that, to me, was christopher at his most christopherness., what i want to read you is just two paragraphs -- we were told to keep our readings to three minutes -- i'm going to read you just two paragraphs from an article he wrote ostensibly about rhodesia, but with it actually began with his telling why margaret thatcher, the occasion when margaret thatcher famously spanked him. [laughter] so here we are. the article is called, he who got slapped: lessons maggie taught me," by christopher hitchens. i make up my mind about people in the first ten seconds, and i very rarely change it. that's a quote. so "the new york times" quoted margaret thatcher in saying on the day, as saying on the day of her resignation. i would be happy to think that the statement was truthful since within minutes of first being introduced to me, thatcher lashed me across the buttocks with a rolled-up parliamentary order paper. be -- it happened in the course of an exchange of views about rhodesia in the late fall of 1977 when she was still leader of the opposition and

. >> reporter: one of whom was a 20-year-old named christopher tapp. tapp was no felon, but was an admitted druggee and what do you know, chris tapp had a bit of a history with ex-school resource officer, now detective fuhriman. >> he was in trouble a time or two? >> he was. just trying to help him out. >> i trust you and hopefully you trust me, okay. >> reporter: he trusted fuhriman. but didn't know anything, he said, about angie's murder. >> if i did know anything about this, i would say, but i do not know. that's the honest truth. >> reporter: and having made his statement, christopher tapp went home, in the clear, apparently. couple of days later, the detectives asked him to come downtown again. >> i told him, i said what are you doing this is a murder case. >> reporter: this is tapp's mother, vera, she understaood what he apparently did not, he was possibly talking himself into very big trouble. >> he said, mom, i don't have anything to hide an i want to them that i don't know anything. >> reporter: but it didn't quite work out that way. before lo

my son's not here today. >> an emotional moment for the mother of 17-year-old christopher brown. >> he was a sweetheart, he was loving, he was kind. >> he died after a group of friends threw rock s at the front door of officer james laboard. brown fell unconscious and died. the officer was charged with manslaughter and released on his own bond, a move the brown family calls an insult. >> there's no way that he should be walking the streets like this and i don't have my son. >> the family is now petitioning the state's attorney office to file second degree murder charges. tuesday night supporters gathered to sign that petition. >> we want second degree murder, nothing less. >> they're appealing to lawmakers to ban police officers from using ing any force that could restrict a person's airway. >> whatever can put your unconscious. we don't want that to happen again. >> now a lifelong mission for one mother. >> we're hurting and by want justice for christopher so in other life, i'm talking nobody else, has to offer like this. >> reporter: the brown's have plans to meet with the state's at

you're safe in norman now i'm told, christopher. tell us about your harrowing experience. >> well, yes, rob. i am safe. my family is safe at the moment. thank god. we were watching the north fire. there was a major wildfire north of my house. it started out there and it was going north so i wasn't too concerned with that. about an hour later, my wife called me and told me there is a major fire north of us, which i already knew. i went out to look at that and i noticed there was smoke and embers blowing from the south across my vision. i'm like, okay. what's going on there? so i went to the back of the house and went out the back porch and walked into literally a forest fire in my back yard. the entire neighborhood behind me was engulfed and all the forest around me was on fire right up to my porch where i was standing. >> what went through your head and what did you do next? >> the very first thing was to get my step son out of the house. i have two step sons. only one was there at the time. his name is gabriel. he's 12 years old. v

if family of baltimore county teen christopher brown is fighting on.y are calling for an independent investigation into the night he was killed by an off duty police officer. worse' live, megan ma core kill has more on their plan. >> reporter: christopher brown's family say are not happy with the manslaughter charges filed against that baltimore county officer. they've made it their mission to get murder charges filed in this case. >> i didn't see this day come ♪ my son's not hear today . >> reporter: an emotional moment for the mother of 17- year-old christopher brown. her son gone. >> he was a sweetheart. he was loving, if he was kind. >> reporter: brown died june 13th after a group of friends threw rocks at the front door of officer james la board. investigators say the off-duty officer chased brown, dragged him out of the bushes and a struggle ensued. brown fell unconscious and died. the cornerrer in ruled it homicide by asphyxiation. the officer was charged with manslaughter and released on his own recognizance, a move the brown family calls an in

