so no, bert and ernie will not marry. >> put the gay rumors to rest about bert and ernie, that's goodon. so no bert and ernie will not marry. >> put the gay rumors to rest about bert and ernie, that's good. >>> here are some stories to watch today on abc news. venezuela's president hugo chavez, who claims he is cancer-free, will have more chemotherapy today in a cuban hospital. chavez will not say when he will return home. >>> investigators in missouri want to know if bicycle training wheels they found will help lead them to 3-year-old breeann rodriguez. she disappeared saturday. >>> and president obama welcomes the green bay packers to the white house today. he's celebrating the team's super bowl victory. >> reminds me football's around the corner. i love this time of year. >> you're a football fan? >> let's go saints. >>> finally, los angeles is known to lead the way when it comes to restaurants. let's hope this latest trend catches on and heads east. >> so you can check it out. it is not the e cuisine rob is excited for, let's be clear. it's the fun and games they're serving. >> th

i don't taste luxury. >> reporter: berte reviewed survey results from the tasting event. some participants described the taste of sake as safe or mo not nous. they say it is less exciting than beer or whiskey. berte studied how to make sake please the palate of non-japanese while maintaining its selling points. she came up with the idea of mixing sake with car bonnic acid, a common ingredient in soft drinks. but it is difficult to strike a good balance between sake and carbonation. if too much is added, the mild flavor of sake will be weak. if little, it may be too bland for non-japanese consumers. she conducts taste tests on her colleagues. >> translator: this could work. >> translator: it may be a good idea to make the sake a bit drier. >> reporter: in this way, a new type of beverage at this traditional brewery is being developed, sparkling sake. sparkling sake is fizzy, so berte works hard to make sure that bubbles do not kill the distinct aroma and flavor of sake. she decided to ask some of the tasting event participants to sample her new concoction. she chooses two

i don't taste luxury. >> reporter: berte reviewed survey results from the tasting event. some participants described the taste of sake as safe or mo not nous. they say it is less exciting than beer or whiskey. berte studied how to make sake please the palate of non-japanese while maintaining its selling points. she came up with the idea of mixing sake with car bonnic acid, a common ingredient in soft drinks. but it is difficult to strike a good balance between sake and carbonation. if too much is added, the mild flavor of sake will be weak. if little, it may be too bland for non-japanese consumers. she conducts taste tests on her colleagues. >> translator: this could work. >> translator: it may be a good idea to make the sake a bit drier. >> reporter: in this way, a new type of beverage at this traditional brewery is being developed, sparkling sake. sparkling sake is fizzy, so berte works hard to make sure that bubbles do not kill the distinct aroma and flavor of sake. she decided to ask some of the tasting event participants to sample her new concoction. she chooses two

are bert and ernie more than friends? >>> overseas markets got off to a quick start before losing some steam. tokyo's nikkei average lost 18 points today. hong kong's hang seng is barely up in late trading and in london the ftse is down early. now, on wall street the dow gained 423 points yesterday. the nasdaq index gained 111 points. and this was the fourth day in a row that the dow moved more than 400 point, something that's never happened before and one big reason for the upswing was the positive jobless claims report. positive corporate earnings reports also helped out. >>> americans looking for more welcome economic news should watch the gas pumps. energy experts say gas prices could drop 50 cents a gallon over the next few weeks. oil prices have been sinking amid the market fluctuations dropping below $85 a barrel in overnight trading. >>> and the u.s. postal service is thinking about cutting 120,000 jobs. it also wants to make major changes to its retirement and health benefit plans. the moves would require congres

they say bert and ernie are best friends.hey it remain puppets and do not have a sexual orientation. but denials don't stop suggestive songs like the one from the show "avenue cue." ♪ if you were gay that would be okay ♪ >> reporter: the petition organizer knew when he was 5 years old -- >> that i had an attraction to tarzan. >> reporter: so he wants role models to other young gay kids watching tv. though chances for a wedding for bert and ernie seem a wedding f and ernie still nil, but ernie may proclaim who he is true to, but the gay spoofs keep bubbling up. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> all right. well, keeping a close eye on the market and your bottom line, and others are thinking of ways to take advantage of the instability. we have top tips on how you can protect yourself. [ male announcer ] imagine all of your missed opportunities in one place. ♪ the front-row tickets you never bought. the lucrative investment you never made. the exotic vacation you never took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the

