the united states has invested heavily of building the capacity of the colombian military and police, the results are becoming increasingly clear. the colombian government is in control of the vast country and the farc are on the run and are only limited to fleeting attacks to remote parts of the country. in central america the impact of transnational organized crime is most acute. the efforts of southcom to detect and monitor aerial and maritime trafficking in the eastern pacific and caribbean have driven the criminal organizations to more complex methods of trafficking drugs, money, and weapons including semisubmersible vessels. transnational criminal organizations have begun to take advantage of nations that either lack the capacity and/or the will to confront their trafficking. these complex criminal networks require southcom to continue to adapt and expand their activities with willing partners. further south general fraser in a different picture emerges, brazil, argentina and chile have capability militaries that improve international security by contributing to various multilat

colombian troops killed thirty nine rebels in operations over the last two days the defense minister described it as the biggest blow against the fark or revolutionary armed forces of colombia in the last five years far killed eleven soldiers in the area a few days earlier the colombian government says rebels involved are involved in cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and making pollens. portugal's been brought to the heart by a twenty four hour general strike subway and ferry service is disrupted while some public offices and schools will be shut workers are protesting welfare cuts and tax hikes austerity measures were adopted in return for a seventy eight billion euros in international aid cash says the country seeking deeper into recession with growth figures expected to fall. financial figures in the us not looking very. domestic right now later our economic expert max kaiser takes a look at inequalities in the u.s. . this is like segregation this is like color to the back of the bus and banks to the back of the bus and back to thousand dollars in fees you pay four hundred twenty

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colombian troops have killed thirty nine rebels in operations over the last two days the defense minister described it as the biggest blow against the fark or revolutionary armed forces of colombia in the last five years the fark had killed eleven soldiers in the area a few days earlier the colombian government says rebels are involved in cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making. portugal has been brought to a halt by twenty four hour general strike subway and ferry service that disrupted well some public of offices and schools will also be closed workers are protesting against welfare cuts and tax hikes yesterday measures were adopted in return for a seventy eight billion euros in rescue cash this is portugal see sinking deeper into recession with growth figures expected to fall. india has come up with a new initiative to get each of its billion citizens registered in an electronic database or to get new id cards allowing an easier access to basic services but as artie's previous reader reports from new delhi there are fears the project could turn the country into a police stat

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the judges declared the mistrial in the case of a colombian man accused of killing his twin brother. he was last seen alive leaving the mall in columbia 2007. he was killed from the association. and he remains in custody while prosecutors determine whether to retry him. >> five alleged members of a street gang are facing charges of running a teenage prostitution ring. they belonged to an offshoot of another game appeared to be recruited high school girls and advertise them on -- of another game. did they recruited high school girls from facebook are my space and advertise them on credulous. >> young women were allegedly targeted recruited exploited. >> investigators say it had been in operation for five years. they gave the girls drugs and alcohol and threatened to use violence in order to keep them working. >> heartbreak on a local military base after flames destroyed several townhomes. it happened yesterday at joint abase dangers. they were passed of the basis minutes after the fire first broke out. we have this story. >> a plan of thick gray smoke commanded the skies above a joint

. >> the two men were attacked in separate incidents is in a colombian neighborhood. in both cases the suspects were on on and the victims did not provoke them. -- the suspects were unarmed and unprovoked. an emergency repair team is making stops at several of these low-profile bridges. this is a protest of house speaker bay near's holdup of a bill that would help repairs. -- house speaker john b oehner's holdup of a bill that would help repairs. >> we have the potential for some strong thunderstorms across the area. if you have a few errands to run, you will be just fine. the skies are beginning to cloud up a little bit. we are looking at a greener conditions, the leaves are continuing to pop out. we have warmer temperatures out there. look at our weather bug network. our high today, 71 degrees. this will continue to lift our temperatures up. the mid 60's over in the district. the wind out of the west. temperatures a lot warmer as you head for the west, 77 degrees this hour in cumberland. petersburg looking at 70 degrees. that will be the best place for some thunders