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thank you, christopher. oklahoma is not the only victim. it's just the latest one of this hot, dry year. it has plenty of company. here's a look at the drought monitor map. check it out closely. the version of the map updated just a couple days ago. right now more than half of all u.s. counties in the lower 48 have been designated disaster zones. last hour i talked with ernie goss who just finished a new study that shows how the drought is dragging down the economy. >> what we tracked in our two surveys for the month of july is the spilling over to other industries because obviously when consumers have less money, spend more on food, they have less money to spend on other factors. we haven't seen all of that yet. we'll see it in the months ahead and, in fact, the next -- coming in the latter part of 2012 and into 2013. >> estimates for crop losses from the drought to top $20 billion this year. if we could only get some of the rainfall from the tropical systems up there. we have two tropical storms right now in the atlantic, one in the carib

. >> like stone inmate christopher trotter has been behind bars since the mid 1980s. >> i came into prison to serve a four-year prison sentence for petty theft. i came in with four years and ended up with 142 years. >> that's what could happen in prison if you make the wrong choice. it has consequences. >> the wrong choice trotter refers to was being one of the instigators of a 1985 riot at another indiana prison. seven corrections officers were stabbed. two others and a counselor were held hostage for 15 hours. >> it was a pretty massive riot that they had at that time and chris trotter was one of the main players in that. and since then, trotter has done his share to maintain his image of that. >> trotter has maintained that he was defending another inmate from abusive staff. >> some of them were stabbed but some of them were beat up. some of them went to the court and overexaggerated their wounds. >> the judge in trotter's case saw nothing to laugh about. >> i was found guilty of one count of attempted murder, one battery, four counts of criminal defilement and one count of rioting. and

and i want to show you quickly what christopher reeve's entry was. because we were debating, do we put him in the superman costume, shall we put him in a wheelchair? what is his lasting legacy, how should we portray him in and the picture we put is this one in a wheelchair. hold this up for a sec. and the picture that we picked for him shows him in this wheelchair, and what alexandra said which i loved, and i really struggled with this, this is how he needs to be remembered. not because he wore his underwear on the outside of his panels, right? which i will do on halloween on occasion. but she said to me this picture is one of the favorites of my father. and the reason is because it was taken at the democratic national convention that year which i had no idea, i just picked it because i loved it. and she said, this was the moment where he realized he needed to make the transition from an actor to an activist, and you can see it happening in this picture. that's the picture you picked. and, of course, i said that every signing we had after that was go

tommy christopher, good to see you.ope you tweeted out to your followers you were going to be on the "full court press." >> i did. >> bill: very good. let's talk a little bit about the briefing yesterday. it was interesting that the number one topic seemed to be harry reid, right? and the attempt to tie harry reid -- you've written about this to tie harry reid to the white house. what the romney campaign wants to prove is harry reid is being driven by the white house to make the comments that mitt romney may not have paid any taxes for ten years. >> yeah, you know, this is frustrating. when you know, six people asked the same question. you know you know the first time it is asked it will never get an answer. it is weird that the process -- trying to extract like a molar the enunciation from the white house. and i think the white house is playing its mark. they're not hugging reid but they're not denouncing what he said. they're keeping the issue focused on romney. >> bill: they weren't going to condemn harry. the questi

christopher. fue quien más lo padeció. >>> todas las noches lloraba se costaba en una pared.pegaba. >>> fue realmente a estados unidos cuando era adolescente y en georgia nacieron sus 2 hijos. y ella enfermó de los riñones y tuvo que regresar a su tierra en el estado de méxico. no podía pagar su tratamiento médico. y aquí lo reside en un hospital público y espera un trasplante. >>> no se cuanto vaya a estar así el tratamientoes hasta 10 años. tuvo las astas de nacimiento como ciudadanos mexicano cuando

