. >> in a july 26 letter, senators barbara mikulski and ben carter raised the issues of affordability, competition, consumers, and jobs. bryson has not deploy its fios fiber optic network in baltimore. among their concerns, people of color and low-income households will be disproportionately affected. >> it is the competitive nature. it is the type of transaction that provides less competition. less competition means less jobs and not as much service. side of on the wrong the digital divide. there will be no fiber-optic accessibility for schools, for businesses, and for jobs. >> the mayor has urged internet providers to increase access to broadband in baltimore. she has provided funding to upgrade the fiber network. a spokesman said we have not commented on this issue because this is a federal regulatory matter between the sec and to private companies. comcast would not comment. the spokesman for ricin would not comment on concerns raised by critics but says nothing has been announced in maryland yet. these joint ventures are happening in areas where there is no fios service. in flori

can see my name is james patterson proud to work for halliburton my name's ben carter and within the first week of being in iraq i knew that that wasn't going to be the company that i wanted to be with halliburton was hired to provide clean safe. cooking cleaning shower water for the military one of halliburton's employees saw something wiggling in the water in his toilet bowl so i went and tested the water in our water storage tanks there was no chlorine in there none of the water we showered in every single day was extremely contaminated and when i talk about contaminated water i'm saying malaria typhus. cryptosporidium i mean the list is really really long how about basic used by its own employees of exposing troops to contaminated water in iraq i tried to modify the troops but they're exposed to a serious health risk i was told. they were only concerned with making their profit and didn't care how it may affect the troops of the sixty seven water treatment plants that allen burton run sixty three of them were providing safe water. and the marines are showered in it every single d

. >> my friend ben carter same.re it was cool to be green. >> but not enough to address the looming oil crisis is a regret and he still worries about a long ago vote in favor of medicare part d. >> that was a huge increase in mandatory spending. because i bought newt gingrich's argument. >> after two failed runs for office, roscoe bartlett finally won the sixth district seat back in 1992 after the district lines were redrawn. he lost the seat this year when the boundaries were redrawn once again, a chunk of conservative voters chopped off a piece of suburban dc tacked on. the electorate change, the democrat won and bartlett said he's not bitter. >> the constituents in western maryland have explained their frustrations. they don't think they will be represented. >> his ten terms are up. time now he says to tackle a wish list of projects he put off for too long starting with farm and family. >> i have got ten kids and 18 grand kids and two great grand kids. we'll get to see more of them. who knows what the future hold

in this audience, joan ralfing and others in the audience and people in the administration, ash carter, ben sherwood. all of whom, to me, represent the next generation coming along. beyond that, i teach a class every year at stanford. about 300 students in the class. each year, about eight or ten come up and say i want to get into this field. we do everything we can to encourage and bring them along. we have three generations represented here. the ones sitting on the stage. some sitting in the audience and the students at stanford and other universities who are being inspired to follow-up. we have two generations waiting to pick up that baton. >> i think charlotte schultz put this question to her husband in a very succint way when ywe wer on the way to berlin. she turned to him and she said, george, when are you going to get some young people to work on this? to which secretary schultz said, we have madeleine albright and colin powell. >> no, i said i'm young. [ laughter ] >> so, at any rate, let me bring this evening to a close. i think this is appropriate to read something at the very end

to follow this man, carter ben ami, a former bus driver from chicago. >> if i were to ask the peopleecause to them i am the messiah. >> the african hebrew israelite community in israel prided itself on clean healthy living, even reforming addicts by mixing spirituality with mandatory exercise and a strict vegetarian diet. >> six, seven, eight. >> so was whitney here for religion or rehab? >> back up, back up. you can get your shot. just back up. >> whitney's hosts were extremely protective of their guest. this made it even more of a mystery. >> the god is going to bless you. >> yes, he is. >> with the help of god. >> with the help of god, that's me. >> how do you like the desert? >> i love it. >> really? >> love it, going to flourish, going to bloom very soon like a rose. that's right. >> their hosts took whitney and bobby to tour the desert by bus, heading to spiritual moments, tense moments, strange moments, and the occasional mandatory stop along any scenic route. >> you got it? got the background? >> make sure you get the background. >> in a little town in the middle of the deser

southerners who were not presidents of the united states, lindbehin lyndon and jimmy carter, except martin luther king, ben bernanke, clinton, south carolina. no, not clinton, south carolina, dillon, south carolina, south of the border. sp supposedly it was his first job. ted turner. and newt gingrich. and that's -- i don't know if that's a stretch or not, whether he was -- is or should be a southerner. because he was born in pennsylvania i think. just because he represented georgia and taught at west georgia. well, anyway. "time" has tended until very recent years to be a very conservative, very loose, lucite publication you might say tending towards republicans and consensus sorts of people. chiang kai-shek made it, madam chian made the team. mao tse-tung never made person of the year. when "time" decided to acknowledge the american woman in 1975, they had some significant people, billie jean king and others, but they somehow in their list of folks on the cover or pictures of people on the cover overlooked betty fredan and gloria steinem. this is a pretty establishment, up east sort of people. and so i w

