i am ron swisher last month we celebrated black history month as we have done for a number of years here on mosaic and celebrate women's history month here in march we are plaid to have dr. nixon. >> dash pleased to have dr. nixon. >> thank you for coming. >> you bet. >> your ministry is known throughout the bay area tell us about your background. >> actually i come from the hills of new hampshire. and i grew up conservative baptist and for people that don't know what i tell them really in order to truly understand conservative baptist we used to think the southern back tests were liberal. that is how i -- baptists were liberal. that is how i grew up rural town 500 people went to a local school there and then high school and grew up playing outdoors, having a great time with nature and with my friends and but you know, it shapes you where you are from so we had really two very conservative newspapers, not hardly any div.ty, and being -- diversity and being in a con is vair tiff baptist church didn't -- conservative baptist church didn't see women doing a whole lot other than being with c

>> good morning, ron.t with some video from flooding in marion county, ohio, where the rivers there are near major flood stage, only expected to recede by tomorrow. the heavy threat continues to push off to the east. major cities from d.c. through philadelphia, new york on to boston seeing an inch plus of rainfall and a foot or more of snow possible in the mountains of northern new england. meanwhile, let's focus now on the midwest where today light snow possible in the twin cities but by later in the week more significant snow not out of the question and across the entire nation, if you want to warm up how about orlando today, 81. phoenix, 79 degrees. >> and the >> and this weather report has been brought to you by breathe right. dan and bianna? >> thank you, chikage. >>> coming up here on "good morning america," a great rescue story. this dog was found lifeless inside of a burning home, but thanks to a crew of firefighters and an emt, elmo, that's his name, and that's his face, he's able to join us and w

sorry that ron was so cranky this morning.iscussion offline. we're always on, all day long, on abcnews.com. tonight, david muir with "world news." or >>> good morning, the rain is definitely coming down. let's check in with lisa argen. >> we've got a cold front working through the bay area. here is a live look and you see the light to moderate rain but the northern portion of the front. area of low pressure working through the north bay. you can see it clearing petaluma but a couple of hours of rain around the bay with rainfall amounts upward of a quarter of an inch an hour. tiburon coming counsel and berkeley, san ramon valley looking at good rain and also further into the east bay and the south bay, look at the santa cruz mountains, woodside looking at pretty good rain. we will be looking the cold front to push through the east bay around 10:00. few scattered showers and the cold front is pushing through the south bay around noon. we will be looking at cloudy skies this afternoon and a few isolated showers. still one in morn

elsewhere. >> it is, ron. thank you. >>> speaking of weather, we want to turn to stephanie roberts from our tampa affiliate, wfts. good morning to you, stephanie. >> good morning. and speaking of winter we are looking at another storm system moving into the northwest part of the country and we'll see heavy rain, mountain snow and gusty winds from seattle to portland even into northern california. it looks like the worst weather we a will stay north of san francisco. but numerous watches and warnings have been issued already for that part of the country. winds being the big headline. we may see gusts of 60 miles per hour and weak storm system bringing rain and above norma >> dan and bianna? >> thank you, stephanie. >>> coming up, back to japan. the road of ruin. our correspondent touring the destruction caused by the mighty one/two punch of an earthquake and tsunami. david muir coming up. >>> and the missing americans living in the danger zone, not heard from since the quake hit. how their loved ones back at ho

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i think it will be ron paul i don't think it will be rand i think about ron paul is if i really ask myself honestly if ron paul makes it to a general election does he have a shot at winning it's a very clear yes for me it really is he just has no chance among the republican primary voters especially given corporate and find you know the money where the money is coming from and his position on money in politics the guy can't make it to the final ticket against barack obama. ari and lastly what do you make of these obligatory trips to israel to beef up foreign policy chops i mean or stand obviously israel's very close ally but foreign policy chops go to iraq or afghanistan and so i feel you know that you know i tend to have a very different view on all things israel and jewish truly than most other progressives and that if you would and you know all i would really say is that it's . like you said israel is a close ally i think that even going there is very disingenuous i mean really what the sarah pailin going to gain an early lurch change about her world view by hanging out by the really we