christopher bond allegedly pulled their suv on to a frontage road long killing himself in and shooting him in the leg. bonds motive was his wife's a $1 million life insurance policy that kimberly vaughn was taking anti seizure medication at the time for death medication that health officials have said is known to cause suicidal behavior. six alternates must fill be selected. one year ago the stage collapsed at the indiana state fair, coming up a live report from the fair where that collapse is on a lot of people's minds tonight. just a few pieces of paper set off that gunmen. air force one and president barack obama talking and tory and the same state as the gop paul ryan. and we have a gorgeous forecast for you at least until thursday. elfe music: up and under w/sfx music: swells the back to school collection from kmart. work it. one year ago tonight tragedy at the indiana state fair, a stage collapses and the sugar land concert and killed seven people, that event being remembered tonight. >> so many people came out to this memorial tonight it was held just be on this grandstand right

so christopher, how long do you think it's going to be before we see new designs other than the apple iphones that we've gotten so used to seeing? >>. >> typically these things will take about a product cycle or two cycles before we'll see something. remember, in this case there are two types of patents that are implicated. utility patents which protect the way things work and design patents which protect the way things look. in other words, their aesthetic. here companies competitors of apple are going to be challenged that they are going to now need to come up with new, different, exciting looking designs in order to catch the customer's interest. >> susie: but what about consumer choices. as you heard in our report app sell trying to get certain samsung gadgets off the market. what does this mean for consumers? >> yeah, this, when you have a design-- where we have that the jury decided that these particular device of samsung infringe the apple patent, one of the remedies is damages which here they've assessed a $1 billion damage award, but also a determination regarding an injuncti

the hero for my daughter was christopher rev's daughter. and his daughter came up and read the entry for her father. whey love the most beyond seeing, here's one of my her heroes my daughter introduces his daughter and she reads that. when we were picking the pictures for the book, e were picking up the one for christopher, i want to show you quickly what his entry was. we were debating. do we put him in the superman costume. in a wheelchair how do we show him to people what is his lasting legacy. how should we portray him. the picture we put is this one in a wheelchair. hold up it for a second. and the picture that we picked for him shows him in the wheelchair and what alex said i loved. i said this is how he needs to be remember not because he wore the underwear on the outside of his pants. which i will do on halloween on occasion. she said this is one of my favorites of my father. and the reason is because it's it was taken as a democratic national convention that year. which i no idea. i picked it because i loved it. and she said, and t

i don't even know if this is what christopher columbus looked like.t sitting there ridiculous. i was like, mom, i look good. she's like, you look amazing. i'm like, thanks, mom, first day of school, i'm going to nail it. [ laughter ] get on the bus -- and then everything changed. >> jimmy: right there? >> dressed up like christopher columbus, and everybody else is dressed up as marty mcfly from the novelization of "back to the future." they're in jeans. there i am with my feather coming out of my cap. and i make that walk to the back of the bus knowing that this year will never be good again. when you're a kid, there's nowhere to go. i'm locked in, i'm there for eight hours. i'm committed to this. even like, i'll take off the gold chain. no. and i'm carrying like i'm a pimp. but yeah, no, it was an embarrassing -- >> jimmy: it's your mother's fault, it really is. >> yeah. >> jimmy: she should have known better than that. >> yeah. >> jimmy: does she show bad judgment in general? >> my mom -- i don't think that she tries to show bad judgment, but she de

[applause] global grand marshal bishop christopher.applause] [applause] gilbert baker award recipient, gilbert baker himself. he is the creator of the international symbol, the rainbow flag. [applause] individual community grand marshals rebecca, gary -- i do not know if he is here today because he has a very busy day. he hosts the pride run that is gone on in about 30 minutes. -- that is going on in about 30 minutes. and we are thrilled to once again have the san francisco lesbian and gay bad, the official bant -- band, the official band of pride week. [applause] we have the board chair, lisa williams as well as the executive director. [applause] the sisters of perpetual indulgence skerrit -- of perpetual indulgence, the castro alliance club, thankyou all. [applause] thanks to danny for the website and d.j. josh, one of the community grand marshals. [applause] and i would like to thank all of you for your help, especially my sister colleen and my partner, jose. [applause] and my mother. everyone is so lucky to have you. we start off t

