the roman empire at the time.e last roman emperor was expelled from rome in 476. and rooted out by one of his german general so there is no longer a roman emperor as well but still rome was one of the greatest cities in the world. but there is another person who has taken up residence there, the christian bishop of rome. and in a way, he begins to fill the space that has been left by the roman imperials in terms of authority and also even title. think about this person known as the pope, the deity of the church. but the pope has this authority of being the bishop of rome, not just the bishop of -- or something but the bishop of rome. among his many titles are pontius. that is actually an ancient roman title, a very significant function in the roman constitutional system, responsible for bridges and so on. and the pope is the one who builds the bridge between earth and heaven. the pontiff as well. many other important titles. i have always been personally fond of universal primates which is something that is really

>> i don't think anybody thinks he, including pileate that jesus represented a major threat to roman rule. >> well, then why was he crucified? >> because of the disruption, potential for disruption he presented that passover. but he's in jerusalem, that's not roman rule. >> well, if it's a small uprising, if it's a small dislocation that he creates he would not have been crucified. crucifix was reserved -- correct me if i'm wrong -- >> yes. >> you're much more up to date on this than i am, the crucifix was reserved for public displays in order to gain social control exactly true. >> but there was no disruption according to your current thinking, is that correct, of any magnitude? >> well, i think there was a potential for public disruption but i also think that pileate new perfectly well even though he crucified jesus that jesus was not a revolutionary figure and that's because of the other fact. and we have so few real fact. the other fact that we have historically is that even though jesus was executed as if he were an insurrectionist none of his followers were. >> right, which is

we used to shoot roman candles at each other. >> did you get hurt?> after it bounces off of you. >> i think this would be a guy thing, you say we've all done it. you have done it i've not done it. >> at some point in every dude's life you have shot a roman candle at your friend or they have been shot at you. it's all part of growing up. >>> if you're watching this video, you're probably not out on the water enjoying fourth of july like a lot of people did. like noah is on his wakeboard. tearing it up. upside down, big overhead flips, back flips, front flips, twists, turns. the guy has such command of the board. it's awesome. >> i would know because i tried to wakeboard, and i never made it out of the water. i got up, just fell. >> attach some sparklers to the handlebars. that would have been very fourth of july. >> that would have been cool. >> you know who has mad skills, he's on 14 years old, "sports illustrated" recognized noah as their sports kid of the year. >>> it's prank versus prank time. that means our favorite prank couple jesse and gina ar

christine romans is here. what else did bernanke have to say?behr bernanke to say i got some new, shiny object that's going to help keep global growth going. bernanke says, no. i need to make sure that congress doesn't make anies by mistakes here. ben bernanke talking about a frustrating slow recovery in the jobs market. i've heard him say this many, many times. he also talked about the fiscal cliff, so-called fiscal cliff. that's when we have huge spending cuts and huge tax increases all at the same time that slam the economy early next year. congress really has to get its act together on that. this is what he said. >> the most effective way that the congress could help to support the economy right now would be to work to address the nation's fiscal challenges in a way that takes into account both the need for long run sustainability and the fragility of the recovery. doing so earlier rather than later would help reduce uncertainty and boost household and business confidence. >> that's about as fiery as you're going to get from a fed chief. the

christine romans is here. what else did bernanke have to say?behr bernanke to say i got some new, shiny object that's going to help keep global growth going. bernanke says, no. i need to make sure that congress doesn't make anies by mistakes here. ben bernanke talking about a frustrating slow recovery in the jobs market. i've heard him say this many, many times. he also talked about the fiscal cliff, so-called fiscal cliff. that's when we have huge spending cuts and huge tax increases all at the same time that slam the economy early next year. congress really has to get its act together on that. this is what he said. >> the most effective way that the congress could help to support the economy right now would be to work to address the nation's fiscal challenges in a way that takes into account both the need for long run sustainability and the fragility of the recovery. doing so earlier rather than later would help reduce uncertainty and boost household and business confidence. >> that's about as fiery as you're going to get from a fed chief. the

