clooney. clooney then made the move that got him, his father and 11 others arrested. they crossed onto the embassy's lawn. it's a misdemeanor offense, an act of planned civil disobedience and it got clooney charged with one count of disorderly crossing of a police line, but he says it's worth it if it helps the sundanese people. >> it needs to start now because best estimates are tens of thousands of people are going to die from starvation that is manmade. this isn't a familiar in. this is a manmade tragedy. >> reporter: in washington kristin fisher, 9 news now. >>> topping tonight's campaign 2012 coverage, president obama was on his home turf for a major fundraiser in chicago this afternoon. during his speech to supporters the president called out republicans on their continued attacks on his record as president. seats at this fundraiser in chicago ranged from $2,500 to $10,000. from there the commander in chief will hop on air force one for a campaign fundraiser in atlanta hosted by film producer tyler perry. >>> rick santorum one of the republicans looking to unseat the president in november is a few miles away in arlington, illinois. he spoke to high school students. a group of gay r

clooney clooney testified as a senate foreign relations committee on zanan. you can watch it sunday at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this week on "the communicators," west virginia senator jay rockefeller, chair of the commerce science transportation and subcommittee. he talks about cybersecurity legislation and the nature of cyberthreats. >> senator jay rockefeller, chairman of the commerce committee, you said that cybersecurity is necessary now and that citizens are at risk. why do you say that? >> do you view cybersecurity or cyber attacks as terrorism? >> i do. i view it as war. i like to discipline myself in that thinking because it really is. if you are hacking into the pentagon three, four or five million times a day, and every senator's office, virtually all corporate america, something has to wake us up. we are not awakened to it. we started this cybersecurity bill. i am impatient about it. we started this thing really the day before obama was inaugurated. when he was elected, i knew he was going to be interested in this. we got to work and put out a bill. then joe leash and -- lieberman and susan collins have come in, and it has progressed. it is virtually pottable. we have to get some republicans on board, but i think we can do that. >> senator rockefeller, how current is -- how similar is the bill that you brought to committee three years ago? >> very similar. our bill was accepted by the leader, accepted by the white house. we did it with both melissa hathaway and howard schmidt after that. we have had thousands of meetings either directly or through telecommunications with all kind of people. we have made adjustments. we meet with so many people, and we have made so many tweaks just to get it so that it could pass. it has got to have critical infrastructure, which is what the republican bill doesn't have now, but i think that will change. we have to protect our federal situation, the so-called dot-gov. we have to have a lot of research and development. we have to develop a lot more talent for people who are up to speed on cybersecurity to keep up with other countries and other actors. it is critically important. i compare it to 9/11, except is his much more obviously than 9/11. 9/11, you suspected there were people coming in and out of the country. you couldn't keep up with their movements, but you had a bad feeling about it. something would go on at the minneapolis f.b.i. station, and it won't get to headquarters. then there were dots to be connected, people living in certain houses in san diego. it was all very clear that something big was going to happen, but we didn't know. here we know because it is happening. warfare in cybersecurity is being waged, and we are losing. 3,000 people died in 9/11. if they unleashed dams, or poisoned water systems, or shut down grids, hospitals -- shut down air traffic control so that on one of those soupy days airplanes are running into each other up in the sky. they could kill so many people so easily. the miracle to me is they haven't done it so far. it is not to our credit. it is just the fact that it hasn't happened. but it will. >> are you finding that these attacks are organized by nation states or rogue agents? >> both. i mean nation states would be the first priority obviously. but a 15-year-old kid living in indonesia or spokane, washington, or oregon, or whatever, could be doing this. it just takes brain, facility and a malicious intent. >> what are you hearing from the so-called critical infrastructure businesses, the electric companies et cetera, about the regulation? senator mccain called this a regulatory leviathan. >> i have a hard time with that because electricity morales runs every hospital, business, school, home, every enterprise in this country. therefore, it is the security of the nation. if they can shut down grids, which they have done in selected places across the united states already. if they can shut that down on a broader scale, then critical infrastructure becomes exactly that. it is the infrastructure that you absolutely have to protect, that number one protect is protecting critical infrastructure. that is where people's lives are at risk, where you really lose thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. think if they got into the computer system of a dam and all the water was released, and all the people below that dam. they can do these things. >> do you think there is a need for a white house level cybersecurity czar? >> no. that is one of the original anxious we did in our first bill. i am kind of embarrass birthday it because we don't like czars. someone criticized that, and we just took it out. the history of the development of the bill has been the history of accommodation to industry, to other committees, to other people. you tweak. you can stay with your principles because it is not all that complicated when your goals are clear. cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, protect the government, protect the overwhelming 85% of entities which are private, information sharing, public partnership with the private sector, all of which is good. it is not regulation. it is just called protection. it is keeping us safe, keeping us alive. >> so when you hear republicans criticize that this has been fast-tracked and the legislative process has been subverted, you disagree with that? >> i would say we have been on a very slow track. i would like to have complete this a i don't remember and a half ago. as it is, it is going to be hard to get floor time this year. i take republican criticism constructively, and the individuals in it, all of whom i respect greatly, all of whom know what they are talking about. my approach to each one of them -- i was on the intelligence committee when we started this, and then on the commerce committee, so i know a lot of these folks really well. they are our alleys. they just may not know it yet or we haven't done a good enough job in making ourselves clear. it has hung around. legislation that has hung around a long time begins to lose momentum. i fear that. >> harry reid said he wanted to fast track this. how did you do that? >> olympia snow and i came out with a bill. we did it in short order. obama hadn't been president more than three or four months, and we had a bill written. we began talking with industry and other groups, and it has evolved from there. it is not the same as it was at the beginning in a lot of details. but in its basic principles it has not changed a whitt with one exception. we have to get people who do not have a critical infrastructure, which is a great mass of functionality, that has to be in the bill. that is not necessarily a debatable matter. you can't have cybersecurity without having critical infrastructure included. >> why is the del potro of homeland security the right doctor the department of homeland security the agency to monday