i have been privileged to have gone to school in albany. i would like to know if you could address the financial banking that al smith had from john j. araskog, and the contention that was because smith was catholic and trying to be president. >> francis, where did you go to school here in albany? we have several colleges in our audience. >> i went to the academy of the sacred heart on south pearl street. unfortunately, it has been closed and is now for sale. >> thank you very much. the financial question. >> araskog was a good friend of the dupont family. he was one of the key people in general motors. he was a multi millionaire. as i mentioned earlier, smith was not a huge champion of business. he voted as he was told to vote. later on, he drifted towards pro-business, that was after the roosevelt fallout. he wanted to be involved in politics. araskog became friends with al smith. smith makes him the head of his campaign in 1928. much to the consternation of many people, they said this guy is not a politician. he is not active in democrat

that 200 mile stretch of water between albany and montreal. the book is framed -- to give you a field staff here is how chapter one opens. at 5:00 in the morning on february 9th, 1690, a leading man in the wounded force staggered into the fortified town of albany. despite a bullet in his 5, he had written nearly 20 miles in six hours to albany in the deep snow. mayor peter schuyler convened a meeting to hear the exhausted news. just before midnight on the eighth the party of french and indians killed most of the inhabitants' carrying off others and setting houses on fire. the following day 50 survivors suffering from frostbite tread their way to albany. they eventually piece together what happened. story was connected by franco indy and waiting party beginning of the book's battles which end with a confederate re on albany in 1864 and a raid into canada by irish-american veterans in 1866. the fights that talked about were very big. for ticonderoga, 15,000 troops were hurled back by barely a fifth as many french men. the other fights i talked-a

in the following days some survivors, many suffering from frostbite, approached albany. they and their horrified hosts eventually pieced together what had happened. we go from there. the story, the burning of schenectady by a franco-raiding party, begins the book's battles with begin with a confederate rate on vermont in 1864 and a raid into canada by irish-american veterans of the civil war in 1866. some of the fights i talk about were very big. the attempted 758 by the publish to -- [inaudible] in which nearly 15,000 troops were hurled back with horrific loss by barely a fifth as many frenchmen. the other fights i talk about were mere skirmishes. some of these battles were decisive, others were not. but individually and collectively, they reveal a great deal about why the united states waged war the way it is, and that is why these struggles of long ago are alive and, in some ways, visible to americans today. a word about the title, "conquered into liberty." i explain it in chapter five which deals with the american invasion of canada in 1775. launched, i would point o

. >> alex land finally making his terms debut as maryland hosts albany.t the big guy can do. terps up 22-13 and the two hook up again in the final seconds of the first half. maryland goes on to beat albany 83-72. george washington hosting uab tonight. uab went on a 17-1 run in the first half and gw, well, they just couldn't recover. george washington loses to alabama birming ham. >> georgetown has been impressive. we have a team ranked in the top 25. >> something washington oriented to root for. >> exactly. between them and the lady terps, we have at least >>> and that is our broadcast for tonight. thanks for sticking around. >> bundle up tomorrow morning, right. and don't forget you can always find us at wusa9.com. good night.

maryland downs albany 83-72. >>> so from happy days on the college hardwood to misery in the nba. wizards hoping to turn it around in atlanta but it is apparent that this team will be a carbon copy of last year. john wall signing autographs before the game. and in the game, john wall with the ball finds nick young in the corner. he is a professional scorer. the wizards kept it close for a while. and the hawks ran away with it. jeff teague to joe johnson. johnson and five hawks scored in double figures. the hawks roll 101-83. the wizards drop to 0-2 on the year. >>> you know we talk about good recs and bad recs with the redskins what about good caps and bad caps. they the good caps showed up against the rangers. we are at verizon center. one up mant since dale hunter took over as the coach. and the caps trying to climb back into the playoff race. thomas vokoun in net and playing great. watch him sweep the puck away here. still in the first no score. halpern's shot is stopped. but johansson stuffs it back in. it gives the capitals a 1-0 lead. caps up 2-1. backstrom to semin. big nig

