brian. >>i jones, the author of a new biography on jim henson. very excited to talk to him. earlier this week we talked about how the official launch of obamacare was marred by web glitches anlong delays. but there was another major obstacle to obamacare's implementation. total dickishness. you see, obamacare for all its well-documented issues and problems is still a well-intentioned attempt to get people who have not had health insurance in this country health insurance. medicaid has traditionally covered people up to this income level. obamacare was going to cover them ostensibly down to this income level. so it was going to be the gap there, about the size of an ipad ee cement instead of an ipad it is about 8 million people living just above the poverty line so to provide health insurance for this nation's, you know, center, the federal government was going give the state government money to expand their medicaid program. for three years the state would pay for this program, i think the number was about 0. and then after that, they would pay up to 10%, i think, by the tim

jim henson, the buyer fee, written by brian g jones. thank you for the work. good to have you on the program. coming up up, kathy eldon, author of in the heart of life. stay with us. tavis: putting your life together after a catastrophic losses at the center of a new memoir called "in the heart of life" by kathy of them. she struggled to have a meaningful life for herself after her son was killed at the age of 22 while covering the conflict in somalia for reuters. to forgivend a way her son's assailants was one way . kathy eldon, good to have you on this program. >> and lead you mention the humor. tavis: let me start, if i might, given that you lived in nairobi and the kenya, with your thoughts on this still developing story in some ways, about this terrific incident at this mall in nairobi. >> there's not a civil person that i have talked to in nairobi that wasn't personally affected by the killings and i feel particularly sad because it takes us right at 20 years to when my son was killed and the underlying causes of why daniel and his colleagues were killed

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brian jay jones. thank you, sir. (applause) >> that's our show. hey, before we go, though. let me tell you a little story, it is a story about, it's kind of a table, really, about this punk kid from long island. let me see if i have got any footage of him. there he is, right there looks like kind of a punkie kid carrying a toilet in new york city. oh, gee, i don't know what this kid is doing. just-- just terrible. and the whole thing is just terrible. anyway that kid's name is rory albany. and i got to the show in 1999ment he started probably about two months after that. and he was a wise ass. and i really liked him. and i noticed that whatever job we gave him, he kansas citied that job's ass. like did it great, was really smart, really funny. and just kept working. so we kept giving him more responsibility and more creative control. and more things to do. and every time de t he would knock it out of the park. so now i done know what it is now, 2032, whatever, 2013. so this kid who started at this show in 1999 as a pa sitting with his naked ass on a toilet in time's square

tonight, a conversation with writer brian jay jones about his new biography of jim jensen, creator of one of this country's most beloved characters, come at the fraud. despite his childlike wonder, he was a complex man -- kermit the frog. despite his childlike wonder, he was a complex man can and then we will talk with kathy eldon about the struggles to rebuild her life after the devastating loss of her son. we are glad you have joined us. those conversations coming up right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: jim henson, creator of kermit the frog, ms. agee and so many of the muppets is no doubt a beloved american icon. more complex than his followers made have imagined. book written by brian jay jones, let's take a look first at a clip at how jim henson action created kermit the frog. >> he is one of the supposed puppets. inside of his head, there's nothing in there but my hand. so it's just a little cloth pattern here. the eyes were half spheres. but he's very simple as puppets go. some have gone a lot more completed. but he is

brian. >>i jones, the author of a new biography on jim henson. very excited to talk to him. earlier this week we talked about how the official launch of obamacare was marred by web glitches anlong delays. but there was another major obstacle to obamacare's implementation. total dickishness. you see, obamacare for all its well-documented issues and problems is still a well-intentioned attempt to get people who have not had health insurance in this country health insurance. medicaid has traditionally covered people up to this income level. obamacare was going to cover them ostensibly down to this income level. so it was going to be the gap there, about the size of an ipad ee cement instead of an ipad it is about 8 million people living just above the poverty line so to provide health insurance for this nation's, you

tonight, a conversation with writer brian jay jones about his new biography of jim jensen, creator ofof this country's most beloved characters, come at the fraud. despite his childlike wonder, he was a complex man -- kermit the frog. despite his childlike wonder, he was a complex man can and then we will talk with kathy eldon about the struggles to rebuild her life after the devastating loss of her son. we are glad you have joined us. those conversations coming up right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: jim henson, creator of kermit the frog, ms. agee and so many of the muppets is no doubt a beloved american icon. more complex than his followers made have imagined. book written by brian jay jones, let's take a look first at a clip at how jim henson action created kermit the frog. >> he is one of the supposed puppets. inside of his head, there's nothing in there but my hand. so it's just a little cloth pattern here. the eyes were half spheres. but he's very simple as puppets go. some have gone a lot more completed. but he is truly

