collins: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that proceedings under the call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i'm delighted to join with the chairman of the homeland security committee, my dear friend, senator lieberman, in rising today in support of the presidential appointment efficiency and streamlining act of 2011. first, let me join senator lieberman in commending senators schumer and alexander for their leadership on this bill. senator alexander in particular has worked so hard on this issue. in fact, i am convinced that we would not be where we are today without his persistent leadership. he deserves great credit for his patience and his dogged determination to bring this bill and this issue to the floor. senators reid and mcconnell also deserve great credit. they made the commitment in january to make reform of the nominations process a priority, and finally i want to recognize senator lieberman, the chair

ladies and gentlemen, judy collins. thank you so much. our guest has been judy collins.pression, the arts, and america. i hope you can join us then for speaking freely. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. captioning by captionmax www.captionmax.com >> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools don't have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930's and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec and parks department at the anglers lodge. what do you think about this? >> it is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. >> there are people from all over the world come to san francisco and say this is the place to be. >> yeah. it's amazing, we have teams from all over

>> thank you very much, senator collins. i deem it an honor to join you hear and to say thank you very much for sharing this important hearing again on type 1 diabetes and to share a commitment and passion in trying to move this along to improve the lives and quality-of-life for young people and people of the country and i also want to welcome you and our distinguished panelists to this hearing who have been so committed to this issue and a very special aloha to those children's congress delegates waiting to testify and those an audience all of you seated here. these are courageous young ambassadors who have traveled from all over the country and the world to educate us to share their stories of their own experiences to bring a human dimension to the policy debate. this shows how critical research and support is for diabetes and the hope for a cure. maybe it is a significantly held a problem in my home state of hawaii, and it is an increasing challenge for the nation. it is an issue that we will look at in the indian affairs

>> thank you very much, senator collins. i deem it an honor to join you hear and to say thank you very much for sharing this important hearing again on type 1 diabetes and to share a commitment and passion in trying to move this along to improve the lives and quality-of-life for young people and people of the country and i also want to welcome you and our distinguished panelists to this hearing who have been so committed to this issue and a very special aloha to those children's congress delegates waiting to testify and those an audience all of you seated here. these are courageous young ambassadors who have traveled from all over the country and the world to educate us to share their stories of their own experiences to bring a human dimension to the policy debate. this shows how critical research and support is for diabetes and the hope for a cure. maybe it is a significantly held a problem in my home state of hawaii, and it is an increasing challenge for the nation. it is an issue that we will look at in the indian affairs

you know it's frankly not the republicans and it's not the democrats michael collins has a great blog it's called the money party dot org and he calls it that he says it's the money part and i think he's spot on i think he's nailed it they have one mission to make more money at all costs period now historically we have had if we look at presidents through the course of american history we've had a couple of presidents who've been willing to take on great well the michael collins calls the money just been around for oil basically forever i mean really with the rise of the railroad barons relating to hundreds was really got big really started and the last to do that was have t.r. he talked about taking on a dictatorship he said america should not be mob rule or the overprivileged are right here in this. economic royalists some flame away saying go up throw the institutions of america. what they really claim. is that we take away oh oh really just. a really good so america. great. feel about throw. in famous they speak the day in this but i in the flesh and. then the blindness they booke

collins learned we all have small amounts of progerin and progerin has an on switch. >> we've learnedhat the signal is that turns that on in you and me. we didn't know that before. >> reporter: that signal begins on the very tip ends of our chromosomes called telomeres. as our cells divides overtime the telomeres get shorter. that process tells the body to produce progerin. progerin in turn causes our cells to age. zach and 44 other progeria patients are in a clinical trial to see if an anti-cancer drug that blocks progerin can reverse their symptoms. if this drug can help impede the aging process in these children, what does that say for the rest of us? >> well, people will wonder if it works in dramatic accelerated aging, would it also work in the normal process? >> reporter: dr. collins believes anti-aging therapies will be possible one day, but not with the drugs that zach is taking in a trial sponsored by the progeria research foundation. the discovery is changing the way many scientists view the very biology of how we get old. and thanks to the study of progeria children, the el

and the overprivileged alike the last president to seriously take on the michael collins refers to as the money part any did f.d.r. put them in a box he passed laws like the glass steagall for example in one nine hundred thirty five that put the banks in a box and behave like banks and can't be able to see it was any more we got blown up in one thousand nine hundred nine two thousand and what we've seen now is that starting with the reagan presidency when reagan stopped in force in the sherman antitrust act jimmy carter was the last president to really do that breaking up the t.n.c. when he stopped enforcing the sherman antitrust act we had this mergers and acquisition frenzy they refer to it as the emanate mania or generic resistance michael milken and all these guys and the result of that is that we have these basically oligarchy we have these giant corporations that are keeping out small businesses that are preventing entrepreneurs and starting up that are stifling innovation in america and that have bought and they're buying our politicians and with the complicity of the supreme c