>> to know what actually happened that night. >> teresa carter, ann winters carters, ben irwin and johnler, thanks. >>> here's lonnie with another check of the weather. >> good enough, anthony. let's look at the satellite and radar picture for our country. it's the mid section of the country where we see a cold front from top to bottom. we have a low pressure system around the chesapeake. from say the -- significant rain because of that low. look at this. down in south florida, there's rainfalling right now and it's all because of, believe it or not, tropical storm isaac as of the friday a.m. update. 60 miles per hour winds moving to the northwest at 14 miles per hour. currently, 150 miles to the southeast of guantanamo in cuba. later today, much later, we'll be looking for landfall in cuba as a tropical storm and then it hits the warm waters of the florida straits and we think by about 2:00 a.m. monday morning, we could be seeing a hurricane landfall somewhere between, say, miami and key west. lot of rain for the sunshine state. that's a quick look at the national picture. here's a clo

to follow this man, carter ben ami, a former bus driver from chicago. >> if i were to ask the peopleng, even reforming addicts by mixing spirituality with mandatory exercise and a strict vegetarian diet. >> six, seven, eight. >> so who is whitney here for religion or rehab? >> back up, back up. you can get your shot. just back up. >> whitney's hosts were extremely protective of their guest. this made it even more of a mystery. >> the god is going to bless you. >> yes, he is. >> with the help of god. >> with the help of god, that's me. >> how do you like the desert? >> i love it? >> really? >> love it, going to flourish, going to bloom very soon like a rose. that's right. >> their hosts took whitney and bob toe tour the desert by bus, heading to spiritual moments, tense moments, strange moments, on the occasional mandatory stop along any scenic route. >> you got it? got the background? >> make sure you get the background. >> in a little town in the middle of the desert in israel, a family watched one of the world's most famous singers performing a concert in the backyard. >> i wanted

. >> i would not use the jimmy carter reference in context of afghanistan and bin ben but he is fine t and should as often as he can. we are now, in a period of malaise. like jimmy carter. >> jimmy carter is the republican herbert hoover, the democratsing frommed him for 30 years and we have just about a few years left to go after carter. >>bret: that it is for the panel. carfirmation. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. my new apartment isn't that far away. it's 4.2 miles away ! with this droid razr... motorola... verizon 4g lte... video... skype. you're gonna get lost. this has gps. well, that makes me feel better. me too. i'll go get two from the back. okay. this mother's day, get the droid razr by motorola. only $99.99. the lowest price ever. verizon. ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion pl

ben on a third down play. picked off by carter. that led to a denver field goal. the broncos scored 20 in the second and led 20-6 at the half. >>> the stylers as you figure they would made their run. mike wallace on the end around. pittsburgh in the end zone and trailing 20-13. both teams traded field goals in the 4th. then the broncos driving to put the game away but willis stripped by brian and the steelers recover the fumble. pittsburgh made good use of that opportunity. ben found cotre in the back of the end zone. the game was tied at 23, they would head to overtime with the new overtime rules in effect for the first time. the broncos won the toss but no time to find out about the new rules. on their first play from scrimmage in ot, tebow hit thomas over the middle. a stiff arm by thomas and then it's a foot race. he wins it, 80-yards to the end zone. just like that the broncos have the win, they move on to the next round of the playoffs after finishing 8-8 in the regular season. vindication for the gm, tebow has the final word. things don't get easier for the

