i don't love animals but i have no desire to go pet animals. i don't want to do with -- i don't want to make it that i don't want to actively taken. of course humans deserve things that animals don't deserve. of course there's a hierarchy of our concern. humans are up here and perhaps animals are down here. that doesn't mean we can do whatever we won't. >> of course it doesn't but i think it's dangerous to use analogies and metaphors like rape and slavery because were talking about human victims in this case that and i don't want to be quick human victims of exploitation and bedridden. >> i thought he made it clear. i think it can be useful to equate systems. again, what i'm talking about is very baseline decency. i don't think that animals need to have duvets. you know, i don't think that they need to have hot water. just saying that we shouldn't put pregnant animals as we do as a rule in cages so small they can't turn around. that has nothing to do with an equation with humans. no one would ever consider doing such a thing to human. >> when y

, animals, animals. books about animals. 11 years old i'm going to go to africa and live with animals and write books about them. as you've all read it, girls didn't do that sort of thing. world war ii was raging that we didn't have enough money, even for a bicycle, let alone a car. this is what i never went to university. we couldn't afford it. but i had an amazing mother, and she would say, if you really want something and you work hard, and you never give up, you will find a way. everyone else was laughing at me. so it was animals, animals, animals that it was never just chimpanzees. that landed in my lap because i met louis leakey, and he had for a long time said ben looking for someone to try and throw some light on the behavior of our closest relatives in the wild, which he felt might help him to kind of gets out early humans might have behaved, because that was his interest. so the chimps were, i think, a really fortunate thing for me because they are so like us. and so it really help people to se

all of the animals... >> stahl: so, everything... >> dresser: ...le know in zoos. >> stahl: ... from this size to this size... >> dresser: to this size, exactly. >> stahl: so how long can a piece of skin be viable? >> dresser: we think these cells can sit here for hundreds, maybe thousands of years. >> stahl: so if any one of these animals were to go extinct, you could bring them back? >> dresser: in theory, i believe we can. >> stahl: in other words, it's... it's kind of a noah's ark. >> dresser: yeah. >> stahl: it's not a zoo, it's an ark. >> dresser: it's an ark. ( chuckles ) truly. >> stahl: do you think we're at the stage where we should be taking every single wild animal, even if they're not endangered, and putting them in a frozen zoo? >> dresser: yes. i absolutely do. >> stahl: every single one? >> dresser: what have we got to lose? i think we should put every species in that we can, while we have the opportunity. >> stahl: which raises the question, with so many living animals today threatened, why think about resurrecting extinct ones, lik

st people care about animals most people do not want to cause animals to suffer.ve been teaching and speaking out meat pduction for two deces now, and not once have i come across a person who doesn't cringe when they're exposed to ages of anima in pain. peopleare. bonnie: do you care, dr. avis jones deever? >> i care. i gre up in a very rural area. we had horses, dogs, peacock and i have to admit being a meat eat? if we don't hav meat on my plate. i don'teel full. >> bonni did you hav horses or cows? iid have notes my andmother wrote about slaughtering pigs and itas disgusng. >> bonnie: o you feel going through the proces yourself, that wou change your approach? >> i'm not se. i know for example wi the fish i was detached from that. the pigs is a much more barbaric thing. i n't eat pork for that reason. still for thisay, if i don't have chicken or turkey or some time of meat, its not a meal, i' sorry. >> i worked, first job out of college, i did not grow up on a farm. on of my jobs was to f people to texas a &, beef 101, you would pickhe cow, they would slaughter

hand drawn animation is really what the legacy of disney animation was based on. >> normally when i goads. then go back in and add his feather to his hat and then coat tails. >> born and raised in los angeles, california, bruce has been drawing cartoons since he was 5. but a friend pointed out that there were no black people in cartoons. >> i was like what do you mean? he's like, ever see the flintstones? no black people in the flintstones. there's no black people in the flintstones. i never thought about it. no black people in the past, no black people in the future. i wanted to change that. >> we created "bebe's family" and now "the proud family." and now this. >> there are a lot of artists of color step into this business and really making a business. i've done projects that have african-american characters that are central, but i can't be the only one to do those types of projects. so it's good to know -- and it's good for students of this business, kids to know that there is, you know, a face behind those projects. i hope this film inspires lots of young artists to see themselves

