i want to go back to myron hawkins, first cousin of michael jackson., it wasn't a belt that jackson's father beat him with, it was a strap. do you think that makes it better? >> nancy, are you -- is that -- are you there? >> i am. >> okay, good. you keep stressing on that belt. i just want to make this fact known. my uncle did not abuse no one. he did not abuse me. we were disciplined. my mother whooped me with a belt, but didn't abuse me. no one in michael's family ever went to the hospital with injuries -- >> that is not what michael jackson says. >> i know what he says. what michael said was from his standpoint as a child. michael did not believe children should be struck or any type of discipline like that. okay? but anyone in america, millions of americans out there watching what i'm saying know that the normal procedure was if you were disobeyed, a lot of times a strap was used -- >> say what?! not everybody agrees with you. >> that's your opinion, okay? >> okay, and that is yours, myron. >> okay. that's your opinion, but you're trying to accuse

. >> to myron hawkins, everyone, with us tonight exclusively.he first cousin of michael jackson. he was there for the private family service for michael jackson. sir, thank you for being with us. tell me how the family is reacting to what many people think is a foregone conclusion. he's dead. he wasted away taking these drugs and getting drugs through all these people for years. mr. hawkins? >> oh, yes. at this time, i'd like to make a comment regarding that. the family is just waiting to hear the final results. i can't comment on that because i don't know michael's doctors. i can't say as to what he was really doing before he died. all i know is that michael -- we're still shocked regarding his death. quite upset about it. we are still grieving. >>> a video is surfacing showing the moment that michael jackson's hair caught fire. while filming that pepsi commercial. happened 25 years ago now. pepsi later settled with michael jackson for $1.5 million. michael jackson donated that money to the burn unit in culver city, california, and the burn war

the humphrey-hawkins act require the government to follow a man did. so often, these goals conflict with one another matter how knowledgeable are well intentioned, the fed can't meet either gold very well. i am not one to blame chairman ben bernanke for this because congress is hutu plan to set up these conflicting targets 30 years ago. it is imperative we get off of this inflationary-deflationary roller coaster such as the one that we are living to right now. when it comes to managing the national currency, virtue has a central role. at the end of the day, the central bank cannot cheat or paper over problems. sooner or later, such decisions will catch up with us and the victims will be the people. long-term economic growth and rising living standards are the major purposes of government and they require a currency that holds predictable value. it is time conservatives broke through the wall of silence and started a national dialogue aimed at ending the cycle of instability and restoring the dollar standard of value. the course of our current course of

i mean, part of your responsibility under humphrey-hawkins is to try to make progress towards these goals and it seems just setting monetary policy, you know, won't necessarily solve the problems of the full employment and the growth and the production and the balance of budget and i didn't know if that was offbudget for you or them or if there is any consultation going. obviously, if you have any comments on your point of view on some of these expenditures of what's going on, i'd be interested in hearing them as well. >> the federal commission is nonpartisan. as i speak to members of congress and their staff, in terms of my policy positions, because i'm nonpartisan i don't -- i try not to get involved of the details of specific programs, fiscal programs in particular. but i have spoken to the issue of fiscal sustainability which i did again today. and the importance of when thinking about the programs that one is undertaking, the time frames and the costs is to think of the federal budget to make sure we have a trajectory that will be sustainable in the medium term. and i've made that po

. >>> washington is losing the smith and hawkins score it is an upscale gardening store. it is shutting down all 56 locations because of the weak economy including the smith and hawkins store on 31st street in georgetown. clearance sales begin today. >>> here's a sweet treat. we learned of one new store opening. the first peeps and company store will open at national harbor in november. not only will you be able to buy the pastel marshmallow candy but t-shirts, peeps pens and key chains and peeps china. some of it is even made by lennox. very high end. >> how about that. peeps and little kitty. i'll tell you. >>> are you taking a bottle of water to work today? americans spend billions of dollars each year on bottled water but now the question is what is in it? tap water is regulated by the government. now a consumer watch dog group wants bottled water regulated the same way. laura was on captiol hill on wednesday. >> consumers spend more for bottled water than tap water but they have no way to know what is in the bottle. only two faof 188 bottled water make facts disclose