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cnn's jeanne moos has that. >> reporter: do bert and ernie have a secret?ame street" muppets coming out of the closet? >> what if they are gay? what if they're neck deep in each other's clothes every night? >> reporter: the anywgay buzz h been around for years but now there's an online petition asking "sesame street" to let bert and ernie get married. the petition was dreamed up by gay activist blair scott. >> when i was 9 years old i wondered if they were a gay couple. >> reporter: there's been a lot of purely circumstantial evidence. >> they sleep in the same room. >> reporter: they take baths together. look at the photo on their wall. >> that's our picture. >> reporter: oh, sure, there are also counter insidecations. >> let's talk about bert's eyebrow. no self-respecting homosexual would leave a unibrow like that unplucked. if there's one things gays do, it's pluck. >> reporter: they've been together more than 41 years, and just as folks speculated that tinky winkie the purple telly tubby with the purse was gay, rumors have swirled around the roommate mu

pretty good it did i told her that if we actually saw it and i did a child learn that language on bert and ernie because i'm going to be curious what are the room tax dollars i didn't spend on bert and ernie and use the child to sleep or spending so much time on each array to worry about the stock market of course getting a lot of coughing because there's just so high stress and tense all the time yeah and maybe he got some time back today some socks i fear for our future. days some days not going to happen i got around. thanks for joining me this evening and for you thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back on monday so the baby is using older rich men to help pay off their college loans they were all the rage in the media lately so we're going to speak to journalist melanie about her foray into the land of the free people and it means i'm going to get from the family a lot of your facebook to follow us on twitter you can catch everything on youtube dot com slash the alone a shelf and coming up next is adam versus the max. rachel martin here broadcasting live from washington d.

back to you. >>> should bert and ernie get married?there is a petition started by a gay group which asked that question. apparently more than 900 people think they should. the petition echoes the message of the it gets better project. the puppet pair has long been rumored to be a representation of a gay couple. >>> a lot of people are excited about this. the oakland raiders open their preseason at home against the arizona cardinals. >> one guy lawrence karnow may be pumped up. the raiders first game under the new head coach hue jackson. the regular season game is september. 49ers first preseason game at new orleans tomorrow night catch all the action with dennis o'donnell and company right here on cbs 5. >> lawrence is not just excited. ers perky. >> giddy! >> they were 8-last year. they really improved and i think they are putting it together. they lost a couple of key players. they have to get past that but i think the raiders things are looking up. >> the new coach hue jackson. i think he has a lot of energy and that's wearing off o

tax dollars have been spent on bert and ernie to teach the child as it would if you're spending so much time on each way to worry about the stock market of course you can hear a lot of cussing because there's just so high stress and tense all the time yeah maybe he got some money back today stocks bounce back i fear for a future. me two. days some days not going to happen i got around. thanks for joining me this evening and for you thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back on monday sugarbaby is using older rich men to help pay off their college loans they were all the rage in the media lately so we're going to speak to journalist melanie about her foray into the land of the ship of people in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the a lot of your facebook to follow us on twitter you can catch everything on youtube dot com slash the alone a show and coming up next is adam vs the max. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers on.