and music from ron sexsmith.with cleto and the cletones. ♪ it's "jimmy kimmel live" >> dicky: and now, not only that, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you, cleto. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thanks for coming. i appreciate that. especially during this difficult daylight saving time which i hate springing forward. i really -- i hate springing forward a lot more than i like falling back, which is really the story of my entire life. [ laughter ] we were off last week. i had a scary vacation. i was in bora bora which is in the middle of the pacific ocean, halfway between here and new zealand. when the earthquake hit japan and after the earthquake there was a tidal wave warning in bora bora where i was and i am not what you might call relaxed when it comes to disaster-type scenarios. i don't just crack under pressure, i disintegrate. i turn into that stuff that comes out of pixie sticks. so, i'm in the room at 4:30 in the morning. they called, had to evacuat

ron, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this is the passaic river, well out of its banks and rising during the course of the day. one reason so much of the state of new jersey faces a state of emergency, and why so many residents are trying to decide whether to stay or flee their homes. >> it's real pretty. there's green trees and there's plants and flowers around everybody's house. >> reporter: paula bush still sees the beauty in the neighborhood where she spent her entire life, even though a river now runs right through it. >> this used to be a family room when i was growing up here. >> reporter: her basement has two feet of water and floods almost every year. she's tried to sell, but can't find a buyer. >> who wolf comfortable about living like this? it's depressing. i mean, you know, it's depressing, but i mean what are you going to do? you make the best of what you have today. >> reporter: new jersey is not the only state under water. storms are drenching the northeast. >> those are flood warnings. >> big storm system

that's where nbc's ron allen is standing by tonight. ron, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this is a playing field on the edge of a playground here in little falls, but it's covered by part of the passaic river. the river is about five feet higher than it normally would be this time of year and it's already threatening quite a few homes in this community, as you can see. there is more rain in the forecast and just about everyone here expects this river to rise much higher. the passaic river roared through this neighborhood after drenching rains over the weekend, forcing dozens of families to evacuate to higher ground. les and kelly mcdaniel moved into the house at the end of forest avenue with the river view just six days ago. now they use a swimming pool float and a big stick to navigate their way to dry land. >> they're saying it's supposed to rain all weekend, so it's probably going to come inside the house then. what are you going to do, you know. you can't fight with mother nature. >> reporter: emergency crews had to

first up a conversation with conman and former presidential candidate ron paul. texas republican is a member of the house foreign affairs committee and co-sponsor of new legislation aimed tonight at defunding u.s. military action in libya. also tonight, actor jeffrey tambor is here. former larry sander star is out this spring with three different film projects, including "win-win" and upcoming feature "meeting spencer." we're glad you joined us congressman ron paul and actor jeffrey tambor, coming up right now. >> all i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you -- >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports "tavis smiley." with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one nation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kce

no. >> jimmy: so, well, you got to meet ron howard. don't you think? >> i would love to meet ron.small world out here in hollywood. i bet i will. >> jimmy: put the word out that you should meet ron howard and fulfill that dream and you should meet potsi, too, to tell him he's an idiot. >> yeah. you give the stupidest advice, mister. >> jimmy: you're working on an autobiography right now. >> yes. >> that would make a nice chapter -- >> it's in there. i just gave you the first chapter here on the show. >> jimmy: now, why do you say -- >> do you write? >> jimmy: i do. you don't like writing? >> it sounded like a great idea. i'm so bored with myself right now. but i -- i do that thing that writers do. you find something to distract yourself. oh, i have to go take care of this, i can't write. i'll come back. i'll come back to this. i have a very old fat cat that likes to pee under my desk, and poo, by the way. body of them. >> jimmy: wonderful. >> so there's a little bit of -- as i'm writing i'm like, uh -- >> jimmy: this is the desk where you're writing? great. >> she does it on the p

ron, thank you. >>> we want to turn to weather, now. and turn to paul deanno from our seattle affiliate, komo. good morning to you, paul. >> good morning to you at home. a big storm is in california right now. we have some incredible video to show you of a waterspout just off the coast of san francisco. yes. san francisco. it almost made land. almost was a tornado in the city. and this is damage from an ef-1 tornado in santa rosa, california. northern california, again, rarely do they see tornadoes. it's been about 40 years since they've had a tornado warning in that spot. and they are. the rain and the snow in the mountains will continue. portions of southern california may receive six inches of rainfall by tomorrow afternoon. your forecast around the country. wasn't it gorgeous in the northeast yesterday? record highs. 70s and 80s. a little dose of reality on the final full day of winter today. 63 for washington, d.c. and only 41 for boston. the heatur at 8 a.m. gma is next have a and that is your forecast. bianna and dan? >> thank yo

