her political career in unified germany took off very quickly after unification. she is one of the east german politician whose put her stamp on west german politics early on. she was in the cabinet of helmut ko kohl. after he lost the election in 1998 she became the head of the christian democratic union and ultimately the chancellor of germany. she is someone who really was a person who bridged the gap between east and west journey. she became a unified german politician. it didn't matter whether she was from the east and the west. she still, however, does take her east german heritage very seriously. she talks about it a lot and certainly makes it very important in her political career as well and does a lot for the east german part of the country. she has a very interesting biography to remind or selves of on this day. she likes to take other heads of state to her hometown in east germany. there was one, i think it was with george w. bush a couple years ago where they ate roast pork in her hometown. she certainly does like to celebrate the heritage and where s

so i believe family unification is insistent with u.s. immigration policy at the same time they have to maintain border security you cannot have policies there are ways a number of policy priorities can be reflected and implemented to coexist with one another. that is what i have to say. >> final thoughts you want to get out? >> i was new to immigration policy. when i came to the job. before that it was national security law i have been disappointed hollis tile the issue has become in american politics i hope people will look at immigration reform what makes common sense or practical or pragmatic? and i hope with no work of your organization and others in my speeches people will recognize the great strides we've made in border security in illegal migration has gone down significantly over the last 15 years through all the investments we have made of taxpayer dollars there is more to do with border security challenges and we will do that. of light to do that with congress but we will find ways to do it if we can't a lot of people were conc

there's a brief moment where something happens called the louisiana unification movement where some whiteelite businessmen including general beauregard convince add number of lead afro-creole leaders to stay they will abandon the republican party, join them at a new party committed to business called the louisiana unification movement and the so-called best men of louisiana will now rule. it collapses as the white creole members are lambasted by non creoles for doing it. beauregard doesn't show up at their big meeting. things completely fall apart. that's probably the last place some sort of coalition could have worked. >> thank you. >> great. thank you. other questions? >> all right. so my question is, at the end of your book you discuss something about the coincidence between what you're researching and where you were at the time. can you explain that? >> in -- again, as mentioned, i'm in the edgar allen poe room. i'm not much of a believer in the super natural. the houses i showed you earlier -- there. are across the street the home of the women that are accused. i found this story whi

city hall that we'll need in order to get even though 2/3rd's vote for the high threshold for the unif i had city hall and community to the chamber of commerce this is an investment that san franciscans will understand and being willing to make but it's not just with the bond as supervisor kim experienced her leadership which winner running for office she made pedestrian safety one of the top issues and this is a top issue her district is the most challenging foyer pedestrian safety and that's why laugh of the folks are here please welcome supervisor kim (clapping.) >> good morning many of us in the community that have been working on this for many, many years this morning is so existing this signal an sixth street is something the community has been fighting for about i was in office and to be here today on a community driven process to see our residents that fought for this is rewarding i want to recognize the south of market action network (clapping) who represents many of our families in the neighborhood the united players and city crossroads that rounding u run our youth programs

it has become the theme of east-west unification. >> and other big headline from overseas -- iraqi officials say il in iraq hasis been wounded in an airstrike. he was said to be targeted yesterday while he met with the low militants in an bar province. the extent of his injuries are not known. pentagon officials say they have no immediate information on such an attack or the militant leader being injured. still ahead, we are learning an explosion that rattled a maryland neighborhood. and an alert for local drivers -- the new stretch of highway you can use starting monday morning. and learn how a >> one person is dead following shenandoahsh in the valley. the single-engine cessna went down this morning in a remote part of the george washington national forest and rocking him county. a pilot and student pilot were on board at the time. law enforcement in that area are in the process of notifying victims next of kin. the cause of the crashes in the early stages of investigation. a 56-year-old man suffered second and third greed burns in an experiment in an explosion in maryland. the explosion t

yes, he is going to do an interview with zain later today, he is somebody that fostered german unification. there were two things that people were screaming, they were saying open the border, and the other thing was saying gor be go gorvid. many people were thinking that there would be a reform to east germany, and then what happened was events just simply started snowballing and that led to german unification. the bait in the german parliament with the emotional speech from angela merkel, and there was a little scandal in that session as well. there was an activist and song writer from the former east germany who had a very tough time under the east germans, and he attacked the social faction and said there were a remanence of an era he was glad was long gone. by and large, these celebrations are loving them very much. there's a lot of people walking around here, and a lot of people taking pictures of what you saw behind me, and it's the longest sketch of what used to be the berlin wall. it stretches for 1.6 miles, and it's a place where artist came in 1989 when it was still the german re

