washington? this slide didn't turn out particularly well as it translated but this is an 1862 map of the city of washington. the capitol is often seen as an anonymous city, one whose history wouldn't necessarily tell us anything useful about anywhere else besides itself. this is largely because washington is entirely a creature of the federal government. it didn't spring up as an industrial hub, it isn't a state, it is an oddball. the federal district and the city of washington itself were invented by the united states government the ways that it wasn't, and in particular in its relationship to congress, it is a particularly interesting and telling place to study. and i just want to -- i know this might be a little hard to orient on this map because it doesn't actually represent the city we know now i'm going to point out a few landmarks. the first is the capitol, there's the white house. that is where the washington monument is and you can see that mall as we know it now beyond that would be the lincoln memorial, that is a landfill, so it

washington? it did not to not particularly well as translated by 1862 map of the city of washington the capital is seen as a city one whose history would not tell us anything useful about anything else beds it did not spring up as the industrial cloud it is not a state but it is the oddball. of the city of washington himself plays by the constitution under the exclusive jurisdiction of congress. but i find the unique status makes washington's history all the unique and more interesting. specifically about the civil war worth affairs collided with local sparks in citizens attended sessions of congress and congressmen road and streetcars and a large as questions of the civil war era questions about slavery quality of the role of government in the lives of citizens played out in washington in. and following normal patterns in the ways that it was not secure in your relationship it is a particularly interesting and telling place to study. i know it may be hard to orient ourselves because it does not represent the city that we know now so i will point* out a few landmarks. here is the white hous

it's all to put money into the washington city paper. as you may recall, dan schneider is suing the washington city paper because of its coverage of his team over the last season. he said he didn't like the column and he said an illustration that went along with that article was antisematic. the idea for this fundraiser is bill, come on in. he is the owner of madame oregon where the fundraiser is being held from 7:00 to 10:00. why did you come up with this idea? >> again, i was down in costa rica. i think that the guy is a bully. i mean, last year i probably should have done the same thing when we heard about the old lady that couldn't afford her season tickets and the offices are right behind me and i think it's time for him to stop and what better day than april fools day to celebrate the fool of the town and let people come out and take a wac at him for a good cause? >> taking on dan schneider, you probably have to have some deep pockets. how much money are you hoping to raise for the city paper? >> we should raise a couple thousand b

. >>> redskins owner dan snyder and washington city paper are at it again. this time it is over a blog post from reporter accusing dan snyder failing to replant trees that he cut down for his view in his mansion in potomac. dan demanded they fire mckenna. scott broom is looking into this today. >> reporter: this is dan's hill top mansion overlooking the potomac river where he cut down more than 130 trees to improve the view. dan snyder pledged to replant the trees. now five years later the washington city paper reports that dan snyder never replanted trees. well, not exactly according to what you can see below the house. >> that's the area. >> reporter: on the hillside are dozens and dozens of plastic sleeves marking the spots where trees have been replanted. >> those tubes are trees. they were trees but they just haven't taken and why i don't know. >> reporter: park visitors find the results less than spectacular. >> if they cut trees then they should be replaced. >> reporter: but the park service does confirm the plantings have been done. what has not been

it is not an easy is coming from a relatively small blue state in the southeast to the big city of washington, to the capital city, dealing with major significant organizations and persons that you read and hear about so from that perspective, it has been somewhat of a challenge. at what i think it has given me and a very solid foundation to know and to affirm what the people on the ground think. i spent 11 years on my state commission. i spoke with consumers. i took part in evidentiary hearings. i would hear them on the stand. i read testimonies, testimonies and filings from companies. that gives you a very unique perspective that you cannot forget especially after 11 years of service. those types of experiences i bring to this post and it helps me in terms of decision-making, in terms of my processing and i think it is a benefit. >> guest: you have also talked about i think that you feel you have a role to play in defending some disadvantaged populations. talk about that a little bit. i mean do you feel that you do have a special -- that you are on the commission for a reason and you have a

and so i figured that maybe the story was going to be washington and mexico city. so i moved to washington. three years later, september 11 comes around, there's no mexico story. i mean, there's no real us policy to mexico. and i returned to mexico, and my first assignment was to cover the women of juarez-- you know, who was killing the women of juarez? >> hinojosa: and right now we're talking about, in terms of the women who have been murdered in the city of juarez, which is on the mexico side of the border... >> right, right across el paso, texas. >> hinojosa: right across. and we're talking about 400-plus women now? >> i mean, some estimates have it as over 300, some say 400. most of them... i mean, the vast majority of the cases have never been solved, just li, yo know, most crimes in mexico. and it was then that i realized, "wow," you know, "this is a different mexico." >> hinojosa: so that was a time span of what, like, maybe five years? >> no, a span in time of three years. i mean, from 2000 to 2003. and what happened, i think, is the pri... i mean, you had a

