next up is connie mackie and she is the president of the frc action ak. she worked in the reagan and bush one administrations and also worked on the presidential campaigns of pat buchanan and gary bower. frc action was founded in 1992 to promote american values and philosophy of the founding fathers concerning the nature of ordered liberty. please welcome connie mackie. [applause] also on the panel is brian brown. president of the national organization for marriage. their advocacy center is tasked with connecting citizens with their officials on important issues on marriage, state and local level issues like here in iowa during the dispute and the resulting retention vote of the iowa supreme court three court justices. ladies and gentlemen, mr. brian brown. preserve innocence a mission of the american principles project, was organized to promote policies and actions to protect children. as the director of preserve innocence, it is the duty of our next panelist, emmet to not only advance the pro-family agenda but to promote a dedication to the fundamental

connie's book.is there a moment where you met someone or you felt that connection in that community that was forged because you were telling stories? >> oh, absolutely. i've done 20 cities now, and invariably somebody will come up and say thank you for writing this book because they were having difficulty at work and it gave them the courage to speak up as this woman was doing, or, you know, i awz always i was an underdog and nobody believes in me, and now i know somebody who never even spoke the language when they came here. so you're rooting for the underdog and not underestimating yourself. >> yeah. similarly, actually just yesterday i received an e-mail from a woman who was at a breakfast, just a breakfast gathering in the home of one of her friends. and it wasn't even a formal book event, the just one of those things that just was happenstance. and she e-mailed to tell me that as a consequence, she had decided to start a new company with the express intent of designing everything from a woman's

connie's book. is there a moment where you met someone or you felt that connection in that community that was forged because you were telling stories? >> oh, absolutely. i've done 20 cities now, and invariably somebody will come up and say thank you for writing this book because they were having difficulty at work and it gave them the courage to speak up as this woman was doing, or, you know, i awz always i was an underdog and nobody believes in me, and now i know somebody who never even spoke the language when they came here. so you're rooting for the underdog and not underestimating yourself. >> yeah. similarly, actually just yesterday i received an e-mail from a woman who was at a breakfast, just a breakfast gathering in the home of one of her friends. and it wasn't even a formal book event, the just one of those things that just was happenstance. and she e-mailed to tell me that as a consequence, she had decided to start a new company with the express intent of designing everything from a woman'

connie mariano is a woman of many firsts. she was the first military woman to be chosen as the white house physician, the first woman directer of the white house medical unit, and the first filipino-american to become an admiral in the navy. but she started her life as an underdog. always being underestimated because of her gender, her ethnic background and her appearance. in her new book, "the white house doctor: my patients were presidents," dr. mariano shares her inspiring scrowrnny of how a little girl from the philippines came to america and became the physician to the president of the united states. her example is truly one of a woman whose achievements were unlimited in the military, medicine and government service. secondly, gloriafelt will speak, and gloria is a leading activist, a best selling author of four books, a commentator, a sought after after speaker on topics such as women, politics, power, health and can the media. her front line experience as to how to unlock intention and ambition in order to embrace the

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my name is connie ford, and i happen to live in district 5, but many of the members that are represented by union works in soma. i am also vice-president of the labor council, and i just wanted to let you know if you do not already that many of the workers who provide the services that are continually on the chopping block here are represented by union and our working poor, trying to make ends meet. many of these workers come from the communities in which they serve, whether it is homeless, mentally ill, drug addiction, all these things. these workers have done the really hard work to get up there every morning and do the work that is required of them to carry out the mission of the services that we all care for. these are living wage workers with health benefits. as you have heard, there have been cuts and cuts and cuts. these contractors have not had an increase in money since 2007. so when you are thinking about making additional cuts, when you say 10% and 10% more, it does not sound like much, but when these contracts for most of these cbo's , about that have not been raised since 20

