. >> the native american tribe says it violates the treaty because it could impact hunting and fishing rights. they're going to take gtech to federal court and they can lock them up in a crt battle that would ultimately snapped the profits. lori: the protesters are getting in the way of environmental impact study so we can't even find the results of this, what happens next in this battle? >> what happens next the public hearing scheduled for thursday and then you talk about getting solid facts. that is a first time they enter into the debate. thus far what you have had is a lot of emotion, lots of suspicion as far as what will happen next. this will be an opportunity to get things on the record. lori: what will ultimately haen to tte land at that site when all is done? >> at the moment its used for loing. remove the dirt, separate the iron ore, and replace the dirt and replanted for a future date. lori: thank you. it is like christm morning for science and tech junkies. elon musk pulls back the curtain on the hyper loop, is it more reality or fantasy? plus, jcpenney's biggest advocate

the water supply. native american tribes who claim it would interfere with their hunting and fishing. ke tobin reports. you decides. >> armed on the ground in wisconsin a response to this. >> no. you get out of this [bleep]. >> masked protesters intent on protesting the work of -- >> get out of our home right now. >> mining hasn't started all protesters disrupted were sampling. >> they should be out there wanting us to find the information out. they will be able to use these facts to kill a mine. >> chemicals will never be used. iron ore will be separated by magnets and the dirt replaced. protesters don't care. >> it's not that i don't trust the dnr. i don't trust the governor and i don't trust the people who are supporting the governor in our state house. >> the native american og tribe says the mine violates their treaty because they believe it could impact hunting and fishing. they will take the company to court and believe they have enough money to lock the company up in a court battle that could ultimately sap all the profits from the mine. shep? >> shepard: we reported on how the

karen harrison is a registered nurse and clinic manager at the native american indian center in oakland and a member from a tribe here in california. she started out as a medical assistant in 1985 with the native american health center and went on to get her registered nurse degree so she's been with the health center for 27 years and 21 of those years she has been a registered nurse. [applause] karen has greatly contributed to the native american health center and sharing her knowledge and wisdom with the whole agency and this goes out to the community as well and serves as a chair on the advisory community and board member of the friendship house and coached american indian children in the tribal athletics program and known as the coworkers as the patient whisperer and when there is a patient that is angry or agitated she is always successful in calming them down. she is a mother and her with her family tonight. can all her kids wave? and she is here with her sister and lots of friends and now we're going to see a video about her. >> i am karen harrison. i'm the nurse manager at the native american health cent

cursory overview their cultures mention of the native american genocide that was perpetrated by our nation is pretty much nonexistent some native american tribes were settled on reservations most were hunted down and massacred by eighteenth nineteenth and even twentieth century american settlers america's actions against the native american people was so egregious so deplorable that in september of two thousand when the head of the bureau of indian affairs formally apologized to the native american people for years of misery of oppression of violence the term ethnic cleansing was used when christopher columbus discovered america he discovered a country that was already fully occupied native american groups occupied america coast to coast when columbus discovered it but maps like this one detailing the extent of the native american population pretty much failed to appear in just about every textbook in on u.s. history. this is discovery of america also mark the beginning of the native american genocide some scholars estimate the population of the united states before europeans showed up was greater than twelve million for centuries later ninety

his lawyer is vowing to appeal the convictions, the biological father of a native american tribe was ast night after ignoring a court order to return the girl to her adoptive parents. the highly publicized custody battle began in 2009. baby veronica was given up for adoption by her biological mother. shortly after the baby was born her biological father regained custody under the indian child welfare act in june the supreme court ruled in favor of the adoptive parents. the father refuses to give the girl back to them. he was arrested last night near his home in oklahoma but he posted bond and no one is quite sure where he and his daughter are today. >> tom has your forecast right after the break. hey linda! what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support regularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease art

the whistleblower was tom rogers and native american involved in native american issued in the first one that uncovered by police love -- so that dealings with jack and the indian tribestom rogers confronted jack abramoff not too long ago at the press club and said your people are in cash games, high-stakes card games with reporters. members of congress that mostly staff and lobbyists in jacks that i can't recall. at that point in time i had played cards with bresnahan and paid bresnahan money. towards my last year that i was in trouble i knew they had some card games and i felt that was important to reveal in the process. i felt that bresnahan had his cake and ate it too and the way he would carry out stories on people but yet he himself is a reporter was making terrible violations of the rules and the ethics and even the smell of the ethics involved with staffers and lobbyists in these card games. the other thing is that there was an aid -- abramoff and bresnahan would become the editor and jack had this marvelous plan where he could control media and stories that were written against other lobbyists. c-span: what kind of -- you accused john bresnahan of taking mone

