. >> up next, booktv sat down with george washington university professor marcy norton to discuss her book, "sacred gifts, profane pleasures." this is about 20 minutes. >> george washington professor marcy norton, where did snickers bar and mara broke him from? >> well, we have to go way back in time, tobacco and chocolate are both native to the americas. and were developed by indians. tobaccos in the distant past several thousand years b.c. and a cow which is the raw central ingredient to chocolate, likewise, made about 3000 b.c. and so they were central to native americans and when europeans had no knowledge of that until they arrived starting with columbus in 1492. and went from their. >> how would they use in these ancient cultures? >> so, tobacco was used in a whole multitude of ways. smoked, cigars, pipes, sort of cigarette like substances also use topically as medicines, snuffed through the nose. in the most. a whole host of applications, sword bearing depending on the region. chocolate had a more restricted domain. so what really important is to remember is that it was a bever

. >> you look like marcy may. >> elizabeth olsen wins most disturbing for marcy marcy may marlene. >> i don't carry a gun. >> ryan gosling defines cool in drive. and best picture without words, the artist. arch campbell, abc 7 news. >> we disagree on drive. speaking of movies, mission impossible is tops at the box office. it earned about $31 million over the weekend. sherlock homes a game of shadows was second with nearly $22 million. alvin and the chipmunks, war horse and girl with the dragon tattoo round out the top man: my electric bill was breaking the bank. so to save some money, i trained this team of guinea pigs to row this tiny boat.

marcy wong will be starting off for them. >> it is an exhilarating process to be involved in the port development team on pier 70. this has many parallels to another project. before it became a hoping ruin -- hulkin -- these snapshots illustrate division come to life. odi is singularly qualified for pier 70. it has a tremendous track record. 50 million square feet, 15 build projects, a huge campuses on formally polluted sites. odi is self-financed on the equity side and receives preferential rate financing. critical to its reliability as a developer, it has a proven record as a 30-year entity and not an untested consortium. because of the experience and understanding of this type and scope of rehabilitation, orten sees opportunities for innovative solutions. >> allow me to introduce marcy wong and don logan. she is an architect and professor of architecture at the university of berkeley. allow me to give you a tour. the awards include the national honor award from the aia. the awards are impressive but they're not the reason odi chose her firm. a fairly steady the site for the nationa

a feeling that you're right marci thanks so much for joining us tonight thanks for having me. coming up next the supreme court weighs in on the government using a g.p.s. devices to track you down last night the g.o.p. candidates weighed in on immigration during their debate three to find out what exactly help the deportation is. the campaign that's seen. people calling like you said for free and fair elections. again we're still reporting from the land where as you can hear behind me loud explosions that lead. me to be. really. good it gave. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. by guys it's time for show and tell on tonight's program last week we told you about a new model for college tuition that's being proposed in california as one of the many ideas that are being thrown around as a potential solution to the ballooning student debt bubble so we asked wha

>>host: we have been talking with marcy norton history professor at george washington university and the author of this book "sacred gifts, profane pleasures" a history of tobacco and chocolate in the atlantic world" >> ien had a special collections for the lsu library. today we're were the special collections is house. and has a variety of different parts. today i will talk about and i know from the lower mississippi valley collection that is a a premier collection. it documents the documents the culture of lower mississippi valley from colonial area era through present-day it has journal's 10 newspapers as well as unpublished manuscripts like this volume that is one of our jules this ok was kept by leonard claiborne appointed by jefferson to receive louisiana from the french for the louisiana purchase. it is amazing he was only 28 at the time and was governor within the mississippi territory. this is the correspondence he said back to madison and other officials to let them know how it was going here in louisiana after the changeover. not always smoothly. the thing to think about i

press this is now the sixth time the obama administration is attempting to use the espionage act to marcy wheeler will help us uncover the inconsistency s. and the dangers for whistleblowers and then last night the candidates spoke on immigration mitt romney suggested that self deportation should be the easiest fix so what exactly is self deportation. going to give us the details we're going to all that morphy tonight including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. our so last night we were forced to sit through yet another republican debate this one was hosted by n.b.c. and moderated by brian williams who did an embarrassingly poor job of it and it one point i'm pretty sure that william just stepped out to have a smoke or something because he let mitt romney newt gingrich just ask each other questions and go back and forth for about ten minutes now there was one of the value to this exchange however romney really went after gingrich and expose what is a systemic problem the revolving door of politicians then becoming lobbyists or as gingr

