i appreciate the wonderful words of your superintendent, that was exactly the dynamic in sioux falls and that's the remarkable thing, superintendent, is that this issue knows no boundaries. this issue knows -- it doesn't know class boundaries, it doesn't know race boundaries, it's an issue regretablely that has been timeless. it seems we were all too frequently taught that bullying is simply a rite of passage, i went to christ the king grammar school in buffalo, new york, you would go behind the building and settle your scores at the end of the day and that was an accepted way of doing business. but we're learning and raising consciousness that, no, it's not an acceptable way of doing business. i've had conversations with the mother of seth walsh, of people who have literally taken their own lives and as a father of three, this isn't simply an issue of civil rights enforcement, this is something very personal. because i can't imagine the unspeakable grief that parents must go through. i can't imagine the unspeakable grief in murphiesboro, tennessee, when we talk to the leaders in the

the sioux tribe. the sioux tribe. if you have if you have visit grounds visit grounds today, you can see his today, you can see his face and face and a lofty project. a lofty project. the family left the family left feverishly carving away feverishly carving away toward its completion. toward its completion. its features chiseled its features chiseled from the family side. from the family side. from the sioux tribe from the sioux tribe known as crazy horse. known as crazy horse. >> his arm holing a giant >> his arm holing a giant stallion that you can stallion that you can imagine but cannot see. imagine but cannot see. the horse's head the horse's head all all 219 feet of it has been 219 feet of it has been painted but still must be painted but still must be fashioned from the jagged fashioned from the jagged rock. rock. call it a work in call it a work in progress. progress. carried on by the family carried on by the family of a man who started of a man who started carving this mountain by carving t

of the local sioux came to change their minds about the carving on the mountain. and the family that carries it on. >> they watch and they saw the mountain finally taking some kind of shape, and they saw people who were doing the ask call work up there as good people. and i think it -- it helped to bring about a lot of changes. >> but here change comes slowly. very slowly. he once boasted he would finish in 30 years. >> he wish he made that statement, that's why i don't tell anybody when lit be done. >> now the project is entering it's 66th year, even the adult children who are toiling away won't predict when it will be finished. >> i think it will look really good by the time i'm an old lady, but i won't be done, i don't think in my lifetime. >> i hope my children will be able to see it pretty much completed, but it's quite a ways down the road. >> you guys are doing the locks? >> yeah. that way is closer to the beginning. >> in fact, a third generation of family members is already working at their grandfather's mountain, 28-year-old heidi parks cars for the hike

thank you for having me. >> a state representative from sioux falls, south dakota, with me now. representative, good to see you. is that going to get it done? the school board's going to have a vote now on monday night and may revise this policy to mandate the pledge. does that satisfy you? >> that would take care of this particular issue. but it doesn't necessarily take care of the problem that i see that states different -- different school districts could do the same thing and might do what the sioux falls school board did. and i kind of feel like we need to make sure this is something they have time for. >> can you mandate the pledge by legislation? >> i can mandate they take the time to have -- or that they take time to have a pledge. i can't mandate that everybody say it. >> how important is that to you? and why? why do you think that's important to do? >> if you look at this country and where we came from. and you think about the freedoms we have and how it happened, it all resolvolves around the constitution we have and both the state for us and have for the u.s. constit

thank you for having me. >> a state representative from sioux falls, south dakota, with me now. representative, good to see you. is that going to get it done? the school board's going to have a vote now on monday night and may revise this policy to mandate the pledge. does that satisfy you?d take ca particular issue. but it doesn't necessarily take care of the problem that i see that states different -- different school districts could do the same thing and might do what the sioux falls school board did. and i kind of feel like we need to make sure this is something they have time for. >> can you mandate the pledge by legislation? >> i can mandate they take the time to have -- or that they take time to have a pledge. i can't mandate that everybody say it. >> how important is that to you? and why? why do you think that's important to do? >> if you look at this country and where we came from. and you think about the freedoms we have and how it happened, it all resolvolves around the constitution we have and both the state for us and have for the u.s. constitution. i think those th

