labor groups, including united new york, strong oral coalition, the working families party, united federation of teachers, workers united, as the i.q. 1199 in the transport workers union local 100 announced they would hold a community and labor rally in support of occupy wall street the following week on this same wednesday that the students called for a student walkout. the first issue of the occupy "wall street journal" holds this unity come in the front page displayed a large photo of a woman with a tambourine and the headline, new york united, wednesday at dover fifth, student walkout, union marches, occupy wall street.org, new york student writing.org. the new york city student assembly, which facilitated connections among student activists at different universities had been acting along with others in solidarity with the local workers, especially the art handlers of the teamsters local age 14. the union members had been locked out of work for failing to agree to a nastier new contract with a 10% wage cut and a stipulation green team owners unlimited freedom to hire nonunion workers. the

there is there is an open question of whether or not there should be universal jurisdiction in united states federal courts and that's what the governments of united kingdom and other liens and germany also briefs on the side of the corporation saying as much they don't they think that the multinational corps the i.c.c. and the courts are set up under international law are competent to handle these kinds of questions and it's not the united states business to be messing its nose in foreign relations in this way so in that sense that's a legitimate question and that does give the conservatives on the court some cover if they want to just make it in their policymaking on why they're choosing what they're choosing because really the legal arguments for each side they don't they don't cross paths they don't come from the same fountain the legal argument for each side were made up in the lower courts to justify the ends that the partisan interests were pushing do you think that it's interesting i mean i guess to me you can say that it's a little obvious to you that let's say the u.s. government the obama

. >> also in the united states, federal prosecutors have started an investigation into lance armstrong. no reason was given for the investigation. there are allegations armstrong and his teammates used spot to ship money for the u.s. postal service to bite performance enhancing drugs. -- sponsorship money from the u.s. postal service to buy performance enhancing drugs. three british prisoners have died in southern spain. the old debt were in their '70's. nine other britons have been treated and hospitalized. several victims have returned home to the u.k. the number of cancer cases in the u.k. rose by 30%. an aging population, higher levels of obesity, and less exercise are the main factors on the rise. ireland will have the biggest rise of 72% it is predicted. the chairman of the royal bank of scotland admit that bankers have been paid too much for too long. the chief executive turned down a bonus worth nearly 1 million pounds. this is a bbc news. these are the headlines. syrian uprising claims more lies. activists say more than two of the people have been killed in homs. after the big

units. >>> the federal air marshal service could come under scrutiny today when the inspector general releaseso report. some are accused of making fun of veterans, gays, and minorities. the federal air marshal services director describes some of the behavior as, quote, egregious and despicable. despite the offensive comments, the inspector general found no evidence of widespread discrepancy between the agency. >>> the entire bus fleet of air 380s, will be checked for cracks in the wings. the safety agency initially ordered inspections for 20 planes laugh month after cracks were found in the wings of airlines. australia's qantas just rye moved one of i itself a-380s. they claim they're safe to flee. >>> a developing story now. talks between greek political leaders on weather to accept the european bailout palkage that inclueses inclueses. they must agree on the spending cuts before the eu and monetary fund grant the second. reports say leaders have agreed on all points except for pension cuts. the group will meet again later today. >>> well, that news sent asian markets down. right now european

activities focusing on developing the strategies and policies to help build and transform the united states federal, state, local and private sector homeland security institution. mr. mclee in an is responsible for protection operations at 20 major field offices. 331 ports of entry. and over 70 locations with a staff of more than 28,000 employees and an operating budget of over $3.5 billion. rear admiral paul zukunft is responsible for developing national marine safety, security and environmental protection doctrine, policy and regulations as well as ensuring policy alignment through the federal government and with international maritime partners. he recently served as the federal on screen coordinator for the deep water who awater h incident in the gulf. he directed federal, state and local agency mies in their respe sefrts. fr. >> mr. steve caldwell recent reports covered issues related to protecting critical infrastructure, maritime transportation security act and court security exercises, maritime domain awareness, container security programs and risk management for critical structure, as well.