, and kenneth collins and this seems close high-flying the car which is the original box three plane that flew at 90,000 feet so mach three is three times as sound and 90,000 is about 17 miles up and this was in the 1960's, so it was radical science and technology at a time and the spy plane was built to take over after the spy plane program halted winning gary powers was out of the soviet union. so i write collins pushed the air craft and another 45 seconds she would be out of the danger zone where 85,000 feet the inevitable tiny black dots began to appear on the aircraft windshield sporadic at first like the first drops of severin. only a few months earlier scientists at area 51 had been baffled by the black dots. they were worried it was some kind of corrosion in to the mystery solved in the lab. it turned out the black spots were cycling around in the upper atmosphere blasted into the jet stream by the world superpowers rally of formal nuclear bombs. they were killed in the bomb blast and sent aloft to 90,000 feet in the ensuing clouds of the orbiter. when i first came across tha

senator collins. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. director, you certainly deserve the widespread accolades and expressions of gratitude that you are receiving from virtually every member of this committee today. i want to add my own thanks for your willingness to continue to serve our country during such a difficult time, but like my colleagues -- now the hard questions start. i want to start with libya. you have repeated today the administration's goal that colonel gaddafi must go. what then? if there's any painful lesson we have learned from our experience in iraq, is that if we do not have a plan in place after we have been posed a high rent, that chaos and violence in seuss -- have deposed a tant, that chaos and violence ensues. you have a plan for dealing with libya post-gaddafi? do we really know who we are dealing with in the opposition? >> i know that secretary clinton is spending a great deal of her time working with our allies to respond to that concern to try to work with those in the opposition who have come together. to

>> thank you very much, senator collins. i deem it an honor to join you hear and to say thank you very much for sharing this important hearing again on type 1 diabetes and to share a commitment and passion in trying to move this along to improve the lives and quality-of-life for young people and people of the country and i also want to welcome you and our distinguished panelists to this hearing who have been so committed to this issue and a very special aloha to those chililwaiting to testify and thn audience all of you seated here. these are courageous young ambassadors who have traveled from all over the country and the world to educate us to share their stories of their own experiences to bring a human dimension to the policy debate. this shows how critical research and support is for diabetes and the hope for a cure. maybe it is a significantly held a problem in my home state of hawaii, and it is an increasing challenge for the nation. it is an issue that we will look at in the indian affairs committee. will be part of t

. >> it was pretty great because for a south park movie, i lost the oscar to phil collins. i lose the ony to bono, i would be so bummed out. >> that's what it looked like six months ago when we doing the show in our workshop and all the talk was about spider-man before anybody had seen what a train wreck. and we're thinking, here goes, we're going to lose to bono, god dang it. >> jon: and now it turns around. i guess they opened last night. >> jon: they opened last night, but how does that work that you get to open and then you get to say, no, it's not open. open again. and just keep doing it. >> what are they doing. rockers trying to do broadway. >> jon: i'm just saying, the whole thing is very unorthodox. that's all i'm saying. you had to go, so you finish "book of mormon." you open it and then you run right back to do the south park season. was there any part of you in your mind after all this were you thought, you know what, [bleeped] that? we're tired. >> not me because we love "south park." >> it feels so good. [cheering and applause] i love the cynicism of the show.

