head of research at the adam smith institution in london thanks for being with us mr bowman now it's influential institute for fiscal studies says that the cops will hit the poor the most why should the poor bear this burden when large corporations are able to make mistakes constantly and get banged out by the government well i think we have to look at the way these cuts are going to people and the people who are going to be here are people on benefits so and the real aim of these cuts is to get people to job and to work but of course we have to look at the actual amount that the cuts are going to be hitting people by on the surface to the studies looking at no point six percent for the poorest and ignore point two percent hit for the richest and even though that is quite a discrepancy it's not very much in the grand scheme of things i think really these cuts are only the beginning. and so far we haven't seen large scale protests start though they were promised we haven't seen any violence in the u.k. like we've seen in france do you anticipate there will be an ops while in anger at

additional speakers in favor of the project bowman -- of the project bowman -- project? >> my name is mike. i own the property with my brother tony. i have lived in the city for seven years. i have lived in my home for five years. i am not a professional developer. i am not a house flipper. i tend to live in a house along time after it is completed. let me say i am sorry you have to hear this. i do not want to be here. i would love to have settled this before coming here. sorry for taking up your time. i think they're real issues have been addressed by ryan -- the real issues have been addressed by ryan and the planning department. i am going to talk about my personal experience. i think we started with a reasonable project. we removed the light wells, lower the height of the project. we did a lot of things region we do see impacts on the property before we showed it to them. we have this project where you can hardly see it from the street. it keeps 47 feet of the side yard open. it makes better use of the property. it makes the building safer. it protects the history of

bowman. that possibly then it would be a contributing resource. well, because i have personally surveyed 650 homes in the richmond district, i happen to know that there are 37 h.c. bowman-myer brother homes in thesy sinity in the same year and style as the one listed. the home is also, i'd like to say, the planning department is and has taken d.r. on the following buildings in the last couple of years. this project at 2632, the probably was denied completely. -- the project was denied completely. it was a two story building and it was deemed, let's see -- it was deemed out of character and the building was completely denied. here, across the street, directly across the street, this building here had wanted to add a fourth floor. this is directly across from the project we are talking about now. they banted to add a fourth floor -- they wanted to add a fourth floor. commissioner miguel was then president and he spoke about his concerns for the pent house on top. -- penthouse on top. commissioners antonini and olague also spoke out about their conce

. >> reporter: rebecca bowman with howard county's office of consumer affairs is warning people about a paving scam that hit the area. a contractor offers to seal your driveway, charges you a couple hundred tread bucks and once you've paid you realize it's a sham. >> almost these are crimes of con treen against, the right time with the right thing you get a "oh sure, okay," for $50, $100, sounds like a great deal, go ahead. >> joaquin county what should you do if a good deal comes knocking at your door? chances are if they are not a legitimate business, they'll scatter quickly. >> i have seen situations where while you're in calling the home imimprovement commission the guy has taken off down the street. so it really can, it really can make a difference in terms of stopping the scam from going forward. >> reporter: other things that can make a difference? well asking for the contractor's license number and verifying it with the department of labour licensing and regulation. if you're in howard county you can ask for their county administration card too. that way if a fly by night favo

. >> i am asking how you see it bowman -- how you see it? >> he previously denied allegations against him. britain is reacting to the release of the iraqi war documents, saying allegations of abuse and killings should be investigated. the former university of virginia swimmer apparently died of overexertion. that is what swimming officials are saying. they are denying reports he suffered heart attacks. he was competing in a world race yesterday but fell unconscious in the final leg. other swimmers claim to the water temperature was unusually warm in the high 80's. it is a calm night, but changes are on the way. what to expect for your work with -- we are back with the weather forecast in minutes. plus, will the balance of power in [ ehrlich ] four years ago unemployment in maryland was under four percent. today, it's nearly double. and nearly a quarter of a million marylanders are looking for work. in addition, we face a national health care plan that will hurt small business and cost us jobs. so we have to ask, are you better off today than

the roman trust bridge is one of 0 you are features we're best known for it is the only standing bowman trust bridge in the united states today. it is on the department of interior's national treasures list. manor house was built in 1860, and that was the house for the superintendent of the mill and the idea providing the house for the superintendent was it kept them very close to the property. today, we do catered events there. we do meetings, we do weddings. these are owner operated businesses. everybody has a lot of themselves that they present in the businesses they have. one of our well-known artists is a lady name jill hackney she actually does abstract type work and is represented in probably half a dozen galleries around the country today. we have the family game store people can play games during the week. we have the queen's inc. art craft collection. we have terrapin adventures which is an outdoor adventure challenge course for both team bidding. we very rams head tavern for food. the atmosphere is very relaxing very laid back it's a really nice day trip. >> now if you'd like