the vast majority of the berlin wall was destroyed in the years after german unification.berlin moved quickly to shape its future, leaving little space for its past on the front line of the cold war. cnn, berlin. >>> still to come here on cnn, the u.s. midterm elections aren't just about the candidates. there's actually bears on the ballot in one state. we'll walk you through some of the more unusual measures being considered. >>> plus, more u.s. states could legalize marijuana on tuesday. growers are seeing green in more ways than one. details on this after the break. ♪ ♪ first impressions are important. you've got to make every second count. banking designed for the way you live your life. so you can welcome your family home... for the first time. chase. so you can. >>> closed captioning brought to you by invent help. >>> welcome back to those of you watching in the u.s. and all around the world. i appreciate you staying with me. i'm errol barnett. here are our top headlines on cnn right now. tuesday is midterm election day in the states. many analysts predict republican

on the contrary, he remained and helped formulate the unification contract between the two german states. >> 2-1/2 decades on it seems amazing things stayed peaceful. but now to spain where a row has been heating up. calt lonians want to press ahead and they have long seen itself as culturally different from spain including when it comes to smoking can bass. >> this is an intoxicating spot. literally. a private club in barcelona, it's legal to smoke joints. spain allows the consumption of marijuana in private spaces. procuring the highly coveted materials for its members. >> before i became a member, i had to meet outdoors with black market dealers in public space selling and buying are both illegal. >> it was founded several years ago when there were only a few such can bass clubs in spain's autonomous region. now, the region has more than 400 of them and the number is growing. cat lonia's approach to many things is more liberal than in the rest of spain. to meet the club's demands, can bass is now cultivated on a large scale. it's grown on planttations on this one. but the plantations

from the workforce point of view than from a human rights, civil rights point of view, a family unification of view. i have got to tell you, i know people in the business community , and i don't want to promote crate and barrel, but it's a place i shop at. you talk to the ceo of crate and barrel, she's excited. there are many business leaders who are excited. i think we will hear from more of them. there are a lot of farmers out there. they will at least have some more guarantees having a good adequate flow of farmworkers. there's a lot of farmers out there who really wonder about what will -- who will be there to pick their next crops. there are many quarters of american society -- i would like to focus on the chamber of commerce -- when was the last time we saw the editorial board of "the wall street journal" and "the new york times" reflect each other? >> think you very much. ♪ x we are only on television normally half an hour a day, but tonight we will be on for special coverage of the presidential address on immigration. you can watch us at bloomberg tv and online. mark, what you like

. >>> bernard hopkins 41, take on 31 sergey kovalev, a light heavyweight unification battle.m john clark, back to you. >>> update now on our breaking news. we see viewer video showing philadelphia police car involved in a hit-and-run in south philadelphia. the officer pulled from the vehicle just before it burst into flames around 5:30 tonight. this all happened on 28th and tasker in south philadelphia. the driver of the pickup truck involved in the crash took off of police looking for that driver. his passenger also hurt and taken to the hospital. we'll stay on top of this news story an bring you the latest tonight on nbc 10 news at 11:00. >>> switching gears, volunteers hit the street to spruce up a philadelphia neighborhood. with rakes and bedrooms in han, residents showed their pride for their community this afternoon. neighbors swept streets, cleared debris from wooded areas and plucked crash from sidewalk. all part of civic association neighborhood improvement committee's second annual fall cleanup. noise and crisp weather to do that. at least we got sunshine. >> tomorr

the work is the theme of east/west unification. back to you. >>> two americans freed from north korea spend their first day home with their families. first thing one of them ate. >> there is a dog on the roof. >> a dog scared and stuck on the roof for days. how it got there and what it took for rescuers to bring her down. north korea. kenneth bae says he enjoyed a late night pizza for the first time in twoeufplt americans are enjoying the first full day of freedom after being released by north korea. he enjoyed a late night pizza for the first time in years. the men were the last of a group of americans detained in north korea. >>> kenith bay and matthew miller were reunited with their families and country at a military base near tacoma, washington saturday night. >> i just want to say thank you for supporting me and lifting me up and not forgetting me. >> reporter: bay is a missionary from washington with health issues. north korea detained him in 2012 and sentenced him to 15 years of hard labor for alleged antigovernment activiti

