you might call it the port of new orleans. and i think at various times there was concern that if the soviets were to during the cold war take over guantanamo, the port of new orleans would be another region that would be threatened and our national security concerns would focus on that particular area. now, now during this period when senior u.s. military and civilian officials including robert kennedy the deceptive operations might be staged at guantanamo to justify a full-scale u.s. military invasion and to announce the u.s. government under castro. fortunately that never happened. castro's antipathy to guantanamo is well known but guantanamo has also provided fidel castro with an anti-american platform that he otherwise would have lacked. it is not really clear that castro wanted to get us out of guantanamo by force. he would posture, threatened he would back down. president lyndon johnson's administration and castro renewed his harassment of the base personnel by shutting off the portable water supply. president johnson an

the port is the busiest airport in the world.i have sailed out of it for 12 years and represent it for the last 13 years. what can the prime minister say today to dispel the fabrication and fables being struck by the carpetbagger conservative candidate? [laughter] >> the carpetbagger conservative candidates who says that the government is hell-bent on selling the port of dover to the highest bidder and the highest bidder might be french? >> order. can i just generally say i was trying to here, there was a lot of noise, the prime minister has no responsibility for the stance taken by conservative candidates. >> no does david cameron. >> mr. speaker, is the honorable gentleman -- is the honorable gentleman -- is the honorable gentleman and a member for dover has been a great champion for dover and its people. and i know he wants the best for the people of dover, including the flourishing port. i show that aspiration. [shouting] >> there'll be no force privatization by the labor. we ought to look for new ways of getting it, new inve

. >> the port of dover is the busiest ferry port in the world. i have sailed out of it for 12 years and represented it for the past 13 years. what can the prime minister say today to dispel the fabrications and the fables being spun by the carpetbagging conservative candidate? >> [unintelligible] >> the carpetbagging conservative candidate, who says that the government is hell-bent on selling the port of dover to the highest bidder, and that the highest bidder might be french? >> order, order. can i gently say -- i was trying to hear, but there was a lot of noise -- that as far as i am aware, the prime minister has no responsibility for the stance taken by conservative candidates? >> neither does david cameron. >> thank goodness, mr. speaker. it is the honorable gentleman -- the honorable gentleman who has been a great champion of dover and its people, and i know that he wants the best for the people of dover, including a flourishing port. i share that aspiration. there will be no forced privatization under labour. we will look for new ways of ge

"the new york times" and others reported he'd been hiding here, in the port city of karachi. they said he was seized in a joint c.i.a.-pakistani operation and is being held and interrogated by the pakistanis. though the story didn't break until last night, the "times" learned of his arrest last week. the white house asked the paper to withhold the story in hopes baradar might reveal information about his fellow taliban leaders before they learned of his capture. at the white house today, presidential spokesman robert gibbs would not confirm the arrest. but he did point to growing assistance from pakistan in the fight against the taliban. >> i think we have, over the course of many months, seen an increase in that cooperation, and we've seen dating back to last spring, an increase in pakistani pushback on extremists in their own country, which i think is beneficial not simply for us, but the pakistanis realize extremist threats are threat to their own country and have appropriately taken strong action. >> warner: baradar was said to be commanding the taliban's military operatio

. >> the good news is that there were a couple of shipments of salt that came into the port of baltimore over the last 48 hours. so our supply is good. the difficulty is that the distribution of that supply is not good. because so many of the private contractors that would be used to haul the salt are employed by county governments doing plowing. so we have to readjust and deploy to get the salt out there. >> governor said that the national guard has deployed a convoy of dump trucks to transport salt from the port of baltimore to counties that are in need. >> counties and cities that are in need. live here in north baltimore. karen parks fox 45 news at 10:00. >> all right karen. all the snow is really causing serious damage to area homes. >> and sometimes you are in the best position to see it first. maya sent us this picture. of three houses along frederick avenue. as you can see the awning over the porch is completely gave way because of the weight of the snow. >> and even the tow trucks are getting stuck. owens from brooklyn sent us this photo. said this truck was stuck at 7 a.m. this

