in the 1950's, there was an beneath theal dig o parking lot and downtown tucson. and they found the remnant foundation of the presidio wall. and directly beneath that, they year the remains of a 1000 old native american penthouse. since the 1950's, we have known that the presidio and the native american occupation that preceded it were preserved here beneath the parking lots and streets of downtown tucson. it seems these days that we tend to forget our history. and america is a big vast place with lots of different aspects of history. and i think the tucson presidio represents the fact that, as americans, we are capable of sharing everybody's history and recognizing everybody's contributions. 'sthink the tucson iow presidio especially good at looking at all the different aspects that made tucson a wonderful place. >> this weekend we are featuring the history of tucson, arizona. together with our cox communication cable partners. learn more about tucson and other stops on her cities tour at c-span.org/cities tour. american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-

we're going to take you to a museum about 25 miles south of downtown tucson. we are in the launch control center of the missile site. here, using all of this equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile and the missile site. it is also from here that the crew would launch the missile if they were able to do so. in order to launch the missile, the crew needs a number of things. first of all, they have to receive a launch order that will tell them to execute their missile and what times they're are going to do that. in order to do that, they need two launch keys, one for the crew commander, and one for the deputy crew commander. in launch keys are secured the emergency war order safe. by twoe is secured padlocks, and these are combination padlocks. each lock belonged to a specific officer on the crew. lockis the crew commanders and this is the deputy crew commanders lock. only the officer who owns the lock knows the combination to the lock. locks, weceive those set the combinations. and that combination is classified top secret becaus

we are about 85 miles south of downtown tucson. we are in the launch control center of the missile site. essentially the nerve center of the missile site itself. from here, using all of this equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile. it is also from here that the crew would launch the missile if they were ordered to do so. one, theder to launch crew needs a number of things. first of all, they have to receive a launch order that would tell them to execute their missile and what time they are going to do that. in order for them to do that, they will need to keys. to launch keys. one for the crew commander, one for the deputy crew commander. the safe is secured by two padlocks. these are combination padlocks. each lock belongs to a specific officer on the crew. deputy crew commander lock. only the officer who owns the lock knows the combination to the lock. wereceived those locks when qualified for crew duty. nation.he, classified top secret because it is guarding top-secret equipment. and information.

tucson to honor the six victims.again you can only see her interview tonight on 12 news at 10.in the satellite center... bw 12 today. this morning... well over a hundred students at a-s-u... aren't waking up in their dorm rooms... because of severe hamilton is live in tempe. 3 3 3 ?? toss to morning juice ?? morning juice ?? toss to ?? toss to ?? toss to morning juice 3 ?? 3 3 it is - possibly - the worst sandwich ever created... at least that's the consensus among the 12 today staff... but apparently they are in the apparently they are in the minority... because mcdonald's ?mc-rib is back! and guess what? this year it is even easier to find!! mcdonald's has launched a new imessage app called mcdonald's mcrib finder. it's free and uses the smartphone's g-p-s to find the nearest it also allows users to share that location with friends. now... for those of you who don't know... the boneless barbecue pork sandwich is only available certain times of the year and has a very loyal following. mcdonald's allows franchisees to decide franchisees to decide whether they want to offer it, but no

we are at the titan missile museum 25 miles south of downtown tucson. we are in the launch control center of the missile site. the nerve center of the missile site itself. from here, using the equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile and the missile site. it is also from here that the crew would launch the missile if they were ordered to do so. so, in order to launch a titan ii missile, the crew needs a number of things. first, they have to receive a launch order that will tell them to execute their missile and what time they will do that. in order for them to do that, they will need 2 keys. one launch key for the crew commander, and one launch key for that deputy crew commander. launch keys were secured in the emergency war order safe. the safe is secured by 2 combination padlocks. each belongs to a specific officer on the crew. this is the crew commander's block, this is the deputy crew commander's law. even the officer who owns the lock knows the combination. resete received the lock, the combination. that combination

this is the reconstructed city in downtown tucson. pasidio st. augustine and on august 20th, 1775 this hugo mercenary or hugo he was irish, moved spanish fort from tubac to tucson. and this is what we claim is our birthplace and birth state august 20th, 1775, what 234 years ago. >> wngt sure that i could actually accomplish someplace different for an entire year every week. and i [laughter] in bisbee i work from there then to the town of douglas and a wonderful hotel stay there had. i think it was friday the 13th actually. and had some -- like just about every hotel in arizona's haunted. my wife kind of joked it be later on and said you know, these hotels they're all hawngtd and that means the plumbing is really bad so she was done with historic holingses she wanted something a little more modern she's featured in the book quite a bit. bounce a lot of things off of her because we're opposite in a lot of ways. i went off from bisbee to douglas and wonderful historian who took me around the ton and talked to me who white earth was, called him a gam

