atkinson then drove her to an area in leakin park and raped her. police later arrested the suspect. >>> the twin brothers accused of burning a pitbull that later died have been found knot not guilty -- found not guilty at their retrial. the dog, named phoenix, was taken to an animal hospital but later had to be you than need. the defense said witnesses didn't prove that the brothers set fire to the dog. >>> the trial of a severn man charged in the hit and run of two teenagers started today. he hit courtney an gee lips and emerald smith at the corner of martin luther king boulevard and pratt street and drove away. he is charged with manslaughter, leaving the scene of the accident, reckless and neglect driving. >>> the man accused of hitting and killing a 68-year-old woman three years ago turned himself. david francis, jr. is being held on bond. a driver stopped to allow moore to cross the street. french went around that car and hit moore and didn't stop. police found the car a week after the crash near his home in harford county. >>> baltimore count

with myself, llewellyn king, guy caruso and robert atkinson. invasion fascinates me, but it's often happenstance. it hasn't been here as it has in other areas. >> well, i think it's been slow but steady in energy. and i think government are, indeed for example, has been very boom and bust, has a boom and bust history. when energy is hot, a lot of money is thrown at it. and you know, the first has presidents who advocated a strong program was richard nixon. then, prices came back down, and it was hard to get fundings. so the energy companies have continued, but at a rather slow but steady pace. >> where do the national laboratories fit into this? they are controlled by the department of energy and they do very interesting things, but i'm never sure and i spent a lot of time visiting, i'm never sure how much they effect the market place. >> well, i think they've been very useful and effective in their work. however, their origins were largely related to nuclear and nuclear weapons. >> but in 1970's, they were deeply involved in solar power. >> we

atkinson. mr. lubrano, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, chairman and thank you members of the subcommittee in allowing me this opportunity to testify on behalf of the national association of manufacturers. i'd like to start off by saying this is an extremely exciting time for our country and for manufacturing. impresident of technical materials in lincoln, rhode lin island. a subsidiary headquartered in mayfield heights, ohio. we have officers in north america, europe and asia and serve customers in more than 50 countries. it is the world's leading resource fringing in specialty strip products and offers a wide range of products and expertise in numerous markets including automotive and consumer electronics. i have been leading the company since 1992. it is my privilege to serve of nam's board of directors as vice chair of the small to medium sized group, manufacturing group an on the board in general. i also serve as chairman of the rhode island manufacturers association

robert atkinson, president of innovation foundation. al fan zoe lubrano, small and medium manufacturers. craig giffi, vice chairman and u.s. leader at deloitte and dr. kenneth tindall, from the north carolina biotechnology center. good afternoon. thank you all for being here with us today in front of our subcommittee. you'll each be recognized for five minutes. please watch the timers in front of you. when it turns yellow, you have a minute to wrap up and make sure to turn on your microphone and bring it close to your mouth. the audience at home needs to hear you and only can if you're speaking clearly into the microphones. dr. atkinson, you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you madam chairman. it's a pleasure to be here. itif has been doing a fair amount of research on what's happened to the u.s. manufacturing economy and we'll be releasing a report shortly on what we need to do to fix it. we lost a larger share of our manufacturing jobs in the last decade than in the great depression. consensus is a reflection of superior perf

mark atkinson joins me now. an eyewitness to the crash. what did you witness? >> well, i came to the crash about three minutes afterwards. my son called me who was out and about and saw it go down. he called me. we got here about two or three minutes afterwards because we live close by. and giant, you know, the giant smoke screen. it looked like they hit about two to four buildings. and when i arrived, it was out of control. soon after that, everybody arrived on the scene and they began taping everything off. i did see them wheel out an injured person. i heard there are no fatalities but i'm not sure how they congress that exactly at this point. >> it would be an absolute miracle as we look at these pictures to believe that there was not a fatality involved. as you said, you think two to four buildings were hit by this. we've counted just from the aerials that we're seeing, four different roof tops that have been ripped off. when you got to the scene as you said two or three minutes after it happened during see people fleeing out of the buildings? or were more

