This week on Moyers Company sports, not just reflects our lives, but actually shapes our lives. I mean, it shapes our understanding of things like racism, sexism, homophobia. It shapes our understanding of our country. It shapes our understanding of corporations and whats happening to our cities. I mean, in so many different ways, sports stories are stories of American Life in the 21st century. Announcer funding is provided by Carnegie Corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. The kohlberg foundation. Independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. The clements foundation. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t.
The clements foundation. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Anne gumowitz. The betsy and jesse fink foundation. The hkh foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Let us now praise common sense. Once again a president was about to plunge us into the darkest waters of Foreign Policy where the ruling principle becomes, when in doubt, bomb someone. Strategists in the white house, militarists in the think tanks, the powerful proisrael lobby aipac, and armchair warriors of all strip
Than weve seen in months. The spillway above fairfax in marin county flows in alpine lake and then lake loganitas. Some 20 inches of rain fell this weekend the highest rain total anywhere in the bay area. Meterologist has more on the impressive rain totals but lets begin live in orinda where a tree toppled over and that had people in one building fearing for their safety. Christina . Reporter we can tell you that just minutes ago really this crew just wrapped up and finished their work here. They had been going on four hours of cleaning up that tree and they are just thankful no one was hurt. Chunks of an old oak are being chopped up and taken down piece by piece. This massive tree just couldnt handle the soft saturated soil causing it to topple around noon on this office complex. Just the whole building was shaking, you know . Like the windows were shaking, doors were shaking, floor was shaking. Dr. Robert huey was inside the building treating a patient and thought he was experiencing
Only sprint offers truly unlimited data. I knew she was gone. I knew she left and right then i knew my day is not going to be the same. A mothers grief is visible tonight as she talks for the very first time about the fire that took the life of her young daughter. Good evening everyone im heather holmes. And im ken wayne. About 500 people showed up on the fire. Reporter five family members made it out of this charred apartment this weekend. 10yearold corlina godfrey did not. That was my baby. And all i keep thinking about i heard her cry. Reporter her daughters cries will haunt not only her family but many in this crowd of neighbors who ran to the apartment as fire raged saturday morning and wanted to save the trapped child but couldnt. I thought i got all the kids out. Didnt know she was the only one still out there. And now as a parent i feel bad that i wasnt able to go back in there and get her because they wouldnt let me back in. Reporter corlina godfrey was a fourth grader. Corlin
If somebody does contract ebola and becomes symptomatic, they will be handled in just like youve seen on the recent ones who came back on an aircraft that was specially designed to bring them back. Theyll go back to one of the centers that is specially designed to handle the ebola. Heres how one of the 4,000 u. S. Troops being sent there describes the mission. Setting up warehouses to make sure that all the stuff that the doctors need gets in country, to build some facilities they need to treat patients and help americans feel a little safer. Were going over there to help the people of liberia deal with this deadly virus so they wont come back over to the states. Now, the pentagon has been very adamant that no u. S. Troops will have direct contact with ebola patients. They will build the facilities that nonmilitary Health Care Workers will staff. But a few dozen military techs will be testing specimen samples from suspected ebola victims. Zoo t the numbers in the lab, between a three a