. >> reporter: do bert and ernie have a secret? the sesame street muppets coming out of the closet? >> what if they are gay? what if they're neck deep in each other's fuzz every night. >> reporter: the gay buzz has been around for years but now there's an online petition asking sesame street to let bert and ernie get married. the petition was dreamed up by gay activist lair scott. >> when i was $9 year old i wondered if they were a gay couple. >> reporter: there's been a lot of purely circumstantial evidence. >> they sleep in the same room. >> reporter: they take baths together. look at the photo on the wall. >> that's our picture. >> reporter: sure there are counterindications. >> let's talk about bert's eyebrow. no self-respecting homosexual would leave a union i brow like that unplucked. if there's one thing gays do, it's pluck. >> reporter: they've been together more than 41 years and just as folks speculated that the purple telly tubby with the purse was gay, rumors have swirled around the roommate muppets. >> bert, not gay, e

and ernie, ernie and bert are gay.don't have genitals. they're made of felt. indiana jones's' hat was made o felt. would indiana jones wear a gay hat? i don't think so. number two, let's talk about bert's eyebrow. if there's one thing gays do, it's pluck. they're an extremely plucky people. of that there is no doubt. horizontal stripes. not in my bathhouse, thank yoyo that's a fashion disaster. and yes, they bathe together, what roommates don't? it's called water conservation. try it some time. it's okay to wash your friends. here is the biggest question. what if they are guy? what is they're neck deep in each other's fuzz every night? why aren't we questioning bunsen and beaker? and what about dora the explorer? i believe what two muppets do in the privacy of their own home is between the two of them. as long as they use a rubber ducky. they're 6 years old. let's give them until they're 18 before they talk about getting married. in the meantime, let's keep an eye on these two. we have a good show tonight. jesse eisenb

. >> bert. >> who are you talking to? >> speaking of which, bert and ernie are not gay, there's an online campaign to get them to marry. and in an effort to ixnay that kind of talk around the kids, the folks of sesame workshop actually put out a statement saying they're just friends and reminding us, they're puppets after all and, quote, do not have a sexual orientation. as opposed to vladimir putin, the matthew mcconaughey of russian presidents who loves taking his shirt off and never misses a masculinity opportunity has been at it again, bending a frying pan and scuba diving, not that there's anything wrong with that. or with this, for that matter. ♪ i hear the train a comin' >> the technical name is boom chaka, boom chaka. the reason you know that's a johnny cash song was marshall grant, the bass player behind the man in black all those years. he died this week at 83. >>> and you know how every summer there's a song that we always associate with that summer? it's safe to say this year's song is "pumped up kicks" by fos

. >>> a petition on change.org calls on pbs to acknowledge muppets bert and ernie are gray, to teachren and parents its acceptable and homo phobia is wrong. >>> and tv guide reports that ashton kucher taking over for charlie sheen on "two and a half men" is tv's highest-paid actor, earning $ 700,000 an episode. although tmz said it's $800,000. regardless, that's still behind sheen's former salary. they're making peanuts compared to simon cowell who is making $75 million for "the x factor." >> bert and ernie -- rubber ducky? the whole thing is getting a little -- >> let's wrap this up now. i'm lynn berry, this is "first look" on msnbc. "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. >>> the dow's wild pendulum swings back into red as the average drops 520 points with asia moving lower this morning as well. the markets concerned about the health of u.s. and european economies. the question is -- what can and should president barack obama and congress do now to stop this slide? >>> meanwhile the united states strikes back against the taliban fighters believed to have downed the amer

the day we actually saw it and i got a child learn that language on bert and ernie because i'm going to be very upset that our government tax dollars have been spent on britney which uses child as it would be if you're spending so much time on each way to worry about the stock market of course getting a lot of cussing together is just so high stress and tense all the time yeah maybe he got some time back today stocks bonds back i fear for future. me too. some days some days not very good i got around. thanks for joining me this evening add it for you and thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back on monday so the baby is using older rich men to help pay off their college loans they were all the rage in the media lately so we're going to speak to journalist melanie about her for a into the land of the people and it means i'm going to get me from the family a lot of our facebook followers on twitter you can catch everything on youtube dot com slash the alone a show and coming up next is adam versus the max. it used to be an ideal place for a holiday with a change in a moment. the

we ask this question because some people want bert and ernie to get married. is not appropriate. anyone opposing to seeing characters of different orientations is simply closing their eyes to the reality of life. why push the subject so far? i teach my children to respect others but i think it's going way too foor when it's in my living room and my children's tv shows. can we stop trying to be so politically correct on this? it's getting ridiculous. with the straight characters on children's television are we giving our kids a balanced view of the real world. >> what is unbalanced about cookie monster?

