he ran a muffler shop in the town of grandby. and knew him just as a businessman. >> the motive is becoming clear, heemeyer's been harbored deep-seeded grudges against some prominent town members. this is his revenge. >> marvin was upset because a showman by the name of cody wanted to open a concrete batch plant adjacent to his muffler shop. mr. heemeyer felt this was not good for his property values and objected very strongly to the special use permit and the abonese in which the town went about proving this batch point. >> the plant is the main source of his anger, but heemeyer's also unhappy with the town council members for approving the plant's construction. his next target? is the grandby town hall. >> he began systematically from work failing a clockwise fashion going around that building and basically taking it down. >> and the building houses more than civil servants. >> oh, no, don't go for the library. >> we had evacuated approximately 12 elementary schoolchildren from the library which was in the town hall. >> but he i

igor serves on the town council. he says he is concerned that the croatian government has granted so many minority rights to serbs . >> at some point, they're going to want full autonomy. and then the region will be croatia [indiscernible] >> there are even disputes about which language should appear on street signs. rightist parties disagree with the eu government policy. the right wingers trying to play the nationalist card and lost the election. an ethnic serb says that gave him hope that the two communities will eventually be able to live in peace. reconciliation has made progress, but it will take time. >> if the owner is serbian, can be recognized by serbian. >> the serb cafÉ is right next to the croat cafe. the two communities merely coexist. they don't really live together. she is also working to promote reconciliation and belongs to another local minority, german- speaking residents. they have built a nest during the european house, home to eight organizations. she says croatians must work together to promote

town meetings had been the fundamental way of life of the town. they had also been the fundamental lifeblood of the patriot movement. because it was sam adams who really was in many ways the presiding presence as tensions built between great britain and the american colonies, particularly in massachusetts. and it was -- but he had a problem. by 1772, two years after the boston massacre, an unsettling calm was settling on boston. the patriot movement was losing steam. and it was in that fall that he instituted the boston committee of correspondence. and it was a brilliant move, because what he did was create a network of communication that had never existed before in which a 21-member committee in boston would write up tracks that were then distributed to the 250 towns throughout massachusetts. and remember, this was a time when massachusetts included what is now modern maine. and this set up, and what it did was transform town meetings that usually were devoted towards discussing things like repairing roads and bridges, turned them into forums on t

the coldest inhabited place on the planet this small frozen town once recorded a temperature of minus seventy one point two degrees celsius we had a thousand kilometers to go and three days to do it. we started off in convoy across the frozen lake my copilot valarie has been making this journey for five years. not the most important thing is to be on time. speed driving well it doesn't really matter very much. as you are arriving ahead of time . as well as for being behind your allotted time we have to follow the legend if it says fifty kilometers an hour we keep to the speed limit of fifty. because of the treacherous conditions the main aim of the rally is to arrive in one piece and from the first to the last speed is. one we had around four hundred kilometers to cover and it wasn't long before we started to thin out. times with plenty of time to kill. me through the navigation. tell you which direction. means to go straight ahead. so if i say twelve o'clock two hundred. main street on foot two hundred makes us ok. one hundred. one o'clock. one hundred meters turn to the right. the s

the coldest inhabited place on the planet this small frozen town once recorded the temperature of minus seventy one point two degrees celsius we had a thousand kilometers to go and three days to do it's. the frozen lake. has been making this journey for five years. the most important thing is to be on. speed driving well that doesn't really matter very much. as you arriving ahead of time. as well as for being behind your allotted time we have to follow the legend if it says fifty kilometers an hour we keep to the speed limit of fifty. because of the treacherous conditions the main aim of the rally is to arrive in one piece and from the first to the last speed. we had around four hundred. times with plenty of time to kill. me through the navigation. direction. to go straight ahead. so if i say. two hundred. two hundred mentis. want to talk. to the right. the speed limit is sixty five. five hundred. with low empty spaces as far as the eye can see it's tempting to put your foot down for the judges always seems to be just around the corner waiting to check up on you. before next fourteen tw

what the town is proposing and why that has store owners concerned. >> also violent eruptions of the sun, what it means for us here on earth. that's all ahead on ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> this is ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> good morning welcome to friday june 14th. i'm dave clark. >> and i'm claudine wong in for pam cook this morning. let's start you off with a look at your weather and traffic. steve delivering a very nice forecast. >> no reason to gripe. temperatures are going to warm a few degrees today and cool down as we getted into weekend. we've got you covered. we have a warmer day expected for today, high clouds overhead this morning, a north breeze, a little gusty in the hills but right here where we reside it's fairly calm out there with just a light wind. some of us may hit 90 degrees. where you can expect the warmest conditions and a detailed look at your neighborhood. >>> westbound highway 4 you can see people are definitely on the road coming through here, nothing too much out of the ordinary but certainly people are on the road. if you are driving in san fr

