nicholson baker is fair.s one of the things recognized, they're not in no way we can put batch into this. no nicholson baker book has been turned into a film. a really bad british romantic comedy that borrow ideas, for the most part no one has even tried to because he can because they can't and they can't because baker was more or less trying to prevent them from being able to do that. saying i want to write a book that absolutely must be a book. can't be anything but a boat and that is the way we defend books as an object as an important cultural artifacts. that brings me back to why this book isn't really about nicholson baker. it is about beating his work. he becomes a kind of representative of all writers. i may be using him as a symbol in my book saying we are all living through this digital era we're all living in the time when books seem to need to compete with lots of different kinds of media baker turns out by accident to be the perfect writer to look at, to ask what is the writer's job these days? w

nicholson baker is they are.s that even people recognized about the mezzanine when it first came out because there is no way you could turn that hook into a film. to date -- this isn't entirely true, but for the most part, no nicholson aker book has been turned into a film. there was a really, bad british romantic comedy that are the ideas, but it's really terrible and bakeries and evening credited on it. for the most part no one has tried and did it anyway because they can't. they can't because baker was more or less trying to prevent them from being able to do that. saying i want to write a book that actually must be a book and that can't be anything but a book at night is the way we defend books as an object books as an important cultural artifact. that brings me back to why this book isn't really about nicholson baker. even though it's about reading his work he becomes a kind of representative from all writers. even i take is saying we are all is through this digital era. we are all living in a time when huma

rushern baker's endorsement today significant. baker is one of the most high profile african-american leaders in maryland and his backing of van hollen follows another black county endorsement ike leggett. baker supports van hollen for what he's done for the community and no better example than this one here, this community center built solely because of the support of chris van hollen. what is more vanity is who rushern -- more significant is who rushern baker is not supporting. he's not supporting the hometown candidate donna edwards would lives in oxon hill. find out why at 6:30. back to you in the studio. >> all right, delia, thank you at colmar manor this morning. >>> one last chance to hear from the candidates running for the late marion barry's ward 8 council seat. the final forum takes place today at noon. it will be held at covenant baptist church on south capitol street. >>> the man accused of killing three prominent people from alexandria has been found competent to stand trial. charles severance has been linked to the

or would you say was nicholson baker. where would you star who would you pick quiet >> no, i think he turned out to be the perfect choice. the experience of the book you know paul once wrote in a literary relationship essay about his relationships with joseph conrad, he wrote that we read to discover what we already know. his thought is not really done there but i had that as an amped up when he was writing the book. the truth is i found so much of myself in baker. everywhere i looked. every time i turned around, there is some new connection between him and me and i felt indicted by him. i thought included within. so he was the perfect writer for me. which is not to say he would necessarily be the perfect writer for you or anyone else. i say towards the end of the book that the purpose is not to find and to suggest that you read nicholson baker about the writer that will be nicholson baker for you. that is the point of departure. you read to find out what you already know. we read to explore the streams of arab cause. we

it didn't even mention baker. it didn't even talk about it.he court allowed california's ban to be struck down. judge sutton: it would have been pretty strange for windsor to say anything about baker given that the companion case to windsor is hollingsworth and they decided there was a jurisdictional impediment for getting to the issue presented in today's case. ms. stanyar: i understand. i understand what the court is saying. i think in this case, this court can reach it because, you know there has been doctrinal development. we are not asking to redefine the marital relationship. we are only asking for an end that prevents same-sex couples from the right to marry. due process focuses on the attributes of the right itself person -- judge cook: when you're talking about getting that right, it requires statewide, that's what your clients want. ms. stanyar: they want state license. judge cook: license, fair relationship. ms. stanyar: that's correct and the right to marry, yes. judge cook: well, the import there is something different than i thou

the seat from prince george's county for stop baker says he is and forcing the best candidate. >> i'm endorsing a person who understands prince george's county. : brad baker says that race is not his primary concern. >> i know it is in the best interest of the county and state. brad: ike leggett speaks of his history in the civil rights movement and says that van hollen shares his values. >>'s leadership on all these issues we fought for his impeccable. brad: van hollen already has a huge fundraising lead in this will make raising more campaign money easier. van hollen: i'm grateful for the incredible work these leaders do every day on behalf of our communities. :brad: we reached out to the other candidate, but she did not respond. kimberly: coming up -- a record gift. who donated $13 million to the smithsonian, and what the money will be used for. and a head start in the classroom, a groundbreaking partnership and how some students are earning college credit from high school. eileen: and get ready for a blossom week, beautiful day tomorrow, but how long will it last? kimberly: starbu