there was also the training that went into this and the national preparation to create a long bowman.g ball has to be created at a special kind of wood. to pull that ball back across your ear, you had to be strengthened from childhood to do that. i can tell you to read these things but as we go back, we learn more and more about this. we realize that human intelligence did not start in 1944 or 1964 or 1994. there were small people along the way and we built on each other's advancements. you have to keep your mind open to technology. >> can one go without this huge emphasis on this? are we to panic about math and science? will we turn out to be automatons that don't know anything about the human condition except how to measure it? >> i look at this as an american and i look at what the challenges are ahead. there are so many opportunities for future opportunities in space, biology, energy, transportation, infrastructure. you cannot get there without science and mathematics and engineering. there is the old story that john adams said he studied war and diplomacy so my children could ste

tom bowman who is an explosions expert at stanford university took a look at some of these images and says the failure may have started along a weld. >> this is supposition. looking at the straightness of the point where the pipe separated, it certainly points to a weakness in the pipe that could very well be a weld line. you can't tell from the photographs. very straight rather than jagged and irregular. >> reporter: the ntsb is doing metal analysis of the pipe and the investigation could take 12 to tonight months. i'm christine connolly, kron 4 news. >>> a nice day out there tomorrow, but cooler weather as we head into next week. i "medieval knight fest".at angry peasants can mess up a car really bad. matt, my mercury agent, helped me file a claim right away. turns out mercury not only saves me money, but they also cover medieval mob damage. they got my car fixed in no time. call 888-4-mercury or visit mercuryinsurance.com to get a fast free quote and start saving today. >>> no formal news conferences today from either meg whitman or her former undocumented housekeeper, but as kron

tom bowman who is an explosions expert at stanford university took a look at some of these images and says the failure may have started along a weld. >> this is supposition. looking at the straightness of the point where the pipe separated, it certainly points to a weakness in the pipe that could very well be a weld line. you can't tell from the photographs. very straight rather than jagged and irregular. >> reporter: the ntsb is doing metal analysis of the pipe and the investigation could take 12 to tonight months. i'm christine connolly, kron 4 news. >>> a nice day out there tomorrow, but cooler weather as we head into next week. i'll have details coming up in your extended forecast in a few minutes. state budget cuts are crippling my classroom, so i can't believe the sacramento politicians cut a backroom deal that will give our state's wealthiest corporations a new billion dollar tax give-away, a new handout that can only mean larger class sizes and even more teacher layoffs. but passing prop 24 can change all that. prop 24 repeals the unfair corporate give-away and puts our priori

bowman, wolfe, and cline. naomi cline says this, quote, ready to wake up from the obama dream yet? if so, this thrillingly scathing and relentlessly truthful thing is called your strong cup of coffee. secures of sloppy culture that will this political era intervene. while expertly unmasking the corporate machine that is the real brand obama. drink up, unquote. repeat the author of the book is former editor and chief of harper's magazine 20/06 to 2010. roger d. hodge. >> what do you make of this? is this a condemnation of barack obama. >> robert gibb said the professional left wouldn't be happy if they put in dennis kusinich as president. >> president obama was elected, i always predicted that it would be the people on the far left that would be his undoing. from day one, if you go and look through excerpts of the book, it is interesting. every siege l time a democratic president getting elected, they take on philosophies of the republican party. the far left will be this president's undoing. >> the economy is this president's undoing. in this midterm. i wouldn't count him now for r

candidates clear marching orders on where to begin, says the american enterprise institute's karlyn bowman. >> we know that, in most polls, most americans say that they think it is very important to address the deficit and debt issue. but it is not clear that they are willing to make any difficult choices or tough cuts, overall. that also applies to the tea partiers. >> reporter: many in the tea party are also concerned about what they see as the cozy relationship between big business and big government. six out of ten tea partiers say the government shouldn't have bailed out wall street or the auto makers, a much higher percentage than the national average. and then there is this big economic institution-- the federal reserve. after the election, the fed is expected to launch a new round of asset purchases to fight deflation. known as quantitative easing, that policy is likely to be very unpopular with tea party candidates who are expected to win their races next tuesday. >> the fed has gotten very politicized. and quantitative easing, from my point of view, is code for tarp two. we're go

