to transform bedford falls into a modern entertainment and business mecca.reating hundreds of new jobs. but one man would stand in his way. >> remember me, george bailey. >> draft dodger george bailey and his social ois building and loan. we have to have faith. will henry potter's reforms win the day. >> what does that get us a discontented lazy rabble instead of a working class. >> or will george bailey succeed with his scheme to redistribute wealth. >> they had to wait, save their money before they thought of a decent home. wait for what? >> how far will bailey go to destroy free markets and economic progress. how low will he sin snk. >> where is that money you silly, stupid old fool. >> this christmas enjoy a classic as the it was meant to beef understood. fox news presents, mr. potter and the commies of bedford falls. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: another highly an tis patrioted film this season, the hob bit, the desolation of smog, hits theaters tonight. this is part two of the trilogy. part two is the best part. who doesn't love to speech the middl

i was shackled and sent to bedford hills where farm records island was about an hour and a half away. i was shackled by my ankles with a chain between my ankles and i my also belly shackled and arms. i had a five-point restraints. i was maybe 4.5 months pregnant and i had to lean over the bar and hold on while the bus took me up to bedford hills. night.a winter i said, what if the boss gets all nice and turns over? what happens to me if that happens? would someone protect my baby? i said, if this is happening to me, i wonder how many other women it has happened to. i served my time. i did my time specifically to keep my son. it wasn't for me that i served this time. pregnant i began to open my eyes and look and see how women were treated. there were a lot of other women in the prison during that time that were pregnant as well. we did not receive appropriate food. nutrition, we did not receive appropriate medical care. things started turning for me. the case of my child being taken away from me after i gave birth to him was another issue. where would he go? birth to my son and i was s

among young people hit discuss all of this original fowler he hosts the richard fowler show and chris bedford associate editor the daily caller both join me from washington d.c. all right words you sum up briefly why you like obamacare well thanks for having me larry i think it's more than liking it it's with the impacts of this law already three million people back on their parents' health insurance health care insurance young people who had preexisting conditions like asthma or early childhood arthritis or diabetes they can now get health care young women can now get birth control as part of the health care plan on on and on all the benefits of the affordable care act don't get me wrong there are some issues with the rollout of those most of the website which is why young people are sort of you know this in trepidation when it comes to engaging in rolling into cyber that doesn't mean that this is not a good thing for young people. chris what's your rub against that why i'm not exactly sure what is motivating each individual young person not sign up but why would they it's a bad deal where t

everyone's talking about just a few weeks from now thank you both very much ridgwell or and chris bedford thanks for stimulating conversation i want to take a moment to talk about incredible man nelson mandela. passed away on december fifth in johannesburg i had the honor of interviewing him a few times and then the last time i interviewed him was in two thousand and then a year later i found myself in johannesburg on a series of speaking engagements for a group of banks the former president mandela had heard i was there and his enjoyed the interview so he invited me to his home for lunch we had a wonderful lunch he wore suspenders in my honor and of a for that that and the next morning i had breakfast with mr de klerk who freed mandela so here was in this an unusual situation of being with a man who spent twenty seven years behind bars with a man who freedom and they both together won the nobel peace prize and what i adored about nelson mandela was not only his love of country but his gentleness his sincerity and his ability in incredible circumstances to forgive was the highest christia

i was shackled and sent to bedford hills where farm records island was about an hour and a half away. i was shackled by my ankles with a chain between my ankles and i my also belly shackled and arms. i had a five-point restraints. i was maybe 4.5 months pregnant and i had to lean over the bar and hold on while the bus took me up to bedford hills. night.a winter i said, what if the boss gets all nice and turns over? what happens to me if that happens? would someone protect my baby? i said, if this is happening to me, i wonder how many other women it has happened to. i served my time. i did my time specifically to keep my son. it wasn't for me that i served this time. pregnant i began to open my eyes and look and see how women were treated. there were a lot of other women in the prison during that time that were pregnant as well. we did not receive appropriate food. nutrition, we did not receive appropriate medical care. things started turning for me. the case of my child being taken away from me after i gave birth to him was another issue. where would he go? birth to my son and i was s