the dominican republic. an hour and a half later, we neared port-au-prince. montana, site of both enormous destruction and those stunning rescues, comes into view. by then, the devastation to the capital is evident. and everywhere. we arrive at the port-au-prince airport just in time to see president clinton's plane descend. even before bill clinton gets off, the aid starts to be offloaded. this is a working trip for clinton. the plane is packed with medicine, tents, protein bars, generators, and even 50 lap tops, earmarked for the haitian government to get itself back and functioning. finally, the president steps off the plane. givens a few quick hellos. we get one, too. >> mr. president, nice to see you. >> how you are doing? >> reporter: good. glad to be here today. >> thanks. >> reporter: then, off to his first meeting of the day with president preval. the first stop is the police station, or, what's left of it. th the seat of government. there's a protest going on. local telecom workers calling for the arrest of president preval. the crowd is dispersed us

broke out yesterday evening in the 2000 block of loyal port. deep snow added to difficult task of fighting the fear but crew say it did not affect their response time. the woman's body was found inside. >>> baltimore city council tonight has a new president. >> i hear by rule that catherine bernard jack young has been elected to the office of president of the baltimore city council. [applause] e.the council elected her as next city council president. he said immediately one of the major concerns is illegal guns in the city of baltimore. >> this council stands ready to do whatever is required to take guns out of the hands of cells who threaten the progress we are making. >>reporter: young said he was humbled by yesterday's vote. >>> all of the snow is starting to hurt. literally. >> how busy local hospitals are treating people with snow or ice related injuries. >>> looking live at our sky watch hd radar right now. snow falling all over the region and going to 10 to fall through tomorrow. vytas returns in just a few minutes latest on how much snow

this is the first time we can get a marshall plan for the city of port awe prince. i think it's beneficial for the world, especially in the field of trade. remember back in the days when the industry company was booming. a lot of this stuff was being made in haiti. the baseball was being made in haiti. so there's an opportunity right now where we can bring trade back, we can bring agriculture back, we can bring tourism back. because amongst disaster there's still opportunity. so we have to focus on how we move forward. >> that would require, though, a couple of things to be fair. it would require the political infrastructured intry -- >> first. >> -- to be more mature, sophisticated. i love the people of haiti but the political infrastructure over the years has had its challenges, yes? >> i agree with you 100%. over the years it has its challenges. but keep in mind that haiti still is premature in the sense of when was the first time we had our first democratic elections. so keep in mind, so we're still talking about a premature. but in the case of -- i see a lot of

. >> the governor says the national guard deployed a convoy of dump trucks to transfer salt from the port of baltimore to counties that are in short supply. reporting live in north baltimore. karen parks, fox news at 5:30. >> we have 40,000 tons of kalt salt at port of baltimore it was imported from chilly and mexico thal help us out in the of everyday emergencies... guys, go get changed! ...or soccer practice, it's important to be prepared for dinner. that's why i've prepared my perdue perfect portions fresh chicken breasts. they're individually wrapped, so you can cook what you need and store what you don't. we're not playing helicopter now. ready when you are, they're trimmed of fat and consistently sized to cook in just 10 minutes. life's not perfect. that's why there's perdue perfect portions. [ male announcer ] perdue perfect portions. ready when you are. >> welcome back to our winter blast coverage. we're joined the phone by mark jones of mta. thanks for talking with us again i can't imagine much of anything is moving. >> you are right. mta bus service is suspend today has been sin

another area that has seen progress is the port. tial phase, the southport here in port-au-prince was not usable. it was critical to open that up to get the amount of bulk supplies and equipment into haiti that was needed. the success of that, being able to go from pre-earthquake levels of 100 containers a day to come up today, up to 500 containers a day -- we have not seen that level of need arise yet, but we are capable of doing that today. that has enabled the pressure to be taken off the air field. we are able to bring in supplies and equipment. in the area of engineers, we have seen engineering assets be used both in the civilñr sector- we work with usaid and the hour you and partners and look at significant -- and our un partners. we look at significant problems such as rubble removal. we are working with the department of defense to get other technical assets brought in. as we identify where there is not a need any longer for military assets -- we send back aircraft carrier and the uss nassau amphibious wore their group -- amp

