north carolina in albany california in asheville the asheville grown business alliance one of the local affiliates of the american independent business alliance was a strong supporter of that effort we're seeing many more small business owners aware of the fact that when we allow huge corporations to translate their economic power into political power. they're using that to stack the deck in their favor and very often that's directly opposed to the interests of small businesses because they're competing against big companies that aren't paying their fair share of taxes that are getting direct public subsidies that are avoiding enforcement of many regulations that are ensnaring smaller businesses so they recognize in order to have a free marketplace if if they want to be able to compete based on the quality of the of the products and services they're selling you know we need to eliminate the ability of the larger corporations to stack the deck in their favor a poll actually just came out last month indicating that by a seven to one margin small business owners were very concerned about t

"right this minute" we have davis mcclendon via skype from asheville, north carolina. welcome to the show. how is it that you caught all of this action on your cell phone? >> he came flying past it's, the man the police were chasing. and i happened to have my cell phone out. so i just started recording it. >> what was more exciteing your snowboard trip or this police chase? >> most definitely the police chase. one of the most exciting things that happened. i think we did hit the side strip also because we stopped with a flat tire a few miles after that. >> they got the plate strip. >> different parents employed different types of teaching techniques to raise their children. let me know what you think about this guy's technique. this is a little 4-year-old being trained by his dad. on this day in new york city, it was 8 degrees fahrenheit. this is dad's way to train his chideo downer developmental difficulties due to the fact he was born premature. he titles the video eagle dad parenting approach. the reason he calls it eagle, because young eagles are expelled by mom ea

it's the new materiality at the asheville art museum. that's your "early event of the day." >> thanks so much. >>> now a look at the entertainment headlines. fans worldwide will have a chance to bid farewell to whitney houston this weekend. the late singer's publicist has announced saturday's private funeral in newark, new jersey, will be live streamed on the internet. we also learned that according to houston's death certificate, she will be buried in the same new jersey cemetery where her father was laid to rest. >>> former republican presidential candidate michele bachmann says rumors of her appearing on the upcoming season of "dancing with the stars" are false, although she did win a polka competition in the tenth grade. fun fact there. >>> and finally, after justin bieber flew a 6-year-old cancer patient and her family to new york to spend the day with him earlier this week, the girl's mom reportedly described the biebs as "charming," and so is that little girl. i don't know if you've heard much about this story, but she's just an a

. >> rush from asheville, north carolina, one of my favorite cities, by the way. i love asheville.t's a great town. you know, your blog, you're a fireman, you're a smoker. your video that you sent in was quite amazing, with talking about how you really wanted to quit. we could see the desire in your eyes. what was the biggest challenge before all this for you? >> i think just quitting smoking has -- you know, i realize how detrimental it is to my health. and i want to live to be 100 years old. i want to be around for my great-grandchildren. i want to live healthy. i want to live healthy and have that quality of life. i want to be able to contribute with my volunteer fire department, as well. so i know smoking is bad and i think this program is going to help me. i thought, what the heck? i'll quit today. this was going to be my last cigarette. >> love it. saw it here first. >> if i did it, you can do it, too. >> do you have any doubts you're going to cross that finish line? >> i have no doubts. >> nancy? >> no doubt. >> carlos, you? >> no doubt. >> we're going to keep on top of it.

. >>> in may of 2011, historian richard norton smith led a ten-day bus tour from asheville, north carolina to austin, texas. the group stopped at several historic sites along the route. one was dealey plaza in dallas, texas. the museum is located in what was once the school book depository. from the sixth floor of the building, lee harvey oswald shot president kennedy. curator gary mack talked about the museum and the investigation is presented. >> what we set out to do was to basically tell what happened and not draw any of our own conclusions about what it means, but to present what history has told us. there have been several investigations and various developments over the years. most people, according to the public opinion surveys have never been satisfied that it was lee harvey oswald. none of the other theories have been proven. the official explanation was three shots were fired all from lee harvey oswald and all from the corner window. the rifle that oswald supposedly used was traced to him and his post office box. he was left behind in the building on the sixth floor. the warren

the couple had just retired to asheville, to live out their golden years. but their rollercoaster ride was only beginning. they recouped some of their money, only to see it disappear last summer when the market tanked. >> if we got hit the same way we did before, we would lose our house and be looking for a rental apartment in short order. >> reporter: but today, a different picture. paul told us his 401(k) has recovered more than half of its losses. >> for the past few months, it's been on a steady, upward proj t projectry. >> reporter: he's not alone. the average 401(k) lost $51,000. it's recovered half of that amount. and the pace is speeding up. gaining $7,000 in the last year and a half. >> this gives aun opportunity for many americans to regain the ground lost. >> reporter: it came just hours after european leaders announced a $172 billion bailout for greece, fending off a potential global catastrophe that's been keeping market watchers up at night. and while 13,000 may just be a number, it does have a way of making all of us feel a little bit better.