kirstan hawkins, good morning.ou go so far as to say that nationalized health care could be the difference between life and death. explain. >> thank you for having me on. as anyone with cystic fibrosis understands, access to doctors is very important for people suffering with cystic fibrosis. as we have learned with the nationalized health-care system in great britain and canada, nationalized health care severely reduces your access to doctors because of long wait lines and financial restraints. if he does not see doctors when he needs to see them, it would dramatically lower his life expectancy. when he was diagnosed in march, if we had not gone to the doctor within the next week, to a specialist that could give us the medication that he needed, he would have been in trouble because he was severely underweight. if we had waited for 12 months, i do not know what would have happened. bill: your options would have been limited, affecting the health of your son. why are you convinced of that? >> we started researching

. >> isn't it congress with the old humphrey hawkins act, passed back in 1978, create a dual mandate, said get inflation down, keep prices stable on the one hand, keep the unemployment low on the other hand. are those conflicting? in terms of an audit, don't you need to repeal humphrey hawkins and give the fed a clear mandate to stabilize the currency, value of money and prevent inflation. >> i don't think that would be a bad idea. i think the audit could lead to something like that. first, we want to know what they've been doing. those are impossible mandates, full employment, they haven't done very well there. they want stable prices. stable prices of money, back in the '70s, we had interest rates of 21%, not less than 1. it's a total failure, they give us inflation, recessions, give us financial crisis, given us a depression and nobody says, hey, what's going on here. this is the first time the american people -- i spoke to a bunch of high school kids and they're ecstatic about the issue of the federal reserve. i just can't believe it. young people and a lot of others are waking up

that is hawkins point road at efficiency way.eep in mind there is a sinkhole on the on-ramp to the inner loop from southbound route 170. that is going to have that ramp closed for emergency repairs. expect for that ramp to remain closed throughout the morning commute. a crash in howard county, route 1 at route 175. expect emergency crews there. this is 695 at the bw parkway. it's a bright morning out there but traffic appears to be flowing smoothly in both directions. back to you. >>> a baltimore community comes together symbolically saying enough is enough. sherrie johnson joins us now in our studio with more. >> reporter: good morning. on a breezy summer evening baltimore police and citizens in the carrollton ridge community hit the streets to fight against crime. the citizens on patrol walk comes after 5-year-old raven wyatt was shot in the head last week while walking back from the store. the community is outraged by this violence and wants to take back their streets. neighbors and police teamed up for the citizens on patrol

. >> i'm just getting word of a crash at hawkins point road and efficiency way, in the city.beltway, on the outer loop after wilkens avenue three lanes get by as you make your way around to the beltway now. they have cleared out that crash from earlier and traffic does remain slow from frederick road. at the inner loop approaching liberty road that earlier crash remains on the shoulder not really causing an impact at this time. the on-ramp from southbound camp meade road, 170 from the inner loop remains closed for several hours as crews repair a sinkhole on the on-ramp. howard county, 95 southbound, we have a bright morning and traffic flowing freely as you make your way southbound towards the capitol beltway. back to you. >>> searchers are covering the gulf of mexico near tampa looking for five people on board a private plane that went down. teams occurred a two-mile debris field in the water near port richey. the twin engine cessna was headed for tampa from texas. the faa says they lost radio contact with the plane just before 2:00 yesterday afternoon. >>> a 14-year-old boy

recently trumped me by her genealogy research and came up with a 5th grade grandfather, euro reyeah hawkins, the declaration, can be relied on and enlisted in 1775, april 19, the same day as the battles of lexington and concord and served 8 months in boston and reenlisted and served in london and white plains and joined washington's forces, and went to trenton, and he was in battle there and went to princeton in battle there and reenlisted under the israel angels who i dropped were at those locations and -- documented were at those locations and those individuals corroborated hawkins' service. >> host: what this is question about him, sir. >> caller: my question is, i am able to corroborate through secondary sources the locations of those units, are there primary sources that you could recommend to me where i can do further corroboration? >> host: thank you so much for your questions. the first was, washington's meeting with rochambeau. >> guest: right, he met with him. >> host: who you explain who he is. >> guest: he is the commander of the french army. france allied with the united states