forefather all the caucasian subspecies of the bison both good in one thousand thirties he was taken to us conny in nova nature reserve there are a metered with female dealers by sort of that was the origin of a bison subspecies with location blood. since early this morning reserve staff have been trying to compel the bison to enter special cages for transportation. during a quarantine period animals became accustomed to their pen and learn to trust people so they're in no hurry to go out and the wild. let us know that. after several and successful attempts one of the females is lurd into the cage and now the herd will follow suit meissen are known for their matriarchal behavior. come on faster if you're a well done. the bison steadfastly endured their temporary captivity while on their way to their new habitat. the return of caucasian bison to the wild is a joint project undertaken by the north essential nature reserve and the world wildlife fund. there are things ready charley go yes let's go. but the. bison already accustomed to the wild graze nearby. it's not yet known whether they'll accept

the trees are containing the manager's and it's been my pleasure to work with connie and she a long with dave and a few others reconstructed this going back five years and we're looking at a 20 year average dating to about 1500. what's interesting is the tree ring is 13 point 5 acre point feet and historical is 18 point 1. with this no one cares about individual years and what's more important is the run, the sequences of drought and this is where the trees na >> some of them use temperatures and some use global climate models and some both. there are lots of future greenhouse gas predictions. there was a brief period of time around the time of the national assessment in the year 2 thousand that we hoped we would see more flows in the river but if you look at the study recently out of university of washington, one has to have a pessimistic outlook on what future flows look like in the colorado river. my colleague marty produced one as well. that show as 50 percent reduction by 2030. i'm not sure i believe that but if you think the river is going to get more water, you might be living in,

connie mariano and gloria fedlt. the coverage of the fest vam of books will continue in a half hour with a discussion on astronomy, coauthors of observatories of the southwest. for a schedule of event coverage from this year's festival of books, visit booktv.org. more from tucson after this break. >> i had this enormous following and you're a kind of cult figure, and i was trying to figure out is there any recent historical figure that you think you are analyst to? people throw off the restraints of modesty. >> just to be clear though that 10,000 people come together because they are drawn to the same vision of each other and want to think about and reflect on the incredible progress made over the last 20 years against what is a true crisis in the country, education and inequity, and what we need to do to solve the problem. >> you will be treated as a kind of rock star. [laughter] >> you know what, the sad reality is, i mean, maybe we would all wish, but, you know, there's critics and my friends, and it will be fun,

. >> reporter: connie's home across the street from the slide may be safe from now but as a member of the home owners association she could face a lawsuit. the association owns the sliding hillside. >> most home owners think monthly fees that's a landscaping kind of a pay. not, you know, trying to hold back the hillside kind of a payment. >> reporter: jorgenson and other home owners will be at hercules city council this evening as the city reviews' resolution declaring an emergency that may open the doors for funding. >> i don't think that it's fair for the home owners to take on the burden of counteracting a landslide. that was never something that the sales rep talked about. >> reporter: the city hall meeting gets under way at 6:00 this evening. we understand that that emergency order -- resolution is at the top of the agenda, and we understand there will be public comment at that time. >> thank you. >>> dozens of residents are trapped in a west morgan hill neighborhood after a 200-foot mud slide came crashing down on the main road linking them to the rest of the world. the massive

>> you my name is connie and i am at the american kurdish american network. in 2003, the document was discovered in the headquarters of intelligence headquarters of saddam hussein in baghdad. 13 kurdish women were sent to egypt, to its -- the parents of these women appealed, the first lady of egypt sues on mubarak and unfortunately their appeals fell on deaf ears. do think something could be discovered about these women? >> one last question. yes, sir. please. >> thank you lisa for your sharing with us. in your capacity as the head of the american university in cairo and the current change now, specially that most of the people were young people in the revolution, do you see there is anti-american sentiment and what you see as the role of the american university in the upcoming years regarding the change in egypt? >> i'm going to start with the last one and i will give you my inaugural address. no. [laughter] i think a you see -- first of all i do not think, despite the fact that the youth group did not meet with secretary clinton and so forth and so on, i do