i want to start with a quote from bert. because bert had a very good comment the first night that we met. and it's sort of the premise for my concluding remarks here today. bert said the other night that president's officer come in wanting big change. as he said, the continuing spaces is a morage. to get a new a, you need a deal. it's difficult for presidents to do this. i would simply recall to you that i think it was in the second debate with john mccain that barack obama was asked you want to do all of the things, reform health care, completely reconfigure foreign policy, you want to do a whole bunch of other things, can you do this all at once. he said yes i can do this all at once. which is also sort of what george bush was saying and also i think bill clinton was saying in 1993. the fact is presidents cannot do it all at once, but they often try to do it all at once. and i guess what i'd like to do to illustrate the difficulties they have in trying to do it all at once is to talk about some research i've done on presi

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citracal. >>> we finally have an answer to one of the great mysteries, bert and ernie just friends.riage advocates starting an online campaign to tie the characters but "sesame street" says the odd couple is strictly plutonic. "even though they're identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics they remain puppets and do not have a sexual orientation. >>> another horrible day on the links for tiger woods who has suffered a major meltdown at the pga championship in georgia where he's tied for 129th place. his worst opening round in a major ever. tiger has not won a major tournament since george w. wash was president. there are some women saying karma but not me, just good luck to everybody at the pga championships. that wraps up this hour of "jansing and company." veronica de la cruz is up next. i'll see you this weekend covering the iowa poll. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? millions? tens of millions? hundreds of millions? not a single cent. the united states postal service doesn't run

years later and i think that we're going to finally see justification with gadhafi eliminated. >> bertevening. >> thank you. >> next hour, more on the end game in libya including a look at the flamboyant and sadistic lifestyle of moammar gadhafi's family including son hannibal and his wife in a mansion. a woman who worked as a nanny. hear how she was tortured for failing to keep a toddler quite. that's ahead on cnn. >>> when we come back, we'll look at amazing images taken by you. first this programming note. he had the most powerful job in the country but his toughest job was saving his own life. tonight at midnight, dr. sanjay gupta and former president bill clinton look at the signs, tests and lifestyle changes that could result in the last heart attack at midnight eastern on cnn. and at many of the places their summer plans take them. it pays to switch, it pays to discover. i go to e-trade and tap into the power of revolutionary mobile apps to trade wherever. whenever. life isn't fully experienced sitting idly by. neither is investing. [ birds chirping ] ♪ i like your messy hair ♪

look around the city, bert out cars, blackened buildings, wreckage strewn across the street. all signs of the army operation. international sanctions and pressure to have appeared to have little impact on the president. the administration is preparing to call publicly for the president to step down. the obama administration wants people to do more. >> what we really need to do is to sanction the oil and gas industry and we want to see europe take more steps in that direction. we want to see china take steps with us. we want to see india. >> president bashar al-assad remains in power. it appears that he still has the support of the army. the protest and the violence, the killings and the funerals, continue. months after the uprising began, no one really knows how this conflict will end. >> you've quite an intriguing story. the chinese are celebrating the hundred ghost festival. what is that? >> it is the hungry ghost festival. it is to try to appear -- a list to try to appease the spirits of the data walk among us. -- dead but welcome on the spirit >> it is the chinese version