i don't trust the governor and i don't trust the people supporting governor in our statehouse. >> reporter: native-american tribes mine. saying that it will violate their treaty, hunting and fishing rights. bill? bill: we'll see how that goes. mike watching that out of the chicago in the midwest bureau. martha. martha: the earth opened up a bit near disney world. it cause ad section of a resort to start sinking. look at pictures. details on the massive holcombing up in a live report when we come back on "america's newsroom." >> we're all thankful we made it out alive. >> getting back here. bill: how did that go for you? >> great to be back. yep. bill: told everybody. break her back in slowly, okay? we'll take it easy on day number one. you're doing double duty today, right? >> yes i'm on "america live" at 1:00. thanks for reminding me. bill: big fat long day on number one. we got to run, everybody. >> see you tomorrow. the see you at 1:00, bye, everybody. >> right now, brand new stories and breaking news. jenna: dramatic

native americans is playing out in fresno. a central valley water district wants to prevent flow from the area to protect the salmon run. members of a tribetraveled to show support for the plan. the tribe says it relies on the fish for livelihood and flamed low water levels threaten the fish population. >> we've heard america's cup ses supposed to be a money machine for san francisco. there is plenty of disappointment along fishermans wharf. it's hard to believe fwhu is the land america's cup passed by. as for the second, well, ask a question of passing tourists. >> could you tell me which teams are racing in the america's cup? >> no. i don't know. not one single team. >> do you know who larry ellison is? >> absolutely not. larry ellerson? >> has the america's cup been good for you?. >> no. it's been a pain. >> frank is a third generation fisherman. let him count the ways. beginning with detours every time he takes tourists out on the bay. >> we have people that want to go on road rides to see it. none that have happened. >> surprise, surprise. >> nor has many dollars. >> the number some whisper about is 30% less. >> only two votes out th

native americans is playing out in fresno. a central valley water district wants to prevent flow from the area to protect the salmon run. members of a tribeed to show support for the plan. the tribe says it relies on the fish for livelihood and flamed low water levels threaten the fish population. >> we've heard america's cup ses supposed to be a money machine for san francisco. there is plenty of disappointment along fishermans wharf. it's hard to believe fwhu is the land america's cup passed by. as for the second, well, ask a question of passing tourists. >> could you tell me which teams are racing in the america's cup? >> no. i don't know. not one single team. >> do you know who larry ellison is? >> absolutely not. larry ellerson? >> has the america's cup been good for you?. >> no. it's been a pain. >> frank is a third generation fisherman. let him count the ways. beginning with detours every time he takes tourists out on the bay. >> we have people that want to go on road rides to see it. none that have happened. >> surprise, surprise. >> nor has many dollars. >> the number some whisper about is 30% less. >> only two votes out there. n

the native americans and that led to butcher soils there had been periodic burning. of force way into which increased wildlife as happened with many of her gatherer tribes of agricultural societies or like. you know even changed town was founded in what they thought was a field but archaeologists in think instead of an abandoned field this actually had been a very densely settled area which in that case had been depopulated by local warfare so all of the problems didn't arrive with europeans but certainly the landscape had been changed for ten thousand years great ice age before centrally planned was seized from the natives and then used as the basis first for flourishing agricultural this is something that we need to remember. modern science modern technology modern industry united states were first successfully applied to agriculture creating the world's richest agriculture sector exports from which help to finance our industrialization which could later right and that was a time when the topsoil in the united states was six eight ten feet deep in many places and in european topsoil was largely degraded and particularly great plains there were appropriate farming tec

native americans, unlike others will not be fined for not having insurance. >> yeah, it does create a rather unfair situation in the end. >> reporter: indian tribes already receiveare through the 4 billion dollar a year, taxpayer-funded indian health service. >> it hasn't been that very good. we get less than half of what the prisoners get in the fed and we're it -- federal and we're not in in prison. >> reporter: under obamacare, native americans like everyone else can buy private insurance through state exchanges. >> they don't have to go to the tribal program or indian health services program. >> reporter: with poverty rate twice the national average, most native americans will qualify for substantial subsidies, another expense for taxpayers. >> all of these sorts of things in this kind of an approach, wiped up, raising questions of fairness. i think that's a big part of why the law remains as unpopular as it does. >> reporter: native americans argue the u.s. is obligated through treaties to provide health care. even so some tribal members are likely to ignore the exchanges all together. >> we have many members that close not to because they say, i'm an ameri

the tribe and has been to washington for a little while now. she worked in the clinton administration in the department of housing and be urban dom as deputy assistant secretary for native americanprograms. she has expense tensive -- extensive experience on lots of boards, and i view her as a trusted partner in the fight for making sure the economy works well for everyone and no one is forgotten. we are so thankful she could join us as moderator for this panel. we have mark hugo lopez be to my far left who is the newly-installed, as of last thursday, director of the pew his panic center, so we can give mark a public round of applause. [applause] mark's extensive research studies the attitudes and the opinions of latinos and their views of identity and political engagement, and mark oversees and directs the pew's aual national survey of latinos which i know is an incredibly valuable tool for all of us as we try to incorporate the latino community into a lot of our work. next to mark is mr. william spragues who is the chief economist here at the afl-cio, and bill comes to the afl-cio after a stint in the department of labor as the assistant secretary, excuse me, in the office of p