. >> brian j. jones you and thank you for the work. >> thank you. >>> up next, toure is not -- not going to rant about ted cruz. but first a song to get stuck in your head for the rest of the day. ♪ >>> there's a crisis going on, a real crisis, that has nothing to do with ted cruz and the tea party. i promise you. this is not about ted cruz. it's about bees. [ speak in foreign language ] >>> for years, tens of millions of the world's bees have been dying. for years, this has been happening. last winter, one-third of commercial bee colonies in america died. now, before you say, oh, good, it's less likely i'll get stung. remember this, bees pollinate a third of the world's crops and if you understand the interconnected nature of nature, then you'll see why millions of our little black and yellow friends dying could have a massive detrimental impact on our food supply. for years, scientists have been mystified by what they labeled colony collapse disorder to describe the rapid global loss of millions of hiv

tonight, a conversation with writer brian jay jones about his new biography of jim jensen, creator of one of this country's most beloved characters, come at the fraud. despite his childlike wonder, he was a complex man -- kermit the frog. despite his childlike wonder, he was a complex man can and then we will talk with kathy eldon about the struggles to rebuild her life after the devastating loss of her son. we are glad you have joined us. those conversations coming up right now.

joining me zachary quinto, celia keenan-bulger, brian smith and the great cherry jones. >> these are three people and eventually four people who love each other so deeply and that's what makes it such a great tragedy. if they don't love each other, who cares? then it's just boring and grating. but if they deeply love one another, how hard rending is that to see people torn asunderer rev cably forever more who loved each other deeply. >> we serve as conduits in so many ways for something larger than us disease as tennessee did. i believe when someone is as gifted and talented and accomplished as tennessee that that talent just doesn't leave the earth when they do and i think joy that we have every night is stepping into that corridor that he was somehow a part of that we are serving and that we are giving away, again, in a way that hasn't been done in a long time. and that's the most exciting thing i think for us. >> rose: sebastian pinera and "the glass menagerie" when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >>

this happened along jones road between the walnut creek and pleasant hill stations. kpix 5's brian webb reports. >> reporter: ann officially this is a bart police investigation. and it's kind of turned into an eerie scene out here. the crowds have cleared out, the workers who came down here to see things for themselves, they are gone, too. what is left is this empty four- car bart train standing still on the tracks frozen in time and the bodies are still near the tracks about 500 feet to the south of us covered with tarps and there are a few bart officials running between the two scenes. this is what we know from bart management so far. two employees were hit by an out of service train about 2:00 north of the walnut creek station. they were working on a reported dip in the track at the time. by procedure one of them was supposed to inspect the track, the other was supposed to be a lookout for incoming train traffic. both are said to be experienced on the tracks and around the train. the train itself we're told was on a, quote, routine maintenance run with an experienced operator an

. >> cowboys, brian is not shy here, and he says anything that johnson can do i can do better. funny thing is, his boss, jerry jones, just said megatron was the best. nbc connecticut says the charges here. according to the new york post, he tweeted a plan to sneak into the clubhouse and put bombs in every one's cleats, and he is supposedly a mets fan. >> always smart to threaten people on twitter. >> and then a long-term knee issues may be in the past. watch this, he says, power dunk. the bench likes that one. nba commissioner david stearns. at his retirement dinner his bobble heads were given out. they only move up and down -- >> maybe it's just because he is agreeable. >> come on, it may be defective after all. and then lindsey vonn still rehabbing her knee from this crash last february. the girlfriend of tiger woods, as she will forever be known saying she will be back by november 30th. we have a date there. >>> 30-plus-mile-per-hour winds are making borders happy. 22 countries on site there, and stretching it out. 70 degrees and looking nice. >>> and then the fastest pumpkin paddling -- >> doesn't look very fas

celia keenan-bulger who takes the role of his sister laura, brian jay smith is the gentleman caller jim and the great, great, great cherry jones as amanda wingfield. i am pleased to have them all at this table. congratulations. and you, my dear. >> sir. >> rose: it's so great to have you back. >> thank you very much. >> rose: tell me about this play because brantley is not alone in saying "oh, my god." >> well, we feel like we are walking in tall cotton, an expression you've heard before. >> rose: i know what that means. >> the it almost feels like we are serving a great cause. and i don't mean -- this is not hyperbole. we feel as though -- and we feel that way because we've been made to feel this way by our audiences and the critics that we are reintroducing an american masterpiece to this country. i think people who are poets and have a great depth in high school are able to appreciate this play and it's lost on everybody else. it was lost on me, i will say that. >> rose: you were resistant? >> i was resistant. i think i had that southern chip on my shoulder where it just seemed like another southern freak show, you know? an

