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El 16 de julio de cada año se conmemora la Revolución de La Paz, realizada en la misma fecha del año 1809. Aquel día, los insurgentes se levantaron en contra del dominio español, es así que Pedro Domingo Murillo se reunía con otros revolucionarios, inspirados en la semilla emancipadora que habían sembrado la revolución francesa, la independencia estadounidense y el cerco a La Paz encabezado por Túpac Katari en 1781, para organizar lo que sería el levantamiento revolucionario y la pro...

Alexandros Washburn, the former chief planner for the City of New York who now leads Brooklyn-based design firm DRAW Brooklyn, has unveiled a plan to build a mixed used housing and manufacturing development in Red Hook. Called the Model Block, the plan aims to transform a vacant warehouse at 145 Wolcott Street into a 210-unit apartment complex with 65,675 s/f of light manufacturing space and 74,325 s/f of commercial space including restaurant, shops, maker space and creative office space. ALEXA...

>> but i remember when george w. bush went to a mosque, right after 9/11 and you applauded him for it and the whole world did, and i hope hell do that. but i want to ask you a tougher question, a deeper question about our relationship now to the muslim community in the united states. right now the muslim community is awesome! if a muslim family moved next door to me, i would be the happiest person in the world, because the chance of my kids getting in trouble just went way down. just went way do...

After 9/11 and you applauded him for it and the whole world did, and i hope hell do that. but i want to ask you a tougher question, a deeper question about our relationship now to the muslim community in the united states. right now the muslim community is awesome! if a muslim family moved next door to me, i would be the happiest person in the world, because the chance of my kids getting in trouble just went way down. just went way down, because they have high educational attainment, theyre your...

Family whenever we went to new york, the boys, to sean. he was just -- he -- i tell you, theres two sides to him. he could fire someone in a second. we prevented him from firing someone. there was a security guard, wouldnt letmy two boys on the field. of course, they didnt have passes -- >> larry, thank you. >> larry: he went up -- >> were out of time. larrys back tomorrow. time for anderson cooper and "ac 360." were live in port-au-prince keeping them honest. thousands of people are spending ye...

Nursing home, they have food, water, medicine. still a very sad place. these are indigent people but drastic improvement. >> good to know. ivan, one of the things -- did you this report tonight on this model community, so-called, outside of port-au-prince, which is the hope to try to get people out of this city. its a lot more complicated getting people out of these makeshift camps. its a lot more complicated than many of us realize. i mean, theres the question of not just the rubble and removin...

Youve got back there. how is it now? >> nursing home destroys, more than 60 senior citizens, sitting outside, no food, no water, no medicine, adult diapers, no one changing them. we went back six months later. now theres been money donated, fixed up their nursing home. back inside the nursing home. they have food, water, a medicine. still a very sad place. these are indigent people but drastic improvement. >> good to know. ivan, one of the thing -- you did this report tonight on this model commu...

Its where haitis government plans to build a model community thats going to be a blueprint for future rebuilding. >> reporter: this is what is supposed to be a model camp for earthquake survivors. an angry resident accusing the camps british director of corruption and theft, charges he quickly denies. >> the people are desperate, theyre hungry. we know because of the lack of economic activity here weve given food distributions but they run out very quickly. the people are traumatized, the people...

Drastic improvement. >> good to know. ivan, one of the things -- did you this report tonight on this model community, so-called, outside of port-au-prince, which is the hope to try to get people out of this city. its a lot more complicated getting people out of these makeshift camps. its a lot more complicated than many of us realize. i mean, theres the question of not just the rubble and removing that and clearing building sites but also trying to figure out who owns the land has turned out to ...

Exactly six months to the day after the earthquake, a pretty scary moment in haiti, a summer storm ripped through the primary relocation camp set up by the government. more than 300 tents collapsed, injuring six people. it played out in a remote area where there are hardly any jobs, no schools and no hospitals. its where haitis government plans to build a model community thats going to be a blueprint for future rebuilding. so far its not going all that well. heres ivan watson. >> reporter: tempe...