people recognize they're moving to the desert and give up this notion that they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. man: the biggest water user in the desert is turf. turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what we've done here is use artificial turf. you're never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30% of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. we're using less water today than we used five years a

the center for disease control says the melons came from jensen farms in holly, colorado. >> there is an investigation ongoing about how the contamination occurred. >> reporter: today the cdc said they are unsure how or even why the outbreak began, but because listeria has a long incubation period, doctors believe the number of those infected will grow. >> it's very likely that we will continue to hear about new cases and perhaps additional deaths that are linked to the outbreak over the coming weeks and months. >> reporter: though the outbreak started in colorado, illnesses have been reported in at least 18 states nationwide. some 72 people have been sick. the 13 listeria deaths have come in eight different states. the bacteria especially dangerous for the elderly and pregnant women. among the victims, 48-year-old mother of three, shelly occhipinti-krout. her daughter tiffany still in disbelief. >> there's got to be some answers to this and how this could happen. it's happening to other people. >> reporter: the contaminated cantaloupe was shipped during a six-week period, but the cdc

it depends on the local political situation. colorado, when it comes to responsible regulation, you are at the forefront. it is important for the people and the medical marijuana industry to act responsibly. elected montano. approval effort on the part of u.s. attorneys there to do something every in new jersey, with the republican darling resisting implementing the medical marijuana law, and last month he announced i am implementing it and i am going to interpret the justice debarment memo in a way to allow me to implement this law. i'm not worried about state officials getting busted. and rhode island and arizona were under pressure to implement their losses well. -- their laws as well. it depends on the good faith and the intelligence of the people involved, but with law enforcement and the industry and the doctors in the patient. >> i want to observe that this was more than a shot across the ball. the letter from john walsh from colorado opposite said that public officials could also be prosecuted for supporting medical marijuana. >>

but tonight at at&t, the g-men left the fans with something special to remember, as they hosted the colorado. watch closely, because i need your opinion on this one. giants and rockies, final night game of the season for the giants. and what a night for the rookie. 5-0 giants, he rips one. that scores one and he keeps on running, heading to third, he falls over the bag. i don't know if he touched the bag, but he keeps on trucking, he scores, his fir career homer, an inside the parker, giants win 7-0 >> i don't know how it happened honestly. threw a fastball and i was ready to hit it. tried to put a good swing on it. i was just trying to help the team out and trying to get a w, go out on a good note. >> i didn't know if he was okay the way he went into home plate there. but an exciting play, funny play, and i'm sure the guys are in there having fun with him right now. >> that was hilarious. i kept on replaying it, probably one of the funniest things i've ever seen in my life. >> i think he missed the bag. a's and mariners. top of the fifth, big night for scott sizemore. his 11th of the season

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the big ones in the tides of the colorado rockies. it is our keep straight win. playoff dreams are a lot. the final score was 12-5. the giants close within four games of the land. the mls and wild card leader in their best hope to get into the playoffs. if the a's sell to the detroit tigers to date. = = these sell to the detroit tigers to date. >> and he spake couple was targeted and attacked. the preview the president's death as a recovery proposal which includes tax hikes for some americans and will show you, and we will show you how the new tabla from sony stacks up against the i pad. the bay area -- a place with natural beauty and a forward thinking spirit. at bank of america, we've been fueling economic growth here for over a century. today we're investing in innovations that will define our future. every day, we're working to help set opportunity in motion. from financing a solar project for the milpitas school district to funding the institute at golden gate. because when you're giving, lending, and investing in more communities across the country, more opp

the lock down was promised by earlier reports of a possible gunman at the base. >> colorado authoritiespe from a single farm in the state. colorado's chief medical officer saying samples taken from a jensen farm's cantlope matches the strain found in the 12 cases of the infection in colorado. the outbreak hasekened 22 around the country. two -- has sickend 22 around the country. two have died and two other deaths are under investigation. i'm nita vogel in los angeles, now back to on the record with greta. >> greta: more grim news for the economy. economists say there's a one in three chance we will slip into another recession over the next 12 months. dennis two quick things. economies are all employed so it is easy for them to say we are not in a recession. state unemployment rates have come in for august, 29 states have a greater unemployment rate than the month before. 12 have a lower and 11 remain the same. any way, tell me. >> if i could break in. economists are more depressed now than in two years why? you have to read the newspaper. no jobs growth, most recent month. bookly jobles