a dangerous, perhaps deadly bottleneck at mt. everest. >>> and star power. after most americans retire, look who the biggest stars on broadway are right now and how did they do it. "nightly news" begins now. >> special good evening to all of those joining us in the western time zone tonight. we begin here this evening with breaking news from here in the east. we have just learned there's been an arrest tonight in the case of a missing child that will forever be associated with the beginning of a national movement. almost exactly 33 years after a little boy named etan patz disappeared here in new york city on his way to school, a man told nypd investigators that he's the one who killed the boy. he knows what happened, and tonight, just a short time ago, ray kelly, the chief of the nypd announced the arrest and said they have a signed confession. nbc's ron allen is in the neighborhood where etan patz vanished all those years ago. ron, good evening. >> good evening to you, brian. it's an absolutely stunning and incredible development for this neighborhood, for

. >> reporter: there's a traffic bottleneck going on right now. you can see a long line of head lights still hundreds of cars trying to get out of the parking lot here at fort baker, both the parking lot and makeshift parking lot on the grass. you can see the parking attendants with the orange flags trying to wave people by. trying to keep traffic moving smoothly. you can see the cars snaking their way out of here that's toward the tperd -- toward the entrance. the families tells us they loved the nigh works show. this is absolutely worth the wait and folks telling me they expected for the delays and even prepared for them. you can see these folks everyone at least having a good time despite the delays. officials tell us it'll be between 11:00 to 12:30 before they get everyone out. >>> and take a look at this live picture from news chopper number two, this is at the vista point section on the marin side of the bridge. as cara was telling you, so many people who came down to cris is y field in the area to see the fireworks and amazing celebration.

a dangerous, perhaps deadly bottleneck at mt. everest. >>> and star power. after most americans retire, look who the biggest stars on broadway are right now and how do they do it. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. it's become popular to say our weather in many parts of the country has not been normal of late. in fact, far from it when you consider the historic and severe hurricanes and tornadoes we have witnessed to the freak events like the halloween blizzard in the east to a lack of winter for millions of americans this past season. it's against that backdrop that today's official government hurricane forecast comes out just as america gears up for the traditional start of the summer kickoff weekend, and it's where we begin our reporting tonight with nbc's tom costello. >> get ready for the ferocious power of mother nature. the official start of hurricane season is still a week away, but it's already been an active two weeks. tropical storm alberto has come and gone off the atlantic coast as hurricane bud churns off the coast of central mexico i

where do you see the bottleneck, mr. bertoni? is it that they can't be seen, or is it a decision-making process after they are seen? >> i've said here many times since 2007 and talked about this whole program process. it comes down to i think three critical things -- people, processes and technology. on many of these sites, there was a sense of urgency following walter reed. there was a rush to stand them up. they didn't have proper technology. they didn't have proper people in sufficient processes in place. staff to service member ratios was insufficient in many respects. they were stood up anyways. the servicemen came. they were overwhelmed. and i think this system is paying for it to this day. processes. we've identified throughout the last several years areas with process that appeared to be inefficient. clearly, we're causing backlogs and inefficiencies. they in partnership, the d.o.d. and v.a. have addressed some of them, not all. we keep pressing that they do. last of all, technology, we have an integrated evaluation syste

i guess that's a bottleneck you can't avoid whether you are on two wheels or four. it's a good cause. 5,000 or 6,000 people taking part. live in northwest, derrick ward, news4. >> great to see families out there on this holiday weekend. >> good exercise, too. >> yeah, i know. >>> a bar opens up in a dorm at one maryland college. why that school thinks this will actually encourage students not to drink too much. >>> and also ahead, fighting childhood obesity by giving a kid a laptop. k[ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios tv, internet and phone for just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years with a two-year agreement. act now and we'll add a special bonus: $250 back. but hurry, this offer ends june 2nd. unlike cable, fios is a 100% fiber-optic network that delivers america's fastest, most consistent, most reliable internet plus the best tv picture quality. why keep paying so much for cable? switch to fios for just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years with a two

you can see others a huge bottleneck of traffic just behind the stalled rig.only blogging on-line but speeds are below 25 m.p.h. adding to the altamont pass. once you get past northland the censors changed back to green meeting that speeds improve quite a bit over 40 m.p.h.. all the way out to the pleasanton area. let's see, at the bay bridge, so far no metering lights. so no huge delays at the toll plaza. there is some slight delays in the cash lance. fast track users are getting by okay and this is usually right around the time they turn the metering lights on. anywhere in the next 10 minutes or so. so it should get more crowded. but right now looks good heading into the sky way. traffic is moving fine heading to doyle drive in san fransisco. and we continue to check in with part all morning and so far all trains are running on time. back to you guys. >> and former executive for report rocks newspapers facing criminal charges and england. british prosecutors plan to charge the former editor rebecca brooks was trying to obstruct a police investigation into ph