collins: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine is recognized. ms. collins: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. ms. collins: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum be equally allocated to both sides. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. and i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina is recognized. mr. demint: i move the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. demint: thank you, mr. president. i'd like to speak on my amendment which will be voted on in a few minutes. this amendment would strike the director of the bureau of justice statistics from the list of the senate confirmed positions that would be removed from the confirmation process. so i want to expla

in washington, i'm nicole collins. >>> the field of official republican presidential contenders just got a bit more crowded today. >> i'm ready to lead. i'm ready! [ applause and cheers ] >> in front of a hometown crowd, former two-term pennsylvania senator rick santorum made his white house run today official. santorum is considered a favorite among social conservatives. >>> it's being hailed as a breakthrough, a breast cancer drug that treats the disease may also prevent it. dr. kim explains. >>> mentally prepared for it physically prepared for it. you're not. >> families flee a massive wildfire in arizona. how close crews are to containing the flames tonight. >>> from the cbs 5 weather center, the end is near! it's true! the end to the drizzle, the cloudy skies, we'll have your pinpoint forecast as eyewitness news continues on the cbs 5. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, low humidity and strong winds he >>> the weather is making it harder for firefighters to fight a wildfire in arizona. low humidity and winds helped it grow to more than 300 square miles today. mountain communities along eastern ari

this is going to be a long answer, i am sorry senator collins. to evaluate the performance, all you need to do was show that the insulin pump shuts off when the sensor reads low. now that is a perfect engineering question that can be tested on the bedside and it is an easy thing to do. fda agrees that type of performance is needed. what the fda also need for effectiveness is to know what happens to the patient when the pump actually turns off. that information is critical because it allows the prescribing clinician to look at the information that is provided in that clinical study and determined whether or not their patient actually can use this device beneficially. so with regards to the deo system i will say medtronic and fda has been continually working together and and i believe the ongoing study right now provide sufficient safety data within the u.s. and it is the hope of the fda that the safety data will allow the transition to an outpatient and finally approval of that device. >> thank you. dr. rodgers, last year congress passed legislati

[applause] (collins) thanks, ken. nice to see you. good to see you. thank you. i say "a great heart," because you are probably as well-known for your commitment to social causes as your singing career. and you've been pretty successful at both. how many times have you been arrested? [light laughter] i've actually been arrested three times, and two of them were for my civil rights. i was protesting the war in vietnam. i was arrested on the steps of the capitol, and i went to jail for that. and there was another incident there in a protest against the war in vietnam. i was also arrested on an airplane for using a cell phone, but we won't talk about that. that was a terrible shock. what made america great is an independent, vigorous press. if a jerk burns a flag, america is not threatened. political speech is the heart of the first amendment. they're expressing their religious beliefs. now is the time to make justice a reality for all of god's children. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. welcome to speaking freely, a wee

trends they're undermining all that we care about we're talking with scholar and author of chuck collins will be back with more in our conversations with great minds after the short break. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. one. we never got those liberal. save. the world. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realize that everything you saw . i'm sorry is a big issue. for . we're back with more conversations with great minds i'm speaking with wealth inequality expert and author chuck collins a senior scholar at the institute for public policy studies here in washington d.c. and co-author of the book wealth and our commonwealth why america should tax accumulated fortunes welcome back to the truck the the the i.p.o.'s you're going to zation and the scholars there a track back fifty years of tax breaks and how they have benefited the wealthiest americans i'm going to show our viewers this first graph its income inequality data from tax insuran

with more conversations with great minds and speaking with wealth inequality expert and author chuck collins a senior scholar at the institute for public policy studies here in washington d.c. and co-author of the book wealth and our common wealth by america should tax accumulated fortunes welcome back chuck d. the the i.p.s. your organization and the scholars there have tracked back fifty years of tax breaks and how they have benefited the wealthiest americans i'm going to show our viewers this first graph its income inequality data from tax returns show that the top one percent of households in the united states received eight point nine percent of all pretax income in one thousand nine hundred eighty six but by two thousand and eight that top one percent sure had more than doubled to twenty one percent how did that happen it was the consequence of that. well in the late one nine hundred seventy s. we started to see a number of rule changes in the society we stop taxing the top we stopped actually making the kind of commitments to investing in economic opportunity you remember in one thous

