and you know that here in bedford better than anyone. because just down the road from here, there is the stewart brickworks, and that gave jobs to thousands of people. the bricks the people of bedford made constructed the houses that they and so many others lived in. and it was the good wages they earned that made it possible for them to afford to buy their homes. economic success was built with the hands of working people, but could only be sustained through the pockets of working people, because they could afford to buy those homes. and britain knew this lesson too after the second world war. we all know the history. we built great new public services to improve people's lives, and improved education system, and the national system, but the nhs and the free education system did not do just that. as well. i think of my dad, who came to britain as an immigrant, was able to learn english at the technical college. he was part of that generation for whom the postwar world was built, and he built the postwar world. it was only possible becau

. >> plus jason on bedford. one of my favorite porn stars does not sleep with black talent. >> suppose there is a white woman who decides her thinger t only to sleep with black guys. >> i love her whoever she is. >> coming up, rick and kathy hilton. >> what is the crappiest hilton? >> he goes the oxnard >> got too much time on your hands, instead of filling it with family and friends why not connect with in, you can sign up for facebook and twitter. tired of watching videos of disgruntled cats? sign up for the official youtube page. you'll get bonus content you won't see on the or website. >> and we're not just talking about harvey's tweets. though there will be plenty of those. check out "tmz" on twitter, facebook and youtube. it's like having millions of friend you'll never meet in person right manti. >> what up, chris? >> that's chris brown in hollywood last night. finally an evening with chris brown without any drama or violence is what we would say if this didn't happen. >> oh chris, [beep]. is th

we have scott from bedford springs, just two hours away in pennsylvania. what are we talking about? >> it's a concept that kind of exploded in the united states. and major cities. is it something you can get from a vendor around the world. >> we're running a promoment called simply street food. i made a lamb. it was braced in white wine, oranges, lime juice to a point that it's very tender and falls apart. my dish was selected from-- >> this was a competition. how many chefs worldwide? >> there were over a hundred entries for the competition and six were selected throughout the world. >> very prestigious, congratulations. >> thank you very much. what i'm doing is putting down some black beans. very a little chili sauce. going to put some more black beans on that. >> where was the inspiration for your dish? >> just the love of latin food and flavors, chillilies, combining the flavors together. >> the different street food offerings from around the world are on omni menus, including bedford springs. >> every participating omni will be doing this menu. a little pico degallo. shredded l

>> we got george hamilton on bedford. i go i'm scared of an alien invasion. if they did invade and they told us send us three specimens of human excellence and we'll spare the world. who would you send to spare the earth so humanity wouldn't be destroyed? >> stephen hawkins is an interesting man. there is a guy who understands a lot about stem cell research, maybe him. >> he is sending a bunch of dorks up there. you got to send fun loving enthusiastic people. that's how you sell things. send honey boo boo. she'll get them all spun out. >> you should send arnold. >> he would be good. >> why don't we send up tyra banks because she already looks like an alien. >> they'll be like, come on in, we already know you. >> thank you so much. >> coming up -- there is a new car driving around town. the craziest looking car. were being told it's will i am's new car. >> it looks like the car homer simpson created when he got to work with his brother. his brot. >> plus paris hilton and river viiperi is on crutches. she makes him drive the car while he's on crutches. >> oh my

>> we got george hamilton on bedford. i go i'm scared of an alien invasion. if they did invade and they told us send us three specimens of human excellence and we'll spare the world. who would you send to spare the earth so humanity wouldn't be destroyed? >> stephen hawkins is an interesting man. there is a guy who understands a lot about stem cell research, maybe him. >> he is sending a bunch of dorks up there. you got to send fun loving enthusiastic people. that's how you sell things. send honey boo boo. she'll get them all spun out. >> you should send arnold. >> he would be good. >> why don't we send up tyra banks because she already looks like an alien. >> they'll be like, come on in, we already know you. >> that was good, dax. >> thank you so much. >> coming up -- there is a new car driving around town. the craziest looking car. were being told it's will i am's new car. >> it looks like the car homer simpson created when he got to work with his brother. brother. >> plus paris hilton and river viiperi is on crutches. she makes him drive the car while he's