a parking garage will increase traffic congestion at the bottleneck or washington street feeds into the embarcadero. it is contrary to the city's transit first policy. there will be traffic congestion, especially during the seven months of excavation. the noise will be earsplitting for most residents, especially in the 440-unit building 60 feet away. this project proposes the first height increase on the northern waterfront in 45 years and will set a precedent for other developers. you did it for them, why won't you do it for me? the result could be a concrete curtain along the waterfront. please vote no on the 8 washington street plan. thank you. president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening. i am with the san francisco tenants union. on items 8 and 12, the eir is flawed. i will try to give 25 years of my personal experience in 90 seconds. i moved in in 1987 as a starting student. i had been practicing law, but i went back to the it mightmba. -- my mba. i moved into the golden gateway 25 years ago. after that, i started to organize with the tenants' association. i was the president of

consider the parking -- this will consolidate parking in a single rod, bringing buildings to a bottleneck in increasing congestion. it would not provide adequate parking. and there would be serious congestion. this does not adequately address the traffic and air quality, the safety for the parking issues. another thing that they did not tell you is that there are enormous effect for all of the projects going on around in this area. they do not look carefully at the america's cup. all of these projects that are coming forward. if you have them on as it is required you must, you would see the tremendous adverse effects as they fail to do this. let me just go through another thing. this is something that they get wrong. the entire parking and traffic analysis from 2007. let's look to what has happened -- this does not reflect the dramatic changes in the area of the explosion of population. this has become stale and cannot be counted on. this is not the true peak for this area. without any evidence to support this -- how would they know? they did not have the data and never tried to look at o

. >> the top stories from around the world plus the bottleneck on mount everest, why so many are riskingir lives to climb it. that's tonight on the cbs evening news. >>> d.c. council member marion barry says he feels fabulous today after being in the hospital for a blood clot this weekend. barry spoke to 9 news now this afternoon as he headed back to work. says that clot developed while he was waiting on a -- he says that clot developed while he was waiting on a plane in memphis. he was waiting to attend a shopping conference. the former d.c. mayor says he's human. he's met with other health issues including prostate cancer and he's doing fine. >> god just blessed me with finding it. i was at the hospital the next day. >> barry is 76 and says he's staying on blood thinners and doctors told him to get plenty of exercise. >>> we're getting a sense of the funeral arrangements for the godfather of go go. chuck brown's daughter told the washington post there would be a viewing at howard theater tuesday, but now that's still being firmed up. the funeral may be one week from tomorrow at either

. >> reporter: the bottleneck is in what is knownals the death zone, the thin air where climbers becomesh, even breathing from oxygen bottles. temperatures can be 35 below zero. >> every time a team summits they radio down to base camp and you'll hear this celebration, people clanging on oxygen bottles, ripping bells, cheering. at the same time, in another champ, i heard people weeping for their lost climbers. >> reporter: among the four climbers who died last weekend were 33-year-old shirya shah from canada and eduard schaaf of germany,. both insisted on reaching the top despite being told by guides to turn around. they died of exhaustion and exposure on the way down. shah's body lies near the frozen remains of an american guide, one of eight who died in similar circumstances in 1996. >> some people have the mindset of oh, i'm going to conquer everest. >> reporter: johnny strange made it to the top. >> they have a desire to get to the top they disregard their judgment and keep going and that's where you get the problem. you have to be prepared to not reach the top. >> reporter: it's so

you can get a sense that the crisis in syria has reached a bottleneck with no clear indication as to what lies ahead in the next 48 hours. >> i'm not sure a goodwill gesture and the syrian government can go in the same sentence at this point. but we'll see what the international community can do from here. live this morning again from cairo, thanks so much for your reporting. >>> new poll numbers this morning, zeroing in on three key battleground states that president obama won in 2008. but went to george w. bush in 2004. according to nbc news maris poll. president obama and mitt romney in a tie in colorado, iowa and nevada. the economy remains most important issue with 70% saying it will decide their vote for president. when asked which candidate would do a better job at handling the economy, iowans give mitt romney a slight edge. in colorado and nevada, it's a tie. despite the country's financial struggles, there are encouraging numbers for the president. the majority of voters believe the worst of the tough economy is behind us according to the nbc poll. while roughly four in ten

it seems there is a bottleneck at nurseries too.ndustries say we could find higher wine prices and smaller selections for years to come. >>> enjoying the weather outside, i'm sure some people enjoyed the weather today. >> a rosset. >> there is that livermore wine country festival this weekend. i know they had some great attendance with this awesome weather. and today, well, we slid right into is the start of your workweek with warm weather. winds down to san jose and gilroy 10 to 20 miles per hour. it's the northwesterly wind that really helps to kick the numbers up today. a slight onshore wind out of the west right now at 8 miles per hour. so in case you missed it earlier, who was the hottest? gilroy with 92 in first position, and also tieing that would be walnut creek. south san jose 91 and palo alto with 90. we'll take you to our sky camera network right now. and in san francisco, all of this compressional heating is pushing any sign of that moisture right down to the surface of the bay. that's why it's somewhat hazy out there ba