county executive rushern baker used an interesting analogy. he said you increase the value of your home when you add an extra bathroom or bedroom. this is the same thing, he says. when you add a great school system, the value of your home should go up. he has a lot of convincing to do and he tried that and used that analogy yesterday at a meeting with a lot of concerned citizens. last night baker pitched these ideas to a room full of taxpayers. he says the money would fund a $130 million increase in the school's budget. specifically to help keep young teachers from jumping ship and to focus more on early education for their students. now, if your home is worth $300,000, you will pay about $450 more each year. if your home is worth half a million, you'll pay about $750 more each year. as you can imagine taxpayers footing that bill are worried. >> when you -- [indiscernible] i think it's a good plan but you have to have that transparency. >> every time you look around taxes go up but my pay don't increase. they keep saying give me more, give me

this goes back to a deep personal relationship between baker and van hollen. here is some of what baker had to say here in colmar manor this afternoon. >> i'm endorsing a person that i've known for almost 20 years. i'm endorsing a person that doesn't see joing on geography -- see geography. i'm endorsing a person that understanding prince george's county. i'm endorsing a person that understands the budget at the state and federal level. i'm endorsing a person that will bring it home for prince george's county and the state of maryland. >> reporter: of course a lot of the surprise here is that -- is because donna edwards, an african-american woman from prince george's county is also running for the senate seat that's being vacated by the dean of women in the u.s. senate, barbara mikulski who served retirement a couple of months ago. consist executive baker was also joined by the county executive from montgomery county ike leggett, also an african-american man who said van hollen's record on racial and inclusion issues is, quote, impeccable. baker again underlin

he and baker and bush were not very good at this. it this.t was nothing like tear down this wall or axis of evil or nice messages these messages, but some easy way to get a handle on this world that was happening. i. i spend a good bit of time talking about this. the cold war ended and he is a little lost. there is a young teenager and pearl harbor happens. soon after that -- well, a few years later you have the jailing of the cold war and how this defined his career. i don't know if they were reelected. maybe it was too short a time. and for them to really have any kind of systematic transition. >> a quick follow-up. you know how he responds to the book itself with a particular criticism he raised? with regard to yugoslavia or afghanistan in your discussions and debates was the push back? does he come to share your view that these were not perhaps the best moments this is take to his earlier views? >> no, i mean, they are he sticks to partly the view that congress caused the war which i think is kind of taking the symptom for the cause. but

>> reporter: it won't be the first time that question has been asked of rashurn baker.nce george's county commissioner has decided to support candidates from other counties before. >> i regularly endorse people that i know personally, that i trust personally, that i work with. >> reporter: this time some question the gravity of his choice. if elected, representative donna edwards of prince george's will be the first african-american female senator from maryland and the second black woman to serve in the u.s. senate in history. but baker has chosen representative chris van hollen of montgomery county instead. >> why doesn't he feel like the people in prince george's county are capable? >> reporter: mother and daughter say they're disappointed in baker's recent choices. >> i know donna edwards for over probably about 15 years, and i know she done a lot for prince george's county. i would support her. i don't know why mr. baker doesn't feel he needs to. >> it hars hard to go one way or another because there's pluses on both sides. >> reporter: the mayor of the town of cull

governor baker: good afternoon. i heard the news and my first reaction was thinking back over the course of the trial, the images and stories about what actually happened. i could not help but imagine what it would have been like to be one of those family members reliving in graphic detail one of the most horrible moments of their lives. because of that, those are the primary people i was thinking about. i'm glad the verdict is in. based on everything i saw, i have no problem with it. at this point it is up to the jury to make the decision about what happens next. >> [inaudible] governor baker: i sure do. to this day, i continue to be amazed that somebody could stand there for four minutes in front of martin richard and place that device right next to him. i remember going to the memorial day parade at the cedar gross cemetery. visiting martin richard's grave and thinking, i cannot believe somebody would do this. >> do you believe the death penalty is appropriate? governor baker: i said last year, for a crime like t