it could also provide a financial boost for the town. later, cero shows me a fairy wharf, the kind of project that should have brought more tourists to the area. the idea was to bring visitors hovercraft.-speed it would be better for the environment than buses and cars. they would step right off in front of the symbian villas. villas.ius in have been stalled for years. is it just a matter of money? to be a good politician, you need to come up with ideas, cero, but we keep electing governments who do not have that skill. but there are private investors that could put money in for their benefit and the benefit of the city. it does not seen there will be any additional government funding anytime soon, so those fighting to save italy's cultural treasuries -- treasures captioning and audio description provided by the u.s. department of education. >> bokara: well, i think that one of the most important traditions to learn about today is islam, because there's such a pervasive sense now of fear and confusion in the world. and so in order to real

days of driving have taken us from the town hall just on the edge of the poll of polls. we still have a few hours to kill before a final leg. i wanted to see more of this frozen rural community. but you do need to keep your wits about you. what are you doing. even children. look at that now that it. was just too much for one thing in the admissions. i'm already dreading the keep the cold. well the youngsters don't seem to lack for energy but how about the rest of tom sawyer around two thousand people live here in jury one of the hall sister continental climates in the world life certainly seems anything but easy but you know you're dealing with a tough community where ninety nine percent of them don't even have an insulated loo. despite the hardships most of the villages are happy here and playing the summers is one of their favorite past times. almost at the most guns to remember this traditional you could instrument called the homeless it's been played for centuries. it's a really interesting thing because it helps you relax and come down. when you play it your main ca

there are some reoccurring themes at the town hall meetings. we heard from different hiv and aids non-profits and positive resources and they spoke very passionately about the need for funding especially in light of federal state cuts. the living campaign also mobilized a very vocal constituency advocating support for the b top program. this was a federal grant that was responsible for putting computers and tutors in city college neighborhood resource centers and senior centers. this is the way the technology can be a life looik -- line to connect people that don't have access. that grant experience has expired. they have put it in their budget to continue the funding but the advocates did a very good job to make sure our policy makers understood this was a priority. there was also advocacy for continued funding for services administrated by dos including in home services and pedestrian safety was an issue across all communities. we heard from a high school student talked about her friend killed on a crosswalk. she really made the plea that ever

the town of qusayr was lost by the rebels some 24 hours ago. it is a big strategic win for the assad government. by holding qusayr, the government is now in control of vital roads and supply routes. as the free syrian army toreats, the focus turns other frontlines. it is is likely that assad loyalists, supported by hezbollah fighters, will try to secure towns in and around homs, but recapturing the rebel stronghold of aleppo will most likely be the next focus. rebel forces have been in control of the main military air force for the past few months. idlib is another strategic supply route for the rebels. area haves of the slipped out of army control. we look at what is next for rebels. >> they may have lost the battle, but as far as syria hoss rebels are concerned, the war is far from over. -- syria hoss rebels -- syria 's rebels are concerned, the war is far from over. they are all 25 years old or younger. their commander says there specialized units trained in forming barrett's -- barrick's and military bases -- in forming barracks and militar

until lava destroyed the town. >> lava goes wherever it wants to go. . >> for ten weeks in 1990, mick is at the edge of the disaster, capturing the flow on camera. on the big island of hawaii, mick kalbur has maze a living documenting laugh van persie flows. they never cease to amaze him. but the one story stands out villagee rest when a large is is decimated by lava. >> this was a beautiful air yak then. it has just been turn inside a parking lot. very little left down here. >> the story begins in 1983. kalapana is a lush beautiful fishing village but the proximity to an active volcano means that residents live watchfully, ever mindful of the threat of destruction. >> in january of 1983 the volcano eas a results. necmick and his crew begin to film the explosive event. >> it would high if the 800 to 15- feet in the air and it was absolutely amazing. >> the high town continuing is a masstive spectacle but looks can be dereceiving. >> it is efusive, not explosive like mount st. helens. thousand it is less likely to dump destructive amounts of ash on surro

meet in northern ireland, david tereshchuk recalls the history of both violence and forgiveness in the town of enniskillen. major funding for "religion and ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lili endowment an indianapolis based private family foundation dedicated to itres in religion, community development and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america. designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corporation for public broadcasting. welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. this week of capitol hill testimony and widespread debate over the government's massive surveillance of phone calls and internet activity. one key question -- how to find the right balance between protecting citizens' privacy and assuring national security. we want to talk about that with michael kessler, an ethicist, a legal scholar and associate director of the berkley center for religion, peace and world affairs at georgetown university. professor kessler, welcome. >> so how do we get the right balance betwe

