buffalo and then the president who created wichita mountains in oklahoma reserve for buffalo and one up in montana. >> one of the things you see throughout this center are stuffed animals. >> taxidermy -- roosevelt was d in taxidermy. his teacher in new york was a man named john bell who had been autobahn's student. there is a linkage there and young tr had asthma, very sickly, from eight years old onward was obsessed with birds. he created his own roosevelt museum, brian. he has his father, theodore roosevelt's father was the founder of the american museum of natural history in new york. and young tr was a bird lover. the first document we have is about birds. the last article he wrote before his death at age 60 was about birds. and i'm not saying he liked birds, he was one of the experts on color ration and variation on inventorying what we have and he created these bird reservations, 51 federal bird reservations that roosevelt created are the heart and soul of u.s. fish and wildlife. all the people watching this have heard of u.s. fish and wildlife but don't realize it all beg

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-indians believe the 60 million buffalo disappeared and went down the top of it. and left. roosevelt takes the times as resident to bring buffalo that he sponsored in the bronx, put them in a rail car back to oklahoma as a gift to the comanche to get the plains repopulated with buffalo. roosevelt romanticism is clear. he's child of the post civil war era, he saw north fight south, 600,000 dead. he believed the north messed it up. the american dream got messed up in the north because of hyper industrialization. philadelphia had sewage dumped in the rivers and smelled, wasn't healthy for you. the south was stigmatized due to slavery and racism. ist his eden was west of the mississippi river. in order to do it differently than the south and east you had to have free people, the principals of lincoln, but have cities like boulder, or austin, or portland, or eugene, that have green belts surround them. los angeles would bother him. he went to l.a. and said don't get too big. he wanted smaller size cities where you have universities and businesses surrounded by wilderness that you could go on da

enfrentar 4 aÑos en la cÁrcel. y ramos de 15 aÑos a cadena perpetua. univisiÓn. >>> en buffalo new york dieron a conocer este video, es impresionante, que se ve cuando un vehÍculo golpe brutalmente y le vaonts a un peatÓn, ejoven de 18 aÑos, cayÓ a varios metros de distancia y sufriÓ muchas lesiones el conductor hÓ del lugar, y estuvo incluso a escasas pulgas de el pagolpear a otras personas. y la policÍa pudo capturarloÁs tarde. >>> impresionante ¿cual es la nueva denuncia de soborno del escÁndalo de wal-mart en mÉxico? y laontroversia si mets romn >>> la hoja de vida de esta mujer capturada se reduce de manera singular segÚn policÍa. asesina profesional empleador. el grupo de narcotraficantes de los zetas salario, 1700 dÓlares mensuales, para matar personas. presentaron junto a ellas. y acusadas de o >>>periodista: raro una redd narcotrÁfico. no se acalla crece aÚn mÁs. la denuncia de sobornos vino de la universidad autÓnoma metropolitana de mÉxico. de la cash mexicana de anÚncianoss cuestionan la actuaciÓn del candidato d pri, a la presidencia de mÉxico. >>> un

buffalo herds or other reasons, and then other american indian groups came in by force called removal into this region. some came voluntarily into this area from the southeastern united states to avoid the expanding frontier. some were buffalo hunters, some were mixed-blood traders with spanish, german fur traders, spanish settlers, french, a few english, other indians, long before any kind of forced removal, and then in the indian removal act, enacted by congress in 1830, that allowed the president to institute policies that would move into this area, indians who occupied the eastern woodlands of the united states, to free that area up for settlement and pioneer settlement. it took awhile to abstain the louisiana purchase in 1803, and in congress the following year, authorized the federal government to encourage indian peoples to enter into this area west of the mississippi. >> why oklahoma? >> this was called indian territory and was established once the louisiana purchase territory was acquired. this was considered to be unoccupied. this was considered to be buffalo country, indian