. >> among those who testified against prot tected areas is larry collins, president of the crab boat owners association. >> there are places that i have put my crab traps in for the last 20 years that i'm not going to be able to set my crab traps there any more. it's just listens your options. >> reporter: besides creating problems for fisherman like him, collins thinks the marine protected areas won't do much good. >> there's no need for them. there's no need for them at all it doesn't make any sense to protect one little part of the ocean. you got to protect the whole thing. >> reporter: but protecting crucial zone doesn't affect-- does in effect protect the whole thing argues biologist mark carr. >> marine protected areas are thought to be such a crucial tool for what is called ecosystem-based management because protected area will protect all the species that interact with one another within a ecosystem rather than just one little piece at a time, species by species. >> reporter: even so ken wiseman says he takes seriously the concerns of fisherman like larry collins. >> i say to

i'd also like to thank senators lieberman and collins. in a few minutes, we'll vote on final passage of s. 679 and s. res. 116, and i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to make a strong statement in favor of more effective government by voting aye and yield the floor. mr. demint -- mr. alexander: i thank senator schumer for his leadership, senator collins, senator lieberman. mr. alexander: i will make my remarks following the vote. this bill helps the senate do its job under the constitution, article 2, section 2, tells us to designate those persons who va-hud not be advised and consent. we're reducing that total by 169. we're expediting about 280 more, removing about 2,600 from the officer corps. it's a good example of bipartisan work here. i want to thank my colleagues for improving the bill, amending it, pointing out things to us that needed to be changed. one of those has been senator demint, and i yield the rest of our time before the vote to senator demint to speak on his amendment. the presiding officer: the senator from

. >> david collins is live at edgewood. >> nearly 100 people showed up here, and their message to the department of transportation has the backing of lawmakers in two counties. >> nobody thinks the toll increases are fair. >> scores of residents from harford and cecil counties. demonstrators included retirees, professionals and doctors. they considered highway robbery. >> do i have to stand up here and say, enough is enough? >> since 1976, locals have had the unique option of purchasing a $10 decal each year that allows unlimited bridget -- unlimited trips across the bridge. state officials are not only increasing all of the tolls, or considering it, but requiring all decal holders to purchase a special pass for $36 per year, but add in the monthly maintenance fee and it adds up to $54 per year. >> if they do not back down on this, we will be filing suit against the state of maryland for what they are doing. >> i will tell you that this state has paid hundreds of millions of federal highway dollars every year and they squander them. instead of spending and the way they should, they sq

collins: i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the question occurs on amendment number 499 offered by the senator from louisiana, mr. vitter. is there a sufficient second? there is. there appears to be. there is. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or change their vote? on this bill -- on this vote the yeas are 47. the nays are 51. under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. under the previous motion, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. toomey: madam president, i have an amendment at the desk and i ask for its immediate consideration. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: the senator from pennsylvania, mr. toomey, proposes an amendment -- mr. toomey: i ask unanimous consent the reading be dispensed w

collins' favor? any opposed? the measure carries. -- all in favor? we need three votes, not a majority but the majority of the commission. commissioner courtney: i would like to move that we carry the item over. vice president moran: we can have a motion to move to continue it. opposed? it carries, said that will be continued to a future meeting. -- so that will be continued. secretary housh: item 12, the discussion possible action to approve the plans and specifications and award water and a prize water system approved a program funded a contract, the calaveras dam replacement project, a joint venture to construct a new earth and rock fill dam to replace existing calaveras dam in alameda county and perform project-related work in santa clara county. >> commissioners, and julie -- i am julie labonte. sometimes we get complacent, and we get a lot of approvals, but it is good to sit back. but we were very pleased with receiving five bids on this key projects. the lowest bid turned out to be responsible responsive, and we are pleased to secure approval

in washington, i'm nicole collins. >> the health implications may be unclear but any proof of a cancerve obvious imply kag cases for the industry. earlier, maggie reardon said that the development should not derail progress in the nobmobil sector. >> i think the industry stays pretty focused on the message that they've been giving out that cell phones don't possess any risk. people have to look at the safety standards and looking at where those come from. >> with so many differing sources in this debate it can be pretty difficult to keep up with exactly what the current way of thinking is, nina. >> certainly is quite difficult to keep up with, isn't it, andrew? it is a story we'll be following closely on cnn and "world business today." >>> up next, the boss. hong kong's ceo telling us about the journey to the top. don't go away. >>> from cnn hong kong, i'm andrew stevens. >> and i'm nina december santos at cnn london. welcome back to "world business today." let's see european stock markets. it seems as though they're firmly stuck in the red. at the moment, but just two teeter towards t