and one in this file one in the town of more, oklahoma. therine: >> jacqueline: you can see where norman okla. is there reporters touching down but there is no place in this country and more to help with tornadoes the mormon. the back-to-back piggyback tornado warnings right over the area of more and norman. we'll be back after ♪ secondhand smoke affects everyone's health. it's not just irritating. it can cause heart disease and even death. speak up about secondhand smoke. your health and the health of your family depend on it. >> reporter: to parts of illinois is oklahoma, kansas and st. louis tornados have hid and touchdown with a series of tornadoes have formed as a result of a massive storm and the middle of the country. flooding in oklahoma city area and a tornado which is reported that touchstone and norman okla. with the city where there university of oklahoma is located. north of mormon just went black so there's serious power outages is well at least 40,000 have been without power. portions of blackness that's an issue as well. jac

the town is near vital supply routes and highly strategic for both sides. e syrian military is claiming victory. safe declare the city as a city. we appeal to all the residents to return home. this operation has been planned for a while now. >> syrian rebels are blaming their defeat on the first intervention of lebanese hezbollah militants. they are experienced fighters who support president assad. this all comes one day after france confirmed that samples collected inside syria have tested positive for the nerve gas, sarin. doctor says that he has witnessed the effects first hand. >> we have seen about 6000 injured people, some of them obviously dead, this time with no clear injuries except that or have it from coming out of their mouth. says that.n. report the war in syria has certainly reached new levels of brutality, with the execution of war crimes rising. they have urged foreign powers to cut off the flow of weapons to both sides. american and russian diplomats are trying to pave the way for a new peace conference. on the plant a flag clock tower, the

the town is going to up the ante on crime fighting.ristin ayers says if you go in and out of piedmont, you might want to smile and say hi. >> that's right. in just a few months there will be cameras posted every entrance in this town to catch and record every license plate of every car that comes through here and send that information back to authorities. it's all in an effort to try to cut down on burglaries. rick shiler blooefs it started in january. >> people were very upset, as was i. >> two violent robberies in affluent piedmont that month left this small community on edge. >> houses were broken into. in one situation, a resident was actually fired on by one of these perpetrators. >> piedmont is surrounded by all sides and skyrocketed by as much as 50%. >> if technology is out there, why not use it to help you kiep community safe or solve crime. >> police chief started talking about spending $700,000 to install about three-dozen license plate reading cameras at just about every street entry point in town to track who was coming an

the bank. it's your typical small-town village. man: people think that rural areas are pristine and perfect and everybody has a nice, simple life. that's, uh, not exactly the situation here. when you come into town in the summer, you know you're coming to herminie. woman: the aroma in 90-degree days... can sometimes just want to knock you over. woman: we have water. we have power, we have gas, but we have no sewage. i guess when they laid out the town years ago, it just all went into the pipes and straight into the "crick." sabljak: i've lived here 43 years in the same house. when i moved here, they told us that sewage would be here shortly. and here it is 43 years later and we still don't have it. my husband and i went to the first meeting. he always said, "boy, i'll never see it in my lifetime." well... my husband passed away last december. man: right now, the wastewater in herminie is going to basically three places -- in the street, down mine shafts, or into the creeks. i think we're very lucky that we haven't had some kind of s

in doubt we meant to separate groups which claim there is so aim is to defend the towns from the armed to riggs what they say their own belongs to them but you don't agree so with their arms to defend our homes you know. they came first then the islamists arrived after them they opened the door for radicals to come to our land. last week president a laundry sieved a peace prize for the operation in mali but it's still unclear whether what the french troops will soon leave behind can truly be described as peace and what peacekeepers officially coming to the scene this july will have to maintain. from mali. the damage limitation squads are out in force at the big internet firms after they were named for sharing people's private data with the u.s. government prime interest looks at that next an r.t. . six and eagle residents were thrown off of an airplane not for what they said but how they said it because they said it in another language russian in fact a paranoid and cowardly steward on the plane told them that they had to clear out just for speaking another language to be here yes of s