without their animals. not really willing to commit. so this is an event that the army had hippinged a lot of their plans on. this was going to be an outreach program for convincing local afghans that their government can work, we're here to help. we can all work together. this was a big thing. but it all depended on afghans showing up with their animals getting treated, talking to neighbors, spreading if good word. what happened was on his own initiative, a local afghan got on the radio and said hey, everybody come out right now. i don't know who that man was or in what capacity he was acting, but it was a brave thing to do. he hung his own name on this thing and said hey, everybody get out here. and they did. they came, hundreds and hundreds of them. by afternoon the army had the opposite problem that they had in the morning. instead of nobody being there, everybody was there. families with all their animals, big trains of cows and goats and sheep. it got overwhelming at point, like the army had to push e

it helps a lot if you are white animal in a white environment. it doesn't let you stand out so much from your prey. so it isn't so much to keep them warm or cold. it's to allow them to blend into the environment. [inaudible] >> how much time do we have for the ice? >> that's an interesting question. how much longer do the polar bears actually have? the ice is scheduled and this is a variable. but they're looking at a century of the polar ice cap under the present conditions. in a century, the polar ice cap will be gone. will that mean that all the polar bears are gone? probably not. what will happen is some of the polar bears will conceivably adapt to a different region to live in. they will not turn back into brown bears. evolution does not work backwards. you cannot reacquire traits that you've lost. you be in a polar bear in this case or any other animal. it doesn't happen that way. you can't turn polar bears back into brown bears. they might exist in a different fashion. they will not be the polar bears that we know. and this of course is not

but it's not the animals they fear. in lawrence, kansas, workers who investigate animal abuse have started carrying concealed guns at work. and they say the real risk, angry pet owners who aren't taking care of their animals. >> they're usually not very happy to see us. they don't think anything is wrong. or if there is something wrong, they don't want to admit to it. so they're usually not in a very good mood. >> it's important to have people here that can protect the public and our animals and make sure nothing bad is happening. >> the director of the hugh main society says while most calls are not dangerous, investigators are seeing more violence in their line of work. >>> it's late night's latest battle. only months ago nbc gave jay leno a primetime talk show and put conan o'brien in the top rated late night spot. but low ratings for both hosts could soon lead to a late-night shakeup not seen since david letterman bolted for cbs $$$ suspect has been arrested for the scare that shut down a terminal at newark airp

but it's not the animals they fear.lawrence, kansas, workers who investigate animal abuse have started carrying concealed guns at work. and they say the real risk -- angry pet owners who aren't taking care of their animals. >> they're usually not very happy to see us. they don't think anything's wrong, or if there is something wrong, they don't want to admit to it. so they're usually not in a very good mood. >> it's important to have people here that can protect the public and our animals, and make sure that, you know, nothing bad is happening. >> the director of the humane society says while most calls are not dangerous, investigators are seeing more violence in their line of work. >>> it was a big scramble for a big prize by elvis impersonators yesterday. check it out. ♪ ♪ don't be cruel to a heart that's true ♪ >> that was his best shot. these guys are competing at the european elvis championship in england. lookalikes came from all over europe and actually new zealand. the king of rock 'n' roll would have celebrated

animals.e're going to show you how they're dealing with the bitter cold. >>> and an early start to the mid-term elections. oh, say it ain't so. we're going to take a look at the hot button issues but also some pretty hot races that are going to be coming up. things are going to be changing things are going to be changing on capitol hill. has >>> taking a look now at some of our top stories. just out this morning. new video we got just a bit ago from the taliban in pakistan showing the suicide bomber believed to have killed seven cia operatives and also a jordanian last month in afghanistan. now, on this video, the man, khalil al balawi, vows revenge for the killing of a taliban leader in pakistan from last summer. also the mother of the suspected suicide bomber describes him as a loner since childhood. he was a jordanian doctor recruited as a counter terrorist intelligence source. his wife says she was shocked to hear what he had done, but proud of her husband's mission. >> translator: in fact

gue>> does he also have animals that he cares for? >> animals?[speaking foreign language] yes. >> can he tell me how many donkeys, chickens, sheep? >> he says we have nine sheep. >> any donkeys or chickens? >> [speaking foreign language] just sheep. >> ok. i would like to ask him some questions for a survey we are going for the district center. i but like to bring him back to our track so we can conduct the survey. tomorrow or the next day he could come to the district center and we will be running agriculture and veterinary services by the end of the month. i would like to invite him and his friends in the area. >> [speaking foreign language] >> 5.1. we got one. >> let's go. >> we have a farmer. he will complete the survey. does he rent any of the tools he uses? for farming, does he read any? -- rent any? >> [speaking foreign language] >> what's that? you know what brand means? does he borrow it from someone else to use it? -- you know what rent means? >> [speaking foreign language] my brother. >> he borrows from his brother. >> while i was in t