tar that? >> the cri cooperate do it. on the other hand, homeland security can cooperate, as they are, and even be a partner with n.s.a. i don't see janet napolitano when i don't see keith alexander at the same place. we had a meeting earlier this week, and they were both on the same page and cooperating with each other. somebody has to take the lead, and janet no poll -- napolitano, who i really trust, and you look at katrina and other things and say i don't know. but it is the right place and in fact the only place that you can do it. >> now some groups such as the aclu and others have raised privacy concerns for individuals with this legislation. >> and that would be automatic, wouldn't it? when i was chairman of the intelligence committee, we did fiza, allowing two telecommunications companies to be able to go ahead and collect intelligence with their servers all-around the world from whence we got about 80% of our worldwide intelligence. but they have been sued by $40 billion or $50 billion. the question was are we going to let them do that and collect or say no, you can't do that and protect privacy in absolute terms and put ourselves at risk. it was an easy decision for me. not at democrats agreed. >> a few more questions. the chief of security for at&t testified at the house recently, and he said that congress -- and he was worried about the i.s.p.'s, and the comcasts and the at&ts of the world lumped in with critical infrastructure. he said congress and the administration have leadership roles to play in assuring the u.s. continues to focus on deck knowledge innovation, burdenening the private sector with the cost of unnecessary and-in effective regulations and processes is contrary to that objective? >> well, if we were burdenening the private sector with unnecessary and burdenen some regulations and duplications, i would agree. but we are not. we are saying to the private sector, "you do this. do what you think. use your own imagination." if you can't, if you don't know what to do, we will come help. but in essence we leave it up to the private sector to do it. but then we hold them accountable for what they have done. so is that regulation, or is that being sure -- this isn't like some kind of a business tax or something. we are talking about national life and death situations. and so companies that know what they are doing, and they are already doing it, go right ahead. fine with us. but if companies don't know how to do it quite, or are missing the point, we are watching. we are monitoring. it is not regulating. it is monitoring. if they need help, we will be there to help them. and they will want us to be there to help them because they know how much they are at risk and what the results of that could be. >> senator rockefeller, any funding issues with this legislation? >> no. i say that pretty casually, don't you? i have to think it through fairly carefully. the one thing about this is that in the end, people are just going to vote for it even if it costs money. we just finished passing a transportation bill as you and i are talking on this day, and that costs money. everybody is saying we can't do anything which costs money. but it was bridges, and rhodes, and the different kind of infrastructure, also critical, but in a different way. it posed overwhelmingly, 4-1, this morning with republicans and democrats voting together. the congress knows what is really at stake in this country. and when you get an issue bike cirque security, they say you have to get it done, and it has to be like that original bill. it has got to have crit infrastructure in it. they say that specifically. all kinds of input from people. i just don't see the money as a problem. >> have you looked at how our countries are managing their cybersecurity issues? >> i haven't. i should have, but i haven't. i have just been so wrapped up in getting this done. europe is very different, china is very different, india and brazil are very different. i am not sure it would have been useful. i think it will be useful for me to to do that. but i want to get a bill which has been vetted so many times by so many people, put in front of so many organizations, the technological community, the private sector communicate -- community. we have given a lot of speeches to them, accepted criticism, made changes. the staff i have worked with in intelligence and commerce have done the same thing, and they have made changes. if you really want to get something done, don't insist on having it done exactly as you want. don't compromise on the four or five main principals, particularly critical infrastructure. public-private partnerships is what we do in america on all kinds of things. i feel pretty good about it. >> and finally, senator rockefeller, i want to go back to the legislative time line. we talked to collins and lieberman, and they were pretty sure this bill would move in this couple of weeks of congress, and you seem to express some doubt about that? >> yes, and i don't want to. i wish they are right, and i hope they are right. you also want to take the positive view. but floor time is hard in the senate right now because of the political bickering back and forth, and holds on things, and no, you can't talk about that, or we are not going to take that up, or you have to get 60 votes and all this kind of thing. so i am being cautious. and i want to be so certain that we really do get a tremendous buy-in from all parties, including the republicans now that appear not to agree with what we say. i think maybe they don't feel as strongly as it appears that they feel. i have had several of those conversations with several of those folks. we go to them and say what can we do to make this more amenable? we can't compromise on chris cal infrastructure. that is the really big stuff that makes this country go, blowing up power plants and stuff like that. but i think we will work our way through that. >> senator jay rockefeller has been our guest on "the communicators." he is chairman of the senate commerce committee, and we have been talking about cybersecurity. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> on news makers this week, virginia's attorney general discussing his state's lawsuit going before the u.s. supreme court challenging the affordable health care act. >> justice roberts, some people look at his joining the majority in the comestock case before the federal government filed the motion to dismiss as a harbinger of doom for our side. i don't see it that way despite the very broad language of the case, which was a necessary and proper clause case, the very last paragraph of the majority opinion brings very broad language through a very thin funnel. the federal government can't get this bill through that funnel. if that is a requirement for justice roberts, then i am confident. but again, there hasn't been enough time since the comestock case. >> you can see the entire interview on "news makers" sunday morning at 10:00 eastern and sunday afternoon at 6:00 on c-span. it is also available online at c-span.org. >> actor and activist george clooney testified at a senate foreign relations committee on zanan and 0 south zanan. you can watch sunday at 10:30 eastern on c-span. >> i was radical as a young person, and i was the one that thought that singing we shall overcome was really not a very effective way of gaining civil rights. i think i thought that more confrontation was needed. >> economics professor, columnist and substitute host for rush limbaugh, walter williams on being a radical. >> i believe that being a radical is any person who believes in personal liberty and individual freedom and limited government. that makes you a radical. i have always been a person who believed that people should not interfere with me. i should be able to do my own thing so long as i don't violate the rights of other people. >> more with walter williams sunday night at 8:00 eastern and president on c-span's "q & a." >> a house committee gave the federal government a c-minus grade on the freedom of information act it receives. the report came o