the city benefice test of the civilization the army after a civil war met red cloud and the lakota sioux you wrap all of the cheyenne but he was able to get all worked together and they were two great forces it was inevitable that there was going to be a war what was total surprise to the american people back east was that this case the indians won this one gold mine were gold every time we would sign a treaty with the american indians with the lakota with the crow with the pawnee we would say ok this is the last of the land we're going to take from you and then gold would be discovered somewhere in montana in colorado on the front range in cherry creek and in idaho and say well you know we didn't really mean that treaty we need that gold and it would be more and more miners pouring into miners would be followed by settlers and red cloud in particular would start wiping out these miners and settlers and they would call on the u.s. army for help and he came out and he would wipe them out it was a vicious and i mean that literally a vicious circle would you call what happened in name ameri

when the sort of benefits to the civilization the army after a civil war met red cloud and the lakota sioux you wrap all of the cheyenne but he was able to get all worked together and and they were two great forces it was inevitable that there was going to be a war what was total surprise to the american people back east was at this case the indians won this one gold mine were gold every time we would sign a treaty with the american indians with the lakota with the crow with the pawnee we would say ok this is the last of the land we're going to take from you and then gold would be discovered somewhere in montana in colorado on the front range in cherry creek and in idaho and say well you know we didn't really mean that treaty we need that gold and there would be more and more miners pouring in and miners would be followed by settlers and red cloud in particular would start wiping out these miners and settlers and they would call on the u.s. army for help and he came out and he would wipe them out it was a vicious and i mean that literally a vicious circle would you call what happened in nam

the civilization the army after a civil war met red cloud and the lakota sioux you wrap all of the cheyenne but he was able to get all worked together and and they were two great forces it was inevitable that there was going to be a war what was total surprise to the american people back east was at this case the indians won this one gold mine more gold every time we would sign a treaty with the american indians with the lakota with the crow with the pony we would say ok this is the last of the land we're going to take from you and then gold would be discovered somewhere in montana in colorado on the front range in cherry creek and in idaho and say well you know we didn't really mean that treaty we need that gold and it would be more and more miners pouring in the miners would be followed by settlers and red cloud in particular would start wiping out these miners and settlers and they would call on the u.s. army for help and he came out and he would wipe them out it was a vicious and i mean that literally a vicious circle would you call what happened in name americans and their genocide oh

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and even smaller cities, the really small communities, sioux falls, vermont, it's a lot hard for them because they only have three big airlines they can try to lure to their airports. so it's not the same for every city across the country, but the trend has been smaller airports have been the hardest hit. they have less frequent flights. they lose -- if they have two or three different routes, there might be less access. when you are in sioux falls, losing a fight to new york city is a big deal. >> yeah, so something that has happened that isn't necessarily this year but has been growing over time is the notion of the department of transportation's penalties. and this leads to what? >> right. this is really interesting, and i think it's very pertinent given today's weather. keeping passengers stuck on the ground, the airline does not give passenger's the option to get off of the plane within three hours they are fined. it's $27,500 per passenger. and that adds up quickly. the dot has so far enforced this sporadi sporadically. but they really hit united recently with a multi-million do

and even smaller cities, the really small communities, sioux falls, vermont, it's a lot hard for them because they only have three big airlines they can try to lure to their airports. so it's not the same for every city across the country, but the trend has been smaller airports have been the hardest hit. they have less frequent flights. they lose -- if they have two or three different routes, there might be less access. when you are in sioux falls, losing a fight to new york city is a big deal. >> yeah, so something that has happened that isn't necessarily this year but has been growing over time is the notion of the department of transportation's penalties. and this leads to what? >> right. this is really interesting, and i think it's very pertinent given today's weather. keeping passengers stuck on the ground, the airline does not give passenger's the option to get off of the plane within three hours they are fined. it's $27,500 per passenger. and that adds up quickly. the dot has so far enforced this sporad sporadically. but they really hit united recently with a multi-million dol

dim wits inflicting beliefs on holidays. >> what's going on. >> sioux falls, south dakota, the school board voted down a proposal that would have required the pledge of allegiance to be said every day at high schools. they voted that down. veterans had been proposing this. >> why did they vote it down. >> they did support it at the middle school level. >> why did they vote it down. >> they said they didn't have time for it. they didn't have time to do it during the day. >> how many seconds 45 seconds. >> 8 seconds. they said it was too chaotic in the classrooms. this it is not a done deal. i spoke with someone who is speaking before the school board next monday. >> keep an eye on it third letter from deanna: heather knows why i haven't put her on. you get a lot of mail. >> i get a lot of mail. 7,000 letters a week. >> if not more. >> that doesn't count the mad as hell letters. >> yeah. >> nothing personal dina. it's like you have got to get our attention in the first line. >> bill, you go through these letters personally. >> not all of them, no. we have a brilliant staff. and they fun

