(blume) i was going to ask how that happened in the first place. was it a child who went home and said, "we heard a story today in school"? no, the teacher photocopied the book. the children--realize these children could not read at all. they were third graders who could not read. and ruth did everything she could to get 'em to read. she got this book. and because it's a call and response book, each child got to answer back their own little part, do a little dance, you know, and all the kind of fancy stuff. and they loved the book so much, the begged for a copy. and that's where the problem began. she made a photocopy. every child had one. it just so happened that one parent saw a photocopy, and that began the problem. (paulson) there's a lesson here: obey the copyright laws. [laughter] well, you know, that's problematic for me, a $17 book and a poor little school. what can you expect a teacher to do, of course, after all? so you were ahead of napster; that was-- [laughter] your files were being downloaded to young people. yeah, mm-hmm. there are a

blume brume thank you, mr. president. i ask that the quorum call be lifted. officethe presiding officer: wit objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. i want to ask if there's unanimous consent that i be permitted to join the resolution that has been offered by senators durbin and a separate resolution offered by senators collins and klobuchar relating to the fight against alzheimer's disease. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. all of us have been touched by this dreaded and pernicious disease. alzheimer's strikes families, loved ones, colleagues, coworkers, friends, acquaintan acquaintances, literally all of us, and increasingly so because the numbers are multiplying, almost epidemic-like across the country. of course, classifying it as an epidemic is difficult to do because we scarcely understand. we are only beginning to comprehend what the causes and the modus operandi are of this pernicious ailment. and i am joining in these resolutions because of the need to express and call attention to the de

they include judy blume, one of this country's most popular and most frequently censored authors, caroliviaron, whose critically-acclaimed book, nappy hair, was challenged in a brooklyn school, and cammie mannino, a bookseller who took a stand against censorship. welcome to all of you. i have to begin with judy. you know, there are these lists every year about the most banned books. each and every year, you're in the top five. you're sort of the beatles of banned books. how did you obtain this status, and what are you doing wrong? uh-oh, you know, you're asking the wrong person. it's never the-- the person who wrote the books is always surprised.

the army sent some very good historians, including people like martin blume and seven, who became one of the finest world war ii historians and he was a sergeant in world war ii, out to interview soldiers virtually as they're coming off the battlefield. sometimes it was within hours. frequently within days or weeks. these extraordinary transcripts of those oral histories are in the national archives. there's hundreds and hundreds of them from all major actions, particularly late in the war. so there is back in there are many, many other contemporaneous , archival records of one sort or another that allow you not to rely on 70 year old memories. as much as i admire what you and others do now, sometimes you try to cheese that the anecdote that he would never get anywhere else by some guy telling you in 2013, even though it may have happened in 1943. i'd rather go back to 1943 myself. >> yes, i read extensively about world wars one and two and thank you for greatly enriching my library. it always astonishes me our capacity to do harm to ourselves. my wife always wonders why i immersed my

>> we're running at about, you know, first of all, higher at bluming dae bluming dales, a much higherbut overall, somewhere in a 10% range. the thing is, you can't look at that anymore. how do you define a sale when a customer buys it online and returns it in stores and buys something else in the store. was that an online sale? and so you start -- that's when you start thinking about this whole omni channel consumer. and for us, i've made it clear to my organization, you know, we don't care how the customer chooses to shop. it's up to us to solve that for that customer. and that's how we define the customer and it's working for us. >> terry, as you think about this holiday season, what are you seeing in terms of what's working in terms of gifts. and you've remodeled, there's more to grow, how is that doing in bringing in the new customer? it looks great. >> well -- thank you. first of all, i have to admit, you know, when you say what can i control and can't control? i'd like to say i can control the weather. i haven't been able to do that for the last three years. apparently we're con

. >> r officials including connecticut blume senator richard bloomingthal that said they don't expect a full account of that day. it's unlikely to give future re will recommendations. >> i think we can always learn from every incident. there will be a record in the are report to draw lessons even if there's no specific recommendations about how to do it better. >> specifics including 911 callsre and personal testimonies are expected to be part of a much longer police report thousands of pages long.leasing t some have fought against releasing details out of concernctims' for the victim's families.ier this earlier this year the he connecticut legislator passed the law prohibiting the release of certain image, video or audio recordings if they constitute unwarranted privacy. one woman told for her family kno there's always a great unknown. uest >> i would love to know why. i don't expect that to be in the police report. we'll never know what went on in the shooter's mind. >> reporter: also today a hear having scheduled on whether the rele 911 tape should be made public.e, no >> thank you