right now the governor asked the mayor of albany to kick out the occupy albany people. of them at a dinner, okay? and we're happy now that this new tax deal, which instead of reducing taxes on the millionaires by $4 billion, we're going to reduce it by 2. >>> and that's considered a victory? >> considered a victory. and the fax rate, the you make $50,000, will now be 6.45. >> so clearly what's missing for you, because you have an apparatus, you have a pledge, you have a whole about to do this. is there's not enough fire in the belly on the streets of the electorate to have the politicians scared. >> that's exactly right. >> exactly right. >> at least on the federal level, it's ironic that the house of representatives is less representative than the senate, which was originally supposed to be not representative. why? because there's all these incumbent protection maps. >> with the gerrymandering of the house. >> with the gerrymandering in the house and the state legislatures protect the federal legislatures and also protect themselves. but my question is, with all these

we're at 2 in albany.e subu$ the big cities are down in the single digits, so a very cold mortgage. as we go into the afternoon, just snow showers buffalo, possibly pittsburgh and erie, cleveland, chicago and detroit. we're fine and beautiful much of the country, though. i want to give everyone a sneak peek in chicago. lynn, i mentioned it's going to be cold. high of 24 as we go into the new year. so, there is some very cold air out there on the way. >> all right, bill. thank you so much. >>> well, coming up, which star is literally nashing her teeth? >>> plus, rumors about trouble in paradise for one of show biz's biggest couples. your "first look" at entertainment is straight ahead. >>> you're watching "first look" on msnbc. but you go in pieces. [ female announcer ] you can't pass mom's inspection with lots of pieces left behind. that's why there's charmin ultra strong. its diamondweave texture is soft and more durable so it holds up better. fewer pieces left behind. charmin ultra strong. ♪ [ gong ] str

in the following days, some 50 survivors trudged their way to albany.they and their horrified hosts eventually pieced together what had happened. we go from there. the story, the burning of schenectady, by a franco-indian raiding party -- actually majority french -- begins the book's battles which end with a confederate raid in 1864 and a raid into canada by irish-american veterans of the civil war in 1866. some of the fights i talk about were very big. the attempt in 1758 by the frisch to storm fort -- french to storm tie copped rogue georgia in which 15,000 troops were hurled back by horrific loss by barely a fifth as many frenchmen. some of these battles were decisive, others were not. but individually and collectively they reveal a great deal about why the united states wages war the way it does, and that is why each chapter explores how these struggles of long ago are live and in some ways even visible to americans today. a word about the title, "conquered into liberty." i explain it in chapter five. launched, i would point out, before the united s

. >> reporter: volunteers citizen scientists, counting clusters on albany hill in the east bay. >> i'veounted all of them. about 600. >> right there? >> yeah. >> reporter: last year when you were here, there were hardly any of them? >> there were 8 or 12. >> reporter: from 8 or 12 here last year, bill and george are now counting thousands on albany hill. the monarch population appears to have rebounded. no one is resting easily. >> it's been since '97 that there have been these kinds of numbers. >> reporter: a major way is under way at preserving winter locations like this one and by growing the old species that monarchs will lay their eggs on. george has planted native milk we'd to give the monarchs more of what they depend on to increase their vulnerable population and continue their mysterious migration. >> by making this available in your front yard along a street in the city, we can all make a difference? >> we can all make a difference. anybody can do this. it's great joy for me. >> reporter: you're kind of lending a bit of a hand to these creatures who are having a hard time. >>

steady rain around albany, vermont and new hampshire. no ice or anything.'s just wet this morning. here is your forecast for today, temperatures getting up to 64 possible in philadelphia. and then the temperatures will begin to come down. we'll have a couple periods of rain throughout the day, a steadier rain will develop later this afternoon towards this evening for if big cities. we'll watch showers in atlanta, carolinas and possibly new orleans. cold air in the middle of the country, a chilly day for colorado and minneapolis. the cold air heads to the east along with a developing possible coastal storm. maybe snow? the east on thursday morning. >> bill, thanks so much. coming up, rosie gets ready to say i do and larry king gets ready for passing away. yes, this one is bizarre. plus bradley cooper's scoop on the next "hangover" movie. he says this one is going to be different. your first look at entertainment is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. -dad, why are you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's