. >>> actress helen carter who played queen elizabeth's mother in "the king's speech" has been made named an award. >>> benleck has jumped on the facebook page. >>> third year in a row, "twilight" patinson has been named, quote, a man you'd trade your husband for. >> really? >> in an i village survey an overwhelming 64%. the runner-up was ryan gosling. >>> from wlwt in cincinnati, ohio. love is in the air early this year. an explosion of new kittens has left the local humane society with its handsful or handsful of new paws. cats don't normally begin breeding in the area until the end of march or early april, but like so many parts of the country it's been a mild winter and the warmer temperatures have been making the felines a little frisky there. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. we're off to a mild start on this thursday. temperatures are above the average high temperature for the day. 51 at the airport. 48 degrees in westminster. a mixture of sun and clouds. we have

ben foishl what they're saying happened. but the police chief says his officers did search carter twice. they did miss the gun.fled that they missed gun in two searches. >> and then you have to come up -- of course, the fbi is looking at. by the way, they're held to the same as you and i would be. obviously if you or i were in a car and they found a man in the back seat shot in the back of the head, you'd be arrested. of course one of the things they're looking at it is what would be the motive? why would they want to kill him. i don't know that i've seen anything yet that would suggest homicide in the case, but you know this is all going to come down to the physical evidence in the end, i think. >> right. and you can flip it as well and say what was his motive have been to take his own life. they only found $10 worth of marijuana. there was a bag of white substance found in his car but it turned out to be something like sugar. so he would have been aware of that. so what would be his mow tirch? >> he wouldn't have a motive. and i'm not buying the motive of suicide. if the police are not involved in this, i th

. >>> actress helen carter who played queen elizabeth's mother in "the king's speech" has been made named an award. >>> ben affleck has jumped on the facebook page showing his actor and charity work. that's after you, bill, that's shocking. >>> and for the third year in a row, "twilight" patinson has been named, quote, a man you'd trade your husband for with an overwhelming 64%. >> he looks great. >> he does look great. don't hate on him. and ryan gosselin was a runner-up with only 13%. it's funny how that letter keeps go unanswered. and this comes to us from wlwt at news 5 in cincinnati, ohio, where love is in the air a little early this year. an explosion of new kittens has left the local humane society with its handsful of new paws. cats don't normally begin breeding in the area until the end of march or early april, but like so many parts of the country it's been a mild winter and the warmer temperatures have apparently been making the felines a little frisky. keep it g-rated. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> at one show in the philip

my four years at fort ben, we knew that. president carter drove me crazy with his ineptitude. his ineptitude. his inability to make decisions. to make the tough calls. his pathetic handling of the attack on our american embassy in tehran. for which america still pays for the pathetic way it was handled. for those of us who have been in the military, there's an obligation. when you see the same mistakes being repeated, since you know that those in uniform cannot step up and criticize the chain of command, we have an obligation to do that and it is not helpful for anyone with stars on their shoulders to tell former military members, oh, this is not appropriate for you to criticize my boss. how about the personal with stars on their shoulders stepping up and doing the criticism privately on behalf of the soldiers who he is is supposing to be commanding and protecting? there's stories that are coming out, time will tell, this one from fox news today, entitled u.s. officials expect strike on benghazi post coordinated, timed for 9/11 anniversary. u.s. officials are increasingly susp

ben. [ male announcer ] next up -- the gutters. citibank popmoney. easier banking. standard at citibank. >> we're watching hurricane sandy. brianne carter joins us live to explain how local residents are for whateverred e storm might bring. >> unwanted publicity for the campaign of virginia congressman jim moran. resigned.s >> imagine of or in brazil when during thed up middle of his own funeral. atood morning washington" 5:00 a.m. begins now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. a bizarre story. curious to see how that would happen. thursday, october 25. i am cynne simpson. >> i am steve chenevey. meteorologist jacqui jeras. we are enjoying comfortable conditions and watching the hurricane. a lot of things could factor forecast as we butoached the weekend, at some are looking patchy fog. it will be tranquil today overall. paula deen threw 9:00. cloudy skies for the morning. 9:00. through it was 84 degrees yesterday, a record high. the big question is what will happen with hurricane sandy and whether it could interact with a front this weekend to bring us some bad weather. 71 degrees by noon, 74 by 5:00, p

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i'm ben wedeman, cnn, reporting from cairo. >>> former president jimmy carter was a witness to egypt'ste. he led a group of election monitors from the carter center in atlanta. carter talked to our own fredricka whitfield about the election, the runoff, and the two men now vying for the presidency. >> i think both of these candidates are well-known and they have many votes supporting them, but, of course, with 13 candidates in the race obviously a lot of disappointed people here, but now both sides are beginning to call in the others, the young people, the christians, and other groups to try to induce them for their support in the future. i think both candidates will move to the center and try to consolidate. >> is there a feeling that this runoff can be as peaceful as we've seen this election to be thus far? >> i don't think there's any doubt about that. i don't see any indication here of potential violence breaking out in protest because there's really not anything to protest against. the people have had a right to go to the polls. they've cast their ballot the way they want to. and