of the romans. it has that same kind of idea of entry into and outside of new york city. and it has many symbols on top of it and throughout the facade -- symbols of new york city. you see thalf moon, which was henry hudson's ship. on the other side is a windmill, which refers to the original dutch settlers of new york. and then on the top is the great monumental sculptural element, which has three gods. >> the gods -- hercules, mercury, and minerva -- came from greek and roman mythology. they represent strength, commerce, and wisdom. even the clock is special. tiffany glass lines the numbers and the hands. >> it's very difficult to see, but when the light shines on it, it's quite beautiful and picks up in different colors. this is a really wonderful -- probably one of the most spectacular places to be in grand central and in the entire city. not very many people actually get to come up here. but what you can see from here that you can't see from down below -- first of all, you get a sense of the sc

the englishman claiming the best spot on the great by four tenths of a second followed his driver roman groves yon's not part two time defending champion sebastian vettel to joe hill stuff from second place jenson button and. no no longer i found out the top six. american football finally where t.-bone mania is starting to gain steam in the big apple last season's most talked about n.f.l. player tim tebow making his training camp debut for the new york jets completing a few very impressive throws in the process the twenty four year old renowned as much for his strong christian faith this is sub par for and mechanics making plenty of progress in the latter development department tivo completing four out of five passes in drills with the backup players mark sanchez is entrenched as the starting signal caller but rex ryan has plenty of plans for his versatile second string star . you get to see what he looks like because two hundred fifty pounds go ahead and try to blast him if you want to because he's going to hit you back promise you that and. you know we're not just going to catch thing

christine romans is also with us this morning busy collecting those. >> a scathing report by the formerrector rock penn state to its core this morning. it says top university officials and late coach joe paterno failed to protect young boys from the sexual predator jerry sandusky in order to protect their football program. critics are calling for paterno's stadium outside of beaver stadium to be torn now. >>> a government opposition group in syria says 287 people were killed across the country yesterday including 220 in the homa province. >> federal drug agents discovered a drug smuggling tunnel under the mexico/u.s. border. the tunnel was used to move billions of dollars of drugs into arizona for sale in the u.s.. three drug suspects are in custody. >>> this was quite a sight. a car crashing on to a docked boat yesterday morning in spring lake, michigan. wow. witnesses say the car backed into machinery in a nearby park lot before driving forward between trees, going air borne on the dock and landing on top of the boat. the driver told police she was feeling dizzy before the crash. alco

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christine romans has been talking all about this.on it for us. >>> plus, david beckham and brangelina. we go live to london for that and more pre-olympic buzz a little later in this hour. >> i can't wait for that. sounds awesome. >>> first we're talking about politics and polling. the latest presidential poll numbers out this morning. they show that president obama has a slight lead over mitt romney. six points. that's from the brand-new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. it shows the president at 49% to mitt president with 49% and mitt romney's 43%, a 3-point difference from the poll last month. mark preston joins us now from washington. this poll shows the race close, which i'm sure both campaigns wish they were hoping up a lead. but both sides can see something in here that gives them some hope. >> they certainly can. we're still 100 plus days away from election day and we expect this race to be this close heading into november. but both campaigns are watching this poll and both have good things and bad things to say about it. m

reporting live in san francisco, tomas roman. >> thank you.otorcycle driver died in a violent collision in san francisco this morning. it happened shortly after 9:00 o'clock on caesar chavez street between evans and pennsylvania. a man on a motorcycle was driving eastbound on caesar chavez when he collided with a van driving westbound. police say the motorcycle driver was decapitated. the driver of the van is cooperating with police. >>> just ahead, it was a hot day, but what's ahead tomorrow? meteorologist lisa is coming up with her forecast. >> would the giants get the better of philly and adam scott's tournament to lose. the aussie takes control at the >> the presidio social club at san francisco is taking foigras off the menu. they had been defy ago state ban on it saying it was located on federal land and not subject to california law. last week, the social club served the duck liver dish as planned. but that didn't sit well with the presidio trust, which administrators the park. now the restaurant has decided not to sell or promote it. t

the himself of the roman catholic archdiocese of san francisco and a good one. the archbishop thank you for being here today. talking about being a shepherd and the shepherd of the archdiocese of some of the sky with five and a thousand catholics running around new permitted dozen on your trip here today how would you look over 500,000 souls? >>> with a lot of help there are other shepherds and they sure the work with me first " priest the chief " readers with the bishop of the vatican council and women religious and teachers and schools and those who work in the catholic charities anybody who helps carry out the mission of the church and get along with a lot of help from my friends. and i think to the like to say for another image% shepherd about the conductor leading an orchestra all those people on the stage the only one not making a sound is the conductor when he is doing is bringing together orchestrating symbolically the sounds of the others make a things that that some are really important for me to remember this the work of other people better going to a