. >> reporter: focused on funding the january 8 memorial and on growing downtown tucson. >> it will be a long, hard hall but i'm optimistic. >> getting better all the time. a lot of hard work. >> reporter: it's not her goal to get the old gabby back. instead, she is new gabby. >> better, stronger, tougher. >>> what a spirit. now we go back to tonight's big story on 12news at 10:00. the worst freeway bottlenecks in the valley. everybody of course no surprise here has an opinion. >> they do. so right now www.12news.com/your voice, 57% going to the experts to see if that's right. tricia? >> reporter: hey guys. we are on the i-10 westbound mountaineer buckeye road. take a look outside. during the peak hours obviously, things are much busier right now but we are going to flip it over. you can see some brake lights out there but not too much. we're not seeing crashes or construction so that's helping. we checked in with maricopa association of busiest. the places to avoid if you need to get some are quickly during the rush-hour times. >> everybody has their own favorite spot in terms of this

this is procedure, reconstructed presidio in downtown tucson. presidio st. augustine, and this is where on august 20, 1775, that this irish mercenary moved the spanish fork, the presidio to tucson. and this is what we claim is our birthplace and birth date, august 20, 1775. what, 230 years ago. wasn't sure that i could actually accomplish something's different for an entire year every week. and i live in bisbee so i started with bisbee and just moved on from there. i went from bisbee, then to douglas and the wonderful gadsden hotel. stayed there. i think it was friday the 13th actually, and it's haunted like just about every hotel in arizona is haunted. my wife kind of joked about later on in private. she said these hotels are all haunted. and they are all historic. i think all that means is the plumbing is really bad. so she was done with historic hotels. she wants something a little more modern. she's featured in the book quite a bit. i bounce a lot of things off of her because we are opposite in a lot of ways. so i just went off from bisbee to douglas and

we are at the titan missile miles south of downtown tucson, and we are in the launch control center of the missile site. that is essentially the nerve center of the missile site itself. from here, using all of this has a birdshe crew eye view of the condition of the then it is also from here that the crew would launch the missile if they were ordered to do so. so, in order to launch one, the crew needs a number of things. first of all, they have to receive a launch order that would tell them to execute their missile and what time they are going to do that. in order for them to do that, they will need two keys. two launch keys. one for the crew commander, one for the deputy crew commander. the launch keys are secured in the emergency war order safe. the iwo safe is secured by two padlocks. these are combination padlocks. each lock belongs to a specific officer on the crew. this is the deputy crew commander lock. only the officer who owns the lock knows the combination to the lock. we received those locks when we qualified for crew duty. we set the combination. that combination classifie

tucson. it's a moment that every arizonan and american remembers. checking your hot headlines - after 28 years on the job.. maricopa six years since the tragic shooting that happened in tucson? now, gabby giffords and her husband are sitting down with the sister station in tucson talking about progress. what she's been working on and doing to mutual forward. we're told that gabby giffords has been doing yoga twice a day and riding he spanish and attending political events. she worked to recover from the drad the traumatic brain injury. she has limited use of the right arm, walks with a limp and struggles to find the right words to say. y that focussed on the future while she's still healing. >> move ahead. move ahead. >> just move ahead. >> yes. >> don't worry about the past. we're focussed on the future impact. >> reporter: they want a positive impact as they're working to build a permanent memorial that will honor the victims of the tucson shooting. you can hear much more of the interview c

a caused downtown to actually decline. for 40 years, you had a dead downtown in tucson. in the last 10 years, it is gaining energy and is being redeveloped, re-energized. it is different than la calle. you have different constituencies that the developers and tourist promoters are trying to attract the but there is a different kind of energy taking hold downtown. i am hoping people that read this book will learn about history, the complicated nature of it, that sometimes we think of arizona in recent times, and it has been in the news for the last 10 years, of the attack on ethnic studies in the local school district, wow, this is new, but you have to contextualize this. perio ofd been many anti-mexicans sentiment in arizona. this is just what people think is new, but urban renewal is an , anti-mexican american sentiments grounded in fear, the same thing we are experiencing now in 2016. a lot of that rhetoric has been used in previous decades. urban renewal is an example of that, of making unwise planning decisions, targeting a group of people i justly, and there's lesso