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improve processing and prevent bottlenecks are promising. we will continue to assess d.o.d. and v.a.s progress in the areas. they do the work for the committee. this concludes my statement. i will answer any questions you may have. >> thank you very much. i want to let the committee members know, following the revelation that possibly hundreds of soldiers at lewis mccord had their ptsd diagnosis changed because they didn't want to spend the money on the care the service members would receive. i asked the committee to do a study into the system. we are at the interim point of the investigation. staff reviewed 121 cases from 23 different ides sights. they have focused on cases from mental health diagnosis and ptsd in particular. i'm troubled by what they found exaggeration of symptoms similar to what we saw at madigan without documentation of standardized interview techniques. they have encountered v.a. examinations in relation to traumatic brain injury. it contained errors, which in some cases impacted the level of benefits the veteran should have received. before we begin to

this can be a notorious bottleneck, but pretty smooth sailing now. look at the trip south towards virginia and north carolina beaches. this is i-90 fever and dumfries where the h.o.v. lanes end. hard to see, but it looks like things are moving well. many of us will be headed toward the beaches in maryland and delaware this weekend. now let's look at the bay bridge. yes, that is

also be a real blessing when it's done and you can zoom right through an area that used to be a bottleneckight's special report, sal castaneda looks at 10 projects that are either under way or about to start here in the bay area to see how they're doing. >> reporter: the tenth biggest prompt in the san francisco bay area is in the north bay 101, caltrans is adding a car pool lane in sonoma county. it shown done by 2013. ninthon the list is a notorius nimits. the $130 million project should be finished by next year. the eighth biggest project is a car pool lane for interstate 580 through the livermore valley also expected to cost $130 million. completion is scheduled for 2014. at number seven they are widening highway 12 between interstate 80 and napa for 136 million bucks it's supposed to be done by 2015. >> there's a lot going on. >> bob hass is a spokesman for caltrans. >> this really is going to be an exciting time for us. >> reporter: the sixth biggest freeway prompt in the bay area is the highway 4 widening budgeted at $337 million. scheduled completion is 2014. at number five the fou

plus, the bottleneck on mount everest. why so many are risking their lives to climb it. on the cbs evening news. >>> and here's a look at tonight's closing numbers from wall street. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a steamy spring evening with storms popping up. a live look outside right now. wjz has first warning weather coverage. meteorologist bernadette woods and tim williams are live at camden yards for our annual weather day. they have the annual forecast. >>> take a look at radar. right now, southwest of town, around linthicum. and the airport area. over toward columbia and sykesville. another batch from owings mills, pikesville, up towards finks burg. off to the west/northwest. more of these showers and storms, across much of the region. popped up, from here and there. have a look at tomorrow's forecast, bernadette and tim have that. >> winds pick up. dew points are high as well. a little sticky. going down into the 60s. and that's where we start tomorrow. >> for the day tomorrow, we start a warming trend. get up into the 80s. chance for a shower or thundersto

. >> this quarter has been a bottleneck and a back to me for many years. that is no secret to the people who have been out here. >> no secret to those that drive the span of highway 4. the national freeway traffic study released this week shows the stretch between bailey rode to somerville road is ranked the no. 10 worst commute in the nation. >> over the years there has been more developments, and east contra costa county, more demand on the freeway. >> experts say the nightmare highway 4 commute cost drivers 60 hours of time per year. caltrans and the contra costa county tradition authority plan on doubling the amount of lanes. with five different projects now under construction. >> what these pressures will do is take the highway that is now two lines in each direction, and access for lans in each direction. it will also make it wide enough for a median for rapid transit to go down the middle. >> the construction is a solution but it is not helping the traffic flow. >> that change the speed limit to 55 mi. per hour for the course simply because it is sa

without enough new infrastructure to ship that oil where it's most needed, there is a bottleneck, majorcushing, oklahoma. that's the destination for numerous pipelines. conoco could buy west texas crude at low prices and sell gasoline based on the much higher price of brent crude. you often see those prices when we talk about on cnbc. that allows them to capture that big spread. last november conoco in the process of reversing that pipe. so it can send oil from cushing down to the gulf of the mexico. which means it will eliminate some problems with the refining and players like phillips 6. that's a huge reason not to own phillips 66. even if they hadn't sold the pipeline, it would be a huge business. it was a jaw dropper when i heard it. that's the last thing we need in this tough market. and it sells for nearly seven times earnings for just five times earnings. the highest quality is valero. just move along and get in there. sometimes the best decision, just move on and forget about it. stay with cramer. >>> coming up, sugar high? been worried about the risk? cramer's unveiling his str

