that for all of my adult years, and i think that is probably one of the main stage of the united states system of city government, but with irresponsible profit-taking coming in equal measure of civil and social responsibility, which includes or should providing a safe and peaceful environment, when the public is involved, it is my belief, and this is strongly supported by the facts on the record, that the venue has repeatedly failed to do so. they have obviously put profits above people, with disastrous and painful consequences. let me try to put a human face on one of those tragedies. i knew him personally for nearly a decade. we had many conversations. he told me on more than one occasion that he appreciated my intelligence. but he may have overestimated. i'm not sure. i know that he was a family man, and very good provider and was dutiful in his duties as a father and did the best that he could, life permitting. he was dedicated and loyal to his children at a time when absentee father hood is seemingly epidemic. he was loved and respected by his wife and brothers and sisters, most of whom

boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants

it sounds to me like you are reporting further privatization of a system which we have in the united states and the fact that we have a fragmented -- we don't actually have a system but we have these different insurance companies that are spending 1/3 of our health-care system on ads and other things. why would you support a system that would take this much money and not adapt something we say in other countries? in other countries, they may have lines for care but people are able to get in line. in this nation, so many people are not allowed to get into lines. they don't even make it to the door because we don't cover everybody. i would urge you to start talking about other solutions. >> tom and i may not agree on the answer. when you take a chance to look at my pamphlet, i don't advocate the same solution that dÉtente did. i believe we need to learn from other countries. i believe we need to learn from them and their experiences and come up with american solution based on double its is in our culture. other countries do have global budgets. ony don't have the same limited fee-for-service

united states and the european union are expected to file complaints. >>> prime minister kan has asked california governor arnold schwarzenegger to invest in japan's bullet train system for the united states' plans transportation system. he said there had been no fatal accidents since it was introduced more than 40 years ago. the prime minister asked the governor to compare the safety record with train systems of other nations. >> we want to talk to the transportation officials and the experts in high-speed rail. we are looking forward to riding them. >> earlier, japan's transport minister also met schwarzenegger and made a similar sales pitch. he emphasized the safety features such as excellent earthquake resistance and added its adoption would lead to train coaches in california, boosting local employment. >>> california plans to construct a rapid rail line linking san francisco and anaheim. france, germany, china and south korea are competing with japan for the project. >>> next is a recap of the latest market figures. >>> that's all for now in "biz news." back to catherine. >> the japanese coast guard confirmed that a taiwanese boat has been cruising around in th

how you do that can be done in many different ways but the west and particularly the united states says it's system unless you doing it are where you're not really doing it and we are both in our research that we did we talk about the beginnings. of a new kind of method station to have their markets the rate of the people as a vertical democracy a dynamic in a place interplay bottom up and top top down that's really starting to reshape china and they say in the democratic way in a way that resolves the rate of the people but no one's going to buy it in the west unless it's just like the west which is a conceit that really doesn't hold water when you look at the history and it's very interesting in this part of the world where in russia and in we look at the post soviet space in. two decades on a lot of people saying i'd like to ask this of doris in reference to china is it people say what is it produced ok we look at the ukraine ok for a period. over the years. this is very well. it's democracy didn't bring you anything except for chaos or it could prove that you could possibly pull off an election

is that are important to challenge the way the west the united states has to try to control the international system to insert a new set of if ideas ways of doing things making a point that countries that are increasing economic weight should have a voice in the governance of the global economic system that's equivalent to their increasing weight so i think the russians saw a tactical advantage kind of out of this where this leads over the long run is a big question mark russia and trying to do come from two different perspectives on international affairs two different histories two different credit traditions russia much more obviously a european country thinks of itself as a european country so why i think there's a certain tactical advantage at this point it's each country china and russia tries to assert itself on the international stage it's worth watching where this will take take both countries over the next ten years then go to you joe what does china want as it is sir asserts itself on the international space is we're getting kind of a division here you know they like the economic clout the

system. now for the united states there is this low pressure system to the northeast that's getting pushed outy quickly. by friday should look a little dryer for those of you here. showers move through central canada, and then a new rain system is moving into the pacific northwest as well. here's a look at highs. still quite chilly for central canada. that clear really starting to work its way southward. 11 degrees for your high in winnipeg, and remaining at 18 in vancouver. all right. and now here is your three-day outlook. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> prime minister naoto kan will launch his new cabinet on friday following his re-election as democratic party leader. kan will appoint ak heero ohata as economy trade and economy minister. he's a seven-term lower house member with strong support base among labor unions. kan is planning to name the democratic party's policy chief koichiro gemba as national strategy minister. gemba now serves as cabinet minister in charge of reforming the public servant system. kan is also considering appointing land and transport minister sage yay maehara to the post of foreign