i started to do the animation and that is when everything came together. i was in hollywood, they had white suits and swimming pools but it was nice to be invited. and everything was okay for two months but what people don't understand who are born free in a totalitarian country, they give you permission to ask for a be set and only for a certain period of time. if you do not come back in that time you are in trouble and a passport would be taken away or if you came very late you could end up in prison. and since you were a doughboy a it was said indoctrination only the bad people leave their country toward gore across the border. it was amazing and there were east german and bad germans and you have a feeling a nightmare you would do something you were not supposed to do and leave and if you had permission to go for two weeks or in three weeks it would be a disaster. but i met some of the people who came from kansas city through york and i feel i have not been there for 12 years and they don't feel guilty at all. [laughter] plant that is what they pounded

i started to do animation but there were questions about animation, what certain things mean.nd what was difficult for the arts is everybody was as possible for censoring himself or herself at the difference between the '50s when the system was censoring things, and then 70s was that you were responsible for everything. i'm covering that in the double spread in the book when people are asked to come to their office to somebody who asked them if they really b and people who refuse or were involved in 68 would become -- who would get meaningless jobs. and the other thing was artists were involved to the national theatre and asked to sign the petition that they agreed with the russians coming to prague. and a sort of lock the door and everybody was told like do you want to lose your house, do you want your children to be kicked out of the school? the majority of people sign because that was the nature of people at that time. and i thought if i were there when i have signed that not? these are the diaries in the book. the dreams of people who are always talking about somebody who

don't ever say dumb animals.r beekeepers in tallahassee, where the temperature has been in the teens, the only hope -- save the queen. >> as long as the queen and some of the bees make it through the winter, then we're fine. >> reporter: no, you're wrong. that's not proet 'zoia under a microscope. they're manatees, 300 of them. the heating system at a power plant was turned on to warm the waters for them. sea turtles lethargic and stunned by the cold are being rescued and brought to marine life sanctuaries. nearly 100 so far. now, to be honest, there are some animals here in florida that just don't get and won't get any love. so how do you feel about rats? maybe a foot long? they're not crazy about the cold either. well, they're scrambling and slithering and squeezing their way into nice, warm homes. >> cow rats should be in new york. it shouldn't be in florida and it certainly shouldn't be in my apartment with my kids. >> reporter: and there are iguanas, invasive species overrunning south florida. the cold weath

. >> people are driven by their animal spiri >> siller and ackeroff have written a new book about animal smirts, the words of england's john maynard keynes which wlove using our pieces for the visuals. to the economists, animal spirits are the key to both the crash and our failure to anticipa it. they're the emotionshat actually animate an econy like trust and confince. >> dn, please. >> reporte and they tend to ebb and flow r better and worse. >>he basic problem, i would say, is that wbecame overconfident and then we scovered that it was built on fauy premises and now our confidence is craing. >> i think the major thi was that peoplare simply too trting. they trusted that they cod buy mogages and things like that, wch simply were not ing to pay off. and they shoulhave been much more carefu . >>ut of course this is easier said thanone when riding a wave of prosperity. in fact, the act of mang money can induce aactual physal high says economist andrew low. >> it turns out that scientts have shown that financial gain triers the exacsame reward circuitry in the brain tt cocaine does. so whe

animator art clokey dying yesterday in california. he was 88 years old.hose are your "fast five headlines." >>> well, the 23-year-old nigerian man accused of trying to blow up that detroit-bound plane on christmas says he is not guilty. umar abdulmutallab pleaded not guilty to six charges in his first court appearance yesterday in detroit, and those charges include attempted murder and the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction to bring down a plane. and the hearing drew a peaceful demonstration from the local muslim community, protesting against the violence of radicals. joining me now to talk about all this, lisa green, nbc news legal analyst and nbc news producer. my friend, good morning to you. glad to have you here. >> good morning, alex. >> okay, let's talk about the president's counterterrorism adviser, john brennan, who said the government may offer abdulmutallab a plea deal? >> well, it's certainly likely that the government will want this case to be over with, and honestly, if they have to go and try the case, they've got an extremely str

have included people, it cars, even animals. the cold temperatures, flirting in the teens, quickly apoaching. john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> try to stay warm, john. >>> even the sunshine state is dealing with freezing temperatures, temperatures plunging into the 20's. farmers are desperately trying to save their orchards and strawberries. stores are running out of space heaters. >>> winter weather is also causing problems in europe, canceling or delaying it dozens of flights in france and germany. nobody was hurt when an airplane got stuck in the snow, but the airport was closed more than two hours. >>> to get a check on the weather conditions around the clock, just log onto wjla.com. go to the weather tab at the top of the home page. >>> two commercial airplanes were diverted last night. an air france flight was diverted to colorado's springs after a 40's -- authorities say a man locked himself in the bathroom and refused to turn to his seat. then a hawaiian flight had to land in los angeles after a man started harassing a woman

