amy? >> bill, thank you. >>> an emotional farewell to eunice kennedy shriver the founder of the special olympics and sister to the late president kennedy. she passed away this week at the age of 88. family, friends and so many people whose lives were changed gathered in cape cod friday to pay tribute. nbc's andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: they came from near and far to the kennedy family church in hyannis, to celebrate the life of eunice kennedy shriver. the famous, and the not very famous, celebrities and the special needs people she championed. >> i'll never forget the day that i was sick and in the hospital, a call came and it was eunice, saying to me "how do you feel?" and i knew i had a friend. through sorrow, through pain. >> reporter: she was a fearless warrior for the voiceless and the ultimate role model for her children. to them, she was mummy, devoted to family and faith, but hardly conventional. >> most of the mothers were dressed up and kind of neatly coifed. mummy wore

i'm amy robach along with lester holt.we're going to tauct about octomom nadya suleman wlan she said to "us weekly" magazine talking about a mistake she made. >> a lot of people when she had the octuplets, and what nadya suleman's regret and details about the anonymous father of all 14 of the children. >> also coming up, talking about shopping. one of my favorite pastimes on this labor day -- a lot of people wait for the sales come labor day weekend. we're here to tell you you don't have to wait. in fact, august is the perfect time to grab bargains on a lot of big ticket items. we'll tell what you those are and what you should be buying in the month of august. >> then continue our series on summer jobs an the job i picked was to be a tour guide here in new york city. any questions about new york? that i can answer? it worked out. it actually worked out pretty well, and i love new york, and the double-decker tour bus, as you see there, u bi u bic cuous. i always wonder what do they say? a lot of it was my own personal exper

amy?> bill, thank you. >>> now we are going to talk about those wildfires raging in southern california. bringing los angeles and covering the city in a denen cloud of smoke. there are four fires burning and right now the most dangerous one just north of los angeles. miguel is outside the fire in lake view terrace, california. good morning. >> reporter: it promises to be a long, hot day for firefighters here at the station fire, more than, there have been more than three mandatory evacuations, more than 1,000 homes threatened. it promises to be a long day for crews, especially because this fire refuses to lay down. through the night, and into the morning, fire rages. tinneder dry brush fueling towering flames on the move. the orange glow and often at times this fight is far from over. across southern california this week, four major fires have burned more than 10,000 acres, and counties. the fight for containment is a difficult one. first, voluntary evacuations. >> they're not letting anyb

. >> and i'm amy robach. coming up, the latest on hurricane bill. >> watching bill about a week now. finally it's in the neighborhood. a dangerous category 2 storm with sustained winds near 105 miles an hour. bermuda is getting the worst of it now but the east coast, specific to watches and warnings and dangerous rip currents expected from florida to new england all this weekend. coming up the latest and how it might affect all of us. >>> also ahead this morning, unexpected good news in the housing market as sale of existing homes take a big leap. like most of the positive economic stories we hear lately, there is a catch. we'll tell what you that is coming up. >> always hate the catches. >>> amy, we've all experienced flight delays. one here recently, people stuck on a plane all night long. >> with no food, i think. >> no food. apparently the crew had gone past flight hour, could no longer fly. the government taking action here. >> probably going to be welcome news to the folks stuck on that flight, and appa

so yes we can learn from the past. >> amy schatz? >> after you send your letter of the chairman send a polite letter back wondering what you've bought or if you have follow-up conversations with him or staff? >> we have had conversations prior to the letters and have talked afterwards, too. he has appointed someone in charge of fcc reform. this is something he's talked about since the minute he was nominated by the president. so i think he's taking fcc reform very seriously and he seems energetic. he has hired some wonderfully qualified people to come to the commission and i remain optimistic. >> last week the fcc sent letters to apple, google, and at&t about an issue involving the will of waste being taken off the apple application store and also associated similar applications gained of the store. fcc opened an inquiry into that. did you support that fcc inquiry? >> that was issued by the bureau. i did not know ahead of time. this wasn't anything we signed off on ahead of time. it doesn't hurt to ask questions and gather data. it s