there is a major bottleneck and you see the picture of the tanks, that's the destination. conco could buy west texas crude and sell gasoline based on much higher price of -- you see the price when is we talk on cnbc. that allows them to capture the big spread. last november, conco itself sold the pipeline and used to bring owl to kushing and the new owners, two companies you know we like on the show are in the process of reversing that type. sending oil down to the gulf of mexico for refining. you know what that's going to do, you get rid of the difference between the two in west texas and much higher price. it eliminates big profits. players like phillips 66. that is a huge reason not to own phillips 66. even if they hadn't sold, it would be a tough business. how hard it is to forecast the refining markets. that's the last we need in this tough market. is sells for seven times earnings and the highest kwal 8 at balero. it's not worth a lot, but it won't be enough to offset. in other words, don't get your kicks from phillips 66. here's the bottom line. now that they broke

without enough new infrastructure to ship that oil where it's most needed, there is a bottleneck, majorn cushing, oklahoma. that's the destination for numerous pipelines. conoco could buy west texas crude at low prices and sell gasoline based on the much higher price of brent crude. you often see those prices when we talk about on cnbc. that allows them to capture that big spread. last november conoco just move just move along and get in there. this is cramer. there. this is cramer. >>> cramer's unveiling his strategy for one high-profile sparkling stock that can have liquid profits flowing in. >>> and later, cramer's taking your questions on the air. so tweet him @jimcramer #madtweets and stay tuned for an all new edition of mad tweets, all coming up on "mad money." they have names like idle time books and smash records and on small business saturday they remind a nation of the benefits of shopping small. on just one day, 100 million of us joined a movement... and main street found its might again. and main street found its fight again. and we, the locals, found delight again. that's t

if that narrow pass gets bottlenecked which they say will happen if there is more than 25 climbers.ou mentioned 200 this weekend alone it slows climbers down who then get exposed to unplanned and deadly risk of very low oxygen levels. there was one veteran climber who tried to save one of the four who died who explained how that climber's condition through that pass worsened quickly. >> basically was hallucinating. took his hat off. his gloves were thrown away. he reached out and looked at me and kind of reached out to me kind of zombie like fashion. at that point there is not a lot can you do for somebody that's dying and frozen to death. >> very, very tough conditions. the every rest challenge is big business for nepal there are few regulations there, too. they keep these enthusiastic climbers back when those big crowds show up as is predicted this weekend. harris? >> harris: i guess they don't call them dare devils for nothing. even with all of these risks and warnings, many climbers though, i mentioned 200 are still going to take the challenge. >> not you or me for sure. here's

. >> there generally is a bottleneck of traffic there so the state and local police departments often use that scenario to help them stop vehicles. >> and that's exactly what happens on this day. price snakes through stalled traffic, but finally he can go no further. >> he had to just slam on the brakes and come to an abrupt stop, and he didn't want to get out of his car. he was surrounded by law enforcement from various federal and state and local agencies. >> price locks himself in. the windows are up, but officers can see the suspect and the baby in the back seat. their first thought is to save the child. >> we were all yelling at him to open the windows and to get out of the car and to let the baby go. >> our officers were trying to get in the car, but it was difficult. eventually, they started trying to break through the window. >> as one officer bashes in the window, price leaps into the back seat, and morales can see that he has a knife. >> he pulled the knife and stuck it to the baby. to the baby's neck. >> as the violence threatens to escalate, morales makes a startling choic

expect a bottleneck there, but the volume's light right now. as you travel up past the oakland coliseum, live look out there. the volume increasing a little bit, but no slowing from 238 up to the bay bridge. northbound, we have 15-minute drive. and construction, not going on through downtown this morning. pretty nice, guys. back to you. >> thanks. >>> 5:10 right now. big-time blow to the bullpen, a giants pitcher suspended for 100 games. why he says cough syrup is to blame. >>> and a live look outside in the south bay over san jose. another warm one on tap. spring, where are you going? here comes summer feels like. we'll check the forecast with christi christina. >>> and make sure to check us out. y area.er to facebook,baearch nu back in minutes. my allergy medicine took hours to work or made me drowsy. after allegra, i have the only one that's both fast and non-drowsy. after allegra, i have it all. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. if my mom can fight and beat breast cancer, i can walk 60 miles. (woman) the fund

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