that means farmers must brave the cold to feed them so the animals will survive. >> we've been plowing out this morning. took three hours to get a tractor down the road to get us into these barnes to take care of our livestock. we're farmers and that's what we do. >> the farmers are feeding their cattle hay every day, something they don't normally do until march. >>> fruit growers in florida are having a rough time. they're keeping nervous watch over their already hard-hit crops. a hard freeze warning is in effect throughout much of this morning. under those conditions, temperature sensitive veg taif could suffer widespread damage. they've been spraying their crops with protective layers of ice to try to keep the fruit safe. >>> the amazing thing about this brutal winter weather is how widespread it is, how many people it's affecting across the country and around the world. stay with hln this morning for continuing coverage. >>> just three days after it went up, this bill board in times square featuring president obama will be coming down. the weather proof garment company posted that

bandit's inspirational story has helped raise money for a new animal shelter. so at least his story doesn't die in some shallow grave. >> he sure was adorable. let's hope he inspires other people to get pets too and brighten their lives. >> it was one story i hope wood have a happy ending. sorry it didn't work out. >>> still at 10:00, the web movement urging you to switch banks. >>> the new shop that's hoping to give you a jolt and it's giving one to an underserved community. >>> we're hoping you keep your resolution with workouts you can do at home. we're back at 3:00. >>> a a grass roots movement is aied at corporate banks where it hurts. readers were asked to remove their money from bailed out banks. blogs creators believe the effort has potential to shift power in the financial system away from wall street and to main street. >>> there's a new business brewing in one of d.c.'s poorest neighborhoods. it has a family banking on coffee beans. they're opening the first ever coffee shop in anacostia. fox 5's john henrehan takes us inside big chair coffee. >> rep

certainly a lot of animals got treated. does that mean that the & r on the side of the local government? -- does that mean that 10% are on the side of the local government? you cannot judge that. by those matters, things are getting better. whether you can draw a direct line between things like this or the security, it is hard to say but something is working at least temporarily and at least working on a small-scale. >> david acts was with the u.s. army. you can go to [inaudible] c-span.org to look at more. >> next come on president obama comments on today's unemployment figures. then analysis the from the senior business editor on national public radio. and then comments from the federal reserve bank of richmond. >> now available, "abraham lincoln," our book on the 16th president. from his early years to his life in the white house and as relevant today. abraham lincoln at your favorite book seller. learn more at c-span. >> now president barack obama calls for a program to help create tens of thousands of new clean technol

>> animals? >> yes. >> yes. >> can you tell me like how many donkeys, chicken, sheep. >> he has like nine sheep. >> any donkeys or chicken or just nine sheep? >> sheep. >> ok. if possible, i would like to ask him some questions for a survey we're doing for the baraki barack district centers i would like to take him back to the truck, and hopefully tomorrow he can come to the baraki barack and i would like to invite him or any of his friends who are farmers in the area to attend. >> let's go. >> roger, we have a farmer here. he's going to take the survey, so we'll bring him back to the truck. >> does he rent any of the tools he uses? for farming? >> you know what rent means, right? does he borrow it from someone else to use it. >> he borrows it from his brother. >> while i was in baraki barack, the afghan center opened a new center. it concentrates the afghan army, the u.s.-led coalition, and also the district local government, all in the same compound. just so they can talk to each other and for

certainly, lots of animals got treated. does that mean that 10% people in baraki barak canal on the side of the local government? that is impossible to judge. you can count the number of attacks on the coalition. you can count the returning refugees. that would seem to be an indication of improving perceptions of security. by those metrics, things are getting better in baraki barak. whether you can draw a direct line between the that the event and the apparently improving security, it is hard to say. something is working. at least temporarily and locally on a small scale. [animal sounds] >> freelance journalist david axe was imbedded with the army in october and november. this was his second trip to afghanistan. to watch more video and interviews from the trip, visit c-span.org type axe into the search box. the author will be speaking about the role of ben bernanke. he will be discussing his book, "in fed we trust." that is part of this weekend's book tv on c-span t2. >> the c-span book is now available on abraham lincoln.