the southern plains red river war in 1874 and the sioux, great sioux war of 1876 and '77 accomplished this. and allowed also the opening of finishing ranges and the extension of cattle trails from kansas rail heads initially up to the dakotas, wyoming and montana territories. another thing that caused the trails to move from east to west was the coming of farmers and the establishment of cropland. they looked dimly on trail herds trampling their crops. at least until the development of barbed wire which was not too far in the future. and as the barbed wire was strung and the farmers settled in, the cattle trails were forced westward. the greatest perhaps factor in the movement of these trails from east to west was what was called texas fever. sometimes called spanish fever. and at other times called tick fever. it was a malady carried by ticks. texas cattle were immune. the cattle of midwestern farmers in kansas, missouriened an i eas were not. when this malady began to wipe out those herds in the midwest, they got upset. and it caused the cattle trails to move westward. the eastern m

navy vet dave saunders from sioux falls, south dakota. we asked him why the kids in that high school should say the pledge of allegiance each and every morning. >> a time to reflect on this great country, the foundation that we're built upon. to think of the men and women that are out there every day and going in harm's way, to think about the veterans that have given so much of their time. you know, i've heard it described as a veteran, a person who wrote a blank check for their life. some of them, they gave a full measure. >> they did. >> that was so well said and it means a lot. it just takes ten seconds. we were home yesterday and talking about it with the kids and it was one of the first things we taught them. so our youngest says, it doesn't take long. listen. >> all right. that was under ten seconds. >> he wanted to beat the record. but if you have your little one ready to say it, or your big student up in high school, send it to us on facebook and like us. >> we'll trio play it. >> it's just ten seconds or less. >> that was a good

and transportation, that if i -- if we had to drive to sioux falls to get on an airplane, sobeit. that's the way it is. mitchell was much closer but they had to subsidize to fly there, and then eventually they wore out, and they quit serving it. we can't be serving every small city in america that wants it. what we have had happened and a good example is air tran. air tran was flied to mobile alabama, and they decided they were going to drop them because one thing about low cost carriers when they can't -- when they don't make money on an airplane, they pull it, and they pull it out and move it someplace else. where, they are deciding that they are going to quit serving mobile alabama. mobile alabama chamber of commerce jumped only an airplane, got businesses together, flew to air tran's head effort yeaher and promised them they would support the airline. gave them concrete promises of an o. of money they would spend. air tran backed off. a year later, air tran has to withdraw from mobile, because they did not have the business that they needed to have it. it is just the way it is

the southern plains red river war in 1874 and the sioux -- great sioux war of 1876 and '77 accomplished this. and allowed also the opening of finishing ranges and the extension of cattle trails from kansas railheads initially up to the dakotas, wyoming and montana territories.cattle trails from kansas railheads initially up to the dakotas, wyoming and montana territorie kansas railheads initially up to the dakotas, wyoming and montana territorie kansas railheads initially up to the dakotas, wyoming and montana territoriekansas railheads initially up to the dakotas, wyoming and montana territories. another thing that caused the trails to move from east to west was the coming of farmers and the establishment of cropland. they looked dimly on trail herds trampling their crops. at least until the development of barbed wire which was not too far in the future. and as the barbed wire was strung and the farmers settled in, the cattle trails were forced westward. the greatest perhaps factor in the movement of these trails from east to west was what was called texas fever. sometimes called spani

if we had to drive to sioux falls to get on an airplane, so be it. that's the way it is. mitchell, south dakota, was much closer, but they had to subsidize north central to fly there, and then the subsidies wore out. we cannot be subsidies ing every small city. in air tran was dryin flying to mobile, alabama. when they don't make money on an airplane, they pull it. well, air tran decided to stop serving mobile, alabama. mobile, alabama, promised they will they would support the airline, gave them concrete promises of the amount of money they would spend. air tran backed off, continued to serve mobile. a year later, air tran had to withdraw from mobile because they did not the business that they needed to have. it's just the way it is. so it's the way we live today. the airline industry isn't like rea where every farm was giving electricity, and that was abandon subsidized to the country. what used to be a luxurious way to travel is now mass transit. >> but, doug, the days before deregulation, those bad 'ol days before deregulation one of the trade-offs was that carriers w