. >> well, it took some time, but in the end the colombians could no longer get their drug powder. they didn't know what to do. they gave it up. we eliminated the problem. we beat them. >> narrator: just like quaaludes, the key ingredients in meth are so chemically sophisticated they can only be made by a few large manufacturers. and so haislip was confident that with a new chemical control law for ammunition, he could regulate those chemicals and beat meth. >> i realized that with methamphetamine, we could turn this chemical control law into a rifle approach to the problem, not just a shotgun approach. because there were relatively few chemicals, and they had relatively few legitimate uses. so this concept was especially well suited to attack a problem such as methamphetamine. >> narrator: in 1986, at haislip's urging, republican senator bob dole introduced a bill to require distributors of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine to check the identities of their customers, and to make their sales records available to the d.e.a. but the bill immediately ran into trouble, for while nobody had

colombian fall they're calling in a tragedy the media's take on the u.s. soldier accused of turning a sleeping out down the village into a bloodbath with washington once again the college was in for the actions of its military. anniversary arrests for occupy wall street protesters as yet more heavy handed policing leads to many wondering if western nations practice their democracy their. next step groceries in the grind hall the back alleys of l.a. are the supermarket aisles for those saving thousands were perfectly edible thrown away food stay with us. here's my letter to dan bain the c.e.o. of trader joe's i've also included a copy of the good samaritan act which was signed into being in one thousand nine hundred six by bill clinton and that encourages grocery stores to donate food and it protects them from being sued so i'm just asking him to consider moving trader joe's into the next step of simply not wasting as much food and getting it to people who need it i figured the c.e.o. of trader joe's probably wouldn't get back to me after one letter so i've

contributed to the martin luther king junior papers project, volumes two to four and the fourth coming colombian guide to african-american history from 1939 to the presented. william f. soez zi was a reporter in baltimore for nearly 20 years before leaving the newspaper to write for television in 2002. mr. sor zi, a baltimore native wrote for the last three seasons of "the wire," the television program on home box office, hbo, and also acted in the series. if you remembered an ill tempered reporter named bill sor zi in the fictional sun nusz room, that was he. he and his partner david simon are developing a mini series for hbo about the volatile events surrounding a federal public housing desegregation case in yonkers, new york, in the '80s and '90s. the two are also at work on a book about the rise of the drug culture in baltimore using pennsylvania avenue and its habit ways as a vehicle to tell the story. i would say we're in for aeveni. it's my pleasure to turn the microphone other to my dear friend from "the afro" john. john? [ applause ] >> good evening everyone. can you hear me? make sure

of this presentation, i've chosen to date the origins of the modern world from the first of the colombian transatlantic voyage as. said another way, the modern world began with columbus' first voyage to the americas for it was that voyage that ushered in the european colonial expansion that resulted in, among other things, the organization of the transatlantic slave trade. the slave trade in turn fostered the development of new levels of communication, trade, culture exchange and economic and political interdependence between the peoples of europe, after kashgs a africa, and the americas. the continental relations is what in my mind distinguishes the modern era the predecessors. now over the 400-year history of the trade, upwards of 12 million africans survived the middle passage and were distributed throughout the americas north, central and south america and the caribbean. estimates of the total number of african lives lost were impaired by the process of warfare, capture and enslavement that fueled the trade ranged from 50 to 100 million people. the slave trade and all of its facets ca

. >> colombian troops have killed 39 rebels in operations across the country. it is part of an aggressive government strategy to demobilize a leftist group. >> the country's defense minister said most of the rebels were killed in an operation involving ground troops in air strikes near the venezuelan border. several militants were also captured. they have killed tens of thousands of people in the last half a century in its war against the government. >> the belgian king and dutch crown prince joined thousands of mourners in a highly emotional tribute to the victims of last week's fatal school bus crash in switzerland. thousands of relatives and friends of the debt pact into a community hall in a dozen town, home to 17 of the dead. six were dutch nationals. >> members of the belgian military carried the white coffins to the funeral service. a soldier walked ahead of east cask -- each casket, burying a memorial -- bearing a memorial photo of each child died. thousands of people attended the service at a community hall to remember those who lost their lives in las

economic activities that five continents, europe, africa, north, central and south america which colombian voyages were isolated from one another were knitted into a system of mutual independency in which europe emerged as dependent on africa and the americas as europeans like to say that slaves were dependent upon their masters. this system has continued down through the present day. they remain dependent and economic relations to europe and your america. this is the nature of the modern world in which we live. and even the cursory reading of the evidence establishes its origins in the transatlantic slave trade. now i just like to make two or three points about the book and then i'm going to be sitting with my colleagues to have some conversation with them. the book is basically divided into two sections. first deals with the slave trade and slavery as a system. the second half looks at more indepth way at the ways in which people of african dissent re-created themselves, transformed themselves into new people through an exploration of issues of language, literature, of music, of art, of