, the cargo that comes into the ports and the myriad ways the cargo comes into the ports, and the plain fact of the matter is i think we just know more now than we did win the 100% requirement was developed so i look forward to testifying or bringing information before this committee because we have i know i have at least testified once on this moving forward on the the collective bargaining issue my understanding is we do have the authority to collective bargaining under the current law >> do you plan to exercise this authority? >> we are working with our bhatia so what are not collectively bargaining with them right now. >> you are aware that we have had a vote in the house on this issue in the past? >> indeed. >> and the house said that it's fine to do it? >> indeed. >> thank you. yield to the ranking member for five minutes. >> madam secretary, on the issue of securing you and i have been through this before, but the house is in a number of times separate votes overwhelmingly indicated support for the program. i believe it is absolutely essential. if we look at madrid and london it'

theory that the case involving those american missionaries has made it tougher, made it worse to get children out of that country for immediate needed medical treatment. our report tonight from port-au-prince and nbc's mike taibbi. >> reporter: this 3-month-old woib baby needed life-saving cranial surgery, but the doctors without borders specialists couldn't do it in haiti. with no documentation papers available, no pilot would evacuate her. that's been the store on the grounds of the port-au-prince airport, ever since those baptist missionaries were arrested and jailed. pilots willing to fly, but only on one condition. >> hand me some papers, i'll do it. i want to make sure i'm not going to get in trouble. >> reporter: for about all the children in this pediatrics ward, there are no papers to obtain. add in the typical red tape for special permission and the fear of flying without it, and private evacuations have slowed from 10 to 15 a day to no more than a half dozen total in the nearly two weeks since the baptist missionaries' case became what the prime minister call a huge distraction. some doctors say for the sickest kids here, the most seriously injured, it's a question of

cnn dan simon is in idaho where the missionaries are based. karl penhaul is in port-au-prince. s some of the reaction you're getting in meridian, idaho. these missionaries are based in the church where you are right now, and now the charges have formally been leveled. >> well, wolf, we've been wanting to talk to family members who have assembled here at the church, but at this point no reaction from anybody here at the central valley baptist church. in fact, they've locked their doors here. we've got a couple e-mails from pastor drew ham basically saying, at this point we need our privacy, and when we're ready to release a statement, we'll let you know. through it all, though, i'll point out they've been pretty friendly here at the church. they've been leaving water and donuts for us every day we've been here. dorothy lawrence is the one who put together all this, and we can tell you before she went to haiti, her world was literally closing in on her here in idaho. her home was just foreclosed, her business was facing deep financial trouble. we can tell you her business was the

that is a challenge is getting the snow from the port into the places where we need it. >> thank you. is the madame secretary for transportation in maryland. >>> now we'll go live in harford county. harford county was an area that was supposed to get hit hard. it looks like it has been coming down steady >> reporter: that's right. we are definitely seeing more snow. we feel like we are in a blizzard right now. i know the warnings starts at 10:00. it is definitely come doing. we have seen more snow getting a lot colder out here opposed to a couple of hours ago. side roads to edgewood road also very slick. we are seeing snow cover thed and slick spots with the ice. northbound lane didn't look as bad. southbound lane the trucks need to come by on that lane. that one looks worse for wear there. if you are heading out you want to take it slow. we have ran into a couple of people saying they need to get to work. if you do have to head out you want to take it slow. you don't want to drive too fast for the conditions out here. here in harford county the snow is picking up. the wind is picking

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at the american embassy in port- au-prince, tim callaghan, leader of the u.s. agency for international developments disaster assistance response team, briefs his staff on the work of the day ahead. callaghan chooses not to stress new tents as heavily as hosting... getting people with housing intact or repaired to take in people from the encampments. >> how can we locate assistance, to help these folks with taking in family? shelter kits, plastic sheeting, something more durable than tents in the rainy season. >> suarez: for callaghan, the appeal lies in being able to get people indoors quickly, and create employment in rehabbing houses. the people of port-au-prince are getting back to work-- private, public, and n.g.o. employers are paying crews to clear debris. callaghan notes rubble can be recycled, and materials like steel bars can be reclaimed instead of toted to a dump. >> certainly, we need to look at strategies that accomplish this in five months, because the rains are coming. >> suarez: meanwhile, minister delatour is meeting with a haitian brain trust-

at the port of baltimore. bringing in about 40,000 tons of salt. reporting live here in ellicott city. karen parks fox 45 news "late edition". >> and if you have not already made it to the gas station or the grocery store. you might be out of luck. some stations out of gasoline because tanker trucks have not been able to make it into the region. at grocery stores shelves are bare. as people get ready for the next round. >> most unusual thing that we have found through many years in the business. that ice cream sales. ice cream sells extremely well during a snow storm. especially a blizzard and we are selling ice cream. besides the milk, bread, toilet paper. >> san tony's said he plans to keep his highlandtown store open throughout tonight and tomorrow weather permiting. >> hospital workers working overtime tonight. emergency rooms inundated with patients. recent days, at gbmc 1 out of every four people in the er has an injury due to ice or snow. >> did not notice any ice under my feet. slipped, and landed on the ground and hit my head on the back --