clooney and congressman jim moran. in northwest i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. >> now clooney and 18 others were charged with crossing a police line. they spent about three hours in police custody today. afterwards clooney said he didn't know the protest would end with handcuffs. he paid a $100 fine and was released. clooney said this was his first arrest. >>> the search for a prince george's county boy taken out of school by his mother is over this afternoon. police found 9-year-old wilbur garcia in reno, nevada. his mother, sylvia, garcia, take him out of class at dodge park elementary in landover yesterday but does not have custody of her son. wilbur's father has full custody. it's not clear whether the school was aware of the custody situation, however, but the county superintendent says they are reviewing their policies. police say the child is safe. they arrested the mother and charged her with being a fugitive from justice. >>> a guilty verdict today for a former rutgers university student who used a web cam to spy on his gay roommate. that roommate later committed suicide by jumping off the george washington bridge. he faces prison time for a hate crime and invasion of privacy. jay gray has the

washington. >>> police arrested actor george clooney, clooney's father, and several congressmen today for protesting outside the embassy of sudan in northwest d.c. clooneys they're trying to bring attention to the growing humanitarian crisis in sudan. the actor paid a hundred dollar fine and was released after a few hours. the cofounder of the invisible children group was detained in san diego last night. according to our sister station knsd tv police detained jason russell for being drunk and masturbating in public. his coney 2012 video that exposed child abduction in uganda went viral last week. invisible children released a statement saying russell was hospitalized yesterday and is suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition. >>> after a decade of planning, construction on the new urban district is under way in merrifield, virginia. this development near the dunn loring metro station will include town homes and new hotels, office space, shopping, restaurants. the edens developer designed the project. >>> the fight to bring slots and table games to prince george's county took an important new step today. rosecroft and the national harbor

clooney. they are actually best friends. >> i didn't see clooney. clooney. they are best friends. they actually -- >> they are. they were abandoned together. and a kind citizen found them and brought them into our shelter. they adore each other so we are asking that they go to their new home together. >> isn't that amazing. which one of them is the more outspoken of the two? it looks like this one is -- is this -- >> clooney, the little guy. >> this is lola. she takes care of her little buddy. >> can we see them? they are just so adorable. i'm going to turn it around so people can really have a close look. you say this is the time of year when we -- we see a lot of babies being born. not so much the babies that are looking for holmes. it is the older pets. >> it is all of them because of the animals being born, influx of the babies, shelters are more overwhelmed than usual. so we are asking the community to support news a variety of ways to help get more animals into permanent holmes and out of the shelter. >> do you have to worry, though, this time of year with -- rabbits in parti