atkinson.mr. lubrano, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much, chairman mack, and thank you to the member of the subcommittee in allowing me this opportunity to testify on behalf of of the national association of manufacturers. i'd like to start off by saying this is an extremely exciting time for our country and for manufacturing. i am president of materion technical materials in lincoln, rhode island. we're a subsidiary of materion corporation which is headquartered in mayfield heights, ohio. we have offices throughout north america, europe and asia, and we serve customer in more than 50 countries. materion is the world's leading resource for engineering specialty strip products and offers a wide range of products and expertise in numerous markets including automotive and consumer electronics. i have been leading the company since 1992. it is my privilege to serve on the board of directors as vice chair to the small and medium-sized manufacturing group and on the board in g

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. >>> michael atkinson of pikesville was arrested after they say he impersonated a police officer and raped a woman. he flagged down a woman and told her he was an office are and searched her. police say he drove to the wooded hear near leakin park where he raped her. he face several charges including kidnapping and impersonating a police officer. >>> a harford county woman is behind bars tonight facing extradition after allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old boy. they arrested 39-year-old lisa car rom and she will face nine sex charges in florida. her husband had no idea she was having an affair with a teen who lived 800 miles away. >> the two met online playing video games. that relation progressed to communication via skype and then ultimately the investigation indicates that this 39-year-old woman traveled to florida on two occasions, stayed in a hotel there and was meeting with the 16-year-old in florida. >> carroll and the teen told investigators they were engaged to be married prior to the sexual encounter. in maryland the legal age is 16 but in florida it's illegal to have a

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michael atkinson is charged with several sex offense charges after police say he attacked a woman while impersonating a police officer. police say that he took the woman to linkin park or early on thursday morning and attacked her. she was able to get away and call police. >>> check out the scattered showers. it was a very welcome rain but very minimal. they were quick movers and did not put down much in the way of any measurable rain. now, the chilly winds continue to come out of the north and west. we have a freeze watch up. into the west, a freeze warning for garrett county. awfully cold air. they have some snow showers in western maryland. here are the cold winds rolling in. temperatures dropping. we are in the 30s to the west. we will be in the 30s and baltimore later tonight. we will climb out quickly tomorrow with some sunshine. we will get to near 60. this is just the beginning of a significant warm up. >>> unemployment, gas prices, and the list goes on. times are tough. a partnership between, feed the children, and a local church may life a little easier for hundreds of familie

atkinson faces a sex offense charges and is charged with impersonating a police officer. are arrested for selling pot of an ice cream truck. happened to a 20-year-old waldorf man, alexander hopkins. the sheriff's office said they got a tip about his inside business and they found cash and bags of marijuana stash in his underwear. >> he really was selling ice cream, also. >> ice cream or marijuana. you can take your pick heard >> he was selling to teenagers through word-of-mouth. in commitment 2012, it looks like the general election is finally getting started. rick santorum got out yesterday and now it is mitt romney versus president obama. the first full day featured a clash of charges, sound bites and advertising. >> finally, mitt romney can focus 100% on president obama. >> if you are looking for a bigger check from government, he is your guy. >> his polls show him week with women. he argued the president ought to have that problem. >> 92.3% of all the jobs lost during the obama years have been lost by within. 92.3%. >> actually is 39.7% since the start of the recessio

atkinson. you state that the country can restore its manufacturing competitiveness if we adopt the right set of policies in the tax, trade and talent arenas. why do you believe the changes you suggested will restore our competitiveness? have they been proving elsewhere? >> i think they have. if you look at the change in output as a share of gdp, the worst four countries in the world are united states, spain, italy and great britain. spain and italy we all know about having real serious problems now and great britain has had real serious problems. there are lots of countries that are high wage countries that have not lost manufacturing. sweden, germany, a number of other countries have been able to perform quite well and many of those countries have taken all four of those steps. the overall tax rate is ten percentage points lower than the united states and these countries have put in place high rnd tax credits. you look at france and their credit is six times more generous than the u.s. credit,