pawn shop. find out what happens next. >>> runaway buffalo. a massive chase. as these animals get loose, the rush to catch this herd. >>> i'm bob turk. the first warning weather center. will it dry out for the preakness? i'll have the exclusive first warning five-day forecast. >>> and wjz 13 is always on. here are the top stories. for updates and all the day's news, and the updates any time, log onto wjz.com. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a massive fire destroys a warehouse in success. you can see the flames, shooting out of the roof. as many as 150 firefighters responded to the two-alarm blaze that began in a clothing store. no one was injured. the cause of the fire is under investigation. >>> a truck crashes into a colorado pawn shop. and now the search is on for the two people who ran from the wreckage. surveillance video shows the truck plowing through a brick wall of the store. police say one of the suspects left behind an article of clothing, which could help them solve the crime. but they are hoping the public will help them track the two guys down. >> so you've got an auto thef

get on a flight in buffalo. he was scheduled to fly a flight to new york. he may have had the gun with him for two days. back to you. >> peter, thank you very much. >> he was one of the key muslim leaders and trying to build a mosque in ground zero and found himself in a tidal wave of controversy. in his book, he hopes to move the conversation to a new vision of islam in america. welcome and great to have you here. >> pleasure to be with you. >> you are no longer connected with the project to build a mosque in ground zero, what happened there? >> it was a difference of opinion for me and the developers. my vision is alive and a space that can be where all religions can come together and build understand mutual respect which is the basis of a global peace today that. is my vision and i hope to do that. >> in your conversation with hundreds of americans and public officials. you do understand why there is sensitivity to build a mosque. you came away with a greater understanding. >> no doubt. i am sensitive to the concerns was everyone in the area in the 9/11 community . same thing many p

with the buffalo on top. roosevelt knew everything. what i'd like people to understand as president roosevelt didn't just know about, say, gray wolves or cougars, he was the world authority on them. in a science way. and george byrd grenell who is an undersung hero of merge co-founded the boone and crockett club with roosevelt and it was specifically formed in the late 1880s out in new york to save the big game of america, to save buffalo, antelope, deer, caribou from being exterminated. and they would commission articles and roosevelt would write them, see, this one's on elk. you can just turn -- and these are great old books that roosevelt got very involved in bringing out the boone and crockett club books and it was about gentleman hunters. they were working to save animals to shoot animals. and people have problems with that sometimes today. but it was the hunters of america that really formed the early conservation movement. it was done by field -- field and forest magazine and these -- what became "field and stream" magazine, but all of those sporting journals that started put

you'll have a chance of thunderstorms. same for pittsburgh and buffalo. this is probably the worst of it. look what happens as we head towards this upcoming weekend. things will clear out and really heat up. we could hit 90 degrees in washington, d.c. to start your memorial day weekend. so make your plans now to get near the pool or the lake. also in the southeast today, chance of some strong thunderstorms, watch out around atlanta, up to charlotte, back into knoxville, birmingham and montgomery. watch for strong thunderstorms late today. the other story, yesterday was 108 in phoenix, arizona. today some of that heat begins to spread. we'll be 93 in denver and 93 in dallas, so, you know, willie, this is probably the worst of it this week. the eastern seaboard will start to clear out a little bit after that. >> let's hope you're right. ugly out there. bill karins, thanks so much. >>> to sports now, the thunder with a chance to clinch its spot in the western conference finals in front of the home crowd hoping to get past kobe. third quarter, kobe with a steal, coast to coast for the dunk.

during the midmorning. back to the west, buffalo to pittsburgh, western new york and pennsylvania, you're going to have a chance of thunderstorms this morning as a cold front enters. you'll be in the low 80s and then thunderstorms will move in late in the day. nice in chicago. you had them last night. 66, that's it for chicago. this will probably be one of the cooler days you'll have for a long time. towards the end of the week, chicago, st. louis, memphis could easily have a couple of days in a row in the low 90s. enjoy the cole air while it lasts. >>> well, the new film "get hulked" at the box office. >>> plus, see how "saturday night live" said good-bye to cast member kristen wiig. bill is still crying about this one. your first look at entertainment is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. now you can apply sunblock to your kids' wet skin. neutrogena® wet skin kids. ordinary sunblock drips and whitens. neutrogena® wet skin cuts through water. forms a broad spectrum barrier for full strength sun protection. wet skin. neutrogena®. is important to any successf

