it was a fairly worrying time. >> absolutely, christopher. we think you very much for your time speaking with us here on bbc world news. and the mayor of christchurch, reporting to you and the last hour or so. we welcome you to bbc news. thank you very much for your time. but to devastation. >> tremendously difficult scenes for us to look at. we want people to know the we have got our fellow citizens here. many of them are trapped in buildings as you and i talk, and this is a day we had hoped we would never see. we are out there. people are facing a lot of devastation. some of the operations are mobilized and in place. emergency services. rescue operations. we have been able to access additional hospitals around the provinces and to move things out into those areas. our major hospital is open and functioning. we have opened a number of centers around the city, and we are now in the position of trying to build up a picture of this to try to quantify it in some way, but our main focus is on rescue right now. >> can you give us an idea of the nu

just a matter of three to four hours representative christopher lee is a married republican congressman who was serving in the twenty sixth district of new york until website gawker obtained e-mail correspondence that he had had with a woman he met over a craigslist thirty four year old single female had put a post in the women seeking men form asking if anybody out there could prove that not all craigslist men looked like trolls inviting financially and emotionally secure men to reply and boy did she get an answer when christopher lee using a g. mail account with his own name on it described himself as a very fit fun classy guy then he sent her this shirt was photo to prove it meanwhile he's also lied about his marital status his age and his occupation so there you have it by the time we were wrapping up the alona show last night we had already resigned so when we say about this political sex scandal well joining me to discuss it from our studio in new york is wonkette blogger sarah but in casa sarah thanks so much for joining us tonight now i want to know your whole take on this sex s

that is christopher lee, congressman christopher lee? he reportedly sent shirtless photos of himself to a woman seeking a relationship on craigslist. the woman apparently googled him, realized who he was and then sent his e-mails to the website gawker. lee is married with a young son. he says he regrets the harm his actions have caused his family, his staff and his constituents. >>> well, today is the day some iphone customers have been waiting years for. the verizon iphone is finally in stores and in san jose people lined up for hours to get one. as rebecca jarvis shows us, even if you're not in the market for a new iphone, there are ways to use all this hype to your advantage. >> yes, i can hear you now. >> only at&t's network lets your iphone talk and surf at the same time. >> reporter: let the cell phone wars begin. verizon rolls out the iphone 4 in stores today and expects to sell 11 million of them this year. >> i'm excited to get a verizon iphone. i have wanted one for a while. >> i have at&t and it drops calls all the time. i use

he was an insider in christopher butler's own p.i. firm. he went undercover wearing a wire for several months, gathering what one defense attorney described as a dump truck of evidence. this 32-page affidavit spells out the case against narcotic task force commander norman welsh and well-known private investigator christopher butler. according to the document, the undercover informant was a private investigator who worked for butler. the informant secretly taped both men dealing drugs for several months. the affidavit quotes butler saying norm was nearing retirement and wanted to make some extra money. welsh's attorney says his client was really under financial stress. >> he was having a lot of financial difficulties and we've had people look at him and we think he's really suffering quite dramatically from post-traumatic stress syndrome from a number of things, an accumulation of being a police officer in a narcotics position for such a long time. >> reporter: undercover agents watched and listened as the two allegedly took drugs from law

new york representative christopher lee loses his shirt, then his seat. >>> and finding her voice. wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords takes the next step on wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords takes the next step on a remarkable road to recovery. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody, and thanks for joining us today, i'm betty nguyen. >>> this morning in egypt, protests on the streets of cairo are growing, and so is the friction between egypt and the u.s. there are increasing clashes between protesters and police, and reports of increasing violence outside the capital. now tomorrow another massive rally is planned. cbs' terry mccarthy is in cairo with the latest. good morning, terry. >> reporter: good morning, betty. pressure is again increasing on president mubarak in this struggle of wills between the protesters and the government. as you can see behind me the protesters still here in tahrir square. but we're also seeing a series of strikes around the country. labor unrest, which is not directly tied to the protests against president mubarak, but even in