it goes without seeing the united states is not a potential threat to the russian army or the russian federation and goes without saying that the problem is there. some elements of foreign policy of the united states create some problems for the russian federation and one of these issues is missile defense and by the way. one example which is very interesting maybe for you as well as for. cortex who are sitting at the t.v. and listening to mr mcnamara what's of the first who was in favor of restriction on missile defense. the soviet union generals specialist at that time war began in your distinctions and the situation has changed now you see that the russian federation is in favor to have some. limitations of. the united states playing on this issue. for me it's you say that it's really interesting because of the same situation it was during our negotiations with the united states when the we elaborate then you will start treaty year zero zero zero russia today and russia for four or four decades has been living without an immediate threat to security but there are of course some potential thre

the united states yoga federation wants to see it happen.non-profit organization which advocates yoga as a sport is hosting a regional and national championship in new york next week participants will are to do a series of poses and demonstrate perfect strength, balance and flexability. they want organizations in other countries to form an international yoga federation and to qualify as an olympic sport. yoga competitions originated in india hundreds of years ago many they are still being conducted there today. >> dance is a sport don't you think? >> definitely. >> coming up, the new cast of "dancing with the stars" revealed today. >> we'll have the full list, next. ab >> today at 3:00 the oscar losers and their swag bags. then at 4:00, the car company that has unseated honda. and 5 the pit bull spared from a death sentence his owner fought for two years to free him from an animal shelter. >>> finally, legendary singer, soap star, tennis star and urkel will soon be putting on their dancing shoes. >> one of the best players to step on to the

. >> bay area teachers at united against the federal school administrator. >> at the entire stuff out the california on the put on leave, but parents say that's not enough. what they are now threatening to do. >> they battle to save lives every day. they arrested through the eyes of the firefighter. >> potty skies, areas of fog and the data will pan out to be the warmest. i will pinpoint the day as eyewitness news continues right here on the cw. education: they say she's teaching the wrong lesson. 1:05:29-1:05:38 "michelle rhee is everything that we are against in p s about testing ou tonight, teachers in oakland sent the message to polarizing figure in public education. they say she's teaching the lesson. >> says everything we are against an public education. she cares about testing our kids, teaching the very narrow amount of material. >> members of the oakland education association picketed outside the paramount theater performer dc school chief michel rhea spoke for the oakland speakers. she did not speak for us tonight. she gave a lot of criticism and fired hundreds of teachers a

the united states yoga federation wants to see it happen.on-profit organization which advocates yoga as a sport is hosting a regional and national championship in new york next week participants will are to do a series of poses and demonstrate perfect strength, balance and flexability. they want organizations in other countries to form an international yoga federation and to qualify as an olympic sport. yoga competitions originated in india hundreds of years ago many they are still being conducted there today. >> dance is a sport don't you think? >> definitely. >> coming up, the new cast of "dancing with the stars" revealed today. >> we'll have the full list, next.  >> today at 3:00 the oscar losers and their swag bags. then at 4:00, the car company that has unseated honda. and 5 the pit bull spared from a death sentence his owner fought for two years to free him from an animal shelter. >>> finally, legendary singer, soap star, tennis star and urkel will soon be putting on their dancing shoes. >> one of the best pl

. >> bagwell had access to the entire 30-unit apa 30-unit aparo the federal agents scoured through the dumpsters and the parking lot before taking away several boxes of evidence. we do know that before bagwell ended up as a property manager he was an optometrist, seen in the middle teaching students at bay area op tau cal schools in union city. for 35 years he owned and operated a practice in redwood city and managed two laboratories. police had specific information to go looking for dennis bagwell which indi knowet motive. police cold his car over and arrested him late this afternoon. reporting live in piedmont, alan wang, abc news. >>> a triumphant night for rick santorum. they are enjoying a boost of momentum after winning contests in three states. in missouri he beat out mitt romney with 55% of the vote. santorum is the declared winner in minnesota where ron paul came in second. and it was close in colorado, but santorum is the project edwiner there. these victories are the first for santorum since his narrow win last month in iowa. >> there is probably another person who maybe is