here is david hawkins, thanks for joining us. what's sarah palin up to right now?> well, it's hard for me to understand if she's trying to introduce herself to the nation again, should be spending more time in the lower 48, but she'll have plenty of time to do that in five days. it can't be underestimated that trying to maintain a profile in the lower 48 is pretty difficult to do up there. it's far away. takes most of a day just to get to the lower 48. she is saying good-bye to her constituents now, then will be spending less time in alaska going forward. >> what are you picking up in terms of the way the establishment in the republican party, the way they're viewing sarah palin these days, whether they consider it a headache or something intriguing. >> a little of both. i think there's still an intrigue. there's a sense that she can use this time to get a little more seasoned and do the basic political work she has not done. this has all happened in less than a year since she burst on the stage. she has got a lot of time left in her political career. she is still

>> the law of the humphrey-hawkins law say the goals of monetary policy should be full employment and price stability. that's what we're looking to. on the issue of taking away other powers, i want to point out this is what was happening a few years ago in a number of countries, for example the uk. >> please answer my question. we know what the law is. i'm asking for your opinion. >> think that law is appropriate and i follow that law. >> you follow the law to the letter. >> to try to achieve full employment and price stability, yes. >> okay. last question then since my time is running out. yesterday you made it clear that you think that the fed has the tools to stop the coming inflation by controlling all the new money you have printed. you may be right. but do you have the will as former chairman volcker did to tighten even if the economy is still weak? >> senator, it was in 1978 that in the humphrey-hawkins bill that congress put in the exclusion for monetary policy in the gao audit bill before volcker came in. he took those decisions because congress didn't intervene although plen

with me is david hawkins. maybe that was pail pail's office on the phone. he's managing editor of congressional quarterly weekly and radio talk show host with us, reynard jackson. do understand why governor sarah palin is quitting but not a quitter? do we understand her motives reynard, i will start with you. >> she doesn't understand her motives. how can we understand? she looked bad on friday and if she did what a lot of folks suggested after the campaign. go back to alaska bone up on a couple of key issue and come back out, she could have been viable. her career is over, period. >> shrewd or irrational and erratic as mccain staff suggest in that vanity article. >> she is sending confusing signals. the woman is only 45 years old. she could run for president after the three of us are dead and she would be younger than john mccain. she has a long time to put herself back together and reinvent herself. everyone pronounced richard nixon dead. the current cliche is to compare her to nixon. >> she's no nixon. i knew nixon. >> but he came back. >> one other opti

i am a part of their responsibility under humphrey-hawkins is to try to make progress toward these goals and it seems to me just setting monetary policy you know will necessarily solve the problems of the full employment, the growth production in the balance of trade and budget. i did not know if that is just off balance for you and for them, or if there is any consultation going on. obviously if you have any comments about your point of view on some of these expenditures, i would be interested in hearing them as well. >> of course the federal reserve is nonpartisan an independent. i to speak to the president's advisers periodically as they speak to members of congress and their staff. in terms of my policy positions, because i am nonpartisan, i try not to get involved in the details of specific programs, fiscal programs in particular but i have spoken to the issue of fiscal sustainability which i did-- begin today and the importance of when thinking about the programs that one is undertaking, timeframes, cost in silwan to think about the implications for the federal budget, to make sure

and hawkins ranked first and specialties such as ear, nose and throat and rheumatology.ther top hospitals include the mayo clinic in hocht, minnesota, ronald reagan ucla medical center in los angeles. the cleveland kent declinic and massachusetts general in boston. >>> the university of medical mtd's wind tunnel may not be as famous as the legendary basketball programs but this year, the tunnel set brights its 60th birthday and use it to test the effects of extreme wind and simulated hurricane conditions. today i went to check it out. >> one leg through here and one leg through here. >> we do studies to the effect of wind on all kinds of things. mostly vehicles. airplanes, automobiles. trucks. ships. actually water employee submarines, all people can hang in there up to category 3 conditions. >> reporter: this is what a 40 miles per hour wind would look and snd like. for us to go higher, we are going to have to get the camera out here. >> 80 miles per hour. this is what it will look and sound like if you were tethered to something. i can still talk and move my hands. tha

