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war which is kind of what we're into john nichols thanks so much for being with us and thank you tom our appreciate it while the causes for our military intervention. libya today may be noble it must be pointed out that this is our third military engagement with the most well known nation in the last decade and all it takes is one stray missile to further set back our clauses to win hearts and minds in the region so long as the united states is viewed as a as and a bit you will bomb dropper and it will be very difficult to prevent another generation of radicalized muslims who see us the way we saw the british in the seventeen hundreds. it's time for a daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question should a declaration of war by congress be required every time the usa takes military action against some of the country your options are a yes otherwise it gives the president too much power congress is supposed to clear it declare war or be no congress is too busy talking about n.p.r. and planned parenthood to debate a clarion war on a third country so far the majori

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tom brokaw, thanks. our series will continue tomorrow night. >>> when we come back, something else is disappearing. one of the last surviving perks on an airplane. >>> first it was snakes on a plane, now it's spider in cars. recalls come and go, but this one's unique. mazda is recalling 52,000 cars because of a yellow spider that likes to crawl up mazda vents and then spin webs there. that can clog up the line, prevent vapors from escaping from the fuel tank, result in a crack and all create the risk of fire. all of this because of a spider. the recall applies to mazda 6 series model years 2009, 2010. >>> it was one of the things you used to be able to count on when flying coach on continental. and that made it one of the last perks in the back of the plane. continental served free snacks, at least they did until tuesday. it's all over now. and they've actually made it sound like a good thing. in a statement continental, which is merging with united, said the snacks are going away, quote, in an effort to red

economy we should live as a high wage economy and so this income inequality is a threat to our economy and then also tom to our democracy it is not good when the top one percent of americans control thirty four percent of all the wealth more than the bottom ninety percent who control twenty nine percent it is skews our whole democratic process as well it is amazing eighty one percent of americans chris paul are mentioned in sort of are in agreement with how do you leverage that level of popular on the ground populist support for this kind of program to put pressure on republicans in power in the house to pass your bill well actually one of my co-sponsors john yarmuth said that last october when he was talking about an idea of taxing millionaires he was told by some republicans that if it actually came up for a vote they'd have a hard time voting against it i think that we have a tremendous organizing opportunity right now out in the districts to put pressure on the republicans and some of our democrats to see that this is not this isn't a vote that would take a lot of courage this is something that is w

. >> tom: we spoke with our correspondent in tokyo. and began by asking lucy craft what's the initial assessment of damage to businesses and industry in japan. >> companies hit quite hard. sony, hond on, toyota, the major auto makers have a lot of factories up in northeastern japan. there's been a range of damage to these companies. so those factories will be kind of knocked out of operation for various amounts of time. fortunately, the northeastern area of japan is very sparsely populated. this is -- if you compare this to the kobe earthquake of 16 years ago, it accounts for a much smaller amount of gdp. >> reporter: what have you learned about the damage to the trainl systems and infrastructure? >> we haven't heard about the damage to the train system which is a major source of transportation here. when you talk about energy, though, it's a whole different ball of wax, and there's a lot of different questions hanging over one or two of japan's nuclear power plants. as you know, japan is one of the leading nuclear energy countries in

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others that goes right over their head but for her when she's up here she's on top of the world tom martin our three. stay with us dmitri medvedev goes up next with your business. welcome to business are to you this year russian farmers are expected to plant the fewest we healed in four years and survey by bloomberg says that's because farmers cannot plant more due to the grain export ban and high fuel prices and the so this will have an impact on the international grain market russia's role cannot be overestimated over the last two years especially if one looks back over the course of the last decade in russia's importance in terms of being a reliable a very competitively priced exporter for feed greens has really been growing very very rapidly and this is really meant that you know for most years you came to see the f.s.u. countries and russian particular being the source of the most competitively priced feed rate in the world so you know with the russian ban in place especially from last year you have to see countries like the middle east in importing countries egypt for example which tradi

we slightly reduced our cost, which is unprecedented in our industry. >> tom: what steps did you take to be able to reduce that cost per patient? >> we replaced our agency nursing staff and the travelling nurses, which have a very significant premier. with our own nurses. not only did we save a lot of money, but the quality of care rises because these are the people really devoted to the care of our patients. and that number is in excess of multi-millions of dollars. that was a very, very substantial amount of money. a little counterintuitive. we hired people to save money, and the reason was because of the recession. we have a goodly supply of nurses which we didn't have a couple of years ago. >> tom: one of the longer range goals of health care is to increase the pool, with the theory that the total cost of insurance could come down, and hospitals would have more paying clients. how have payments -- the payment mix changed with regard to reform legislation? >> i don't think we've seen a significant change and the mix, with the exception of a few number of people -- a large number of