it's 'day two' of testimony in the christopher vaughn murder trial, and his father-in-law and sister-in-law took the stand today. vaughn is accused of shooting his wife and three children in june 2007. their bodies were found in the family vehicle... parked near i-55 on a narrow path near a cellphone tower. vaughn's father-in-law said he was troubled over how vaughn left for work one morning... stone-faced and didn't say a word to anyone. his sister-in-law said she talked to kimberly vaughn at least twice before her death and she seemed fine. since the beginning of the year... some illinois courts program which allows cameras in the courtroom. officials are meeting today to discuss bringing cameras to cook county courtrooms. wgn's robert jordan is in the newsroom with more on the story. since the illinois supreme court announced and this morning i asked chief judge timothy evans how will he know if the cook county proposal he plans to present to the supreme court will be successful. then i believe if justice prevails through this proceeding where recording devices are present, if we have so

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joining me now is christopher broach in pennsylvania who vows to fight voter i.d. by not enforcing it, and with me is michael papantonio president of the national trial lawyers association. thank you for joining me tonight. i'm mystified by this. not one piece of evidence of voter fraud problem but yet the judge up holds it constitutionally. does this surprise you. >> i hate to see it, but this is what happens when political hacks dress up in black robes and call themselves judges. this judge had everything he needed in the way of evidence in the way of testimony to grant a restraining order enjoining the enforcement of this voter scam. that's all this is. first of all, he had part of the pennsylvania constitution that is even more deliberate. it's more explicit than the 14th amendment. he had the pennsylvania constitution language that made it clear that every election should be conducted in a way that is both free and--free of restrictions and equal to all voters. he had everything he needed, and he chose not to do it. i suppose rely on the supreme court's decisi

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christopher. fue quien más lo padeció. >>> todas las noches lloraba se costaba en una pared. el estado de méxico. no podía pagar su tratamiento médico. y aquí lo reside en un hospital público y espera un trasplante. >>> no se cuanto vaya a estar así el tratamientoes hasta 10 años. tuvo las astas de nacimiento como ciudadanos mexicano cuando llegaron christopher y giovanni tenían derechos. como cualquier mexicano. en este pequeño rincón la familia encontró su nueva vida. el ayudó a integrarse a la escuela. trabajo. y recibir atención médica. pues están en una situación de... lo que menos les ocurre es ir con lagos autoridades. proyecto rincón se ha convertido para los migrantes en un oasis donde pueden resolver situaciones. sin embargo, hay otros migrantes en otros lugares donde resolver problemas les puede llevar literalmente algunos años. >>> es un poblado de migrantes. pero cuando regresan del norte con hijos nacidos allá. aquí el gobierno municipal los ayuda a tener documentos oficiales de méxico y estados unidos. además de los sellos que los acreditan. >>> desde poder tra

no, ok, christopher fulkerson. >> good afternoon, directors.would like to make some observations about the political process chorion year. first, i would like to thank the director forxd selecting directr kobayashi. we must realize that today is the establishment is the new george 3. your tactics are deplorable. there are so basic to methods that the public cannot approve, if they know them, that you really ought to change what you are doing. the town hall meetings are an absolute sham. they have never met through any number of town hall meetings that terminate in one week, they all be reversed -- get reversed, at your direction. the tax advisory council has now told you in a structural way that they can no longer go along with a sham. there is not political representation here. we do not have the most basic american freedom. this is really as profound as taxation without representation. you are taking our livelihoods and restructuring the entire way our world works without our representation and you are doing it as a sham. what you're doing is