he also named team in honor of his coach that year lone star deitz who claimed to be a part sioux. >> any of the owners that have led the redskins, nothing offensive or disparaging or pe i don'pejorative by that name. >> something as a mascot evokes something positive why does it matter? >> well, i think it's just a little pecular that they would cling so long and so hard to inanimate objects and to these false personnas, all of native america in the way that we measure our views, all our native organizations say change this name that it's a slur, it is a pejorative. and it doesn't matter who means it or who doesn't. what matters is the effect. the people who are doing the offending don't get to say what hurts or what's the nature of the offense. >> our community is chiming in lisa as you can imagine. institutionalize, it shouldn't be a question of should they change their name but when. >> and then kevin says those against changing the name are mostly nonnative and ignore our history of genocide. rey jeerregina you are a native american, what is your position? >> thank you, advice, b

and the lakota sioux you wrap all of the cheyenne but he was able to get all worked together and and they were two great forces it was inevitable that there was going to be a war what was total surprise to the american people back east was that this case the indians won this one gold mine more gold every time we would sign a treaty with the american indians with the lakota with the crow with the pony we would say ok this is the last of the land we're going to take from you and then gold would be discovered somewhere in montana in colorado on the front range in cherry creek and in idaho and say well you know we didn't really mean that treaty we need that gold and there would be more and more miners pouring in the miners would be followed by settlers and red cloud in particular would start wiping out these miners and settlers and they would call on the u.s. army for help and he came out and he would wipe them out it was a vicious and i mean that literally a vicious circle would you call what happened in name americans and their genocide oh i would most definitely well the evidence of t

the city benefice test of the civilization the army after a civil war met red cloud and the lakota sioux you wrap all of the cheyenne but he was able to get all worked together and they were two great forces it was inevitable that there was going to be a war what was total surprise to the american people back east was at this case the indians won this one gold mine were gold every time we would sign a treaty with the american indians with the lakota with the crow with the pony we would say ok this is the last of the land we're going to take from you and then gold would be discovered somewhere in montana in colorado on the front range in cherry creek and in idaho and say well you know we didn't really mean that treaty we need that gold and it would be more and more miners pouring into miners would be followed by settlers and red cloud in particular would start wiping out these miners and settlers and they would call on the u.s. army for help and he came out and he would wipe them out it was a vicious and i mean that literally a vicious circle would you call what happened in name americans

if we had to drive to sioux falls to get on an airplane, so be it. that's the way it is. mitchell, south dakota, was much closer, but they had to subsidize north central to fly there, and then the subsidies wore out. we cannot be subsidiesing every small city. in air tran was dryin flying to mobile, alabama. when they don't make money on an airplane, they pull it. well, air tran decided to stop serving mobile, alabama. mobile, alabama, promised they will they would support the airline, gave them concrete promises of the amount of money they would spend. air tran backed off, continued to serve mobile. a year later, air tran had to withdraw from mobile because they did not the business that they needed to have. it's just the way it is. so it's the way we live today. the airline industry isn't like rea where every farm was giving electricity, and that was abandon subsidized to the country. what used to be a luxurious way to travel is now mass transit. >> but, doug, the days before deregulation, those bad 'ol days before deregulation one of the trade-offs was that carriers wo

at the same time in sioux falls, a town close to them, that had a suicide and the whole community came together to take a positive approach and that kind of combines the two things, looking at how we treat each other online as well as how we treat each other on the community. you can go to our wepb site and see the progression as the whole community came together, the school district, the city, the library and they all worked together saying this isn't what we want in our town and they are being very proactive. another thing is we work with students and they came up with a positive campaign on facebook that they did, we have a little film on cyber bullying where some students in new jersey came together and they called it a virtual hug. they tried to basically bring that positive environment to the internet because kids are sort of shifting that culture. we also want to shift the culture on the internet. >> mike or stacy, rick, amina, anything regarding social media, not just the connection with bullying but how you can use social media for positive ends. >> i think again we have the m