the proposed legislation that the president was referring to was introduced by democratic senator ron wyden and republican senator scott brown and it allows states to create their own health care systems in lieu of the affordable care act sometimes called obamacare as long as those states cover as many people with the same benefits as that law mandates this could be helpful for states like vermont and oregon that are talking about creating single payer health care systems it also put more pressure on republican lawmakers who are opposed to the health reform law to create alternatives in their own home states says president obama reading the handwriting on the wall it says the best way to a national single payer system may be through the states ron pollack joins me now to offer his take executive director and vice president of families usa ron welcome to the program good to see you tom great to have you here with us are we seeing the saskatchewan set up here for our listeners who we don't know maybe you'd like to describe that or i can but first i think it's very important to understan

ron allen joins us now from amman, jordan, with more. ron? >> reporter: good evening, lester. yes, jordan had been relatively quiet until a stunning outburst of violence here today. syria was even worse, with more dead and wounded on the streets, as so many people in this part of the world continue their fight for their rights and freedoms. as thousands of syrians took to the streets again today, a crackdown. witnesses say president bashar assad's security forces opened fire. more than 50 people killed, according to human rights activists, in the town of daraa, epicenter of the uprising. video posted on the internet the only images of the carnage. >> the only way that assad can stay in power is by being brutal. he has lost his legitimacy. >> reporter: just yesterday a presidential adviser had promised a laundry list of reforms, higher pay, corruption investigations, a possible end to 48 years of emergency law. but clearly, many syrians are not buying it. in yemen, the crowds were even larger. hundreds of thousands demanding president ali abdullah saleh step down. saleh has los

to attenuate and mitigate any issues that the neighbors have brought up. >> ron wallis. i would like to, first of all, turn in 1,035 signatures and 137 people who aspire to have jobs and letters and communications that were submitted. i wanted to say that we have spent only a week, approximately a week accumulating these signatures from people who are supportive of this restaurant. the restaurant -- let me move this a little bit. it sits on the site and this is there and there is a patio at the back. this plan shows you the dining area up front right there. it also shows a patio use to the rear. also at this rear property line, there is a row of trees that partially shades the patio plus also has a visual barrier for the people who live behind. this is probably familiar that the previous use of the building which was a payless shoe store that had a very austere front and working with the planning department we were able to make in re restaurant facade meet the planning code environmental requirements and with turrets at the top and you have the canopies and the awning wi

it's cats that look like ron swanson? let's look at some of the cats and we'll compare. there's ron swanson, your character, your dad. and there's -- yeah. i can see that. that one. >> jimmy: you know, the mustache gets a lot of play, but it's the eyebrows that really bring the thunder. >> jimmy: yeah. well, i tell you what, your family must be very, very proud. are there a lot of famous people from your area? >> there are not. when i announced i was going to two to theater school, it was as if i announced i was going to escape to another dimension. no one in our experience had pursued any sort of art. and so people were like, you're going to do what? and i said, well, there are places where people get paid to act in plays on stage. and they were like, where, france? >> jimmy: did you do serious stuff or has it always been comedy? >> no, i was very dramatic. i had a long, really nice career in chicago and -- [ applause ] not far from menuca. >> jimmy: still nothing. >> but i -- i sort of, you know, ran the gamut. most ful

an activist posted a video showing ron shiler calling the tea party racist and saying npr would be better would have out taxpayer money. npr has long been a targeting of conserve activities. >> consumer news. electric cars are hot sellers with waiting lists and how long will it be before they make a dent in the marketplace? michael finney set out to find the answer. >> gas prices hovering around $4 more here in the city. and there is timing could not be better but you've got ask does this hype match reality? he's about to drive off with the first nissan leaf ever

