and you know what is interesting in brazil is that whether you talk to the richest brazilian, eric batista, or a labor leader, they have an objection which is to move people out of poverty into the middle class because they believe this is the way to build a stable prosperity, an economy that's really working for everybody. and a stable democracy. so i don't understand why these issues in our country are seen as left versus right. that's another thing at the huffington post we don't use as a way of describing what's happening. left versus right because it's another way to polarize us. instead of recognizing that so much of what we all want, strengthening the middle class. good schools for our kids. being able to ensure that our children do better than we do. are things we all want. whatever we were in the political spectrum. that's what congress needs to understand. but at some point, i believe we need to realize that we need to look in the mirror, discover the leader in the mirror as you all d did. because there's only -- there's a greek philosopher. he used to go around begging from stat

. >> batista man accused of killing his elderly wife will not represent himself in court. albrech muth is expected in court this morning but did not attend because of a medical condition. -- a d.c. man. he was considered mentally unstable by a judge. he beat his elderly wife to death. he has been on a hunger strike 53 days. >> authorities investigated of the apartment fire in st. mary's county that started overnight in the 45,000 block of fox chase drug. it took 45 firefighters to control the mass of flames. it started inside the living room of the first floor apartment for. the victim was found with cigarettes and an oxygen tank. >> still ahead, a child's bravery caught on tape. this blindsides fighter holding off. a off >> country in chaos. military forces launched an all- out assault in syria. >> staying in school. and advertising to abandon its local students back into the classroom. >> all that coming up. for another picture-perfect thursday. what a british of the u.s. capitol building. more changes on the >> you are watching abc 7 news at knonoon. >> this is video pa

. -- batista when he first took over in 1983 was an army soldsgt. it was in the 1950's when an election was called, 1952, and he staged a two before the election -- staged a cuo before the election, which many thought he would lose. that was the dictatorship that made people absolutely disgusted with him. of course people like castro took the damage of that feeling -- took advantage of that feeling. this is when the revolution began, july 26, 1953, fidel castro was a 28-year-old student. he attacked a military barrack with a bunch of students. it was a disaster. he was put in jail. he was able to make his own speech. defend himself since he was a lawyer. that speech thought out, printed, and it became pretty famous throughout island. it was called "history will of absolve me." he went to mexico. they came back a year later that they bought from tourists called the grandma, as and grandmother. they took over in january of 1959. >> you were born in havana. your dad was a successful businessman? >> he owns a 29% share of a pineapple export business. --

. >> i'm ken batista.olice officer opened fire in a busy interaction after his partner was pinned between two cars. >> it happened at grove way in castro valley. that intersection is still a crime scene right now. >> reporter: still a busy crime scene. the investigators are here trying to piece together what happened and the csi team has the scanner, a 360-degree high resolution camera that takes a round about panoramic view of the crime scene. the suspect was under investigation by berkeley police for quite some time and it came to a head a few hours ago. this woman who didn't give her name arrived on scene distraught and look for answers. she said the owner of the sedan is the father of her child. >> did they shoot him? they did? oh my god! >> reporter: at 5:00 a berkeley police officer was in the silver car, tailing a suspect in the marine car. on grove way they decided to arrest him at the stop light. >> during that time, the suspect backed his vehicle, pinning the berkeley police officer between the s

. >> i'm ken batista. a scary three hour ordeal. >> a man trapped in a muddy trench in front of a house where he was working. it happened in brentwood in east contra costa after annual out rescue he was pulled out alive. robert is in brentwood and tells you how it happened. >> reporter: neighbors next to 1594 don view, the house behind me said they had sewer problems so this morning they saw a plumber out here start digging in to clay so dense it looked like brick. he got eight feet down, 12 feet long and then the plumber climbed in. they say he was on his knees when all of the dirt, all of this soil carved in on him. >> 5:30 this evening a report of person trapped in a trench. >> when fire crew as lived the chief said they found an unbelievable site. a man swallowed by the earth. >> they found chest deep with the dirt around him. they started trying to stabilize the trench. >> reporter: what he talk something. >> he was able to answer questions. he was complaining of pain to his legs. >> reporter: by some

. >> i'm ken batista. it looks like one of the worst case of cruelty in years. >> tens of thousands of chickens starving to death. they were on a ranch. >> reporter: crews made every effort to keep us away from anls and poultry. they didn't want us to see the gristly site we captured from above. county and state crews loading thousands of dead hens into a front loader, hens that were starved to death. >> i have never seen anything like this with a volume of animals. . >> reporter: the animal services received a call on tuesday, that call was unbelievable. >> 50,000 estimated birds gone without any kind of food or water. >> reporter: a vet was immediately brought on scene, his medical findings grim. >> beyond saving. they were in horrible condition. >> reporter: sever buildings each the size of a football field were seized. our cameras got inside one of them. the smell of rot is absolutely overwhelming and this mask does nothing to mask that smell. speaking of rot, this is one of five buildings here, it is

. >> and i'm ken batista. >> i'm elizabeth cook.alentine's weekend wine tasting trip ended with a couple trapped in their two seater sport car for three freezing nights. >> nobody is a round, no cell phone service, robert says the man took a gamble that paid off. >> reporter: this is the story about the human will to live as it is a story about a sierra miracle. >> didn't sleep. >> reporter: at the center mark and his girlfriend. both recovering frost bite but alive to tell a unbelievable tale, one that started sunday in fair play. >> he was -- interested in tasting the wine and she just stood at the sideline with their arms folded her head down. >> reporter: with in hours of this strange wine tasting they vanished, by monday morning action friends and family had mounted their own search party outside fair place. by today 75 searchers were on the winding roads, believing the couple had fallen victim to foul play. the couple was miles away from their desperate search party. the porsche had crashed in the snow and after three days the

roosevelt, roosevelt and batista published in 1973. secret affairs, franklin roosevelt, cordell hall, summer wells in '95. he's em parked on a mult time multivolume biography on the life and times of richard nixon. the first is the contender, richard nixon, and the apprenticeship, richard nixon, the vice presidential years. 1952 to 1961 and he expects it to be published this year. our final speaker will be perspective from someone within the nixon administration, frank gannon. frank received his doctor of philosophy from oxnard university and won a white house fellowship and served in the nixon white house from 1971 through 1974. he accompanied nixon to san clemente aboard air force one and organized the research and writing. i'll turn it over first to joe. >> good morning, everybody. >> first of all, i would like to thank the nixon library and the staff for their hospitality in welcoming the group today. also i want to acknowledge the editor of the companion to richard nixon project. which i think was a -- the work turned out very nic

>> i reported directly to the sea 00 and had respond to the batista report from time to time on earth matters to the best of my -- >> did you ask why you are no longer talking to the board? >> let me correct you on this. and reported directly to the coo but i also have obligations to report on risks and highlight risks similar to my predecessor. i had access to the board. >> published reports are your role basically consisted of helping repair power point presentations for jon corzine to take to the board. is that incorrect? >> that is incorrect. >> mr. neugebauer read a statement that jon corzine made to investors shortly before the collapse, that the repo to maturity presented no threat to capital of any consequence a week before the collapse. the c f o, mr. steencamp told standard and poor's, the s&p, that mf global is in its strongest position ever. while moody's downgraded mf global to junk status four days earlier at the time of the collapse, the s&p had mf global at investment grade. were you consulted in any way on a recitation by jon corzine or mr. steamcamp? >> i was not. >>