developed for use in iraq and afghanistan are being sold to local police departments in the united states and the federal government. so they have the information about you, and they are collecting it, keeping it, storing it, and mining 84 patterns. i do not know if you did anything wrong, but you went to a place a couple of times, and maybe the place is under surveillance or what have you. they could seize that out. if you drive from new york city through washington, d.c., your car will pass through toll plazas, and they will know where your car goes. >> do most people know that there are drones flying around the united states, checking us out at the same time? that was a revelation. >> i think that most people do not have an idea of how many different technologies are now in use to watch whatever the government thinks is important to watch. it is an incremental change. this happens on the state level, the local level, and the federal level, and when you put it together it creates a data base about individuals that is unprecedented. again, if it is used in a way that is dubious, first of all we will not

unlawfully attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against property owned and used by the united states. federal authorities say el khalifi's plan began in january, 2011, when an fbi informant listened to el khalifi and another man at an arlington apartment say the war on terror is a war on muslims. they say over the next year el khalifi allegedly kept talking about his desire to launch a terrorist attack and was eventually introduced to a man named yousef who claimed to be with al-qaeda but was really an undercover officer with the joint terrorist task force. authorities say el khalifi considered blowing up several targets from a building in alexandria and a restaurant to a synagogue and a place where military personnel gather in washington. he settled on the u.s. capitol african vassing the area a couple times. -- after canvassing the area a couple times. undercover officers went with him to a quarry to practice detonating explosives. he asked for a bigger bomb to do more damage. if not enough to destroy the whole building, at least kill 30 people. friday el khalifi strapped on what he thought

. >> bagwell had access to the entire 30-unit apartment so the federal agents scoured through the dumpsters and the parking lot before taking away several boxes of evidence. we do know that before bagwell ended up as a property manager he was an optometrist, seen in the middle teaching students at bay area op tau cal schools in union city. for 35 years he owned and operated a practice in redwood city and managed two laboratories. police had specific information to go looking for dennis bagwell which indicates they may know the exact motive. police cold his car over and arrested him late this afternoon. reporting live in piedmont, alan wang, abc news. >>> a triumphant night for rick santorum. they are enjoying a boost of momentum after winning contests in three states. in missouri he beat out mitt romney with 55% of the vote. santorum is the declared winner in minnesota where ron paul came in second. and it was close in colorado, but santorum is the project edwiner there. these victories are the first for santorum since his narrow win last month in iowa. >> there is probably another person w

the administration disbanded the federal unit in charge of auditing the largest unions so there will be zero audits in 2012. in washington, jim angle, fox news. >> next in the grape vip interesting information -- grapevine interesting information about some of people behind the chrysler ad during the super vote. don't forget the infinity sponsored text to vote question. can rick santorum win the g.o.p. nomination? text sr1 to 36288 for yes. sr2 for no. we'll bring you the results at the end of tonight's show. >> bret: now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. more fall-out from the chrysler bowles ad titled "halftime in america" that featured clint eastwood talking about detroit coming back from the brink. conservatives said it looked more like a president obama campaign commercial. chrysler and eastwood disputed that saying it was intended to be apolitical. the hollywood reporter notes some of the creative minds were outspoken supporters of then candidate obama in 2008. the creative obama created obama-theme poster for the campaign. the art director had exhibit featuring obam

the new numbers but last year, according to the trustees and the balance sheet of the united states, the total federal liabilities, the unfunded liability of medicare, social security, total debt, and the lieblgt liability to federal retirees was $99 trillion. if you have household assets, large and small business, $79 trillion. that's a definition of a huge problem right there. the latest balance sheet the united states came out shows the liabilities as $72 trillion. they revised the estimate and made some actuarial adjustments and taking a look at health care law and making the assumption that the health care law will reduce health costs and the point i'd like to make is in many of our estimates here we're simply deluding ourselves. i don't think it's rational to believer health care law will lower the health care costs. other assumptions we're making. they released the base line. in the baseline their assuming we're going to let these tax cuts expire, all of them. that's a $5 trillion bet. i don't think that's going to happen. the true cost of health care, i've worked with douglas on this and i've