like you'r side is not getting represented. >> reporter: ron schiller got fired.s, vivian schiller, no relation, got fired, too. it's a sign of the times to ken. >> we're this a very polarized political situation. is news biased? is there a conservative bias to fox? this just fed that narrative. >> reporter: the architect of the sting, james o'keefe. his mission was to expose what he claims are liberal institutions by going undercover. >> i want to expose truth. americans can play judge and jury. >> reporter: he's the guy that brought down a.c.o.r.n. they caught officials offering advice on how to evade the law to get a mortgage loan. he's targeted planned parenthood and new jersey's teacher's union. he pled guilty to a misdemeanor after he was caught trying to tape inside a senate office. >> these are tactics that have been used for decades. >> reporter: after the controversial firing of juan williams who was on fox last night. >> he wants to make it out that npr and he are the good guys, the smart people. isn't it sthatd more people like them aren't running amer

it's of ron claiborne doing a burt reynolds move. >> love it.n, guys. >> you know what? you can pull it off. most people couldn't. >> dan, wait until tomorrow. we have the dan harris shots. >> hide the children for that. >> it's adorable. >> thanks for watching abc news. always go to abcnews.com online. i'm still working here. please watch "world news with david muir," on later today. i'm going to baby sit these two children. >>> welcome everybody. the weekend is here. let's get a check of the forecast with kristine hanson. >> it's a beautiful day. plenty of sunshine. few high clouds overhead. that is the golden gate bridge. beautiful picture this morning live in hd. let's see what we are seeing for the rest of the weekend. a lot of high thin clouds is beginning to move over us. as you can see mostly sunny for the entire bay area. we've also got showers up around the california-oregon border but those won't affect our area until the evening. temperatures have dropped to 40, 42 degrees in fairfield and 42 degrees in livermore, 48 in san jose and

perpetual warfare as you called military keynesianism do you agree i mean explain live it up while what ron ron paul is saying there what i think is actually going on is that you can look at it in terms of kennedy's all of. the reality is that you know it's after world war two was a relative basis in a much better position than we are today so the question has been since then is how to sustain some degree of. economic power and military power is a way to sustain it. over time we've found is that the benefits of military incursions haven't really accrue to the us domestic economy more it's been the military industrial complex so we're at the point now where the benefits of the u.s. military far away the. the cost in terms of money for instance the united states spends as much money on its military as the entire world compart that's a huge drag on the u.s. economy in terms of alternative uses of that money in terms of infrastructure rebuilding education things of that nature but that's been true for decades right there has been no cost benefit analysis for america's military for a is going ba

incredible story, ron, thank you. >> best story of the morning thus far. thank you, ron. >>> we want to turn now to weather and paul deanno from our seattle affiliate komo. good morning to you, paul. >> good morning. spring, today, 7:21 on the east coast. it doesn't feel like spring in northern california. take a look at this significant storm that's impacting them there. we have some rough surf. some video to show you. check out those waves there. wind gusts in and around the city anywhere from 50 to 60 miles per hour. and all the rain is causing landslide and mud slide problems. there you go. a lot of rough weather in california. it's going to last for awhile. we'll take a look at this system now moving inland and some of that heavy rain spreading into southern california. 2 to 4 inches for the los angeles area. even more in the foothills. and snow will be measured in feet. for the rest of the country, it is going to be pretty quiet. we're still warm in texas. dallas today in the upper 70s, lower 80s. orlando, happiest place on earth is going to be prett

the only tough thing about filling in for ron is that there's no ron and i love ron. i'll have to do. good morning to all of you. >>> we begin with a massive protest in london. 250,000 opposing government cuts taking to the streets. over 200 people were arrested during the protest which began peacefully but ended with skirmishes between demonstrators and police. 66 people were injured including 31 police officers. the huge crowd protesting reductions in public spending totaling some $130 billion. >>> meanwhile, turmoil in the middle east as pro-democracy demonstrators try to topple the government of syria. protesters setting fire to government offices in southern and western syria. and in jordan thousands of supporters of king abdullah ii taking to the streets of the capital city of amman to express their loyalty after anti-government protests. >>> in this country, ten firefighters were injured in a fire in a bar in michigan. the caused the roof and then the rest of the building to collapse trapping some of the firefighters inside. all were hospitalized and said to be