>> jimmy: amy ozols. >> amy ozols. amy ozols. amy ozols. >> jimmy: you just did it again!r since you did that, the fallon family loves -- you're our favorite guy on earth. >> how do you like doing this stuff, man? >> jimmy: it's a lot of fun. it's really good. we got a good core audience. they come back. [ cheers and applause ] we get to play around. we get to do stuff. we got higgins. we got gold boots. you can do fun stuff like this on the show and not talk about, you know, all the serious stuff. >> exactly. there's so much -- i realize now doing the show that we do how much people appreciate that because there's so much -- the news is so bad. >> jimmy: yeah. it's good to be just fun and just do fun things. i mean, you work with tracy morgan. >> yes. >> jimmy: who is probably -- i mean, he's one of my best friends. he's literally insane. >> he is. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he's an insane man. he's great, he's so much fun and he's so funny. i was thinking, if you don't mind improvising, we'll improvise a sketch. i'll do an impression of -- i'll do -- >> de niro. >> jimmy: i'

many thanks to my producer travis thomas and amy.e feldman is back in the hot seat for another rousing edition of geico sports extra. good night, everyone. see you soon.

that's amy rosenbluth snapping pictures there. >> i don't always love amy.over to nbc. >> yes. >> you and natalie and amy. >> yes. >> so most of the time i love amy. >> most of the time you do. >> when it's 110 degrees on a dude ranch, maybe not so much. >> yes. >> but it was fun? >> it was a lot of fun. >> i think it's going to be a big hilt. >> i like all those -- i like -- there were a bunch of people from new orleans, so i got a kick out of who i knew from when i live there. one guy makes this stuff, it's very, ve famous. it's called, and i'm just telling you the name, it's called boudreau's butt paste. it's for kids in diaper rash. it is a miracle. that's all. it's a mir acking. >> i'm sure people find all kinds of interests uses for -- what is it? >> butt paste. >> speaking of that, this is my favorite story of all time. there is this guy. >> yes. there is a guy. >> who's not much of a guy anymore. but at the time he was quite the guy, because he was fooling around with four different women. one of which was his wife. okay. the wife found out, called t

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so, i was just gonna say thanks to amy.guest is having a pretty good summer. he was a total badass in "star trek." he was hilarious in "funny people" and his new movie "the time traveler's wife" opens nationwide this friday. please welcome, eric bana, everybody. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you're a good man. >> hey. >> jimmy: happy belated birthday? >> it is a belated birthday. yeah. it was my birthday yesterday. you did your homework. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you get any good presents? any good gifts? >> well -- i'm away from home, so i'm assuming a huge booty of gifts when i get home back to australia. >> jimmy: nothing like a huge booty. [ laughter ] for your birthday present. absolutely. >> a bounty. i mean a huge bounty. >> jimmy: yeah, we got you. i know, pirate talk. i'm into it. dude, you had a crazy summer. i mean, it was amazing. "star trek" you were nero. you're the big villain in there. and then "funny people," number one movie. that was another number one movie. you were hilarious in that. and

joining us, amy schatz of the weert journal. congratulations, thank you for being here. let's start broadly, first of all, this is kind of a two-parter. what in the next six months to a year would you like to see the fcc work on, and as one of only two republicans and one of five commissioners how much influence do you have in setting the agenda? >> guest: well, first of all, congress has mandated through the stimulus act that we present to congress a national broadband plan that's due february 17th. the date february 17th might seem familiar, that was the original date for the dtv transition earlier this year, so it seems to be an auspicious day for the fcc. so we're in the midst of soliciting public comment, data input and trying to get analysis to come up with some ideas to present to congress. so we kicked this off back in april with what we call a notice of inquiry where we sort of say to the world, please, give us your ideas and tell us what we should do. so we're in the midst of that process right now. in terms of being one of five, we all have an equal vote. the

. >> reporter: 14-year-old amy howl had become an expert of sorts.ested positive this spring. >> they think i've had it for a very, very long time and laid dormant. >> reporter: she never saw the tick that bit her. like most never got the classic bull's eye rash. >> the diagnosis is very tricky. first of all i think it's being missed by a lot of people. >> reporter: doctors also differ on treatment. yes, with antibiotics but for how long. telltale symptoms are pain in the muscles and joints, severe headaches and neck stiffness. >> of course extreme fatigue. we're not talking about fatigue like i've had a rough day. we're talking about fatigue where all the energy for one day can be spent walking to the bathroom. it interrupts with thinking and it interruptions with the ability to process -- spruptions -- interrupts with thability to process and what they see. >> reporter: for amy howell, the disease has been a disaster. >> i'm totally paralyzed from here down. i can't feel a single thing. >> reporter: her body started failing four months ago while sh