united states. meanwhile roger federer is taking part in the first round of the competition for the. time in eight years as switzerland has the usa the davis cup is the only major owner to evade the thirty year old in his prestigious career a second up later on friday against american john is now before the takes on modern fish. over to ice hockey where russia have moved top of the overall standings in the euro hockey tour after its brutal win over local favorites finland in helsinki the wind coming in game of the swedish leg of the tool the reigning champions of followed closely by the czech republic who had a much tougher way in over twenty eleven runs of sweden as an editor at the heroes he scored a regulation gold and was the only play on the table to convert in a post not shootouts in the czechs one two one russia are not going to get on saturday and they battle sweden in stockholm. meanwhile olympic skiing gold medalist by de mello has been evaluating the slopes which will host the world's best during the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics the thirty four year old was prepar

the top of the ten point at "the wall street journal" about how the dea is going after the united states federalovernment going after cardinal health and cvs, alleging that they should have been more aware of a pill scam that was taking place there, oxycodo oxycodone, prescription painkiller volume going to two pharmacies in florida, going after them saying these two companies should have known about it and aware of it. i think this is going to cause a huge issue. they tried to shut down these operations. a judge has temporarily granted an injunction against the agency being able to do that, but this gets into how much responsibility the cvs pharmacy should have had and cardinal who was supplying a lot of the drugs should have had as well. >> we don't have more time for stories. >> oh, my gosh. >> two more hours to talk about a lot of stories. we'll do it then. in the meantime coming up, we've got wall street veteran sallie krawcheck going to be our guest host. stay tuned for more. intuitive trading platform from charles schwab. fine-tune technical analysis with the integrated chart tools sideba

united states. after all, devoting federal funding to support a research team of 10 people at home just so a company can support a thousand manufacturing jobs overseas, truly misses the mark. mr. secretary, beyond the advanced manufacturing program your budget proposes, how are you working? and this is very much in line with the ranking members' comments, to ensure that federally funded research and development conducted at american universities our laboratories and companies, that leads to manufacturing and jobs here in these united states. >> well, mr. chairman, first, i couldn't agree with you more. i think that if we invest in research in american universities or national labs or in companies that we would like to see not only that research lead research leads to discoveries but that research leads to manufacturing in the united states. because that is where we will see our future prosperity. the department of energy is working in other ways. first, when there are issues having to do with ip generated by the department of energy, we are looking at what means we have to say if you support our sta

vogel of judea makes his russian debut in the competition having switched from the united states meanwhile roger federer is taking part in the first round of the competition for the first time in a is the switzerland host the usa today was cop is the only major owner to evade the thirty year old in his prestigious career he second up late on friday against american john is now before the stanislav but in ca takes on modern fish. now you'd have thought if you had three in the pit gold medal c.n.n. you might be content to gracefully retire however russia's wrestling champion. of is having none of it he could be in line to appear at a record fifth summer games in london as our correspondent roman culture of reports . three time olympic champion bull vice our side is already a living legend in russia's republic of dagestan but his achievements have all the potential to become near unreachable if he qualifies and wins at the london games as the thirty seven year old freestyle wrestler prepares for his fifth olympic experience. to what you might call my actions today whether i get on the team or not all done

the administration disbanded the federal unit in charge of auditing the largest unions so there willin 2012. in washington, jim angle, fox news. >> next in the grape vip interesting information -- grapevine interesting information about some of people behind the chrysler ad during the super vote. don't forget the infinity sponsored text to vote question. can rick santorum win the g.o.p. nomination? text sr1 to 36288 for yes. sr2 for no. we'll bring you the results at the end of tonight's show. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, if your car is totaled, we give you the mone for a car one model year newer. liberty mutual auto insurance. ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could've had a v8. >> bret: now fresh pickings from the political grapevine. more fall-out from the chrysler bowles ad titled "halftime in america" that featured clint eastwood talking about detroit coming back from the brink. conservatives said it looked more like a president obama campaign