ty, where ron's spuds grow, is actually california's largest potato growing region. the tubers love the hot days and cool nights the area offers. which is also why brian kirschenman's fami started farming here a ntury ago. >> wl, we're a family business. um, our family's been growing potatoes for over 100 years in california. ludwig kirschenmann's probab-- rumor has it ludwig kichenmann brought one of the fst potato crops to cifnia befo the turn of the century. >> brian grows about 4,500 acres of potatoes at his familfarm, but unlike ron, he grows sller potatoes that are called chippers, which are used mostly for potato chips and french fries. so what makes a good chipper? >> what makes a good chipper is actually, um, low sugar. you know, when you, um, caramelize something in the, um, in your--with a frying pan it turns brown. so people don't like brown potato chips, i don't know why, so that means it's high sugar content. so we've got to have low sugar in order to make 'em cook white. >> the potatoes are harvested and brought here to the processing facility where th

coming up soon, ron paul will join us.er on, we will talk about the changing demographics of the country after the release of some new information on that front. we also have a line for tea party members, if you want to call in. jim identifies himself as such. go ahead. caller: good morning from beautiful downtown newberry. the tea party does not exist. there's no such thing as a party which we are trying to ascribe to the philosophy. it's the same libertarian philosophy that rep ron paul an d rand paul are. i am a libertarian myself. there's a simple situation for the whole mess we're in now. as reagan so clearly stated, government is the problem, not the solution. we look to the government for solutions from everything from womb to tomb and it has just about destroyed the country. host: roy on the line for independents. good morning. caller: thank you. thank you for c-span. i noticed in the tea party state you read at the beginning of the program, they were talking about obama wanting american families to pare down. it w

i made a point i thought it was highly inconsistent and i think you're absolutely right congressman ron paul thanks for dropping by tonight thank you very provides more insight into this issue john nichols the washington correspondent for the nation magazine john welcome back com it's great to be with you thank you congressman because senate judge suggested the president obama may have actually committed an impeachable offense ralph nader run further and said obama is committing war crimes what's your take on that what you just heard congressman paul said. i think agreeing with my point that this constitution requires a declaration of war before we in the absence of a defense of war or we engage ourselves militarily elsewhere. i agree with these points are passionate written a book on it some years ago and it comes back again and again in my writing i we at successive presidents since the end of world war two as well as congresses are interested in the big lie they have suggested that it is possible for the united states to enter into a war be a tree united nations here that work hours

okay, ron, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to some dangerous weather.ine of fierce storms tearing across the southeast. tornadoes touching down from texas to florida. severe thunderstorms causing heavy damage. and more are coming. steve osunsami is in bush, louisiana, and they got hit hard, steve. >> reporter: good evening, george. the grandmother who lived here had to be hospitalized. she was asleep this morning, somewhere over there, when the tornado ripped through this home and tore it to pieces. it was an early and ugly wakeup call today from central louisiana all the way to the florida panhandle. in alabama, the high winds overturned a semi, and demolished this gas station. people who made it out alive were counting their blessings. >> there's the rotation. >> look at this, you can see the swirl. >> look how low that one is. that one's nasty. >> reporter: at least three tornadoes came tearing through louisiana. the woman who lived here was thrown from her home and suffered three cracked ribs. >> it was scary. she thought she was going to die. she c

ron is covering this.. >> there is probably no town more prepared for a major earth quake than tokyo. construction standards are some of the strictest in the world. japanese children do drills at a very young age. all of that preparation likely saved a lot of lives friday. but it is also a city heavily dependent on modern technology. and this brought it to a standstill. a typical day looks like this. home to 13 million people. crowds walking the street, packed train cars. hundreds of skyscraper, a modern manic metropolis. all brought to a frightening standstill by the 8.9 earthquake, rocking this city and its people. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: take a look at this video of subway trains during the quake. above ground a wave of uncertainty fell over the throngs in the streets then grid lock, highways, airports, train stations. millions of people left paralyzed in the nation's capital as over 100 aftershocks rattled the city. with all of the trains and subways shut down, commuters patiently waited in line fo

--especially kavita and ron. that was a bipartisan objective. what happened in between ended up as a highly partisan activity and given me one more piece of evidence that all partisan law ends up being bad. those laws are never infused by help and therefore they are not as good. they need to become objects for overturning as we've seen the affordable care act become among republicans. it does not serve a country that needs a durable health care system. i expect us to be back in the future discussing either the demise of the affordable care act, which i view is a real possibility, or an alternative that would be built upon his shaky foundation. what other problems of that foundation? michael asked me to talk about the affordable care at from the perspective of budgets, labor market, any common policy. there i think it is indeed a dramatically dangerous piece of legislation and that the wrong point in our history. i hope it is well understood that the federal government's budget is on the road to hell. there's no p