around bedford, snow in some of the lower elevations, and look at the forecast for tahoe going up i-80ing to be very difficult this evening into tomorrow morning. as much as 12 to 18 inches of snow. that's not going to be in the sacramento area, but just north of there, those places will g changing over to snow red bluff, california xshgs sacramento, cold rain for you. >> it is cold. it's been cold. yesterday was very cold even around san francisco, napa, and this morning is no different. >> if are you trying to get away for the weekend, bring the sleeping bags. you could get stuck on the road. >> thank you, bill karens. much more on the words and life of nelson mandela. he fought tirelessly for the rights and liberty of all south africans. famously saying "our march to freedom is irreversible. we must not allow fear to stand in our way." >>> now for others stories making news this morning. vice president biden wrapping up his visit to china on thursday. he raised the issue of the treatment of u.s. journalists in the country. nearly two dozen journalists from different u.s. publication

i was shackled and sent to bedford hills where farm records island was about an hour and a half away. i was shackled by my ankles with a chain between my ankles and i my also belly shackled and arms. i had a five-point restraints. i was maybe 4.5 months pregnant and i had to lean over the bar and hold on while the bus took me up to bedford hills. night.a winter i said, what if the boss gets all nice and turns over? what happens to me if that happens? would someone protect my baby? i said, if this is happening to me, i wonder how many other women it has happened to. i served my time. i did my time specifically to keep my son. it wasn't for me that i served this time. pregnant i began to open my eyes and look and see how women were treated. there were a lot of other women in the prison during that time that were pregnant as well. we did not receive appropriate food. nutrition, we did not receive appropriate medical care. things started turning for me. the case of my child being taken away from me after i gave birth to him was another issue. where would he go? birth to my son and i was s

toledo, ohio and bedford, indiana helped, too. those factories, employing 7,500 people. gm says the new investment will help save and create 1,000 jobs. and it comes just as ford reveals it plans to hire 5,000 workers in the new year. that age old question -- apparently answered. ♪ have you driven a ford lately ♪ 3,300 of those jobs in tonight we checked in tomorrow and his family. he's still making ford trucks on the line. not long ago he was worried. >> were you worried about the company. >> everyone was worried. i have a family. >> reporter: the global market, in asia, like the one they cornered in mexico. "world news" seeing it first hand in mexico city as fords built by american workers arrived on the trains. >> all of these fords come from america. >> reporter: we checked. even asking to get on the train that had just arrived to see where they had come from, which workers truly benefitted. built in michigan and bought by the growing middle class in mexico. a 92% increase in just three years. back in america tonight, ford revealing to us, american models selling eve

. >> the plants are in flint and romulus, michigan, toledo, ohio and bedford, indiana. >>> google is pumping a lot of money into its businesses and it's not for its search engine or youtube or the self-driving cars it's working on. instead, google just bought a company that makes robots for the military and it's not google's first foray into robotics. so what is the internet search giant searching for and is the company potentially losing focus on what it does best? josh lipton has more. >> fast, agile and lifelike, these are robots that can scale hills, gallop through parking lots and run like cheetahs and now they're owned by google which bought boston dynamic, an engineering company in massachusetts that makes the robots. the robots have become internet sensations. the big dog which is the size of a small mule to climb muddy trials and carry 340-pound loads and a youtube video of big dog has been watched 15 million times and then there's cheetah which is shown running on the treadmill at 29 miles per hour and that's faster than olympian usain bolt. the new york times first reporte

and i was able to go to bedford's rate public schools. my mom eventually got a job as a travel agent and by the time i was 11 i am proud to say that she bought her own house in bedford, massachusetts. my mom is an amazing woman who faced a great deal for her children but i am here also because of a lot of people worked hard to expand opportunity. it is hard to share my story but i know that we live in cynical times. it is easy to dismiss the fight in washington is partisan games but there are kids growing up andy who have big dreams fight tough circumstances. it is not a game for them. cannot forget that the decisions people make your matter. every one has a fair shake or not. i'm grateful to work in an organization like the center for merrick in progress committed to expanding that circle so that children today have hope for a better circumstance than their -- a better future than their circumstances. i am more grateful that we have a president who lived and raised a commitment to an america that expands the middle class, gives people a

that it is the evidence that show investigates family housing warned that the decor to the school in bedford attacks that came into force idea that smith was causing quite a shocking because stats and second parts of the country. the cutest thing when you can think that immigration plans to see who the good effects well with people. tech east of zuma bring to a full scale political crisis to mind as the cabinets in the country as they shuffled over a high level bribery scandal. but even that didn't cost the fund massive protests against official corruption no position to mom and the whole government stepped down. the group for sale if the rules committee. lol second on the seventeenth of december police arrested the sounds of a mile and interior and economy minister is that claiming that they were in bold in a corruption probe that was left millions of dollars. and right after that. turkish prime minister made an announcement saying that he was behind his ministers and for about a week he said that this was a political plus he was meaning to police arrests. he says this is what the cloth tha