someone taking a cheap shot -- i just want to say the city of washington, well when i read my paper i see violent criminals. right here in my own city. there's one that shot and killed his own son, he was a caucasian male. so you know, this tax they try to throw on us. but every time an african-american comes on you hear something like that. i think you're doing a great job and forget about violence started with slavery, jim crow, klan law, all that type of activity. so it's not like we have a monopoly on crime. one thing i would like to ask you, when the drugs started coming into the black community, a lot of people at the time believe that it was intentionally put in the block community so they could destroy themselves. i think now all that's getting into their city, kids getting on weapons and things. host: thanks jeffrey. anything you want to add there? guest: no, i think what i want to simply reiterate is we are seeing a reduction of violent crime and we're working to try to stem that. we've gone from 400 homicide in the city down to about 140 plus. obvious think that's a 140 plu

but the deal incensed city officials who complained they weren't even consulted. washington'sor vincent gray and six city council members blocked constitution avenue near the capitol to demonstrate their anger and were briefly arrested. speaking to the "newshour" later that week, gray said the budget deal was just the latest example of congresses and presidents casually meddling in the district's affairs. >> it just appears to me that the district of columbia was thrown under the bus in terms of reaching that compromise. and we're sick and tired of being treated like second class citizens in this country. >> reporter: since the nation's founding, washington has existed as a hybrid political entity. until 1964, residents could not even vote in presidential elections. it took a constitutional amendment to bestow that right. a few years later, congress granted limited "home rule" allowing d.c. voters to elect a mayor and city council, but required all legislation, including the city's budget, be subject to congressional approval. washingtonians's push for washingtonians' push for

. >> reporter: in the united states, boston, new york city, washington, d.c., miami, new orleans, and los angeles, just some of the places that face the threat of greater storm surges, flooding and coastal erosion. scientists cite two main causes for rising sea levels. a warming climate that is heating the ocean and causing the volume of water to expand, and melting land ice sheets and glaciers adding to the total amount of water in the oceans. >> sea level is rising. and of the sea level that we look at today, one-third of that comes from warming of the ocean. the other two-thirds come from adding water to the ocean. >> reporter: nasa satellites have shown that since 1993 global sea levels are rising at an average of 1.2 inches per year. that doesn't sound like much, but when you add in other factors such as local gravity and ocean currents, sea level rise can vary, greatly influenced by the geology of the region. horton uses sediment cores to create a timeline that goes back thousands of years, long before sea levels were recorded by instruments to gain an idea of how sea levels and

it happened in the washington state city of vancouver.rgency crews are still searching -- sifting through that, looking through possibly more victims. and children are among the missing. >>> last week's warehouse fire at the apple plant in watsonville took a deadly toll on wildlife. fish and game says hundreds of fish in the nearly watsonville slew were killed. debris and soot from this burning warehouse filed into the water. foam used by firefighters may have also killed off some of the fish. this fire started wednesday, took firefighters two days to put it out. >>> a bicyclist found unconscious in the street in livermore, and police are now asking if anyone has information about this to call them. a 51-year-old man was found sunday morning about 2 a.m. at the intersection of murrieta and pine street. that man is in the hospital now, but police don't know how he was hurt because he is still unconscious. he wasn't wearing a helmet. he has severe he injuries. >>> pg&e is reportedly changing its position on spiking the pressure on natural g

ministry of education and science of germany such institutes also exist in london paris washington and other cities worldwide one of the main aims of the establishment in moscow is for the research into russian and german history it also specializes in cooperation between young scientists from the two countries and the whole story projects in various studies and publishing defend it would be a pyrrhic we have a library here which opens in two thousand and five a murderer in thirty thousand books in its archive we don't have any fiction because most of our visitors are people who study history and science properly and we can provide material being used for the research and work. the people of various constructions the places to gather and worship the first new friends came to the russian capital in the sixteenth century and many of them were german crossman and merchants they started a church here and by the beginning of the twentieth century the congregation of the evangelical lutheran cathedral simply said i'm cool council the first seventeen thousand people fourteen thousand of whom were germans