i don't think we saw it in his hawkins testimony, and i don't think we saw it in terms of his news hour has to yet to face a reporter or pan that will knows anything about monetary policy, something he ducked. this debate that mike brings up here is a good one. the fed's history, all that needs to be on the table and debated, that is a more true defense. >> you know what's going to happen, keeps doing this public stuff, people are going to show up who know about it and engaging him in a dialogue. i mean, i would like to see him, honestly, the europeans do this. why can't the americans, mark, after the federal open market committee policy meeting where rates and money suppliers, why not hold a news conference and take questions from the financial press? >> so political, beneath him. >> the reason, larry, the fed statement speaks for all 19 members, the concern would be that the fed chairman answering questions would not be speaking for all -- >> europeans can do it -- >> too tawdry. >> hearing terrible defenses, too todd rib, not mystifying enough, speaks for all the people. he is the fe

i am a part of their responsibility under humphrey-hawkins is to try to make progress toward these goalsand it seems to me just setting monetary policy you know will necessarily solve the problems of the full employment, the growth production in the balance of trade and budget. i did not know if that is just off balance for you and for them, or if there is any consultation going on. obviously if you have any comments about your point of view on some of these expenditures, i would be interested in hearing them as well. >> of course the federal reserve is nonpartisan an independent. i to speak to the president's advisers periodically as they speak to members of congress and their staff. in terms of my policy positions, because i am nonpartisan, i try not to get involved in the details of specific programs, fiscal programs in particular but i have spoken to the issue of fiscal sustainability which i did-- begin today and the importance of when thinking about the programs that one is undertaking, timeframes, cost in silwan to think about the implications for the federal budget, to make sure

. >> this humphreys hawkins, do we take it live both days? >> i'm sure we will. usually 10 a.m.: lely 10:00 a.m. >> do we get a break here? >> i thought he was going to say does he pave a path out of quantitative easing? >> i saw the notes. they did request us for the top of the 9:00 and 10:00. i don't know about the 11:00. >> i wasn't interested in what he was going to say. will he preempt -- >> it never gets old. >> a quarterly survey of forecasters finds the recession's grip on the economy appears to be easying but has not ended. it suggests a profitability remains weak in q2. 45% say the worst is over for the economy. while the other 55% argue the low point has not been hit. >> speaking of the economy, the white house sees economic growth, showing signs of progress. the white house budget director said second quarter gdp numbers are likely to look a lot better than first quarter. you saw paulson with the trade balance. even if it's negative, you add it into the gdp. you see who else came around last week? roubini. >> he later said his comments were taken out

dennis hawkins, 64 years of age of course washington, d.c. lavanda, nicknamed nikki, king, 23 years old, of washington, d.c. veronica dubose, 29 years old, also of washington, d.c. cameron williams, 36 years of age, also of washington. major general david f. wherley, 62 years of age, and his wife, ann, 62 years of age. both of washington, d.c. and lastly, jeanice mcmillan, 42 queers of age, of springfield, virginia. ms. norton mentioned her activity and the professionalism with which she carried out her duties. it is clear that what happened was a computer failure or line failure, some failure, which was supposed to automatically notify the train that was moving that there was a train stopped in front of it. that mechanism failed. today, nine families are incomplete. there are nine fresh wounds that will be very slow in healing. nothing, nothing, of course, can reverse those deaths. but we must learn from them. and we must act to prevent such tragedies in the future. on a practical level we must ensure that funding is sufficient to accomplish

two city accidents, quarantine and hawkins, point and pairing parkway at hill and grove.ok at your speeds and your drive times. there's a live look at the west side of the beltway at 70. the traffic report is brought to you by filtrate filters for the air you breathe from 3m. >>> in the news this morning, trying to keep it open, we stay on the story. >> reporter: the alumni association has filed a lawsuit hoping to keep the doors to towson catholic open. they are closing the high school because of low enrollment and a budget deficit of $650,000. during a closed meeting last night between students, parents, school administrators and staff it was announced that an injunction was filed in baltimore circuit county court to stop the school from closing. other schools continue to offer the students here spots for the fall. back to you. >>> today a judge will decide if interrogation tapes of the washington, d.c., woman charged with killing her four daughters will be allowed at trial. during that interrogation, she admitted she killed her four girls because they were possessed by