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he's the onhonorary chair at baker institute.elcome back. >> thank you. >> i have to ask you about the iran deal. henry kissinger has said, you know, if you look at it agree owe strategically iran and the united states have many overlapping interests. in afghanistan we both don't like the taliban. we don't like isis. but then he says but it's, you know the problem it's a cause not a country. it is an aid logically driven. from a strategic point of view do you think there is a great upside to a dialogue with iran? >> well, i think that there's perhaps an upside to it provided you can trust the iranians. and you cannot trust the entire time i was in public service, the entire 12 years i was there. so would there be an upside to a strategic reorientation of that? yes, but i'm not sure you can get there with the current leadership in iran. i think you have to be very very leery of that. further more that's going to alienate all of our allies in the region. not just but all moderate arab states that are fighting iran doing battle in y

to pushing through the dramatic tax increase baker has proposed to fund schools here. >> i do believe in miracles. >> reporter: you could argue that prince george's county has produced some miracles. after the previous county executive and his wife went to prison for corruption and made the county a laughing stock. there has been $6 billion produced in economic development and a stunning 40% drop in crime, but missing in the equation is schools and it's breaking baker's all right. >> the reason we haven't seen a rebound in the market in prince george's county is because of one thing. it's our schools. if you compare us with every other jurisdiction, think about it. crime is down. economic development is on its way. the one area that you can't resell your home is because you can't point to a great public school system next-door. >> reporter: baker's solution, the big risk asking homeowners to believe like he does that a 15% tax increase dedicated to pumping at least 133 million more a year into the school system for more early education, pay to keep young teachers from jumping ship and

baker. it is relating to the 80 sb plan and, you know, that is something particularly in many ways was pioneered in alaska and right now leaves approximately one-third of alaska without coverage with regard to altitudes that our general aviation pilots fly. i know it's not practical to have full coverage, but do you believe that there is a minimum operational network that we could have with regard to 80 sb coverage in the state that is something that would provide safety but also a target to shoot for given again how important safety is but also obviously how large the state of alaska is? i'd welcome comments from either of you. >> senator sullivan yeah, i have flown alaska a number of times myself in small airplanes and i have seen the advantages where it works in the traffic and other things in the weather that you can now see. so i'm a big support serer of adsb. we also want to work with the faa on pockets and places as we go down the line that really need attention. but we're fully on bo

caps on: -- judge sutton: we had baker in 1973. carol stanyar: justice kennedy tells us something about how the court may be viewing these cases. what he is saying, and you see it in lawrence and in windsor, the court is saying that decades ago, certain practices were accepted. and now, we understand more about these things, and we understand that these are now going to be framed as discriminatory. we didn't know anything about same-sex couples then. they were hiding. they were hiding because their conduct was criminalized. to say that -- that the argument -- that the argument would have held water back in 1967, that was a big -- that was a different time. judge sutton: there are different benefits, some of them monetary. that is significant. i have to believe, based on the briefs, but the most important thing is respect and dignity and having the state recognized these marriages, the same way that heterosexual marriages are recognized. in respect to dignity, those are -- that is a key element here. i would have thought the best wa

baker and the others did answer a lot of questions. there are still some questions to be answered, but this is an important gathering here tonight. >> i think they haven't gotten to the meat of the problem. where are we going to come up with the money to pay that? overall it's 57% is what they're actually increasing and they're only talking education. the 15% going to education. it's a lot more than that. >> i think it's a good plan, but again you have to have that transparency. >> every time you look around taxes goes up, but my pay don't increase. so they keep saying give me more, give me more, but yet still i'm not getting more. >> for us to be able to put quality team offers in front of our children, it costs us money to recruit them, to pay them. >> reporter: tonight's meeting was the first of six meetings that will happen around the county. the next is april 22nd at dwight eisenhower middle school. there's a list of meetings online at www.wusa9.com. stephanie ramirez, wusa9 news. >> please feel free to sound off on our facebook p