marcy captor was right three years ago. they can't take your house.l see cases like the one in massachusetts popping up. this month in nevada the state supreme court considering the case of andrew and loretta davis, said their mortgage, too, does not legally belong to the bank trying to kick them out of the house. if they win, thousands of nevada families will have reason to ask whether the banks had any right to kick them to the curb, too. while we just got another sign athat marcy captor was right, this time it came from a different place. after years of federal prosecutors trying to find a way to assign blame for the wall street disaster that ate the economy, the president will look at what wall street did to main street as a potential crime. >> tonight i'm asking my attorney general to create a special unit, a federal prosecutors and leading state attorney general to expand our investigations in the abuse of lending and packaging and risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. this new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed

previously, supervisor farrell called bill, marcie, bill, isaac, and betty.o not have to come up in any order. maybe lineup on that side. any of the names, does not matter if you are in the exact order. maggie, you can start if you want. >> thank you. very generous of you. well, i have a lot to say, and i am going to try to say it in two minutes. i am a native san franciscan, 81 years old. i grew up in the castro peter i am bisexual. i have two children who are grown, in their 50s, and a granddaughter who is 12 and is brilliant. i have a history as a registered nurse, a psychotherapist, and sexologist. i am very fortunate. i bought my house in the 1960's. i bought it for $16,000. a lovely little house in glen park. it has no stairs inside, no stairs from the street. as a very lucky. but i live alone. i have a cat. my kids come over a lot of my friends come over a lot. and i go out and do stuff. i am longtime member of harvey milk since the beginning. i knew harvey will. harvey milk is putting on an lgbt elders forum in march, march 24. i just wanted to focus

good food places new york city. [ laughter ] ♪ >> thank you, christmas trees for being like my aunt marcyre all decked out for the party and wearing a fancy skirt. but, the next morning, you're nude and laying at the end of the driveway. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: your aunt marcy? >> jimmy: she's really fun, my aunt marcy. >> steve: you don't think she had anything to do with grandma's disappearance, do you? >> jimmy: did i tell you what happened to grandma? >> steve: no, what happened? >> jimmy: it was a nightmare. she had too much eggnog. >> steve: right. >> jimmy: she loves eggnog. >> steve: she loves -- i know that. >> jimmy: yeah, and she leaves the house. and then, so, she's leaving -- and then she got run over by a reindeer. >> steve: oh, my god. i mean, is she all right? >> jimmy: no, she's dead. [ laughter ] she's disfigured, too. >> steve: by the reindeer hooves and antlers. >> jimmy: there's a hoof print on her forehead. >> steve: oh, my god. >> jimmy: so it was closed casket. [ laughter ] >> steve: oh, awful, awful, awful. >> jimmy: great song, by the way.

wheeler blogger at mt weil dot net marcy thanks for joining us tonight let's figure a little background quickly if you can we don't have a whole lot of time tonight but i guess you could say that in two thousand and seven is when people really got to know about john kiriakou who came out said that he was on one of the lead capturing teams he detailed. enhanced interrogation or waterboarding at the time and basically said that he supported it but then where does this story come in with him leaking cia analysts names their identities to the press. yeah at that point everyone thought he was just spreading propaganda for the cia because he was putting the best spin on the on waterboarding just as the whole destroyed tape thing came out but the allegations do go back to that same time period two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and ultimately what d.o.j. was investigating is how some get most detainees found out the identities of people who were on the torture teams one of them was martina's the other one nobody disclosed his identity yet. kiriakou has been charged with leaking it a

my name is marcy. and he called me "ma-see." we used to laugh at that. >> reporter: they will have a funeral, followed by private service wednesday, and a memorial in the basketball arena thursday. >> reporter: the university is working with paterno's family, despite firing him for the way he handled the child sex abuse scand alt. >>> long-time friend charles pittman said the pressure was too much for his former coach. >> i think ultimately, he succumbed because they took away his will to live. i think he died of a broken heart. >> reporter: as for the allegations against former assistant coach jerry sandusky, legal experts say paterno would have testified in the upcoming trial, but it would not be crucial to the case. in state college, pennsylvania, manuel gallegus, wjz eyewitness news. >> the university's former president and athletic director are both charged with failing to report to police, when they first received word of allegations concerning sandusky. >>> with you're waiting for someone to get home from work, let's chec

delegates scott and joe marcy say that the fee would cut down on litter and pollution. they admit that 20 cents may be a little tie high and they would be happy with just a 5- cent tax. >>> six u.s. marines were killed when their helicopter crashed in afghanistan. authorities say there was no indication that enemy fire brought down the chopper. the identities of the marines have not been released. >>> one of the famous tuskegee airmen was laid to rest at arlington national cemetery this morning. retired air force lieutenant colonel luke weatherers jr. earned numerous medals for his service during world war ii. today's funeral coincides with the release of a new movie, red tails. it's the highly anticipated film that tells the story of the tuskegee airmen. >>> and we have just learned that legendsary singer etta james has died. her publicist says that miss james suffered from dementia, hepatitis-c, and she was diagnosed with leukemia last year. etta james was 73 years old. >>> when we come back, we're going to have some winter driving tips for you. help you out. stay wit