from now into orbit and a brand new soyuz capsule equipped with cutting edge technology where tom bowman is observing the preparations. humanity's highest technology waiting in the wilderness soyuz rockets will soon be planet earth's only link with the international space station hundreds of kilometers above and for decades they've been launched here from baikonur in the middle of the step and ca's extern an ideal launch site. when you go to start you'll see the monument to the conquerors of space on it is written in this place the genius of soviet man was revealed in an instant in the concrete of the cosmos i think you can say better than that about pocono. and the vast concentration of technology here in the middle of nowhere has just become even more advanced this spacecraft has improved and digitized control power supply and temperature control systems but one thing hasn't changed the humans flying soyuz mission it's this crew like those before them have been training for years for their six month stint on the s i s. the two russians and one american know that in english soyuz means

has been far more restrained than in france and there's some bowman ahead of a london based economic think tank says the british won't copy the french. it's not really in the british national character to protest we haven't really seen protests in any of these cuts in the last year or so and in fact the two biggest protests that happened over the last ten years were against fox hunting and the iraq war neither of which had any real effect the british government doesn't really listen to protesters and i don't expect that there will be any protests that we'll see in the next few weeks there was a protest the other day but a poll by the unions against these cuts and it had about five hundred people which compared to the closest in france is nine years so i really don't think we're going to be seeing anything more the british government has a long history of ignoring protesters and british people really are kind of people who want to get on with it and get back to work business as usual you might say and really they protest quite a tradition in france whenever there's a government car so

we have the sunshine and a high around 85 after lunchtime and coming up, julie bowman joins us.ocal girl. you know, the hit to have -- she's on a hit "modern family." she's listed as an a list actor and she's an a list top shelf human being. a hon, back in town and we're talk about flu shots. i've never had one, this man gets them and we've neither gotten the flu, but this guy that's a guest, she convinced us. and i have first warning weather. stay with us, we'll be back. ,,, >>> the weather here is going to be taking a change on us. temperatures, there's a bunch of locations that have recently dropped into the upper 50s. and we were in the mid-to upper 50s. an 62 in annapolis and kent island. and high pressure running the weather today. today's not the problem, but we'll have transition. and we have mid-october, it will exert the influence. that's going to define the midweek and the weekend's end weather. >>> pretty calm wednesday and 68 and sunny. , thursday, here it comes. rain, kind of breezy and 61. it will be partly sunny and windy and feeling more like the 50s much of the

bowman's farm in spaulding is so big because they saw the american style halloween celebrations coming a long time ago. >> my father started 40 years ago just planting a few seeds for a bit of fun really then we managed to sell the pumpkins from them and then it goes on. >> reporter: those early customers were from the local u.s. air bases and they helped sow the seeds for the biggest pumpkin patch in europe. >> wow. >> that again was the bbc's anthony bartram reporting. remember last year, 2009 there was a pumpkin shortage. i remember when you had to cook. a shortage of canned pumpkins. there's no shortage, the problems with rain from last year. >> no shortage from our graphics department. >> nice and spooky. >> you look more awake there. that's for sure. nsurance card, too. t 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... insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company, not paid by medicare part b. that can

but garza, bowman are both doubtful. bears could use all their defensive weapons against donovan mcnabb and company. but midwest most of the scrutiny is aimed at the offensive line. >> there's definitely a little extra study time, little homework to do. nothing too extravagant. >> we feel our 4-2 football team got a whole lot better this weekend. >>> a disappointing season for the chicago fire comes to an end tomorrow night. with it, the careers of two longtime fire standouts. the match will be the last for veteran brian mcbride who announced his retirement and c.j. brown the last original member of the brown who announced his retire yesterday. >> we had bad results and now you want to end the season off the right way. you're only as good as your last game. >> we've got to respect not only our profession and what we do every day, but this organization and our fans and go out there and put on a good performance. hopefully end with a win. >>> the texas rangers trying again to finish off the yankees tonight in the alcs. tex

abc 7, the silicon valley leadership group at the san jose mercury news are argued a debate again bowmannd dunn, the candidates for secretary of state. we'll stream is live this afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 and you can watch it here on abc 7 sunday at noon. >> the city of fremont will allow the catholic church to move forward with a housing development on the site of on old cemetery. the council voted unanimously for the project to continue. they have relocated the remains of 200 people from the old st. joseph's cemetery to a nearby field for the new houses. opponents worry bodies remain buried at the site. the new homes go on the market by 2012. >> breaking news, word of a grass fire in oakland. frances is getting details on road closures there. >> first let's check with meteorologist mike nicco who's been tracking high fire danger. >> the red flag warning expired at 6:00 but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods. it means the most ripe conditions for fires has subsided. that is being the wind. only about 17 mph in the north bay mountains. northeast 11 mph in the east bay hills and di