over the past two decades the united states has invested heavily in building the capacity of the colombian military and police and the results of this investment are becoming clear. the cluolombian government is i control in the vast control of the country and they're operationally limited to fleeting attacks against government installations in remote parts of the country. in central america the impact of transnational organized crime is most acute. the efforts of southcom to detect and monitor trafficking in the caribbean have driven these criminal organizations to more complex methods of trafficking drugs, money and weapons including semi and fully submersible vessels. transnational criminal organizations have also begun to take advantage of nations that lack the capacity and/or the will to confront their trafficking. these complex criminal networks require southcom to continue to adapt and expand its activities with willing partners to confront the threat. further south general frazier in a different picture emerges, brazil, argentina and chile are developed nations that help improve in

lead winning goal from the spot meanwhile roskilde also threw off the beaten lower league side by colombianpenalties so it will play ruby in the last. or rather vulgar take on one arm or laska. the more you wait for president michel platini is hit but at english premier league chairman said dave richards richards last week had to apologize are to saying that the game's at governing bodies feet for a new way for had stolen football from the english the fifty year old claimed england gave the world the greatest legacy the game of football and of the organizations were gangs and stole again he later said his comments were meant to be lighthearted and that he would write to apologize to people and the way for however pertaining says he's yet to receive last apology. when it is i really english critics who are following this story closely their consent many male maybe it got lost in the hallway soviet because i haven't seen it and only thing i can say is that we're not gangsters to flew through militia i think the english and very generous given food good to the whole world but when it's given i

should take a certain amount of credit for plan colombia, for sticking with it, for providing the colombian government and the people the means to be able to defend themselves against a paramilitary terrorist organization and the drug traffickers. so, yes, this is a good step, but it's not enough yet. >> thank you. and finally, last year, this committee adopted a bipartisan amendment which i authored supporting the establishment of u.s. embassies in the five caribbean countries where we have none. these embassies would be similar to the post we have in grenada and would show our caribbeanan partners we pay attention to their region and connect millions of caribbean americans with their ancestral homelands. it will be minimal or no costs. it will be with the cause of millions returning from iraq and afghanistan. and i'm wondering if you can comment on that. >> well, of course, we believe strongly in having positive diplomatic relations with our eastern caribbean friends and partners. it's a matter of cost, it's a matter of resources. i will respond to you in writing because it's a difficult

we're working with the colombians to support their effort and again, this is intergovernmental effort because the reduction and eradication of cocaine is, other parts of our government, department of state who really supports those efforts. but we are working with the government of peru, their military especially when you look at the narco-terrorist group in peru, to help reduce their impact in that country. and we're just seeing as you watch brazil, the united states and bolivia just signed a tri-part agreement to address trans-national organized crime in bolivia and that's an ongoing effort. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. before i recognize senator blumenthal and ask him to take the gavel to wind up because i'm going to have to leave, i just had one additional question, if i could, of general jacoby and that has to do with the anti-terrorism joint exercise with russia that we conduct annually i believe called vigilant eagle. you indicated, general, that the benefits that we realize from this sort of exercise are invaluable. this is what your prepared statement te

the colombian army says troops have killed at least thirty members of the four armed lift this group it's one of the biggest sub strikes in five years according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for call the revolutionary armed forces of colombia group has been at war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. portugal is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport is severely disrupted with schools post and other state services also badly affected and it is processed protest was all denied by unions over thirty measures which triggered a seventy eight which were triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout this plan is locked into a three year program of cuts all of by the e.u. and the i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. also on our world update the rebels in the west african country mali claim to have seized power and else to the government in a coup they've imposed a military curfew and