clooney, mr. clooney -- >> just -- [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm not. it's the people on the other side of me. i'm bending over backwards. >> don't push. lots of pushing cut it out. >> get back. get back. >> george clooneyoney, they were arrested as well as several members of congress as well as the head of the naacp, ben jealous. he is now out of the jail and i'm told being seated in our washington bureau. would el have a conversation in just a moment, but first here's a piece from cnn heroes. >>> in nepal, when parents are arrested by the police and children don't have a local guardian, some children go to prison with their parents. before i visited the jail, i was -- i saw a small girl who just grabbed my shawl and just gave me a smile. it was really hard for me to forget that. my name is -- and my mission is to make sure no child grows up behind prison walls. in 2005, i started a daycare where the children can come from the jail in morning and good back to the jail in the afternoon. we have children who are from 2 to 4, and they have coloring, reading, starting five days a week. we started residence in home in 2007. we have 40 children living here, mostly about 6 years old. i don't get a day off, bu

clooney also interviewed with him as well. >> that's right. i told my wife that george clooney was going to be on the show and she said wow, but the tricky part was chris wallace managed to do the interview before he left for vacation. so chris wallace sits down with george clooneyas arrested at the sundanese embassy. that got a lot of attention. clooney is trying to make a case for more attention to be shown on sudan and south sudan and what's happening there, more u.s. interest and obviously he's getting a lot of attention for his time here in d.c. >> thank you very much for joining us. you can see brett filling in for chris wallace and all the interviews this sunday right here on channel 5 at 9:00. thank you, brett. >> thanks, wisdom. >>> two men exonerated for their convictions after decades behind bars and now their cases are among hundreds under review. find out the crucial piece of evidence that could lead to changes in untold numbers of rulings. >> plus we now know what may have set off a man who opened fire outside a texas courtroom and it has something to do with his daughter coming up on mention at 11:00. -- coming up on the news edge at 11:00. i was shocked to find out how many couples don't sleep in the same bedroom. but in the sleep number store, w

just nick clooney, not that george clooney is not a political gierks he ran for congress in northern kentucky. >> indeed he did. >> it does not draw the level of attention that george clooney does. he recognizes his star power, better that than paparazzi shooting him because he is out late at a nightclub. i say kudos to using celebrity culture that we have in the country. it's not going away. using that culture to benefit and take on a serious issue that need as light shown on it. look at the crush on number of people there. i guarantee you if george clooney was not there, there would be nowhere near the level of interest on him. i applaud him for it. >> the reformed jewish community, and here is martin luther king, iii, the inheriter of the legacy and i asked him about being arrested today. >> the first thing that goes through my mind is what my father and his team experienced. more importantly, the fact that this is an issue to raise the consciousness of the world community, when the world speaks than president bashir has to listen. >> and ben jelus of the naacp. >> we need to stop using rape and food as weapons in sudan. you know, so we are here to tell president bashir

. >>> after george clooney walked the walk, he was arrested protesting in front of a sudanese embassy. clooney and his father, nick clooney, were among 17 people taken into custody. police pulled out the handcuffs after they refused to stop the protest. clooney has traveled to the sudan several times and is trying to get support to stop the government there from slaughtering its citizens. >> we need humanitarian aid to be allowed in the sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, immediately. >> kony paid a $100 fine and joked about it afterward. the arrest caps a week where clooney testified before congress about sudan and attended a state dinner with president obama. >>> all right, let's go back and talk about the weather again. you know how much damage this storm has caused around the bay area. now we will have more on the storm. >> it has been fast-moving and intense. here is where it is located on live doppler 7hd. it is from the south bay and down toward the monterey bay. we are getting downpours right now. we take you down to the street level and blossom hill road in san jose is getting wet.

i lining clooney liked clooney regulating. he's the president of the united states, watch yourself.copying us after seeing our political questions from the red carpet. yes or no. >> no, of course not. >> michael? >> no, they're not copying. >> i say they're copying, and i break the tie. they're copying us. furthermore, jesse waters going after these celebrities, guilty or not guilty. >> i'm going to keep going. >> not guilty. >> anna. >> not guilty. >> wow. >> guilty of caring what celebrities has to say. >> i hear you on that but we're also guilty of that. so not guilty. i naught it was a fine segment actually, and they gave the guy an opportunity and they had pretty good answers. not guilty for jesse waters. on "the young turks." who saw that coming. next story. >> murdoch stepped down from news international which is the british tabloid section of the media empire that rupert murdoch owns. but it's not much of a doe motion because ale come to the united states to focus on the television portion of their media empire. >> a demotion. i got bad news for you. you're not working at ne