i have worked for baker for over 30 years and baker places has been around for 50 years and we like many other organizations represented here have tried as best we can to respond to the changing needs of san francisco and to the many social and cultural crises that have occurred over time whether that was the aids epidemic or the substance abuse crisis over time, the changing face of mental illness and a variety of other things and we come up with unique and creative and innovative programs that we take great pride in. for 10 years myself and my colleagues came every year simply to try to survive the year literally, to try to save programs, and what ben's graph doesn't really capture by drawing a straight line is the sense of uncertainty during all of those years as to whether or not specific programs would even survive, and now that we've gotten back to having a conversation about these things we encounter times when people look at us and say -- supervisors will look and say "you know we gave you something last year." there needs a permanent fix, solution to the ongoing problem. that pr

baker. miss gilligan, i wanted to ask you for an update on the progress of the pilots' records database and where the initiative stands and what we can expect in terms of it moving forward forward. >> thank you, senator. development of this database has proven to be quite a technical challenge we have run a proof of concept so we know conceptually what it is we need to do in order to meet the requirements of the bill. what we've run into is that the amount of records that the bill would have us incorporate into the single pilot database is creating the challenge. many records now and going forward will be automated records but the bill calls for the complete history of every pilot currently in the commercial system and many of our pilots have been in the system for quite a long time and their records are on paper or microfiche or a number of other media some of us may even remember but most young people have never heard of and figuring out how to take to merge all of that has really created

this comes after baker's daunting proposal, a 15% property tax hike.e says he'll put that money towards prince george's county schools. >>> the family of census bureau security guard lawrence buckner will hold a visitation for him this afternoon. buckner was killed last thursday in a crime spree that began in d.c. police say the guard stopped outside the bureau's gate to check on an arguing couple and that's when the man inside allegedly shot buckner. the shooting led to a lockdown of the census bureau in suitland and the suspect was caught after a shootout with police in d.c. visitation for buckner is tonight at fort royal, virginia. his funeral in colonial beach. >>> today marks the eighth anniversary of the virginia tech shootings. a memorial candle was lit at midnight on campus. a moment of silence is scheduled for 9:43 this morning. a cookout will be held on campus. virginia senator tim kaine also plans to use the anniversary for a call for stricter gun safety. he'll deliver a speech on gun safety from the senate floor this afternoon. in 2007 the

baker and kevin maxwell say if the neighbors back the tax hike they will take the school system from next to last in the state to the top 10 and do it by the year 2020. a lot of residents have been flinching at such a big tax hike but one parent we talked to this evening is sold. >> i can invest into my own community and my neighborhood with the public school system. i need you to do better and i will support you. >> reporter: baker says the extra money will help pay for a huge expansion of prekinder program. >>> president obama will have to search for a new head of the dea. now she is a career drug agent who's led the agency since 2007 but in recent time he's been facing mounting pressure from lawmakers. >>> if the panda house is rocking don't come a knocking. because-- derek, you will disturb the scientists. the zoo is hoping to get mai jong pregnant again. the semen was collected by a panda who has never had cubs yet so that makes makes him very valuable. >>> and many brits were hoping the queen would get another great great grandchild. the dutchess and duke are expecting their ne

with religion wanted a scripture put onto a cake that said something about homosexuality and the baker didn't want to do it, they should have the right not to do it. government should not be a party to forcing speech or forcing people to engage in activities that violate their beliefs. that is simply what rfra is. michael: do you think of it or -- you think mike pence could have done something better or different? tony: i think he should have said what i said, quite frankly. that's what i believe. i have known mike for a long time back when he was a radio talkshow host. i was in office, and i was on his program back then. i think mike was unprepared for what came to indiana as a result of this. it's really kind of -- the hypocrisy from corporate america is really quite amazing to me. how you have all of these ceos jumping in and saying that we will not do business in indiana, when they are doing business in china, the middle east, and other places where not only do they persecute people of faith but in some of those countries they actually execute homosexuals. i think the hypocrisy her

