i learned how to write from bob simon. bob simon taught me what writing and it was because of his example that i have been a student of writing ever since, a struggling student of writing but a student nonetheless. and with the permission of the academy and the permission of the judge, i'd like to dedicate them my award in the name of my friend and my colleague, bob simon. simon. >> bob simon died in a car crash. he collected 27 emmys believed to be the most ever by anyone. >>> coop up on "cbs this morning," british prime minister david cameron joins with us his only interview, he comes to studio 57 to talk about his new movie "the martian." he introduces to us cabin porn. no, it's not what you think. that's all. >> there is this kind of idea out there that staring at old cabins in the woods is therapeutic in some way. is that the way you see it? >> no, i never intended it that way, but it is remarkable how often we receive letters from people letting us know that it plays that role in their lives, that this is their way t

i learned how to write from bob simon. bob simon taught me what writing could be.nd it was because of his example that i have been a student of writing ever since, a struggling student of writing but a student nonetheless. and with the permission of the academy and the permission of the judge, i'd like to dedicate good morning. it's tuesday, september 29 i'm michelle griego. >>> good morning, taking a live look out at the golden gate bridge, we're saying good morning to those drivers out there. >> hey, how you doing bob? >> two three of them. >> here comes larry. yes, it's tuesday, september 29th. i'm michelle griego. >> hi everyone, i'm frank mallicoat. man it's early. 4:30. good to have you on board, by the way today is a holiday. did you guys know that? today is national coffee day. >> oh! >> hooray. >> 365 days a year. >> i saw that on twit they are morning. everyone that was up was logging in on that getting their caffeine high. >> i can't believe. you don't drink coffee? >> roberta doesn't do it. >> i know you would think though. >>> good morning everybody, t

>> bob simon, making the vatican out of leggos, trying to get it done. i'm helping him out.ng you out a little bit? >> you are, you are, but remind me rome wasn't built in a day. >> and we'll check this out coming up after the break. >> this is a special day, it is my dad's birthday today. >> and he always watches? >> he is always watching. he is watching right now, in fact. daddy, i love you, happy birthday. i wish i could be there with you. but we'll celebrate, because they are coming to philly. i'm getting stuff together. >> when are they coming? >> probably the 20th, september 20th. because they're doing their own trip, having their own birthday celebration. so once they're through with that, then, you know, i'm join in. >> happy birthday, glenn. hey, kit cat kline, can you put that picture up. i know it is not you who physically does it, your mom got so excited her head exploded. >> back on the fourth of july. >> oh, oh. those are fireworks, huey dillon took this picture every us. >> you know, i kind of new they were fireworks. >> just saying. >> her head really didn't

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busy making preparations for the pope's visit, but few have probably spent as much time as father bob simoneck this out. he built a replica of the vatican out of legos. >> love it. >> it's really good. >> made with nearly 500,000 lego bricks, including a pope francis figure ine. took him ten months to build it, combines two of his favorite things, legos and the church. will be on display at the flank lynn institute in philadelphia -- franklin institute in philadelphia. >> there is the pope, lego pope. >>> apple's latest mobile operating system is out, but downloading it may not be easy. some people reporting messages that say the update field. it could be a temporary server overload. it includes a low power mode to extend your battery life, screen that turns off when the phone is face down, safer six-digit passcode and a split view for the ipad. that's cool. >> that is pretty cool. >> also cool was lego pope. i like that. >> me too. >> vatican city. >> someone should do a lego of sal in the traffic center. >> let's not do that. >> in our spare time we could build a lego k tv u. >> yeah, bec

it was built by father bob simon of st. katherine of sienna church in moss coy, lock wack a county. >> as long as i can remember, i've loved leggos. i was also a boy who wanted to be a priest. and so, it was a natural thing to build churches. >> beautiful combination there. father simon says it took him about ten months to build that small scale vatican. and if you want to humble experience, try building any structure out of leggos, looks so easy on the box, then you start trying to build it. >> grew up with leggos, and all of the extra pieces, where do these go? >> exactly, throw them back in the box, no one will know. >> terrific, great to see him doing. that will we love this weather at least i do. the heat feels so good. >> it will get cold before you know it. fall weather fans waiting for it, it will get here, enjoy the next few days, sunshine, humidity level still low. kind of warm outside. we will be in the mid 80s next several days. still looking dry, even into the weekend, maybe some more clouds returning, cold fro