host: team, john, from asheville, north carolina. the susan komen and planned parenthood story, and lots of the papers. one of our viewers as watching very closely the story. officials have resigned as a backlash gains steam. that is from huffington was. and it is the off-lead story in "the washington post." we will have a guest on this topic from "washington journal" on this topic soon. sacramento, california. lisa, a democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have been on and floyd for a year now. host: what did you do before you lost your job? caller: customer service supervisor. my home was foreclosed in 2008. it has been hard for me to find a job. i had an interview the couple weeks ago and they told me that i needed to speak spanish. and i thought we were in america. so, that kind of upset me, disappointed me. but i just want to say that i just hope they extend this unemployment because i really need it. the other day i was driving and i saw a person with a sign that said they were hungry and i had $3 and i

. >> let's go to asheville, north carolina. one more call here for john mountcastle. good afternoon to jay. >> caller: yes, sir, thanks for taking my call. my question is regarding secretary stanton. was he not extremely exasperated from time to time with mcclellan and did he not say that if he had a million men, he would sit in the mud and whine until he could get 2 million? and i'll take my answer off the air. thank you. >> thank you, jay. >> yes, jay, that's a great point. edwin stanton had been very much in favor of the promotion of george mcclellan to commanding general of the army as opposed to the defeated irwin mcdowell and the aged winfield scott. but as soon as they began to work closely together, friction developed here. stanton was a republican. mcclellan was a -- what was then called a war democrat, someone who was in favor of certainly restoring the union, but not much else. and so they had different political views, different personalities, and stanton did complain, mcclellan always wanted more men and he wanted them yesterday. and so that's why after t

. >>> in may of 2011, historian richard norton smith led a ten-day bus tour from asheville, north carolinas. the group stopped at several presidential and historic sites along the route. one of the stops was the sixth floor museum at daiy deeley pl dallas, texas. from the six floor southeast corner of this building lee harvey oswald shot president john f. kennedy in 1963. the curator talked about the museum and how the information on the assassination and ensuing investigations is presented. >> what we set out to do was to basically tell what happened and not draw any of our own conclusions but to present what history has told us. and there have been several investigations and various developments over the years. most people accord the to public opinion surveys have never. satisfied that it was just lee harvey oswald but none of these other theories have been proven and as far as many people are concerned, they've all been dismissed. the official explanation is three shots were fired, all from lee harvey oswald and all from that southeast corner sixth story window. the rifle that oswald su

terry joining us in asheville, north carolina. >> caller: yes, mr. clarke is there? >> i am. i can hear you well. >> caller: three points on the auto industries. number one, we've been kind of misled, really. what gm was paid back they took back another taxpayer loan to pay back their loan. two, they haven't paid back their bond holders yet. and three, as in the auto industry failing. gm and chrysler were the only ones failing. volvo, a nonunion factory and bmw in itself, also a nonunion factory. they were doing just fine and are still doing fine. >> let's take your point. first taxpayer loans to pay off other loans. >> here is the point. gm and chrysler both paid off their loans. they need the the support to get stabilized, to create jobs. it wasn't just bankruptcy. the president's leadership he negotiated tough concessions on both sides with management and labor. this is something that we needed to do at this time. so no, that kind of rescue was essential to keep industry stable. >> what about this issue of bond holders? they still haven't paid -- auto companies still haven

. >> in may of 2011, historian richard norton smith led a bus tour from asheville, north carolina, to austin, texas. the group stopped at several presidential and historic site as long the route. one of the stops was the andrew johnson homestead in greenville, tennessee, a site owned and operated by the national parks service. johnson served as vice president under president lincoln and succeeded him when lincoln was assassinated. here's park guide daniel luther portraying president johnson and telling the story of how andrew johnson met abraham lincoln. >> in 1847, i went into the 30th congress for my third term, representing the people of the 1st district. and while i was there, i met an extremely tall, raw-boned young man representing the prairie state of illinois. and his name was abraham lincoln. and we fell into conversation. and i introduced myself and told him that i was from northeast tennessee. and he replied that he had relatives in northeast tennessee. and perhaps i knew some of them. he identified his great uncle isaac as having owned a farm and which his father had worke