marcy colette visited paterno's family after he died. >> we were feeling sad. and now after we visited with sue and jay, and diana, we had some laughs and remembering the good times. >> reporter: sunday night, the penn state band played amazing grace as thousands attended a candlelight vigil on the campus. paterno died 10 weeks after penn state's trustees fired him. the board said the hall of fame coach could not effectively lead in the wake of a child molestation scandal involving the former defensive coordinator jerry sandusky. they say paterno should have gone to the police when he first found out about the allegations in 2002. >> joe paterno coached at penn state for 46 years. but his career ended in the midst of a scandal. now, the university has the delicate task of finding a way to commemorate his life. university president rodney erickson and the trustees issued a statement. saying we are considering appropriate ways to honor the great life and legacy of joe paterno. charles pittman played for the first team paterno coached. >> his work, his commitment

two however djokovic hit back and eventually after the first match thanks to a seventy five silver marci five hours and fifty three minutes the final score of five seven six four six two six seven. the titanic is the longest grand slam final and the longest ever in the study group and. the fifth man succeeding the right to do so with the six of them just wants to get through the finals. of the u.s. to decide. russia's yelena may not last the mixed doubles final she and indian partner lee on the pace came back from a set down against bethany matic sounds of the usa and remains wholly attack out but then the last championship deciding tie break ten points to three so joyful that can't. fly. i'm going to mark and i think biggest title so far the whole collection of unusual outfits. wasn't too nervous so it just kind of tested my partner and i felt good out there i mean it's. good doubles players that came back in the second set. but we fought it out in the tiger so feels pretty good to have a chance. well meanwhile maria sharapova believes the signs are looking good for the season ahead des

marcie can relate to me and tell me you didn't find anything room. thank you. the appraisers probably have a tough with this town. there are some poor people here there are some bad looking homes and i'm sure those create some challenges. but you know missing sammy's house is the same size as the heart's missing sami's is much newer and even if you're blind and a little crazy and think these homes are in similar condition and they can bedroom isn't a bedroom if it's not close to a bathroom there's still a forty five thousand dollar difference in a town where the average home is fifty eight grand. that's almost the cost of a whole other house this is the kind of appraisal work the trust hands behind and they said mrs home on her couch and say maybe we gave the hearts too much i mean we made a mistake. and in the same breath the thing missy and sammy got a good run five thousand dollars if you're not a hollywood story and where does this leave those who've already worked a lifetime. person ok i paid back a chapter eleven and ninety two years old. and i said i did

welcome to the law nischelle get the real headlines with none of the marcy i can live in washington d.c. now is not going to take a look at the latest jobs numbers released by the government.

welcome to the la nischelle get the real headlines with none of the marcy i can live in washington d.c. now and i are going to take a look at the latest jobs numbers released by the government by their measurement all signs point in a positive direction more jobs added unemployment going down but other figures a little fudged not including a chunk of the populations that left the labor force entirely and how do we compare all of that with executive compensation that continues to grow nick hanauer is going to join us then the girls of bunny ranch.

marcy says its telling about their character. thank you for being with us. make it a great day, everybody. >> turning up the heat in the sunshine state. the critical florida primary days away now. welcome to a new hour of "america's news headquarters," i'm kelly wright. >> we're not talking about the temperatures. i'm mitt romney and newt gingerich are attacking each other. a little more than 8% points apart and now candidates are picking a new target. carl cameron is live in orlando. it looks like gingrich has ground to make up, at least according to the poll. is there enough time? >> probably. but it really depends on what happens in the last couple days and it's difficult to make up a gap on the weekend when voters tune out because they have personal lives to contend with with days off. it's close. gingrich is trailing a little bit. there's a sense of confidence in the romney campaign. there's a sense of urgency with the gingrich folks and they're scrambling to organize where they have a cash disadvantage but the rhetoric is tilted. they're beating the da