we lifed in a house in bedford, massachusetts a middle class family. when i was five, my parents got divorced and my dad left. my mother was on her own having never held a job before. she faced going back to india, or going on welfare to support her two young children. in india, we would have been marked stigmatized. it was unheard of to get divorced back then. she knew our life opportunities would be limited. she made that tough choice. she stayed. we stayed. we were on welfare. we were on food stamps. we received housing vouchers to help pay for rent. but because of a series of events we were able to remain in bedford and i was able to go to the public schools. my mom eventually got at the job at the travel agent, and by the time i was 11, i'm proud to say that she bought her own house in bedford, massachusetts. my mom is an amazing woman who sacrificed a great deal for her children. but i know i'm here also because a lot of people were -- expand opportunity. it's hard a little bit to share my story. but i know we live in cynical times. it's easy to

inlived in a house bedford, massachusetts, a middle-class town. when i was five, my parents got divorced and my dad left. my mother was on her own and never held a job before. she faced going back to india are going on welfare to support her two children. , we would've been stigmatized. it was unheard of to get divorced back then. she knew our life opportunities to be limited. she made that tough choice. she states. we stayed. we were on welfare. on food stamps. we received housing vouchers to pay for rent. but because of a series of fortuitous events, we were able to remain in bedford thomas and i was able to go to school. a job as atually got travel agent. by the time i was 11, i am proud to say that she bought her own house in bedford, massachusetts. my mom is an amazing woman who sacrificed a great deal for her children. i know i'm here also because a lot of people worked hard to expand opportunity. it's hard to share my story, but i know that we live in cynical times. it is easy to dismiss the fights in washington is partisan games. but there

mandela's host on that day was the mayor of bedford, councillor carole ellis. sadly, councillor ellis is seriously ill at present, but i know that she is so proud of her own and of bedford's part in mr. mandela's story. between 1986 and 1990, the right honorable gentleman member for bermondsey and old southwark , i and peter pike, the former member for burnley, made three visits to south africa at the invitation of the followers of christ working for a peaceful resolution of the situation there. on our return from our first visit, on june 17, we made joint speeches in a debate here in the house of commons, referring to each other as our honorable friends -- a point duly noted by hansard. we had gone together -- safety in numbers -- at a time when the anc was still banned, the political situation was deteriorating, violence was abroad, and where the isolation of south africa was impacting on the flow of anything but very polarised information. we were able to report back to our respective party leaders on what we found. i had half an hour with an anxious, worrie

. >> now they're going to bedford. >> all parents understand that. there are some downsides to ditching cable. they miss two important things. getting the news, which we agree, and getting sports when they wanted. to liveis a harsh way life to be denied tim brant. [inaudible] a different way to pass out the goodies. santa traveled in a tactical vehicle through germantown. officers escorted santa through town to pass out gifts and donations. >> much faster than reindeer. uplet's see what is coming at 6:00. >> gordon peterson live with a look ahead. >> tonight, an assessment of federal security after the deadly shooting in side of the navy yard. thousands of federal buildings could be at risk. what it means for people who work and do business with uncle sam. and expo nation for why national guard fighter jets collided off of the coast of virginia. >> see you in just a bit. let's give you a check of the situation as the warm-up heads our way. >> we have a chill to go through as temperatures fall. a live look outside, it is dark. sunset an hour ago. me,

city of flint, michigan, and two hard-working communities like romulus michigan, toledo, ohio, and bedford, indiana. about 7500 people work in the cities. today's announcement will create or retain another 1100 jobs in america. that brings our total of new and retained jobs to more than 26,000. it is by two different administrations dared the entire u.s. industry is back. rather than allowing the industry to collapse and turned the great recession into another great depression, our nation stood by us. we come to work every day determined to restore gm as the american standardbearer in the global automotive industry. someone asked me recently if the "government motors" tag still hurts us. to be honest, we do not hear it much anymore. it reminds me of a comment attributed to ronald reagan. he said he knew his economic plan was working when they stopped calling it reaganomics. gm is working again. we have put together the leadership team with experience, optimism, and a strong competitive streak. we're making vehicles that are the pride of the industry. when i became ceo, i wanted to help bui

surveillance cameras rolling in new bedford, massachusetts. woman trying to load trees into her pickup truck. when a worker confronts her, she had a change of heart and offers to pay for the trees. too late. the guy called the cops. and the cops got her. >> did she think people wouldn't see that? >> who knows what she was thinking. but she did offer to pay for them. >> inside the mind of a criminal. thank you, ron. appreciate it. >>> we are heading into a big and potentially very complicated night for college football. the heisman trophy will be handed out. the year's best player tonight. the odds-on favorite to win, florida state's jameis winston. he was cleared from a rape case. but they may reopen the investigation. >> reporter: jameis winston, he is so talented on the field. he's so charismatic as a leader, it's tough to believe he's just a freshman. if he wins the most prestigious award in college football tonight, he will have done so despite the investigation that could have derailed his heisman hopes. there's little doubt florida state