. >> reporter: springtime blushes in washington. the city'sspiring shades of pink from blooms to beverages to bakeries. the iconic trees were a gift from japan in 1912, a country now dealing with the aftermath of a massive earthquake and tsunami. >> nearly 100 years later, this gift of friendship and peace endures. >> when the quake struck on march 11th, festival organizers were in the homestretch of planning just about two weeks to go before opening day. >> our first reactor was to make sure our friends and people we work with in japan were fine. the next thing was to sit down and think about how we can stop and pause and reflect. >> they've been taking donations through the official festival web site and open the festival with an evening walk around the city's tidal basin. the uptick in foot traffic and revenue from an estimated one million cherry blossom visitors usually puts a spring in the step of washington's restaurants and merchants. this year, many have opted to give something back. at krums for example, 15% of the proceeds from sales

someone taking a cheap shot -- i just want to say the city of washington, well when i read my paper isee violent criminals. right here in my own city. there's one that shot and killed his own son, he was a caucasian male. so you know, this tax they try to throw on us. but every time an african-american comes on you hear something like that. i think you're doing a great job and forget about violence started with slavery, jim crow, klan law, all that type of activity. so it's not like we have a monopoly on crime. one thing i would like to ask you, when the drugs started coming into the black community, a lot of people at the time believe that it was intentionally put in the block community so they could destroy themselves. i think now all that's getting intoheir city, kids getting on weapons and things. host: thanks jeffrey. anything you want to add there? guest: no, i think what i want to simply reiterate is we are seeing a reduction of violent crime and we're working to try to stem that. we've gone from 400 homicide in the city down to about 140 plus. obvious think that's a 140 plus t

looking city-wide when you went to washington, d.c., imagining the south side and the sunset as well. i have been trying to hammer home that we expect to be a transit first city, and often, we have fewer options for transit in district 11, four, and 10. to have that understood and it titillated by other members of this body is, to me, really gratifying. supervisor mirkarimi: consider this the new mantra. ok, executive director, please. >> mr. chairman, commissioners, good morning. before i get into the meat of my report, let me take a second to add to the discussion for a second. first of all, to thank the chair and commissioners campos and cohen for making the time to do this kind of a trip to d.c., which was essentially 48 hours and a lot of time spent on airplanes. hardly a tourist trip. a lot of action in a couple of days. to reinforce also the impression that i got in feedback from members of the administration and others that i work with on an essentially regular basis about how involved and how aware of details and of projects, expectations, and so on the members of my board ar

a mosque in some for iraq the focal point of anti-government resistance in the city this comes as experts condemn washington saying sanctions and support for the opposition can only make the situation in syria words. fighting for the soldiers activists demand an end to the severe bullying in the russian army that sees many young recruits falling victim to their own comrades the committee of soldiers and mothers and says get the ministry of defense is not doing enough to stop the brutality. and authorities in new york are accused of chasing the buck right out of people's pockets into the city coffers with heavy penalties for petty offenses fines are levied on everything from picking garbage or from a dust painted to riding a bike in the park. you're watching our team from moscow. hello and welcome to moscow out this week the president be taking a look at the subject of fitness. it's not just about the typical gym and traditional sports there are now dozens of calorie busting activities that both muscovites ex-pats can both enjoy such as this activity. if you're looking for an alternative workout and welcome

washington d-c... including many of the city's most popular tourist sites could close. n knapp is l >>> the threat of a federal government shutdown has wide reaching implications. much of washington, dc, including many of the city's most popular tourist sites could close. dan knapp live in vallejo where the civic lessons could hit some high school students pretty hard there. >> reporter: been another long day for the choir members of st. patrick's st. vincent high school here in vallejo. they are doing double duty singing in the choir tonight of les miserable. they hope a federal government shutdown doesn't ruin everything when they get to washington, dc, next week. >> they could use more of that. >> reporter: since september vallejo st. patrick's st. vincent high school choir has been working on its music for a national competition. working too for the money to pay for the trip to washington, dc. $50,000. >> all my close friends are going. it will be exciting to share this experience with them too and i think we all deserve it. we have worked really hard. >> reporter: t

it's needed not just at the corner of washington and presidio but needed all over the city. right now this is the one place that can facilitate and help such needs we have in the city. i'd like to make one correction i heard earlier. in front of the booker t. on presidio street is a place where the street widens, it doesn't narrow. after you leave sutter and go towards bush street then it begins to narrow. i just want to correct that for the record. again, i'm here to let you know i don't want to get in the specifications of the attorneys and the planners do that but this is a good project and we might as well use what money we have to the maximum efficiency. and i say, again, i'm also on the board of directors. i'm the pressurer. please support this project. thank you. >> thank you. we have no more speaker cards. is there any additional public comment at this time? >> good evening. my name is lorel dean. i'm the middle school coordinator for booker t. washington. but besides that, i was born and raised in the city, the western addition, and i've been a part of it my whole l