jim lazares that i was just talking to and he is already working on the next phase and we have the china town and many of our china ton including in the front row miss rows pack and mr. gordon chin. and we have a number of members of our community advisory group for the central subway. people who have volunteered their time as everyone else just mentioned has year after year to suffer this project through to make sure that we are doing it well and doing it right. and finally, there is a lot of leadership and support from the communities, from the federal partners and from the government and from city hall that makes all of this happen, but at the end of the day, everybody has to drive this project forward and so i want to acknowledge the subway director, john sungi, since 2006 john has been working day and night living and breathing this project to make sure that it happens, i think that he has a central subway tattoo on his arm. i think that the tunnel manage machine down stairs has spent more time with tom than his family has. he has been bringing expertise and commitment to improving the t

these are storm tunnels underneath the town of ucon. that floor pretty quickly there, you can see the people who were in the tunnel, they got out fast. >>> storm chasers aaron ashman and cody howard captured this monster tornado yesterday near union city, oklahoma. >> very large tornado. >> he says "very large tornado." do you see it? well, that block of dark clouds, it's known as a wedge tornado, because it looks wider than it is tall. the whole thing is the tornado. when this video was shot authorities were calling the situation on parts of interstates 35 and 40 a nightmare. they said people just sitting in traffic were sitting ducks. think big rigs and cars tossed around and thousands of commuters stuck on the road. two of the five people killed were in union city in southwest oklahoma. thanks for starting your morning with us. >> we've got much more ahead on "cnn saturday morning," which starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>>> good mornin >>> good mo > i'malson r >> i>> i'm v. p in oklahoma another roun killkill

the g-8 leaders will be meeting at a northern ireland resort near the town of enniskillen. that area symbolizes the long history of violence between the protestants and catholics in northern ireland. but as david tereshchuk reports, enniskillen has a history not only of bloodshed, but also of forgiveness. >> the small northern irish country town of enniskillen seems like the perfect picture of rural calm. but its history seethes with violence. most infamously in modern times on the sunday observed as "remembrance day" in november 1987, the morning's peace was shattered by a devastating bomb. eleven people died that day, and sixty more were seriously wounded. the bomb had been planted near a memorial honoring the dead of world wars i and ii. it was the work of the irish republican army, the predominantly roman catholic organization that used force for advancing irish aspirations to get britain out of northern ireland. those killed were all civilians, largely elderly couples gathering to watch the day's memorial parade, plus a 20-year old student nurse, marie wilson. the dead

then the global economic crisis, and the town could not afford to run the service any longer. they took a dramatic decision -- he has boxed the whole thing up and assented to sydney. >> it was once the prize of and = --a, -- and alysia andalusia. after a year of going nowhere, the tram cars will be headed to australia. the running cost derail the town's budget, and it is being dismantled to seek his fortune on the other side of the world. >> on a day like today, there would have been scores of people waiting here for the tram to take them to the beach. now, as you can see, it has just become an extension of the car park. the tram themselves will go to australia. the rails, the tracks, will stay here, an ugly scar of the recession. >> the little town is haunted by the ghosts of better times. construction projects, begun in the economic boom, were quickly abandoned when the property bubble burst. the tramway belonged to a different economic era. >> it was a very difficult decision to take. we had our tram for six years. now the economic climate has changed. we have to tackle a p

a report from bentonville the >> there is trouble in the town that wal-mart built. on one side, the largest private employer in the world, with two million workers in 15 countries. >> we're proud of the benefits that we can share and that we give to our associates so they can live better and they can serve customers all around the world. >> on the other side, demonstrators who blame wal-mart for use the cheap factory this is -- where a fire killed workers. >> they work 14-hour shifts, they make $37 as a minimum, working in a factory. that is for per month. >> the two sides have converged on the streets of bentonville, arkansas, or the annual shareholders meeting and a week of protests. demonstrators laid flowers for those who died in the bang la derek fisher factory. -- language -- bang lad erb factory and protested. >> wal-mart has said every time they're going to make specific changes with wages, safety in the work place and harassment and those things haven't happened yet. we're here to address them. we are coming from all over the country. >> when workers protest

this is the town of rot one of the largest towns they pass through. it had a population of about 10,000 this was actually the town that on their fourth morning the americans wrote to the german attack and forced 27 of them to flee for their lives and the other three in nurses hid in homes and ended up being stranded for several extra miles. this is 1945 and with him is his wife who is still living today. she is 101 and lives in italy. unfortunately he did help the americans and lead them through many miles of rugged terrain and found them food and shelter but the americans were very suspicious of him at various times because they felt like he was leading them away from the coast, their ultimate destination and in fact after he parted ways with the americans was tortured for several days when he returned to his hometown and was eventually executed for helping with the allies during the war. this is a telegram that harold's family received alerting them that he was missing. as you can see it's very prepared it says regret to inform you report received t