fark had killed eleven soldiers in the area a few days earlier the colombian government says rebels are involved in cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and making bombs. portugal has been ground to all hope by a twenty four hour general strike subway and ferry service is disrupted public offices and schools will also be shut workers are protesting goes welfare cuts and tax hikes there are the measures were ducted in return for a seventy eight billion euros or international rescue cash this is portugal sinking deeper into recession with growth figures expected before. i leave the news block india's come up with a new initiative to get each of its billion citizens registered in an electronic database get new id cards allowing an easier access to basic services but authorities pretty shrewd reports there are fears the project could turn into could turn the country into a police state. it's been entirely thirteen thousand years but he still can't get access to benefits because it's ration card is registered back home for those like him india has come up with the twenty first century for luci

the colombian army says troops have killed at least thirty nine members of the far leftist group it's one of the biggest such strike in five years this according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making all the revolutionary armed forces of colombia group has been at war with the state since one nine hundred sixty four. forty four that's being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport is severely disrupted with schools and other state services also badly affected by the latest protest was organized by unions over government austerity measures triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout lisbon is locked into a three year programme of cuts altered by the e.u. and i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. pensioners will pay more while taxes for the rich and big business will be reduced that's what critics are making of the british government's budget for the year ahead saying it boosts the interests of corporations making th

the colombian army says troops are killed at least thirty nine members of the fork leftist group it's one of the biggest such strikes in five years according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for called the revolutionary armed forces of colombia group has been at war with the state since one nine hundred sixty full. portugal is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transborder severely disrupted with school. post and other state services also badly affected the latest protests was organized by unions over government austerity measures triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout there's been is locked into a three year program of cuts ordered by the e.u. and i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. rebels in the west african country mali claim to have seized power and asked of the government in a coup that impose a military curfew and suspended the constitution while the country's president is seeking refuge at a mi

at least five students have been wounded during clashes with police in the colombian city of tonga the dispute happened during a demonstration marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the death of a student leader the injuries occurred when two people fell while carrying explosives what triggered the clashes though remains unknown. japan it may deploy land and sea based interceptor missiles ahead of north korea's planned a rocket launch next month officials say tokyo has not ruled out shooting down north korea's rocket if it enters japanese space junk rocket is set to fly over western japan in april tokyo has expressed concerns that a failed launch will fall in stage or the rocket could endanger japanese or us. now bill or as has come under sharp criticism over the executions of two men found guilty of deadly metro bombings in the capital minsk last year but the senate since were condemned by western officials and international human rights groups and the e.u. is preparing to impose new sanctions on the country well of the country's president alexander lukashenko told r.t. exclusively t

as europe's demand for cocaine continues to grow, and as the mexican and colombian cartels, including the farc have sent their operatives into west africa and north africa to establish the transshipment infrastructure needed to move tons of those drugs, these bad guys are now routinely coming in very close contact with the likes of hezbollah, hamas, al qaeda, who are vying for the same money, the same turf and the same dollars. it's really a nightmare scenario. and my point being is that if anyone thinks for a moment that hezbollah and qods force, masters at leveraging and exploiting infrastructures globally are not going to focus on our southwest border and use that as perhaps a springboard in attacking our country, then they just don't understand how the real underworld works. >> in fact, across the border as dr. levitt mentioned -- my time is limited. but we sent a letter to the president calling for significant covert action in iran. cyber. and also the designation of the qods force as a foreign terrorist organization. i was surprised, given the bombing of our marines in beirut an

world up at this hour at least five students have been wounded your interactions with police in the colombian city of tunisia the dispute happened during a demonstration marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the death of the student leader injuries occur when two people fell while carrying explosives what triggered the clashes remains unknown. but the russa's come under sharp criticism over the recent executions of two men found guilty of last year's deadly metro bombings in the country's capital so western officials and human rights groups slammed the sentence and the e.u. is preparing to slap more sanctions on by the ruse but the country's president defended the decision as legally justified during an explosive interview with r.t. . the group that was absolutely transparent to the investigation was led by the new head of the country's investigative committee who just toured the prosecutor's office also russia's federal security service the f.s.b. israel's mossad and interpol all took part in this investigation and none of these organizations had any questions being quietly to process and