bill: animals would feel sorry.he wrong with you and -- now, come on, the romans and the greeks were making this up. >> need to come up with something interesting. bill: i got it. >> faked. bill: like a fairy tale. >> it's a fairy tale. crocodile tears. where does beef come from? >> to beef used to mean to slaughter. then it meant to slice. >> i double dare you. and then since all the fights start out with some kind of a complaint. bill: now it means complaint. >> yes, exactly. bill: thanks for coming in as always. >> thanks for having me here. bill: what do jane arnaz, alf all have in common? they're best of bill: it's a fun program so far, right? now, we have had some terrific tv icons on the factor over the past few years. and here are some of our favorites. >> a horse is a horse of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course. bill: there you are in a cbs program with a horse talking to you. >> i tell them i have got a horse that talks and they don't believe me. >> why should they? it's ridiculou

i simply like animals.nd i must tell you here i have taken advantage of the opportunity by post to resolve some of the problems which are very acute. you probably know in the red book, we have very many speeches of animals, which are on the verge of extinction. these animals such as the far east tigers, there are approximately 500 of them. it is critical. in the far east parts, those are the worst conditions. they are being seen just for shooting. i do not know why. they do not cause any special damage to the local population there. as hunting trophies, i think this is also in all but -- also in the longer of any great value. tigers are being killed because our neighbors in china are being used from the with the tigers to the tiger tales are being used as a cold animal, so to speak. we took up this problem. i think next year, we shall expand the program by polar bear because the polar bear is also now in danger. i call upon all people to pay attention about nature, about animals. i also mentioned about the

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the very broad consensus in this country that it is wrong to make animals suffered. it is wrong to callously destroying the environment when there are alternatives, and this is the single worst thing we can do to animals, the single worst thing we can do to the environment so what i wanted in my book was to find a way-- unfortunately when we put these universal concerns into the package of meet people get very uncomfortable and testy and they feel accused and sometimes aggressive and i think it is the necessary. i think it's just been framed in the wrong way. it has been framed as a wagging finger or an absolutist position. you are anneka vegetarian or not. if you care there's a whole spectrum of ways to care, so i wanted to present readers with the specter meant to say you know of course it is acceptable to make different choices but it is not acceptable to willfully ignored these problems, not any longer. >> frank. >> it actually did not occur to me until i was listening to jonathan top although i've read most of the book and it is a great book. we are book riding

keepers managed to control the animal before it caused too much damage.s home to nearly half of the world's 60,000 asian elephants. and elephants are protected and endangered species there. he probably wasn't hurting anybody. i think he just wanted to get away from the crowds. >> scary. >> yeah. >> i like elephants at a distance, like, in africa, distance. >> they're great -- >> great to look at. >> they're great animals. and if you go to the zoo, do the bath hour and cute tricks. >> but you don't want to get mad at you. give them the peanut and go. >> if they're charging, get out of the way immediately. >> absolutely right. >>> we have something a lot of people are trying to do also, get away from the cold. last plane to miami, unfortunately, already left. so you're stuck here for the rest of the day. >> i'm waiting for april now. >> that's the official warm-up plan, it's called springtime across the area. outside, there's a look at the runways at ronald reagan national airport. the camera shaking in a gusty west wind right now and it is a bone-chilling

the book, as bernie said, is about the contemporary moral dilemmas and political controversies that animate us and roil the public debate. the health care debate, for example. the outrage over bailouts and bonuses. the debate over affirmative action. the gap between rich and poor. debates about the role of the state vis-a-vis the market. military con description. surrogate motherhood. a range of contemporary issues that raise philosophical questions the idea in the book as in the course is to persuade readers, students, participants in this enterprise, that the convictions and opinions we have, and we do care about these issues and we have convictions about them and sometimes we argue them fiercely, in politics. these opinions and convictions rest on, some of the big ideas about justice, and the common good that the fill loss percent have explored. so it is really an invitation to moral and political philosophy. an invitation to, or so i hope, to a richer, kind of public discourse than the one to which we've been accustomed. what i'd like to do this evening is to give you an example. to sta