the same obligations are on the shoulders of the united states, as are the russian federation. the bear that in mind as we talk to the treaty that these obligations are totally in. the inspection process i will say idea that pat and going for me to play. i would say in general the implementation has been conducted in a very businesslike and pragmatic manner. this was the attitude we had the negotiating table in geneva and has definitely carried forward into the implementation process both on the russian side and the u.s. side we have been keeping focus on problem-solving, being pragmatic we go about it and it really again is quite suited to the post-cold war era we are now in, we we had really some serious security issues you must address some of sides in continue to address regarding forces but we go about it in a pragmatic and problem-solving kind of way. so, throughout this first year of the treaty are in a post from five to february's text and attribute is entered into force on february 5 of 2011 when minister lovecraft and secretary clinton exchanged the paper to bring the

no no no three hundred fifty trillion dollars you see everyone is familiar with the united states of america federal reserve system in the creation of the interest rates that is the basis for the various products that are tied to interest rates including mortgages but that's on a fifteen trillion dollar economy the u.s. economy and by extension other related economies because it's the world reserve currency but much bigger of course is the libel rate and what's called the thai bore rate which is done in japan three hundred fifty trillion in size these traders were trading on inside information front running insider knowledge that because they set that library every day that rate upon which all never saw a market as you point out that's contempt of free market it's commander control central planning market by bureaucrats technocrats and terrorists remember bin love is not dead he hasn't been there and he's in why he's in the europe with ben bernanke you know other central bankers pulling the trigger and killing people. killing people they kill people you know but it was so large it is a huge. situati

russia joined the united states could monitor these these missiles many in the united states dislike the views of federal postal he maintains that the european missile defense system is ineffective the scientist estimates that it has no chance of protecting the united states from a rainy and missiles instead it creates problems for russia if russia believes the fence is not needed but it doesn't pose a theoretical threat to russia. my guess is that the russian government will say ok if you want to spend your national treasure this will help you so it solves the political problem and it provides a much more capable defense there with the united states currently building in goods of them much cheaper. the professor believes that the purpose of nato is radar in europe is to track the movements of russian strategic weapons and to monitor russia's new military technologies. the real target could be russia but certainly it makes the people of europe less safe it draws them in in fact as a geo strategic pawn by great powers as they maneuver and use the missile defense shield not as a way to defend your not as a

. >>> a courage alert on the best- selling car in the united states. the federalent is investigating reports of fires in the 2007 toyota camry and the rav-4. the national highway traffic safety administration said the fires appear to be with the power window switch on the passenger side door. the issue could affect more than 800,000 vehicles. the investigation could lead to a recall. >>> coming up here on fox 5 news at 5. >> when did -- what did you do when he grabbed you? >> i was screaming and kicking. >> a young girl who fought off her attacker receives a hero's welcome from a classmate. lindsay. >>> coming up in spon the club night at the verizon center. are the wizards ready for the heat, brian? >>> and gary's back with the winter weather forecast. stay with us. ay with us.   . >> tonight, the wizards are facing off against lebron james and the miami heat. lindsay murphy is live with a preview of tonight's big game. murph? >> reporter: not just lebron james. how about dwayne wade and chris bosh. the 19 and 7-record. and this is not going to be an easy

nonprofit whose sole profit is to educate local state and federal agencies about the threat of the unified islamic movement here in the united states and right here i would show you video from the training session which was a free seminar for the community but this is actually what happened when a local news crew try to film it. we don't want to hear a rumor that you know. who you are you sorry. troy. now the man in that video is one dollar himself and although he would let the news crew in he was nice enough to let the reporter state observe and according to her topics included hamas as plan to destroy western civilization from within and islamic centers as potential military compounds the second part is particularly interesting given that this training was happening in murfreesboro tennessee some of you might remember the controversy that erupted in murfreesboro a couple years ago over the building of an islamic mosque. from the outset plans to build this new mosque you've been through roche asli contested for reasons like traffic congestion zoning liabilities even suggestions that islam is a political movement disguised a