. state seems there's a leadership void. >> it does indeed. thanks against here's jenna. >>> buffalo, new york, is normally a chilly place but a lot of people living there are hot under the collar these days over a health plan for teachers that lets them get all kinds of cosmetic surgeries for free, everything from face lifts to nose jobs to botox. here's nbc's ron allen. >> this includes tummy tucks, liposuction, even botox. >> reporter: the headlines are not as flattering as the treatment. a national magazine asking in disbelief, why does buffalo pay for its teachers to have plastic surgery? "the buffalo news" says it's a national embarrassment. but teacher brag says she's used the cosmetic coverage to get rid of a wrinkle or two and she claims buffalo teachers are among the lowest paid in the state and haven't had a raise in many years. they deserve a little something extra. >> it makes me feel like i'm prepared to go and teach and give my all. it's like a perk. >> it's more than just a perk. it's above and beyond. >> reporter: a perk that cost buffalo schools nearly $6 million. 9

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the cftc and they have about 600 employees. shooting at a herd of buffalo with a pea shooter there is absolutely that no way that the cftc or the sec can help police the markets when they are deprived of critical resources or given the authority to help constrict resources out of the private sector. that's a big that i think what has to come out of mf global. >> joel, i'm curious for you to weigh in on that. a lot of republicans in congress are trying to strip funding from injure agency while you're being saddled with more and more duties, responsibilities, rules. what's your feeling on the resource issue? >> i don't disagree with what harvey said. you can't deprive an agency of resources while we are being asked to impment, almost 100 new rules and have an enormous new responsibility for the otc swaps market. but we also should keep in mind that just four years ago when i came to the cftc, we had about 450 employees and now we have almost 750. the agency has grown quite rapidly. >> those duties haven't even kicked in yet. we have grown more than the agency has grown percentage wise i

herd benefit 250 buffalo managed to escape their pen. riders on horseback with guns firing have managed to chase down most of them. oh, look at the baby. >> and they say that unlike cattle, buffalo do move surprisingly fast. a few fences and fields were damaged as this wild scene unfolded. what's that song. ♪ where the deer and the buffalo roam ♪ why am i blanking? >> the deer and the antelope play. >> is that the name of the song? >> that's just more -- >> he didn't hear the question. "home on the range." thank you, though, father time for that. >>> coming up next -- what to buy when your graduate wants something high tech. >> and the field hockey battle involving a boy who wanted to play on the girls' team. will his team get to stay together? you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by the scooter store. [ female announcer ] tide pods three-in-one detergent. pop in the drum of any machine... ♪ ...to wash any size load. it dissolves in any temperature, even cold. tide pods. pop in. stand out. ♪ ♪ let's work together becau

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some rain in new england and central new england. definitely an umbrella day. cool rain from buffalo to sir ruse to burlington and new hampshire and maine. up through ohio valley, ohio to pittsburgh looks like a damp wet day for you also. once again in texas scattered showers and thunderstorms. right now nothing too dangerous or concentrated. definitely umbrellas in new england and texas. beautiful in the middle of the country. typical afternoon storms in the southeast. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. slight chance of a shower or storm late in the day in areas like philadelphia and washington, d.c. we won't see much in the way of heavy rain. very scattered. beautiful weather, oklahoma city, 71 and sunny. hardly any severe storms are expected today. no tornadoes. a great thing. >>> coming up, bailout profit for uncle sam. no government deficit in april. and lady gaga's tea cup worth more than it's weight in gold. your early morning headlines ahead. and the legal tug-of-war between a supermodel and billionaire is now over.

any information call tampa police. big reward out for their arrest. >> move to buffalo, new york. the kind of disturbing hit and run case. >> it's actually amazing for police that a camera was rolling at the time. these kids were just out walking at night. out of nowhere. look at that car. comes out of nowhere. that's an 18-year-old boy who actually goes flying into the air. >> how is he? >> believe it or not, he's okay. he went to the hospital. he's already out of the hospital recovering. the 19-year-old driver once again, partially because of this videotape evidence, was arrested. he is now in jail charged with assault. look at him flying through the air. but he's okay. >> that's just amazing. all right now we've got a bus driver with total lapse of judgment. this caused a big pileup in texas. >> sometimes you hear about people and their cars hitting the gas instead of a break. it's a much bigger deal when you do it and you're driving a bus. not only because of people in the bus. one, two, three, and the third car ends up going up in the air. >> how long did it take him to realize?