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. >> in bedford, massachusetts, jessica taff, al jazeera. >> 57 days away. >> is that what it is? 57 days, and we're spending time for this team. we have a rooting interest. >> reporter: that's right. >> thank you, sir. a cold blast impacting much of the country. dave warren here with your forecast. this is al jazeera. >> national forecast looking cold, bitter cold air coming down from canada and moving across the great lakes and affecting the mid-atlantic and the northeast. the winds have picked up, and we look at wind chills well below zero. now the cold over the great lakes creating lake-effect snow. it's not the storms, two of them tweetlactually, they're gone. but this is lake-effect snow. you have that cold air coming across the great lakes, on the eastern side, significant snowfall over the same area. and you can see that that is what we're expecting over the past 12 hours the snow looks pretty much the same getting that snow over the same area. that will be the story for the next few days. the temperatures have dropped down to freezing in new york getting even colder overn

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city of flint, michigan, and to hard-working communities, like romulus, michigan, toledo, ohio, and bedford, indiana. about 7500 people work in those plants, and today's announcement will create or retain more than another 1100 jobs in america. that brings our total of new and retained jobs to more than 26,000 thanks to reinvestment in our plants in the united states. imagine, this is welcome news in these communities. optimismere hope and are in short supply just five years ago. thanks to the swift, courageous by two different administrations, the entire u.s. industry is back. theer than allowing industry to collapse into turn the great recession into another great depression, our nation stood by us. we come to work every day determined to restore gm as the american standardbearer in the global automotive industry. recently if the government motors tag still hurts us. to be honest, we do not hear it much anymore. reminds me of a comment attributed to ronald reagan. he said, he knew his economic plan was working when they stopped calling it reaganomics. well, gm is working again. we put tog

he has homes on fifth avenue, in jamaica, long island, and bedford, new york, as well as the 17,000 acrerado where he spends time with his wife and three grown children. he also spends time and lots of money on his pet passion. >> cars are fun and toys and they offer you a different experience. to me, they are works of art. >> this 2010 promotional video announces a paris exhibit of some of lauren's 60 vintage cars. >> he once told me his car collection is something he does first, beuse he loves cars and responds to them. and he does not collect art. unlike most people in his income bracket, he says, "you cannot drive a painting." and he loves the idea of being able to take any of his cars and drive it around on a sunday afternoon. >> paul goldberger says that lauren changed some of the car's original colors. >> he looks at something and says, "this is beautiful but it could be even better. i want to make it even more perfect." >> for 40 years, ralph lauren's pursuit of perfection has kept him firmly in charge as ceo and chairman of the board of the company that wears his name. >> i thin

birthplace city of flint michigan and two hard-working communities like romulus michigan, toledo ohio and bedford indiana. about 7500 people work in the cities. today's announcement will create or retain another 1100 jobs in america. that brings our total of new and retain jobs to 26,000. it is by two different administrations dared the entire u.s. industry is back. rather than allowing the industry to collapse and turned the great recession into another great depression, our nation stood by us. we come to work every day determined to restore gm as the american standardbearer in the lobal automotive industry. someone asked me recently if the government motors tag still hurts us. o be honest, we do not hear as uch anymore. t reminds me of a comment that should be to to ronald reagan. he said he knew his economic lan was working when they stop offering it reaganomics. gm is working again. we have put together the leadership team with experience, optimism, and a strong competitive streak. we're making vehicles that are the pride of the industry. when i became ceo, i wanted to help build a sound foun