terrestrial, or ground stations around the country -- seattle, portland, san francisco, los angeles, asheville. go down the list. >> you're up early in the morning. how do you prepare for the program? >> i don't. no! well, it's three hours of radio. and three hours is a lot to fill. >> tell me about it. >> yeah, right. i'm always preparing, like you are, steve. really. i don't mean to duck your question. right after each show, we sit down and talk about what we -- things we probably want to talk about the next day, the kind of guests we want to get for the next day. and peter and dan henning, our two producers start lining them up. we have a conference call at 5:00 that afternoon where we look at the guests that we already have and what the day's news has brought and sort of decide on those topics. and then we get in the next morning at 5:00, an hour before show time, and sit down and put the show together. in the meantime, i'm reading -- i'm on line all the time, checking all the important news websites. in the morning i read whatever papers i can get any hands on. and by that time, what we t

lot about the lone liberal rumbold but i'm joined by peter executive vice president asheville taxpayers union and will ron political reporter with the daily caller welcome both of you back tim geithner unveiled president obama's corporate tax policy today grand you do corporations the united states effectively pay the fewest taxes among the thirty four o.e.c.d. nations and when you add in bad taxes which are paid in most other nations we're way long our corporations are way way lower and so we've got the top marginal tax rate thirty five percent but the amount of actual tax dollars paid is lowest in the eyes and a code out of the country sorta like the situation in. sixty when when john kennedy came along and said you know million millionaires and billionaires like me don't pay taxes even though the top tax rates ninety one percent so let's close some of these loopholes and drop the rate that's what obama's saying it's close loopholes drop the rate of twenty eight percent twenty five percent specially for domestic manufacturers. g.'s tax return last year nine hundred feet high when you

maps, this time to the other side of town, looking great on the dulles toll road from leesburg to asheville. we'll take a live look to the northbound side of i 395 the to the 14th street bridge. all light this morning, the length of 395 and 95. >>> coming up in my next report, 6:12. back to you guys. >>> the owner of a dcliquor store is in trouble with the law all because of our investigation by our own andrea mccarron. >> this came justify weeks after our first 9 wants to know investigation. jessica doyle is live with the story. good morning jess. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. this liquor store, allegedly the supplier of alcohol, to minors as young as 14 years old. richard kim is the owner of market square. he was arrested, handcuffed and detained late saturday night for allegedly selling alcohol to a minor. 9news now has been investigating this location since december. jim graham is the council member forward one. he is giving credit to the media for breaking this case wide open. >>> there is a lot of this that happens that we would never find out about, but for the media and

down in amounts of north carolina, all the way down to asheville, that will all go east and northeast. it looks like the bulk of it will miss us to the south. if you check out the temperatures around the region, you will see why there is no winter concern with this. 60 degrees all the way up to harrisburg, pennsylvania. new york city right now 59, 58 in boston. near 70 still around richmond and norfolk. across our state, it will stay mile tonight. we could set a record low tonight, not a cold record low, but if it does not drop below 50 before midnight, the low today will be the warmest low temperature on record for the first day of february. we could set a strange record, a warm glow temperature. 68 down in southern st. mary's county. there you see the system passing south of us at 3:00 a.m. wet weather heading over toward ocean city. the forecast does call for increasing cloudiness around baltimore. 37-45 the temperature spread by dawn tomorrow. by midnight, it probably will not be below 50. mild air all the way up into new england. only the northern tip of maine still holding onto

i'm part of the dying breed of republicans in asheville. i shall is a very heavily democratic area, and it's also heavily concentrated with environmental nonprofits, public interest nonprofit, ratio interest nonprofits. but the one thing that is really hit aashto part is we lost several major, major industries. we lost the volvo pletcher. we lost and several textile mills over the years become the way they been able to get other businesses to fill the places is through huge government incentive packages to several copies. with one company that they give millions of dollars to that company. there's a beer brewery that is coming in in the next county over. they got millions and millions of dollars in incentives. but in the meantime people that are out of work because of the plant closings have not been able to find anything close to what the head when they're working working at the plants. it's really, really been tough year. you had a couple of collars earlier asking how could people not, how can people not support taxing the rich more or re

and that was in asheville. he made his way and had a meeting with billy graham and his son. you kristen welker is live at the white house. in an election year sometimes your ear is tuned in for politics. most of the prayer breakfast is usually not about politics. i couldn't help but think of the timing, if you will, of listening to the president talk about the very poor, talk about worrying about the poor in a way frankly that all presidents do at these prayer breakfasts. but to hear it to day just after the mitt romney thing, you know, forgive me for having my ear tuned into politics. >> it's interesting, chuck. that's what stood out for me. talk about the importance of caring for the poor. almost the direct inverse of what mitt romney said yesterday during that gaffe that he made when he said that he wasn't particularly concerned about the poor. something, of course, that mitt romney has said was taken out of context. but it was seemingly another veiled swipe that the president took at mitt romney. and we sort of tallied how many of these veiled swipes he's taken over the