. >> followed by christopher. >> good afternoon. >> how does this thing work? >> this is a minor issue, but maybe it is not a minor issue. i believe the city has been committed to getting illegal limos operating at helping taxicabs. you are looking at this side of the hall. ever since it opened, you will notice that there are no taxis there. some of them are not black. they are picking somebody up. basically, they are just town cars and they totally blocked the street. i picked up three times on the other side of the street. people had to walk across the street to get to me. three or four months ago, somebody moved to around the corner of hayes and van ness. there is an entrance there. 90% of the people come out of this entrance. 10%, out of the other one. anybody that wants to go to will call as to what they bought from the cab stand. if they are a senior citizen, they can take the elevator. nobody talked to her about doing it. this is another picture. these guys are sitting there. they are trying to solicit rides to the limo. those guys have been blocking tra

. >> christopher klum because -- >> you're ahead of us. we're way back. >> i think it's it spread because it went across the world, and i think china had it. >> yeah, but before china gets it, there's -- here on the end, mary frances marina. >> i think it was, i think it was the slaves. , later. we're way back. we're in bc. we're way, way back. >> australians? >> no, no australians. >> the greeks? >> yes, alexander the great. if any of you remember the story, alexander the great is conquering across from greece, across iran, he's conquering, he gets to the edge of india, and his troops say i won't go any further. i've gone as far as i'm going to go, but alexander is conquering. he has this hunger to know. alexander can never know enough, so he sends his friend in a boat saying go explore india, find out stuff for me. he comes back and talks about the reed that gives hunny though there are no bees. now, why would you describe sugar cane as the reed that gives honey though there are no bees? >> because it was sweet. >> yes, and why else? >>

and, christopher fell prey to that in that book. and, i don't expect he'll be in any of my book parties, real soon. >> and in fact you write about him in ""after the hangover: the conservatives' road to recovery," a few more minutes before we visit mr. tyrrell at his house, in alexandria to see how he writes as we continue our in-depth program, jeff in houston, texas, you are on the air, high. >> caller: good morning. thanks very much, kachlt spc-sp mr. tyrrell for your service, and my question pertains to an article, david brooks for the "new york times" wrote prior to the presidential-vice presidential election in which he expressed his concern that george w. bush, sarah palin, and now, michelle bachmann are very much trying to tap into the governing from the gut motif rather than governing from the mind motif and one of the things that i admire about you, mr. tyrrell and about mr. buckley, is that -- and george will is another name that comes to mind is there is an active engagement of the life of the mind that does not alienate

. >> um, christopher columbus -- >> this oh, no, you're ahead of us, buddy. you're ahead. we're way back. >> um, i think it's the, it spread because it went across the world, and i think china had it? >> yeah, but before china gets it, there's someone who brings -- there's a woman here on the end, marina. >> um, i think it was, i think it was the slaves. >> that's later. any -- we're way back. we're in b.c., guys. we're way, way back. >> the australians? >> nope, no australians. >> ah. >> the greeks? >> yes. alexander the great. if any of you remember the stories, alexander the great is conquering across from greece. he's conquering across iran. he's conquering -- he gets to the edge of india, and his troops say, i won't go any further. i've gone as far as i'm going to go. but alexander is conquering, he has this hunger to know. alexander can never know enough. so he sends his friend in a boat saying go explore india, find out stuff for me. and his friend comes back and talks about the reed that gives honey though there are no bees. now, why would you describe sugarcane as

campaign going on in two thousand and eight wanted to listen to well we've been listening to you christophe hostile thanks very much indeed for joining us live here on r.t. business and government live there in berlin thank you. us politicians don't often hold back when it comes to their views of the world but it seems they haven't always check their facts and there's artie's gonna cheat you can reports it's the american people who are becoming the butt of the joke. advising other countries on democracy seems to be a must for any u.s. politician and some of them get so carried away that they confuse what countries exactly they're talking about i also want to thank the president with the way now group of our members of congress visited with her us choose a great leader a but we also had the opportunity meet with members of the opposition many of whom have fellow countrymen residing in prison have been beaten and tortured hard. during the same conference the former presidential candidate down one of the most influential republican senators refer to russia as the soviet union we all know that