colombian rebels have reportedly killed ten government soldiers and an officer there tattoed place near the venezuelan border patrol it follows part and else saying that it would release ten soldiers and police officers held hostage for over a decade the group has been fighting. the government since the one nine hundred sixty s. and baby gather kidnapped and campaign in the eighty. five people have been found dead aboard a migrant ship off the coast of southern italy fifty two others were rescued safely from the boat which it travels from going to are they are telling coast guard says many on board were dehydrated or suffering from hypothermia and human figures show around sixty thousand migrants landed in italy last year mostly africans fleeing their countries because of the conflict in libya every copy of the week's top stories in a few moments stay with us. if you're chances. of life. limited time. more optimistic. the theater where the ingenious opens their heart to the rest of us. are. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimp

reports that developing nations will name two candidates the nigerian finance minister and the former colombian finance minister you see them both there now our guest in golden was vice president of the world bank that was from two thousand and three to two thousand and six he worked there before that too and he's been writing about the importance of this decision in his op it's titled the world bank is flirting with irrelevance he reminds us of what he calls the scandalous bilateral deal that is always allowed europe to claim the i and the and the u.s. to appoint the head of the world bank but in golden's view with emerging markets now accounting for more than half of the global economy there is no excuse for delaying a global search for the best qualified candidate now this act goes calls i've heard for the last several years as i've reported on this issue calls for the developing economies to be more represented in these international institutions but i'll tell you what it's usually followed by a repeat of the status quo so i asked professor golden as we get to this deadline to nominate the

one colombian who is a combo. next year in science minister so that already is a big change in world history the fact that we had a contested race for the presidency of the world that you want to question the economics question security calls some of the brits seats on the security council. brazil. india and south africa are also you know we in this region warfares and if you look at the apartment some are there not to start but i can omit the dark. at least the nearest star relations with iran fact that they are there don't respect. the fact that the issue from there when you ask if you said so little dialogue you should not force and coercion said the same thing about syria so they already have influence in the sense that you know you are there but. as a counterweight to the us and western europe how any particular one of these disputes well you know it's a different question you know every american will never but there are already having greater influence on the world's through again these countries and even te

there is hanging out somewhere you're going to target them based on issues of economics if it's a colombian drug cartel same issue if it's a blank panthers or if it's a white you know extremists you're going to do the same thing and so to take this kind of approach that you know we can't look at muslims or we can't look at certain ethnicities i think is very naive and doesn't take into account the really serious threat that we've got from within the muslim community but have we actually seen you know this threat materialize we hear about it a lot we had peter king hold hearings on capitol hill he's still doing it on homegrown radicalization and yet the same time you know the statistics don't necessarily back it up there's one for this is that i think peter king sort of already was that there's been twice as many sort of terror plots from nine muslims there been from muslims and eleven now i you know i certainly think that if the police it's out that there is possibly extremism this must go sort of the most that's perfectly fine but if you really must just because there's muslims there they

a judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a colombian man accused of killing his twin brother.li was last seen alive leaving the mall in columbia in 2007. he was killed from asphyxiation. prosecutors relied on circumstantial evidence in the case against wael ali. the remains in custody while prosecutors determine whether to retry him. d.c. mayor vincent gray's proposed budget does not include taxes on d.c. residents, but does allow a provision to tax big league athletes to play in d.c. but don't live in the city. it is known as the jock tax. it would apply to any income earned by an athlete that does not live in d.c. but plays in the city. congress would have to approve that provision. 7 is on your side with news about autism. the disorder is more common than previously thought. the cdc says the pontifex one in 88 children. this means it is nearly twice as common as officials said five years ago. it likely affects about 1 million u.s. children and teenagers. help officials attribute the increase to better recognition of cases now. 5:49. the governors of iowa, texas and kansas a

the region, the co-founder of enterprise community partnership, providing grants to those in the colombianeighborhood. he had severed with alzheimer's disease. the couple was known for their dedication to the community for decades. >> she was a great lady. >> some frightening moments today for dozens of passengers packed into tour buses across the hoover dam. >> suddenly ignited into flames. how the quick thinking driver was able to save the day. >> decision day here in virginia and several other states on and several other states on super tuesday. >> not much left, but you are looking at the prime of a tour bus in boulder city, nev., after it burst into flames crossing the hoover dam yesterday. the driver of smelled smoke and grab an extinguisher to try to knock down this planes, but soon realized that was not going to work. she then called everyone to action prompted an immediate evacuation just in time. another bus was sent to pick up passengers. so far, there is no word on what started the fire. >> the city at the center of syria's 11 month uprising continues to be shelled. new clashes