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while he was really full of animation and intensity. very often out of time. but that was a relief to him. he was mel on comely and said he to do it to be able to stand things. his soul was refined. refined when he was elevated. his soul was bigger than themselves. a common figure with the soul of a profit. when he spoke, he seemed to rise . he appeal for peace and kindless. no hanging on other artists. but he stood up as a man he was an athlete and a leader. so then kelly said from that very moment i became inspired to create lincoln and bronze. not just standing o a two foot by two foot, but surrounded by the men he led in triumph. from that moment on, james edward kelly sought out anyone who could tell him anything about lincoln. one lady, a friend of his from hastings on the hudson. he was a little girl that drew up in illinois. he knew the lawyer lincoln. the guy that would come by. she sat down and gave the interview. the world has never seen another man like lincoln. i never saw him after he was president. but quite of few of us young people were intere

so could this beast be pound per pound the strongest animal on the planet? not even close. can lift up to 30 times its body weight so could the ny ant be the planet'strongest beast? once again, noeven close. pound for pound,he strongest creature on the planet is a t p tropical mite. this microscopic creature can carry 1,180 tim its own weight. if scott uld lift over 1100 times his body weight, he could bench press a boeing 747. so sorry, scott. you did a good job representing the human race, but you got yur butt kicked by the mighty mite. of course, since you weigh 1 billion times more than a mite, you can aaysust step on the little showoff. coming up -- can a girl possibly hit as hard as a guy? find out when "sport science" returns............ >>> the phra "you hit like a girl" is a common school yard taunt. it's an insult but should it be? iean can't girls hit as hard as guys? toind out, we're going to put female punching power to the test and determine oncend for all if being told "you hit like a girl" isan insult oa compliment. >> see if women can deal a blow to this ge

war, there were not only these graves here, but there were thousands of other graves in arlington animated very difficult for the lee family to return here. >> to the lee family attempt to return? he really attempted to return, but they wanted to get from arlington back and they worked for years. robert e. lee after the were quietly met with his lawyers in alexandria discussed with them a way to get arlington back. mrs. lee, who was more full set for us about it, went to congress after general lee died and petitioned congress to give arlington back and basically her petition was hooted out of congress. they thought it was a ridiculously idea. at that time, radical republicans were in charge. they didn't get very very good hearing. she died in 1873. their eldest son, custis late, went to congress, voted down, then went to court and by 1882 he won a famous case in the supreme court. supreme court ruled that arlington has been seized without just compensation during the war and gave arlington back to the lee family. it took a while but by 1883, the leaves had arlington back. of course the bad

i have some animals. i have 20 acres. i heat with wood and have enough solar to get me through emergencies. i'm certainly not living in a fully sustainable fashion, but i have a system in place where i could in very short order. >> thank you. we haven speaking with thomas lewis, author of "brace for impact survived the crash of the industrial age by sustainable living. >>> it gives me great pleasure and i know you all share my pride to welcome here tonight the administrator of the environmental protection agency and champion of our land, lisa jackson. [applause] >> thanks, bob. what an intro. you can introduce me anytime. [laughter] any time. well, i'm not going to take a long time this evening i just want to do a couple things. the first is to think you, bob and frances for the honor of addressing the crowd. some difference, so many people who have been working on these issues for such a long time on clean energy, on climate. but not just on clean energy and climate. the reins of issues which we agree it thankfully somet

good to know all of the animals are okay. it is a good reminder to check on your pets, too.here it goes. right out of the tree. not a big fan of those iguanas. anyway, the good news is that the warmer temperatures are coming. we just have to be a little bit patient for it. what's going on in the atmosphere today is our jet stream pattern just as this big trough in it as we call it and this allows the cold air from the north to spill on in. temperatures are 10 degrees to 30 degrees below average. now, we're going to see this pattern shift a little over the next couple of days and we get what we call a ridge pattern. believe it or not, the upper midwest, 5 to 15 degrees above normal by monday. this is some great news. still below average in the southeast but we will be warming and we will see temperatures near normal. probably by the middle to latter part of the week, depending upon where you live. one of the areas as the iguana video really showed is florida's having such a hard time with this. you're not used to conditions like this and it doesn't happen very often. in fact,

few animals get as bad a rap as the shark. they're known as man eaters.shark attack story in the news, we hear about man-eating sharks. in australia, there was a shark on shark attack. it got people talking about a "monster shark" lurks off the coast. we went down under to check it out. we found shark lovers who are using this to try to change shark attitudes. i'm in australia, about to dive into a tank filled with sharks. tell my wife i love her. i'll show you how this turns out in a moment. >> hang on. >> but first, here's why we're down under. >> swimmers are being warned. >> it bit another ten-foot shark nearly in half. >> reporter: these pictures, which made headlines all over the world. a dead great white shark that had been eaten by a much larger great white shark. that told you there was a larger one out there? >> oh, yes. where there's small sharks, there are big sharks. >> reporter: i didn't know that sharks ate other sharks. >> they do, particularly the great white. >> reporter: this has put a good scare into this area. a place where the govern

