and "dark blue" -- why is it dark blue? undercover?undercover cop show, but it's a darker side of law enforcement. so, you see my character do some really hard-core stuff, because he's undercover. he does a job that no one else wants to do. so, "dark" meaning the darker side of cop and the "blue," obviously, the uniform. >> jimmy: and this is bruckheimer? >> jerry bruckheimer. >> jimmy: so a lot of explosions? >> yeah. >> jimmy: a lot of explosions. a lot of shootings. >> and i got to fire a shotgun the other day in venice. unbelievable. >> jimmy: did you really? oh! >> so much fun. >> jimmy: why were you shooting it up? >> that's where the bad guys were. >> jimmy: cops don't carry around shotguns. >> i do. >> jimmy: that's really bad ass. yeah, so you're walking out, and you just -- i mean -- >> car chase, black car, shotgun, bad ass clothes. >> jimmy: got to get action figures for you next. >> we got 'em. >> jimmy: you do? >> no. >> jimmy: i was excited. i don't collect action figures, but i have the whole dylan mcdermott collection.

it began in india, where total darkness descended just after the break of dawn. >> you looked up and there was a star, a bright star in the sky. it was as dark as night. >> reporter: thousands of hindus gathered on the banks of the river in the belief that bathing in its water during special occasion cleanses away sins. but the rare event triggered a stampede when an elderly woman was trampled to death. some chose to stay inside. superstition -- superstitious that it the eclipse is caused by a dragon swallowing the sun and others got a closer look. soaring in chartered flights to get an unobstructed view. a huge path of the asian continent was swallowed in darkness, stretching from the philippines to south korea, bangkok to beijing. in some parts it lasted as long as six minutes and 39 seconds. at a zoo in japan, a sea lion and excited school children were the last to see the moon upstaging the sun and the last time the world will witness such a spectacular eclipse for another 123 years. charlie d'agata, cbs news. >> imagine that. i was just looking up the next lunar eclipse that wil

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as dawn turned to darkness across that continent it was the longest solar eclipse. >>> plus, britain's take on the u.s. banking crisis. a segment that we like to call "how they see it." tonight's report from itn is bound to raise eyebrows. >>> from the world's leading reporters and analysts, here is what's happening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." >>> made possible, in part, by the following funders -- >>> good evening. i'm martin savidge. >>> president barack obama and iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki sat down face to face today for meetings at the white house squaring off over the drawdown of american troops and concerns over the rising violence in iraq. today, not far from baghdad, two bombs exploded in a market kill at least five people and wounding dozens. it was the second day of bombings in what appears to be a growing campaign of religious and ethnic violence between shiitend sunni muslimings. the united states wants prime minister maliki shiite allies to share more power with the minority sunnis but a "washington post"diplomatic correspondent karen de young rep

the entire neighborhood is in the dark tonight. we are here. now we are out here reading. it was coming down in sheets and with thunder. 5500 homes in montgomery county still without power. 1100. dominion power about 1200 in northern virginia . d.c. with just over 100. abc 7 news. >> thank you, the severe weather may be to blame for a tractor-trailer accident. an 18 wheeler hit a barrier >> you can see mail spilled all over the highway. the driver had to be rushed to the hospital. his injuries do not appear to be life threatening. you can log on to our website at wjla.com, click on the weather tab on the top of the page. the center of a racially charged incident has accepted an invitation to the white house. braub invited henry lewis gates and the police officer for who arrested him for a beer at thee white house. someone reported a possible ea gates said hmiwaais ss streeted because of his race. gates was arrested. >> the public needs to be assured that at least in public places that the police are capable, competent and they can maintain order. you can't arrest people be