you went to the emergency room after falling on a roman candle last year. it took 17 hours for the doctors to get that out of you. is this a good idea to keep them out of the hands like you that can cause fires. it's a serious problem. i forgot about the birds. >> all right, sparklers, bill. >> don't get me started o sparklers u have this republican if we're going to ban sparklers in massachusetts, that is so american. let me tell you who invented it, he was in roman occupied city and heleopolis. i read phonetically. this was in 70 a.d. he was a christian and one thing it wasn't america. sparklers are unamerican thing like fireworks. chinese had it before we existed and it was birds in the form of dinosaurs. birds are dinosaurs and way cooler than fireworks. can we all agree that fireworks sucks. >> so you admit dinosaurs existed on the plants because birds were here. >> we do this with birds. it used to be dinosaurs and it's called evolution. >> greg: so you bring up the chinese what i miss okay about the whole glorious fireworks, when you were growing up

christine romans are here.stock futures down after this big rally on friday? >> this often happens when you have a big move up. also, there's a lot ahead of this us this week. fed chairman ben bernanke will be testifying on capitol hill. we're going get another gauge of the health of banks. on friday, everyone was talking about jp morgan chase. they weren't talking about the health of the banks. also going to be looking for comments from these banks about libor and this big scandal on a very important interest rate. i don't know if a lot of you have been following this, but this is something that shakes the banking industry to its core. starts with barclay's. barclay's is, of course, settled with regulators over a huge rate ratings scandal. and out this week with an ad in newspapers saying, we're sorry. and the company is really trying to figure out how it's going to go about, you know, getting its brand and its brand back to something that's good and not necessarily bad. reuters, bbc, reporting that barclay's

i was reviewing one of my favorite books on the roman republic. how did this village on the tiber grow to be the absolute leader of the known world in a few hundred years? it expanded its territory by plunder, by what ever. details. it was not pretty. [laughter] it added people, it kept getting bigger and incorporated the people and to roman citizenship. it became very consolidated, expanding group of energetic people. and they'll work. they were not just a bunch of talkers, they were doing. -- there were doers. -- they were doers. we have to consolidate on this. we have to find the common path that will enable us to make the investments and undergo the sacrifice that is required because it is not all ice cream and cake here. you have to curtail consumption. whether it is a business or household. in terms of -- the free sector. it is still the same game. looking out for the future, saving for tomorrow and investing that savings and. that is what we have to do. i think it is a tough order of this matter of innovation is part of it. but also getting

the shepherd of the roman catholic diocese five dozen catholics you shepherd the mall to the help of your priests and religious and other people that i have to ask you have a wonderful past and wind have a big future but today a big thing is going on in the church. fortnight for freedom in the whole history of the church in this country religious freedom has been a cornerstone of all of the liberties as well. and in january of this year the department of health and human services announced a mandate with regard to insurance and someone but more important to us with a lasting effect is the principle they pasted on and the principle was that you are the to find a religious organization for the first time your religious and and how to religious freedom when you're in your church teaching if the fates are worshiping and employing a working among the people of your own faith. the tradition of the church in this country has been that we operate schools and hospitals and travel organizations and reach out to everybody we don't health and reach out to just catholics. we have always been able

roman is to be released in a few months he's promised to give the first chippy builds to his daughteras a present. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the source material is what helps keep journalism honest we. we want to present. something else. you know michael. you're one more guy shouldn't hear it. the secret behind the technique of forging the legendary damascus steel has been unravelled by a dangerous criminal imprisoned in siberia talented blacksmith get out to get a new chief has discovered how warriors of the persian empire forged steel. for the this is going to be a marine saber if it is important to preserve all the measures and standards one of these are templates for a sort order. the experienced by smith did not most of the ancient technique overnight the method of making cold weapons is very labor intensive. and of one it should take several types of metal which is first forged. then a sandwich consisting of several layers is made out of it. then it is welded that's how damascus steel is made. of them there were attempts