. >> got jason gedrick on bedford. he was in the show luck that was cancelled. let's talk about something that rhymes with luck. >> i recently learned that my favorite porn star doesn't do black guys on film. >> her name is alexis texas. >> you may know her from the half watched movie --this isn't u.f.c. two ultimate [beep] championship. she won't bang black dudes but why. >> i know one star she didn't do anal -- >> let's go to something else. >> these white women have a white fan base if they sleep with a black guy they get abandoned by their fan base. >> translation, more black quals less green. >> is that a business move? >> is it okay for me to watch her? >> yeah. >> i feel like i'm supporting someone who is engaging in racist practices. >> perhaps it would help if they dealt with racial issues such as american history xxx, jungle beeve, the girth of a nation. and driving it into miss daisy. decpwhre quality in america will not truly exist until white and black porn stars can bang each other. >> we need to come together. you know what i'm saying? >> you guys

now, officers say she grabbed the steering wheel and caused a crash in bedford county near roanoke. the road and flipped. four people went to the hospital. >>> d.c. is preparing to make a push to keep the fbi in the district. mayor vincent gray will propose the agency relocate to an area known as poplar point on 295 in southeast. it's a piece of property already owned by the federal government and is accessible by metro. it is the future home of the u.s. coast guard headquarters. it would bring in relatively little tax revenue for the district. the fbi will had begin looking for proposals next month. >>> stay with us. "news4 today" continues right now at 5:00 a.m. >>> breaking news on whether or not oscar pistorius will be let out of jail. >>> we're tracking the impact this winter storm will have in the d.c. area starting in a few hours. good morning everyone. i'm aaron gilchrist. >>> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this friday febar

this one flipped in bedford county, virginia. in new york, long lines and fears of fuel shortages like after superstorm sandy. >> all indications are the gas supply is plentiful and deliveries will not be disrupted. >> reporter: at the airport, at least 4,500 flights canceled through sunday and delays felt as far away as los angeles. in boston, getting off the roads and home was most important. >> my concern is about the power. >> i heard we might get a foot or two. so it sounds like the blizzard of '78 which i grew up hearing my parents talk about. and it may be our turn now. >> reporter: diane, the worst of it is just getting under way, it go through the early morning hours. we've had a 50-plus miles per hour gust. i have the goggles and i'm going to need it here. as will everyone else. >> snappy goggles, but you do need that protection. so you're ordered off the roads in boston. but gio benitez is out on other roads for us tonight in hartford, connecticut. >> we're making the drive up to hartford, connecticut, the governor her

also logan, 76 at the airport, bedford, 75-mile-per-hour wind gusts. so incredibly strong winds. we are going to see the winds quite that strong anymore, but we will see 40 and 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts even when the snow ends. here's the big picture, it is ending, you can see in the hudson valley, in new york city, western connecticut, it will end from west to east. new york city ending this morning. as we put this in motion, as we head to 9:00, long island still into it. but eastern connecticut, eastern massachusetts, still this morning in through the afternoon. boston will end this afternoon, and then by tonight around 10:00 or so, we'll watch it and in maine, as well. still, though, even though that will end, we'll see these strong winds behind it. these are the wind forecasts throughout this afternoon, you can see 48, 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts. even though the snow will be over, the winds will be blowing all that snow that is freshly fallen all around. martin, we're still going to see incredible wind gusts. we're going to see things begin to calm down. but the good news,

[laughter] so i thought like how did he get there from new bedford to ancient cairo. this is a wonderful kind of story telling. >> it seems to me that the work you are doing right now, the stuff touring with dirt days and ssuff that you do generally combines the abstract and very much here and now. a lot of elements of what's going on in the world right now. you are obviously a voracious readdr, you mentioned to me the touring that you do, i asked you how you managed to survive all of those travel days and all of those miles and you said i read. >> yeah. >> you pretty much spend all of your time reading. >> on the plane, yeah. >> yeah. >> so this tour, it's a little short two-week thing. it started out in lithuania, then -- so there i was reading an incredible book, really like to recommend my struggle by karl [indiscernible] nelsgard, really our proust, a really unbelievable book, he lives in sweden, also, that was my next gig. i had finished that by then. then i had the leg of stockholm to portland and then to berkeley, so i read telegraph avenue, which is also a lo