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father bob simon. >> as long as i can really remember, i've loved legos. i was also a boy who wanted to be a priest. and so it was a natural thing to build churches. >> the vatican in legos is on display at the franklin institute as part of its art of the brick exhibit. father simon says he used about half a million legos to create it. >>> for a complete look at where the pope will be and when, check out the special section on our wusa9 app. you can find traffic information, a schedule and list of items you can't bring along if you're planning to attend the historic event. >>> is it too soon to start talking about the weather for his arrival? >> right now we're looking a chance of showers tuesday. so we start to worry about that mid week period next week, but until then, warm, dry, low humidity. it does creep up a little bit this weekend. and i played with legos when i was a kid. >> i was going to say how is your lego game. >> it's pretty good. if you want to see that, there's a cool science museum as well at franklin institute. i've been there as well. >>

replica of the vatican and comes complete with the pope on the balcony and it was instructed by father bob simond about 500,000 lego pieces and i actually saw that the other week. it's pretty impressive. it's not for little kid, though. my daughter wants to climb all over it. >>> coming up after are local news on "cbs this morning," flight safety concerns. new warnings about a flaw in the air traffic control system. in our "pushing limits" series a look at how to travel at the speed of sound. >>> and pink floyd's founding member roger waters joins us in the studio. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. captioning funded by cbs >>> linda macdonald is captioning for you in real time. >>> >>> ah, the marine layer! kind of not there right now. how about that? the golden gate, people coming into work. is it out there, roberta? i guess we are going to have to find out. good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, september 16. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego. it is 4:30 right now. very early. so t

it was create beside father bob simon of st. katherine of siena church in moscow lackawanna county. >> as long as i can really remember i've loved legos. i was also a boy who wanted to be a priest. and so it was a natural thing to build churches. >> well done. father simon says it took him more than 10 months to build his small scale vatican. that takes probably a lot of patience. >> no question. there's the lego exhibit at the franklin institute. that fits right in. wow, very good. >> art of the brick. >> kate is here now you just keep giving us excellent news. >> i know. i hope this nice weather lasts until the pope gets here next weekend when off stretch of sunny weather it seems like eventually it will have to change. hopefully it doesn't change once he's here. it looks as of now it looks okay in the long range forecast. we'll get to that next week. talk about this week first was beautiful week it's been. temperatures warming up over the next couple of days. talking back to the mid 80s. and then a little bit cool down over t

with nuns in black robes with gashes and even a flag waving pope francis this was built by father bob simon in moscow lackawana county. >> as far as i can remember i loved legos and i was a boy wanted to be a priest. it was a natural thing to build churches. >> i loved. that father simon says it took him more than ten months to build his small scale vatican. two childhood dreams coming together. >> yes. >> it looks great. >> can you imagine kids to check that out. >> red carpet there. >> we will be right back. >>> boyfriend of the virginia reporter murdered live on television returns to the anchor desk. >> it is good to be back, folks. all of our families continue to grief and cope with the lost of adam ward and my love, allison parker, but in the two and a half weeks of her murder i can tell you the healing has begun. >> wdbj7 anchor chris hearst paid tribute to slain collogue allison parker and adam ward during evening broadcast monday night. police say a former collogue gunned them down and seriously wounded a woman before killing himself hours later. shooting renewed calls for stronger

>> bob simon. >> correct. >> which famous chef -- >> james beard. >> that is correct. >> nbc was the first network to broadcast coast to coast in color -- >> brooke. >> rose bowl parade. >> correct. >> in 1950. >> my partner. >> first television remote control created by -- >> lazy bones. >> that is correct. >> ha-ha-ha. >> sorry, 9/11 what was the longest uninterrupted coverage of a tv event in news history. >> this is awkward. >> princess diana funeral. >> o.j. car chase. moon landing. j.f.k. assassination. gulf war. >> j.f.k. >> during the run of the show lassie what dangerous scenario did timmy not face? a -- mike? >> don't think he ever fell down a well. %-p! [ applause ] >> are you serious? are you serious? >> i don't know what that means. >> cannot be -- >> he didn't hear the rest of the question. >> i know. >> in 1969, estimated 600 million worldwide viewers watched nasa's first moon landing what major news event broke the ratings record 12 years later, richard nixon resignation. o.j. car chase. reagan inauguration. >> reagan being shot. >> incorrect. >> prince charles and di