colombian coffee is highest desired. it's the sought after bean by starbucks and the like.mbian situation and more of the fact that prosperity in brazil was causing farmers there to hoard coffee just like someone would hoard cash or gold and that kept coffee off the market. >> interesting. so now conversely, there's no hoarding so much as putting coffee on the market trying to raise some cash, right? >> absolutely. there's not been that much made of brazilian economy recently though we see it falling dramatically from the peaks we saw a year or two ago. brazil is flooding the market with coffee and millions of bags or so it appears and furthermore, based on open interest in coffee futures, we see they are now hedging this year's crop. normally when a market is about to make a low, you'll see open interest fall as investors liquidate positions and right now open interest is increasing 40% over the last six months telling us that there's a massive amount of fear in brazil by the growers. >> interesting. what price levels are you interested in and where does it need to hold to

. -- colombian government. >>> there are new details of a firefighter burned in a house fire last month. he has had four skin graph surgeries and suffered burns to half of the body and is expected to stand in -- stay in the hospital for several weeks. investigators are looking for leads in the arsony think it's phenomenal. you want to decide in. >> i think it is, too and if we can keep this going, that would be fabulous and go to gariy mcgrady. >> love it. >> and it's a great winter, right? jumped into springous and i think this week, it's going to be more spring-like than winter- like and easy for me to say. look at the temperature right now and this is jumping at 4:00, here in town, 71 degrees and we got the readings in and that is still sitting at 71 degrees and real, real nice. monasses, 22; fredericksburg, knocking onity degrees down there and that is a temperature of 75 and you will get to 80 this week in fredericksburg. no guarantees here and looks like we're going to get close and that is a tease for you. look at the showers to the west of us and these will come across overnight

the nigerian finance minister and the former colombian finance minister have also been nominated for the post. in campaign news, rick santorum easily won the louisiana republican presidential primary on saturday, but still trails mitt romney by wide margin in the national delegate count for the party nomination. a new expose by the associated press has revealed undercover new york police department officers attended meetings of liberal, political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around the u.s.. in one instance, an undercover nypd officer traveled to new orleans to attend the 2008 people's summit. two activists, one a journalist and one of labor organizer for housekeepers and nannies, were mentioned by name in one of the police intelligence reports. the presidents of guatemala, panama, and goes to recommit saturday in a regional summit to discuss essentially ending the so-called war on drugs by legalizing or decriminalizing drug use in trade. the guatemalan president hosted the summit. >> what is happening to us since we're not producers or

the fossil of the world's largest snake was found several years ago in a colombian coal mine. when it was alive the snake weighed 2500 pounds and was 48 feet long. the exhibit will be on display through next january. my goodness. >> that thing starts moving or wiggling you just run fast as you can. >> that's a big snake. >> that is unbelievable. the size of a school bus. >>> coming up a whole lot more ahead. living social goes delivery in a bunch of cities. >> where's mom? what you stopping for? >> and the panic sets in for a family trying to escape a fast spreading wildfire. they videotaped the entire ordeal. >>> plus, recognize him? a former athlete goes full drag for his new gig for weight watchers. >>> hi. i'm aaron gilchrest. tomorrow morning on news 4 today will be a special morning. it's joe krebs' final day anchoring news 4 today. join us as we say good-bye to our friend, colleague, and one of washington's most beloved news anchors. we'll look back on joe's life and career and we'll even have a few surprises for him. you don't want to miss joe's final signature sign of

. >> smith: noel's eldest daughter married a colombian investment banker, andrés piedrahita.other sons-in-law marketed sentry in latin america and the middle east. their annual christmas card chronicles their rise. >> the unofficial motto was, "if we act rich, we will become rich." this was about being able to finance a lifestyle that people only... that some people only dream about. they read about these things in w and in town and country, and they wanted that sort of lifestyle. they wanted to be in society. >> walter noel was making an extraordinary amount of money, and all he had to do was market. and there were many people that just looked at what fairfield sentry was doing and said, "hey, this is free money." >> smith: fund managers everywhere wanted in on it-- latin america, asia and europe. and they went to major banks looking for clients, nowhere more than in the world's capital of discretion and secrecy, geneva. >> these guys were going around to all banks, really, doing road shows and saying, "here it is. we have a 2% management fee on this fund, but we give you ba