minute. 880, traffic looks good between 880 and 101, only a 13 minute ride. a look at 580 in a minute. faculty at california state university will vote on whether to go on strike. they are seeking bigger raises and say negotiations have stalled. kpix 5 s jackie warren is at the east bay campus, one of the places where they re supposed to be about. reporter: faculty members are already saying they ve had enough because of what they think are unfair salaries. starting at 9:00 this morning, the strike authorization vote will be online and in person. faculty association president jennifer e in says that wages are why the 25,000 members are ready to strike. the cfa want of 5000 generally assembly increased as well as 2.56% service increase for eligible faculty. csu management is presenting a 2% salary increase, the proposed increase proves that confrontation remains what they say is a top priority according to the csu spokesperson who says, quote, faculty with human group of e
castroville. pg&e says power was restored by 2:00 this morning. in southern california, hundreds of cars remain stuck in mud as crews work to dig them out. from the sky you get a better impact of thursday s 30 minute torrential downpour where 3 inches of rain turned a normally dry landscape into a mud pit. 1800s, as you can see, stranded. truck driver david noe was one of them. i ve been through hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, that this is a first for me after 31 years of driving. reporter: highway 58 is a major trucking route and is expected to remain shut down for at least a few more days. my sister drove down to venture on friday and it took 12 hours. the 5 was closed, she had to snake down 101. it was a mess. but that was the grapevine. it s happening in two different places. on my way back it s still closed down and i ended up seeing places of california i never knew existed. took me nine hours yesterday. this is one of the places i ended up having to drive thro
refuge in oregon. saturday -an armed milita took over the headquarters building. ammon bundy.the sone of nevada rancher cliven bundy is among the dozens of people now occupying the area of federal property. you might recall -the bundy family along with supporters were involved in an armed confrontation with bureau of land management officals back in 20-14. the heated standoff was over unpaid grazing fees on federally owned land in southern nevada. (((ammon bundy/rancher: now this refuge here is rightfully owned by the people and we intend to use it. )) ((mauricio marin)) saying they want the land and resources for ranching, logging and mining recreation. the group is also protesting a decision by a federal judge to resentence 73 year old dwight hammond and his 46-year- old son steven. the ranchers were convicted of arson 3 years ago and served time, but a judge ruled their sentences werent long enough. ((protester: its clearly double jeopardy. theyve already served their ti
weeks. folks came together to the common good to take care of the miners. that s when we all stand and looked at each other and say this was a win. marie: according to officials, no new york workers were hurt in this incident. but until they know what went wrong with the elevator, the mine will remain closed. reed: we have some developing news in the war on terror today. marie: kimberly sutters takes it from here from the terrorism alert desk. reporter: from the terrorism alert desk in washington i m kimberly suitors. an american is arraigned on charges for plotting an attack on a u.s. base in afghanistan. prosecutorsay mohammed mahmoud planned to attack the base back in 2009. he was born in texas and joined al qaeda in pakistan in 2007. isis has executed a female syrian journalist. they used her facebook account she was a prominent journalist reporting from syria. while she was captured and executed in september the terrorist group kept the slaughter a secret until t
man: it is frustrating for everybody, the people who pay that are at the money they thought they were getting a good deal. is a good deal that people should watch out for. man: i was a cross reference the property. if it is too good to be true, 99 percent of the time it is. and all she wants now is justice and she hopes police will find him. woman: i want my money back. because of him, my family could be homeless again. i want him to step up and turn himself in. anchor: if you have any information on comito or someone who may have been a victim, call crime stoppers. remember, you can always leave an anonymous tip. and on to the weather where we saw the sun, rain, and even hail today. is right. [screaming] is your weather authority, and a lot of people are out trying to buy the powerball tickets and prim or on the arizona border, actually. it was downright cold. virtually weather continues for tonight. overcast skies outside the evening, and we are continuing t
president answered questions. some of the highlight came from those concerned that any expansion of gun law would with mean their gun rights are gone. i just want to repeat that there s nothing that we ve proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm. reporter: still others thought what s the point, people who want to commit crimes are going to commit crimes, so gun control is futile. how are we going to get them to follow the laws? crime is always going to be with us. so i think it s really important for us not to suggest that if e we can t solve every crime we shouldn t try to solve any crime. reporter: in the end, the president and both advocates and critics covered everything from background checks to the idea that the administration was plotting to confiscate americans gun, something obama called a conspiracy theory. his argument for gun control is this. if we can combine gun safety with sensible background checks going today limb nailt gu
appreciate that. so once they start reading the constitution, especially the declaration of independence, which is a wonderful document, we re pretty well hooked. ralph abraham, louisiana fifth district. thanks for being with us on c-span. thanks very much. this weekend on the c-span networks, politics, books, and american history. on c-span saturday at a 6:00 p.m. eastern. hurricane katrina s 10th anniversary. speakers include bill clinton and mitch landreau. and on our road to the white house coverage, speeches from democratic candidates hillary clinton and bernie sanders at the democratic national committee summer meeting in minneapolis. on c-span2, book tv on saturday at 10:00 eastern on afterwards author peralta talks to immigration recorder liz robins about his book undocumented. it traces his adjourn from an undocumented immigrant to the top of his class at princeton university. several programs about the storm and its aftermath featuring haley barbour and ronn
hurricane katrina featuring hayley bauer barber. , a few minutes past 2:00 p.m., don thomas discusses the history of space stations, compared the development of russia and american programs since the 1950 s, and look at the future of evidence. appointment in tokyo is a u.s. army single core film documenting the course of world war ii through the japanese invasion of the philippines through december 2, 1945. get the complete schedule at c-span.org. history tv serican america brings you films. whiting, indiana, is a must and golf in flames and smoke as an oil refinery runs amok for more than two days on the shores of lake mission. it is almost impossible for firefighters. they are coming from all communities. in addition to the towering frames, a series of blasts rock the countryside. flames, a series of blasts rocked the countryside. despite heroic efforts, the explosions throw steel into the can beee, and the force seen from the cave in walls and windowless residences.
ms. swain: this is the woodrow wilson house in washington d.c., the home of our 28th president and former first lady edith wilson after they left the white house in 1921. you ll be seeing more of it over the next two hours as we tell the story of the two wilson administration first ladies, ellen and edith. ellen and woodrow met in their 20s and their love for each other was reflected in passionate letters. an accomplished artist as well as his intellectual companion, she helped guide his career from academia to politics. in adopting causes, she set an example for future first ladies. ellen wilson died in the white house just a year and a half into the president s term. the grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt through a mutual friend. they married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains one of the most controv
be an astronaut. i made it down there to work as an engineer for a few years. in 1990, i got selected by nasa to be an astronaut. omissions,our space i was on spatial colombia three times and spatial tout discovery wants. space, iose 44 days in got to go around the earth is 692 times. i can confidently tell you, i have seen your hometown, wherever you are from. i have seen it. we have a program tonight on space stations, a little bit about the history of space stations. i told you i flew on four space shuttle missions. i was actually assigned to four space shuttle missions, on one of the space station missions. on the sixth crew, number six going up to the space stations. back in 2002. i trained for 2.5 years, and two months before launch, one of the nasa doctors pulled me for medical reasons. i never made it to the space station but i trained extensively on it. i spent two years in russia in preparation for that. i also worked for three years as a space station program sci