-- unity, family unification should be maintained. i believe in the sanctity of the family unit. i know the president believes in the sanctity of the family unit. i've told this story many times. i'll never forget it. my first visit to mcallen station, may 11, 2014, mother's day and i wanted to see the kids myself on mother's day. with my wife. and the first little girl i encounter, i asked her through a translator, where's your mother? she said i don't have a mother but i'm looking for my father in the united states. that's why i'm here. and i heard that story over and over again on the border. family eve that consistent with u.s. immigration policy. at the same time we've got to maintain border security. we can't have policies that operate as a magnet for future illegal migration. and i believe that there are ys that a number of policy priorities can be reflected, implemented, and co-exist ent with one another. and so think that's what i have to say. >> final thoughts? anything we didn't cover you want to get out before you go? new

of their own which calls for the stronger border security without disrupting too much the family unificationnd those types of issues that democrats care about. >> schieffer: mark, you are kind of an expert on hypocrisy in washington after the book called "our town" and seeing beneath the surface, seeing things that may look one way and somehow turn out to be another. what is your sense of why the president chose to this route. >> i think obviously, people look at the political -- i think, from what people have told me, that he was upset that he didn't do anything before the election. he feels like he's been not played, but does not like doing things that are so negatively political. the timing of that was seen that way, he would probably admit to that now. i'm struck by the tone also in the republicans, especially last few days. what they're trying to do is let this play out in a non-grandstanding kind of way. that could be a presidential context. someone like ted cruz or rand paul or someone more conservative governors like rick perry taking this issue. they have strong legislative hand now

congress has recognized the principal of family union enough indication so that in the past -- unification, so that in the past, people with children with legal status were pulled in in that way. this time he reversed that, he took parents who were either citizens or legal permanent residents and said you can imply for legal status. not a path for citizenship. you can work here, apply for a work permit, for a three-year period of time you are not going to be deported. gwen: there was a line there that the office of legal counsel would not cross, allowing the parents? >> right, there is some argument about whether the parents, so if you're the parent of a child who at one point was undocumented and now has this quasi-legal status that comes from what they call the docket program, that doesn't give you quite the leverage that you should be in the united states with your own quasi-legal status. i think part of the issue there, keep in mind the reason why the dreamers are getting a stay of deportation, it's important to remember, this isn't really legalization. it's essentially like i'm report

a unification of germany and even larger than that, a unification of europe. this was called the return from czech chesh in eastern europe, the return to europe because for the older cultural tie ins europe that came back and brought this usefication of europe together with german united statesfication. >> dr. dettke is a professor at georgetown university. he is also with the bmw center for german and european studies, born in berlin during world war ii. how long did your family stay there? when did you come to the u.s.? >> well, my family lived in there from 1953. my father was in the opposition, and in 1953, he had a choice: you go to jail or move to the west. >> that's what we did. at that time it was easy to transfer inside berlin. you took the east to the west because they are still running and in that respect, it was easy after 1961, everything was blocked off. and only through arrangements that were made in berlin visiting and people had to pay for in order to visit east germany unless they had a visiting rights and it was practically sealed off in ord

change in political power and the wall is considered the beginning of the cold war and repaved the unification islamic terror group was -- the leader was wounded in the u.s. airstrike in the city of mosul. he has been transforming it from a branch of al qaeda into a major force taking over big parts of syria and iraq but u.s. officials cannot confirm reports that he was injured. >>> just ahead, they have opened in the east bay and they are in the main library and will help connect with local organizations. >> it is an am option to connect in a community that can connect them with the information and services they need. >> the veterans services will be open during normal library hours. >> and at association of san francisco will give a suit, a belt and shoes to 50 low income veterans searching for jobs and housing. the give away is from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on how to look their best for an interview. >>> and military personnel, they are offering free admission to vets to active duty vets today and tomorrow and members can bring guests at a discounted price. >>> water covered the towns of alm

liz: i don't want to spend too much time on kim young unif he's not a player here.th korea. >> essay player. nuclear weapons, probably ten or 12 of them. a militarized country. starving his people to death. the real question is whether china will use the influence it has over north korea. most of north korea's trade goes in and out of the china. and china is reluctant to use its influence. liz: is there some type of opportunity for an investor viewer who is looking and saying, wait a minute, we know oil is dropping. natural gas, which russia has a stake in. are there areas where the us can regain dominance. >> we can do corporate tax reform. that would help expand things in this country. we've done another thing, oil and gas. the transformation in the american industry is nothing short of extraordinary. something we could do to help the world and this country would be to pass trade authority for this president and create new free trade areas in the pacific and across the atlantic. that would tie countries to us strategically, at the same time it would create more hi