what we not now go, collins, to the first 3:00 special order? . colleagues? -- colleagues?if we can go to the first 3:00 special order, items 43 and 44, and if i can ask the representative from dpw if you can please step up. >> good evening, president shoe, -- chiu, board members. the department is working with those properties on the case by case basis. president chiu: why do we not pause for a moment until we have given everyone the opportunity to clear out? ok, why you not proceed? >> kenny bruce. dpw is working with all those property owners on the case-by- case basis. president chiu: ok, so at this time, there is nothing for us to amend? and you recommend that the board can adopt the report today? >> that is correct. president chiu: ok. supervisor mar? supervisor mar: ok, i did want to ask about a number of people said that there was mural art work, and there was confusion was some of the inspectors with what is art and what is -- graffiti or blighted property. i know there are a number of community murals that some may see as graffiti, but it is really done by student

that will help us with the parade and also some volunteers from john owe collin high school and we thank them all. it is my honor and my pleasure to introduce to you somebody that i respect and think that we couldn't have a better mayor in this city. i have not been in touch with him for quite a while but in the last month it's been a couple of events that we've run into. i would like to introduce the san francisco -- [speaking spanish] , ed lee. >> thank you very much. welcome to city hall. i've been laughing for the last 15, 20 minutes because we're joking with the supervisors and of course supervisor campos had to ask me, what are you wearing for carnaval? and of course i said, well, i'll begin with the orange tie. is there anything else i have to wear? with that fantastic performance just now, with trash mashup, i was thinking, supervisor, you know, i've been thinking, i've got to have a replacement for that one-hour question-answer period at the board. i think i've got a better idea now what to do with that hour. instead of question and answer i'm going to invite trash mashup to cov

. >>> baseball, a day after manager terry collins ripped his team for not trying, mets responded in aig way. new york pulled off their biggest comeback in over a decade. carlos beltran got it started with a three-run homer in the third. mets scored four in the sixth. the all excited based loaded walk. the mets won it, 9-8. >>> something really bugged me about the rangers/indians game. it was all about the bugs. rangers swatted the indians, 7-4. >>> finally, classic scene to show you at the ladies turkish open. look what happened, see that guy in the golf cart? punch it. nearly hit three people and wham, right into a tree. fortunately, he was okay. give him the breathalyzer because there's no way he could do that sober. that's your early look at sports on "early today." have a great weekend. i'm fred roggin. >>> another huge pile of earnings is expected this weekend at the box office. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, let's admit it, we would fought last a minute against these kids. we're going to bring you the winning word in the national spellin

pat collins spoke to the victim's family today. they say they want justice. pat is at the d.c. superior court with more on this. >> reporter: a family out in force, watching a trial every step of the way, searching for justice for kiela ryan. >> reporter: the trial began in his daughter's hit and run death. he heard the details. he was there when they showed the pictures. >> i don't want to see those pictures. i'm just glad that i think she didn't know what hit her. so that's the only good news. the bad news is that she's gone from our life, and it's something that you just don't know until you're there and it's horrible because she was just our baby. >> reporter: the whole ryan family here. here in memory of kiela ryan. killed on her birthday. >> she was 24. she just started her life. >> reporter: it happened last october on a connecticut avenue service road just south of dupont circle. kiela was getting out of the back passenger seat of a car when she was hit by a lexus suv and knocked 20 feet in the air. >> just to not have her here, i mean, a part of me is dead honestly. >>

but collin is here with all the sports. hockey game tonight. >> it's good.e are asking who do you want to win the stanley cup. vancouver because i grew up in seattle i loved going to vancouver. that's the only reason. they beat the sharks i know. finals headed to decisive game 7 third time this series the bruins blasted vancouver in boston. other side of the bean town this was the scene on the streets of vancouver tonight. they would good home dispointed. first period brad. top shelf. fvl beats him and 1 nothing lead. later in the period. andrew rips the shot just in the blue line. he scores. 3 nothing bruins. the hook again. 3 games in boston giving up 15 goals. bruins up. 5 on 3. mark center. david scores. bruins even the series with a 5-2 win game 7 wednesday night in vancouver. >> nba finals proud big ratings for abc last night. the maverick series clinching win was the highest tv rating for game 6 in 11 years. mavs return home to here oh well come in dallas today. owner mark cuban first off the plane champion trophy in hand. he said he will pick up the