hold that thought for a second, christine romans. a reminder, president obama is scheduled to make those remarks about the tax cut proposal that he is putting forward. scheduled to be 11:50 eastern time. so, we are going to make sure we bring those to you. earlier this morning we told you they would be in the rose garden. apparently, inclement weather has forced that news conference inside to the east room so we have our live cameras shifting gears and moving inside but you're certainly going to get the news no matter what time it ha happe happens. and we are back right after this. aio, every note sounds amazingly clear. ...making it easy to get lost in the music... and, well... rio vista?!! [ male announcer ] ...lost. introducing the musically enhanced htc one x from at&t. rethink possible. ...more talk on social security... ...but washington isn't talking to the american people. [ female announcer ] when it comes to the future of medicare and social security, you've earned the right to know. ♪ ...so what does it mean for you and yo

one he puts on the list is roman poe plan -- polanski. he was a great defender. >> in europe he has done nothing wrong, roman, right? >> he is french: >> he described he says short people always have chicks chasing after them and roman polanski is on that list. >> he is doing the chasing. >> and easier to of cay. >> and shorter because they are 12. >> that is still taller. >> i am done. >> that you r. move on sad, strange man. >>> coming up, stories so glorious that if they were a sunset you would say that's a glorious sunset and then shoot yourself in the face because you hate glorious sunsets. what are these celebrities having in common besides sleeping with bill? we discuss all of this next. >>> so, why does twitter make for so many quiters? what is going on with my mouth? i saw the departure of several celebrities including alec baldwin, charlie sheen and lily allen, who ever that is. but many find after they quit they can't stay away. i'm like that with scented candles. i love them. anyway, according to one psychologist, the vicious

union city is where abc7 news reporter thomas roman is live with the latest on this story. thomas? >> dan, police say these envelopes containing the white powder were ordinary, ordinary until one hayward police employee opened one and then triggered emergency procedures in four bay area cities including here in union city. the discovery of the envelopes containing the white powder began at the hayward police department at 9:45 this morning. alameda county fire department hazmat teams were called out and there was a partial evacuation as investigators checked the contents. a clerk opening mail discovered an envelope with white powder and called the alert. it turned out to be flour. union city police commander found a similar envelope after getting a heads up from the alameda county fire chief. >> i was able to call the fare department, and then at that point we just had the fire department come and take a look at it. the letter was still sealed. >> the fbi has the letter. union city city hall is dark due to budget cuts sorkts mail was in a box where the commander could remove it. a

>>> let's bring christine romans back, plus our resident conservative and cnn contributor, will cain,well as norm onstein, resident scholar at the american enterprise institute, though he described himself as a centrist. i love your point that we systematically leach the compromisers out of the system in favor of partisans. will cain, you are taking issue with my premise that partisanship is bad. >> right. that's the assumption at the beginning of this bad. >> can i say hyperpartisanship is bad? >> you're changing the game a little bit. i say we have two issues going on here. one, voters want something for nothing and two, partisanship. the culprit behind those of these conditions is the same, it is you, the voter, it is the viewer. that being said, what has enabled the wanting something for nothing is bipartisanship, not barpartisanship. if you want to correct that, you want bipartisanship to dlaekcor that. >> the bipartisanship is what got us here and that's to blame. >> i agree with will on a lot of things. in the book i did, "it's even worse than it looks," strategic obstructionis

first though, we want to get to christine romans with an update on the top stories. good morning. >> good morning, soledad, also developing this morning, investigators trying to find out what caused a mystery odor that made a flight crew sick and forced an emergency landing last night. the u.s. airways flight from charlotte to rome was diverted to philadelphia. attendants told the captain they were feeling sick and smelled something strange. an airline spokesperson says five crew members were taken to the hospital and released. passengers were eye vak waited and put on another flight. none of the passengers got sick. >>> a woman who abandoned her 19-year-old special needs daughter outside a bar will not be charged. police say eva cameron left her daughter lynn outside a bar in tennessee then drove home to illinois. our affiliate wvlt spoke to eva who says she has the best intention. >> i didn't get the help i needed from illinois, somebody at the church said why don't you go down to tennessee. they have a good health care system. then her i.d. card got lost and she b

union city is where abc7 news reporter thomas roman is live with the latest on this story. thomas? >> dan, police say these envelopes containing the white powder were ordinary, ordinary until one hayward police employee opened one and then triggered emergency procedures in four bay area cities including here in union city. the discovery of the envelopes containing the white powder began at the hayward police department at 9:45 this morning. alameda county fire department hazmat teams were called out and there was a partial evacuation as investigators checked the contents. a clerk opening mail discovered an envelope with white powder and called the alert. it turned out to be flour. union city police commander found a similar envelope after getting a heads up from the alameda county fire chief. >> i was able to call the fare department, and then at that point we just had the fire department come and take a look at it. the letter was still sealed. >> the fbi has the letter. union city city hall is dark due to budget cuts sorkts mail was in a box where the commander could remove it. a