. >> the other big news, of course, is ben bernanke testifying day two for the humphrey hawkins testimony. he is back for the senate banking committee. let's return to that and listen. >> i would further and say, if you had the systemic risk resolution authority, that the fed's ability to lend to a failing systemic institution ought to be curtailed, so that it could be invoked only at the request of the resolution authority as a support of their operations. so i would make our interventions of the sort we did with aig, i would make them illegal. >> well, i -- appreciate the fact that you could envision, even going beyond the -- what we have now. because we've got to address successfully this issue of moral hazard, where we're perpetually in a cycle that doesn't serve our financial system or citizens, and so i'll look forward to being in attendance when that speech occurs, and i thank you very much for your testimony. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator murphy. senator? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. chairman bernanke. welcome to the committee. it's always good to be in touch with y

and you can see the astros' pitcher troy hawkins was on the mound.ll be allowed to pitch if houston sees him and we have a plethora of guys available for this game tomorrow night, the continuation game. >> and we know that, and clippard wasn't here and burnett was not here and i'm not sure ifberg map was here. that is three pitchers -- pitchers. >> it is academic. >> because we're the home team and that takes care of that. we hope you'll be with us tomorrow night starting at 7:00. and then the regular game will start after that, the regularly scheduled game. what happened with ross detwiler today? his explanation from the clubhouse. >> well, you know, i was getting ahead of some people and then just not finishing them off, and, you know, i was leaving some pitches up and i got hit. >> and the fastball? >> and you were in some pretty good stretches. [ inaudible ] >> for the most part, yes, and there were some pitches that were left to the release point. [ inaudible ] >> did you feel good at all in your bullpen session before the game? >> yeah, it was

all, today we meet to receive the semi annual monetary policy report mandated by the 1978 humphrey hawkinsmployment act. if the xwoel goal is still employment, the news today is rather grim. unemployment in june was 9.5%, highest level in 26 years. most economists from the fed itself believe that it could top 10% before the end of this year. meanwhile, americans who have lost or are worried about losing their jobs, their homes, retirement security have watched while others wreep the benefits of our government's response. they hear about a stock market rally and wonder if it will ever be enough to make up the retirement savings that have been wiped out. some cases almost within minutes. they hear about million dollar bonuses going to ceos whose firms caused the melt down in the first place while rank and file workers have lost a nation, laid off or forced to accept pay cuts. they hear about large financial institutions, large banks bailed out with billions of taxpayer dollars and government-backed credit and now reporting billions of dollars in profits but they still can't get a loan themse

. >> new plan in order to make sure governor barbour can do his we have rich hawkins, mayor fetterman and the haley barbour who has a tough schedule but jeff merkley is going to come back here at 12:45 with senator inhofe 'cause senator inhofe wants to be there for that and any other members who want to be here to just hear from the governor. then i will come back at 2:00 and hear from the three other panel members. so with that, we've got to continue to move quickly so, senator udall, you're on. >> thank you, madam chair. secretary salazar, great to have you back. as you know western states face immediate impacts from climate change. according to the report on climate change impacts, that report found that human-induced climate change appears to be well underway in the southwest. recent warming is among the most rapid in the nation. this is driving declines in spring snowpack and colorado river flow. this report found that colorado -- the colorado compact was based on unrealistic assumptions when it allocated the water and the river among the seven basin states which include colorado

and steven angel, who i documented were at those locations and those two individuals corroborated hawkins' service. >> so what's the question about him, sir? >> so my question is, i've been able to corroborate through secondary sources the locations of those units. are there primary sources that your could recommend to me where i could do further corroboration? >> host: all right, thank you so much for your question. >> guest: washington met with row sham bow on three occasions. >> host: who was row sham bow. >> guest: he was the commander of the french army. france allied with the united states in 1778. initially, the french sent a navy over to america, thinking that that would do the trick, the american army in conjunction with the french navy could win the war, and 1778, 1779 went buy and things looked worse, and as a measure of some desperation, i think the french sent an army over to america, that landed in rhode island in the summer of 1780, and row sham bow what's the commander of the french army and washington's headquarters, his headquarters was in new york at the time and he cam