nervous because many of the trends at the time were still alive, and one in particular, sib bill bedford who is, or who was a woman i respected enormously. she's a fabulous writer, large and terrific human being, wrote in several genres, and she herself had written a biography about -- [inaudible] we became friends, and i remember before my book came out i went to sybil's in london, and i said what if you don't like it, what if my janet isn't your janet? and she sat back in her wonderful way, um, with a glass of scotch in her hand, and she said your janet is your janet, my janet is my janet. janet's janet is janet. and she was absolutely right. and it relieved me nor mousily because i realized i could only do the best that i could do. i could do the best with whatever materials i had and ability, and that's it. and end. [laughter] >> i sort of disagree with everybody. [laughter] >> you always have. >> i really especially disagree with what ed said. i'm a huge fan of ed's writing. and, um, i still think, i mean, essentially i thought phyllis set us up very well for our ongoing, extended l

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joining us now with his outlook, chairman and ceo of bedford of divisors.to have you here. >> uses a reaction to a market that unexpected unexpectedly sold off? >> i have been talking about this. i mean, the oldest thing in the book is the fed has the possible. they have got to take it away. the only question is when. just remember one thing. 19371937. lou: that was the year. >> most of the damage that -- most of the dage of the depression had been recovered. it went over the cliff. lou: this sounds aittle like you are suggesting. this may be 1937 all over again. if the fed does act a slowdown those asset purchases. what he knows, over his dead body. history will be repeated. we're going to see continued to liberal, i think it may be a very tight word for it, liberal monetary policy. where are you? >> in my world i have said deal, unfortunately, with reality because it involves my money. and telling you that all i'm concerned about it is not what these baboons say but what they do. right now they will not tighten. lou: is that helpful to the accumulation of

we are talking 15,000 with bedford oak advisors chairman harvey eisen is coming up lou: the wall street selloff of the year. harvey eisen will join us in just moments. the s&p 500 hit five-year highs when the dow jones regained a 1500 level. a lot of people thought happy trails a head. the dow dropping 30 points today, the s&p down 17.5. the nasdaq is lower by 48. just about 3.4 billion shares. netflix fighting the trend and doing well. rising $10 per share on prospects of strong subscriber growth, closing up $174. that stock was down. treasury's 10 year dropping back below 2% to yield of 1.97%. the commodities market, crude oil is down. gold is up. the justice department attorney general is expecting to file charges against standard & poor's. it has to do with debt obligations before the financial crisis. the first enforcement action against any of the credit ratings firms, all of which have been blamed in part in varying degrees for contributing in 2000-acre in my next guest says the markets are overextended and due for something of a pullback. joining us for a look is harvey eisen co

virginia state police say a driver in bedford county escaped some serious injury this morning when aow ran off the road and flipped over. 2% say the plow was removing snow from the shoulder of the road when the blade hit a soft spot. as the tire sank, the driver lost control. the driver ran, as we see, off the road. >>> this valentine's day, we won't have to kiss ourselves goodbye. that's because anast roadway will come very close on october 15th. as alex demetrick reports, it won't come close enough to hit. >> it's called dr2014. a not so scary name for a not large asteroid. will only take up half a football field. but what it lacks in size will make for in nearness. it be just 217 miles from earth. that put its inside the 22,000- mile high orbit. >> that's close. >> dr. james is the chief stvment. he says a 150-foot wide astroid is a drop in the bucket. >> that's pretty small. much bigger ones have impacted the earth in the last million years. >> last time was in siberia in 1908. it exploded on the way down, with the force of a couple of hydrogen bombs. leveling 800 square miles of