thanks for the plug amy, we designed that energy program.things we learned in doing it is that it is possible to do better in things the you describe with weatherization assistance programs and my answer to your question had been up there is that the experiment may be a success even if some of the programs are failing. we are learning what works better than some things, and i would be interested in comments on what the latitude is to do that learning quickly so that we can calibrate this at midterm. does the federal government have the tools from congress that it needs to shift priorities? my second is an observation. i was struck with barry's comments about how important this was to income maintenance. the other half of this though is that the cost of living is still pressure on people so things like energy efficiency your expanding transit service actually either stabilizes or lowers the cost of living and maybe that should be another kind of target in addition to the economic targeting. death anybody have any comment on that, lowering the

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and amy walter, edir-in-chief "the hotline," "national journa's" political daily.norm, ithis thing among the demrats real? >>. oh, there's a real dispute here the's no doubt. a good pt oft is,im, the goal of th administraton has for a long timeeen getting a ll through the house and a bill tough the senate. they don'tave to be the same bill, and t political calculations in bh houses are diffent, as kent conrad said. thesenate simply doesn't have the vot, mostly becaus you have aar of 60 there. but whathey're also learning is theye not going to have republan support, so i gets down to how c you build majorities with democrats,nd you've got some real divisions among theemocrats. the adinistration's trying to thread two needl here at the same time, and they're gtting a few finger marlong the wa >> lehrer: amy,ow would you describthe divisis in first of all, you ree, these are rl. these are not justshowboat divisions >> no, they're t. although i wisay trying to cover something like legislation cable television is a very difficulthing to do--. >> lehrer:but we're not on

amy's with us in florida. amy, go ahead. we're whiffing here on the calls. we lost amy as well. again, we love hearing from you, 1-877-tell-hln is the number. jill, any other points to make as we move forward on his family? what's his family saying at this point? because he rips his family in his blog. rips his dad for basically being nonexistent, his brother bullied him. are they saying anything, jill? >> we only know about his mother and sister. he was sort of sympathetic to his sister in his blog. >> that's right. >> the only family member he showed any empathy towards. but they just issued a statement basically saying their thoughts and prayers are with the deceased and injured. they haven't responded to any requests for interviews. not returning any messages. we don't know where they stand. we do know that he called his mother right before he walked into the gym, turned out the lights and opened fire. evidently he told her that he was going to kill a bunch of people and that he didn't expect to survive the rampage. but we do not know if she then in turn called the police, o

hey, amy. >> hi. i'm indeed, al. we've had a lot of fun.w you about an hour ago the crowd here has more than doubled. lots of people wanting to get in on the action. we have the professional actors in a line over there. and we have the nonprofessional actors that perhaps hopefully one day will be professional actors and actresses in this line right here, and so we started talking with everyone, and if you're willing to stand out here for hours and hours and hours for just a small chance at being a blur in the background, tell me why you decided to come out today? >> just for fun. to be part of the new york thing. i've only been in the city for about two weeks. >> you're from north carolina. >> yes. >> do you know what they're looking for today? >> i know that from the casting ad, socialites, club goers, soccer players, model types. >> what do you think your chances are? >> pretty good. because we're in the line. >> i want to bring you in, because you got here at midnight. you were the first person in line. >> mm-hmm. >> what were you thinki

joining us now is amy hagstrom miller.and ceo of whole women's health which is a network of clinics. amy, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. >> thank you, rachel. i appreciate it. >> what do you make of the parade of figures within the extreme anti-abortion movement corresponding with and going to meet with scott roeder, what do you think it means? >> you know, for a long time us abortion providers have known this man didn't act alone, these people are communicating and it's a conspiracy and they work together in strategy. to me one of the interesting things right now is they're parading as you say in broad daylight, almost in defiance that the government will do anything about it. i think about other domestic terrorism, i think about, you know, after september 11th if we had a known suspect in jail, how the government would watch very closely anybody that came to visit him or her, anybody that called on her, anybody that sent him letters. and so to me it's just amazing that these people are in di

welcome amy. you say wan of these fees can you avoid, really, is resort fees? >> the resort fee is something we're seeing at a lot of properties. not urban hotels. properties with lots of facilities they need to maintain, golf courses and tennis courses, pools, things like that. they'll charge you up to $12 to $26 a day, sometimes more than that. sort of blanket fee for services and amenities. including maintenance of their facilities, it will include access to the pool or the tennis courts. sometimes it's even a fee for delivering your newspaper to your door. you know, this is a blanket charge ta goes out to all customers but it's something that's negotiable. the key difference between hotels, airlines and maybe car rentals. with hotels you have a good negotiating sense this year, because they're looking for loyal customers. >> amy, too, here, and, really i cannot stand than we get charged for internet and wi-fi. especially in the nicest hotels. how can you avoid that? >> that is the key. it's always the nicest hotels that charge you for the in-room interneces

amy matthews. thank you so much. i appreciate it. >>> why renting instead of buying might save you money in the long run.

