it's wbhc, bh for benton harbor, 96.5 f.m., formerly broadcast from the basement of benton harbor cityocal news and talk from benton harbor elected officials. they had been stripped of all their power of elected officials but at least they had one voice, right? now it has been shut down, too. emergency manager put it up on ebay, exercising absolute personal unelected control. over the weekend on ebay there were three bids for wbhc. the initial asking price was $5,000. there was that and a bid for $5,100 and $5,200 and then the listing disappeared. federal law says you can't sell a radio station licensed the way benton harbor state-appointed overseer was trying ing ting i. this was against the law, this listing. the fcc has to approve the selling of a radio station. the emergency manager still thinks he's selling the town's radio station. it can only go to a nonprofit or local government under the rules. the local government and emergency manager guy is himself a one-man local government. we heard from public radio capital last week which said they want to find a benton harbor nonprofit

it's wbhc, b-h for benton harbor. bhc formerly broadcasts from benton harbor city hall. .y had been stripped of all of their power as elected officials, but at least they still had this one voice, right? now it has been shut down, too. emergency manager put it up on e-bay, exercising absolute, personal, unelected control. >>> over the weekend on e-bay, there were three bids for wbhc. the initial asking price was $5,000. and then there was a bid for 5100 and 5200 and then the listing disappeared. turns out federal law says you can't sell a radio station licensed the way that the overseer was trying to sell it. so this listing on e-bay is against the law. the fcc has to approve any sale of a radio license, even a tiny station like benton harbor's. we know from talking to the emergency manager over the last few days, he still thinks he's selling the town's radio station. under federal rules, it can only go to a nonprofit or a local government. local government and the emergency manager guy is, himself, a one-man local government now. who else can it go to? after reporting on

benton harbor's radio station has been the voice of benton harbor, not much of course but it's stille and local and real. now here is another picture of benton harbor's radio station. on ebay. benton harbor's emergency guy closed the town's radio station and he's auctioning its stuff on ebay. f.m. low power license, broadcast transmitter, broadcasting equipment, bidding starts at $5,000. no takers so far, not a single bid. this is the second time he posted it on ebay. first auction timed out with no takers, three mikes, transmitter, mixing board, et cetera, cords included. the old listing that expired didn't include the license but now he's throwing that in for the same low price, everything must go. presumably somebody could buy all of this and cart it down the road somewhere and start broadcasting again. we don't know what the emergency manager intends to do if nobody bids on his enhanced posting on ebay. can the town still keep the station? do you still want them not to have that radio station? even if you can't get any money for it, even if michigan is in budget surplus now? bent

if he was, actually, before his court-martial, he was great friends with senator benton because they were all -- st. louis was a kind of the kicking-off point for the west.

. >>> in this unassuming three-bedroom home in mountain view, california, angela benton and wayne sutton hope to make history. >> here? see what this thing look like. >> one of them is supposed to be a sofa bed. >> the friends connected online, two black internet entrepreneurs trying to succeed in an overwhelmingly white industry. >> for whatever reason, african-americans tend to be consumers of technology and not really creators of technology. >> name me one black web tech founder or start-up ceo. where's the example of a black mark zuckerberg? >> last year only 1% of internet start-ups that received funding were founded by african-americans. so angela and wayne created the new media accelerator, newme for short, a groundbreaking program designed to speed up the development and success of minority-led start-ups in silicon valley. >> if you're going to be an actor, you go to l.a. if you're going to be in fashion, you go to new york. and if you're going to be in technology, then you come to silicon valley. >> modeled after similar programs, newme offers its dot-com founders immediate acce

well, two employees that were left and tied up but the police say one of the robbers is quincy benton a regular substitute teacher at an oklahoma middle school. he passed a national and state background check and the district says that they notified parents and at no time were students in any danger. >>> the houston rodeo starts today. two cows on the loose during the setup for the event. lucy was facial easy to catch. but two-year-old daisy proved to be quite a challenge. kept charging towards anyone who would come close and they hooked her up to a utility cord and held her still until a pen could be moved to her. >> federal prisoners may be able to pass the time by enjoying music on ipad or mp 3. u.s. bureaus of prisons is testing the idea by allowing women in a prison to listen to music. if all goes well it would allow for 200,000 or so inmates nationwide. the prison would basically be able to choose a list of a million approved songs and could help them deal with idleness boredom and stress. >>> back bear hides out for winter hibernation and emerges with multiples. >>> a mom and i

jay i can benton along 355 gaithersburg. >> the police say the girls were in the crosswalk but apparently crossing against the light when a white van heading nobd on 355 struck two of them. the driver of the van stopped on the other side of the intersection and he remained on the scene and tried to help the girls. this is a very busy area. lake forest mall is on one side of the street. a shopping center is on the other side of the street. accident investigators were here for much of the evening. they had the road closed. we're told the two girls, are in, what's described as critical condition but they are expected to survive. reporting live, jacky benson, news4. >>> someone in prince george's county got shot during a i have legitimate for a teenage murder vict victim. the man suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. 200 people gathered to remember 16-year-old chris smith who was shot and killed on tuesday. >>> a robbery spree in fairfax county. four kbriems in a five-mile radius in one hour. women were attacked. men were punched. guns pointed at the victims. tonight, we spoke with two of th