. >>> after george clooney walked the walk, he was arrested protesting in front of a sudanese embassy. clooney and his father, nick clooneyre among 17 people taken into custody. police pulled out the handcuffs after they refused to stop the protest. clooney has traveled to the sudan several times and is trying to get support to stop the government there from slaughtering its citizens. >> we need humanitarian aid to be allowed in the sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, immediately. >> kony paid a $100 fine and joked about it afterward. the arrest caps a week where clooney testified before congress about sudan and attended a state dinner with president obama. >>> all right, let's go back and talk about the weather again. you know how much damage this storm has caused around the bay area. now we will have more on the storm. >> it has been fast-moving and intense. here is where it is located on live doppler 7hd. it is from the south bay and down toward the monterey bay. we are getting downpours right now. we take you down to the street level and blossom hill road in san jose is getting wet. bai

clooney is trying to draw attention to the attacks against civilians in sudan. other protesters arrested along with clooney included congressman human rights activists, religious leaders. atheen na jones is out athena jones is there. do we know where clooneye're sitting outside of the district headquarters of metropolitan police. they've been inside all this time. i just spoke with secret service who said that the charges -- they didn't act with civil disobedience. clooney joined with others like his father and naacp president and others to protest the ongoing humanitarian crisis in sudan and to call on the government to allow in food aid. there are hundreds and thousands of people there in southern blue nile state in southern sudan on the border with south sudan, which is a newly independent country and there's been fighting going on with rebels there. people are caught in the mix there and they are facing potential starvation because they haven't been able to plant. they are going under bombardment. take a listen to what clooney had to say this morning. >> we're here to ask two very simple questions. the first question is something immediate and immediately we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the sudan before it becomes the wors

clooney came to town today and got himself arrested. it happened at the embassy of sudan. john henrehan was there on the story. he joins us with the latest. >> actor director george clooney has been an activist on conditions in sudan for years. his father, nick clooney has joined his son in trying to focus the world's attention on humanitarian needs. both clooneys were arrested by the u.s. secretary accurate service -- secret service. >> reporter: they complained that the government of the nation is using starvation to force certain populations to move away from their areas. george clooney blasted the regime of north sudan. >> the government to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children, stop raping them and stop starving them. that's all we ask. >> because what we know is that there are people who are in danger now. we will stand with them as long as they are in danger, my son and i stand with the sudanese. >> reporter: the two clooneys then joined 15 other demonstrators as they blocked the door of the sudan embassy. officers of the secret service pulled out the plastic handcuffs and started making arrests of the clooneys, dick gregory and martin luther king the third. the group were in custody at a local police lockup before pa

clooney. >> george clooney. how did i not mention that? he talks politics a little bit. >> he's been pretty serious this week. >> all right. david gregory. thanks. presidential re-election campaign began in ernest this week and today i is back on the road. kristen welker is in atlanta with that. and this week's highlights. ms. welker, what you got? >> good morning, chuck. it is a day of fund raising for president obama. he starts off his day in chicago for one campaign event then he comes here to atlanta for three more. the big one as you mentioned a star studded event hosted by tyler perry tickets going for $35,800. but there was also a lot going on this week in washington and here's a look. in washington bipartisanship is often a hypothetical but not this week at least for a few minutes while the house was out of session and the senate passed a popular transportation bill and resolved to take up a house backed small business bill. hope you didn't blink though. the partisan fireworks started right back up again with top senate republican

clooney just walked in? his arrest was clearly very carefully orchestrated, but clooney has been charged with one count of disorderly crossing of a police line. that is a misdemeanor and it will go on his permanent record. a sundanese woman cheers as george clooney is arrested by secret service and taken away in plastic handcuffs. >> do you understand these right as i have given to you? >> reporter: just minutes earlier clooney had marched up the sundanese embassy joining hundreds of protestors accusing the sudan president of blocking food and humanitarian assistance from reaching hundreds of thousands of sundanese citizens. >> medley we need humanitarian aid allowed -- immediately we need humanitarian aid allowed into the suzanne. >> reporter: clooney was joined by his father, martin luther king, jr., iii and several congressmen including virginia representative jim moran. >> this very day we who have been born into lives of peace and prosperity have some obligation to speak out for those who suffer every day for the accident of their birth. >> reporter: the protestors then made the move that got them arrested. they crossed onto the embassy's lawn. it's a misdemeanor offense, an act of planned civil disobedience and it got clooney and 11 others