so he is actually in the albany law school where i teach. a complicated figure. they know very little about him other than that he has gathered his first name of any american president and it goes down from there. he hasn't been the remembered and no one quite knows why he was there. so i'd like to give you some perspective on that. i should say that there are -- what you will hear was not tied to making happy if he were alive today. this would not be a particularly flattering talk. i want to start out on the upside by putting up there are a number of pieces of millet, life that were really quite wonderful, and this institution is one of them. as many of you know he was one of the founders of the buffalo historical society and also the first chancellor of the university of buffalo. and, indeed, in many ways fillmore's greatest accomplishments are right here in buffalo. the greatest accomplishments were as a city builder, as an institution builder, as a man who understood the importance of his own city. and probably of all the things he did his two nephews is pres

but the compliance costs and all of the money goes to whether it is albany or springfield or the federalit goes to more government spending and more government wastes. cut spending as to finding excuse toz raise taxes. >> ceo of overstock said if the law was different, he would not have been able to start this. >> you have to level the playing field. why should i pay a tax if you don't . then i am prejudiced against and i can't sell my products at the same price over the internet. this is a state law that is terrible. it was a terrible case in which they decided you have to have a presence in the state to sell. that is nuts. take all of the taxes off or have one tax for everybody. >> david, we have seen a lot of new technology start ups which is nice for the markets, but does it hurt the job market if the law changes? >> no, i don't. small business expected the sales tax to come. it goes to john's point with regard to the administration of that tax. and the cause associated with that which people and tholce policy makers need to take that into account and make sure they are not lost. goi

. >> the village has 170 senior members and 60 volunteers serving berkeley, albany, pleasanton and a small portion of oakland. >> they offer assistance inome , cooking, gardening, dog walking. whatever people's needs are that helped them to continue living independently. >> it's not cheap. $750 a year per person, about $62 a month. those who can afford it the say they get a lot of support. bob's wife takes a course every thursday night. >> i don't like leaving bob alone so i asked for a volunteer. >> currently there are other villages nationwide with about 11,000 senior members. san francisco already has two. >> if they fall and break a hip, nobody knows that is going to happen until it is too late. >> a report from the city and county of san francisco points out that in 2008 there were about 150,000 seniors or 20% of the population. it's now estimated by 2030 san francisco will have more than 250,000 seniors. >> more services will be needed. mark goldman is one of the volunteers. >> the family that used to there the children grow up and go away. >> more volunteers will be need and s

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maryland hosting albany to give us a much-anticipated debut. he hopes to provide a major impact on 18 and needs help. you never know with a kid from a dead their country so young in the need to the scene. in the first half, get welcome to the comcast center. more maryland on the bridge. another freshman -- digital finished with 10 points off the bench for nick. geraldo led, 22 points. no answer and said for the income are. it is hard to stop that. 14 points and three blocked shots. he let it fly from three. six triples in the game. the first double-digit one of the season 83-72. everybody in the roster has the fifth ranked terrapins 84, 76. likewise on beaten delaware. high school holiday to permanent this week as we think of friends and family over the weekend but like to take a moment to think about the team from benjamin franklin. a new public school in baltimore. one with a heavy heart. season is dedicated to a headband to be the sixth man this season but was until this summer. the team has played very well in his honor. he led the way with

bill and george are now counting thousands on albany hill. the monarch population appears to have rebounded, no one is resting easily. >> it's been since '97 there have been these kind of numbers. >> reporter: a major effort is under way to conserve the monarchs by protecting over-wintering locations like this one, and by growing the only plant species that monarchs will lay their eggs on, milkweed. >> this is a narrow-leaf milkweed. >> reporter: at his home in el cerrito, george has planted native milkweed to give the monarchs more of what they depend on to raise the next generation of butterflies, increase their vulnerable population, and continue their mysterious migration. >> my making this available in your front yard, along a street in the city, we can all make a difference. >> everybody can make a difference. anybody can do this. you're lending a little bit of a hand to creatures that are really having a difficult time. >> reporter: with a helping hand from all of us, citizen scientists hope we'll be able to witness this marvel of natu