wiser connie and i mean that's like magnesium you know well it's a very reactive metal as long as it doesn't get heated up and but it's very durable in terms of preventing the radioactive contents of the material that that are created in a reactor from a scaping ice and so it has these kind of dual properties is that it's fairly good when you have it in a reactor as long as that doesn't overheat and then it becomes very reactive right but as bit as soon as you lose the water from the spent fuel pool or a reactor vessel or reactor of us or you're guaranteed it's going to start overheating is going to ultimately catch on fire and then i will not have this large generation of hydrogen. that once it starts to mix with washington somewhere and there is any any possibility of a spark it will go this is this why the nuclear power industry is on insurable why we have to ensure through tax payers your price anderson is it that well you know flaws of the design i think that it's been a long standing under a law a long historical understanding about nuclear power is that in order for nuclear po

but apparently so are the anonymous ranks joining me now are two people affiliated with anonymous connie a participant in op was constant an anonymous source within anonymous now scotty i'm going to start with you because you are in wisconsin and so i'm just curious what is it that made you want to participate in what they're doing. basically. we need all the help we can get here. the voices of it protesters here in madison are clearly not being heard. everyone in the political groups keeps on saying that this is about money it has nothing to do with money and it's getting to be less and less about unions and more and more about rights and democracy. the governor and the republicans especially are not listening to their constituents who they were you know voted in to represent. so do you feel that becoming a participant with anonymous. is somehow furthering this cause you go like that makes a strong statement what they're doing. i think it does i came to anonymous after hearing that they were siding at least with the rights of people everywhere. they are a force to be reckoned with they

ago the only thing heating up between venezuela and the us is the thermostat republican congressman connie mack publicly denounced kennedy he should not allow his name to be associated with this saga crap in latin america who was bent on talking about hugo chavez bent on destroying the foundation of what america stands for but matt did call for an embargo under forty billion dollars in trade the u.s. has with the chavez government congressman macas all of the sort of the right you want to call for an embargo or. venezuelan oil i i just think that it's interesting that one organization that he's chose to put in his gun sights is a little nonprofit or for big oil companies like a no go fill up exxon mobil and chevron texaco this stuff filling ten billion dollars a year worth of it is still an oil they're able to fund all of these congress people because of the profits that they're making and that they could be using some of the profits to help the poor that just wants it go to stop giving it away even as president obama announced two point five billion dollars in cuts to america's own low in

. >> connie jackson told her she took exception to that that it diminished the urgency of preventing a similar accident in the aging country's infrastructure. >> i was concerned that this type of an incident in what we know about it could be considered an anomaly. >> they hope to issue a final report on the probable cause of the rupture before the one-year anniversary this coming september. heather ishimaru, "abc 7 news." >> still ahead here tonight, the danger that bay area golf course a number of protected species. >> and will reveal a major down side to ipad computers. turns out we don't have the technology to connect them on. >> you have a 15-year warranty but what you can see >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> full of a golf course has a lawsuit that tests the interests of endangered species against those of golfers. wayne freedman has been following the situation for years. >> if you believe the recreation parks department, the park is going well. as of today, it's documented 120 clusters of red legged frog eggs. but environmentalists say that is not

connie engel is with the breast cancer fund. >> we brought them three days worth of freshly prepared foods that we had been really careful to store in glass containers and to avoid contact with packaging and food preparation items likely to contain those chemicals. >> reporter: after three days of eating a bpa free diet the families were tested again. >> what we found was a pretty dramatic drop. >> reporter: a 60% drop in the levels of bpa and 50% drop in a second chemical. dehp which is also found in some plastic food packaging. the results have changed how the family buy and prepare food. they seek out bpa free products. >> we have stopped using water bottles completely and gone to the stainless steel. >> reporter: in a statement the findings say they are no cause for concern. the substances don't stay in the body. the group says consumers should feel confident in eating canned or packaged foods. as for this family they would rather be safe than sorry. >> it is healthier and better to use glass containers or metal containers to eat your food in. >> the researchers say there are som