national organizations are seeking to employ terrorist activities against the united es easy analog for us either at the federal or state level. but i will say tonight was a wonderful night and i'm glad i came. it wasn't so bad after all. >> now how did i know he could do this without notes? he didn't plan it that way, but that's the way it goes. well, it's dessert time. after dessert, we'll have a little coffee here. people can hang around, symb symbolically anyway. and the dessert is a scrumptious dessert indeed because no program could be complete without the dramatic reading by one of the great of all times, not only past president of the west chester bar and the new york state bar and a past regent of the american college of trial lawyers and one of the most prominent lawyers in this entire region if not america. out of the firm of clark and miller in white plains, he's appeared on television and radio, written a book called the art of advocacy, another called "new york practice" and most recently "on trial: letters from a lifetime in the courtroom" which is standing room only presentation. but for those o

the interest rate stays erode so if the federal reserve is able to finance washington's deficits without some sort of hyperinflation breaking loose then the unitedstates no longer needs china as a creditor it has the federal reserve and so for the past several years we have seen quantitative easing on quantitative easing two and essentially it's continuation now because the federal reserve is buying enough bonds to keep the interest rate zero so we have the central bank now financing united states government so it's less dependent on chinese purchases never the less the trade surplus from china has to be recycled somewhere and it appears that china is still mainly recycling it into dollar assets unfortunately we have to end it there paul craig roberts former u.s. assistant secretary of the treasury thanks for your time. the debt ridden he you has suffered another blow from rating agencies moody's downgraded the debt ratings of six states including vulnerable portugal italy and spain this is the bloc struggles to prevent greece from default by offering ballots in return for more austerity parties jacob kruse reports from athens. system on the sea

you have repeatedly stressed that the united states needs to return the federal government to a sound fiscal footing over the long-term. yet, the administration's 2013 budget does nothing to reform the programs or rein in their costs. we did address military spending with cuts in the budget and with sequestration, but if we fail to reform our major entitlement programs, what will be some of consequences and if we do make major long-term structural changes to our entitlement programs, do you see immediate or short-term benefits? >> yes, mr. chairman, thank you. i have often, as you noted talked about the importance of establishing long-run fiscal sustainability in the united states. if you take a look at congressional budget offices report that came out, what you see is that under current law, which is the basis of the projections they have to make, that over the next ten to 15 years you see an increasing acceleration of the size of the debts and deficits. it reaches a point where it's not going to be sustainable. once the markets lose confidence in the ability of the government to mai

the united states is one of a few western countries, poland, romania, united states, libya had an all federal screening force. you went and saw the models in israel. i went before and back after you were there. the uk which had huge incidence of terrorists, probably faced terrorism far worse than we did, they all retain private screenings. no one is saying do away with federal government. no one is saying federal employees do a bad job. i want to get you out of the personnel business and into the security business. i think that's important because we do have a threat so you can focus. again, the union issue, spps they joined unions before the federal employees. and those under -- in san francisco and other places we looked at, sometimes the private screeners pay more money to retain people. the turnover is great. maybe we can submit this comparison if it has it between san francisco and los angeles. there's room for that. my only question, sir, you had stated to the committee you would work with us, and i hope you'll work with me to try to improve this and implement the law the president, we

is go and buy anything to these days and you know that and even last week you know the federal reserve in the united states changed their way of measuring inflation yet again they've changed their inflation measurement several times in the last few decades last week mr bernanke you said we're going to change the way we do it again and guess what a new way shows this and collation but there is information learn ok so the people that say you know government and measure it's don't show a lot of inflation and they're pretty pathetic so i doubt if people jeff zucker is that they're looking at these government figures. and you must have learned by now that if you listen to the government in the government to get your investment advice you're going to go broke. and by the way the government the russian government the u.s. government the germans those. it's all good john these are all governments the orderly you would know because you know about actually making money which is why i know that you know you're the expert on these things i want to look at the federal funds rate if i can bring up that chart for