brian sullivan with a quick market flash. >> thank you. it has to do with us airways and american airlines. dow jonesrting that there may have been a settlement with the department of justice in the proposed deal between us airways and american airlines. vicky bryant of givemecredit, i'll give her credit, wrote because the two had basically found a mediator for their complaints between the doj and two airlines, they were more likely to do a settlement. now the dow jones is reporting, indeed, the two sides may be close to one. you can see us airways stock is spiking. only up a percent, but it was down earlier in the session. again, there's been some doubts as to whether the doj would be able to successfully block the merger of the airlines considering there had been bigger airline mergers prior to that. indeed, dow jones reporting they may have reached a settlement. perhaps the deal will, indeed, go through. back to you, bill. >> looked like it was dead for a while, but i guess it is being revived. thanks. >>> we have 15, 16 minutes left in the trading session. the dow wants to come back. we're down 4

we're trying to recorrect with brian todd because obviously, he's up on capitol hill. athena jonesare you there as well? can you hear me? athena jones is -- i think she's reporting what we're hearing, a lockdown has been lifted. the all-clear is being shown, at least in the russell senate office building, that's where athena jones was the internal message coming in, at least in the russell senate office building there's an all-clear. lockdown has been lifted. dana bash telling us earlier the lockdown lifted in the senate side where she is. that's all encouraging news right there. but there's still so much that we don't know about what's going on right now. it's obviously a work in progress. we do know that shots were fired. maybe a dozen. according to john, one of our cnn photojournalists who heard at least a dozen gunshots o outside the hart senate office building, one of three senate buildings. you could hear it on the house side as well, according to tulsi gabbard of hawaii. she said her staff heard those gunshots all the way across capitol hill, if you visited washington, if yo

brian will join us from a surprise location, cashing in on the world's energy leader. it's going to be great. see you then. >> the dow jones industrial up 37 point -- >> positive opening for the stock market today, folks. >> welcome to a very special edition of the "closing bell." we're, of course, celebrating maria bartiromo's 20th anniversary on cnbc. we'll have many more highlights like the one you just saw. all throughout today's show. they're fun. you certainly would not want to miss them. the funny thing is, maria, as we're thinking back to the '90s, a lot of the stock moves in this market today are reminding a lot of people about what was going on in the late '90s. >> it's a momentum market once again. in the dotcom boom and boost, you had dotcom companies soaring, even though the earnings weren't there. today earnings are there, which is the difference in today's momentum market. there's a lot of momentum names out there but they're rising for different reasons. >> funny we're sitting on the floor. you're a trail blazer. we won't be at post 9. there wouldn't be a post 9 had you not stood on the floor 20 years ago t

brian will join us from a surprise location, cashing in on the world's energy leader. it's going to be great. see you then. >> the dow jonesve opening for the stock market today, folks. >> welcome to a very special edition of the "closing bell." we're, of course, celebrating maria bartiromo's 20th anniversary on cnbc. we'll have many more highlights like the one you just saw. all throughout today's show. they're fun. you certainly would not want to miss them. the funny thing is, maria, as we're thinking back to the '90s, a

brian. >> let me tell you what happened at the sunday night football game. cowboys hosting the redskins. oops, i said it. cowboys trying to give jerry jonesvers big time. romo out of a shotgun, avoids the pressure, finds terrence williams. 15 yard strike. they go on to beat washington 31-16. a nail biter in new england. two of the best in the league. patriots, saints. fourth quarter, a super bowl preview. five seconds left in the game, they get the lead and eventually to win 30-27. watch this spectacular chain reaction motorcycle crash in malaysia. one riding somersault in the air. four riders were brought down in the accident. no one seriously hurt in the crash. >> thanks, brian. our nation's veterans storming washington, d.c. protesting the government shutdown that closed the member yams dedicated to their service. the shutdown in its 14th day. how did they feel about being thrown into the bickering. >> brendan o'toole joins us. >> what we saw yesterday was pretty awesome to see veterans storming the memorials, hit rale -- memorials and literally removing the barricade. what you're doing is incredible. it seems as though the military in