that's christopher lee. he reportedly sent pictures of himself without a shirt on to a woman seeking a relationship on craigslist. the woman apparently googled him and realized who he was and then sent email along with the pictures to the gawker website. lee is married. he says he regrets the harm that he has caused to his family, his staff and his constituents. and in this day and age it makes you wonder, what's he thinking? come on? >> such a well-known public figure. >>> we don't want to see any of those pictures of you. >> i don't quite look like that, either. [ laughter ] >> so... >> you could have fooled me. >> you wouldn't see any of those pictures of me on there. if you are just getting up, it is freezing in some parts of the bay area. down to 31 degrees, clear skies in the napa valley. 32 in santa rosa. 31 degrees in fairfield. 35 in livermore. a little chilly to begin the day. skies clear and offshore so by the afternoon, fantastic. 67 and sunny in santa rosa, 56 in napa, about 65 in san jose. even

they're fun to follow but they really stand out in a moment when georgetown university professor christopher change. our job. we are going to get. you back all right. we'll have a rally will sell lots of beer will. they will wear uniforms that will damage you the black and them everything but very little damming the white. they are the key to our problem are already. it'll eat. what is worse scorer who now that's all i have learned so far in the man at versus machine competition. on jeopardy watson the i.b.m. computer program to analyze human speech ran away in the second round and fact it wasn't even close watson netted nearly thirty six thousand dollars in prize money and its two human competitors ken jennings had forty eight hundred dollars and brad rutter had a little more than ten thousand dollars so basically it was a rout the computer made a killing but i guess that we should lose all hope not feel completely useless just yet because watson did have a few problems including a big stumble in final jeopardy and the category was u.s. cities and the answer was its largest airport is named

vo --a norman wielsch y christopher butler se les leeran los cargos maÑana, ambos son acusados de distribuiretanfetamina s, marihuana y esteroides. --mientras se realiza una investigacion minuciosa de quienes ellos llevaron a la carcel por que en muchos casos ellos mismos fueron los testigos para encerrarlos. cu --seguimos con informacion de la misma ciudad. --que puede ser mas seguro para un recien nacido que estar en los brazos de su padre...? --pues al parecer, para un bebe de antioch esto no fue asi. --su propio progenitor admitio haberlo golpeado y ahora el pequeÑo esta al borde de la muerte. --vamos con pilar niÑo. take pkg take pkg este es sigifredo lua, acusado de golpear salvajemente a su propio hijo, un bebe de tan solo dos meses de edad.... esto ocurrio en un apartamento en la calle o en la ciudad de antioch este miercoles.... segun el reporte policial lua confeso haberle dado un puÑetazo en la cara al bebe, exasperado por su llanto... antonio melendez/vecino 35:49 totalmente imperdonable, inconcebible en cualquier de un ser humano 35:54 el pequenito fue trasladado de antioch al h

well known private gator, christopher butler in this picture, and narcotics task force commander, are behind bars. and now, their arrest could free some convicted drug dealers. the story will likely go on for months. here to unravel some of this is nbc's jodi hernandez. spending the day speaking to defense attorneys who want answers, right, jodi? >> defense attorneys are outraged. they say every case this commander was involved with deserves to be looked at and potentially dismissed. often times clients complained of crooked cops, and this case proves, sometimes they may be right. >> it is very disappointing. it could have far ranging implications for open cases as well as cases that are already closed. >> contra costa county public defender says dozens, possibly hundreds of drug cases could be in question. now, that bur roar of narcotic enforcen't commander, norman welsh has been arrested on charges of distributing drugs. >> doing the same thing that he has come to court and -- brought cases to the prosecution, and testified against people, put people in, in custody. and people are s