clooney was arrested. he was protesting outside the pseudothese embassy along with his father nick clooney, who you see there. clooney was joined by several congressmen as well as martin luther king iii. clooney spoke just before the arrest. take a listen. >> the second thing is a very simple thing. it's for the government to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children. stop rating them. stop starving them. clooney has been in washington since wednesday. he spoke with president obama at the white house yesterday. well, keeping them honest in illinois. the land of lincoln, the next big prize in the republican primary battle. the top two hopefuls vying for lincoln's party. ahead of next week's crucial clash. in it he said it could be and honest and goodness fight to the finish. they put romney and rick santorum in a dead heat. they are acknowledging it might be anything but inevitable. >> an aid said it will take an act of god for rick santorum to get the nominee. >> anybody has a chance to become the nominee. >> joining me is pat, a romney supporter. as we talk about illinois and what's taking place

clooney, arrested. what he did to earn a trip to jail. >>> i'm vic carter. here's what people are talking about. george clooney is out of jail. what he did to land behind bars. >> reporter: clooney several people arrested during a peaceful protest outside the sudanese embassy. [ crowd noise ] >> reporter: police cuffed him and took him away in a secret service van. the actor trying to draw attention to crimes happening in sudan. clooney along with his father and other act #1ri69s were #r5e69ed -- activists were arrested when they crossed a police line. >> immediately we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. immediately. the second thing we are here to ask is a very simple thing. is that the government in car tomb to stand randomly killing its own minute men, women, and children. >> reporter: demonstrators blocked the steps to the sudanese embassy to symbolize the country's block of food and other aid. they joined the a-list protest to put pressure on the sudanese government. >> do everything possible, keep ourselves all the time here. until the international communities listens to the voice of those peopl

george clooney met with president obama thursday. clooney talked about relief efforts in sudan. an nbc source said except for two holdouts the press core turned out to see and hear what the hollywood heavyweight had to say. >>> i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> our time right now is 4:28. we have 54 degrees in the nation's capital and clouds in the sky above is. good morning to you, i'm joe krebs. >> i'm aaron gilchrist in for eun yang this morning. welcome to "news4 today," it is friday, march 16. and we begin with some breaking news this morning in prince george's county. an amber alert for a 9-year-old boy has just been canceled. police tell us that guilbert garcia has been found in reno, nevada. we're told he is safe. his mother we're told is in police custody now. prince george's county police say the boy was taken out of school yesterday morning by his mother. garcia's father has full custody of the boy. we're told that sylvia garcia, again, is in custody. we have a crew working on the story now. you c

clooney. george clooney will be part of the program. >> tune in! >> some guy named george clooney>> you know, george stops by. >> and the entire interview with clooney, you'll see some of it on the program, but the entirety will be available on "press pass" on the website. we talk about sudan and the week and also politics. he talks about president obama and his re-election prospects. >> and we'll be watching. >> he's something of a draw. >> i know, just a little bit. >> yeah. >> all right, david, thank you. >> thanks so much, david. >> sure. >> and chuck will be back with your weather. >> yeah, no doubt. >> complete check of your sunday forecast after these important messages. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >>> and congratulations to all the

clooney. the interview before clooney was arrestediest along with members of congress.ritics accuse the sudanese president for blocking the food in the intended. >> would you like to see the u.s. get involved in the no fly wrone and bombing the sudan air force? >> here's the thing. the truth of the matter is this, and you will understand this. if you are standing there and you see a kid with both of his hands missing from a jerk, you know, 10,000 feet in the air dropping bombs out indiscriminately on innocent people. you would like to see a nato plane come and take them out of the air. that is your gut reaction. in the real world, what we are talking about. we are not going to see nato in there. you can watch the rest of the interview tomorrow with chris. and also friendergast with the enough project is on the show. >> and bomb threat and evacuation from american airlines in dallas and now the search for a suspect . a harrowing scene in the atlantic ocean. a shark takes a bite out of a teenage girl. >> basically. me and my buddy right here were in the water and then as

clooney is a free man this morning after a brief stay in a washington jail cell yesterday and jessica kartalija explains. >> reporter: clooney with one of several people arrested during a peaceful protest outside of the sudanese embassy. police cuffed clooney and took him away in a secret service van. the actor trying to drawl attention to genocide and other crimes happening in sudan. clooney with his father and other activists arrested when they crossed a police line to send an urgent message to sudan's president. >> and immediately, we need aid to be allowed into sudan, before it is the worst crisis in the world. immediately. the second thing we are here to is a very simple thing, is for the government to stop randomly killing its own innocent, men, women and children. >> reporter: demonstrators blocked the steps of the empbusy, to simp buts all the block aide of feed and demonstrators joined the protest. to put pressure on the government. >> we do ourselves everything possible to keep ourselves here. the international community to listen to the voices. >> reporter: by friday afternoon, clooney and the other protesters were released from jail. >> it is my first arrest. thanks for asking. let's hope it is my last. >> reporter: clooney was