maryland beat albany 83-72. that will do it for your morning sports, i'm kristin berset.t day. >> it was all about offense wednesday at the military bowl at rfq stadium. air force trailing with a minute left. jefferson jr. for the touchdown. all air force needed was the extra point to tie it up. the falcons decide to go for a sneak play for the two-point conversion and fail. toledo tops air force 42-41. that's a lot of points on the board. >>> there are just two weekdays left in december. just two more days to show off your holiday displays. >> write to today's morning lights. another one with the wow factor. >> check out the home of doug bryant in clifton, virginia. that is an explosion of holiday color. all the bushes are lit up. lights around the house. a big christmas tree in lights right in the front. there are also a few lit up reindeer as well. >> would you like to see all of the homes we featured this month? go to wusa9.com and type in morning lights in the search bar and you can see all of them. they're all beautiful. thanks for pitching them in. >> we'll show yo

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bone dry out here and they are getting socked in back there. >> but it's not snow in albany. >> there's some. not like they like. >> right. they had a green christmas, didn't they. >> yeah. >> i know a little bit about upstate new york. >> all right. all right. >> yeah, it has been unusual. and we will continue to see the dry weather for the weekend. we do have just a chance of rain, but you know it's getting slimmer and slimmer on our seven-day outlook. yesterday record high temperature at the reno airport of 63 degrees. so we are talking about more mild there visiting us over the weekend. in fact, temperatures right now are pretty darn cold. the air mass continues to dry out. 28 novato, 39 livermore, and it will continue to drop for another hour or two. we are sitting at 39 in redwood city, 35 in oakland. good morning, los gatos. fay a look at our visibility. really it's been decreased all around the bay. usually we just have it in spots. the north bay and the east bay. but look at hayward, less than quarter mile. oakland has fog. livermore a mile and three quarters. napa and novato.

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. >>> maryland beat albany tonight, 83-72. george washington lost to the university of alabama- birmingham, 56-49. >>> something we are not used to, the washington capitals looking lackluster and falling and the standings. the capitals are 5-12 under dale hunter coming into tonight failing to really play well in games. that change tonight in new york. forced the turnover, he shoots, and he puts it away, 1-0 caps. in the second, another turnover. he finds alexander semin just watch this. backhanded goal, nothing. here. alexander semin, two goals on the night, the capitals win, 4- 1. >>> flip saunders and the wizards and atlanta, looking for their first win of the season. look at this sick hang 10 at layout, and traffic. atlanta wins, 101-83. >>> rfk toledo and air force the military bowl. all alone, not the touchdown. air force was down. one, -- airports was down by one, they're forced decides to go for two points. toledo winds 42-41. >>> cowboys quarterback tony romo was limited in practice today after bruising his throwing ha

that includes areas from ohio to albany up to hartford. i mention the winds are gusty. winds gusting to 37 in boston. 23 in new york. 35 in philly. well away from the center of the storm. we're seeing a blustery morning. the cold air has moved in. windchills in the 20s in most areas. it's a blustery day. winter coat and glofs for the first time in about a week. temperatures this morning compa compared to this time yesterday, about 22 degrees colder in new york. 23 in d.c. our dose of reality has returned. much of the country is feeling chilly. it finally looks a lot like winter in december. as far as we go, the storm is existing. things will improve today into the weekend. >> thanks. >>> banks rise. boeing makes peace. what makes a perfume cost $1 million? that's straight ahead. [ male announcer ] cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. how about both? with covergirl lashblast fusion. our biggest brush meets our fiberstretch formula for a blast of volume and

. >> i had a crash pad in albany, new york.e had nine people living in a small, two-bedroom apartment. we had guys living on the... sleeping on the couch. they rented a couch. guys rented a closet-- a big, walk-in closet. and then you'd have three or four guys crammed in a little, itty-bitty, ten-by-ten room, hardly bigger than jail cells it seemed like, sleeping on air mattresses. we couldn't afford to rent our own apartment. we just did not make enough money to be able to pay for that. >> o'brien: the lives of regional pilots may not be glamorous, but they offer young pilots a fast track to the captain's seat. at the major airlines, it takes pilots five to ten years to upgrade from first officer to captain, but not at the regionals. >> at colgan, i upgraded very quickly. within my first year, i upgraded in about nine months, if i remember right. >> o'brien: boy, in nine months you were a captain. >> yeah. >> o'brien: that's... that's quick. >> almost scary, isn't it? >> o'brien: so that's a... that's not a deep reservoir of e