carter. it's a risky mission for seal team 6 to free workers in sale man i can't. the rescue team fought off the dangerous captainers. >> the same u.s. navy seals who killed ben laden rescued jessica buchanan. u.s. officials say they killed 9 pierts in a gun fight and freed the captivated. >> president barack obama didn't mention the raid in his state of union address tuesday night but he congratulated defense secretary. >> good job tonight. >> the president later called buchanan's father to report the guidances, his daughter was free and intelligence report suggests the 32 -year-old's health was getting worse and made the mission argents. >> we will find you. you should know that. we will find you and we will take care of america's interest. >> u.s. officials say the kidnappers were heavily armed with explosives nearby. president barack obama couldn't be more proud of the troop who is carried out the top secret operation. >>> authorities say buchanan has been taken to a safe location for medical treatment and eventually return home to the states. >>> another unusual rescue in western maryland. a student on a class trip got his leg stuck in a cave and he spen

ben weyl who writes for congressional quarterly. let's show you this chart from the "washington post." and it looks at the debt ceiling from 1980 with president carter up until 2011 with president obama. and you can see how the debt ceiling has risen over that time period. the "washington post" which put this chart together tells us since 1980, the debt ceiling has been raised 39 times, 17 times under reagan, four times under clinton, seven times under george w. bush as a way for you to see what the debate has been like over the past several daks in this town. so we've posted this on facebook and already very some comments coming in. you can tweet us about the debt limit and also call us. let's start way couple facebook comments. jeff mckowski writes lock it down, slash spending to keep it under the limit. if they can't do it, shut the doors. throw away the key and fire the whole lot of them. and below that, howard ginger writes set next year's budget to 2008 levels, the level of spending which then speaker pelosi voted for. now to phones. let's begin with somerville, south carolina. trudy is a democrat there. >> i think this is a very good time to

ben. i hope he's your friend, too. >>> it's 4:29. mostly cloudy. sketch degrees. hell -- 67 degrees. hello, everyone. i'm vic carter. denise is off today. here's what people are talking about. mexico is still recovering today after a magnitude 7.4 quake shakes the coast. monica takes a closer look at the damage. >> reporter: office workers were sent streaming into the streets of mexico city, after a powerful earthquake struck the country's southern region, just minutes after 12 in the afternoon. this worker says it was very strong. the lights started swinging. and the photo copiers also started sliding back and forth in the office. >> the tremor cost a pedestrian bridge to collapse on top of an empty transit bus. while a major woman's hospital was forced to evacuate patients. phone and power service was briefly shut down in the capital and neighboring state of wahawk a. officials -- oaxaca. officials said 800 homes were damaged. another 60 completely collapsed. >> older buildings and buildings not with earthquakes in design could collapse. but most that are built for earthquakes would survive. >> reporter: it was 11 miles underground in

ben wedeman. later this this hour, we will be joined by president carter's grandson, jason carter who was in egyptll give us his thoughts about the road for egypt ahead. >> and the people of turkey are living in a tough neighborhood right now. refugees are spilling across the border and now one of their fighter jets were shot down, and now people are coming to in droves to try to escape the bloodshed in syria. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] its lightweight construction makes it nimble... ♪ its road gripping performance makes it a cadillac. introducing the all-new cadillac xts. available with advanced haldex all-wheel drive. [ engine revving ] it's bringing the future forward. >>> they were once friends but now syria and turkey are enemies. as you can see in the map, they share a vast border. and now refugees are fleeing into turkey to avoid the violence in syria. and now adding to the tension, syria shot down a turkish warplane. turkey says that the plane was unarmed and brought down over international waters, but today, the syrian official says that the plane was justified because the plane had crossed i

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ben. i hope he's your friend, too. >>> it's 4:27. 54 degrees. mostly sunny. hello, everyone. thanks for staying with eyewitness news. i'm vic carter. and i'm denise koch. here's what people are talking about. >> witnesses say the captain began acting erratically, and passenger his to tackle him. bigadbigad shaban has more from los angeles. >> passengers board a jet blue flight to las vegas. >> no pictures, please. >> reporter: witnesses say the captain came out of the cockpit to use the rest room. the flight crew then locked him out. when he tried to make his way in, he started screaming. that's when the flight attendant asked apparentlies to restrain him. passengers to restrain him. several people helped hold down the pilot. they managed to keep him there for about 25 minutes until the plane made an emergency landing in texas. that's where authorities took him off the plane. jet blue said the flight was diverted because of a medical situation involving the captain. and another captain, traveling off-duty, entered the flight deck, prior to landing and took over the duties of the ill crewmember. >> could you please clear the aisle?