clooney. the interview before clooney was arrestediest along with members of congress.ritics accuse the sudanese president for blocking the food in the intended. >> would you like to see the u.s. get involved in the no fly wrone and bombing the sudan air force? >> here's the thing. the truth of the matter is this, and you will understand this. if you are standing there and you see a kid with both of his hands missing from a jerk, you know, 10,000 feet in the air dropping bombs out indiscriminately on innocent people. you would like to see a nato plane come and take them out of the air. that is your gut reaction. in the real world, what we are talking about. we are not going to see nato in there. you can watch the rest of the interview tomorrow with chris. and also friendergast with the enough project is on the show. >> and bomb threat and evacuation from american airlines in dallas and now the search for a suspect . a harrowing scene in the atlantic ocean. a shark takes a bite out of a teenage girl. >> basically. me and my buddy right here were in the water and then as

clooney arrived to lend his star power to the demonstration. >> hi, guys. are you okay. staying warm? >> welcome to washington. >> reporter: george clooney and his father, nick clooney urged the world to act immediately on the crisis. >> we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, immediately. >> reporter: a large handful of the protestors moved to block the front doorway of the sudan necessary embassy after several warnings uniformed officers put plastic handcuffs on the demonstators and slowly pushed arrestees through the crowd. we asked one of the most famous movie stars in the world what it feels like to be arrested. >> huh might eating -- humiliating. >> reporter: he spent hours in custody for crossing a police line. george clooney confirmed to us it was the first time in his life he has been arrested. >> caused quite a scene in washington. john henrehan, thanks very much. >>> we have unedited video on our web site if would you like to see it. look for the link in the hot topics bar. >>> a woman was shot by the husband she feared and now her family is speaking out asking why this man accuse

. >>> actor george clooney has been arrested in washington, d.c. clooney was arrested while protesting alongside his father nick and martin luther king, iii. police say they warned them three times not to cross a police line. the members were taken into custody and released several hours later after paying a $100 fine. it turns out that humans aren't the only ones to drown themselves and causing a little action to turn to alcohol with food. it's a consolation. much more often than flies sexually satisfied. researchers say this study shows why a negative experience, such as rejection, could drive someone to drink. they are hoping research could shed light on the biology of alcohol abuse and lead to new treatment. interesting. >>>. >>> how a man's jig landed him a spot on national tv. we'll be back in a moment. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie label

clooney. >> stahl: man. and these super-recognizers just know this? >> duchaine: the supers are really good at recognizing these faces. >> jarett: george clooney. >> stahl: how could you tell that was george clooneyrge clooney to me. oh, prince charles. oh, madonna. michael jordan. oh, that's kato kaelin. >> stahl: the o.j. simpson trial. wow, you are good. but we thought we had finally stumped her with this one. she said she only had a guess. >> jarett: if i were to guess, i would say mike wallace. >> stahl: that is mike wallace. she recognized mike wallace as a six-year-old. i don't even understand how you do that. i can't fathom it. >> jarett: as people age, i guess the aging process somehow, in my brain, just seems very sort of superficial. and, you know, as if... if someone gets a haircut, you... you an still recognize them. it's still the same face to me. it's just the adult version. >> stahl: so why is 60 years like a haircut to her, while face-blind people can't recognize someone they just saw? a team of scientists at harvard has begun scanning the brains of super-recognizers, too, to see if they might yield any clues. the science of facial recognition is in its infancy. but new discoveri

clooney after he was arrested last week? his lawyer, girlfriend, publicist, brad pitt? no, tmz says he called i had mom. he might have called his father, except nick clooney was arrested with george clooneyis always there. >>> new option for beating one of the south bay's worst s if you are willing to pay. >>> see it? it was supposed to be a night to celebrate a basketball great but turned into something much you go i had . >> he's going to change -- change this franchise this is crazy. >> story behind this ugly reaction from the crowd at last night's golden state warriors' game. >> reporter: i'm terry mcsweeney in morgan hill, day five of the search for a missing 15-year-old girl. today we have shocking new information about the investigation. it has to do with the girl's father and his criminal past. the story coming up in a live report. >>> newark and philadelphia back on schedule, houston and laguardia still has flight arrival delays. >>> good morning. a couple seconds away from the opening bell on wall street. stock futures sliding as data out of china shows some sign of weakness there is the opening bell. overseas, greece's parliament set to approve a new international bailout deal