we screened in sioux city before anyone had seen the movie for all the administrators in the movie. obviously we've been down a long road

we screened in sioux city before anyone had seen the movie for all the administrators in the movie. obviously we've been down a long road with this community and i will make a point thanking them for their courage in making this film, which is what you thought nobody would ever do, which is allow a camera to film for a year inside a building and film those interactions and those conversations. but they did it because they wanted to do better. but when we first did the screening, someone that had been an administrator for many many years basically said, listen, if we're going to be honest in unpacking this movie, then we have to recognize and i'll be the first one to say it, that i have made those mistakes. i have rushed to judge. i have gotten it wrong in exactly that same way many times in my career. then suddenly the conversation started to flow and not only did people connect to how they missed those moments and that they don't, that they felt they didn't have the training to catch those moments or really do that inner reflection, but then they started sharing their stories of be

four inches of heavy, wet snow fell in sioux falls over the past 24 hours. the earliest snowfall there in ten years. but it is starting to taper off today. >>> all right, now, for a look at morning road conditions. a rainy commute from east texas across the ohio valley and into the great lakes. >> if you're flying, that rain could cause airport delays in dallas, houston, chicago, detroit and memphis. >>> back in the news, a big change for pilots. the faa has ordered pilots to undergo new training to address safety issues. >> the order comes five years after this crash outside of the buffalo airport that killed 50 people. the victims' families have been waging a relentless campaign to upgrade pilot training. jennifer west lost her husband in that crash. >> the pilots that they had did not know what to do. they did the exact opposite. if they would have had the training that is going to be implemented right now, they would -- you know, everybody would be alive today. >> these rules mean that when a passenger boards an aircraft for a vacation, a business trip o

a storm dumped half a foot of snow across sioux falls yesterday, shattering a record for that day set back in 1959. >>> and now, looking at your morning road conditions. wet roads and slick mountain passes across the northwest. drivers could face windy conditions in southern california. slippery around the great lakes. also, wet along much of the east coast. >> it is shaping up to be a great day for flying. no weather-related airport delays are expected. >>> researchers have identified what may be the earliest clues of autism ever observed. and they say it's all about eye contact. >> children with autism are usually not diagnosed until they're at least 2 years old. but the study at emory university used eye-tracking software to see what babies are focusing on. it turns out, by 6 months old, autistic children look less and less time looking at the eye. >> what this study shows us is there are changes already happening that wouldn't be detectable to the naked eye. >> doctors say the earlier they detect autism, the earlier they can intervene. and that means a better long-term outcome. >>

on the left side of your screen is a sioux falls, they receive nearly 6 in. of snow overnight. that is about four and a half inches higher than the daily so far a record set back in 1959. the city usually does not see and enjoy more of snow until november 20th it. >> bay area voters found themselves a little lonely tuesday. the turnout on many races and measures was fairly low. officials expected about a 35 percent turnout. more than the 23 percent from four years ago, but less than the 42 percent who voted in the 2011 san francisco mayor's race. but two measures were on the minds of bay area voters. in san francisco, propositions b and c, to allow construction of the '8 washington' condominium project on the embarcadero. these are final numbers from the polls. voters have rejected measure b.62 to 38%. they're also rejecting measure c - by a wider margin. critics are using the defeat to have the city revisit plans for the new warriors arena along the waterfront. the final numbers -- including absentee ballots -- will be posted later this week. >> in sunnyvale, the controversy b

the sioux falls board rejecting the question for students to stay the pledge every day. trace gallagher has more. >> yeah, one of the school members said they got a letter saying they should all be lined up and shot, and they are blaming the media b with including the fox news channel because they it was said that they voted to drop it. feeting. >> that is not accurate, i said despite them showing up, the board voted unanimously. they could not find the extra ten seconds in the school day, and i here's the school board. >> just being able to find a period within the high school day to say it consistently, appeared to be challenge. >> reporter: we also reported that the board does require the pledge be read in elementary schools and middle schools in the district in south dakota. >> so they never dropped the pledge -- i remember doing the report with you. which one is it? >> they're saying, the mental hasn't been read at this high school since 1970, and they expanded it to just assemblies with the pledge, but bass of this firearm storm of controversy, they realize how pas