his name is bob simon, his love of legos goes way back.is own words. >> as a boy who wanted to be a catholic priest i would build churches, i have no idea how many peaces, i can tell you that in the st. peter's square we're beginning to work organ, 44,000 cobblestones alone, the the columns, 6,000 bricks, i bought them all myself. i don't want to know the cost, i don't want to know that figure. i started building the facade in september last year. it took from september to thanksgiving time to build the facade and then i realized the scale of the back part of the basilica, i almost stopped but i continued again, it became a great exercise in patience taking my time and perseverance and final lie st. peter's square in the front. the whole thing took ten months to really completely. >> the detail is amazing. >> the vatican splendor exhibit at the franklin institute runs through february of 2016 of next year. >> we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ most weekends only last a couple of days. some last a lifetime. hampton. we go together. always get the low

alison: father bob simon spent ten months making the papal tribute. it's on display at the franklin institute in philadelphia. jonathan: that is amazing. alison: nothing says welcome to america like legos. a lot of nice work there. we want to remind you to stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage of the pope's visit. we will have more than 40 hours of live coverage between us and the sister station, newschannel8. went to are airing a primetime special "the people's pope in d.c." on abc7 starting at 8:00. jonathan: "7 on your side" health matters update for you. you know the popular d.c. restaurant? it's back open for dinner tonight. they have been closed since the 10th. people reported being sick after eating truffle fries at the city location. the last test confirmed eight of the cases were salmonella but the doors are back open. alison: see if it's open on the roadways today. check on traffic. jamie sullivan has details. jamie: not a chance. we have a really rough commute. let's get to it. crash on the inner loop of the beltway. trying to get clo

. >> but bob -- >> simon, may i comment on that? was always going to be a huge a symmetry here. you want to say guys, the good times will last nor a considerable amount of time. you to pull back when you're going in the other direction otherwise you scare people. that was the fault. >> simon? >> yes? >> you are assuming these people knew for the last couple weeks what they would do. i'm assuming they went into the meeting waiting to see how everybody feels about it. >> i saw a chart today, people compiling the number of references to china in the beige book. that is as money at the prior eight combined, i think. how much of that will weigh at the table this morning and afternoon. >> if it is as it was when i was there, they usually just take the foreign things into account to the extent they expect it to affect the u.s. economy. i doubt doubt it will be a major topic, but china is extremely important. it is a second largest economy, the fastest growing. they had a very sensible exchange. i think what they did was sensible and modest

this is a replica, built out of legos by an unbelievable father bob simon. incredible.e here the whole run of the exhibition. >> how long did it take to you do this vatican here. >> about ten months, beginning in september last year and finishing it for late july this year. >> you will be here working on this. i will help you because i'm a master at legos. i don't know if you knew that. we will be back next hour. we will see progression as they build the vatican. this is 44,000 pieces of like brick, right here, 44,000. i'm messing it up. next hour we will come right back. >> 24,000. >> that is cool, we need to get over there. i need to see that. >> wonder if the pope will see it. >> they should bring it to the pope. >> do you think they will make a little pope out of legos. >> that would be a good one too. >> yes. >> waving like he does. >> that would be so cute. >> everybody is gearing up for the pope visit, how many days away are we now. >> it is happening this month. >> twenty-five. >> twenty-five. >> twenty-four. >> we will figure out the math. >> point is it is hap

father bob simon says it took him about 10 months and 500,000 lego brings to build the model.that take? >> 10 months, i think. >> would you eat lunch at all? >> rick reichmuth. where is rick? >> is down at the lincoln memorial this morning. how many pushups have you already done, rick, while you are there? >> two. you you have done two so far. i am just trying to warm up. >> pace yourself. >> i am trying to pace myself. i'm not nearly in the shape i used to be. sad. getting old. these guys are going to be doing pushups while we are doing weather. if you are around washington, d.c. right now. come on down and do some pushups for the boot campaign. show your support for troops. show you the weather maps and what's going on this morning. cooler air across parts of the west and midwest. can you see that on the current temperature map there. 47 degrees in rapid city. warmer across parts of the east. front moving in that direction. rain moving in this afternoon across parts of the great lakes. all the big cities looking at sunny skies for one more day and warmer temperatures it. tom