this is happening all over the place, all over port-au-prince. y case there has been an enormous amount -- i guess that the best word is sensitivity to the reaction. very kind and collaborative. i was speaking with young soldiers the other day at one of the distribution points, saying that this was probably not exactly what they thought it would be doing when they joined the army, and they said no, but that they felt great about it. >> general, this is meghan from "stars and stripes. as the military begins to pull out its medical interim care facilities, we ever that february 20 with the military will no longer be involved in based distribution. what, specifically, is left for the military to do then? or is the mission complete? >> i do that see the military's mission as complete on any set date. as i mentioned, we remain engaged across the board. but i think that the date that you mentioned four food distribution is just one phase that the world food program, clearly, what happens beyond that date with the world food program, certainly if there i

captain of the port. ke sure they have that. >> why can the international community not put an end to piracy? >> to have an act of piracy, it takes a portable ship and a pirate. there are not a lot of consequences attached to the behavior of pirates. we have taken extraordinary measures over the last 18 months and are putting out guidelines on how to hardin defenses of ships that are slow and more vulnerable to attack. i have issued a maritime security directive that requires u.s. black ships around the horn of africa to do assessments for piracy -- u.s. flagships. this has been enormously successful but only accounts for 1% of that is shipping at the war of africa. the head of the u.s. transportation command and others predict that have to include legal sanctions for holding people accountable in a court of law someplace. we have an mou withkenya that allows us to prosecute their. >> how will budget cuts impact coastguard operations aimed at intercepting drug smuggling? >> when we allocate resources, it i

captain of the port. ave shore leave and access to shore. we support that and make the changes necessary to make sure they have that. >> why can the international community not put an end to piracy? >> to have an act of piracy, it takes a portable ship and a pirate. there are not a lot of consequences attached to the behavior of pirates. we have taken extraordinary measures over the last 18 months and are putting out guidelines on how to hardin defenses of ships that are slow and more vulnerable to attack. i have issued a maritime security directive that requires u.s. black ships around the horn of africa to do assessments for piracy -- u.s. flagships. this has been enormously successful but only accounts for 1% of that is shipping at the war of africa. the head of the u.s. transportation command and others predict that have to include legal sanctions for holding people accountable in a court of law someplace. we have an mou withkenya that allows us to prosecute their. >> how will budget cuts impact coastg

the feeling. >>reporter: karen i can relate to your experience. a lot of people insw je this port who can relate to the feeling right now. let me the give you an w jea of how much geow has come down here maybe in the last hour. when we first arrived here at the rort this parking lot that we are in right now was empty there was just no snow on the ground. cars but no snols. within the last hour you can tell about an inch or so already of snols. let's look atar sw jforg we shot inside ofe airport few moments ago. standstill inside the alicport. hundreds of cas eets already cancelled leaving hundreds of passengers stranded at bwi wondering how and when theour storm several aliclines incle ning south west simplour airport last flight to depart at at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon and flights aren't scheduled to resume until sunday morning. hunw jfeds of l bews are e around the clock here to try to keep at least one runway ing game has begun net for those stranded at the airport. >> can't do anything about the weathemer how it goes. keep your experts up. >> we have hundreds of employees and

the way. rural haiti needs as much reconstruction as port-au-prince. that effort will take at least a generation or 20 years. i'm not sure that the international community will be willing to stay the course. i hope that it does. >> suarez: professor, mr. ambassador, thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ifill: next, a simple fix for cutting health care costs and saving lives. newshour health correspondent betty ann bowser explains. >> he no known drug allergies,. >> reporter: a 50-year-old man is about to undergo emergency surgery at brigham and women's hospital if boston for a dangerous infection in an artery in his leg. >> big breaths, in and out. that's great. >> reporter: he's surrounded by technology and highly skilled doctors and nurses who spent years training for their profession. >> doing great. >> reporter: but they're about to employ something breathtakingly simple to make sure mr. wolf has a successful outcome. it's a checklist of 19 points including making sure everybody in the or introduces themselves. >> ed, surgeon. >> neil -- >