and amy walter, editor-in-chief of "the hotline," "national journal's" political daily.norm, is this thing among the democrats real? >>. >> oh, there's a real dispute here there's no doubt. a good part of it is, jim, the goal of the administration has for a long time been getting a bill through the house and a bill through the senate. they don't have to be the same bill, and the political calculations in both houses are different, as kent conrad said. the senate simply doesn't have the votes, mostly because you have a bar of 60 there. but what they're also learning is they're not going to have republican support, so it gets down to how can you build majorities with democrats, and you've got some real divisions among the democrats. the administration's trying to thread two needles here at the same time, and they're getting a few finger marks along the way. >> lehrer: amy, how would you describe the divisions in first of all, you agree, these are real. these are not just showboat divisions? >> no, they're not. although i will say trying to cover something like legislation

amy is a licensed contractor. she's from minnesota, which naturally makes her a wonderful person from the land of 10,000 lakes like me. thank you for being here. when you want to save on the energy bill, you have to cut the waste. are you kidding using? >> this is an easy way to dyi a test to see where your energy leakage is. you can have a blower test. you spend $200 on the test. the high pressured air comes in. you can see where those leaks are. you can find those yourself by holding a tissue up to the window and see if it pillobill and lighting an candle up to the window and see if it bill lows. >> wetter rising your windows is an easy, affordable way to save energy. how do you do that? >> you can get new windows and use tens of thousands of dollars in your budget. put new windows in or by-products like these, the window insulation kid. there are all different brands that do this. you will put plastic up. >> we do this in minnesota. >> you shrink wrap the windows, essentially. this goes on inside any of the are

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i'm noting going to take you seriously. >> amy? >> i agree nazi is beyond the pale but i think barack obama needs to take public opinion seriously. barney frank doesn't need to worry about this young lady but barack obama needs to worry about the public polling going against him. steen greenberg, he rang the bell on this way back in june. we've seen this with pugh and gallop, and on my radio show, obama supporters say, they need to know more. >> paul, we got a text 360 question based on the, i guess, the barney frank thing. patty says, do you think the obama administration is considering moving ahead because of negative republican reaction at town hall meetings? do you think this idea of going it alone is in response to what they've suddenly seen at all of these town hall meetings? >> i think, frankly, less. that hasn't moved a lot of democrats. i've talked to a whole lot of them, they don't seem rattled. >> what about independents? >> i mean, democratic members of congress. republic opposition is heartened, that's fine, they're th

amy liu is an expert on the metropolitan areas of this country. sheba tell us -- she will tell us in a huge country, how well this is working or not working. given how uneven the recovery is right now. amy is the deputy director and co-founder of the metropolitan policy program here. russ whitehurst, sitting next to me is a senior fellow and the incoming director of the brown center on education policy at the brookings institution. he has held a number of positions in the department of education during the bush administration. chris zimmerman will give us a particularly real life you of how the stimulus has been working. he is an arlington county board member and has been a resident of arlington county for 30 years. i will start out by asking questions of each of them. you can look over your papers and it might raise some of your own questions. they will have some discussion and about 11:00, i will open it to some questions from some of you, which i will be interested to get and take notes on. cspan is covering this, as some of you might know. whe

after this hour of "news4 today," and amy robach joins us with a preview.morning, amy. >> coming up this morning on "today," president obama pushes back against critics of his health care reform plan. we'll get a live report from the nefront line in his battle, his town hall meetings out wst. plus a mystery in georgia, a man said he was talking to his girlfriend on her cell phone when he heard a scream and a struggle. now she's missing. what happened? >>> also, dollar stores are more popular than ever. but when you shop in one, are you really saving money? the answer might surprise you. >>> and then we will head back in time 40 years to woodstock, lester holt heads back to the farm to get memories of peace, lover and music. >>> and a penguin who is not wearing a traditional tuxedo, but instead a wetsuit, we'll tell you why when we meet ralph the penguin. >>> all right, thank you, amy. it's really not penguin weather outside. >> no, not at all, the polar bears at the zoo are submerged in cold water. if you don't like it hot and humid, may need to find your f