people are busy preparing for the pope's visit but few have probably spent as much time as father bob simonhis out. he built a replica of the vatican out of legos. it is made with almost 500,000 lego bricks, including, yes, a pope francis figurine right there. it took father bob ten months to build this. he says it combines two of his favorite things. legos and the church. the lego vatican will be on display at the franklin institute. one of my favorite places as a boy. it's in philadelphia. it will be there until february 15. >> i love that place. >> i have never been. >> it's a fascinating historical scientific place. >>> 7:57. major damage after a strong earthquake just devestates parts of chile. >>> about a thousand evacuees fleeing the valley fire at the napa county fairgrounds. their temporary homes. plans are in the works to find people a more permanent option. we will tell you about it coming up. >>> good morning. we are at this morning's commute. it's going to be slow if you are driving on 280 up to highway 17. we have a couple of new crashes that just popped up. we will tell you a

it was created by father bob simon, who spent 10 months creating this in his rectory. n mobile? lego pope vonnie: it is absolutely beautiful. tom: look at the people. one of my great moments at bloomberg was a phone call via, reporting on one of the previous post. vonnie: i wonder where the vatican bank is? tom: fantastic. next? their: in indonesia, national disaster management agency has announced a majority of the country's 34 provinces are suffering from a drought caused by el niÑo. it is the worst drought in the last five years. it has forced villagers to travel for miles for water. and farmers are demanding financial support from the government. tom: richard sharma making the distinction yesterday that el niÑo -- that indonesia is a real country with -- topie: looking at those photographs. tom: that is not san francisco, it is indonesia. vonnie: summer may be over, but sand sculptures are still in season. the 17th china international sand sculpture festival opens september 28. the theme is "a world in a grain of sand." have more thanll 50 sand sculptures. they are

bob janjuah from nomura and bloomberg's simon kennedy. on the pulse we will count down to the u.s.e single best chart. stay with us on "the pulse." we will tell you what to watch for the rest of the day. ♪ francine: welcome back to "the pulse." on bloomberg tv, we are streaming on the ipad and bloomberg.com. tom, jobs, jobs, jobs. tom: we will touch on that today as we go to friday with the critical reports in the morning. what we have that should be the most watch and most listened worldwide is dave and rose it -- david rosenberg. with inflation dynamics. he has an optimistic message for viewers and listeners alike. this is different from the david rosenberg months and years ago. forward are looking to an extended conversation. we will look at the media wars. you saw the business insider news on axl springer. reviews in newd york city. we will speak about everything digital. as you know, everything is in our cell phones. we will talk to him about where we are with five years with this stuff. francine: everything is it what that means in terms of disruption for the older companies

all the group here, i know bob and some other folks here. simon who's there with them, was the man earlier this year that swam from san francisco and only to get pulled out the water because there was sharks circling around him. he was just a few miles away from the finish of that swim. something i could never imagine doing. any case, in 2012, some more history here. she joined a number of swimmers on a relay team from san francisco and santa barbara. swimming day and night. despite that, raised over a million dollars for charity. on september 2nd, she successfully swam the northern ireland to scotland north channel. which was seventh of the ocean seven swim, which was unbelievable. all that you've done. she's been nominated for so many women of the year awards. which is unbelievable. supervisor christensen is right nearby. we were talking about her earlier today. i want you to know how amazed so many of us of what you did. i'm sure you heard that a lot. on behalf of everyone here, congratulations. i know after hearing that interview, i realize wh

all the group here, i know bob and some other folks here. simon who's there with them, was the man earlier this year that swam from san francisco and only to get pulled out the water because there was sharks circling around him. he was just a few miles away from the finish of that swim. something i could never imagine doing. any case, in 2012, some more history here. she joined a number of swimmers on a relay team from san francisco and santa barbara. swimming day and night. despite that, raised over a million dollars for charity. on september 2nd, she successfully swam the northern ireland to scotland north channel. which was seventh of the ocean seven swim, which was unbelievable. all that you've done. she's been nominated for so many women of the year awards. which is unbelievable. supervisor christensen is right nearby. we were talking about her earlier today. i want you to know how amazed so many of us of what you did. i'm sure you heard that a lot. on behalf of everyone here, congratulations. i know after hearing that interview, i realize wh