. >> next up a home game against albany on wednesday. >>> george mason wins tonight.yan pearson went for a game-high 25 points and 10 rebounds. george mason improves to 8-4. tomorrow it's the redskins and the vikings. 1:00 christmas eve day game. the redskins trying to put back-to-back wins together for the second time this season. >> and they're favored to win. >> the droid razr by motorola. the newest droid armed with motocast. granting you wireless access to files on your home computer from almost anywhere. 4g lte equipped to pull pictures, music, and movies. all at mind-melting speeds. powered by verizon, this droid is too powerful to fall into the wrong hands. >>> let the holiday begin. president obama is enjoying the weather in hawaii. air force one landed a few minutes ago. the president joins the first family for holiday vacation. >>> several families will have a brighter christmas thanks to the work of an nfl player phil internship taylor. his focus was on low-income families. he treated 100 people to a holiday party at richard wright charter public school in

. >> alex lynn makes his debut from maryland and albany and hosting alabama-birmingham and the wizards looking for the first win in tant. >> -- atlanta. >>> thanks for joining us tonight. as we leave you, we're going to look at the crash site on rockville pike. avoid this area if at all possible and this is south of the beltway and that is going to be closed for hours. 

the terps hosting albany. >>> it's virginia taking on maryland eastern shore. the cavaliers looking to win nine straight for the first anytime a decade. the cavs up 7-0. evans causes a turnover and races up court and gives it to mike scott. second half cavs up 13. evans with another steal ahead to scott who finishes with another dunk. scott with the game high 17 points. next possession for maryland eastern shore and another turnover. they were sloppy. look at the passing. no look to scott. tony bennett lost a couple of players to transfers recently. uva wins it 69-42 and improve to 11-1 on the season. georgetown a surprise. uva a bit of a surprise. maybe it won't be all as dry as we thought in college basketball. >> we need someone to be ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste? honey nut cheerios. want whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? h

they even dubbed cuomo governor 1%, and it altered the pressures in albany.ime, but, look, i only get about two minutes here for my rants, so don't take my word for it. here's what the "new york times" said today. quote, democrats who pressured cuomo lauded the occupy wall street movement for changing the political climate in albany, where lawmakers had planned to allow the millionaires' tax tocito simply expire. and one old labor leader was quick to thank these new school protesters for their role. quote, it's simply a credit to the courage of the occupy protesters, said michael kink, who runs a big labor group here in new york. now, let be clear. on policy, i still don't think governor kwoeme's revised plan goes far enough. if you look at the proposed brackets, a tiny cut for middle class families arc slightly larger cut for households making over $300,000, that's the top 3%, by the way, and then about the same rate that there was under the millionaires' tax for those households making over 2 million. so on the facts this is basically a center left status q

air coming in off the lakes producing the snow showers you saw go down to the mohawk river valley, albany into areas of vermont. there is not much weather coming toward us. while we have another front headed this way, this front that came through late tomorrow, going to be a dry front. here comes high pressure for later today and tonight with the high overhead, light winds. we get enough breaks in the clouds, clear to partly cloudy tonight. that will allow temps to drop off. tomorrow, here comes the front. in the morning, off to the north and west. it will stay there in the afternoon. tomorrow night, it comes toward us. by midnight, might even see some showers toward the northern neck, the eastern shore. might clip southern areas of st. mary's as this system falls off to the north and east. that will be replaced by cold air again, another shot as we head into saturday. saturday's highs struggling to get to the 40 degree mark. looking at the forecast, mid- 40s, breezy. but diminishing wind. 20s and 30s tonight. milder tomorrow. around 50. southerly wind at about 5. for saturday, we've got