joining me now is jeff zellemy, amy holmes, and ruth marcus. jeff, is obama right that the media is distorting these town halls? >> i think in a sense they are, but also in a sense they're not. the images and passions that were shown this week from town hall meetings show real americans having real concerns about this. that's one of the things that has been left out of this. i spent most of the week in iowa going to several town halls. there are real, patriotic voting americans who don't like what they see. >> that the whole story? >> it's not. i think we have been missing the context of this youtube is fantastic t takes us everywhere we can't go, but it doesn't give us context. that's a problem. >> when i watch cable, amy, it seem like this endless loop of these loud moments. one woman in a blue dress, katie abram, i've seen her 50 times. >> indeed. it's perfect for television. you have the audio, the visuals, the heat and passion. some loops have not been played, kenneth gladny who was at one of these town halls, was beaten up. he has not bee

at redskins park, anthy amy. >> nice job, the redskins have one practice tomorrow at 3:00.you tomorrow live from redskins park on the fox 5 news at 5:00. my thanks to rich dunn, i'm dave feldman, have a great evening. we'll see you tomorrow live at redskins park.

. >> and i'm jenna wolfe in for amy robach. a lot of buzz about this movie today. >> if you know julia child, seen her and see think, it's like, wow. >> not only that, parodies of it, but she does it really, really well. yeah. >> doesn't overflay. anyway, the movie intertwines two stories, playing julia child before she was a famous chef and another story of a young woman whose unusual fascination changed her life and inspired the film. we'll meept her coming up later on the program. >>> also the question that has hollywood buzzing this morning. hoop going to replace paula abdul on "american idol"? we'll run through a list of celebrity contender, and get paula's departure plans. >>> and the first lady of south carolina moves out of the governor's mansion. about six weeks since her husband, mark sanford, publicly admits having an affair with a woman from argentina. all the latest coming up. >>> and new economic numbers that show the massive job nber weevs been experiences lately slowed down. unemployment down 0.1 at 9.4% and 277

correspondent amy kellogg explains why a convicted terrorist is now out of prison. >> he got to go home, something none of the victims in the bombing of flight 104 never got to do. he was released on passionate grounds because he is dying of prostrate cancer. he is the only person convicted in the lockerbie bombing which killed 286 people. >> it made me physically ill. this is not justice. this is the abrogation of justice. >> pan am 103 was torn apart by a bomb over lockerbie, scotland as it headed to the united states. he served 8 years of a life sentence, about 11 days for each person he was convicted of killing in the terrorist atrocity. it was the scottish justice secretary who made the controversial decision to made him home. >> our justice system demands that judgment be imposed and compassion be available, and that justice be served, but mercy be shown. >> this was libyan leader muammar qaddafi's reaction when asked if he was behind summary bombing of pan am flight 103. eventually, libya turned him over to the crux, agreeing to pay $2.7 billion in compensation to families of the

amy robach is live in new york with a preview. >> keith, good morning. coming up on "today," we'll have the latest on the cash for clunkers program, as the president and congress work to keep the money coming. but can consumers afford to wait? plus, for the first time, octomom, nadya suleman expects regret about her big family. >>> and don't wait for labor day sales, it turns out that august is the time to buy some of the big-ticket items that you want. >>> and susan boyle will reportedly launch her professional singing career in a surprising place, we'll tell you where. >>> and as our summer job series continues, imagine getting a tour of new york city from a familiar face, lester holt. >> amy, are we going to see you in one of those buses any time soon? >> i've never been on one of those buses. but if i would have known that lester was giving a tour, i would have jumped on. >> we'll look forward to that coming up. imagine getting on a bus and seeing amy or lester there. >> i wonder if they got their money back. lester would be like, there's the statue

in london, amy kellogg, fox news. bret: secretary of state hillary clinton is appealing to iran for more information about -- or any information about three missing americans believed to be arrested are there last week. the three apparently got lost while hiking in the mountains along the iraqi and iranian border. since the u.s. has no formal diplomatic relations with iran, it goes through the swiss in such cases. sarah palin is no longer in charge of alaska, but she is still in the sights of her critics, and how the white house chief of staff put the squeeze on t.v. executives to put the president in primetime. taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. >> and now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. another case of what appears to be sarah palin derangement syndrome has reared its head. juan cole at the liberal salon.com website has compared the former alaska governor to ahmadinejad. cole writes "it is remarkable how similar