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the bromance between bert and ernie is strictly platonic, people. i just said that.ry? "sesame street" has issued a statement clarifying that bert and ernie are just friends. they are not getting married. this comes after an internet petition urging the muppets to make it official, now that same-sex marriage is legal in new york. bert and ernie have been roommates since 1969, leading some to speculate that they might be a couple. but the show says they have don't have sexual orientation. as one of the puppeteers reminded people, they don't exist t low the waist. that is your "pop news heat index." >> i know. muppets are coming to the big screen. >> they are. and very, very good friends. >> they are. >>> and we want to welcome steve villanueva from wtnh, new haven, in for sam today. >> you guys ready for a good concert? fur first of all, let's get to the weather. we got the tropics starting to heat up. out in the atlantic a couple of tropical waves. now, there are two that have good potential of becoming tropical systems later on. and if they do, they will be frederic

. >> should i write you, bert or joanne. now, is the "a" capitalized? >> yes, it is, thank you very much. >> [inaudible] no, this is really something. >> this is a nice place, isn't it? >> yeah, it is. >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> oh, you know him? >> yeah. >> i'm telling my people. you know, i never been in your firm, and i know them all. >> oh, my god. >> oh, wow. >> hey, congratulations. >> oh, my god, and you guys know each other? >> oh, the connections. >> we've been together at a lot of meetings, a lot of meetings. >> i didn't know you guys knew each other way before me, yeah, yeah, yeah. you woke me up the other morning. >> congratulations. >> quiet reading, enough is enough. >> still a player, still a player. >> good to see you. >> all right. >> all right. here we go. let me sign the book while you do that. >> yeah, with a sharpy. >> i didn't mean to wake you. i bet it's going to get recorded. >> no. go by clifford or cliff? >> cliff. >> how are you? my sister lives in switzerland, and she

bert and ernie were created to teach preschoolers.friends with those different from themselves. as puppets they don't have any sexual orientation. >>> the phantom killers of the taliban. the cia downplaying the number killed by the drones. we'll talk about the controversy with a counterterrorism expert right after this. unmanned drone aircraft long been a major weapon in the u.s. battle against al qaeda and the taliban in pakistan. civilians have sometimes been killed by mistake. now a report by a british and pakistani journalist group says the civilian death toll has been far higher than the u.s. acknowledged. according to the london-based bureau for investigative journalism. thousands of people have been killed since 2004. of those, the report says 385 were civilians. a senior u.s. official tells cnn that report is way off the mark. he says that since 2001, 2,000 militants have been killed in drone attacks in pakistan and only 50 civilians have been killed. joining us from washington to talk more about this is brian fishman, a count

and why there is a push for bert and ernie from sesame okay, kids, we can record one more show.hould get it? i really love jennifer. yeah, she's great. yeah. yeah. kyle's got that thick head of hair. and that should be rewarded. okay, moment of truth. on "three," say which kid you love the most. ooh, fun, yeah. one, two, three. jennifer. jennifer. whoa. wow. she's so pretty. yeah. or we give it to kyle. it's really all he's got. [ male announcer ] switch to at&t u-verse and record four shows all at the same time. just $29 a month for 6 months. at&t. >> the is targeting copper and other metal. thieves targeting copper and other metal. this is what they are after. >> this is what metal thieves are going after, the heavy brass caps on the fire hose connection of who they are missing from this apartment building. that could hamper the firefighters ability to fight a price. >> worst-case scenario we are not able to pump water to this location if we would have to take additional steps and measures to bring the water up through the window and then come from the street reverses' pumping

tom ammerman died in the crash, today's news a huge relief for his brother bert. >> i never thought i would live to see the day that this killer, this coward, would be removed from power. >> reporter: just a few years ago, gadhafi was being embraced by western leaders, the alleged terrorist has abandoned his weapons of mass destruction. but the thaw ended when the arab spring spread through libya. gadhafi's response? more brutal repression. jim maceda, nbc news, london. >>> now we turn to a developing story in this country with millions of americans stretched along the east coast on summer vacation, we have a hurricane to tell you about tonight, hurricane irene. its heading towards the bahamas and then later this week targeting the united states. late this afternoon, the international space station took some photos of irene as it moved off puerto rico. weather channel meteorologist brian norcross is with us tonight, and, brian, all those eyes are on the blue lines, the projection maps doesn't make the folks in the carolinas very happy. >> not the carolinas and not points north, brian.