some local veterans petitioned the school board in sioux falls to allow all students to say the pledge of allegiance every day. right now elementary and middle schoolers can say the pledge daily, but the board decided it would be too hard to allow high schoolers to do it. the school president told megan kelly the response from the community has been overwhelming. >> we went out with a survey this past week to our parents and guardians, and it was overwhelming that 70% of them actually wanted the policy revised to have kids have the chance to say the pledge of allegiance at the high school level. >> monday the school board votes on whether to put the pledge back into high schools as well. >>> it's a scary potentially deadly game that isn't really a game at all. after the break, we're going to hear from a victim who was punched in a face by a group of strangers. and we'll get to the bottom of another obama care mistake when we come back. >> there's been a lot of headaches that's come from all of this, you know, all the phone calls, all the nonsense, you know, they ended up giving me good

sioux falls, south dakota hit with 6 inches of snow overnight. topper was fighting the feeling to just show up there and shovel some snow. that beats the old record set in 1959 by 4 1/2 inches and the city usually doesn't see much snow until later in the season. >> since you love snow so much, top, any time you want to come over when it snows here and shovel, you're welcome. >> in the black hills they already had 30 inches in october. they've had tough weather in the plains states. like spring today. we are looking at a cold front, a yellow alert day tomorrow for showers, especially in morning, early afternoon. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, just enough clouds coming in and enough light to really produce some nice colors out there. temperatures 64, how nice is that? relative humidity way up there at 65%, winds out of the south at 8 which is a warm wind that will continue to actually increase in intensity overnight into tomorrow. here we are right there. lots of showers back to the west now through ohio

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he designed the pledge to be read in 15 seconds but it only takes ten which is too long for the sioux falls, south dakota, school board which has voted not to require students to recite the pledge. it's okay in elementary and middle schools but in high schools they say it's too much of a challenge. listen. >> the challenge of being able to find a period within the high school day, to say it consistently appears to be a challenge. >> a group of veterans who fought to defend the flag were also at the meeting requesting that the board put aside the ten seconds a day out of pure respect. listen. >> we had a wounded veteran. it took him longer to get up, to get his crutches and walk out of the room than it would have taken the students to say the pledge of allegiance to the flag. >> despite that military plea the board voted not to recite the pledge you see on the screen because where in a seven -hour day do you find the extra ten seconds? listen again. >> we do not -- there is not always an opportunity to have the pledge of allegiance spoken every day. >> if you were timing it, that sound

. >>> and it's the earliest snowfall in sioux falls for ten years. but residents take it all in stride. what else can you do? >> what else can you do? >>> light snow lingering in northern wisconsin and michigan. rain will drench the center of the country from texas up to the great lakes. showers possible in the pacific great lakes. showers possible in the pacific po it will cloud up a little later today. >> 61 new york. 64 d.c. 79 new orleans. as c salt lake city 54. 79 phoenix. 57 in p >>> all right. we have a winner n th wor pokit's player from -- where else -- las vegas. >> ryan reese won the main event late yesterday in a dramatic 3.5-hour session to push past his remaining opponent. the prize $8.4 million in cash and a sparkling bracelet sat between them on the table. >> reese beat out a field of 6,300 entrants in a no-limit texas hold 'em tournament that kicked off in july. >> youngest finalist ever at age 23. and i'm officially jealous. he's a millionaire. >> and the runner-up, by the way, takes home $5.1 million. not too shabby. >> so you don

. >> rose bud sioux saysa the u.s. government cannot shirk its responsibility to tribes. >> sequester should not affect indian country. we should be fully funded at all times. we are the first people of this land. >> harder than proving the relationship with american indians, the past mistakes? >> today we declare we must never forget. we must never deny the injustice that for decades upon decades was inflicted on native peoples. we affirm that this painful past has informed and given rise rise to self determination. >> unless congress improves the funding picture for indian current tree in the 506 federally recognized tribes, all of the plans for cooperation in turn into further broken promises. libby cassey, al jazeera, washington. >>> in washington state tonight, a union vote with far-reaching consequences. boeing has an offer on the table for machinists, about cutting pensions and other benefits. it's also about where the next generation of jumbo jets will be built and whether jobs stay in the community. al shovele