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today amy robach is at the only casting call for extras.good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, matt. it's only about 8:20 in the morning here and the folks in this line, some of them have been here since midnight. it already stretches all the way back to sixth avenue. nearly 100 people and these gals, and i see one guy at least here in line, can't even get in the door until 1:30 this afternoon. so this line is only going to grow as we get closer to that 1:30 mark. and we have an interesting casting call because the directors wanted a specific look. did you guys know what they were looking for? >> yes. >> what are they looking for? what kind of cast of characters? >> celebrity types. >> celebrity types. >> socialites. >> what types are you? >> i'm a fashionista. >> you're a fashionista? >> fashionista. >> model. >> you're a model, definitely. so you all think you fit certain reals. what are you going to do when you get in there? >> just look good. >> show them what we got. >> how long did you plan picking out your outfit? >> last ni

hi, amy. >> the latest is the f.b.i. director has taken an unusual step writing a scathing letter to the man who made the decision to release megrahi. the scottish justice minister saying it's made a mockery of justice. the original homecoming was sensitive enough to people and leaders in the u.s. and the u.k., but some are saying that coural ch cou colonel gad there. last night, gadhafi went to al megrahi's home to greet him. megrahi has given a lengthy interview to the london times. and prospect of lucrative deals had much to do with the release of the only man convicted in bombing pan am 103. that would be megrahi. the foreign office in london has vehemently denied that suggestion, as the u.k. business secretary who calls the suggestion not only implausible but offensive. meanwhile, libyan leader paid a visit to megrahi at his home where there has been a steady stream of well-wishers. clearly the libyan leader was happy to have it televised because he didn't want it to be shown around the world, it wouldn't have been.

good morning, amy. >> reporter: good morning, hoda. in fact, the past 24 hours have changed dramatically for richard hatch. he has gone from being on house arrest here in rhode island back to jail. this all happened, of course, after his interview with matt yesterday, an interview where hatch said he had permission to speak. >> the winner of the first "survivor" competition is rich. >> reporter: from winning the reality show "survivor" in the year 2000 and taking home the million-dollar prize -- >> any comment today? >> reporter: -- to serving nearly four years in prison for failing to pay taxes on those winnings, richard hatch has never been afraid to speak his mind. >> i know people perceive me as cocky and arrogant, and a big part of that, if not all of it's my responsibility. i grew up as a fat, gay kid in a community that doesn't appreciate fat, gay people. so, you develop some insecurities and you cover those insecurities sometimes, i think, with an overreaction. >> reporter: for the last three months, hatch has been under house

let me get a question, amy, and then i want to come back to you, sharon. i know an example or two you want to raise. law enforcement sources, unidentified law enforcement sources, they sometimes float theorys or information to journalists off the record to put pressure on potential targets or witnesses. so shouldn't we all be wary of that? >> we should all be wary of that, of course. granted, if it were "the washington post" we're talking to, their own law enforcement sources, you know, it's all case by case. it may be something that you feel better about, but newsrooms are having these debates all the time, whether this source is good enough, whether you're getting played here, for some reason or another, whether the fact that you're getting played even matter ifs it's true. >> but sometimes it's not trued. i'm thinking of richard joule, who was accused of participating in the olympic bombings, and it was not true. >> i have a question for harvey. when you talk about your methods versus traditional media methods, or i would just say, professional reportin

amy liu is an expert on the metropolitan areas of this country. sheba tell us -- she will tell us in a huge country, how well this is working or not working. given how uneven the recovery is right now. amy is the deputy director and co-founder of the metropolitan policy program here. russ whitehurst, sitting next to me is a senior fellow and the incoming director of the brown center on education policy at the brookings institution. he has held a number of positions in the department of education during the bush administration. chris zimmerman will give us a particularly real life you of how the stimulus has been working. he is an arlington county board member and has been a resident of arlington county for 30 years. i will start out by asking questions of each of them. you can look over your papers and it might raise some of your own questions. they will have some discussion and about 11:00, i will open it to some questions from some of you, which i will be interested to get and take notes on. cspan is covering this, as some of you might know. whe