i live in johannesburg, but i'd gone back to vote and cover the story on my blog. i i a lot about kenyan -- blog a lot about kenyan politics, and initially i was blogging about the voting day and the transition led to the violence. and i found myself sort of in the citizen report role of covering what was going on and thinking for myself, well, i opened up my blog for comments so people could then put their stories there. and i was getting hundreds of comments. >> host: how did people find you? you don't know? >> guest: word of mouth. a lot of people in the diaspora telling their relatives to get online and report. a lot of people in the diaspora also reporting on what they were hearing, a lot of journalists using me to report stories that they couldn't report in the media. but the word just spread. if you're trying to get information about what's going on, come to my blog. and then so i was thinking if me, one person, with no advertising, i'm just in an apartment typing up could have access to this kind of information, what else could be out there? and if people w

good deal of dry weather for south africa starts over the weekend. 19 degrees and a few showers in johannesburg. not quite as active along the west coast. farther north, dry and cloudy skies. it looks like it will be a wet weekend across northern france, rain for paris. we are looking at a few isolated showers. for much of the middle east, hardly a cloud in the sky. plenty of sunshine on sunday and through monday. we will see a good deal of dry weather for tokyo and most of china for the next couple of days. 25 degrees expected in hong kong. that is how it is looking. more details on line. >> with reports from hollywood in -- and new york, we have all the latest news and reviews from the latest cinema seeing -- cinema scene. >> hello, and welcome to talking image. gruesome cinema. danny boyle's new film in which a rock climber is forced to amputate his own arm. a new road movie tries to provide a positive issue of africa. spike lee's new picture "another year." cinema and taking on a new dimension in baghdad. all of that and more in this edition of "talking movies." two years ago, moviegoers we

>> i have an apartment in johannesburg. i pay my dues. >> thank you for being on "the communicators." that wraps up this week here at the gov2.0 summit. this episode and any other from the past is available at c- span.org. thanks for being with us. >> tonight, a discussion with the president and ceo of national public radio. vivian schiller talks about the future of public radio and addresses the recent firing of juan williams. >> back on october 20, we terminated the contract of one of our contractor, part-time news analyst named juan williams. i suspect everyone in the room has heard about this particular incident. he was a contractor who was a part-time news analyst and we terminated his contract under the terms of the agreement. the circumstances around that were unique. there was a lot of chatter about the reasons that we did it. you did not hear this from me. there are a lot of assumptions made about all we did it and what happened. the fact is, all i will say, because it is not my practice nor is it appropriate to ge

>> i left my partner in johannesburg, so now we are -- i pay my dues. [laughter] >> ory okolloh is the co-founder of ushahidi. okolloh for being on the communicators. and that wraps up our communicators for this week on the government 2.0 summit. this communicators and any of our work communicators from the past available online at c-span.org. simply click on the communicators site and you can watch when you want. thanks for being with us. ep3 at ennis jeter glisson jackson says ceding the environment is not only the policy but also cost-effective. she was at the aspen institute in washington, d.c.. this thursday is the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the environmental protection agency. this segment is a little more than an hour. [applause] >> this is wonderful. this is the 48 anniversary of the epa, and we are kicking off the epa, the environmental protection agency, taking a week to talk about how it is one of the greatest movements in american history which is the environmental protection movement itself. lisa jackson happens to be a long t

quantas said the 747 had to turn back to johannesburg after a bird strike shut down on one engine. quantas has suffered a string of mechanical and electrical problems since an engine on one of his a-380 airbus planes fell off more than two weeks a'ing. >>> the first medal of honor awarded to a living recipient since the vietnam war. staff sergeant salvatore giunta was humble about winning the country's highest prize for valor. >> this represents all service members from all branches that have been in afghanistan since 2001, iraq since 2003, who were there yesterday, are there today and will go again tomorrow. i really appreciate them because without their service, i have nothing. >> today staff sergeant giunta will be inducted into the pentagon's hall of heroes. now let's get another check of the weather with al who's outside. >> we have got some friends from alaska, we don't get too many alaskans. >> catch-as-catch-can in alaska. >> let's check your weather and see what's going on, myrtle beach, south carolina, sunny, mild and temperatures in the upper 60s tonight. and the jet str