harford county more than 2000 in the dark. wjz is always on for updated forecasts, live doppler radar and the power outages in your area. or lock on to wjz.com. >>> we also have other breaking news tonight. right now baltimore city police are on the scene of a multiple shooting and apparently, one of the victims is a pregnant woman. the sound of gunshots filled the air just after 9:00 tonight. this is in the 2600 block of ashland avenue. now it is still not clear just how many people were shot originally. we were told it is about a half dozen. and we were told by police that one of the victims is indeed a pregnant woman. we will have the latest on this story that is still developing either later in this newscast or on the eyewitness news morning edition. >>> an apartment complex in baltimore county has once again become the scene of a carbon monoxide leak. today three residents of the coe village apartment complex got sick and had to go to the hospital. emergency crews had to ventilate two units tonight. they believe that a st

she had dark brown or black hair, dark eyes and so she was physically very striking. even childhood one of her schoolmates called hurt and orchid in the field of dandelions. so, she was different from everybody else from the beginning and was talked to different late and was taught explicitly or implicitly that man had everything in the world and the way to obtain it was to charm them and she learned her lesson very well. she married very young, at 17, a career military soldier in the dutch east indies army, the dutch east indies is now indonesia. but, he was a captain. she loved men in uniform. she loved officers particularly. he was much older than her. he came from a very good family and she felt should be assured the life of luxury. in fact, she read a newspaper ad that he plays, looking for why to take back to the indies with him. this turned out to be not quite is a good deal less it seemed. they became engaged '60s after meeting which gives new meaning to the phrase whirlwind romance and married shortly thereafter, knowing very little about each other in having

lifetime solar eclipse blankets asia in near a once in a lifetime solar eclipse blankets asia in near darkness. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm christina brown. >>> today we begin with yet another palin probe. an independent investigator in alaska has found east side that governor sarah palin may have violated ethics laws in her attempt to pay mounting legal bills from multiple ethics complaints filed against her. the finding is just the latest in a long line of headlines hounding the former vice presidential candidate who stepped down from office this week. in a confidential report obtained tuesday by the associated press, the investigator characterized the governor's fund-raising as using her elected position for, quote, personal gain. the issue is focused on the so-called alaska trust fund set up by friends and supporters to help palin cover half a million dollars in legal bills. the investigator urges palin to refuse the funding and suggests the issue could be resolved without a formal reprimand. the governor's office called the report inaccura

it's a dark day for the earth as the moon steals the spotlight from the sun. >> couric: good evening, everyone, you may have forgotten about it, but the h1n1 flu virus has not gone away. in fact, it's expected to make a rebound. so researchers are moving as rapidly as they can to come up with a vaccine and they need your help. in this country, it's infected more than a million people. worldwide it's killed more than 700. today the u.s. government called for volunteers to take a test shop. here's medical correspondent dr. jennifer ashton. >> reporter: health officials have delivered the first shots in the battle against h1n1 in australia. volunteers are lining up to become test cases for the new vaccine. >> people are dying from it so i'm happy to help out and help everyone find a vaccine or cure. >> couric: volunteers will soon be lining up in the u.s. as well. the government announced today clinical trials of the vaccine will start at n eight medical centers in early august. >> we're going to be working far into the night as other people in the laboratories to really get the answers

as kind of moody and dark. >> no, no, funny. it should be funny. listen, i'm writing these songs.is one. ♪ like a bridge over troubled water i will lay me down ♪ so funny. [ laughter ] >> how is that funny? >> because the guy thinks he's the bridge. he's a bridge. it's funny. >> look, i have been working on a thing where we come out, and we go, "we are two wild and crazy guys." [ laughter ] >> that's funny. >> that is not funny. how is that funny? it's sad. they are both wild and crazy. so, they have a compounded woe. [ laughter ] >> okay. listen, i have another song that i am working on that i think it's funny, too. ♪ that's the sound of silence ♪ >> that's so serious. >> no, it's funny. >> how is it funny? [ laughter ] >> the silence has no sound. >> look, i'm working on a thing where we come out like this, and we have these arrows, and we put them on our heads. [ laughter ] >> that's great. that's so funny. >> it's not funny. the arrow representing the woes of the world penetrating the human mind? you know what, paul, i think that we are on a different wavelength, and maybe the