the level measured at the end of that pole was at 10,000 millie see berts per hour. the worker was standing, it was at 40 millisieverts per hour. so it does appear to be more of an isolated spot where the ra radiation was detected. >>> it if you own ford pickup, a huge recall from ford. more than one million pickup trucks from 1997 through 2003, including the popular f-150, a problem with straps that hold the fuel tank could cause the vehicle to catch fire. so far one person has been injured. >>> so after months of negotiations and partisan bickering, we have a debt limit deal that nobody thinks is all that great. but it does solve the immediate issue of raising the debt ceiling. we will talk about the deal, what happens next, as well as the political and economic impact with our cnn correspondents and analysts. joe johns is on capitol hill, alison kosik is at the new york stock cexchange and gloria borgr is in our washington bureau. let's begin with joe johns. he's at the center of the action on capitol hill. the debt deal is expected to pass. how many votes does it

and you introduced as to the relatively unknown, at least unique, and unheralded man, nature by bert andrus and who has been given command of the federal garrison at fort moultrie, also when harbor. in particular, help us understand what is going on in anderson's mind as he is giving the command of what might be a hopeless task. >> guest: well, i do want to thank you for your introduction and also the part about being young. i've gotten us a couple times. it just sort of thought, only in the context of civil war historians to someone who is 40 years old get to be called this kid all the time. anyway, as a kid. but anyhow, i am glad you brought up this character of robert andersen because he is one of my favorite characters in all the book. he is the first year of of the union cause, largely forgotten today by most people except for the real sort of civil war that. and he is fascinating to me because he is a very well at ichiro. he is sort of an accidental euro, which to me is the most interesting kind. he's a southerner, from kentucky. he comes from a slaveholding background and in f

increase their order flow but you know the point about the you know the main point about this stacey or bert is that what the c.m. is not mentioning and what people tend to forget is that on an exchange at the new york stock exchange seventy percent of the volume is computers trading with computers and they do this you know people think that prices are the result of supply and demand and the a lot of people want something for the price goes up and it happens as the result. at the tail end of the transaction you end up with a price based on the buyers and the sellers but that's not true any more you have traders on wall street like goldman or j.p. morgan first to figure out the price they want ahead of time they create the algorithm they release the algorithm on to the floor of the exchanges and then the algorithms take prices to the pre-determined levels that were set ahead of time a third of the trade and to do this you need overwhelming computer power as a says seventy percent of the trades are done by computers to create prices that are pre-determined and that of course is the very defini

they are bert -- better. >> apple has to lookover its shoulder. google is a very big company. >> reporter: officials must approve the deal because motor rolla is a big maker of phones google would compete with. >> reporter: tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >> that deal was one of a number that helped push stockess higher for the third -- stocks higher for the third straight trading day. >> time warner announced its buy on inside communications and they plan to purchase a animal nutrition firm. the dow jones industrial average rose 214 points to end at 11,482.90. the nasdaq composite index rose 47.22 to 2,555.20. >>> the lines have been drawn, the maps made and california has new districts. but a political and legal fight is already underway over it was fair or foul. whether it gives preference to democrats or republicans. >> i don't know anywhere in the constitution that it says there are republican and democrat districts. says there are legislative districts. they don't belong to any party. >> they voted to adopt new maps. there are 177 new distri