funny some of russia's best figure skaters have been showing off their talent at an exhibition of benton switzerland european bronze medalists really not unique and nikita paul for among the big names in davos with more is after him again it's three. once again the swiss mountains attracted some devoted figure skating fans male and serena and gathered the best pairs and single skaters from around the globe two time world champion mickey and of japan was one of them demonstrating an emotional style and breathtaking elegance how well it was russia which was represented most widely but from the country's young talents elisabetta took to misha an art to richie and ski to like a spectator so the show could have seen europe's best couples as well. me and nicky think it's a lot of one brooms at last month's european championship. losing to their gold when it comes better as to general and maksim turn call this time both players didn't have to compete but their beautiful glide in and engage in cruel graffiti showed their desire to never stop improving and an extraordinary light show and video pr

crony buddies who are now in control they're now in control the cities of flint pontiac ecord and benton harbor now some of the republicans pretty much uniformly across the party this is promoting there are they all like this some of these republicans are probably promoting this because they listen to the shills for the rich and they actually believe that nonsense but most of them like mitch mcconnell know that austerity over the past year you know for a half a million fewer government employees we have right now than we had when president obama came into office mostly fired in red states. and the next year they want to lay off more government employees mitch mcconnell knows the consequence that is going to shoot up unemployment and what's what's going to happen if one employment goes up between now and november president obama will probably lose the election this is why the republicans are willing to crash the economy again just to win an election and by the way that's just fine with their billionaire donors who make money when the economy goes down just like they make money when it goe

we'll talk to jesse benton about his strategy going forward. that is coming up next. don't go away.e power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for excellent fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion, also refreshing plus tea. could've had a v8. >> welcome back. just moments ago despite international outrage over a syrian government assault. russia and china veted a draft resolution calling for president assad to step down. in other news. actor ben buzara has died. he was 81 years old and beyonce may get a chance at a reality tv gig. there are respects that simon cowel is offering her a show on the x factor. if we do well with this philosophy and send a message and well on tuesday in various states in minnesota and do well, the rest of the country and world will notice that the right ideas is what we need and we don't need more. >> ron paul is getting a lot of applause. the caucus underway in nevada. ron paul wrapping up a town hall meeting. and mitt romney the favor to win and there is a great deal of time by ron paul on how to lure romney supporters. joining us is the ron paul

reason or understanding as far as what brought that law enforcement officer here to the home near bentonwark. bob redell, nb. >> it is decision day t circuit curt of appeals willish you are use its opinion on prop eight. it's not expected to be the last word. chris tee smith live us this continuing issue. >> good morning. what's happening is that a three-judge panel here in san francisco is expected to decide whether california's ban on same sex smarnlg constitutional or not after a federal judge struck down proposition 8 which defineds marriages between a man and a woman, then inclujudge wa ruled that the marriage fan violated the constitution. the only could go a number of ways including whatever the decision is it's expected to be appealed with both sides saying they would hike to see this taken all the way to the united states supreme court. reporting live, christie smith. back to you. >> we'll continue to watch all morning. 6:52. san jose police are still looking for the president is in a deadly shooting, finding 21 ramon luano suffering from a gunshot wound. he was behind an apartm

. >> joining me now, ron paul's campaign chairman, jesse benton.can't speak directly for mr. paul. you have people that have gone after romney for this flub. mr. paul being a little more forgiving there. what's behind that? >> we want to have an adult conversation on the issues. that's one thing that dr. paul is committed to. we don't need toe be going after people because of quotes taken out of context. we criticize governor romney for issues that america cares about. that's what we need to be talking about. we don't need toe be trying to take things out of context and pick and harp on that kind of stuff. everybody knows that governor romney is a gentleman. >> i want to talk about some of those other things. i would like you to explain why you believe the comments were taken out of context. we played them until their entirety. i point back to members of the republican party. your own party who seized this moment. many of them are not running for office, at this time. rush limbaugh being one of them. why do you believe the campaign was taken out of

ron paul's campaign manager jesse benton given interviews regular phone calls between the paul campaignney campaign. ron paul, interview with a radio show in north dakota said, well, not necessarily strategic alliance we come up with arguments we'll make yeah we talked about what debates we should do and what debates we shouldn't do. bill: what does ron paul get out of that? >> that is the big mystery. we don't know. one of the things we know ron paul wants to do is go all the way to the convention, republican convention in tampa and to have a roll there, to have impact either on the policy debate or potentially on the politics. so if mitt romney were to come to the convention as part of a contested convention where you have the four candidates remain in the race but nobody has 1144 delegates needed to actually seal the nomination --. bill: can could ron paul --, quickly back up your point, john king asked ron paul why he thinks rick santorum is a fake. paul did not back down. listen. >> because he is a fake. [cheers and applause] >> unreal. unreal. >> thank you. >> no i find it really

this section of roadway is shut down at benton court as techs are collecting evidence.rting live, bob redell, nbc bay area news. >> it's a residential area so probably not affecting traffic. >> just local traffic, laura. thank you very much for that note. the slowing off of the castro valley y, and accident, northbound 880 at tuneissen. local traffic is affected. but not affecting thorton. whatcha lookin' for hon? ah, these new jeans i want. i've been looking everywhere. new blue jeans? oh, don't be crazy, i've got tons of blue jeans. frank! frank! get my jean bin, susie wants my jeans. no she doesn't. here we go. nice and loose. ohhh. those are loose, but i actually just ordered three pairs of this kind. ooooohhhh. oh. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. >>> 7:30 on >>> 7:30 on a tuesday morning, february 7th, 2012. it is a beautiful start to the day here in new york city. hopefully where you are as well as we look from the top of the rock south, the empire state building, one world trade building, looking at the southern end of manhattan island where there will be a