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it is dark. but the smell, the smell of tears, the smell of human sweat, flesh, i'll never forget that as long as i live. then when you complete the tour and you think this is -- this emotional experience is over with, you go to the end and they call it the door of no return. that's where you look out the the ocean and there was at that point it was very hard to hold myself together because i began to think what if, what if one of my ancestors, my great, great grandparents emerged from this darkness and all they saw was this vast ocean, not knowing exactly where they would be going and what would happen next. and when i reached the door of no return, by then i -- my own tears were mixed in with the others that had been there perhaps for centuries. you wanted to cry out and say, why, god, why? why? why? that part of history we must remember. we must never forget. >> it's just incredible to hear her tell that story t. power of her words. the president has family in africa, although in kenya. i can'

. >> we are almost ready to wrap up and i wanted to note that, in many ways, "mirrors" is a very dark book in many ways. there is a lot of very terrible things told in this book.

. >> within the darkness, i saw from the corner of my eye a really -- a dark, swirling mass. like that funnel cloud. and she was like, maybe we should get away from the door. >> and even though there is a lot of intense damage in this very neighborhood, no one was injured. power has been knocked out. when we first rolled up about 5 a.m., it was obviously pitch black. now that the light of day is going to help people be able to clean up a little bit but they still want bge to get out here and repair those downed power lines. don, back to you. >> thank you, mary. >>> right now more than 15,000 people across the state are without electricity. the greatest number of out ages in baltimore county where over 10,000 still do not have electricity. at the height of the storm more than 40,000 bge customers lost power. stay with wjz eyewitness news, when severe threatening wjz is is always on for your own live look at doppler weather radar and the list of forecasts along a list of outages in the area go to wjz.com. >>> a 2-year-old girl is among the dozen people recovering this morning f

. >>> millions turned their eyes to the sky this morning as dawn turned to darkness. >>> the must see event swept across asia, no ticket required. millions made the most of the longest solar eclipse the world will see for more than a century. it began in india where darkness descended just after the break of dawn. >> it's a bright star in the sky. it was as dark as night. >> reporter: thousands of hundred dues gathered on the banks of the ganges river in the belief that bathing in its waters during special occasions cleanses away sin. but a rerent triggered a stampede and an elderly woman was trampled to death. others dared to get a closer look, soaring high above in the specially chartered flight together and unobstructed view. a huge path of the asian continental was swallowed in darkness, stretching from the philippines to south korea, bangkok to beijing. in some parts it lasted as long as 6 minutes and 39 seconds. at a zoo in japan, they were the last to see the moon up staging the sun. it's the last time the world will witness such a spectacular eclipse for another 123 years. >>

here you see a picture that goes under total darkness. the area when for over six minutes in total darkness, which is unusually long. you see a time lapse picture going dark. this is where you see the corona of the sun. and he did atmosphere off the -- the heated atmosphere. it is rare incident tuesday a total eclipse, but you see a pretty good view. we're giving you a good chance to see what is going on. we have fireworks this evening. thunderstorms cropped up. this is radar imagery, and the line of thunderstorms develop into carroll county and baltimore county. it is still there but diminished in intensity. it was a severe thunderstorm which hail and strong winds, and it did not move particularly rapidly, so if you were under it, you got a considerable amount of rain. rain estimates were in baltimore county. up to 2.5 inches, so a narrow area of north of us. they got a generous rain out of this, and there is more in the forecast, not necessarily tonight, but over the next several days. only a trace of rain measured today, and that was t

her latest book is "the dark side: the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on american ideals." welcome to you both. what do we know, jane, about who knew what, what they should have known and who didn't know? >> well i guess what we know now is because the new director of the c.i.a. who told the committee what we know is that former vice president cheney specifically wanted the committee not to be briefed on a particular program in the war on terror. and that's unusual. i mean we knew that he really disliked the oversight part of congress. he's always been against it but to cut them out on purpose is, you know, it's going to create an obvious huge fight, a big problem. >> ifill: david, what do we know, if anything, about what that program may have been? >> we don't know much. it appears that this was a program seeking to go after probably assassinate senior al qaeda leadership after

