vertical and layered. then new york does an entire city was built in 65 years. tokyo was reduced to rubble at the end of world war ii. and the only building standing was buildings left standing. and in 65 years, that city has been billed to what is today. the country has been billed to what is today. that was just really kind of eye opening to me. a testament to human work and what can be accomplished in the short amount of time. >> is there anything about this film that you mentioned will be controversial inside japan? to my read of it i have not seen that as of yet but it is always fascinating how when a movie comes out about two countries, about a piece of history, and that history gets interpreted and it comes out in one country, someone does not like the way they are being portrayed. >> i think that will be the case on both sides. tavis: tell me more. >> when it comes to making movies, you know, ultimately, you're trying to tell a story that is cohesive and hopefully very moving and potentially thought-provoking and you are using a moment in time, in histor

25,000 white lights on 300 of the vertical cables and it will light up each night for the next two years, from sundown to 2:00 a.m. >> new this morning out of new york city, a baby delivered after his parents were killed in a brooklyn hit-and-run crash has died. police are still searching if the driver and passenger of the bmw that broadsided a taxicab killing the child's parents much the crash happened yesterday. the wife was 24 weeks pregnant and on the way to the hospital because she could no longer feel the baby. doctors delivered the boy by c-section and a hospital spokesman confirmed that the baby passed away around 5:30 this morning. >> a just released survey shows most economist oppose the automatic spending cuts taking effect on friday when congress and the president could not compromise on a plan do cut the firm deficit. 56 percent say reduction should be achieved mostly through spending cuts and half say the cuts should focus on entitlement programs. 95 percent say congress needs to reform the tax code and three quarters call for sightly increasing the tax revenue. >> cardinals are gathering in rome to begin a process to pick the next pope. co

city side of the moat, demarest found the earth built up into a long, steep incline. demarest: see how steep this is right now, how difficult to come up. it was probably originally almost vertical. and it would have been much more difficult if you had some maya up at the top hurling spears and rocks down on you. keach: the archaeologists think that for further protection there would have been a tall wooden fence on top of the embankment. demarest: this whole thing seems to almost like overkill. you know, the degree of defensive construction is beyond what you would have thought was necessary. i think it emphasizes how things by this point had fallen to pieces in this region. keach: demarest believes the moat and fortifications are evidence that the dos pilas empire was coming apart at the seams. demarest: the territory was more than double the size of a standard large maya kingdom. so administratively it was beyond the capability of normal maya political organization and military organization. keach: in a.d. 760, two of the conquered kingdoms stage a revolt. they capture the king of dos pilas, drag him from city to city, and then sacrifice him in the usual fashion. the killing

vertical scale we have points on the development index up to 250 points. the red column on the far right, goes up to 250 points. this is because the biggest city in the world up to the year 2000 was tokyo. according to a source i chose to use. the economist pocket book in figures. that assured me in the how to tokyo had 27-point. billion residents. it's the biggest city in the history of the year. so, 250-points, but 26.7 million people, means that 106,800 people would score you one point. new york city, in the year 2000, had 16.7 million people. so you divide that by 106,800 which consecutive gives you the blue column. that was easy, my score for the year 2000, because the answers were there for me nene economist world and figures. go back to very back into the past. how about the year 1900? in that year some debate among historians but most agree london was the biggest city in the world. london had about 6.6 million people roughly in the year 1900. divide that again by 106,800, and in 1900, the western core scored 61.8 points. biggest city in the east in 1900 is tokyo again, 1.75 million people. divide by 106,800 people. tokyo scores 16.37 p