check in on the kids of the bresma orphanage in port-au-prince. >>> john, iran has launched a new guidedestroyer. that announcement from iran's state run news agency comes as the u.n. is accusing the country of developing a nuclear warhead. the vessel is reportedly armed with surfaced air missiles, torpedos and modern naval cannons. >>> the fbi has identified the bodies of two people found after joseph stack rammed his plane into an irs building in austin yesterday. their names are being held pending further examination. an official familiar with the investigation says a large fuel drum is missing from the airport where stack took off. that official added there is a, quote, good chance stack was carrying that additional fuel drum at the time of the crash which, of course, would have created an even bigger explosion. >>> new jersey senator frank lautenberg has been diagnosed with stomach cancer. doctors say the 86-year-old will undergo six to eight kem no therapy treatments but should make a full recovery. >>> a very happy ending tonight for one arizona couple. their 3-year-old daughter,

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captain of the port. people need to have shore leave and access to shore. we support that and make the changes necessary to make sure they have that. >> why can the international community not put an end to piracy? >> to have an act of piracy, it takes a portable ship and a pirate. there are not a lot of consequences attached to the behavior of pirates. we have taken extraordinary measures over the last 18 months and are putting out guidelines on how to hardin defenses of ships that are slow and more vulnerable to attack. i have issued a maritime security directive that requires u.s. black ships around the horn of africa to do assessments for piracy -- u.s. flagships. this has been enormously successful but only accounts for 1% of that is shipping at the war of africa. the head of the u.s. transportation command and others predict that have to include legal sanctions for holding people accountable in a court of law someplace. we have an mou withkenya that allows us to prosecute their. >> how will budget c

modifications that are necessary to facilitate direct intermodel interchange transfer access into and out of the port thought that a port project would be eligible, our shipyard would be eligible. what happened is once it got over to d.o.t., it then got administered by the highway administration. that is where we ran into difficulty. we will explain that, but we're hoping that in the new jobs bill, assuming the senate passes it, that if a project, our state d.o.t. director was in here yesterday and if a project is eligible for any d.o.t. program, it should be eligible for the recovery jobs program. we ought to find out a way to do that and not have any stove pipe inside of d.o.t. tell us we can't do it. it seems there is a conflict in the law. we will try to clarify to the best of our ability, we wanted to make you aware of it. >> thank you. >> the final question that i have is just a request for information and that is are there any programs that usdot, authorities or funding to help urban communities, urban counties consolidate all of their public vehicle fleet maintenance and management to go gree

the country. let's go first to john voes, our cnn correspondent in port-au-prince. what happened when they faced the judge today, john? >> well, larry, that was an investigating magistrate who actually went to the prison cell where these ten americans are being held. he interviewed the five women today for several hours, there were no lawyers present. he will talk to the men tomorrow. presumably there will be no lawyers then. as you said, there will be no charges at this point in time. what happens from here? this investigative magistrate will then present his evidence to a haitian prosecutor who will then decide if there is enough to push on with charges. now, 14 of the 33 children apparently had one or more parents, and those parents have told cnn they gave their kids up quite simply because they could no longer care for them. larry? >> larry: do you know if the united states government has tried to get involved at all yet? >> what we've heard from the state department is they're saying this is a matter for the haitian government, it is a matter for the haitian peo

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shouting, "she stole the rice" in creole, protestors marched on the offices of a port-au-prince suburb. they accuse the mayor of manipulating aid distribution. >> i've been here every day trying to get a coupon. they don't give us anything. they give them to their own people. >> reporter: mayor parent told al jazeera she vehemently rejects the allegations. they have consistently ranked haiti near the bottom of the index of the most corrupt state. now with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of international aid flowing into the country, there are fears of new corruption, on a massive scale. it's little wonder many haitians doubt thenesty of their own government. >> translator: haitians are all thieves. they won't help us. we prefer americans to be our leaders. >> reporter: we put the question of corruption to the first deputy mayor of port-au-prince. what do you say to people who believe that the government is too corrupt to handle the humanitarian aid and rebuilding? >> translator: all this is the moment. we don't have proof of that. when you say there is corruption, you have to pro