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>> light or dark actually. i personally don't like the taste of the dark guinness type beer. beer, possibly silicone, believe it or not, that can help calcium deposit into bones and build up bone mineral density. again, this is not a vitamin. this is not something people want to start doing for the health benefits. if you are going to participate moderately, there might actually be some added benefit. >> all right. cheers to that. dr. jennifer ashton, thank you very much. now that we've dealt with beer, let's move over to maggie rodriguez and coffee. >> i've got my morning brew here. coffee is part of most everybody's daily routine. but there's roasted blends we don't know about. lucy danziger is editor in chief of "self" magazine. she's here to tell us about some of the best. let's get coffee bean 101. >> coffee is a lot like wine. you can become a connoisseur. i am an aficionado of this. i love my morning brew. it's really preference. when you're looking at coffee, you have to say to yourself, do you want organic? usa organic that says it's chemical free? do you want a stro

that was not the case because we were kept in the dark. >> reporter: c.i.a. director leon pen eta found out about the program on june 23rd and killed it on june 24th and kill informed cong -- informed congress that day. some c.i.a. say it never got to the fully operational stage. so there wasn't a need to tell congress. part of the worry seems to be the more people who know about it, the bigger chance of a leak. some republicans point to the timing of the report. >> this comes to a statement unproven of speaking pelosi that the c.i.a. had lied to her about interrogation techniques and this looks like it's providing coverage by her. >> reporter: lawmakers say they were kept in the dark. caroline shively, fox news. >>> sonia sotomayor will appear before the judicial committee tomorrow. the prident complimented her by making calls to 89 senators and is confident she will win senate confirmation. if confirmed she'll become the first hispanic on the supreme court. >>> and two british newspapers report michael jackson's sister la toya believes his brother was murde

and the answer is, even for people who have dark eyes, your eyes can take a beating from the uva and uvb rays so the real answer to you is to wear sunglasses every day. and look at the hang tag that's on your sunglasses. because the sunglasses should be polarized and filter out the damaging rays. if those glasses are fashionable but they don't filter out the rays, they're not doing any good. and the reason that's important, ann, is because sunscreen -- i mean sunlight to your eyes is the number one cause of cataracts and blindness later in life. >> holy cow. i thought you wore them to look cool. >> no. they should be cool, and keep you from getting cataracts. >> very good. now we've got a viewer e-mail from kristen in oregon. she writes i've heard infants under six months shouldn't use sunscreen. is there a reason for this or

coming up next, marveling at one of nature's greatest mysteries as dawn turns to darkness.f we don't act, medical bills will wipe out their savings. if we don't act, she'll be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. and he won't get the chemotherapy he needs. if we don't act, health care costs will rise 70%. and he'll have to cut benefits for his employees. but we can act. the president and congress have a plan to lower your costs and stop denials for pre-existing conditions. it's time to act. is. >> couric: we end tonight with a look at the sky and the solar eclipse seen throughout much of asia in ancient times, an eclipse could set off a panic, but now it's incredible awe on those rare occasions when the moon makes the sun disappear terry mccarthy watched in the china. (cheers and applause) >> reporter: it was the eclipse we almost didn't see. >> come back! >> reporter: the longest eclipse this century-- which lasted up to six minutes and 39 seconds-- occurred over asia. from india to china in moon soon season with heavy clouds in many places. we got lucky. t