parts of the town are still underwater. many dams are in danger of bursting and there is more rain forecast for the weekend. >> the german foreign minister has met with the new pakistani leader in islamabad. he is the first senior western diplomat to visit since parliament voted him prime minister this week. focused on bringing peace to afghanistan. he has signaled he is not likely to make changes to pakistan's current policies. a strong reaction in germany to revelations the united states government has been tapping into internet and phone service to monitor citizen activity. opposition is calling on angela merkel to tackle the issue when she meets with u.s. president barack obama later this month. the u.s. secret service admitted to accessing fast -- vast qualities of information by the servers of major internet companies like google, facebook, and yahoo. operationrterrorism has attracted criticism both at home and abroad. it is not clear whether the companies affected knew about the practice. u.s. president barack obama a

do they owe the town any help monetarily? >> well, the insurance policy they have on that plant is very minimal. it would come no where near close to paying for what is needed here in this town. so, not a lot of help expected from that. other insurance policies and that sort of thing that are paying for the school rebuilding, but even then that's about $100 million they need for the schools. the insurance policy there accounts for almost $160 million. so still about $25 million short on what they're going to need there. the school behind me. this is the high school. might look okay from the outside. i walked through it. you would be stunned at the amount of damage. the shock wave alone from the explosion caused there. they're trying to figure out whether or not they'll be able to salvage a portion of this high school or rebuild altogether. >> ed lavandera reporting live from west texas this morning. >>> the racing world mourning the death of jason leffler killed in a crash at the new jersey speedway. taking part in a sprint ca

then the global economic crisis, and the town could not afford to run the service any longer. they took a dramatic decision -- he has boxed the whole thing up and assented to sydney. >> it was once the prize of and = --a, -- and alysia andalusia. after a year of going nowhere, the tram cars will be headed to australia. the running cost derail the town's budget, and it is being dismantled to seek his fortune on the other side of the world. >> on a day like today, there would have been scores of people waiting here for the tram to take them to the beach. now, as you can see, it has just become aof the park. the tram themselves will go to australia. the rails, the tracks, will stay here, an ugly scar of the recession. >> the little town is haunted by the ghosts of better times. construction projects, begun in the economic boom, were quickly abandoned when the property bubble burst. the tramway belonged to a different economic era. >> it was a very difficult decision to take. we had our tram for six years. now the economic climate has changed. we have to tackle a problem head-on a

the oklahoma city area still reeling from the ef-5 tornado that destroyed the town of moore two weeks ago once again caught the worst of it. the storms hit during friday rush hour, and with memories of moore still fresh, many tried to flee on the roads. and for some it would be a deadly choice. >> most of those victims, if not all, came out of vehicles. >> the tornado that ripped through el reno, oklahoma, proved especially unpredictable. it made an unexpected left-hand turn, suddenly traveling north. it caught even experienced storm chasers completely by surprise. >> that thing is rotating. >> it is? >> storm chaser tim samaras seen on discovery channel's storm chasers show along with his son

our country's first female chinese american doctor in the heart of china town, someone who adopted over 1,000 suns, mostly service men during world war ii. i can tell you as the son of a tiger mom, i have a good sense that mom chung was a tiger mom. and that is what we have needed to build this project. per the history of fighting is helping to build our city's future, we all know that over the past few decades, thousands of san franciscos have been fighting to implement the central subway and for someone who served on the advisory committee before i was elected to office there are thousands of community members from the bay view and the vis valley to mission bay and union square and to china town who have fought to get us to where we are here today. there have been dozens of political leaders and i want to thank our good senators and nancy pelosi and generations of mayor, mayor lee and i want to thank my colleagues, including kim and breeder who are here today, after hundreds of community meetings and thousands of pages of studies and i think that tens of thousands of hours of debate.

they would require all firearms dealers to get a permit from the town before selling any firearms.this one was drafted after public outrage after templar sports, he says he followed proper permitting procedure but a lot of the people in the community, the members there, they're very upset. there was no public meeting before templar sports opened up. tonight's meeting starts at 7:00 at the town council chambers. >> orchard supply hardware has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. spun off by sears holdings less than two years ago, osh is blaming hefty dividends paid out to its parent company. lowe's says it will buy 60 of orchards 91 neighborhood hardware and garden stores in california for about $205 a.s million. >>> we will have to wait until at least thursday to get a ruling from the supreme court justices on proposition 8. within the past few hours the justices did hand down decisions on five separate cases. none of them having to deal with california's ban on same-sex marriage. that now means a ruling on prop 8 will either come down this thursday, next monday or possibl