christine romans has been following them all morning. >> house republicans planning a mostly symbolic vote this afternoon to repeal the president's health care reforms. the measure has virtually no chance of getting through the senate or past the president. the white house is criticizing republican leaders for wasting time, they say, by refighting old political battles. >>> a public warning, but no suspension for u.s. olympic soccer star hope solo after she tested positive for a banned substance. the 30-year-old goalkeeper says she had no idea a prescription drug she took for a premenstrual condition contained a diuretic on the prohibited list. solo says she made an honest mistake. she looks forward to representing the u.s. later this month at the london games. >>> millions of directv customers are waking up this morning saying i want my mtv. directv and viacom were unable to settle a dispute by the midnight deadline. more than two dozen viacom channels are now blacked out. the two companies have been at odds for months over carriage fee

union city is where abc7 news reporter thomas roman is live with the latest on this story. thomas?police say these envelopes containing the white powder were ordinary, ordinary until one hayward police employee opened one and then triggered emergency procedures in four bay area cities including here in union city. the discovery of the envelopes containing the white powder began at the hayward police department at 9:45 this morning. alameda county fire department hazmat teams were called out and there was a partial evacuation as investigators checked the contents. a clerk opening mail discovered an envelope with white powder and called the alert. it turned out to be flour. union city police commander found a similar envelope after getting a heads up from the alameda county fire chief. >> i was able to call the fare department, and then at that point we just had the fire department come and take a look at it. the letter was still sealed. >> the fbi has the letter. union city city hall is dark due to budget cuts sorkts mail was in a box where the commander could remove it. a half hour

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. >> caller: thank you very much, the question i have is with all the anti-roman catholic racism and his being the first major party american presidential candidate that was roman catholic and everything, how much international attention did this get specifically did the pope at the time ever weigh in or comment on any of the campaign he ran or anything like that? thank you very much. >> thank you, glenn, beverly gage you want to start? >> in terms of polls, you do not have the same polling mechanisms that we have today, so they were harder to gauge in the 1920s. you did not have polls that took what part of issues you cared about more, so it's tough for historians, and historians usually make grand claims. on the international aspect, it's interesting because yes there was a lot of attention paid to this. and it came in the wake of two trials as well that really raised these questions about america's national character. the first with the scopes trial in 1925 and the second, well the trial had happened earlier, but the second was the execution of sacco, and vance eddie. they were tw

. >>> first "your bottom line" with christine romans starts right now. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm christine romans. welcome to this special independence day weekend edition of your bottom line. when america went to war, they took the judge. now they are looking for their next mission and we don't have anything for them. they are veterans facing an economic crisis. 2 million men and women served in afghanistan. we'll take you from the battlefield to the office. >> this suit right here could be camouflage. >> coming home. >> blood brothers through and through. we've seen a lot. >> and healing. >> we find therapy in different things. it's just amazing where you can find it at. >> from the line of fire to the unemployment line. last year nearly one in three veterans in the 18 to 24 age group were out of room according to u.s. congress joint economic committee. that is only going to get worse as thousands of soldiers return from the war in afghanistan over the next few years. are companies doing all they can to hire veterans? is something else at play. we spent barbara starr to det

presidential candidate that was roman catholic and everything, how much international attention did this get, specifically did the pope at the time ever weigh in or comment on any of the campaign he ran or anything like that? thank you very much. >> thank you, glen. beverly gage. >> in terms of polls, you didn't really have the same kind of polling mechanisms that you have today. so these things are a little bit harder to gauge in the 1920s. you certainly didn't have polls that took part. which issue do you care about more, and which issue of which electorate? it's kind of tough for historians and historians often make grand claims based on actually not knowing that much about the electorate. on the international question, i think it's really interesting because yes, there was a lot of attention paid to this. and if came in the wake of two trials as well that really raised these questions about america's national character. the first with the scopes trial in 1925 and the second -- well, the trial had happened earlier, but the second was the execution of two italian immigrants that -