today "the new york times" seems to have shone light on those dark corners. sources telling the paper that the former vice president implemented a secret counterterrorism operation. and instructed it be hidden from congress. >> welcome. >> reporter: leon panate today meeting leaders in philippines have run the cia for the obama administration since february. but it wasn't apparently until june that he learned of this covert operation. within 24 hours, we're told, he'd canceled the programnd told congress. u.s. law requires the cia to keep congress briefed on its activities, but the law is ambiguously worded and open to interpretations. the relationship between these two bodies fought at best, particularly over the obama administration and its legacy. >> i know that i've been lied to. this is certainly one example of an investigation, i hope, that will have into the cia persistently lying to the congress over a number of years. >> i want to start with some breaking news this morning. the front story in "the new york times," is that former vice president dick c

hope is to be able to sing in the middle of the darkness. and i think that's what hope is for me. can still sing in the middle of the darkness. >> reporter: however, after serving the spiritual and material needs of this community for much of his adult life, father peter banks will soon depart watts. he's been asked to take a job as a church recruiter in a rural area of california. although he says he feels duty- bound to fill the position, banks acknowledges he feels conflicted about leaving this community. >> that's an emotional issue for me. it's going to be a big struggle to leave here. i'm at peace with god. that's all i can say. i am at peace with god. i feel it is god's will that i continue his work. we need priests for the church and brothers. >> reporter: but it hurts? >> oh, it hurts deeply. i have put so much of my life in here. i have invested so much in children. it is the biggest change of my life. i feel like i am leaving home twice. i left ireland 37 years ago and i feel like i am leaving home again. but i've come to terms with it. and i know that i am doing it for

everything that's done in the dark will come to the light. but i don't feel like this light needs to be so bright. it shadows out the legacy of steve mcnair. >> mcnair's funeral is set for saturday in his home state of mississippi. >>> police in nashville, in the meantime, say sahel kazemi's life was spinning out of control. here's video evidence of the police dashboard camera. her arrest for driving under the influence on july 2nd just days before the shootings. she was in a vehicle that mcnair had bought for her for her birthday. the 20-year-old told police she was not drunk, just high, when she refused a breath-alyzer. police say mcnair took a cab home. he was in the car with her. later he posted bale for catherine -- sahel kazemi. >>> u.s. park police arrested marion barry on saturday. his lawyers say the two were on their way to rehoboth beach for an independence day party when they stopped for a meal in annapolis. the lawyer says the woman changed her mind then about the trip. the u.s. attorney's office said they decided not to proceed

cheney told the cia to keep congress in the dark on it and cia directors over that time, over those 8 years were okay with it. they thought it never reached a high enough level to warrant a briefing. the law requires the cia to keep the intel committee informed on activity but it never got to fully operational state, they say, so there was not a need to tell congress about it and the worry is, if the more people know about it, the big -- and the more people knowing about it the bigger chance of a leak. >> eric: and congress was briefed continually and fully but leon panetta thought it was big enough to cans it and what does it tell us about the program and what it involves. >> reporter: i think he acted that fast, shows how important panetta viewed it and he learned of it on june 23rd and killed it on the the and briefed the house and senate intelligence committee in an emergency meeting that same day. now, here's what the cia says about it. they say, they won't talk about -- won't discuss anything that may have been in a classified briefing. and, this could actually have some sweepin

so women of dark color can still get suntans. so, although women with dark skin will not be as susceptible to skin cancer and changes as a white woman, yes, your skin can still take a beating. so if you have dark skin, still use a sunscreen or at least a good moisturizer. >> you can worry less? >> you can worry less but you can't go through life with no worry. >> okay, because it might actually -- sun can age your skin. >> it can absolutely age your skin. >> all right we have a question from fran on the phone in coral springs, florida. hey, fran. >> good morning. >> hi, fran. >> this is my question. we're told that it's beneficial to have spf in our makeup, i have spf 45 in my moisturizer, 15 in my foundation. but sun protection should be applied every two hours to be effective. how do we go from having it in our makeup? >> assuming you put on a good spf in your moisturizer and you go to work you're probably not going to be in the sun that much. however if you sweat off the makeup or go from the office to the outside you have to