all the group here, i know bob and some other folks here. simonn earlier this year that swam from san francisco and only to get pulled out the water because there was sharks circling around him. he was just a few miles away from the finish of that swim. something i could never imagine doing. any case, in 2012, some more history here. she joined a number of swimmers on a relay team from san francisco and santa barbara. swimming day and night. despite that, raised over a million dollars for charity. on september 2nd, she successfully swam the northern ireland to scotland north channel. which was seventh of the ocean seven swim, which was unbelievable. all that you've done. she's been nominated for so many women of the year awards. which is unbelievable. supervisor christensen is right nearby. we were talking about her earlier today. i want you to know how amazed so many of us of what you did. i'm sure you heard that a lot. on behalf of everyone here, congratulations. i know after hearing that interview, i realize what a team effort that is. what an

all the group here, i know bob and some other folks here. simonthe man earlier this year that swam from san francisco and only to get pulled out the water because there was sharks circling around him. he was just a few miles away from the finish of that swim. something i could never imagine doing. any case, in 2012, some more history here. she joined a number of swimmers on a relay team from san francisco and santa barbara. swimming day and night. despite that, raised over a million dollars for charity. on september 2nd, she successfully swam the northern ireland to scotland north channel. which was seventh of the ocean seven swim, which was unbelievable. all that you've done. she's been nominated for so many women of the year awards. which is unbelievable. supervisor christensen is right nearby. we were talking about her earlier today. i want you to know how amazed so many of us of what you did. i'm sure you heard that a lot. on behalf of everyone here, congratulations. i know after hearing that interview, i realize what a team effort that is. wh

all the group here, i know bob and some other folks here. simon who's there with them, was the man earlier this year that swam from san francisco and only to get pulled out the water because there was sharks circling around him. he was just a few miles away from the finish of that swim. something i could never imagine doing. any case, in 2012, some more history here. she joined a number of swimmers on a relay team from san francisco and santa barbara. swimming day and night. despite that, raised over a million dollars for charity. on september 2nd, she successfully swam the northern ireland to scotland north channel. which was seventh of the ocean seven swim, which was unbelievable. all that you've done. she's been nominated for so many women of the year awards. which is unbelievable. supervisor christensen is right nearby. we were talking about her earlier today. i want you to know how amazed so many of us of what you did. i'm sure you heard that a lot. on behalf of everyone here, congratulations. i know after hearing that interview, i realize wh

simon, but most of europe is down roughly 2%. just off the lows there. back to you. >> see if we get any relief in about 28 minutes. thanks very much, bob.n the meantime, the reviews for the new iphone 6s are out, and after spending time with the iphone mossberg says it is the best smartphone out there, period. joining us this morning is walt mossburg, the co executive editor for read code. good morning to you. >> good morning, carl. >> you say it is the best smartphone out there. you say it streams. you say, boy is it fast. walk us through what impressed you the most. >> well, i think the biggest fundamental change here and the thing that i think may become a core feature of iphones and maybe even other phones going forward is that they've actually added a pressure sensitive screen to this phone, and that gives you a whole new range of navigation. you know, they brought out the idea of multi-touch in 2007 with swipe and pinching and zooming and scrolling with your finger and all the things that we're familiar with now. now they're saying press the screen and in a variety of situations, you will find quicker navigation, the ability to go

bob pisani, closing up 277 points from the dow. "closing bell" continues now on cnbc with kelly evans. >> thank you, simon.e "closing bell," everybody, i'm kelly evans and a gain turned into a rally, a sharp rally in the final moments a the the bell. the dow going out, with a gain of 1.8%, 294 points with just about the s&p adding 35 points. the nasdaq having a 2.5% gain today. pretty impressive. and we showed you earlier, there were very few names on the dow, if any, that actually ended up in the red. the 10-year yield we're showing you, an interesting one. the sector that was weak was utilities, interest rates creeping higher, that ten-year note. 2.19%. and finally, a look at the euro. it's hanging in there at about $1.12. but it has been moving higher over the last couple of months. trying to find the trend in the u.s. dollar will be a key one for markets here. we have the european central bank meeting tomorrow and, perhaps, here in markets today in stock markets just a sigh of relief that china's equity markets will be closed for the next couple of days as it focuses attention on the world war ii comme