there may be fewer black women actually going through the prison, be atl or the cook county jail or bedford ,ills or the l a county jail even though people are not going through the doors, they are being police. they are being monitored and sanctioned and punished now by places outside of the building, which in some instances is maybe even more dangerous. you never know who is watching you and what kind of rights they may take away from you, like you lose your kids or your public assistance, etc. >> i think that is so true when we think about how we have internalized how it is we need to behave in relationships with other people that we don't know and how we walked on the street, especially as women of color. children, if we are a bad mom, we don't give our children breakfast in the morning. we are looked at as a bad mom. we are involved in a system that says, we should take your child away. when i think about the issues of massive restoration versus massnalization -- incarceration versus criminalization, we have to look communities ofts color. 40 years we survived specific scrutiny where w

they're trying to get rid of it in new bedford, massachusetts. get someone excited about it. those are the top ones. >> i can see them try to turn it into a landmark. i want to go back to the first story about the drone and amazon. in other words, if i'm jeff bezos trying to draw attention to what i'm doing, why not come out with the octocopter and get everyone talking about it? it is actually ingenious. >> the experts we talked to with that amazon buzz you get amazon top of mind. all of a sudden you're thinking about your christmas list, you say, i saw that story about drone copters -- >> is there really a one-to-one connection? >> ad experts say it's top of mind. >> thank you for joining us. >>> coming up, fast good workers are planning a nationwide protest thursday. they're upset about the minimum wage. one will join us to state his case. keep it right here. [ male announcer ] here's a question for you. if every u.s. home replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, the energy saved could light how many homes? 1 million? 2 million?

he is 91, lives in an assisted living home in bedford oregon. wonderful man. he spent several hours with me over the telephone, just a terrific -- and, of course, the kids and grandkids of all the survivors want very much for the story to be told. they could not have been better. really fun to work with and a lot of them had wonderful old photographs and different mementos that have been kept in the attic or down in the basement for years, and they were thrilled to pull them out. >> do you have your next project lined up? >> i think i would like to stay with world war ii but we will see what happens. happens. >> thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. you can share anything you see on booktv.org easily by clicking share in the upper left side of the page and selecting the format. of tv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with the top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> with a

. >> in bedford massachusetts. >> thanks a lot. coming up later in sports.'ll tell you how thest hockey team did. >> that is sports for is now. scrambling are the incredibly versatile egg. >> plus care givers of elderly patients are routinely poorly paid. we'll tell you about a fight for better wages. tÑ >> welcome back to al jazeera america. gusty winds and heavy rain are still a threat today in the mid-atlantic and the north-east. let's bring in meteorologist eboni deon for more. do you want to join us and talk whether is this. >> sure, of course. we are going to deal with a lot of moisture, we have been seeing the storm system making its way east ward ever since yesterday. over the next 24 hours the rain will hang on. along the coastline we deal with a frontal boundary. in advance, lots of moisture that's been pulling in from the south-west and now from the gulf of mexico, we still dealing with a threat of rain fall. see the spin. that is across the great lakes and to the north-east. as it does, on the backside of it we'll deal with snow. some of which wi

brooklyn because i have to see so many new and fabulous things and it's far to go when you live in bedforde have created american made. and can i give a plug to american made? >> please. >> ebay-american made is a great place to go. it's an online store we developed with ebay to put forth the great american makers. these are young entrepreneurs, little aged entrepreneurs who are working in their own space creating american made products. >> it is interesting how a cutting edge of culture, a pop culture and food culture and sort of living culture came back around where you were obviously the queen of it. then maybe it was that people did the snl skits and i'm making my own pine cones. you look at farm to table. we have friends who say it's from the deep south to brooklyn. everybody is talking about what you were talking about. >> people are looking for better american made. they are looking for homemade and do it yourself. they are looking for confidence and a realization that oh, my gosh, this i made. >> we lot of ourselves when we buy everything. including food. families do take out, take

this is the only piece i have left for my house in bedford. >> do you let rock and roll get in?of that and loved watching the christmas tree lighting the other day. we'll have a great time. nick loves to dress up and wake us up at 6:00 a.m. banging pots and pans. it's not fun. i'm begging him to not do that this year. >> thank you so much for letting us in your home. >> thank you for coming. >> you invited me to breakfast but i'm going to be the rude guest, savannah, wait for it, wait for it, mariah for christmas, all i would want -- i'm not proposing to you. >> i'm just waiting. >> how close can i get to the closet before the end of the show? >> that's a different show. >> can i show one mariah shoe. >> we can show it again. >> no, you can see another shoe. do you want to go grab a shoe? someone grab me a shoe please. >> coming up, mariah is going to let me show something from the closet. >> we're showing something from the closet. an appropriate ensemble. it won't be too much for the morning. >> she was trying to put them on earlier from upstairs. >> what is in the coffee. >>