. >> reporter: frustration over executive baker's proposed property tax increase is what took over this community meeting held at largo community church in mitchell today. some blasted the tax hike saying they are in the same boat as 76-year-old eddie mackey. >> i'm under water with my property. 15, i guess about 250. it doesn't make sense. >> reporter: the tax increase would go to public education among other things, baker on the subject a few weeks ago. >> we are making progress, but we are making it too slow. >> reporter: enhancing education is what many people say will also help increase property value. and the proposed budget is also said to increase teacher salary. >> raises are lovely. >> reporter: but she is still not sold. >> a 15% increase is too much. i wouldn't be opposed to a smaller one spread out over time. i do feel there is money needed for the school. my issue with it is that they are not asking us where we think the money need to go. >> why can't we take this 15% tax increase from the state lotteries? >> reporter: if this does pass, this would be the first time they e

you remember the town baker. - hi, guys. so, usually, my cakes are light and fluffy but lately... - ugh... - ugh! - i can't figure out what's going on! - hmm... i have a hunch. ms. baker, can you walk us through what you do to bake a cake? - no! but i can hand you this recipe card. - okay... so you did step one - mix ingredients-- - but you skipped step 2 - bake cake. - but there's frosting in there, so you did 3, put on frosting-- - but you skipped step 4 - add birthday candles. ms. o, can you put these steps on a number line? - what? you think i can whip up a number line just like that? you're absolutely correct.

baker says those experiences weigh heavily in this decision. he had edwards has gained a lot of report from national log sieves. if edwards or any other affairen can american wins this race, they will make history in the state of maryland. baker says his decision is rooted in the best candidate that he feels can provide leadership and get things done specifically if folks in prince george's county. back to you in the studio. >> zachary, thank you. >>> if you live in prince george's county executive baker is also proposing several tax increases. according to the "washington post," county businesses are opposing the plan here. the paper says some business leaders are even going as far as writing up an alternative tax plan. property taxes are among the taxes that could increase by as much as 15% there. >>> 6:33 now. new information now. a federal judge is refusing to grant apn injunction to stop work on the csx railroad tunnel in southeast washington. csx says the tunnel is starting to decay. city watch dog group is worried about noise, vibrations

but instead of going home, while still in uniform, he drove his police car to baker's intersection andarked at ron's restaurant, which was closed. around 2:00 a.m., a motorist stopped and asked for help, telling griffin he had some car trouble. griffin called for a tow truck using his personal cell phone, which placed him near the crime scene. about 30 to 45 minutes later, prosecutors believe griffin saw kim medlin drive by. and as planned, decided to pull her over for a traffic violation as a ruse to introduce himself. a witness saw the policeman pull kim's red jeep over and saw that kim had done nothing wrong. prosecutors believe griffin asked kim for her driver's license, then asked her to join him in his patrol car while he ran her license plate number. griffin may have made a sexual advance, and kim objected. griffin knew then that he had gone too far. he panicked, handcuffed her, and drove off. griffin turned off of old charlotte highway, and kim knew it was a dead end street. her injuries suggest she jumped from the moving car. griffin caught up with her, struck her on the back

baker will announce his support. that endorsement is raising eyebrows because baker chose van hollen over donna edwards who is representing much of prince george's county. a little later in this hour zachary kiesch will join us with a lack look at why baker chose van hollen. >> to the second city that voted for a second term and second chance. >> that is chicago mayor rahm emanuel after winning a second term after and you unexpectedly tough campaign. in the end he brought in 55% of the vote this the runoff for mayor. >>> uconn women's basketball team is waking up with their third straight national championship. so impressive. this is also their tenth the overall win for the husk kiss after knockoff notre dame. u con had just one loss this year and is 78-1 over the last two years. think about those stats. just incredible program. wow. >>> well, it could be his last chance to appeal his conviction and it could go to the u.s. supreme court. >> the last ditch effort for chevy chase man convicted of killing his former gir

for baker to make, but the county -- endorsement for baker to make, but the county executive specially close to van hollen. >> the ranking member on the budget committee is a very important thing for us in the state and county. i know he'll do the same thing on the senate side. it was an easy decision in this respect that i don't know him as a name, a congressman. i know him personally and i know the working relationship. >> reporter: montgomery county executive ike leggett backed baker up today saying van hollen's record on diversity is beyond question. the edwards campaign released a statement today saying, "she has the backs of prince george's county voters on issues." scott broom, wusa9. >> donna edwards has been endorsed by other key players in prince george's county politics like the council chair mel franklin. >>> new information on the officer who shot a man inside a home in crofton, maryland, over the weekend. the officer is lieutenant harry peterson. two officers responded to the home saturday after receiving a call the suspect planned to hurt himself or family members. once