and christopher and dawkins don't really have good answers to this question. there are -- >> rose: he's an atheist isn't he? >> not just an anti-atheist-- not only did he not believe god existed. he was glad god did not exist. because if he wa existed we loby living in the equivalent of north korea. dawkins believes scientists can answer this question. and there is physicists like krause, who has written a book purporting to explain in scientific terms how a universe arose out of pure nothingness. >> rose: is that mainly math? >> yeah, it's equations that seem to imply that as he puts it, nothing is as unstable. so if there was a state of pure nothingness, the universe would leap out of it by a quantum miracle. >> rose: it's the security of science and math. >> yeah. what struck me was that the alternative seemed to be either god made the world or science can explain how the world came into existence out of nothingness or there is no explapgz. it's just a brute fact that the universe exists. that's what pertrapped russell thought. there was no reason -- >> ros

i d even know what christopher columbus looked like., you look amin i'm like, thanks, mom, first day of school, i'm going to nail it. [ laughter ] >> get on the bus and everything has changed. where i dressed up like christopher columbus, and everybodies is i dressed up as marty mcfide in "back to the future." there i am with my feather coming out of my cap. and i make that walk to the back of the bus knowing that this year will never be good again. when you're a kid, there's nowhere to go. like i'm on that bus, i'm there for eight hours. i'm committed to this. even like, i'll take off the gold chain. no. and i'm carrying like i'm a pimp. [ laughter ] >> no, it was embarrassing. >> jimmy: it's your mother's fault, it really is. >> yeah. >> jimmy: she should have known better than that. >> >> jimmy: yeah. dgme in genera she show bad >> i don't think she trieso show bad judgment, but she definitely does. >> jimmy: she does. >> she comes out here about once a year. and she goes honey i want to take you to test drive a cove vet. a corvette.

christophe can't shoulders with shields desk used to be now there's only a black and white picture of. the hope and she was a great fruit he was always smiling he was hard be always wanted to go places who is curious he loved his job he was also someone who was very friendly who would go filming we were happy to do together because we would be able to live you adventures when we need to. really have this need in his body to tell what's happening on the other side of the world with his camera with my camera because we were always together because i lost a friend christophe says his initial thoughts were that the syrian government was behind the attack however this the week after death a journalist from this newspaper published an article stating the possibility that he might have been killed by fire from the opposition clearly information that went against the dominant narrative in the media but he did find that he wasn't alone in coming to that conclusion i made by mistake by random french intelligence guy. i don't understand why your report didn't pick up. the news that that there ar

. >>> new tonight, theamily of christopher brown isn't resting after the 17-year-old was pinned down by a county police officer and later died from asphyxiation. they want some charges for officer james la board. abc joins us now with a little mo on the family's fight. >> the mom believes that the victim's attorney did not present all the evidence the grand jury. officer la board faces a manslaughter charge not second-degree murders. tells us tonight as agree today meet tomorrow with her. >> jtius for psychiatrist fer. >> a rally was staged outside of the office responsible for investigating the details leading up to the death of 17-year-oldrown >> if theyollected all as i seee grand jury would have come up with a murder charge. >> his mom called on b saltitatt shellen berger to answer her questions. back in june brown w nas a oup of teens throwing rocks at front doors in randallstown. with o hit officer james la board. witnesses say the nine year veteran chased brown and held him down. he died from asphyxiation. officer la board was charged with one count of manslaughter, one count

but it is factual. >> laura: so first of all, i think kathy, what happens and christopher, you can jump in here, what happens is this all becomes white noise to some extent to the voters because they see this and goes mitt romney caused this guy's wife to die and then turns out the guy was on a conference call with the obama campaign, right, they knew his story pretty much and are denying it. it just all smacks of an unserious approach to these really serious problems facing america. >> yeah, it does. and i think this campaign on the behalf of the president can be described as lies, lies, and damn lies. from the perspective of these ads, there are a couple of things we're seeing here. mr. hope and change realizes that, in fact, he has changed nothing. he has a dismal economic record, unemployment is high. he's blaming a bush is not work. what does he resort to? he resorts to being led by harry reid? i'm sorry. boss style politics. oh, what, as in chicago boss style politics? yeah. they should know quite a bit about that. and in this particular case, he is hypocrite in chief rather than