[applause] and there's johnny crosby a correction officer at the special needs facility in asheville. he was recently appointed to the department's first tactical rapid response team which handles emergency situations. officer calls be, thanks for being here this evening and for the work that you do. [applause] there's also stanford. last september while making a routine traffic stop he was shot in the chest. thanks to his arm our ability to focus on his experience, his training in his bulletproof vest he survived. trooper stanford, we're grateful you are here tonight. thank you for putting yourself in harm's way to serve our state. thank you very much. [applause] and finally i would like to introduce you to authority year employee of mental health. doris pruitt is a counselor of the western mental health institute. she's described as strong and compassionate with impeccable character and someone who approaches her work not as a job but as a colleague. thank you for supporting our most vulnerable citizens and for being here. [applause] the five of us were talking before the speech tod

host: let's hear from asheville, north carolina, republican, good morning.grandson is in the third grade here. i have had to move around a lot from florida to different parts of north carolina and it is amazing how different education is. he is a bright student and one county and was accepted into the gifted program but then you could not get him into math and science which is what he likes unless you're in the right neighborhood for the school for the math and science school curriculum. then they had arts and most of the focus was political something, something to do with international what ever. how does a parent figure out where to live and how to get their child the right opportunity? guest: that is tough because quite frankly, it should not have to be like that. one of the reasons that many of us are advocating for a common course standards is around the same issue that it should not matter, it should not be an issue of which state or which county or which area, we should have high expectations for all students in mathematics and science and we ought to

this from the "asheville citizen" today about the announcement of a blue dog conservative democrats announcing his retirement this week. the headline that he did not want to be a career politician. the story says the ongoing redistricting process going on around the country had nothing to do with it. the democratic congressman who is going to be in charge of that effort of trying to hold shuler's seat is appearing tomorrow on our newsmakers program. that would be congressman steve israel. he talked a little bit about how the committee will hold the conservative seats that they have been charged to hold. >> privately, they are concerned about going on the ballot and having adds vote against them with nancy pelosi being the villain of the ads, that it was difficult for the last time around, and they do not want to share the ad space with her again. what is your thought on that? has it been difficult for these folks to stay on the ballot? >> i have three responses, i guess, in alphabetical order and in order of priority -- medicare. medicare. medicare. this election is going to be about members o

host: democratic line, and asheville, n.c., gary. caller: 3 points on the auto industry -- number 1, we have been misled, really. what gm has paid back, dave put back another taxpayer loan to pay back their loan. -- they took out another taxpayer loan to pay back their loan. to do all they have not paid back their -- two, they have not paid back their bond holders. as far as the auto industry failing, gm and chrysler were the only ones failing. volvo and bmw, nonunion were doing just fine, and they are doing just fine. guest: gm and chrysler both paid off their loans. they needed the support to get stabilized. it was not just bankruptcy. in the president's leadership, he negotiated tough concessions on both side with the sides with management and labour. that was something which it both sides with management and labour. -- management and labour. that was something that was needed. host: what about bondholders? guest: the car companies are just garden to make money. the merged out of bankruptcy. -- just starting to make money. the mer

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[applause] and there's johnny crosby a correction officer at the special needs facility in asheville. he was recently appointed to the department's first tactical rapid response team which handles emergency situations. officer calls be, thanks for being here this evening and for the work that you do. [applause] there's also stanford. last september while making a routine traffic stop he was shot in the chest. thanks to his arm our ability to focus on his experience, his training in his bulletproof vest he survived. trooper stanford, we're grateful you are here tonight. thank you for putting yourself in harm's way to serve our state. thank you very much. [applause] and finally i would like to introduce you to authority year employee of mental health. doris pruitt is a counselor of the western mental health institute. she's described as strong and compassionate with impeccable character and someone who approaches her work not as a job but as a colleague. thank you for supporting our most vulnerable citizens and for being here. [applause] the five of us were talking before the speech tod

we had some accumulating snow further off to the south and we to have some video from asheville, wherees of snow, you can see it coming down out there, a beautiful scene and many areas have not had a winter, or is been so mild out there this past winter season so that's nice weather out there to enjoy and i'm sure they had a good time. it looks like, out there. now, as far as the weather for today. we're looking at lake effect snow ending across portions of the northeast and lake ontario, you can produce another foot of snow out there to the west of syracuse and well below averages temps from texas all the way up through maine and it's chilly out across portions of texas, oklahoma could be looking at the next system producing across texas. not a whole lot. an inch to three inches of snow out there. today's forecast across the northeast and boston's high of only 27 degrees, 34 in philadelphia and those breezy conditions, guys, going to feel at least 5 to 10 degrees cooler as we head out the door and southeast is sunny and chilly side. 54 degrees will be the high temperature and orlando