if you asked me to design the perfect police officer, it i would use christopher as a template. he is the man you want to have as your next-door neighbor and your friend. he is a man of character, and he is the consummate police officer. quiet, efficient, honest, and dedicated to serving his fellow citizens. thank you for recognizing his achievements and for honoring him here today. [applause] >> .-- president chiu: thank you. i believe our next awardees are making their way over, so let's get back to general public, it. >> my name is washington, a longtime community activist. hopefully, what i say now will not jeopardize my getting accommodation next week for black history month, but i am here because my heart is hardened. particularly because of the situations of females in the homicide. i have been fascinated. i am appalled of my black ministers. i am appalled for my black community. as i look around, i see one or two commissioners. even out here speaking on the issue. i am appalled. i am a father. i am a grandfather. i am a great-grandfather. to wake up and see these article

commander of the central contra costa enforcement team on the left and his friend and former cop christopherbutler seen on the right to stood side- by-side in matching yellow jail jumpsuit said friday afternoon as they were rain down 28 counts of distributing marijuana, methamphetamine and steroids. the d.a. criminal thing allege that they obtain methamphetamine from the contra costa county sheriff property room and marijuana from the narcotics enforcement task force. it also alleged that welch received a cash payment of $5,000 for the math. during the hearing, the d.a. suggested that while she allegedly was the one who got the drugs and turn them over to bob blair who passed along to an employee to sell. the d.a. also said walsh admitted his role in the crime to investigators. welches' attorney said his client is remorseful. >> when you look at the amount of money that was involved and how what was affecting his life. what were you thinking? but again we as human and beings make mistakes. we have to accept responsibility for things and then we move forward. that's what we will do in this ca

possible without the leadership that came before who dreamed of this day, people by the name of christopherll numb. larry mosconi. alioto-pier, feinstein, agnos. as bill mentioned, our dear harmonists sue burns. this is a dream fulfilled for all of us. also, we must pay tribute to an incredible front office staff who makes it all possible to support the work of this wonderful 2010 giants team. [applause] many of them are here. many of the staff that you saw, people working at the ballpark, we saw marching at the beginning of the parade. i hope you were able to pay due to them as well. thank you, 2010 giants. you will give us more than you will ever know. [applause] >> thank you. it is my pleasure, and we need a big round of applause for the next speaker, the giants a senior vice president and general manager. he put this team together, brian sabean. [applause] >> i do not know about politics but our outgoing men know how to throw a party. it is an emotional time for all of us, especially me. my knees are we, my heart is racing, a lump in my throat, but without overstating the obvious, we de

his co-defendant is christopher butler. he's the owner of a private investigation company. they're both in jail. walsh's attorney can't believe the bail that's been set. >> it's draconian. the bail started at $660,000. and, apparently, the criminal clerk's office revisited that and upped it to a million dollars. is that draconian? yes. i looked to say who did he kill? >> investigators think walsh is the only law enforcement official involved in the scheme. the plan is to arraign him today. his attorney says walsh is broken up about this, that his family is being very supportive and he's ready to face these charges head-on. amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> it's 6:03 now. an oakland man is under arrest on charges of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in east oakland. the girl told police she was walking to school when she was forced into the man's apartment and assaulted. she got away after the man got distracted. she ran to school a few blocks away and reported the attack. using the girl's description police were able to find the apartment and the suspect. there was anothe

been with the state drug enforcement team for a dozen years and 49-year-old private investigator christopher butler previously worked with welch on the antioch police force. both were arrested yesterday in venetian accused of stealing drugs from an evidence locker and then trying to sell them. the arrest of the drug agents putes numerous cases in question. >> it's been five years since the san francisco police department's wild video scandal erupted. eye team reports one of the displain narrow ray cases against the officers involved wrapped up last night. the gag video was meant to be a going away gift for the captain of the bayview station and not meant for public viewing until gavin newsom played clips for the media. they suspended her without pay for 360 day. >> so i leave here with my head held high knowing who i am. and with that i have strength and i don't feel -- i don't really feel that assault or the attack as i may have otherwise. >> the commission was still deciding what will happen to officer jimmy lewis, also seen in that video. lewis and hurley believe they have grounds for a c