. >> reporter: we put the question of corruption to the mayor of port-au-prince. what do you say to people who believe that the government is too corrupt to handle the humanitarian aid and rebuilding? >> we don't have any problem with that. when you said there is corruption, you have to prove that. >> reporter: it will be up to the u.n. and international aid agencies to impose and keep the controls needed to ensure the world's aid reaches the haitians who really need it. >> that was rob reynolds for al jazeera english. earthquake victims unable to get life-saving food isn't the only problem plaguing haiti. sometimes free food alone isn't enough to help the survivors. take the case of young landina. like scores of other haitian children, she needs an operation that can only be performed overseas. but getting her the care she needs is like moving a mountain. >> reporter: baby landina's)gz4. she needs an urgent and complicated operation on her skull, one that cannot be done from this hospital in port-au-prince. doctors in britain are ready to perform it. but she needs

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. >> the first shipment arrived from mexico yesterday at the port of baltimore. bringing in about 40 though tons of salt. reporting live here in ellicott city. karen parks fox 45 news at 10:00. >> thank you karen. >> joining us on the phone is richard arrest moose, director of the emergency management agency. thank you for joining us tonight. >> mr. moose can you hear me? do we have richard moose on the phone with us? we are checking to see if we have -- can you hear me richard? all right. we are going to try to get back to richard moose. in just a minute. >> sometimes that's going to happen during weather situations. >> we have a lot going on tonight i am sure he does too. >> and also a lot of school closing to tell you about. and we have divided them into two list. >> first list is county public schools closed tomorrow only. so far anyway. baltimore, caroline, carroll, cecil and harford. >> also, kent, queen ann's, st. mary's, and talbot counties, all closed tomorrow. >> now, this next lirks county public schools that will be closed all week long for the rest of

cbs news also has learned the americans contacted at least two orphanages here in port-au-prince after the quake. the director of this one turned them away and warned what they were doing was wrong. >> they were looking for 100 orphans to take to the d.r., the dominican republic. they had no paperwork, they had no authorization from the haitian government, e u.s. government, anybody else involved. they were just taking kids. this fits right into what i would classify as child trafficking. >> reporter: the case has sent shock waves through the haitian government which immediately shut down the adoption pipeline. the ripple effect? a logjam at the u.s. embassy with dozens of families like the myers from wilmington, ohio. they have all the proper papers, followed all the rules but now can't leave haiti. are people inside frustrated? >> oh, yes, very. there is a group that has been in there for a week camping out in the corner by the television. >> reporter: dr. jane aaronson, an international adoption expert who was in haiti last week, says the haitian government's reaction is understanda

but you just have to come down to the main port to see that's not the case. trade has already collapsed, and for the workers here these same issues of money and trust are paramount. if anybody can stop the austerity plans it's the organized workforce. and they don't come more organized than this. >> these are the stevedores who workhe main cargo terminal in greece. they've been private advertised. lost 200 jobs and the new government promised to renationalize the report. the communist daily paper on the wall reclaims their aim. workers uprising. but could that really happen? >> look, we had the small size social explosion last december. >> with the new people. >> young people, yeah. i don't know. actually, i would wish to have a social explosion just to shake this building, but we will see. it's much better not tohave a chaotic situation, of course. but it's just possible for a person who is losing a very crucial part of his salary, it's not easy to survive. one-third of the households in greece, they cannot pay their bills. >> and so inevitably it comes to t

the country. jeffrey brown talks to npr's mandalit del barco in port-au- prince. >> woodruff: a tom bearden report from colorado on efforts to regulate the sale of medical marijuana. it's like trying to pick your teeth way rattlesnake. if you ever trieding that, you know how hard it is. >> ifill: and another of margaret warner's conversations about the strength of al qaeda. tonight: former c.i.a. officer marc sageman. >> it's inevitable that they will succeed in facing the plot. what we need to do is limit the number of people who may succeed. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> what the world needs now is energy. the energy to get the economy humming again. the energy to tackle challenges like climate change. what if that energy came from an energy company? every day, chevron invests $62 million in people, in ideas-- seeking, teaching, building. fueling growth around the world to move us all ahead. this is the power of human energy. chevron. bnsf, the engine that connects us. pacific life. and by the alfred p. sloan founda

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the 100 best companies to work for. >>> a hearing is set this morning in port-au-prince for ten americans. they were arrested saturday at the border of the dominican republic with a busload of children. now, the americans, who say they are baptist missionaries, were detained on charges of illegally trying to take 33 children out of haiti. >> certainly no part of this trip where we can have any adoptions take place. the idea really was let's go. just as many americans have done, they saw a need in haiti. they wanted to go and take care of some kids who had physical, medical needs and care for them there in haiti. adauoption wasn't a point of th question at this point. >> taking a child now out of haiti, not only these 33 but talking about children out, you're running the risk to separate children from their family because there's a lot of reunion work to do in the next months to come. >> also in demand, treatment for the injured. doctors have been overwhelmed by the number of people hurt. the most severely injured are rushed aboard a hospital ship and john voss takes us there. >> reporter: t