ben affleck new field about iran called are a go. i talked with him about it and how america should deal with the iranians. -- hurts the carter administration that's why he lost to ronald reagan. a guy you like you though wasn't conscious at this time why are you making a movie about this. >> great story. one thing it's a killer. actually a comedy with the hollywood satire. complicated cia movie. it's a political movie and it's all true. >> bill: so you wanted to make an entertainment about a serious subject rescuing americans from a dictatorship, iran? >> i did. and the serious aspect of it was that this is really a tribute to the folks in our clandestined services and diplomats in the foreign service risking their lives over there tragically seeing examples of that very recently. folks who are, what they give up to serve us and to serve our country. >> this is a valentine from ben affleck to the intelligence community. the same people who waterboarded the same people who renditioned, liberal friends going to say to you. >> i don't worry too much about what my liberal friends are going to say. to me i made a movie that my friends who are d

ben affleck new field about iran called are a go. i talked with him about it and how america should deal with the iranians. -- hurts the carter administration that's why he lost to ronald reagan. a guy you like you though wasn't conscious at this time why are you making a movie about this. >> great story. one thing it's a killer. actually a comedy with the hollywood satire. complicated cia movie. it's a political movie and it's all true. >> bill: so you wanted to make an entertainment about a serious subject rescuing americans from a dictatorship, iran? >> i did. and the serious aspect of it was that this is really a tribute to the folks in our clandestined services and diplomats in the foreign service risking their lives over there tragically seeing examples of that very recently. folks who are, what they give up to serve us and to serve our country. >> this is a valentine from ben affleck to the intelligence community. the same people who waterboarded the same people who renditioned, liberal friends going to say to you. >> i don't worry too much about what my liberal friends are going to say. to me i made a movie that my friends who are d

>> thanks to president carter and we can't get enough today of president obama on late night with jimmy fallon, especially the slow jam. the tweet of the day is sarcasm from benow jamming the news. he followed with romney needs to do snl to return fire. >> as i like to call him, the prezee and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ prezee prezee >>> the agenda next hour all fair in love and politics, right? mitt romney trying to co-op the president's fairness platform as president obama proves he is still the coolest dude in the room, a contrast in style and substance ahead. >>> sa lashs details in the john edwards trial, the senator's choice words for rielle hunter revealed in court. >>> get this, kids drinking hand sanitizer to get drunk. instead, getting deathly ill. a warning all parents need to hear. the mom and sister of an iowa teen bullied to death for being gay. they'll speak with me live. that and much more coming up at the top of the hour. chris. >> thomas, thank you. beautiful women, beautiful dogs, beautiful beards. see a theme? down to the wire. another mo

carter a one-term president. now, a rarely told true story of how six of those diplomats were rescued in a daring cia escape filmed by director and actor benck. the film called "argo." i asked what drew limb to the story. >> i knew it would be resonate in some ways talking about revolution and the unattended consequences of revolution and us to get in business with the middle east. i had no idea it would become really tragically resonate as you mentioned what happened in benghazi, you know, and that i could look at the footage that i used to research this movie from 30 plus years ago, look almost exactly like what was on the news right now. that had a kind of profound effect on me. one wonders are we just repeating ourselves. what's it going to take to get out of this cycle. >> when you look at the opening sequences of "argo," it's this assault on the embassy and it's so gripping how do you create that kind of scene as a director? >> that was one of the biggest -- my biggest concerns because i knew that it needed to have that sort of raw energy. that's what we had to get. several thousand extras and since we were in turkey we had to teach

ben knenels. february is black history month and on this day in 1926 negro history week began and later, of course, turned into black history month. the man responsible, this man, carters career to the field of african-american history and earned a ph.d. from harvard in in 1912. nong his famous quotes, if the knee grow in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong neve in you have to get out of the ghetto. ♪ ♪ spread a little e today ♪ ♪ spread a little love my way ♪ ♪ spread a little something to remember ♪ ♪ ♪ spread a little joy... [ female announcer ] fresh milk and real cream. that's what makes philadelphia. ♪ so spread a little... [ female announcer ] and that's what makes the moment we enjoy it, a little richer. ♪ real belgian chocolate whipped with philadelphia cream cheese. new indulgence. the moment just got a little sweeter. and you are me. my name is susan. i'm confident. i'm strong. i believe. weight watchers pushed me to push myself. i lost 91 pounds. i believe i can do anything now. and i don't have to do any of it in sweatpants. i believe because it works. your turn. your time. your year. [