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tom: okay. >> the cost, and if nato is take over a substantial portion of that, our costs could be as low as 20 million per week. >> tom: is that personnel or mostly equipment? >> it's mostly the operating expense of the aircraft involved and some of the moonician-- munitions that would be involved from time to time. >> tom: todd, a want to look at how this operation costs compare to the continuation of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, by your estimates iraq costs about $800 million per week, afghanistan costing an average of over $2 billion per week. but these libya costs as you know, todd, were unanticipated as recently as a month or so ago. can account u.s. financially afford the action it has already taken in libya? >> you have to put this in the context of the overall peacetime dod budget. so not including the cost of the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the dod budget is still over $500 million a year. so they can pov some money around between accounts and actually fund something at this level. but the question is if this goes on instead of weeks, if it takes months and drags on throughout

we have our certificates hear it from assemblyman tom ammiano. for all of our honorees, we also have a back from the friends of the commission on the status of women, so you can all continue the heavy lifting that you do. i would also like to invite my fellow commissioners of here with me. if you want to come back up again. a former president of the commission. and right next to me assisting me is a member of the friends of the commission, and i cannot reiterate enough that we cannot do all the work without the friends, so any, thank you. -- annie, thank you. i'm going to just read off this order. this is the order that i have the certificates. supervisor mar's nominee. thank you for all of your work. [applause] and we have a crystal brown, a supervisor farrell's honoree. thank you. and geri crowley. at every meeting, i see her. i do not know whether -- where she finds the energy. i hope i can grow up to be just like you. [applause] and kimberly ellis, a fellow member of the california bar, and honoree barmalia cohe -- on area of -- an honoree of

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i'm representing assembly member tom amiano's office. our office submitted a letter in opposition to the eviction of hanc. we can talk about the 30-plus hanc years plus at the site. we can talk about usage rates. there is actually quite a few issues, the nuances of recycling here in the city and county of san francisco. the one thing that seems to be getting a little bit lost is that hanc currently employs 10 people at the site, with regards to the native nursery as well as the recycling center. from a state perspective, california is suffering with an 11% to 12% unemployment rate. we are battling sacramento to close a proposed $25 billion deficit. the decision made regarding hanc and the eviction and the loss of 10 jobs, we should be clear, is an arbitrary and voluntary one. it is not mandated by budget cuts. it is not mandated from any loss of funding. it is not created by any sort of fiscal emergency or dynamic. it is a little bit beyond common sense and defying logic for 10 people -- let's humanize this quite distinctly -- 10 people to l

our correspondent tom burridge -- as we heard in a recent news conference given by the japanese government spokesman, yukio edano, president obama and prime minister hun sen telephone conversation. -- had a telephone conversation. >> about the situation at fukushima, we had the energy secretary, steven chu, who said this disaster is worse than what happened in 1979 with the three mile island disaster. also, there is the chair of the nuclear regulatory commission, who warned that u.s. military personnel and u.s. citizens in japan should actually go back to a radius of 80 kilometers around fukushima. japan has said 20 kilometers, so it seems that the u.s. has an assessment that is fairly serious. >> any idea if they are following the french lead, recommending that they leave japan altogether? >> we have not had any word on that from the united states government. i think that would be much further for the u.s. in the sense that the u.s. has so many people in the country, currently 50,000 u.s. troops currently in japan get there is concern. the u.s. government says it is monitoring -- currentl

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tom costello, nbc news, santa clara, california. >> much more from tonight on our website, nightly.msnbc.com>>> tomorrow night as we continue along these lines, tom brokaw takes a look at the skills that are going to be needed in the workforce and how to go out and get them. >>> late word of the death of a hollywood legend. >>> we learned late tonight the actress jane russell has died. she started her hollywood career as a bombshell in the howard hughes movie "the outlaw," which shocked 1941 audiences so much it was pulled from some theaters. her career went beyond her sex symbol image. she appeared in a lot of films over the years, starring with marilyn monroe in "gentlemen prefer blonds" and a lot of bob hope musicals. a later generation knew her as a bra pitch woman on tv. she called herself a full figured girl. veteran actress jane russell was 89 years old. >>> america has also lost the last of a breed. the last of the doughboys. frank buckles has died. he was the last american survivor of world war i. he wanted to serve his country so badly in the war that end all wars that he lied abou