last hour i asked bert ammerman who lost a brother in the bombing knowing how he felt knowing megrahi >> i'm happy that megrahi, as far as i'm concerned can't die soon enough. whether he dies in libya or comes back to the united states or scotland, at this point is irrelevant. >> the fact that the ntc says they will not extradite him, does that bother now? >> no. this all changed, martin, a couple of weeks ago. as i have been saying over and over when people asked me, the big fish is gadhafi and his sons. as long as gadhafi and his sons are eliminated or arrested we could try gadhafi for the bombing of pan am 103 p. we have to stay focused and have gadhafi and his sons eliminated. if we do, my brother and the other 269 people didn't die in vain. >> the downfall of moammar gadhafi revealed his family's excesses and cruelties. his son hannibal led the life of a flamboyant playboy. cnn's dan river learned about hannibal's sadistic wife when he met a woman who worked for her. dan? >> reporter: we went looking for insight into how the gadhafi sons lived. we found their holiday beachside co

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. >> bert ammerman lost a brother on that flight.ank you. >> next hour, more on the end game in libya including a look at the flamboyant and sadistic lifestyle of moammar gadhafi's family including son hannibal and his wife in a mansion. a woman who worked as a nanny. hear how she was tortured for failing to keep a toddler quite. that's ahead on cnn. >>> when we come back, we'll look at amazing images taken by you. first this programming note. he had the most powerful job in the country but his toughest job was saving his own life. tonight at midnight, dr. sanjay gupta and former president bill clinton look at the signs, tests and lifestyle changes that could result in the last heart attack at midnight eastern on cnn. whether it can be done safely and responsibly. at exxonmobil we know the answer is yes. when we design any well, the groundwater's protected by multiple layers of steel and cement. most wells are over a mile and a half deep so there's a tremendous amount of protective rock between the fracking operation and the groundwa

democrats tend to be bert at that than republicans and hopefully that is true today.in western wisconsin, democrats are in good shape there, and battles all over the state. and we need three victories tonight to send a loud and clear message to governor walker and the rest of the republicans in the nation in office, you cannot go after worker rights and suppress the vote like you have been trying to do, and hopefully we are successful tonight. >> as you point out, $30 million spent on to get out the vote efforts by the outside groups who have set up camp in small towns and describe the mood of what it is like in wisconsin right now as so many people are invested in what the election turnout is going to be. >> well, the election turnout we are expecting to be high, and both sides expect it to be high as a matter of fact. but as far as the mood goes, thomas, when you have family members who cannot talk about politics and golfing buddies who refuse to talk about collective bargaining because they will get into a fight and from one state to other and i have been around th

. >>> bert earn nee getting a lot of attention for their relationship on "sesame street." there's an online petition to have the puppets have a gay marriage. they say it could be an opportunity to teach tolerance. "sesame street" is shooting down the idea. they're best friends. not friends with benefits. the show says they have no sexual orientation. really? ernie says rubber ducky's the one. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resou

should bert and ernie of "sesame street" get married.today the program made a clear answer and said no. almost 9,000 people signed an online petition organized by change.org as a way to change tolerance but although the puppets are identified as male characters and have many human characteristics, they don't have a sexual orientation and will not be getting married. >> and they are just buddies. >> yeah, just good friends. >> our good friend, our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, somewhere among the people in campbell and the food. jeff, take it away. >> oh, yes, it's looking peachy out here tonight in campbell. the city of campbell, known for its canning industry in the past, but it's also known for its music in the park when it comes to summer. we're going to listen to some of these summer jams and we're going to talk campbell culture coming up with my very comfortable seven-day forecast in just minutes. >>> that all sounds good. not so good news for outfielder carlos beltran. plus the a's have liftoff north of the border. sports comin