family unification as a principle to part of the immigration. that family stay united as a principle. secondly an errant path to citizenship. there has to way -- the way for these 12 million men and women and children to have a path to citizenship. i think just from raw political analysis is you have to deal with issues of future to get bipartisan support. there has to be some way to modernize the system to do that. my top thing would be family unification earned path to citizenship and legal counsel. of course also dealing with the issues of future flow which means foreign-policy that helps with development and economic sustainability. in terms of hope, 10 years ago the majority of white evangelicals were not for immigration reform. we have won that argument so there's massive conversion >> secretary salazar we have come full circle with you. >> thank you very much david. i came to colorado to see this great institution i want to say thank you to dr. jim carter and dr. sierra fisher and all of you in this great jesuit university and members of

the work has become the theme of east/west unification. i'm mary moloney reporting.n wall. official numbers record 200 people who died while trying to cross the wall. some shot by guards, others died from accidents. we have lots of nice weather around the bay area for this weekend with some clear skies and sunshine during the days with warm temperatures but we have some changes coming our way out as much for tomorrow has been gone to tuesday and wednesday tonight we have clubs pushing their way into the greater bay area and clouds early on in the day tomorrow but warmer temperatures in the afternoon ladies and the warmest places we have the storm moving and will bomb temperatures down as to go through this week and you'll see some stronger offshore winds starting tuesday and then some heavy fog tuesday and wednesday mornings with drizzle at that point will cool things off pretty dramatically and then we have this storm system meandering at the coast with a little light rain late wednesday night and into thursday morning and right now rainfall amounts only look like o

at that point the east german government was absolutely and morally bankrupt collapsed and unification was able to happen. it was something the citizens deserve all the credit for, paula. >> tell us quickly what's going on behind you. we have that trubant, which is the east german car that took so long for them to take possession of, 12 or 13 years. >> reporter: 14. >> we have a cnn -- >> we have a -- >> you're asking people on the streets of berlin to autograph it. >> reporter: yeah, exactly. i have certain rules. i am german. i have to make rules. they sign their name and they sign the city or the country that they're from. as you can see, the trubant has several colors. i'm asking them to sign on the black in silver. on the white on the top -- this has to happen in an orderly fashion because i, of course, am german as well. you're absolutely right. what we did, we customized the trubant. we are asking people to sign it. there are two reasons. one is because we want to make it a truly international cnn trubant. people sign their names. but also if you look at the wall from back then,

after unification, there was jubilation and people were happy that the two germanys were united. people who were very unhappy. a lot of east germans who lost their jobs and west germans were not happy because they had to pay a lot of money to bring east germany back up to speed. the factories went bankrupt, there were no highways, the rail system was a disaster. germany paid more than a trillion dollars to get the east back up to speed. that's a huge sum of money for a country this size. many people were not happy with it but now people certainly will say, at least most of them will say that it was worth it. the effort and money that was put into it were certainly worth it. now 25 years later, germany once again a very big economic power house doing very well at this point in time. >> we do have to go. really quickly, i can't our viewers not see the amazing car behind you. >> the car. all right. let's -- this is -- it is -- i know we have to go. i want to say this is a travant 601 station wagon. and the s stands for sport. what we have done is we had an artist paint all over it a

. >> no unification in the country. the country is fracturing. >> you're absolutely right.ith every word you say. >> collision course with chaos. go. >> but you could either throw in the towel and say, we can't do anything about it. or you can take the steps that this woman suggests as at least a start. and even the examples you gave about not reading books and all that, i totally agree. if you o're a parent, you say, read a book. i don't want to know what your friends do. i don't want to know that this is peer pressure. but it would help if the parents also read a book so they can see their parents reading a book. >> just getting these people outside, you almost have to lasso and pull them out and say look at the trees. >> i don't believe i heard you come up with any solution. >> my solution is -- >> i'm saying parenting is at least a first step. >> my solution is to go back to the 18th century and the pony express. that's how we get our information. >>> when we come back, it will be miller time. hillary clinton's money. >> if i can't jump into my gases guzzling bmw and dr