now it's up to christopher nolan to agree to write and direct it. bill murray is holding up the third ghostbusters movie on how word star in this week murray said he doesn't like sequels. he left the script for ghostbusters 3 on red and on his desk. he started tuesday goes before. what the movie's biggest stars as in the bay area this week. on monday night prince toward the stage at oracle arena. he has two shows left as of this afternoon, there are still tickets available to tonights and thursday's show. for the buzz on kimberly sakamoto kron 4 news. >>pam: new details of the dumbarton bridge crash yesterday was no fire hydrants on the bridge the menlo park fire chief said disaster is looming. yesterday's the trailer fire said of the bridge for hours. as kate thompson reports firefighters said the water supply of the bridge would cut down on response time. >>kate: was no fire hydrants on the bridge, they had to call-in water trucks to help about the fire caused by a tractor-trailer. >> its archaic. >>kate: the fire chief said it took 40 minutes to

his name was christopher columbus. >> and i have to tell you, marina and i cannot agree on who wrote that passage. we both like it so much we each want to say -- >> i say i wrote it. >> i say i wrote it. >> we still don't know where the truth lies. so, a lot of you mentioned south america, the west indies, all of you who have backgrounds in the caribbeans, right? so this is now, sugar has been brought across this whole area here. we have barbados, all these places that have sugarcane planted on a. hispania only a. >> it is the dominican republican of haiti. >> cuba. all these are places where sugar is now being planted. so what is this now the beginning of income serve -- the beginning of in terms of world history? >> to be clear that's always been slavery everywhere in the world. slavery is as old as world history has existed in every part of the world. however, as marina was saying, people -- christopher columbus brings sugar over on his second voyage. what do you need to have a lot of sugar? unique fertile soil. you need wind or water power to run the new. you need to be near wate

buscando un hombre le costÓ su lugar en el congreso al representante por nueva york, el republicano christophersado renunciÓ esta tarde pidiendo disculpas por la gte a la que ha herido por sus a lo >> la congresista gifford hablÓ hoyor primera vez despuÉs de que fue herida desde hace ya un mes y un dÍa segÚn los mÉdicos la recuperaÓn ha sido milagrosa, pero tardarÁ meses. ya recobrÓ el apetito y estÁ consumiendo al menos tres veces alimentos al dÍa. >> una nueva tormenta afectado por lo menos a nueve estados del sur y medio esteel paÍs desde texas hasta alaba. la ciudad de dallas azotada por el mal tiempo antes l super tazÓn volv a recib gran cantidad de nieve. hoy se cancelan las clases. desde allÍ nos informa sobre el ma virgilio. >> el rte de texas despertÓ ante una de las peores tormentas invernales en los Últimos5 aÑos y la segunda de esta clase en dos semanas. estas condicnes climatolÓgicas estÁn causando que los carros se resbala y resultan numerosos accidentes. conductores tiene no estÁn preparados o no estÁn acostumbrados a las inclemencias del tiempquedan atrados en el hielo. tengo qu

he was -- agents arrested a person called christopher butler, a private detective whose offices under this building. police and state agents searched this office. butler is working on a tv show called pi moms, welsh reportedly sold drugs with the help of butler. >> where are they being held now? >> they're being held at the contra costa county jail. and this state ag office has yet to give us details in this case. and there is more still to come at 6:00. vic lee reporting live. >> and the california supreme court agreed today to decide whether the sponsors of proposition 8 have the right to appeal this case. the same-sex marriage ban is currently being heard by a federal appeals court after a judge ruled it unconstitutional. the judges are not certain whether supporters have standing to make an appeal under california law. and this will delay this case. the state supreme court will not hear the arguments until at least september. >> coming up next a father of a so-called american taliban and why he thinks the government should take his son out of prison to give him a job. >> then from