and i-87, around albany northward. snow-covered roads across michigan's upper peninsula. also slippery on i-80, from cheyenne to omaha. wet on i-95, in florida. >> if you're hitting the friendly skies today, airport delays are possible in boston, new york city, philly, and d.c. >>> with that, we shift gears to sunny's favorite story. >> i'm obsessed with this story, i will admit it. actor alec baldwin has deactivated his twitter account, in the middle of a heated war on >> baldwin apologized to the passengers for the confrontation that got him booted on a flight from l.a. to new york. baldwin tweeted about getting reamed out by a flight attendant, for playing words with friends while the flight was at the gate. >> american fired back on its facebook page. saying baldwin refused to turn off his phone, slammed the bathroom door and called the crew some names. >>> in other news this morning, five people have been killed in the xrash of a tourist helicopter outside of las vegas. the chopper, like one of these from sundance helicopters, was on a sunset tour of the vegas strip

wind gusts of 40 miles per hour now in philadelphia, 40 in albany.ery gusty-type winds for this type of morning. it will get your attention. as the day goes on, it will continue to be windy in new england. these temperatures dropping. will end up in the 40s in most areas which is still mild but not as warm as when you're going to work. through the weekend, today, a little light rain in the southeast, especially tennessee into areas of virginia and north carolina. some snow flurries in minneapolis. that's about it. much of the country including the west coast, very quiet on saturday. some showers in san antonio. but pretty mild temperatures. 40s and 50s most locations. even the northern half of the country is in mid to upper 30s which is above average. by the time we get to sunday, still a cold spot, definitely new england especially in the morning. the afternoon, only 29 in boston. that's the cold spot. everyone else is looking at a fairly nice weekend. that's good for all the holiday errands. >> lovely. there are plenty to be had. >>> a big boost fo

from 880 is feeding a slowing from a ethanol heading down towards albany. the south a traffic looks pretty good. heavy traffic has not yet formed for your ride on to the out of downtown toward cupertino. it is a light and easy brighton >>mark: the full honors are returning to monday night football taking on its pittsburgh. the steelers lead without james harris hawk and they are hoping that roethlisberger is back. he had a high a). the teams have not faced each other since 2007. the 49ers are looking for a first round bye week. a game will coincide with the evening rush. they're asking people to get there early. it will also have pre-game festivities. >>mark: their raiders a blew a 13 point lead with 7 minutes to go in the fourth quarter losing to the detroit lions 28-27. the game ended with a touchdown pass to calvin johnson with 39 seconds left in the game. carlson palmer threw for 3 others 67 yds. all was driving for a comeback at the end of the game with time misfiring. sebastian jankowski tried a 65 yd field goal. hong raiders remained 7-7, one game ou

not much of an issue travelwise, across these areas, albany just below freezing, sunshine all over the. your high topping off in the mid 40s. in you're traveling, in the west back towards denver, colorado, we're starting to see snow move in. could see five to eight inches accumulating in the city as you work in through the afternoon. so keep that in mind. if you're traveling, meanwhile back down through florida, have a jacket today, 46 degrees in orlando. 30 in atlanta. 41 in new orleans right now. the other big story across the west, will be the winds coming down out of the mountains. have seen wind gusts upwards of over 150 miles per hour. in mammoth mountains. down towards los angeles, a small brush fire could be an elevated fire danger. >>> turning to sports, new allegations surfacing against former penn state assistant football coach, jerry sandusky. in first of what could be several lawsuits against him. a 29-year-old man claims sandusky abused hill more than 100 times when he was a boy and threatened to hurt his family if anyone found out. this is the accusation. the latest accu

albany is down to 23 and down to about 19 in pittsburgh.e some chilly spots, especially in the burbs. we'll warm it up. just about everyone will see sunshine this morning. we are watching clouds increasing for down in virginia, north carolina. you're probably going to have more clouds than sun but everyone else from ohio, indiana, all the way through new england will have a pretty sunny day out there. grab the shades if you're doing any driving today. 46 in new york. 47 in philadelphia. temperatures are a little above average for this time of year in many spots. pittsburgh after your cold start getting up to about 40 degrees. this is a pretty nice monday in this region of the country. the southeast, that's where we are watching a little rain, atlanta, charleston, savannah, jacksonville, maybe a shower in orlando, too. miami is one of the warmer spots in the country at 81 today. much warmer than many other areas. if you're doing any traveling over the next two or three days, the stormy weather, if we have airport problems, maybe even in phoe