friendly with the united states look at egypt i mean egypt is very friendly country to the united states friendly government but it's a. goal but it's a dictatorship that's positive tarion system dictate and the united states has struggled and is struggling now i think with you know how do we cooperate with the egyptian government on things like arab israeli peace and regional stability while also somehow you know promoting those within egypt who you know who want to bring about democratic change ok so it's a dilemma for the united states how to do both of these things because it's not realistic it's not just going to. go ahead in denver go ahead yeah i mean i think the united states knows perfectly well that those forces within egypt that are democratic if they come to power they will adopt policies that will clash with longstanding us in true. in the region for example if there is a free and fair election in egypt most likely the muslim brotherhood would come to power and the first thing that they would do is open that border with gas and try and rescue the people who are in cage there the united states would have a huge problem on its hands in terms of the arab israeli conf

. >> he also took a question from a woman who described at length her fears the united states health care system will soon resemble that of great britain. >> there was a lot of misinformation about the health care debate. i just want to communicate that the -- if you're happy with what you got, nobody is changing it. but i understand why people are concerned, because this is a very personal thing and nothing is scarier than when you don't have health care. >>> congress is free now to head home to campaign for the midterm elections today after voting overnight to adjourn a week earlier than initially planned. their last major legislative action before shutting down was passing a stop-gap spending measure to keep the government running for the next two months. it now heads to president obama's desk for signing. congress will return november 15th. that's a month and a half away. house democrats also followed the senate's lead agreeing to postpone a vote on the volatile issue of the expiring bush-era tax cuts until after the elections. john boehner said arkansas jurng without acting on tax cuts woul

united states. i argue that in fact, there is a system that functioning much like capped systems that we supposedly left behind. the mass incarration of poor people of color in e united states operates as a system of racial control that manages to relegate millions of poor people of color to a permanent second-class status by law and cuesment. now the 14th amendment was clearly intended to eradicate racialast in america, and the 14th amendment didn't manage prevent the rise of jim crow or manage to prevent the emergence of mast incarceration in the united states either. most people imagine that our prison population in the united states has qin tup led, not doubled due to crime rates. we have a prison population that went from 300,000 to 2 million in a few short decades due to crime rates. it's not true. it's not true. nearly all social gists believe crime rates and prison rates moved independent of each other. incarceration have consistently sored. today crime rates are at historicalows but incarceration rates are at all-time highs. crime rates and incarceration rates have relatively little to do w

system? [applause] >> we live in one of the smallest states in the united states, the state of vermont. we have 630,000 people, about. in order to run for the united states senate in this small state, i had to raise $5 million. and you know what? i was outbid by $2 million. if you're in california now, all over the country if you are in a big state, you know what's happening? people who are millionaires and billionaires are running for office, writing out checks for tens of millions of dollars to sustain their own campaign. so what you are moving forward is a -- toward is a situation where if you want to run for office, you've either got to be very, very wementy yourself, which most of us are not, or you've got to go to the big money interests and say, you write me the checks, i'll work for you. that is not what democracy is about. as i mentioned earlier, the sints united decision made a bad situation even worse. you think those of us who stood up to wall street or the drug companies or insurance companies are not going to be paid back in spades with all kinds of campaign ads against us

united states is being a good guy and the chinese recognize that they need to work with the united states and a little history is important here the transformation of germany's role in the european system in the late nineteenth century was mishandled by by by britain in particular and by the germans and it led to over time world war one we are seeing that kind of change in international pecking order and how we manage the a burgeoning of the new bric countries with china in particular and the us chinese relationship evolves really be critical in terms of long term international stability that's very true but i think i greet there is a g two and it's a very important but it's. quite limited range of subjects and the g twenty is useless more represent you know also very active decision making no no i really don't i international financial reform which is really a long way would not have happened without the g twenty i agree with i'm not sure i mean that i don't think that started in london and then continued in pittsburgh and went to toronto. in a more representative. of the world to say there's you know communist china saved international capitalism ok i mean really is what happened her

united states has the advantage. there is a trade-off. maybe you could have one ceiling of 1,000 or so systems where the united states would have a small number of tactical weapons and the weapons could have a larger number under their freedom to mix approach and thus a smaller number of intercontinental systems. >> thank you both very much. i think you can all see why we have such great negotiators. you just saw some examples of their skill and wisdom and knowledge. our time is up but i would like to thank everybody for coming. there will be big news in the coming days, weeks, months and years on these topics. [applause] thank you very much. >> yesterday, the imam who has been working on the proposed islamic cultural center near ground zero spoke in new york. his remarks are next on c-span. on "wall street journal," in about an hour, topics include small business legislation and u.s./mexico border issues and later this morning, a day long conference on civil rights in the 21st century. that is live at 11 eastern. this morning, it is day two to have senate impeachment trial for new orleans jud