his body found nearly 300 miles north of crescent city on a beach near the oregon/washington border.is the first west coast resident killed by a tsunami since 1964. >>> a february trial date is set for two teenagers accused of killing a classmate. randy thompson and jay williams are charged as adults for the 2009 murder of 15-year-old michael russell. williams, thompson and russell were all friends at santa teresa high school. but in november of 2009, prosecutors say williams and thompson stabbed russell and left him to die at his home. thompson and williams who were 16 and 15 respectively at the time, have pleaded not guilty. >>> the way you get into nightclub events could change by the end of the night. they're talking about making you swipe your driver's license to enter and forcing people to provide video to police on command. they're hoping to make night life in the city a little safer. the civil liberties group say they're going too far. >>> the police department lost a civil lawsuit to two of their own. two officers were awarded $2 million after complaining they got warnings a

a lot more effective paying attention to the business of the ways and means committee in washington for the city. so, ed has a strong sense of justice. would seem to be the right managerial decision. but at the same time in terms of the politics of the city, in terms of the politics of race in the city, it was a decision that political thought that the 6.0 is a would have cost to fix up the hospital, which eventually actually they spent more in an affluent time someone spent a six-month dollars and there's a clinic that lumbee runs in the basement of what is now condos. >> it was a very painful moment in time. you have to understand that new york city then had seven people -- city hospitals and no other city in the country, chicago, l.a., any city had more than one. we had 17. and as was alluded to a moment ago, the payment to the hospitals by the city, unlike in the private sector, a hospital can't manage its bills, it goes into bankruptcy. the city hospitals new we would bail them out with city tax funds. and that's what we did. and jonathan conveyed it was an enormous impacting aspect, which

today, powerful winds and large hail could hammer several major cities, including philly, washington, and atlanta. >>> the government's color-coded terror alert system officially bites the dust today. the department of homeland security will announce the new system, which will involve sending out alerts via twitter and facebook. we'll get full details this morning on "good morning america." >>> as we mark the first anniversary of the worst oil spill in u.s. history, federal officials are presenting some updated information today about the safety of the seafood from the gulf. >>> there's new hope this morning for an idaho miner trapped since friday. rescue workers late last night discovered there's an open space near where he was working. but they've not heard from that miner since friday's rock fall. >>> president obama visits facebook's headquarters in california today. he'll participate in a live town meeting, taking questions from the site's hundreds of millions of members. mr. obama will discuss his plan for bringing down the deficit and creating jobs. >>> and jury selection begin

cities. >> washington, chicago, detroit, boston, new york, these are just a few of the cities in which thedr. king's murder presumably by a white man expressed itself in violent destruction. >> reporter: federal troops were called in to patrol the streets of the nation's ghettos. even to guard the capital in washington d.c. >> so far at least 19 persons have been killed. the annual award of the oscars in hollywood has been postponed as well as the opening game of the american league and the national league. >> reporter: yet as the fire storm raged, the person at the center of it all was making a quiet get-away. >> an all points bulletin for a well dressed young white man seen running from the scene. >> reporter: it took two months and the largest manhunt in u.s. history to track down the killer. james earl ray. yet even now the motives and the man behind the assassination remain very much a mystery. which is probably just how james earl ray would have wanted it. >> i describe ray a little bit like a squid. he puts up had ink cloud around him of all this complexity of personality. by the ti

george washington's entrance into new york city was the closest thing the winners the american revolutionad to a parade, and for a week, they celebrated the evacuation with feasts and fires and illuminations and fireworks. generations of new yorkers made this the november celebration of national togetherness, thanksgiving day. what if you department want to british to leave? mixed in the crowd, there were other less cheerful faces, the loyalist, colonists siding with britain in the war. the departure of the british troops spelled worry, not jubilation. during the war, tens of thousands of loyalists moved for safety into new york and other british held cities. the british withdrawal now raised urgent questions about their future. what kind of treatment could they expect in the new united states? would they be jailed? would they be attacked? would they retain their property or hold their jobs? confronting real doubts about their lives, liberty, and potential happiness in the united states, 60,000 loyalists decided to take their chances and follow the british elsewhere into the british empir