and my name is marcy. and he called me maw-see. everyone used to laugh at that. >> reporter: starting tuesday, the funeral will be held, followed bay a -- by a private service and memorial. >> the university is working with the family. >> reporter: many here in the community are bitter about what happened. his long-time friend, charles pittman, who played for penn state, said the pressure was too much for his former coach. >> i think ultimately, he succumbed because they took away his love. i think he died of a broken heart. >> reporter: as for former coach jerry sandusky, legal experts say paterno would have testified in the upcoming trial, but it would not be crucial to the case. manuel gallegus, wjz eyewitness news. >> pennsylvania governor tom corbit has ordered all flags to be lowered to half staff. in honor of joe paterno. >>> not a great start to the week on wall street. dow bounced around for most of the day. the dow is now down 12 points. s&p up a point. and nasdaq is up 3. let's go to new york now, where alexis christofor

continue to talk with members of congress we are talking next to the representative from toledo ohio, marcy kaptur. she has been the longest serving. >> that is correct in the house and the longest serving democratic woman in history. i hope we don't show too much. >> first of all when you listen to the president's speech, congresswoman, what did you hear that would be good for tolino? >> first of all he mentioned the name and he mentioned cleveland's naim to read the only to communities that he missed were lorain and sandusky in terms of the larger communities and like what some of the areas in the district. but what was wonderful was his emphasis on reading the american dream for all and focusing on manufacturing. when did you ever hear a president talk about the muscle of america and that resonates another part of the country because that is who we are. people who work with their hand, people who built america forward, people who throw america forward, this is music to our years, talking about turning unemployment into a training and reemployment program, talking about veterans jobs, tal

marcy cuevas of our station wtbd in wilmington, north carolina has more. >> reporter: cynthia belet isimportant health advice, but it doesn't always come from her doctor. instead it's delivered to her cell phone. >> reminding me to, you know, drink a certain amount of water a day. eating. making sure i actually eat for myself and for the baby. making sure that, you know, i talk to my doctor the way that i'm supposed to. ask the right questions. >> reporter: she signed up for the text for baby program when she was just ten weeks pregnant. ever since then she's been getting two or three free texts a week. >> with the text messages you get them so regularly and so frequently, and it -- and the timing seems to be insane. like it's always spot on. like exactly what i'm going through or i'm worried about, i get a text message reassuring me, telling me not to worry. >> reporter: this free program isn't just for expectant moms. nicky basscomb had a baby boy two months ago. she just signed up. >> i think it will help me learn a little bit more about him and know what to expect with him. but i t

continue to talk with members of congress, we are talking next to the representative from toledo, ohio, marcy kaptur. she has probably the longest serving woman in congress, is that correct? >> that is correct, and the house. and longest-serving democratic woman in u.s. history. i hope i don't show too much for the where. >> first of all, when you listen to the president's speech, congresswoman, what did you hear that would be good for toledo? >> well, first of all he he mention toledo's name and he mentioned cleveland's main. the only two communities he missed work lorain and sandusky in terms of larger kindred, and lakewood, something areas that are in the new ninth district. but what was wonderful was his emphasis on redeeming the american dream for all. and focus on manufacturing, when did you ever a president talk about the muscle of america? and that resonates in our part of the country because that's who we are. people who work with their heads, people build america forward from people who grow america forward. this is music to our ears. talking about turning unemployment into a traini

. >>> i'm rob marci an noempt 5,000 black birds wound up dead in arkansas last year.adly it's happened again. i'll have the story in the next hour. >>> thanks so much. next hour you probably knew him as go ph er on the love boat. newt gingrich knows him as one of his most well known supporters in iowa. we're talking to former iowa congressman fred grandee in the next hour. >>> dick clark's new year's rocking eve rang in the ratings with more than 22 million viewers. the 40th anniversary event gave the network its biggest draw in 11 years. we're talking about some pretty big performers, lady gaga, justin bieber. the mission impossible ghost protocol proves to be a box office gold. it neared the $350 million mark. steven spielberg's war horse brought in 17 million. if you want a romantic vacation, where else would you go? paris, naturally. look how happy they are. according to people magazine that's where derek jeter and mika kelley were for the weekend. they broke up back in august for after dating for three years. lebron james put a ring on it. he popped the question

ohio nine, dennis kucinich against marcy kaptur. and ohio's 16 is jim renacci against betty sutton. and pennsylvania 12, altmire against mark critz. what do you have to say? guest: these races are some of the most fascinating house races because they pit members against members and force other members to choose sides or stay completely out of it. and involve a lot of different interest groups having to choose who their congressional friends are. in fact, since we put together that list, it's already changed. gary miller yesterday after jerry lewis announced his retirement decided he was going to move into the district that jerry lewis had been running in. so that member vs. member race in orange county california. gary miller is moving to a completely new district to try to save his congressional career. part of the challenge for democrats is that they have more of these member vs. member races than republicans. there are 12 we count right now. there are two d vs. r races. we haven't seen a trend pairing democrats vs. republicans. out of the 12 member vs. member, there are 10 that i