pat collins joins us from upper marlboro with the latest on this case. pat? >> reporter: doreen, wynetta wright's family in court speaking about her accused killer, speaking out loud, holding nothing back, but we're going to begin this report with some thoughts from the state's attorney. >> it's an especially heinous case and we will prosecute it aggressively. >> reporter: drama in the courtroom. a judge allows the family of a murder victim to speak out. family to the suspect, you're a monster. you're trash. family to the judge, make sure nothing happens to him in jail so we can get our justice. the murder victim, 20-year-old wynetta wright. the murder suspect, 39-year-old richmond phillips, a d.c. vice cop. the murder scene, the oxen run park behind the hillcrest heights community center. now that community center has security cameras all around the outside. according to court documents those cameras recorded the murder suspect cop and the murder victim around a picnic table in the park from 11:00 at night until 6:00 a.m. the next morning. seven hours around

pat collins is live in upper marlboro. pat? >> reporter: when wynetta wright's family wants the accused kill tore know exactly how they feel about him and today in court they didn't hold back. drama in the courtroom, a jouj allows the family of a murder victim to speak out. family to the suspect, you're a monster. you're trash. family to the judge, make sure nothing happens to him in jail so we can get our justice. the murder victim, 20-year-old wynetta wright. the murder suspect 39-year-old richmond phillips, a d.c. vice cop. the murder scene, the oxen run park behind the hillcrest heights community center. now that community center has security cameras all around the outside. according to court documents those cameras recorded the murder suspect cop and the murder victim around a picnic table in the park from 11:00 at night until 6:00 a.m. the next morning. seven hours around that picnic table until -- until that murder. miss wright found dead in the nearby woods. she'd been shot to death. the two were involved in a paternity

other superstar authors mary higgins clark who was succeeding both hardcover and paperback and jackie collins and to inherit a legacy to apply a massmarket techniques but shortly after i started i became in charge when they were under one management and that is when what is called career development start and author on paperback been billed the audience then when they were a lot -- large enough then we would published in hardcover and we were building an audience for the author at the same time the author was perfecting their writing style and talent. it was a happy time and a good time and a thrilling time for us. >> host: you mention the transition going into paperback now people start to do electronic books. >> it is interesting to me fortunately or unfortunately sitting on the sidelines while the transition plays out but it is my choice but what i observe is great similarities between how the paperback evolves in the '60s and '70s and changed the business. and i think electronic publishing will do the same in a relatively few years ahead of us. >> host: some people are saying the electron

joining us is aliya williams and star williams and their mom tina collins. beautiful family. so the mo magic programs and tell me how long you've been involved. >> since they started the mo magic program, that was in 2006. >> and how does it work? >> i starred taking my kids to the program because they have done good work in the community flew sacred heart before. my oldest daughter is 16. she is still involved with the mo magic program. >> have you seen a difference in the girls? >> yes, a lot of differences. >> what sort of differences? >> more focused my kids like to go places. they just don't like to hang out. when i go home, parents let their kids go outside but the kids like to go go outside because i take them places. >> how does it on work? >> i drop them off to say kretd hard for the program. i also volunteer and i pick them up and a group of kids like 12:00 to 5:00. sometimes we're doing different things, activities, reading. i got reading materials, so reading programs. it wasn't just they were doing the reading programs but able to work in these work books. >> and

collins: thank you, madam president. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. collins: thank you, madam president. madam president, last night the senate unanimously approved senate resolution 185, a resolution which i introduced with my colleague from maryland, senator cardin. our resolution sends a clear message to the palestinian authority that any effort to seek unanimous recognition at the united nations will have serious consequences for future american aid to the palestinians. madam president, the united states provides nearly $550 million each year in bilateral assistance to the palestinians. this aid is not an entitlement, particularly at a time when we have an unsustainable debt of some $14 trillion. rather, this aid is predicated on a good-faith commitment from the palestinians to the peace process. by unanimously passing our resolution last evening, the senate has sent an unmistakable message that efforts by

we'll hear from him coming up at 6:00. >> pat collins, we'll check back then. thank you. >>> new york congressman anthony weiner is facing an ethics probe now after admitting that he sent a number of lewd pictures of himself to women online. and now we have learned there could be more pictures out there. the scandal escalated yesterday when photos of the democrat were posted on the website biggovernment.com. it's run by conservative blogger andrew breitbart. on the "today" show this morning, he says he also has any x-rated picture of the lawmaker and hinted he would release it if weiner retaliates. >> if he decides to make this a jihad against me for his interpretation of putting me into this situation, you know what? i'll take that as a, you know you said an insurance policy. maybe. i can't foresee a circumstance in which i would release that. i don't think i want to put his family through that type of thing. but i certainly have it in my possession, and i guarantee you he would use this against me. >> nbc correspondent luke russert joins us now with more on t