police say his father, thomas, opened fire at the new castle courthouse, killing bedford and her friend, 47-year-old laura mull ford. police say they're not sure if he took his own life or was shot by police. two police officers were hit with gunfire but were wearing armored vests at the time. david matusiwitch was arrested forever kidnapping the couple's three children in 2007 and fleeing with them to nicaragua. he is in state police custody on a federal probation technicality. >> all right, denise. thank you. the younger matusiwitch was recently released from prison and his ex-wife told a friend she was not worried about her safety. >>> arrested and charged with having sex with a 15-year-old student. the harford county sheriff's office says the student told investigators he had section with 35-year-old amanda kay miller when she worked at north harford high school. the teen also says miller sometimes took him home from school and bought him cigarettes. miller is on leave, pending the outcome of the investigation. >>> a family sifting through the ashes of their burned home, gets some h

of course we will be continuing our coverage in fall river throughout the night, as well as new bedford and all of southeastern mass. nbc 10 news. >> this is one of the reporters where we are dipping in where we can to check out the local coverage. this is wjar in fall river. this is 50 miles south of boston. we are juxtaposing two images. right side of the screen fenway home of the red sox who are in beautiful fort meyers, florida. good for them. this is what we are looking at as far as visibility goes in the wee hours as we are officially in to saturday morning. we are talking about this massive northeast blizzard. this hour, across much of the northeast and new england, this blizzard is bearing down. the problems piling up in massachusetts for example. more than 380,000 homes and businesses are without power. that's more than half of the total in the region. we just updated the number. it is now 614,000 customers out of power including nine different states, nine states. more than a foot and a half of snow has already fallen in parts of massachusetts. let's go to new york. show you n

bedford, 75. east the boston at logan airport, 76 miles per hour.d gusts, strong tropical storm force gusts on trees, with, you know, snow, heavy wet snow paste pasted on them, and that's why we see so many power outages and what will be such a headache during the day today and this week getting people back online. winds out of the north, a little weaker than last night. the snow is ending for the most part and a lot of areas of new york state, vermont, also western portions of connecticut and even around heaartford, almt done. people don't have power, probably stuck in their homes and watching it get colder by the minute. 18 in boston, 21 in providence, and the wind outside, making the windchill feel like the negative numbers through maine. negative 13 and snowing hard in augusta, not fun for anyone. 1 in boston, 7 in hyannis. and connecticut, amazing totals from hartford to new haven, 24 to 30 inches of snow, windchill is 14, alex. the story, the legacy will be how widespread the one-foot was and how widespread the two feet of snow was and to have

after he's confronted b >>> take a look at this surveillance video out of new bedford, massachusetts. clerk defending himself with a four-foot-long knife after being confronted by an armed robber. this isn't the first time brian patel who is another inches didn't punches the suspect in the face even as he is being stabbed. a message to all criminals out there. this is a store clerk. you do not want to mess with him. >> a four-foot knife. >> no kidding. >>> a verizon store in the east bay is the latest victim of a smash-and-grab. >> that store has a guard on hand as the building has to be repaired. thieves are stealing cars and smashing them into stores to rob them. the latest incident in pleasant hill. >> someone to break in a store like that and do that with a car because they want free stuff, not fair to anybody else. >> there was a similar robbery last week in concord. a man drove a stolen truck into the window of a store at the clayton valley shopping center and ran away with several stolen phones. >> pretty brazen. >> happening a lot. >> okay. how about some traffic on a friday?

video from new bedford, rhode island where up to eight inches of snow is expected to accumulate. about this storm. much of the city's snow plows are worn down or need to be replaced. >> there is so many broken down equipment, i'm sure it's going to take, if we get more than five inches, whatever is going to be predicted, i am sure the -- it's going to cause a problem. >> city leaders say replacing old equipment is a top priority, but it is a long-term process. >>> in michigan, snow and ice led to a huge pile-up near detroit. more than a dozen cars crashed into each other yesterday afternoon along the interstate there. police say the first crash involved about three cars and other cars piled up trying to avoid that initial crash. no one was hurt in the incident. >>> good morning. subtle changes in the forecast for today. a live look over san francisco here, and towards the west we have low clouds. returning to the area this morning. and this is one sign of the changes coming. patchy dense fog in some spots, our relative humidity is up while we have an on shore breeze that is back.