nbc's ron allen has our report. >> reporter: only a few fleeting images document the brutality. pictures said to be taken by syrian protesters, confronted by government security forces. much of the aftermath too graphic to show. don't shoot, we are your brothers and sisters, a man yells. at least 37 people have been slaughtered the past few days in a town called daraa. thousands there demanding greater freedom and fairness. police also have had little patience for smaller protests in the capital, damascus. watch how this officer arrests this woman. nearby, a roundup at the central mosque. the first serious challenge to president bashar al assad, 45, linked to terrorism by the u.s. he inherited power when his father died in 2000. hafez al assad ruled for three decades, accused of killing 20,000 opponents in a purge in the '80s. syria is now largely closed to outsiders. it insists foreigners are behind the unrest. and after first blaming armed gangs for the killings, today syria admitted some of its security forces made what the government called mistakes. a spokesperson for assad

nbc's ron allen has our report. >> reporter: god, syria, bashar, they chanted, as president al assad arrived at parliament. for days the syrian government had crushed protests with brute force. dozens are believed dead. today they expected him to bend but he took a very hard line and blamed the unrest on outside conspirators. the conspiracy is big and we are not looking for a fight, he said. but we will not hesitate to defend our causes, interests and principles. hopes for reform and an end to 48 years of repressive laws turned out to be wishful thinking. al assad got a well-orchestrated show of support. the only visible dissent, this extraordinary scene. a woman rushing the president's car, quickly subdued. disappointed protesters are reportedly back out, with more expected. earlier this week, near syria's border with jordan, we met an eyewitness who dared speak. >> were you there when the security forces came to town? >> reporter: they invaded our mosque and started killing people, he said. tonight analysts say the syrian president seems convinced he can crush any protests. there a

john yang is in chicago and ron mott in atlanta. ron, we'll start with you. good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. the average cost for a gallon of regular here in georgia, $3.43. that is up 13 cents in just the past week. 40 cents over the past month and almost 80 cents higher than it was this time a year ago here at this exxon station in the buckhead section of atlanta. the prices are a little higher than the state average. the pain at the pump starting to spread as well. taxi riders are being hit with a $2 fuel surcharge every time they get into a cab. that went into effect a few weeks ago. and school districts around the state starting to pay attention to those bus budgets, because especially those districts that did not lock in their gas prices. >> reporter: this is john yang in chicago where gas prices have gone up 11% in the last month alone. now an average of $3.71 a gallon. that's 20 cents higher than the national average. one reason why it's higher here is the illinois gas tax. it's a percentage of the price at the pump, so the highe

ron schiller also resigned from npr. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," stocks in asia slid this morning.y morrison is here in new york with more on that. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, betty. well, asian markets saw a sell-off as oil prices rose near $105 a barrel. japan's nikkei tumbled 1.5% to a five-week low, while hong kong's hang seng fell nearly 1%. today wall street gets the very latest look on the weekly jobless claim numbers. on wednesday stocks closed slightly lower. the dow lost just one point while the nasdaq gave back 14. >>> foreclosure notices dropped to a three-year low last month. but, experts caution most of that drop is because lenders put a temporary stop on some home seizures due to allegations they were cutting corners with paperwork. still, nearly 65,000 homes were repossessed last month. analysts expect the foreclosure crisis to peak later on this year. >>> the average household can expect to spend $700 more on gas this year than they did last. the energy department bases their estimate on an annual pump price of $3.61 a gallon. and says the annual

she's on it, as we hear now from nbc's ron mott in vicksburg, mississippi. >> look at the sweat.e got a little sweat going on. >> reporter: 13-year-old kayla o'neill has type ii diabetes and a lot of weight to lose. >> it feels good. i'm making a big change. >> reporter: linda, entrepreneur, grandmother, all around inspirational dynamo, plans to nudge kayla every step of the way toward good health. >> we must wake up. what we have been doing is not working. >> reporter: especially in mississippi, which tips the scales unlike any state in america. >> i want to pass this heavyweight title on to someone else. i don't want it any more. we do not want it for this state. mississippi is going to move forward. >> reporter: two years ago, with her late sister's struggles with obesity moving her to act, she started shape up vicksburg. organizing neighborhood walking clubs, grocery store shopping trips. even opening her lady's only gym every saturday for free. the results are clear, 20,000 pounds gone. this is what she envisions for her hometown. two thirds of the people here are overweight