. >> collect your thoughts and, when i turn to questions, please make yourself known with an animated waiting of the arms or whistle or catcalls. whenever you like. >> i would like to pick up on that. i think all of us are doing that. given the time scale of climate change, it is the business and government that needs to leave here. business is doing that already. this is an economic opportunity. it is an economic problem, first and foremost. the longer we wait, theof the more this will cost. >> is that true? assuming we make the investments so that we have scaled up renewable energy your carbon capture -- or carbon capture, is this the only way necessarily to think about it? >> it will be harder to bring them down. 70% of the emission reductions that are needed by 2020, we have the technology to do it. it is increasing energy efficiency. it is increasing our use of low- carb and energy -- low-carb and on energy. we could put building codes in place. we could put in a plant codes. -- we could put in appliance) china is doing it for -- we could put in applianced code co. >> is this a g

now, when steve and i were kids we had a couple of interests besides evolution and animals and so on. language and we were both big solomon fans when we were kids and so some of the songs i have written to night in the sort of typicale gould, and then we had other heroes besides, for taxable there is steve and a giraffe. joe dimond shia was his hero because his excellence and grace on the ball field and he was a lifelong yankee fan who had an amazing command of baseball statistics almost as great as his knowledge of evolutionary biology and you throw it into an essay on biology every now and then. and our other big hero was schnozzola because he main gulf english on the other end of the spectrum. but i was asked. we had a tribute to gould while he was alive and i was asked why michael schirmer of the skeptics to write a song for steve and he wanted it to be a song i had been done yet and he wanted it to summarize all of steve's sa's in one gilbert and solomon song. you may know that i was the editor of his column for some years. and i had been away from him 25 years and when we met ag

we are joined from animal rescues this morning.to fall asleep here. >> i had to wake him up this morning. >> some dogs you can't hold down. >> he does have energy. he's not an early riser. >> his name is noah. he's a rat terryer mix. 7 years old. he's a great dog. very easy going. he does get playful. you are not seeing that now. he'll be up sfor adoption today. and we have a female version of him name daisy. they look a lot alike. >> you think this guy gets along with other dogs and cats >> zpwrate with both. let's put the phone number up if you are interested in noah here or any of the other hundreds of animals either at the farm or in their foster homes, call 717-993-3232 or touch base on line at animal rescue inc .org. what's coming up here? >> the 29, 30 or 31, we'll be at the pet expo. that is the ultimate of pet supplies at the fairground, we'll be there with a booth. look us up. >> thank you for joining us this morning. stay warm. we hope we get a home for noah and maybe the similar dog. >> we have many other wonderful choi

through the media and the tremendous resources of the government trying to exercise their religion animousprejudice against the members of this church, we were able to prove to the jury this was a sudden unexpected illness that resulted in a fatal event some 20 minutes before she died and that even under the best circumstances and the best hospitals and the best doctors she probably would not have been saved and that this happens all the time and could happen to anybody. we were judged under the reasonable person standard or criminal negligence and the jury i guess decided that this could have happened to anybody and that there was no fault by raylene. >> to use your words you said probably wouldn't have survived. the people have problems with this because perhapses if she did have the right medical attention she would have survived and that is the whole point. >> well, she died of sepsis which is a blood borne infection that gets into your blood stream and attacks the organs and kills in shockingly fast time. kids die of sepsis at home or in the hospital and t is hard to save anybody that

i also turned him into an animated moving character. these are characters from today that we know. you can see the characters to play big roles here in washington. lieberman has made a kind of resurrection of late. this looks like it is made of silly putty. he is kind of moving through all of those muscles there. and then there are some people who do not want to go away. thank goodness. cartoonists were cheering when mccain nominated her. then we come to president barack obama. when a politician first comes into the public limelight, the characters are very close to the photographs. over time, the fish gets more exaggerated. last year at this time, when we had the election and post- election, this was barack obama. he looks like he is smiling all the time. in fact, during the campaign, i had made a three-d model of him. i was on a six-city tour with " second city," the improv group. it looked like to talk to the sky and he would talk back. it was very effective at the time. but when he got into office, things started to change. he became more sullen and serious. in dealing with ira

in the spirit that animated these posts, there was a mighty significance. it was the early morning after riding through these more than quote, a hundred circling camps that julia ward howe wrote on the words that come to her as an inspiration in the silent watches of the night, the battle hymn of the republic here it mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord. he is trampling out the vintage with the grapes of rudge are stored. he has loose distasteful lightning of his terrible sword. his truth is marching on. thank you all. [applause] do you want to send you one day? a few questions. okay. do you have a question? >> bill, what is your next project that you're working on? >> the biography of general philip mccarney has long awaited and i've been working on this for a long time. the fact that i have an account of carney at that review. the first brigade of their brew a bailey's crossroads. and at the time the army of the potomac was just being born. but the grades, divisions, army courts, they have yet been numbered. and it wasn't until after th