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the children of haiti. first, let's check in with ivan watson, our cnn correspondent in port-au-prince. we understand there was some drama earlier today involving children at the airport on a plane. what happened? >> reporter: we're still trying to get to the bottom of this, larry. basically, there was a plane. it was involving a group called the utah hospital task force. and we believe that it took off with about 69 orphans, headed for miami. some of the children that were being placed on board that plane, there appears to have been some mix-ups, about 16 of them actually had to be taken off and were not allowed to go and some confusion about just where and how they should be going and traveling. a lot of bureaucracy to sort through, especially on this adoption issue, larry. >> larry: and we're going to deal with it at length. is it getting any better, ivan? >> reporter: there are signs of improvement. you know, the initial adrenaline and fear and agony and terror of those first days has subsided now. but now it's this really grueling struggle to just get by. i just went to camp today,

. >>> new video from haiti, former president bill clinton has just arrived at the port-au-prince jail ten americans charged with child object deduction have been held for seven days. the former president is expected to hold a news conference in about 45 minutes. we'll be watching for that. the group has entered a local court for another hearing. their lawyer has requested a provisional release. let's go to nbc's michelle ko kosins kosinski, joining us from port-au-prince. on what basis are they arguing they should be out of jail? >> reporter: we don't know exactly what he's going to tell the judge. the defense attorney has told us he felt that they should be released because they're not violent people, that they really didn't know what they were doing, he claims. but one odd thing he said yesterday -- he represents all ten of these jailed americans. he said if there was one person who ought to be charged with these crimes and one of them that ought to be held, it might be the group's leader, laura silsby, but that the other nine didn't know what they were doing, that she was the one w

going to die. >> reporter: about two dozen more children in the adoption process still remain in the port-au-pricerphanage. their adoptive parents in colorado hope they will be allowed to leave any day now. >> ifill: now, dealing with the problem of "too big to fail" banks. president obama has proposed that large commercial banks should be banned from engaging in certain kinds of private investment and trading activity that could benefit the banks themselves. former federal reserve chairman paul volcker is credited with pushing that plan. today, he testified before the senate banking committee. here's a bit of the case he made. >> commercial banking is a risky business. now the question is whether you want to, in effect, provide a subsidy or provide protection when they're lending to small business. when they're lending to medium- sized business, when they're lending to homeowners, when they're transferring money around the country. those are important continuing functions of the commercial bank in my view. i do think that these are getting public support. i do not think speculative activity falls

he said until they have another shipment come from the port of baltimore, they have to -- counties just have to use salt more sparingly. despite that, the county executive johnson here in prince georges county says he is doing very well for his crew. he said his crew is doing very well right now. he's proud of the work they is done, but because he said that we won't see bear roads for quite some time after this latest tomorrow, he's asking for everyone's patience. >> as i speak now, 90%-plus of all the neighborhoods are open. i have been told that by midnight tonight, we will have made a single pass through each neighborhood. >> what we're worried about most with the forecast of this storm is that we will see the wind and we will also see a band of rain and ice. the danger now as we look at this storm is the potential for a couple of thing much greater power outages in its aftermath because of felled trees from the ice and the wind and the second thing is the potential for roof collapse. >> and, jim, we've actually seen a roof collapse earlier today in prince george's county. authoritie

lawrence seaway is important not just to the region but to the maritime ports of the great lakes that10 year asset renewal program, i note is not funded at a level necessary to ensure completion of the projects along the seaway. the budget included an estimate for 2011 of 18.4 million to complete the renewal projects. the submission received earlier this week only includes $15.7 million for 20 projects. there appears to be a gap there, and i have three questions. why did the administration reduced this the way asset renewal program budget by almost $2.8 million, or 15%? 3will the reduction require additional years to be added to the program, and finally, what reassurance is there that similar reductions will not be made to the program? >> my general comment is, when we were together, you know that we have a commitment with the st. lawrence seaway that is very important. i will let my budget assistant secretary answer the specifics, but i want you to know we are committed to the st. lawrence seaway. it is very important. >> the request is $15.6 million, which would complete the three-