man, 31- year-old mark elmer. investigators say he showed a badge to people leafing the buffalo wild wings. suspicious patrons called real police, who arrested elmer. >>> repair work on the jfx is progressing. barring bad weather, the department of transportation expects repair work to be done. there are changes to this week's overnight closures, from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. the jfx will be closed at 29th street. and traffic will be routed onto the 28th street exit. crews are repairing aging drainage pipe. >>> it's sometimes difficult for city schoolteachers ask leaders. but as gigi barnett explains, city school leaders and teachers are receiving national attention for a major feat. >> i should have worn my real shades. >> it's a sight some baltimore teachers rarely see. city school leader dr. andres alonzo and teacher marietta english, sitting side by side, laughing, without a divisive issue to discuss. they at a conference in cincinnati, which looks at the way school leaders and unions work successfully together to get the job condition -- done. >> teachers are not the obstacle to

, when we had that plane accident. and it turned out that the pilots were -- buffalo -- the pilots were just tired because they had come all the way from the west coast to the east coast to get on another plane that goes somewhere to somewhere else. they have to have sleecp, they have to have testing. some of this natural gas stuff, people are driving 10 to 12 hours a day, these are 80 to 120,000 pound trucks in west virginia highways are built for 45,000 pound trucks. so we have a lot of smart safety improvements and i want them to be up to day. i want this bill to pass. i mean i have to say that the senate passed a very good bill. and we got -- i think 74 votes for it. it was highly bipartisan, it was highly effective. i have no objections to going into a conference that we have no support from the house side at all, because we're going to reach a better place, we are going to have to work hard to do it but we don't have much time. >> representative hastings? thank you very much madam chairman. the slow bureaucracy is getting in the way of job creation and economic growth and now

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mobs have been popping up all over the country from san diego to buffalo. in this case, the chugging rhino in pomean ab, new york s reaping the rewards and can be anywhere local from a bakery to a movie theatre to a gift shop. the idea is to spend $20 in goods and services v fun and to build relationships. they use social media to spread the word. the owner has been enjoying the boost in business. >> everyone supported me and above all of the businesses that were nominated, it was a good feeling against all of the other deserveing businesses for them to come here and i couldn't be happier. >> reporter: $4-a-gallon gas prices and property taxes have been hurting communities like this one. and that is like cash mob organizers are pushing locals to keep their cash local. >> and if we can take the concepts and put it in the mindset of people living here, perhaps we could create a vibrant economy my grandparents had in world war ii. >> and this is going international. one of the organizers here has a friend in spain following suit. anna coinman, fox news, new york. >>> just ahead on the n

line of clouds and showers coming past detroit and buffalo? that's a cold front. behind this front which is coming tonight, the air is drier and it's slightly cooler but ahead of it, we've got the warm air in place. that's why we're shooting into the #s on today. with -- the 80s today. with that a couple of showers and storms here and there as we go through the afternoon. it does look like the better chance will be south of town and southeast of town later on. even then, it doesn't look like we'll see that widespread activity. here's the front tonight at 6:00. as it comes closer to us, it loses the daytime heating and it really doesn't have much going for it save a lone shower here overnight. tomorrow morning, though, is going to be nice. the nicer air moves n. the cooler, drier air is with us other than a couple of high clouds tomorrow, tomorrow night into friday. we're probably going to hold on to a big bunch of this through the weekend. you have the preakness saturday. you've got the air show at andrews. joint forces air show. the weather looks great for all of it. 84 today. cou

buffaloed. most of these etfs when used in conjunction with massive amounts of debt can swamp anything that humans can do. the government already made its decision. it's not going to admit it was wrong. financial engineers are backed up by powerful lobbyists who are able to really cajole anyone, including themselves. the stock markets never recover from financial innovation that was the flash crash. you can point to any amount of financial engineering, the root cause of much of the horrors we've seen in recent years. synthetic devices destroyed the housing market. in fact, the 1987 crash was caused by financial engineering too. a product that was known as portfolio insurance, which is supposed to save fund managers from huge losses, but ended up losing managers tons of money while it caused the very declines it was supposed to insure against. that '87 crash wouldn't have occurred. the housing debacle, sure, it was bad, and freddie and fannie played a role, but you couldn't unwind it because of these dead instruments that these engineers created. sadly, the individual investor