cory bowman is charged with selling cocaine and marijuana. >>> a surprise from a d.c. police attorney today under oath on the stand. he admitted to deceiving investigators in the case of the disappearing evidence. we're talking about those mass arrests that landed more than 400 people in jail back in 2002. fox 5's paul wagner joins us now with the latest on this story. >> ron harris told the court today it was not his intention to deceive the city council investigators looking into the arrests of 400 people at pershing park, but he admitted knowingly telling them that he was handing over a crucial document when, in fact, he wasn't. harris also admitted never telling the council what he did. until today ron harris had never disclosed his role in collecting evidence held by d.c. police for the attorneys filing lawsuits for the investigators working for the city council. in the aftermath of the arrests in pershing park, his job as a police department attorney was to collect and turn over anything requested by subpoena. one of the documents they were looking for was the ru

it's the only standing bowman truss bridge in the united states today. it's on the department of interior's national treasures list. manner house was built in 1860 and that was the house where the superintendent of the mill and the idea of about providing the house for the superintendent was that kept them close to the property. today, we do catered events there and meetings and we do weddings, and these are owner operated businesses so everybody has a lot of themselves that they present in the businesses they have one of our well-known artists is a lady known jill and she does abtract work and is represented in probably a half a dozen galleries around the country today. we have the family game store where you cannot only buy games but people can play games during the week. we have the queen's ink and yolanda voss fashions art craft collections and adventures an outdoor adventure challenge course for both team building and we have food and. >> reporter: the atmosphere here is relax ding -- the atmosphere is relax and laid back and a nice day trip. >> rep

today the legendary bowman the coach talked about memories of pearl. in his junior year in senior 95 what stood out was by then he was 6 ft. 4 and 20 20 lbs. when he sees some with athletic skills that he possesses an does not at that size i knew that this young man could excel in any sport he wanted to. >> now he gets to watch the world is at the world series at the expense of his former team the philadelphia phillies. >> there's a schedule in philadelphia of the night games. with that as we broke exclusively with pan am games 3 is that what 7:00 p.m. start on tuesday next week on wednesday for 50 7:00 p.m. and thursday it necessary for 50 7:00 p.m. and 6 and 7 will be back in philly. this is the most excitement certainly sends bonds left and all the way back to 2002. >> think the discussion continues as colorful philadelphia phillies at the opry house that passed the you know what we've been and holiday we've beaten wells and we beaten why can't we go in there and try to take care of business because it will the pitching's >> be serious headway these

greg bowman has drafted legislative language for a pay for play provision which has not been introduced. if any member of congress is interested that you know of, the language is here. two things i would like to point out is the earmarked data base legislation we talked about has been introduced in the senate and the house. finally come up for principle four common the gao conducting audits, there was a conversion included in a jar-3268. all of this material is here. with that, i will turn to gregg pullman. >> thank you for being here. >> perhaps lead the most pressing problems is the perception of corruption my comes to campaign money and the awarding of earmarks. even if there is no actual quid pro quo going on, this is something the public and the press will see if there's a close relationship between large campaign contributions and receiving earmarks. and it is a problem not only for the public when the public looks at the operations of congress, but it is a problem for congressional staffers. earmarks are one of the responsibilities that gets carried out by congressional staff and

have you think that is helping to encourage turnout and people to tell us about early voting their bowman by mail, early voting in common -- early voting. we expect about 1.7 million people. that changes the way candidates run their campaigns, and it also smooths out the burden for our county clerks. we are very pleased with the way the election is going right now. turnout is a little low, but we're very pleased. but >> what can you tell us about what you're seeing and who is voting early? >> we have about 53,000 more republicans that had voted 10 democrats. unaffiliated seemed to be voting very slowly. we are watching to see whether we see a surge on election day. >> you mentioned early voting has changed the way campaigns have been run. what are you seeing from the national parties that they have been so engaged in these early voting programs? are they making a difference from previous midterms? >> that is difficult to sell. clearly, the u.s. senate race has led to an investment by both parties that is unprecedented in colorado. the number of television advertisements is dominating the

he happens to have a wife who is a terrific reporter for "the washington post," laura bowman felt -- laura -- he knows the issue firsthand. he oversaw close to 500 lawyers in different divisions of the homeland security department. so he has lots of knowledge from different perspectives, and i'm happy to introduce my fellow weiss., briaruch >> thank you all. i think we are going to have an interesting panel this afternoon, as interesting as we had this morning. if you recall, we are going to be discussing the issues that arise in prosecuting and defending cases that involve the leak or disclosure of classified information. i am going to introduce, of course, as is traditional, our terrific bunch of panelists that you will see in a moment. what i'm going to do first is give you a little bit of a sense of what we are going to discuss, and i think you appreciate the we have to discuss it all the more. what we are going to discuss really feeds off what you will hear this morning, and that is we are going to assume that there was a disclosure of classified information by a government offi