one of them was that china was highly dependent on the gps system of the united states, for guidance of aircrafts, civilian, military, and so forth. and uh, nonetheless, it did not want to be subject to being dependent on a system that, ultimately, the u.s. controlled. so it's been developing its own gps system at a rather substantial rate, would be one example. but china also has lunar missions planned for scientific exploration, for the most part. but china, as we have seen, also developing the anti-satellite weapons and so forth. and this is one thing, if you think about it, we cooperated with the soviet union in space at the height of the cold war. we have not been able to cooperate with the chinese to anywhere near that extent. and one reason is the military and civilian uses of space in the chinese program and the role of the chinese military in their space program is quite problematic for people in our security area. >> one of the areas where the u.s. and china actually do cooperate and have done so, really, for quite a few years, is on the very sensitive issue of north korea's

united states. then he would be subject to the criminal law. >> shepard: once he is subject to criminal law then all of the things that the government finds problematic about the legal system they have to live by the rules and they have been in place and worked fine for a long time. >> however, if he does not come back to the united states. >> shepard: then we can just put a bull let in his head. convenient. >> convenience is not the issue here. the issue is the fact that he is putting lives of american citizens in danger and therefore he is a threat. we have to take out the threat regardless of the fact that he is a citizen who could abide by the law if he chose to and seek the protection of the united states if he chose to do so. >> what you said is accurate is that if he is, right now imminently putting the lives of americans in danger then you shoot to kill. >> you could make the argument. >> but that is not what they are saying. they are saying they want him dead because of what he has done in the past. i'm fine with that if they then say we are not going to arrest him. but this guy, he is an enemy of the united states of america. this is war. we are going to kill him

you see, the way we look at our system of government is different than perhaps the united states. we feel the government must at the end of the day serve the people sustain itself. we are not a capitalist system. i am not the c.e.o. of a company to serve that company. i've never had a company. i've never been share holder in any company or a stakeholder. so what is my role? that of a serveman. so it's a kind of a different mentality from a capitalist system. we have to understand the differences in our systems of governance and then to come to an agreement with one another. resolve problems. >> rose: that's a perfect place to end this conversation. i thank you for taking time. we went way over but i thank you very much and you have invited me to come to tehran, yes? >> ( translated ): yes! any time you'd like to come to tehran. most american reporters are afraid to come to tehran and they can meet with me as well. i hope this opportunity will be given to iranian reporters. >> rose: thank you very much, a pleasure. a conversation with mahmoud ahmadinejad, the president of iran from

as chuck said, we spend billions of billions of dollars building a very sophisticated system in the west united states and it's complicated and let's test it. draw down the river 25 feet and see if our models are right. there's a lot of things we can do with models without physically doing it. there's compelling scientific evidence that posted challenges to our water systems. unfortunately, there's pretty serious evidence that we may not about quickly or effectively enough to prevent some pretty extensive consequences for us. i think that's a problem. . manager's must use current tools but also look at future risks. policy manager's have the opportunity to do this. we already manager for variability and risk. we build homes in earthquake zones not knowing how big or when the earthquake will be. but we manager risks and we have lots of tools for doing that management but we're not doing enough yet. either in planning or actually on the ground action. we do need to take more on the ground action. ultimately the impact will depend on our ability to for see major changes and do the analysis and adopt and

as for the united states, you can see quite a powerful system moving across the midwest again and againthis frontal line is -- just between this warm air and also the very cool air up in the north. so looking for the severe conditions such as damaging winds, tornados, and also flooding rains are going to be a major concern here. over towards the northwest we have also a new system that's arriving from the west, and that's going to be producie ini lots of rain as well as snow activity up in the northern rockies here. temperatures, you can see a big difference in the temperatures here. 36 degrees in washington, d.c. 31 in new york. while up toward the north it's going to be a much, much cooler day for you. 14 degrees in winnipeg. that's all for me just now. here is your extended forecast. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> taking a look at our top story, japanese prime minister naoto kan and u.s. president barack obama held talks in new york on thursday. this was their second meeting since kan assumed office in june and was aimed at deepening the japan-u.s. alliance. kan was expected to explain his plan to steadi

how socialized medicine different than our united states system when people have to wait for months to even get a consultation appointment with a surge again and have to wait longer to get the procedure done. people have to resort to coming to the, er and wait hours only to be told it has to be a life or death situation to be admitted. who determines the criteria for hospitalization. the insurance company? when a person sent home with a prescription and said, is there any wonder that our society has become so drug dependent. shame on our government to allow this heinous treatment. insurance companies are dictate together doctors on how to care for people's health. it's wrong for hospitals to not go to institutions to people can be treated humanely. thank you. >> thank you. [plus] >> my name is rachel and i want to thank you for your comments about education and the need for curiosity and what needs to happen for the country. i wanted to ask you to speak a bit about funding. federal funding and what you're aware of and what's going on in the state. i have to pause and respond to the gen