Showcase the history of madison, wisconsin. To learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit cspan. Org localcontent. We continue with our look at the history of madison, wisconsin. This is American History tv on cspan3. Welcome to wisconsins state capital. Were standing in the rotunda of the building. A this is the public area of the capital. This is where we have our parties and presentations. When you walk up, you will see a white stone building. That is stone we got from vermont. Stone from all over the world. Eight different states. Only a little bit of the stone is actually from wisconsin. A great big dome also covered with granite. We have the only state capital to completely cover the exterior in granite. We have a statue up on top. We call her wisconsin. On top of her helmet is a badger. We have wisconsin facing towards the nations capital. She weighs over 6000 pounds. Then we gave for that nice gold coat. As you look behind me, it says legislation. Artists created each
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Does cause cancer. Definitive new research from the World Health Organization. A bosnianserb arrested on war crime charges. Hundred was thousands of u. S. Government employees are heading back to work for the first time in more than two weeks. It follows the vote from Congress Wednesday night that approved raising the debt ceiling and reopening the government. President barack obama signed the bill into law in the early hours, but its only a temporary reprieve. The deal only funds the government until next year. Despite the talk of bipartisanship, democraties and republicans remain divided over budget issues. We are monitoring the stock exchange. First, lets go live to kimberly covering the political tussle in washington d. C. Kimberly, i guess now this deal must be breathing some life at least back into the government buildings around you. Indeed, you can see it on the roads heading into washington, d. C. This morning, packed for the first time in 16 days as more than 800,000 federal
Normal operations. New at 5 00, someone torched a memorial for the santa rosa teenager who was shot and killed by a Sonoma County sheriffs deputy. Christin ayers is there, and you just spoke to investigators. What did they tell you . Reporter firefighters actually just left the scene a few minutes ago. And i want you to take a look of whats left of the altar that was torched. Its in pieces there and slightly charred and behind that you can see bags of debris left over from this small fire that broke out early this morning. Firefighters are not yet calling this arson even as members of the community feel certain the fire was set on purpose. Firefighters were here for five hours where andy lopez was shot. They were inspecting the wooden altar that caught fire. It happened early this morning shortly after midnight. Firefighters recreating the scene collecting charred evidence but they say it is simply too early to tell exactly how the fire started. The display was something of obviously i