this is what russell baker has to say. "a president with a heart attack was an extraordinary piece of news in 1955. there had never been one before. how serious eisenhower's might be was anybody's guests. -- guess. but a reporter would be foolish to believe the white house's statement that it was mile before the simple reason that the white house would be foolish to say it was grave even if it was." by both knew that they were playing a game -- they both knew they were playing a game. "all we knew with reasonable certainty was that people often died of heart attacks, that the president had suffered one, and was still alive." baker added that this was not just a big, big story but the biggest story in the world and likely to remain so for several days to come. i think that the press at the time gave the eisenhower administration a great deal of credit for being forthcoming in light of the heart attack and they did offer a lot of material. eisenhower had two more illnesses. he had an operation at a stroke in 1957 -- and a st

today baker told our prince george's county bureau chief scott broom taxpayer ought to consider it an investment in their own property value. >> by adding your bathroom your home goes up in value. by adding another room your home goes up in value. by adding a great school system right next to your home, guess what? your home goes up in value. >> we stopped by a prince george's county school today to see what the educators think of that plan. >> reporter: i'm stephanie ramirez at capitol heights elementary school speaking to a teacher and principal about this budget. >> in any of classroom we have two. >> reporter: usually only three students get to use two computer and an ipad at a time. >> it's difficult. we're rs to use the computer. it's a difficult strategy to work with. >> reporter: 2nd grade t.a.g. teacher bridget collins says this is an issue she faces trying to compete with other school districts in preparing their kids for the 21st century, one of the reasons why most of the school staff here supports the newly propose budget that includes a 15% property tax increase. their p

so the question of the week -- should the baker have to bake the cake for the gay couple? >> well i think the question is really whether or not a person of conscience is able to say no to something. this is not about discrimination. it's about discretion. the fact is if the baker said no you can't come into my shop you can't eat a cupcake, i'm not going to serve you a doughnut that's discrimination. but if the baker is asked to do something that would require him to do something artistic that is not within his personal convictions, of course he should be able to say i can do this but i can't do that. that would be true for anyone. >> how would you distinguish that circumstance governor from the woolworth's lunch counter circa 1960 with an african-american patron? >> well i don't think there's any -- any comparison michael, and i think it's a false parallel. in the first place, if a person walks into a lunch counter, he doesn't walk in saying i'm gay, don't serve me. there's no one who is suggesting that a person is going to be turned away because of sexual preference. i me

today baker explained his pick. he says van holland can reach across the aisle and while in the house of delegates van holland helped get money for county schools. >> he was senator van holland that helped us in prince george's county not only make sure that we restructured our school board so we could make sure the money was spent where it should be, but it allowed prince george's county to get an additional set of monies in our school system. >> coming up tonight at 5:00, county bureau chief tracee wilkins talks to voter whoz are angry about baker's decision not to endorse edwards. >>> we are tracking another deadly insider attack in afghanistan this time in jalalabad in eastern afghanistan. one of three american soldiers shot by an afghan soldier has died. the americans returned fire and killed the attacker. nbc news has confirmed the shooting happened after a meeting between afghan leaders and senior u.s. diplomat donald yamamoto. he is serving as a political adviser to the u.s. military in afghanistan. yamamoto

this is what russell baker has to say. "a president with a heart attack was an extraordinary piece of news in 1955. there had never been one before. how serious eisenhower's might be was anybody's guess. but a reporter would be foolish to believe the white house's statement that it was mile -- it was a mild for the simple reason that the white house would be foolish to say it was grave, even if it was." they both knew they were playing a game. "all we knew with reasonable certainty was that people often died of heart attacks, that the president had suffered one, and was still alive." baker added that this was not just a big, big story but the biggest story in the world and likely to remain so for several days to come. i think that the press at the time gave the eisenhower administration a great deal of credit for being forthcoming in light of the heart attack and they did offer a lot of material. eisenhower had two more illnesses. he had an operation and a stroke in 1957. dr. snyder who was a good and decent man whose fath