it's joy is two hundred percent our business one hundred percent your position tom is if we lose our aaa rating is the day is that my position is that this is crazy to see eighteen percent of that and say a two thirds supermajority that it's crazy we need to balance the budget we need to do it now and fine and we should have started when with ronald reagan said that he was going to triple our debt we should have said no then and we need to say it to every every republican forever kendall coffey thanks for dropping by it's a pleasure to be with you but after talking with you what we're seeing here is an effort by republicans to enshrine their tea party ideals into the us constitution at best in my opinion it's a gimmick at worst it shreds our nation's social safety net and could lead us all the financial ruin. still to come up on the big picture before you cast your next ballot you may be asked to show photo id after the break i'll tell you why this will not only do this it was like this will only just franchise it's actors and ways textor. actress lindsay lo in fact gave rise to the

group by war but now peace in the republic has been restored but made today is not possible our correspondent tom barton is watching the game and will be getting to latest from him shortly and also for the latest score came in to our sports board in the next hour. and dmitri medvedev joins us now with all the latest business news stay with us. welcome to business on sea oil prices remain high as tensions in libya persists however it's more of a risk premium with no real shortage seen so well that's according to the. global oil director for them that's agents whether you're talking about sin is he a libya or any of the countries bahrain for that matter or oman even though people target the loading areas and even when they can the production areas there's more than enough supply out there of crude oil in the market right now so the supply demand scenario is actually fairly stable and also the kinds of production we're talking about losing right now libya is down by a hundred thousand barrels a day or so was i we're losing a million or so barrels a day of production in supply in a market that is eig

tom, thanks. >>> now to our team across the country. we're joined by nbc's miguel almaguer in west covina, california. 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 highe

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. >> tom: here's what we're watching for next week. gary motyl is back as our market monitor. he's chief investment officer at templeton global equity. we'll also see the latest jobs numbers in the march employment report. monday, beyond the scoreboard tackles the differences in labor issues between major league baseball and the national football league. >> susie: a cleveland browns fan is suing the nfl and its teams over the current lockout. ken lanci says the move violated his contract to buy game tickets. the lawsuit asks for damages of more than $25,000 from both the browns and the league. the nfl responded by saying it has already announced a refund policy to protect fans and the best solution is for the union to return to the bargaining table. >> tom: meantime, a lawsuit over soup is coming to a boil. today a federal judge gave the okay for a case against campbell soup to move forward. four new jersey women are suing the company arguing it made misleading claims on its labels. specifically, that campbell's low-sodium tomato soup, doesn't have significantly less soldium t

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. >> tom: some good guidepostses for sunday investors as we are in ira season. always nice to see you, robert pozen our guest tonight, name of the book is "the fund industry" >> susie: tom another day of gains here on wall street. looks like investors are feeling upbeat and counting on good corporate earnings coming out over the next couple of weeks. >> tom: a couple of biggies after the close tonight, as a matter of fact, susie. but the after-hours action, were going in different directions. lotses to get to, so let's roll out tonight's market focus. we saw more stock buying in the face of renewed european debt worries, mideast violence, and higher oil prices. technology led the way. semiconductor maker nvidia jumped 8%. despite the sell-off we've seen over the past month, shares are up 25% since the start of this year. investment firm needham calls the worries about apple's ipad hurting sales of tablets using nvidia's chips "overblown." micron also rallied, with an upbeat outlook on computer memory prices, thanks to tablets and smartphones. shares jumped more than 8%. software firm red hat rallied 18

the albany area, in fact, our manager tom newman got the call at 515 to hear about it pale. pale in albany. --hail. just some interesting news for you. your ride through the caldecott tunnel into lafayette is a little lead. walnut creek as well. we have a still moving through right now with intense hours associated with it. we had a heavy batch of what they're going through into knocked a little bit ago but it is turning into rain, primarily in brentwood. still, a wet morning for a pivotal step what is still little bit longer. said is a, not a lot going on right there. we to expect that showers to intensify for the evening. at 9:00 p.m. future cast is predicting rain in the north bay. as we advance to 3:00 a.m. light plane is bay wide. the entire north bay has a moderate-heavy rain are around 6:00 saturday morning. as you wake up on 6:00 it will be wet. it will not last long. watch the clock koppel 30 3:00 p.m. sunday. another system. it is a lot lighter its will not last long. by 8:00 p.m. that night we will have a light showers bay area wide by 9:00 p.m. is all gone. it wi

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