princeton in battle and in morristown and reenlisted under stevan and those individuals, robert reid hawkins service. >> host: so what is the question about? call, question is unable to corroborate through second sources to locations of those units either primary sources you could recommend where i could do for their corroboration? >> host: thank you for the questions. the first was washington's meeting with rochambeau on three occasions. >> host: can you explain who he is? >> guest: the commander of the french army. france allied with the united states in 1778. initially the french sent the navy over to america thinking that that would do the trick. the american army in conjunction with the french navy did win the war and 78, 79 went by and things looked worse and as a measure of some desperation i think the french sent an army over to america that landed in rhode island in the summer of 1780 and rochambeau was the commander of the french army, and washington's headquarters, his headquarters were in new york at the time and he came over the first one to hartford and met with rochembeau and

host: the next call comes from david hawkins with cq weekly. what is: on encumbers besides the sonia sotomayor hearings? caller: it is a busy time in congress. it is a reminder that the critics say congress cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. they are doing some important steps. it's mostly about appropriations bills. these are the 12 bills every year that keep the government running. the house will be debating two of them. the senate, even as the sonia sotomayor hearings are going on, will be debating the budget bill. host: how much political energy dozen supreme court justice confirmation hearing take from congress? caller: an enormous amount. obviously, it is only half of the congress. it is only in the senate that considers her nomination. many citizens do not remember that constitutional fine point. they petition the house members to get involved. house members have some work to do. some of them answer on point and say how they would have voted. on the senate side, it is huge. it does not happen very often. the last time it happened

this is the old humphrey hawkins.ore the house financial services committee today, starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. >>> california governor arnold schwarzenegger and the state's legislative leaders reaching a deal to close california's $26 billion budget shortfall. >> this should make government more efficient and also be cutting the waste, fraud and abuse in some of the programs. and so all around, i think this is a really great accomplishment. >> the agreement is not a done deal. it still has to make it through both houses of the legislature. but it would be be the first step toward ending the ious california has been issuing. it includes billions of dollars in cuts, a combination of borrowing, shifting money from other government accounts and speeding up the collection of certain taxes. tonight on cnbc we have a special report. it's "california in crisis: how the golden state plans to lift itself up and shine again." we'll be speaking to two leaders of the state's push to get back in control. you can tune in he

hawkins, nancy brinker, krirgts leader geoff rend joseph lawrie and the first openly gay elected officialnd the subject of a recent film, harvey milk. check out cnnpolitics.com. let's go to jack for "the cafferty file." jack? >>> question this hour is should the federal government be involved in saving the news media? dan rather, the former cbs news evening news anchor man, thinks the white house should form a commission to take a look at ways to keep the news media afloat. >>> if you didn't see your e-mail, go to my blog at cnn.com/caffertyfile. look for yours there among hundreds of others. >>> amen. >>> to our viewers, you're in "the situation room." a new twist in the michael jackson saga and this time it's apparently a positive one. lawyers for the pop star's mother and ex-wife say a custody agreement has been worked out for his children. >>> from hot tempers to cold beers, an african-american harvard professor and the police sergeant arrested in his home, they'll try to move from controversy to conversation. >>> and iranian security forces clashing with demonstrators at the grave of

in order to make sure to make sure that governor barbour can do his role, we have rich wells, dow, hawkins, mayor federman from brad ok pennsylvania and the honorable haley barbour. he has a tough schedule. jeff merkley, our hero of the day, is going to come back with 12:45 with senator inhofe and any other members that can be here to just hear from the governor. then i will be here at 2:00 to hear the other three panels. with that we have to continue to move quickly. so senator udall, you're on. >> thank you, madam chair. as you know, western states face immediate impacts from climate change. according to the report on climate change impacts, that report found that human-induced climate change appears to be well under way in the southwest. recent warming among the most rapid in the nation. this is driving declines in spring snow pack and colorado river flow. this report found that the colorado compact was based on unrealistic assumptions when it allocated the water in the river among the seven basin states which include colorado, new mexico and california. according to climate scientists,