bonnie frank and christopher dodd. go figure. is this new? no. no, it's not now.e of the points that i tried to make, it goes all the way back and carried through the 18th century, the age of john law, the 19th century, the age of james rothchild, 20th century, the age of john and so forth. this is a problem at the heart of our capitalist democracy, and the biggest problem is the parallel that we simplify it. in our frustrations, we swing to populist extremes. we say democracy is corrupt, and jewish finances corrupts it. this is the argument that hit. and there were books a plenty until the 1920s, 1930s trying to find the way that democracy was tied to jewish finance. my role as a historian, this is the last thing that i have to say, dale. my role as a historian is to show the relationship between showing the true historical nature and steer a literate public away of the sort that might fuel let's say, a tea party these days. thank you very much indeed. [applause] [applause] >> i'm a retired infantry officer from the army, and dean of academics in the army inspect

. >> the woman told gawker despite forwarding this picture of representative christopher lee she does not feel responsible for his resignation. >> she says she was not a prostitute, but looking to meet men because she was bored at work. >> she has a question for lee's wife go, have >>> in the newsroom at 6:00 a ray of light for the unemployed. tonight new jobs headed to the peninsula and how it's becoming a hub for good, green employment. >> and trouble for google? why the government is being urged to investigate the high tech giant's advertising policy. and education project giving kids a chance to perform. its coming up tonight at 6:00 now back to dan and cheryl. >> thank you. >> and san francisco international airport former international terminal going to be reopening in terminal two. >> the terminal dates back to 1954 was

also arrested in this us this morning, is christopher but we're and associated off welch.so charged with the same things distribution of methamphetamine and, in their one and steroids. but there is a concord private investigator. this will just went down this morning, the undercover investigation has been going on since january. we don't have all whole lot details at this point, we can tell you the d.a. office here in contra costa county will be reviewing these accusations, they will make a decision about charging what the next couple of days. at this point, both men are here in the contra costa county jail. welch's being held on $660,000 bail, but they're being held on $840,000 bail. we talked to the department of justice. in the say at this point they're not expecting any additional arrests, there could be additional charges. reporting live in martinas, dan kron 4 news. >>pam: we're also learning more about for a spot where the private investigator who was also arrested and charged in that narcotics distribution conspiracy that you heard dan talk about. police believe he

christopher butler is accused of helping welsh. those men were arraigned on 20 charges. they sold methamphetamine, steroids and other drugs. >> considering whether to arm city police officers with tasers. commissioners will consider a proposal to research it and the cost of a taser pilot program. the vote 11 months after the same commission voted 4-3 against a similar proposal. since then there have been at least two high profile shootings that officers say may have gone differently if they had the use of tazers. supporters home the decision of three new commissioners means today's vote will turn out differently and ed lee says tasers should be considered. >> i'm looking at technologies in any way possible. if it it offer an alternative, i think we should take a look at it. >> if that proposal does pass tonight, the police department would still have to return to the commission a later date to ask for a full authorization to use the devices. >> the officers, prosecutors and judges responsible for putting three kidnappers in prison are coming to coming to san francisco to

christopher lee reportedly sent pictures of hims >>> craig's list scandal brings down a congressman. he sent pictures without a shirt on to a woman seeking a relationship on craig's list. the only problem is this guy is married. today he resigned. he regrets the harm his actions have caused his family, his staff, and his constituents. >>> a super tanker was hijacked carrying oil to the states. it's worth $200 million and represents one-fifth of the u.s.'s daily imports. what makes this different is where it happened. more than 1,000 miles from where somalia pirates operate. >>> prices are expected to rise at the supermarket, and you can blame it in part on all the cars on the road. corn has hit the lowest levels in 15 years. one reason for that is the ethanol's demand for the industry. corn prices are doubled over the last several months and they're expected to keep going up. >>> well, the gang war in oakland has intensified at least over the last two months. now, in that darkness, there appears to be some light. it's a neighborhood dinner that allows some kids, even rival members to