. >>> and on the court for maryland, glenn making his die because as the terps hosted albany at the comcastenter. the 7'1" ukraine native missed the first 10 games as a penalty for having previously signed with teams overseas. five straight wins for the terps. >>> the wizards still looking for the first win of the season and last night in atlanta, they really took a beating from the hawks losing 101-83. next up, the wizards head to milwaukee tomorrow night to face the bucs. >>> capitals are looking good against the eastern conference leading rangers. ovechkin was up to the west side, across-ice pass to semin. a big win for the caps. they defeat the rangers 4-1. >>> the battle for the redskins is heating up and we are not a team itself. it is no secret the redskins want a state of the art training complex with an indoor practice field. officials have been game planning ways to lure the team away from ashburn. mayor gray and two d.c. council member recently went to florida to visit the tampa bay buccaneers' new training come make plex while prince george's county is conduct a feasibility stud

if you look at albany from around the world or begin garza where a series of air strikes have killed three and injured nearly a dozen israel's air force carried out new songs targeting militants before the israeli border strike killed one man after a rocket hit his motorcycle the second airstrike hit a mass police vehicle air attacks have been relatively rare since the end of a three week israeli war three years ago. a former u.s. marine accused of trying to infiltrate iran's intelligence service went on trial on tuesday tehran contends that. marty received special cia training and served military bases in iraq and afghanistan before heading to run for his intelligence mission marty admits to having ties to the cia with claims he had no intention of harming iran says the death penalty if convicted. a u.s. presidential candidates tell the nation how they plan to lead it into the future some of been exposed for the basic knowledge of foreign affairs but it seems the general public is following suit as it is and it's a situation to discover it. it's three agencies of government when i g

for that don't you think the insights if you do want more business in this plenty more to come in albany's two thousand and eleven has not been the best and sounds of mergers and acquisitions in russia with values fall below that seen during the peak in two thousand and seven but global bank has been that could pick up next year with consolidation a hive of firms looking for ball gains. one would be in market consolidation so for example in the banking sector where you have thirteen fourteen hundred banks there is a need to consolidate in order to have both the required capital given some larger regulatory trends such as movement to basel two and openly basel three as well as the need to have sufficient liquidity to grow the balance sheet in market consolidation for some of the old economy sectors will continue second and we expect to see outward investment by russian companies and shareholders into europe and the united states taking advantage of the situation in those markets to become more global in nature. russia's biggest investment companies have lost tens of millions of dollars in t

so he is actually in the albany law school where i teach. a complicated figure. they know very little about him other than that he has gathered his first name of any american president and it goes down from there. he hasn't been the remembered and no one quite knows why he was there. so i'd like to give you some perspective on that. i should say that there are -- what you will hear was not tied to making happy if he were alive today. this would not be a particularly flattering talk. i want to start out on the upside by putting up there are a number of pieces of millet, life that were really quite wonderful, and this institution is one of them. as many of you know he was one of the founders of the buffalo historical society and also the first chancellor of the university of buffalo. and, indeed, in many ways fillmore's greatest accomplishments are right here in buffalo. the greatest accomplishments were as a city builder, as an institution builder, as a man who understood the importance of his own city. and probably of all the things he did his two nephews is pres

the interesting thing to me, lisa is the albany factor. >> yes. >> albany's a land of midgets, and son his dad was governor. and he's been an effective counselor to his father. did anything he absorb from his dad, how did it play into his dealings with the legislature today? >> it's interesting, he had two big influences, his father and bill clinton. and he said, you know, one of the things he learned from clinton was how to cross the aisle. how to compromise. really done it. one of the interesting keys is that he flattered these guys. you know, these assemblymen from all over the state, he did. he said, you know, work with me. i will go back to your district, i will praise you, i will credit you. previous times, i mean, spitzer came in basically dissing them before he even got sworn in. >> yeah. >> so andrew was like, as he said, you know, as mysy krillian grandfather says, you know, you get more flies with honey than vinegar, and he did it but what's so funny it's andrew cuomo that did it. >> what's also fascinating, what he talks about is his relationship with his dad. it's father,