scott bolden, an attorney representing brenda richardson said at worse, it's a poor choice of words. >> easy to understand that miss richardson's comments, a poor choice of words, meant that that was mr. barry's feelings in regard to her poor performance and that doesn't mean he was controlling the dollars. >> reporter: bolden said his client was involved in no wrongdoing and the inspector general's investigation will ultimately clear her name. barry said he's done nothing wrong and outside of the council chambers on tuesday, he complaind about the recording saying it should never have been made. >> nobody in the meeting consented, and misswise aught to be prosecuted -- mess wise aught to be prosecuted for doing something illegal. >> reporter: no one is -- for making the recording. sources say that eric go lay made the statement about the tape out of concern that barry's office was involved in the day-to-day decision making on grant activity, not because it was illegal, because it raised questions about perception. the framework the couple grants called for individual groups to admin

bolden, who has flown into space four times, will be the agency's first african-american administrator. >>> after special election in california, judy choou has become the first chinese woman elected to congress. she actually defeated her own cousin, 62% of the vote. >>> after more than three decades, the nation's tallest building, of course the chicago sears tower, will no longer be known by that name. starting tomorrow, the sky scraper once home to sears and roebuck will be known as the willis tower after the insurance company that purchased the rights for the 110-story building. >>> now, here's an early look how wall street will kick off the day today. the dow opens 8,616 after zooming up to 256 points wednesday. the s&p jumped 26. the nasdaq shot up as well, 63 points. >>> taking a look at overseas trading the the nikkei rose 74 points and the hang seng gained 103 points. >>> one of those was better than expected earnings from intel. for more on that and all your early business headlines we turn to louisa bojesen at the london headquarters of cnbc. good morning, louisa. >> reporter

general bolden takes over nasa at a critical time. nasa is in drift. it needs a leader, but it also for general bolden to be successful as the leader of nasa, he has to have the backing of the president of the united states. who is the one that can give the ultimate leadership to our nation's space program. and so it was such a privilege for me, mr. president, to come and make this unanimous consent request and to see the senate adopted by your order unanimously the nominations to be confirmed of the administrator and the deputy administrator of nasa. needless to say there are enough smiles that are going to be across america as a result of this action. thank you, mr. president, and i yield the floor. mr. whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from road i'd land. -- rhode island. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. today i proudly cast my vote to pass out of the senate health education, labor and pensions committee landmark legislation that will fundamentally change the direction of our dysfunctional health care system. com

in fact, one of our correspondents jim bolden is in the area.e him on the phone to try to tell us more about this. jim, what do you know? >> heidi, you can see the smoke from this building right in the heart of the historic soho district of london and very thick, white, gray smoke billowing into the sky. four-story building an 18th century building and very historic area. many tourists in the dean street full of cafes and bars and the center of the film industry and music industry, as well. i can see over a half dozen fire trucks and here are some ambulances and i'd have to say at the moment the scene is pretty calm. they have evacuated the area and evacuated a lot of the pubs and restauran restaurants. we have been pushed back two blocks from the fire, heidi. >> jim, appreciate you being there. let us know if anything develops and, in fact, if you find out what may have caused all this. we sure do appreciate it. reporting live from london for us, jim bolden on this fire that is going on right now. we're still trying to figure out exactly what i

we now have a wonderful nasa administrator, charles bolden, the deputy administrator, laurie garver.we are confident they are going to be doing everything that they can in the decade to come to continue the inspirational mission of nasa. but i think it's fair to say that the touchstone for excellence in exploration and discovery is always going to be represented by the men of apollo 11. so i'm grateful to them for taking the time to visit with us. the country continues to draw inspiration from what you've done. i should note just personally, i grew up in hawaii, as many of you know. and i still recall sitting on my grandfather's shoulders when those capsules would land in the pacific. we'd go out and pretend like they could see us. we were waving at the folks coming home. i remember waving american flags and my grandfather telling me that the apollo mission was an example of how americans could do anything they put their minds to. i also note that as a consequence of the extraordinary work of nasa generally that you inspired the entire generation of scientists and engineers that ende

jen bolden from disneyidealbikes.com.e we're here, let's talk about solar ovens and other things you can do in the sun, a well. solar ovens, really work? >> really work. the power of the sun is incredible. you're magnifying the sun's light. you trap it. and gets up to about 400 degrees. >> tell us about the unit we've got. >> this is the biggest one. the solar oven. about $289. >> right. >> it's going to get up to 400 degrees. it's the most powerful. >> okay. this one seems to be more portable. i'm guessing it's less money. >> this is less money. about $139. and the cool thing about this one, it's made by a nonprofit. purchased, one goes to a re developing country, which is really important. these people really rely on wood to burn in their huts. now, they can use solar. >> they don't have to collect >> saving lives. cooking up good meals. >> this looks the most portable. does it still work? >> it does. we tried this at idealbite.com. it fits in a duffel bag. fits in a backpack. and it gets hot, 350 degrees. >> when we sa