>> oh, it's significantly bert. all you really see right now are puddle, and that's great news because over here as well the water was topping over the banks, basically. we saw the same thing in the west village and in the meat packing district. it was making things quite a mess. but then the winds slowed and the rain slowed and that seemed to help a lot after the tide had risen. that's good news for new york because the worst has definitely passed. what you see now is the high winds, which i know you can tell behind me. this is where a number of tourists have come. the statue of liberty over my shoulder. there are a lot of people out. occasionally a police officer will go by and sort of shout out to people, listen, the danger is not over, there can be live wire, be cautious, but for the most part people are kind of ignoring that, milling around, bringing their kids out. so far it's actually not been terrible damage or at least the bad damage that we were expecting. as we drove through west village earlier, you coul

that perhaps a man of different consequence and who understood the congress better, who was a bert negotiator, who understands the dynamic of that process would have been more effective than this president was. >> but, charlie, the big difference between lyndon johnson and barack obama is lyndon johnson had overwhelming majorities in both houses with a democratic party that was completely behind him. and, by the way, a whole bunch of liberal republicans who agreed with him on civil rights as well. >> and no filibuster. the filibuster was not considered routine. >> the filibuster was used in the 1960s and '70s once a decade. that's including the vietnam war including civil rights. 80% of legislation was bcked in congress by the republicans using either the filibuster or threat of a filibuster. even the stimulus, remember, it only passed because they had 60 votes. >> rose: why aren't liberals yup set then? if you make the case that he has not done only as expected but also very well in terms of his achievements. >> i think liberals have a hard time holding on the power and being comfortable wit

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bert in el monte, california, be patient, jack, supercommittee members not a mere senator or representativete constituents, big oil, securities, investment, pharmaceutical firms which control congress at the local level, they need more time to talk supercorporate free speech, money. tom writes, the republicans have sworn to say no, so it doesn't matter if they ever meet. nothing will come of it. in the clinton years we had a surplus. bush cut the taxes for the rich, we have a deficit. the correct answer to our economy is to end the bush tax cuts for the superrich and the republican answer is no. tisha on facebook, the supercommittee is waiting for the highest bidder. angie writes, the supercommittee will wait until the very last minute to present their plan because the longer americans have to vet it, the more likely is it will sink. washington runs on brinksmanship. and michael in mexico says, i

the payroll tax and so the economy would have been much weaker, and so i made a decision that it was bert point to strengthen the economy because we only extended those tax cuts for another two years, and we would be able to take our case to the american people as the economy got stronger as to why we've got a different approach than the republicans do. now on this debt ceiling, it's pretty straightforward. i felt that it was important for us to try to solve the problem rather than play games, and that was particularly important because if we had allowed default, if you think that the stock market gyrations this last couple weeks was bad, if we had had a default, then we might not genuinely might have gone back that a financial crisis because the truth of the matter is even though we got downgraded, i don't know if you've noticed, but when -- when the market got all crazy, what do you think people bought? where did they put their money to avoid risk? they bought treasury bills so the market voted to say we have complete confidence in america right now, but if we had defaulted, that meant

no bert dream to have -- better dream to have -- rick: i was going to say, sounds pretty good to me.s, wendall. jenna: sounds good to all 65 million of us along the east coast. listen, this doesn't normally happen this time of year, but all bets are off in atlantic city, new jersey, where the hurricane is forcing casinos to close their doors. buses are rushing residents and tourists to higher ground for safety. >> property is property, lives are lives. >> it is what it is. sounds like it's going to be a deluge, but we'll get out of there in time. >> i know that it can be, you know, horrific, or it could not be. it can change. the eye can change, so we'll see. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by

bert lewis. [applause] come up here if you will. >> greetings, everyone. i want to thank my friend and colleague, congressman hank johnson. and thank you congressman lewis and congressman bishop. and also, thank you for your service to georgia. thank you in the black caucus for your service not only to your local districts, but for your work for the united states and hard work that you are taking on. thank you for being here in georgia tonight. the key to economic recovery, i think we all know, lies in their creation of jobs. we have got to get americans back to work. we have got to get america working if we're going to seriously say we are beyond this recession. in cabot county we have 7000 employees and a budget of $1.6 million -- $1.6 billion and i know a little bit about public policy. we cannot create a good public policy by cutting and slashing the budget. we have to stimulate by creating jobs. we have a multidimensional approach to doing that. in katia county, because we passed a water and sewer capital improvement program and we are going to be pum