he's never getting out of bedford falls. i got big plans. i love her.ause republicans have a punish a republican for the crime of being right about iraq. stephanie: exactly. this talking voice memo, filibuster will fall shortly nomination blah blah blah. that's the thing people don't understand that don't pay attention in the history of ever. i tell my dog max you're the best dog in the history of dogs and the history of history. this is like the history of that the history of the united states. >> i said if harry reid's mad at the gop for filibustering this, he needs to spend an entire day punching himself in the face. stephanie: why you are touching yourself, stop it. >> he promised that wouldn't happen. stephanie: we'll be treated to a big show when republicans block hagel on the floor tomorrow and a quiet resolution a few days down the row when graham gets his answer. >> he's promised to block the rest of lady gaga's tour until she gives answers on benghazi. >> in other words, we may have reached unprecedented heights of senator yell preening about

host: let's go to bedford, mass., independent. caller: recently, "frontline" and expos eye on the banking industry receiving money from drug cartels. they were subsequently fined. when this money gets tracked and gets into the hands of our elected officials through campaign contributions, is there any provision that the public can support in terms of calling this treason? it seems the only way this whole phenomenon is going to stop that is destroying our democracy is to have stronger penalties. guest: that is an interesting question. penalties are something that is not often given by many of these organizations overseeing campaign finance or lobbying. the have been cases and there are fairly substantial fines when they do happen but it is not something -- it is so difficult to track especially if the money is not disclosed virgos to improper channels -- those sorts of things are hard to monitor. host: let's hear from sally, in alexandria, our independent line. caller: when you said that trips are considered gifts and gifts are not

host: mary from bedford, texas. caller: bravo. we thank you because the females in the united states have an unusual circumstance. when you flip over the stainless steel, and it used to be that correa was quite common. -- korea was common. now they have affected the females of the united states. question, when will this end? guest: i will comment on the part about korea and steel. this really says a lot about the south korean economy. south korea, as many callers know, at the end of the korean war, it was just a devastating piece of land and many experts believe the south korea would not advance beyond and agricultural-based economy for the rest of its existence. through the hard work of carranza, the help of the united states, south korea today-- hard work of koreans, there the 12th largest economy in the world than they have had a great steel industry creating a lot of consumer appliances. now it is one of the biggest providers of high-tech, high and manufactured goods, flat screens, smartphones, things of this nature. it has be

our efforts in the areas in massachusetts along the south shore, cape cod and in the greater new bedfordhat's where most of the outages are right now. >> are the recovery efforts at all affected by sandy, which as i said earlier, is obviously a few months removed from us by now? >> for us, no, they aren't. we're certainly dealing with some very difficult conditions, even still. for example, on cape cod, when this storm had passed for everyone else, it was still raging. it was not safe to get out there to do a lot of work. right now, though, even though the storm has somewhat long passed, we're dealing with access issues. and quite extensive damage. >> yeah. and i think for anybody who's in the northeast, two of the characteristics about this storm, obviously the depth of the snowfall, but how heavy the snow was, right? >> that's absolutely right. now we're looking at the possibility of rain. the likelihood of rain today, which would likely cause some additional damage to our system. because the trees are just so heavy with snow right now. adding any weight to them is probably going to be

bedford, mass, 75. that's above hurricane force wind. providence, rhode island, 63 miles an hour. buzzards bay, 74. incredible wind along with this. and we're still dealing with it. another six or eight hours to go and probably more power outages. >> 34 inches on the ground and still snowing. >> yeah i know. we'll see if it breaks records. let's get to the headlines. the manhunt for the ex cop turned suspected murderer is intensifying. in a few hours police will be back out looking for christopher dorner. dozens of police officers searched 200 cabins around big bear lake but were slowedly heavy snow. in orange county, california, s.w.a.t. teams took ten bags of evidence from his mother's home. dorner is accused of killing three people in revenge for his firing from the lapd. we'll have more from a live report. >>> a civil war in the united states was the plan of a california man who allegedly tried to set off a car bomb. the f.b.i. arrested him after he tried to detonate the explosive outside this bank of america. the bomb was part of a sting operation. he was a taliban supporter.