now when steve and i were kids, we had a couple of interests besides evolution and animals and so on.zing command of baseball statistics, which was almost as great of his knowledge of evolutionary biology. and he would throw it into an essay on biology every now and then. and our other big euro was jimmy duranty. partly because he was totally mangled english on the other end of the spectrum. but i was asked we had a tribute to gould while he was alive, and i was asked by michael shermer of the skeptics to write a song for steve. he wanted it to summarize all of steve's essays in one gilbert and sullivan song. you may know that i was the editor of this column for some years, called natural history magazine. and i have been away from him for about 25 years. and when we met again and i said to them, i wrote him and i said, you've inherited huxley's medal for teaching evolution to a new generation. do you remember me? and he wrote back, blood may be thicker than water, but junior high school friendships are thicker than anything. so we met again, and that he was a big harvard professor wi

. >> reporter: even the agency's animals seem out of sorts.adelphia, three of the tsa's bomb sniffing dogs failed consecutive tests. the dogs were responsible for checking cargo at philadelphia international. ten other airport dogs did pass the tests. >> they don't retrain them. they got to retrain them. it is not the dog's fault. the dog can't say i can't smell a bomb. >> reporter: tsa's response there are more than 700 dog teams at airports in mass transit hubs and all are supposed to be recertifiey eied occasionally. in september, when the tsa posted its screening procedures online, a leak that might aid terrorists, five employees were put on leave. just this week in bakersfield, california, the airport was evacuated, shut down for five hours, after two tsa workers found what they thought were traces of explosives on a bag in bottles. they complained they felt sick after smelling fumes from the bottles. turns out, the bottles contained honey. officials are still puzzled. on its website, the tsa says its vision is to, quote, continuously set

i like animals. because they don't criticize. animals always disappeared as soon as you start talking for radio, they drown you out. so anyway, that takes me through the morning. editing for the kind of books that we are doing, you know, two or three books, projects, but in the middle of all this because i like to garden and i have horses. i'm always running around building things, and so i've kind of searches forward to today. we call this the site house which we put up about three or four years ago. roundhouse is a very old technique of ramming earth down. i think, i like to build. this is a square building go into a dome, done by my friend and neighbor, greg smith. >> i don't like to write in the evening, and less i have to do something for england. of course, you know, england is eight hours from here forward. if you're going to get something onto someone's desk by eight in the morning, then you can't do it in till late at night. but that's the shape of my day. it's not particularly my flightn the telephone to three or four p

and caused the animal to try and rush to escape. keepers nearby controlled the situation, calming the elephant down and minimizing the damage. >>> box offices brought in $10 billion in 2009. so what will hollywood do for an encore? nbc's george lewis looks at the heights of the box office -- the heights that the box office climbed and what moviegoers can expect this year. >> reporter: you might say it's been a transformative year for hollywood when a movie like "transformers, revenge of the fallen" took in $202 million at the domestic box office. >> i fell in love. >> reporter: and the current hit "avatar" is headed for the $300 million mark domestically after a little more than two weeks in theaters. >> it's been an incredible year at the box office in 2009. we're going to wind up with about $10.6 billion in revenue and the highest attendance in five years. >> reporter: so what about 2010? people in the movie game are trying to figure out how to top 2009's box office numbers. a hard act to follow. >> we got to hope. we're out there

they will put regins on the ball and she is just an animal on that basketball. >> a lot of energy in that 6'2" frame. >> lachina: loud in practice. you knew when she was around. >> jenn: she never stops talking. that energy creates a lot of momentum for georgia tech offensively. we haven't seen much of her this afternoon. that not good by mccall. bennett comes up, tries to find ardossi inside. away by the cavaliers. >> lachina: sasha goodlett has kind of been back and forth on the bench. she's back in for this offensive possession as well as the edwards sisters. whitny for virginia. ardossi called for another walk. the jackets not getting things to go their way offensively when they have been in the half-court. that is their 20th turnover. >> they trail virginia by 11. >> jenn: nearly gets the ball taken away from edwards. >> virginia has shown a lot of freedom in their offense because there have been other scorers than monica wright in the game. they have got some options. >> batted around back and forth. the cavaliers have been in control since we started this second half getting c