tell me why we should support it and charlie bolden, the new administrator of nasa said, i'm committed to doing it and doing it right. we have got to have the commitment of congress to make it happen. he knows what's right. he's a former astronaut. and he's an engineer. and he's a great texan who is the visionary and the person who can implement that vision. we are going to support him in everywhere. i hope all of my colleagues in congress will do the same thing on the eve of the anniversary of one of the great achievements

how excited we are to have retired general charles bolden to be the new nasa administrator, a former astronaut, the first african-american, a houstonan in the years that he live there had. so we celebrate and hope that this inspiration goes into the nooks and crannies of pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, primary, secondary education, college, graduate school. let us send forth more astronauts, chemists, fissists, biologists, doctors, engineers, all of the people that can help us discover a peaceful way to live in this wonderful universe. that's what apollo 11 was all about. showing us that it is a place of peace, the moon, that we can explore, we can find out information, we can make lives better for americans and others around the world. i always believed in the international space station and as a member of the science committee, i was able to craft legislation to create a safety scheme, if will you, to ensure that the international space station is safe. we see now that there are constant checks and constant emphasis on ensuring the safety of this particular large building and space

bolden was the chief of staff. he has lots of documents. all the bread crumbs go right to the white house, it is not hard to figure out. the firings of the u.s. attorney's politicizing the one branch of the administration that should be as free of politics as possible. then we are trying to get hate crimes through -- ovoid, someone wanted to add the death penalty to the hate crimes act in the senate. thanks, guys. nothing like cooperation with the other body. the subjects that has commanded so much of my time is a universal health care bill. i started with this so long ago, not as the leader of it but when hillary clinton called us into the white house. we had 100 and. -- we had 100 then. this was the most popular bill in the congress and yet there is this effort to lock it in the juror, let's talk about it as little as possible. the one that most americans have been told to want. this reaches everyone. a universal health care bill from the moment you are born until the time you go to heaven is what we need in this country. most industrial

obama thinks he's making america inoffensive to our enemies in reality he's em boldening them and weakenings. i've heard something like that from someone you might know. you're in agreement with a high profile former vice president. let's start with the big story of the past few days, the cia information. did your father prevent any information on anything from going to congress, did he authorize that? tell anyone to keep any information from congress. >> this is clearly a classified program and doesn't talk about classifies programs and won't comment on that. i'm not here to speak for him. >> i'm not asking what. >> i think that for -- it's important for us all to take a step back and look at what's going on. this appears to have been a series of plans to capture or kill al qaeda. for the democrat that's have used that, to talk about investigation really sort of trying it looks like the cover up, the difficulty she's in because of own press conference strikes me as incredibly irresponsible. i think the american people do have a serious question to ask are beginning to wonder, are the democ

in his book bolden average, investment banker felix roblin, the former ambassador of france, head of the miscible corp. 17 years and a strong supporter of our plan talks about the government's vital role in rebuilding america. in it, he makes a key point. american history, he writes, "shows that economic growth, the creation of wealth, employment, and opportunity are all built on the platform of investment, innovative public investment." further, "every great american president has sponsored a great investment project." he is right. from the erie canal and the transcendental or a road to the federal highway act and the internet, america's economic vitality is always rested -- has always rested on the infrastructure. our american success story have always been written in stone and mortar and iron and steel, granite, and fiber-optic cable. we must come together to write the next chapter in infrastructure investment for our nation. i look forward to working with you. we can do this. we need to have the courage and the will and the foresight and the vision to move forward on this plan. y

charles bolden and laurie ga garverifygarver, respectively. i have known charlie bolden for the better part of a quarter of a century. in addition to all of the numerous accolades that were heaped upon him yesterday by members of the house and the senate that came to the commerce committee to say a word on his behalf, many of those talking about his distinguished career as a graduate of annapolis, marine test pilot, astronaut, back into the marines after four times flying in space on the space shuttle, flies a, twice at and twice as commander and in various positions in the active duty marines, retiring at the rank of major general. and those accolades were extensive and they were accurate. i would merely add to those attributes given to them, all of which were so laudatory, i would add at try beauty, the characteristic that americans have come to honor, and that is charlie bolden is an overcomer. charlie bolden, one of the first instances of this, is in his nature you have columbia, south carolina, in 1964. he could not get an appointment to