ron allen, nbc news, buchanan, new york. >>> we are back in a moment with a troubling question a lot of people are asking after the events of the past several days. >>> finally tonight, after the unrelenting and literally world-changing news of the past nine or so days, a question many of us have been asking, now perfectly captured on the cover of "newsweek" magazine out tomorrow, against the backdrop of a cresting wave, the words "apom lips now: tsunamis, earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns, revolutions, economies on the brink, what the blank is next?" we wish we could tell you but whatever it is we will be covering it on multiple fronts as we did tonight. but as we leave you on this first day of spring we wanted to lighten things up and look up at the sky last night. did you see it? we're talking about the promised supersized moon. here it is rising near the lincoln memorial, bigger and brighter than it's been in 18 years because it was closer to earth, all part of a cycle of our universe, one of mother nature's most spectacular performances, worth taking a special look at, perhaps duri

ken bastida on hand to help present that award today. >> ron looks -- ron works hard . >> real hard.l in there. >> put away the sharp objects now, dana. we do have a halfway winning forecast. half dry and other half wet. this is our cbs5 weather camera looking outdoors. 67 in san jose. the warm front, however, was 71 in gilroy also low 70s in ss -- solenas. not much of a sunset tonight at 6:06 p.m. overnight mostly cloudy with some areas of patchy fog developing in the overnight hours. numbers into the mid-40s across the santa clara county. also common across bay and peninsula. we do have this beautiful area of low pressure winding up heading directly toward the state of california. this leading band of clouds, it is what caused the mostly cloudy skies later this afternoon. now, it will be cloudy as a result of the thin veil of cloudiness. this area of low pressure is really going to move through on sunday but in advancement of that you see the rain beginning late afternoon in the north bay, then staying put before it moves overnight across most of the area then backs off. by 6:00 p.

ron pollack will be following me. ron is the founding executive director of families usa, a national organization for health care consumers. families usa's mission is to provide high quality health care for everybody in the u.s. ron will be talking about the access provisions in the new health care law. and ron will be followed by douglas holtz-eakin who will be batting cleanup for us. doug is currently the president of the american action forum and a former director of the congressional budget office. so if -- i'll turn the mic over to kavita right now. afterwards, i hope you have questions for the panelists. there will be a brief break between this panel and the next, a 15-minute break where we'll have a debate between roger and nira over the constitutionality of the health care law but for now, kavita. >> thank you. thanks so much, michael, for inviting me and it's -- it's an honor and privilege to be here and getting to talk about the affordable care act but i want to actually spend some time -- hopefully i will o

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and ron claiborne is here with what was really a wakeup call. >> reporter: that is right, diane. it is not often bill gates, one of the richest people in the world, inserts himself into one of the hot button issues in american politics. but he is doing that now, voicing radical ideas on how to make schools work and sharp criticism about who is to blame for why they have not. at today's conference, the soft-spoken gates was on the attack over how states are dealing with the crisis in american education. >> the guys at enron never would have done this. i mean, this is so blatant. so extreme. is anyone paying attention? >> reporter: for the past year, gates has been focused on how to make schools and teachers better. and how to pay for it. >> state budgets are a critical topic, because here's where we make the real trade-offs. if we make the wrong choices, education won't be funded the right way. >> reporter: gates has been looking into what makes good teachers good, with the idea of identifying, developing and rewarding teaching excellence. his foundation is currently studying and

. >> host: ron in seattle, thanks for holding. you're on with professor pauline maier of mit. >> caller: thank you very much for taking my call. before i get to my question, i'd like to make a comment on an earlier question and response. dr. maier, you may recall in an earlier interview regarding the neglect of the american revolution that even professor alan taylor in his multicultural book on the american colonies which however valuable you said virtually ignores the revolution itself. [laughter] so i think that might be one reason. but beyond that, i'll get to my question. in the opening paragraph of the book, your mentor and ph.d. adviser bernard baylin said the revolutionary's background constitutes an important chapter in american intellectual history and emphasized the importance of periodically challenging prior interpretations based on new evidence. in that book and in his subsequent work, he articulated a fresh viewpoint that has become known as the ideological interpretation. and from my reading of your first book, the