accusations congress was kept in the dark by dick cheney about a planned counter terror operation. >>> closing in on the killers of a prominent florida couple. the parents of 16 children. tonight, an arrest. >>> forced to dit. an extraordinary landing on the hudson wasn't the first. why some go so wrong, and an inside look at what it takes to bring one down. >> that's t you're in the water. >>> and wind at his back. a young sailors race against the elements and into the record a young sailors race against the elements and into the record books. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. members of congress are reacting tonight to news that for years they were completely shut out of a top secret cia counter terrorism program. apparently because the vice president at the time, dick cheney, didn't want them to know about it. and that revelation is opening old sores about cia secrets and questions about what else congress may not have been told about. nbc's mike viqueira is at the white house tonight with more. mike, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. ci

this is a show on which men and women go on dates in complete darkness. it's pitch black which eliminates like physical appearance from the equation. it's an interesting idea and actually getting good reviews. here's what they call a sneak peek. the single guys and three single girls together under one roof. in total darkness. share their struggles. , >>ac zis that you? >> watch out for the stairs. >> oh! somebody help me! >> and their joys. >> you feel good. >> get off my, dude! >> dating in the dark, monday, july 20, on abc. >> well, that's -- what will they think of next? [ cheers and applause ] this is -- this is pretty good. this is from a mixed martial arts website. rampage jackson took some time to talk to a reporter for the website and this is what you call an in depth interview. >> i was supposed to do a couple of movies, but ultimate fighting kept me busy. the story of my life. >> absolutely. well, you're very good at it. well, i have an idea for a romantic comedy. starring you and me. >> yeah. >> about a wrestler to who falls in love with a rin

there are probably 100 voices in tears in the darkness. to keep the story from going in a hundred directions we come back every now and then to one particular voice. come back to one man who went through everything that we wrote about, a young montana cowboy called than steel. ben steele went through everything. the battle, the death march, the prison camps. he taught himself to draw and began a remarkable prof. of art. 22 of those sketches are in here in the text of the book. you will see many of these tonight. we have made slides of them to show you. it took a long time to dig out the story of the japanese. we spent three weeks in japan talking to 23 former imperial army soldiers and a quarter of the book is told from their point of view. we think that perspective makes our story unique. tonight, we are going to try to give you a small sample of those three narratives, war storytelling points of you. we will talk about the heart of the book, the death march, and begin with you experiencing the march through ben steel's point of view, ben

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new accusations that congress was kept in the dark by dick cheney about a terror operation. >>> and unfriendly skies. more storms threaten another launch attempt of the space more storms threaten another launch attempt of the space shuttle "endeavour." captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning, everyone. i'm dan kloeffler. and today we begin with with so sonia's story. today confirmation hearings begin for the supreme court nominee. and although she is expected to be confirmed, republicans are promising to put up a fight. for the latest we go to brian mooar live from washington. brian, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dan. sotomayor's confirmation is all but locked up but republicans are promising a tough fight. after weeks of courtesy calls on capitol hill, judge sonia sotomayor is ready to fight for a seat on the supreme court. president obama called to give her a private pep talk from the oval office. and some democrats are predicting a slam dunk confirmation. >> i think there's a very good chance she's going to get as many or more votes than judge rob

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his book a leap in the dark a struggle to greet the american republic one defrancis tavern book award as the years of best book on the american revolution. he is with us to discuss almost a miracle. the american victory in the war on independent. please join me in welcoming john ferling. [applause] >> thank you for your it's a delight to be in chicago and to be at this fine institution. i wanted to begin by telling you that i had wanted to write this book for a long time. i taught a course on u.s. military history, taught a course on the american revolution and spent about half of that course dealing with the war. and taught a couple of seminars on the war of independence, but i had to wait until my editor finally gave me clearance to write a book. i also wanted to write it because a book that i wrote in 2003, a leap in the dark, was a political history of the revolutionary era and i wanted to write a book that would deal with the military aspects of the revolutionary era. and i took the title, "almost a miracle," from a line in washington's farewell address to the continental army. h