on the one hand easterners were not living as well as western cousins and brothers, even after unification, and many of them distrusted their new fellow citizens and the largest european union that they were bombing a part of. right wing politicians play an fear and distrust. it's no different in east germany or anywhere else. >> i agree with germany. i want to stress if you look at the countries of eastern europe, they look like countries of europe, latin america, who were at their stage of economic development. these are normal middle income countries with the problems of middle income countries. transformation is not pretty. there has been a lot of corruption. if you look, living standards increased, life expect si increased across the region and in russia, if you look at living space, people are living in bigger houses than they have. if you compare poland and the baltics to spain, greece or italy. the differences are less than we would have expected, given the level of socialism. >> do you think capitalism came too fast? >> the data is convincing that the countries conducting economic

east because easterners were not living as well as their western cousins and brothers even after unification, and many distrippeded the new fellow systems. right wing play on fear and distrust. it was no different in east germany as anyone else. >> i agree with germany. if we look at the countries of eastern europe and the baltic states, they look like countries of latin america at their stage of economic development. people with middle income countries, with all the problems of middle income countries. transformation is not pretty. we look at what has changed. if we look at. >> if we compare the baltic states, the differences are less than we would have expected, given the legacy of socialism. >> do you think capitalism came too vast? >> the data is convincing. those that suffered reforms are those that saw the drops in g.d.p. per capita, and did their best engendering economic growth. those countries were unwilling to introduce economic reforms, choosing graduate paths where the cost is higher. the evidence is clear. former soviet gasha chov says the -- gorbachev says the world is on the b

anthony is an emmy award winning photographer who covered the fall for time magazine, and covered the unification of germany in the two decades that followed. >> must have been an incredible time for you. as a cuban exile my family left communism. i remember watching that. it was a greats moment of my life. you say it was a story of a lifetime for you. >> absolutely. as an american, 50% of the world was off limits. for us it was the opening of the other half of the world. >> this followed a haphazard lifting of restrictions in germany, having thousands of east germans go to the wall, and thousands of west germans too. what was the atmosphere like on those days. >> i arrived on november 10th, after the wall oddly unofficially opened, and people were passing through the wall in crowds. i went immediately to the brandenburg gate. there were crowds - people on balconies. the streets were full. cars were coming across. it was a big celebration that you can imagine. >> you took a famous photo. let's see if we can put it up, a picture showing west germans up on top of the wall, which you see the east ge

i remember the german representative there saying we will never see german unification many my lifetimethen we went on to east berlin after that, and we were set up with meetings with young members of the communist party in east germany because the embassy thought this was going to be the future of east germany for the foreseeable future. absolutely nobody in the state department at that time really understood what was about to happen. >> everyone who was alive then remembers the emages. describe what that moment signified for germany as a whole? >> well, i think that the paradigm completely shifted because previous to the whole existence of the west had been under the threat by the massive soviet military machine where you had divisions in the outskirts that we had been planning against for the previous two generations, and all of a sudden that entire structure was dissolving. i think the possibility of democracy spreading not just in germany, but throughout eastern europe and to other parts of the world became a really live possibility. >> and the wall, it is really a simple fear of t

i believe family unification is consistent with u.s. immigration policy. at the same time, we've got to maintain border security. we can't have policies that operate as a magnet for future illegal migration. i believe there are ways that, a new of policy priorities have been implemented and coexistent with one another. that's what i have to say. >> final thoughts? anything we didn't cover you want to get out before you go? >> um -- i'm new to -- i was new to immigration law and policy. when i came into this job, you know before that national security law, fiscal law. i still deal with fiscal law. i've been disheartened and disappointed with how volatile the issue has become in american politics. i hope that people will look at immigration reform from a common sense point of view. what makes common sense? what's practical? what's pragmatic? i hope that through the good work of your organization simon and others and speeches i will continue to make, people will recognize the great strides we've made in border security over the last 10 to 15 years in this adm

. >> there is no unification in the country much the country is fracturing. >> you are absolutely rightth every word you said. >> coalition course with -- collision course with chaos. >> you could either throw in the towel and say we can't do anything about it or you can take the steps that this woman suggests as at least a start even the examples you gave. even the examples you gave about not reading books and all of that. i totally agree as you said. if you are a parent, you say read a book. read a book. i don't want to it know what your friends do. i don't want to know that this is peer pressure. i'm telling you read a a book. it would also help if the parents also read a book so they could see the parents reading a book. >> just getting these urchins outside, you almost have to lasso them and pull them out look at the trees beautiful changing. >> i don't believe i heard you come up with any solution. >> i'm saying parenting is at least a first step. >> my solution is to at least go back to the 18th century pony express how we get our information. >> come right back it, will be mille