plowed into a group of people in buffalo including a teenager who was sent flying. police say the driver didn't even stop. again, thankfully the victim is now out of the hospital and a 19-year-old accused of being behind the wheel is under arrest. >>> in oregon, a life saved with only seconds to spare. now a sheriff's deputy grabbed a suicidal man just as he was about to jump off that bridge. >> good going. >> the deputy and his partner quickly restrained the man. they had caught up with him moments earlier after getting a report he might try and kill himself. >>> finally in florida, not everyone had a happy easter. a yellow rat snake swallowed a ceramic easter egg left out for a hunt. the egg could be seen bulging from the snake's mid section right there. a veterinarian performed surgery on the snake and it worked. the little guy is now all stitched up. he's ready to start slithering once again. >>> and now for a look at your national weather he we turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> could there be any worse name for a snake? a yellow rat snake? >> double whammy. they eat c

york following some violent storms there. for example, seneca falls, this is near buffalo, crews using chain saws to clean up the trees. >> all that debris has caused power outages. some trees were ripped right from their roots and ripped from their homes. >>> time for a check of the forecast. let's go to lynette. >> we got some decent rains here as well. let's show some pictures right off the top here, we can see what's going on because we did have some thunderstorm clouds across the area. this first picture was sent in from laura ashley and she's in jarrettsville and you can just see those clouds as they formed yesterday evening in hartford county. so thank you for sending that in, laura. we also have a picture that was sent in yesterday by karen, and she took this in walkersville, maryland and this is definitely fredrick county there. and we can see, again, just a beautiful shot here. i love these type of pictures. you can see the clouds forming across the area. and with that definitely did get some thunderstorms out of that. so speaking of the thunderstorms and the rain, let'

people in buffalo including a teenager sent flying. police say the driver didn't even stop, the victim is now out of the hospital and 19-year-old accused of being behind the wheel is under arrest. >>> in oregon, a life saved with only seconds to spare. a sheriff's deputy grabbed a suicidal man as he was about to jump off the bridge. the deputy and his partner quickly restrained the man, they had caught up to him moments earlier after getting a report he might try to kill himself. >>> and finally, in florida not everyone had a happy easter, like this guy. the yellow rat snack, swallowed a ser ammic easter egg left out for a holiday hunt. the egg could be seen bulging from the snake's mid-section. a vet performed surgery on the snake and it worked. the little guy is now all stitched up and ready to start slithering once again and terrifying everybody. >>> now for a look at national and regional weather, here is bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. good morning, bill. >> may sound weird throwing an easter story in, i finish mid chocolate rabbit yesterday. >> was it a

that consume the product, in other words buffalo wild wings. i talk to them. they are upset, the price of wings has skyrocketed 50%. when i hear bumper crop is it possible the food cost could come down? >> we're seeing food inflation moderate this year. that's good news. about 3% substantially below what it was last year. we'll see prices come down just a bit. we're expecting a pretty good corn crop. still going to be very strong. still going to see expanded opportunity and seeing a new entry into this market, local and regional food systems, an important aspect of a new rural economy and bio based economy. good opportunity to use plant material and livestock waste to make everything we need. exciting new future. >> one last question. the country is being committed under democrats, republicans to have substantial ethanol. you're from a state that's benefitted. at what point does ethanol cost the average working person too much because corn is the basis of so much of the food chain? >> well, here's the thing, jim. if you go to the pump you're paying 80 cents to a $1.30 less per ga

risks. john roberts streaming live from the town of wood buffalo, in alberta, to talk about what that means. john? >> reporter: good afternoon, to you, megyn. a lot of environmental groups opposed to keystone pipeline. other american environmental groups opposed to development of the oil sands. here is what is at stake here. think of a swimming pool the size of the state of florida. then fill it up with oil. that is how much oil is here. third largest reserve in the world. shovels and dump trucks all built in the united states, that creates american jobs and canadians only too happy to put the oil in a pipeline and send it south to the united states. stephanie sterling is with shell oil here in canada. >> this is a secure, reliable, source of energy. there is no animosity between our countrys. we're generating economic profitability for both of the countries. the jobs creation is huge as is the business development and investment going on between our countries. it is just a natural fit. >> reporter: now environmental groups have a big problem with those huge open mines and they do hav