[captioning made possible by kcet public television] >> billy collins taught college english in the bronx for 30 years before he became a bestselling poet-- one of the few whose books have sold over 200,000 copies, thanks to poems such as this one. >> the other day i was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, bouncing from typewriter to piano, from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor, i found myself in the l section of the dictionary where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard. no cookie nibbled by a french novelist could send one more suddenly into the past-- a past where i sat at a workbench at a camp by a deep adirondack lake learning how to braid thin plastic strips into a lanyard, a gift for my mother. i had never seen anyone use a lanyard or wear one, if that's what you did with them, but that did not keep me from crossing strand over strand again and again until i had made a boxy red and white lanyard for my mother. she gave me life and milk from her breasts, and i gave her a lanyard. she nursed me in many a sick room, lifted teaspoons of medicine to my lips, set

nicole collins is in our washington d.c.ing with what the youngest shuttle in the fleet accomplished before being retired. >> reporter: good morning, pam. thousands of people turned out last night at kennedy space center in florida to watch shuttle endeavour come home from space for the last time. the shuttle landed around 2:30 a.m. eastern time. endeavour spent 16 days in space during this trip, but over the course of its 19 years in service the shuttle spent a total of 299 days in space and traveled nearly 123 million miles. endeavour also orbited the earth more than 4500 times. endeavour the youngest shuttle in the space program could likely perform more space travel, but as nasa's 30-year- old shuttle program comes to an end, so does the life span of endeavour. this its 25th mission to space with this last endeavour travel to the international space station was linked there for eleven days installing a $2 billion machine already at work gathering information for nasa. here's endeavour commander mark kelly. >> mission wen

our reporter nicole collins standing by live in washington d.c. taking a look at endeavour's 19 year history and what is in its future. nicole. >> reporter: good morning, dave. thousands of people came out to kennedy space center early this morning in florida to welcome home the crew of shuttle endeavour for the final time. the shuttle landed around 2:30 a.m. eastern time. endeavour traveled to the international space station was linked there for eleven days installing a $2 billion machine that is already at work gathering information for nasa. endeavour spent 16 days in space during this trip, but over the course of its 19 years in service the shuttle spent a total of 299 days in space and traveled nearly 123 million miles. endeavour also orbited the earth more than 4500 times. now endeavour is the youngest shuttle in the space program and it could likely perform more space travel but as nasa's 30 year shuttle program comes to an end, so does the life span of endeavour. this is its 25th mission to space was its last. talking about some of what th

scott brown, massachusetts, susan collins, maine, lisa merkow ski, alaska, olympia snow main, and senatord paul, kentucky. tim carney, what else happened in that race? i'm thinking about it, remember the name of jack davis. >> he was a democrat who was running a pretend tea party candidacy. >> what happened? >> he brought in 9%. >> did they do that with a purpose in mind? >> yes, i think -- >> it's a convinced democrat. >> yes. >> and he managed the tea party -- >> may have done that -- [everyone talking at once] >> yes, they had done in in other districts. >> why did they do that? >> it was a strategy they tried in other districts. [everyone talking at once] delivering this republican seat to the democrats. >> i don't think you can say every one of his votes would orwin. >> how many would you say would have gone to him? >> i don't know it. would have bin a -- the fact -- [everyone talking at once] >> the fact that it was 4 points. >> now, he would even easily have delivered that. [everyone talking at once] >> playing math is not politics, john. that's traditionally republican district. t

dan collins reports from lima. admissionjimori's of defeat, is certain that the other candidate will be president. miss fujimori, the daughter of the jailed former president, said she would congratulate her opponent in person. >> during the entire campaign, i said i would accept the results, except the will of the peruvian people. the official results showed that he is the winner. i accept his triumph and congratulate his of victory and i wish him luck. >> the two car expected to hold a meeting with the outgoing president garcia. earlier, the stock exchange in lima fell by more than 10% shortly after opening. that prompted officials to suspend trading for two hours. he claimed victory on sunday night and told supporters that growthd work witeconomic with social inclusion. >> the former head of the international monetary fund strauss-kahn has pled not guilty to sexually assaulting and tried to rape a made in a new york hotel room. he was released on bail of $6 million last month. >> chants from hotel workers greeted