your thoughts on baker hughes?> we did like baker hughes for the reasons of again looking to play north american oil services baker hughes is a big player in that space. we like the halliburton deal, the combination, bakers hughes has been an asset that is a good asset kind of average management, halliburton is also a management team the integration smoothly and the deal gets done. >> you don't own the stock. >> we don't currently. >> when did you sell? >> relatively recently. >> you think the deal gets done and like the halliburton way of playing the deal than both. >> what you got before was a big spread in there about 15%. getting paid to own the combination and play that spread with the deal we think is going to close the spread has naturally gotten tighter. >> doc, you got something. >> yeah. i was looking at refiners as a way to, for instance, when we had the deal or this negotiation going on with iran, all of a sudden you saw crude sell-off both brent and wti last week and refiners were being sold off harder

. >>> county official rush earn baker -- rushern baker spoke to neighbors in laurel. >> crime is at an all time low level in prince george's county. it's the the prospect of economic development. we've got $6 billion worth of economic development happening around the county. there's only 1 thing that keeps our property values lower than the people across the way, whether it's howard, montgomery or fairfax county. it's our school system. >> baker wants the county council to raise property tax rates by 15% he says to give schools a big boost in funding, $133 million. he claims that if he gets it, the county school system will go from next to last in state rankings to the top 10 by the year 2020. >>> coming up how the launch of google's new wireless service could affect your wireless company. >> also ahead spectacular video of a volcano blowing its top in south america. >> you need one of these tomorrow morning, no doubt. here's your wakeup weather, dry but chilly, more like march, 30s and 40s at 5:00, mid-30s to mid-40s at 7:00 and only 40s by 9:00, bright but brisk. we'll come back, sho

again, i wouldn't ask a nazi or -- i guess i wouldn't ask a jewish baker to put a nazi swastika on at wouldn't be fair either. >> but how are they going to stay true to their conservative christian beliefs and also not discriminate? this is what i don't get here. are you saying they can hold true and not participate in an event that they don't find holy that they think is objectionable or sinful or are you saying that they have to? i'm confused. >> well it's not a confusing issue at all. the first amendment is not confusing. we have the right to freedom of speech. we have the right to hold our strongly held religious beliefs close to us. i think there's a difference in serving someone. i don't think there's any portion of that that the government doesn't have compelling interest to have businesses serve individuals. they cannot force that individual to participate in a ceremony that they don't believe in. >> so you're saying that the florists would have to provide flowers, for example, or caterers would have to provide food but a wedding photographer who objects to same sex marriage

will voters follow baker? don't know.or van hollen looks good. >> some people are critical that you're supporting the white guy and not supporting donna edwards, congresswoman donna edwards, who is an african-american and a woman and from prince georges county. >> but you also had an friend american running for governor who is from prince georges county. >> anthony brown. >> and he alienated many of the prince georges county delegates and state senators and they didn't really get behind him. and he was surprised why he lost. so i don't know if race is really a factor. i think the two big factors, one, is that baker and van hollen have been friends a long time. they've been political allies. number two, i've always said this someone said it even long before i took it on as a mantra and that is in politics there are no permanent friends. there are no permanent enemies. there's only permanent interest. >> right. >> the reason van hollen and dave can attest to this i believe, remember he was the major fundraise-raiser for the

making statements an -- jim baker was too conservative not conservative today for today's republican party he has a huge problem because rand paul is more liberal and bake her get hacked by the party and jeb bush will be attacked for associating with jim baker. >> that's where we are in the foreign policy on the republican party. >> and if you look at how republican candidates are looking at this deal with iran third all saying the united states is operating from a position of weakness and the response to that is a strong foreign policy and the next president will be judged on who will be strong. well if you look at rand paul's position on iran it has shifted, 2007 when he was campaigning for his father and asked about thisable and he said when i was campaigning for someone else. you have to distance yourself from your own father to get away from your previous position, you are not on stable ground and if it is about who is the strongest, i mean in 2007 he seemed to suggest that it was okay if iran got the bomb. that this wasn't worth going, as he said to war, he has a different posi