clooney got arrested. he's been sexiest man in america longer than i've been alive i think. i'm glad that it brings attention. it is not about george clooney getting arrested. unfortunately, the media is focusing on george clooneytead of the irv he's trying to bring attention to. >> kaili jo gray is the associate editor of the daily kos. is very much a generation we want to hear from. he has been probably the handsomest longer than you've been alive but i'm liking it myself. and phil -- >> stab right in the heart. >> not your heart. >> no, i'm talking about the since she's been alive. >> she was saying it. >> he's very handsome and he's very articulate. i think he cares about important things. >> he does. >> but the way the traditional media is covering it, george clooney has been arrested. what he's been arrested for is secondary to what he's been arrested for. >> i'm not sure that the contemporary media is doing all that better. i mean if you look at the tweets on this thing and if you look at people facebooking it, which is really, you know, sort of the next two steps ahead social media, it is still the same -- it is. question is a, do you delve into the issue of sudan and all of the trouble spots where peop

clooney as he, his father, american university professor nick clooney, and numerous dignitaries took part in a protest at the embassy of sudan on massachusetts avenue northwest. >> this is your third and final warning. you will be arrested. step this way. >> reporter: clooney and the others were taken to the d.c. police second district station in northwest for processing then released after paying a fine. >> so what we're facing now is hundreds of thousands of people who are looking at the possibility of starvation because the rainy season is coming. it needs to start now. because best estimates are tens of thousands of people are going to die from starvation that is manmade. this isn't a famine. >> reporter: naacp president benjamin jealous also arrested during the protest shared a cell with clooney. >> it's sort of a father/son thing where he and his father got into this together. and his dad was here who's not a young man by any stretch. going to jail with us. >> reporter: clooney has been a presence in washington over the last two weeks. he showed a very graphic video of his trip to sudan to the u.s. senate. and he was also a guest at the official dinner at the white house. jackie bensen, news 4. >>> one of the creators of that kony 2012 documentary is

clooney. dressed up. walking the red carpet. and it's a far cry from the george clooney on display yesterday here in the district. police arrested him. he was part of a protest outside of the embassy of sudan. a country he says is headed for a full blown humanitarian crisis. news4's jackie benson has more on his message. >> reporter: in a town where political arrests are common place, this was a big deal. it is that urgent. that was the message from actor and activist george clooneye and his father nick clooney and numerous dignitaries took place in a protest at the embassy of sudan. >> this is your third and final warning. you will be arrested. step this way. >> clooney and others were taken to the police station for processesing and released after paying a fine. >> what we're facing is hundreds of thousands of people who are looking at the possibility of starvation because the rainy season is coming. it needs to start now. best estimates are tens of thousands of people are going to die from starvation that is man-ma man-made. this isn't a famine. >> it was a father/son thing. he and his father got into this together. his dad was here, who is not a young man by any stretch, going to jail with us. >> reporter: clooney has been a presence in washington over the last two weeks. he showed a very graphic video of his trip to sudan to the u.s. senate. he was also a guest at the official dinner at the white house. jackie benson, news4. >>> a developing story in syria t

clooney has been arrested in a protest outside the sudanese embassy in washington. " before his arrest, george clooney delivered a message to reporters. >> the second thing we're here to ask is very simple, for the government in khartoum to stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women, and children. stop raping them and stop starving them. >> george clooneys accused sudan of provoking a humanitarian crisis and blocking food aid. clooney is a high-profile critic of the khartoum government. >> the united states has condemned north korean plans to launch a satellite next month. >> north korean state television says the communications satellite will be lifted into orbit by a long-range carrier market to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country's founding leader. it was slammed three years go by the u.s. and its allies in the region as cover for a testing missile technology. >> returning to the wld of spts. th week and wilushe in the start of the new 2012 formula one racing season at the australian grand prix. >> the first training session has already taken place. it was a pretty heavy day. heavy rain turning the circuit into a skid park. few drivers managed to keep their cars on the track. some of them, like the defending champion, had a really terrible time. schumacher drew on his experience to upstage young stars with a rare

clooney. c'mon! he knows george clooney. russell simmons. he knows everything. >> eric: the numbers, last night was the 97th, 98th, 99th and 100th fundraiser since he announced his and dassy for re-election. he golfed 30 times, been to church five times and made, ready for this, three speeches on energy. meanwhile, gasoline prices doubled. >> andrea: his senior advisor valerie jarret said one of his biggest regrets of his first term was not fallen soldiers, it was not getting out of washington enough. i look like he is making good on that regret and getting out of washington more and serving traffic in my neighborhood yesterday. >> bob: i mean i got to listen to this. >> dana: why is it $38,000? why not ram it up to $40,000? >> bob: i don't know. i don't believe any of it. leaving that aside. let me just say this. sorry, are you still talking? >> andrea: i was interrupted because we had to look at your grimace. >> bob: i wasn't grimacing. i was wondering where this came from. >> andrea: i think it's ironic he hangs out with the richest, the