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. >> reporter: the union president atkinson applauds the department chief for speaking out after police chief teare refused to answer questions regarding the scandal. teare has ignored calls to resign and can only be fired by the county executive. >> the real bad guy in all of this is county executive john leopold. all this focus is on the chief of police, and as long as the focus remains on the chief, the county executive won't get rid of him. >> reporter: a spokesperson from the department of justice told me that they are currently reviewing the department chief's requests for an investigation. wjz eyewitness news. >>> derek thank you, in two weeks the county council will vote on a resolution urging them to suspect leopold. the case of leopold heads to court later this year. >>> if you're waiting for somebody to get home from work, let's check the roads, hi again, christy. >>> hi, unfortunately delays condition to build out there. southbound 75, congestion out there to franklin boulevard. on the north side of the inner loop there, stop and go from delaney valley road to harper road. a

in an exclusive interview, we're pleased to talk with the man in charge, richard atkinson.ee you. welcome back. >> bill, it's good to be with you. >> you took quite a hit, didn't you? >> well, the grassberg strike and reinnovation had an impact but we also had lower copper prices when prices were nearing record highs. and we were also reminding some lower grade material part of our normal operation. >> so it was kind of a perfect storm. prices went down but your cost of mining went up as a result of the strike there. so everything was working against you at that time, wasn't it? >> it's more of the lower units. actually, our costs, which are somewhat higher because of input costs, are basically in line with our plans. our team is doing a good job of controlling costs. we have very strong operations in north america and south america and africa and we've made great progress. overall it was a good quarter while dealing with the issues that we are facing in indonesia. >> so bring us up to date on that. i read that you're expecting full operations again by june. is that accurat

marcus atkinson told us sometimes it's about how you say things. he just doesn't know how to conduct himself. frorina joaquin raised this point, didn't it cross his mind why those carry-outs are passed the health inspections? whose fault is that? obviously councilman barry has a long history of rising eyebrows, fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin here with us tonight. i know you spoke with congressman barry today. i'm not going to ask you to clarify his remarks, but how will he remedy this situation? >> i asked him exactly that, brian. i said if you feel these remarks were misinterpreted that, you weren't trying to do an ethnic slur, what are you going to do about it? he said i'm going to have a breakfast with these people and bring them. in i said when is that? i'll be working on that. this is classic marion barry, he has a tendency, especially after a big victory and get 73% of the vote, it reminded me four years ago he got 77% and he doesn't use the discretion or the just plain common sense and he has described himself as a situationist. this i

unnorth nartly this is all the time we have for, neil atkinson. still to come on "worldwide exchange," 100 days and counting. london takes another step closer to the olympics. we go live to one of the venues after the break. úp@@@@Ñ@y@y spain threatens to retaliate against argentina following the nationalist move. shares fall for a second day in a row. >>> australian stocks rally to a five-month high, boosted by gains in the mining sector despite mining warnings from the big producers. >>> and in the u.s., a mix bag of results could weigh on the market sentiment today. >> and iag's chief willie walsh tells cnbc he will consider investments including an american company and jal. an exclusive interview is coming up. >>> all right. let's just remind you where we are in terms of european equity markets. yesterday we did see the strongest rise in about four months. today we're seeing markets pretty much a mix actually. the only mix in positive territory at this point is the ftse 100 pretty much flat. we're seeing modest declines for all the other

atkinson. >> think it is dangerous to have a policy without a coherent strategy. whenever you want to call it. we don't have a coherent strategy. we cannot expect companies to do the right thing leaving them alone. there is a skill shortage right now. companies themselves are investing in training the workers, half. you'll end up with a skill shortage. i think the challenges we need to form real public-private partnerships and form a national industrial strategy. that will include things from both sides of the aisle. include realo strategies. >> i don't think what you mentioned any of those things are mutually exclusive. the game is changed. what is needed is a partnership between government, labor, and manufacturing. 2009 was probably the toughest year of my career. i have been doing this for about 40 years now. you're supposed to say that i do not look it. the cooperation with our labor force, our ability to move people around, the understanding from all sides about how important it was that we get through this thing together, and the government help. rhode isla