on 3-4-15 the baker, the inspector yee from housing, it sounds like housing is out there a lot, the baker family called inspector yee with regard to a complaint marc bruno had filed on their behalf, inspector yee called mr. bruno to inform him the meeting would be canceled due to the baker family withdrawing the complaint. that's the only thing i can find with regard to open complaints to do with suspended work. there have been multiple xlaipblts -- complaints filed on the property over the years but they have all been abated. maybe a total of 3 possibly. that's the one having to do with the water heater, that's actually still open for some reason, but last mor was the last action on it. the other thing as well, the permit that was taken out originally was for 478 union street. i wish i had been involved in the fixing of that and not the third floor counter at dbi, when someone pulls a permit under a wrong address, and contractors sometimes do that, it's always better to cancel and refund that permit and then get a new permit. if it's only an over the counter permit for kitchen and bathro

baker is passing over his own constituent representative donna edwards also running for senate. they are both running to fill the seat left by retiring senator barbara mikulski. edwards represents a lot of prince george's county. >>> i'm angie goff at the live desk. an american soldier is dead after an afghan soldier opens fire on troops in afghanistan. now, the attacker was shot and killed but two other americans were also wounded. now, this happened in the city of jalalabad, as u.s. delegation that included the ambassador to afghanistan. michael mckinley were leaving the governor's compound. no one in that specific group was hurt knop word. no word on a motive. back to you. >> thanks angie. >>> today, transportation leaders from across the region will meet to set up a commission to oversee metro safety. this follows metro underground emergency that killed one woman at l'enfant plaza in january. representatives from the district maryland and virginia meet at noon. many called for an independent safety commission for several years. now the commission is a step closer to becoming

s and gentlemen, please welcome governor charlie baker. governor baker: first of all, i want to thank you on behalf of the commonwealth of massachusetts for being here today. i want to congratulate all those who are involved in raising the money to make this possible, and i want to thank the kennedy family for choosing this site and this organization and this operation to pay tribute to ted kennedy. senator lott, yeah, i am a republican governor from massachusetts. [laughter] governor baker: many years ago i was with a group of health care professionals, and we went down to washington to meet with senator kennedy to talk about health care. when we got down there we were told when we got to his office in the rayburn building that the senate was in session, but he could meet with us in a little anteroom off the senate chamber if we hustled over there quickly. so we all hustled over there and gathered in this little room off the senate chamber, and he came bustling in and sat down with us. for the next 30 to 40 minutes, we all talked with him

, but now baker's arm is getting a break thanks to fda approved treatments now available at home. >>the first thing i do is come down, pop the little drops in my mouth, wait two minutes and i am good to go. >> reporter: the drops are known as immunotherapy. >> by introducing small amounts of what you are allergic to, the person's immune system becomes more tolerant. >> reporter: an antihistami ne, steroids and acupuncture are also recommended for a more natural approach to allergy prevention. katherine says immunotherapy changed her life. >> it is a really, really pollen leyton day, i will have a little -- pollen laiden day, i will have a little itchy nose, but nothing like before. >> reporter: doctors can say it takes up to five years for patients taking immunotherapy to become system-free. katherine will be there next march. >>> customers will soon have to cut back on water use and pay more on a monthly bill. at a public meeting tomorrow the district plans to declare stage 4 drought conditions. also on the table a mandatory 20% cutback in water use. that includes additional outdoor

joining me now from washington peter baker. he's the chief whitehouse correspondent of the "new york times." meter, tell --7"qx peter tell me how you see the president's frame of mind with tom friedman's interview as he strives to bring real probably the most important negotiations of his presidency. >> that's exactly right. we sat down and talked with tom friedman on saturday at the whitehouse to pitch his deal and also to think in larger terms of what it could mean for the region. he clearly has this idea that if they can make this work, if they can finalize the deal in june and get it past obstacles like congress,f0c there's a chance that transforms security in the region and perhaps even begins to change around just a little bit. he's not counting on that. he's realistic to understand that iran's a complicated country ease put it. clearly he has ambitions to go beyond simply curbing his nuclear program. >> rose: ambitions include what, do you think. >> well he thinks he's argued in fact that should this work, should sanctio