upper 50s in flagstaff. 80 yuma. 79 tucson. #ub overlooking downtown phoenix 76 degrees currently. the wind is calm. we'll see temperatures go up to 80 today. then down to 75 by 6:00 p.m. then 69 degrees by 8:00 p.m. it is not just cool weather that's on the way. win is also on the way. we'll talk about what kind of >>> taking flight late earn today. first show at 7:30 tonight. it runs until sunday. i want to talk to laura to tell us about what people can expect >>> well "12news at noon" o?o1 >> people are noticing they have headaches. >> tonight we are taking a look at some common health problems that come from too much phone use. we are giving you quick fixes so your phone turn. [indiscernible] >>> two freight trains collided in florida causing a major derailment with train cars along the track. this happened early this morning in 100-miles northwest of orlando.? two train workers are being treated for minor injuries. they were carrying coal and rock. this derail. caused a 4,000 gallon fuel leak. rail workers are trying to figure out how this happened. >>> the trump transition te

those are live pictures from downtown seattle. people protesting in tucson, arizona, as well. we'll bring you late developments there. >>> we begin on the breaking news on the security clearances. joining us, cnn counterterrorism analyst, former cia and fbi official philip mudd. trump requesting the clearance for his kids, does that surprise you? >> it does. we need to take a step back for a moment. everything about this campaign, anderson, has been usual. let me take the names out of it. tame the name, trump, out, take the kids' name out. the president-elect relied on people during the campaign for advice. he goes to intelligence officials and says, when i begin to get intelligence briefings, more seriously, as i'm president-elect, i want the same people i relied on during the campaign to be in those intelligence briefings. will you give them a security clearance? put yourself in the position of intelligence professionals. you're going to say, if you think those are appropriate advisers, we will go through the formal process to try to clear them at a serious level so they can

downtown phoenix, we will take it to about 89 degrees. by 6:00 p.m. we'll dial it down to 80 and 74 ahead for 8:00 p.m. in the next forecast i will could break and the major cooling like knock your socks off cooling that we will see this week, like a 20-degree drop. >> the one that makes everybody sick. >> hopefully not. >> thanks. >>> construction workers could learn a lot from workers in japan. we showed you this one week ago. a five lane road in japan collapsed into a massive sink hole. this is how big it is, 90 feet wide, 100 feet long, 50 feet deep. it eventually from broken pipes. this is the same intersection today. you can hear clapping. they filled it with soil and managed to get the whole road way built. there is not a single sign that the road collapsed into a giant pit seven days ago. they're trying to figure out what triggered the collapse but they believe it is tied to subway construction. >>> usually we hear about wildfiring in the west. right now it's the southern u.s. that's in flames, some even forced to wear masks come back, you've

and also the i-10 heading south down toward the tucson area to force in the west bound lanes as well. westbound i-10 heading out of town just the typical trouble spots and it's been a tough day to travel because a lot of people left work early today or are out doing their last minute shopping. be extra careful. >> if you think our freeway look at this. out of los angeles. traffic coming to a standstill on i-405 in l.a. cars lined up. bumper to bumper, the road heading from santamanca to l.a. international. taillights and headlights, just everybody stuck a stunning image of yellow and red from above. >> isn't that just amazing. is that completely southern california. and let's take a live look at sky harbor. bird's eye view here. airports still packed but not as busy in past years aaa predicting a 6% drop of air travel from arizon. and it's so beautiful here. the first drop in four years. still pretty busy. as loved ones arrive back in the valley for the holiday and kristy siefkin has some of the special reunions. >> hundreds of families anxiously waiting as their loved ones roll throu

protests planned again today in tucson and in los angeles. the lapd already dealing with several days of protests. 8,000 people marched through downtown saturday. across the country also large protests in places like new york, portland and philadelphia. >> this election has set us back, and has definitely shown in the world that we are not as advanced as we think we are. >> i have been aghast at the -- the behavior of donald trump. i think his racist and xenophobic rhetoric has been very disruptive. >> i am a single father. i pay my taxes. i'm scared. i really am scared. of being deported to a country that i am not familiar with. >> the protesters, because of incidents like this, graffiti reading trump nation, whites only, that was discovered on sunday morning, sprayed on a wall at an episcopal church in a heavily latino neighborhood just outside of washington, d.c. the southern poverty law center says this is not an isolated incident. it has counted more than 300 cases of election related harassment and intimidation across the country. so le