ben steele went through everything. the battle, the death march, the prison camps. he taught himself to draw and began a remarkable prof. of art. 22 of those sketches are in here in the text of the book. you will see many of these tonight. we have made slides of them to show you. it took a long time to dig out the story of the japanese. we spent three weeks in japan talking to 23 former imperial army soldiers and a quarter of the book is told from their point of view. we think that perspective makes our story unique. tonight, we are going to try to give you a small sample of those three narratives, war storytelling points of you. we will talk about the heart of the book, the death march, and begin with you experiencing the march through ben steel's point of view, ben steel's eyes. >> we would like you to sit back and imagine that you are on bataan, april 10th, 1942, you have just into your commanding general has surrendered you to the japanese and the rumors are that the japanese don't take prisoners. you don't really believe this because you don't want to believe i

ben roethlisberger. a developing story that is rocking the steel city. >>> and aaron adrews fighting mad after she was secretly filmed in the nude. those stories right after the break. i >>> a violation of privacy for erin andrews. her attorney claims she was secretly videotaped in the nude in a hotel room and it was posted on the internet. she plans to seek criminal charges and file lawsuits against the unknown photographer and anyone who published the video. most of the web link have been removed but an antivirus expert says this actually infects mooders with -- computers with a virus. >>> and two nfl quarterbacks trying to get out of trouble and another one getting into trouble. >> two guys heading opposite directions. one guy has had great success, one guy still struggling so here is the deal. ben roethlisberger and michael vick, a two-time superbowl champ and the former coming off a sentence for dogfighting but it's roethlisberger who has trouble. a woman has filed a lawsuit against roth roethlisberger for raping her at a hotel room during a golf tournament in harrah's lak

they say ben mezrich clearly aspires to be the jackie collins or danielle steele of silicone vally. >y dissing you here? >> they definitely are not happy with the book. i don't mind being called jackie collins of silicone valley. >> she is very rich. >> they're not thrilled. it is a true story. written in my style which has the salacious element to it. >> what is the story behind the rise. it is not the nerdy kind of starting a -- starting computer company story that we would think. >> these were geeky, gawky kids at harvard who couldn't meet girls. what happened, mark zuckerberg hacked into computers at harvard, created a hot or not, you could choose who the hottest girl at harvard was and vote. it crashed the servers on campus. that led to the creation of facebook, one late night college prank it grew and grew and grew. >> different kind of book than you normally write. who did you find that started you on the story? >> really i was sitting at home. 2:00 in the morning i got an e-mail to my website, a kid a harvard student. he said my best friend co-founded facebook. it wasn't mark

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steele group, a business and legal consulting firm. formerly lieutenant governor of the blue state of maryland, he mounted a very strong challenge for the u.s. senate seat in 2006, losing out to ben cardin. in january, mr. steele was elected chairman of the republican national committee in a close-fought battle that went six rounds of balloting. he is the first african-american to hold that post. with a republican party in the political wilderness, mr. steele has jostled for a prime spot in the conservative limelight with such figures as rush limbaugh, and sarah palin. today, he has the stage to himself to talk about the republican alternative to the democratic plans of president barack obama and the party's congressional leadership regarding the critical subject of health care reform. raising the stakes of this debate, president obama has promised a health care bill by the end of the year. the non-partisan congressional office said democratic plans do not reduce the spiraling cost of health care programs, as the president has said he wants. this wednesday, the president will be holding a primetime news conference to try to take command of the health care agenda, following critic

steele group, a business and legal consulting firm. formerly lieutenant governor of the blue state of maryland, he mounted a very strong challenge for the u.s. senate seat in 2006, losing out to benn january, mr. steele was elected chairman of the republican national committee in a close-fought battle that went six rounds of balloting. he is the first african-american to hold that post. with a republican party in the political wilderness, mr. steele has jostled for a prime spot in the conservative limelight with such figures as rush limbaugh, and sarah palin. today, he has the stage to himself to talk about the republican alternative to the democratic plans of president barack obama and the party's congressional leadership regarding the critical subject of health care reform. raising the stakes of this debate, president obama has promised a health care bill by the end of the year. the non-partisan congressional office said democratic plans do not reduce the spiraling cost of health care programs, as the president has said he wants. this wednesday, the president will be holding a primetime news conference to try to take command of the health care agenda, following criticism of his

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ben cardin of maryland is asking the questions. he is the guy who beat michael steele for his seat in the senate. >> considering an issue, the majority upheld a state regulation barring a group of people from voting. i dissented on a very short opinion, pun one paragraph saying, the words are no state may impose -- i'm i'm paraphrasing it now. i'm not trying to read the statute. no condition or restriction on voting denies or bridges the vote -- the right to vote on the basis of race. i noted, that given the procedural posture of that case, that. had alleged that that is exactly what the state was doing. and i said, that's the allegation on the complaint. that's what a judge has to accept on the face of the complaint. we got to give him a chance to prove that and that, to me, was the end of the story. to the extent that the majority believed that -- and there was a lot of discussion among the variety of differences of opinions in the case as to whether this individual could or could not prove his allegation, and there was a suggestion by both sides that he might never

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ben cardin. i am with him 101st -- with her 100 percent. the senator, when he ran against michael steelethat campaign the operative went to jail because they stole michael steele's credit card numbers, social security numbers. it is disgraceful. his son had to drop out of college. so, how can he -- he is talking about the constitution. i do not want him particularly in to bring the constitution. host: in a section of this morning's "the washington post," it's a warning about disaster housing. u.s. authorities remain on able to provide emergency housing after large-scale catastrophes and must do more to prepare survivors for permanent relocation. the department of homeland security inspector general is expected to tell a house panel today nearly four years after hurricane katrina destroyed or damaged 300,000 homes on the gulf coast and left billions of dollars of waste and that diaspora that followed, federal homeland security officials could have a repeat scenario if another storm struck a major coastal city for a high magnitude earthquake hit populous and centers in california or the mi

steele group, a business and legal consulting firm. formerly lieutenant governor of the blue state of maryland, the mounted a strong challenge for the u.s. senate seat in 2006, losing out to ben carter in january he was elected chairman of the republican national committee in a battle that went six rounds of balloting. he is the first prime minister prom -- african-american to hold that post. today, he has the stage to himself to talk about the republican alternative to the democratic plans of president barack obama and the party's congressional leadership regarding the critical subject of health care reform. raising the stakes of this debate, president obama has promised a health care bill by the end of the year. the nonpartisan congressional budget office says it does not reduce the costs. this wednesday the president will be holding a primetime news conference to try to take command of the health care agenda following criticism of his input or lack of it from democrats on capitol hill. mr. steele has the chance to put forward an al turn tonight to what the democrats are offering. please join me in mcing mr. steele to the national mess club. >> it's a pleasure to be here. i

ben cardin. he was elected chairman of the republican national committee and a close-fought battle that went six rounds of balloting. he is the first african-american to hold that post. mr. steele has jostled for a prime spot in the conservative limelight with such figures as rush limbaugh and sarah palin. he has the stage to himself today to talk about the republican alternative to the democratic plan regarding the critical subject of health care reform. raising the stakes of this debate, president barack obama as promised a health care bill by the end of the year. the nonpartisan congressional budget office has said the democratic plans do not reduce the spiraling cost of health care programs, as the president has said. this wednesday, the president will hold a prime-time news conference to try and take command of the health care agenda. mr. steele has the chance to get ahead of the president and seize the agenda for republicans by putting forward an alternative to what the democrats are proposing three please join me in welcoming michael steele to the national press club. >> thank you very much. good morning. it is a pleasure to be here and i appreciate the national press cl