in order to make sure to make sure that governor barbour can do his role, we have rich wells, dow, hawkinsyor federman from brad ok pennsylvania and the honorable haley barbour. he has a tough schedule. jeff merkley, our hero of the day, is going to come back with 12:45 with senator inhofe and any other members that can be here to just hear from the governor. then i will be here at 2:00 to hear the other three panels. with that we have to continue to move quickly. so senator udall, you're on. >> thank you, madam chair. as you know, western states face immediate impacts from climate change. according to the report on climate change impacts, that report found that human-induced climate change appears to be well under way in the southwest. recent warming among the most rapid in the nation. this is driving declines in spring snow pack and colorado river flow. this report found that the colorado compact was based on unrealistic assumptions when it allocated the water in the river among the seven basin states which include colorado, new mexico and california. according to climate scientists, if

at that time, we'll hear from other members of the second panel, rich well, david hawkins, and john federman. i appreciate you bringing the views from your home state and i know that -- i think for all of us here at the panel, jobs are right at the top of this agenda and how we restructure our energy economy so we're not dependent on a few foreign nations compromising our national security, spending $2 billion a day overseas rather than spending it here creating jobs in america. thank you for your testimony. the committee is adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] president obama is wrapping up his overseas trip with a stop in the african country of ghana. it is his first trip to sub- saharan africa as a u.s. leader. in a speech, he urged african societies to seize opportunities for peace and prosperity. he and his family traveled to the coast of gone up for a tour of a former slave fortress, where thousands of africans were kept in dungeons before boarding ships headed towards america. he will return to wash

senate to came here with one woman senator, senator kassebaum, and the second was added senator paula hawkins, is a very different place. today with 70 women and a bit much better place. there was a book out, nine women and growing, and now it is 17 and will grow even more to the benefits of this institution. and when she refers to being a latina, that is a little of ethnic pride. i think that is a pretty healthy thing. two have a little of ethnic pride. so i not only found, i did not find fault with the wise latino woman, i thought that was commendable. and then the business of empathy. there is no doubt about the history of the constitution and our country responding to empathy. the life of the laws experience, not logic, cardoza, shifting values, plus a versus ferguson, 1896, a separate but equal, the border reeducation, shifting values all the time and that is what makes this country so great. the one great concern, the one regret i have about -- connected and watch this event in its entirety on our website including the 13 to six committee vote approving judge sotomayor's nomination. now

at that time, we'll hear from other members of the second panel, rich well, david hawkins, and john federman. i appreciate you bringing the views from your home state and i know that -- i think for all of us here at the panel, jobs are right at the top of this agenda and how we restructure our energy economy so we're not dependent on a few foreign nations compromising our national security, spending $2 billion a day overseas rather than spending it here creating jobs in america. thank you for your testimony. the committee is adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> finishing out the first panel of this hearing on clean energy economy with testimony from mississippi governor haley barbour. this hearing held by the senate environment committee. panel two set to begin at -- after a short lunch break, that'll be at about 2:00 eastern. we're planning to record that for later airing on the c-span network but you will be able to watch it live at c-span.org. the reason we can't bring that to you live is the u.s. ho

when fdr create the federal welfare program, hawkins becomes the relief administrator.is whole life was about social work, helping the poorest people, it is a model we don't really associate with top positions in the federal government today. >> we talk a little about douglas. what was his back story? >> he had an amazing back story. it was shocking to me to realize this was someone that fdr not only brought in to the cabinet level but fdr loved lewis douglas. in the beginning he was his favorite. he told people the first couple months of his administration, he hoped douglas would succeed him as president. knowing that, it was remarkable to see he was not only very conservative, he came from a family of copper barons in arizona who badly mistreated their workers, his father and uncle were responsible for something called the busy deportation where they rounded up all of the union organizers who had come to there copper mines and all the sympathetic workers, at gun.-- at gun point, but the long road cars, left them in the desert of new mexico potentially to die of thirst