>> why wouldn't connie want to have lunch with me?able with me? i don't know if you know this, kate, but people kind of love me. >> you forgot your newspaper. >> thank you, ruth. you are the greatest. >> oh, you are, sweetheart. >> see what i'm saying? >> and here he is, the man everybody loves, jason biggs. jason, good morning. good to see you. >> nice to see you, too, chris. now you got me all nervous. this three-year itch. what's going on? >> if everything's okay you've got nothing to worry about. >> everything's great. but i'm like a month away from the three-year. everything's going to be great. >> in that case, ear muffs. good to see you. >> nice to see you. >> we met each other way back in '99 right before "american pie." >> about 1 years ago. >> you haven't aged a bit. >> puberty is just around the corner i think. >> the voice hasn't changed. let's talk about this sitcom. you've done movies. you've been onstage. what was it about this sitcom that was so appealing to you? >> you know, it was super funny. had a lot of heart. the

connie maury no and gloria phelps, president and ceo of km. booktv live with coverage today and tomorrow from the third annual tucson festival of books and 4 complete schedule on event coverage visit booktv.org. >> global warring, not global warming. >> an extreme title but the situation is quite extreme. a lot of the analysis around climate change stops when it is going to get warranty level will rise a little bit. what that means in terms of national security and economic issues and geopolitical issues. we are seeing a little bit in the arctic where suddenly there is conflict where there hasn't been before and new players are coming into areas that are completely unexpected. china has an icebreaker. they know what is going on in the arctic caused by climate change so they want a piece of the action. it is changing the way global politics and economics are acting out. it is disconcerting. >> why would china have an icebreaker and what is going on in the arctic to be concerned about? >> there is oil and gas in the arctic. a lot in russia. the

codling connie dry in the good commute, problem free conditions. maps >> the beginning of the enforcer was canceled because of the officers had not received enough training. >> there's still enraged going on. >> reporter: they have not determined when enforcement will begin. >> there's no rush. we hope to start soon. (music) >> james: the city district attorney is taking a stand on behalf of the elderly the d.a. is launching a citywide campaign to launch elder abuse. --to help stop elderly abuse. stanford university is no easy a, the school is dropping several class's there were regarded as the ec list. that list which includes beginning drop back, a dance has existed since 2001 more than a quarter of the courses did not fill requirements officials discontinued that list after reports. no more easy-day. we'll back with more in a moment, a quick programming change this friday. we're running nbc programming. if you like to watch to be think you are tunic here following up with an episode of monk and then the evening news will be on at 11. you can cat

actress judy greer stars as connie, a quick witted, sarcastic and sometimes mean-spirited nanny. >> what main one was that it was inevitable, she's wanted me since the moment she's laid eyes on me. >> good-bye, larry. >> yeah, but if i'd known how disappointing it would be, i might not have wanted you so much. >> really? you seemed pretty satisfied at the time. >> yeah, i'm the first woman who ever faked an orgasm. >> well i may be the first man who ever faked on orgasm. >> faked it pretty quick. >> judy greer, good morning. >> good morning. >> so obviously you're the feisty one in the group. any difference between that character and what you're like sitting here right before me right now? >> before we started shooting this show, i would have said yeah. but, i think i've taken on my character pretty well. >> yeah? >> on and off set. unfortunately for my friends. >> oh, god, she's in character again. or is this just the same old judy. what is your take on this? >> i think they're like same old judy but like a little feistier. >> yeah? >> yeah. >> how do you like this? i know you're good f

. >> my name's connie, i'm with the american coalition information network. in 2003 a document was discovered in the headquarters of -- intelligence headquarters of saddam hussein's baghdad that 13 turkish women were sent to egypt to its brothels. the parents of these women appeal today the first lady of egypt, suzanne mubarak, and unfortunately, their appeal fell to death ears. how transparent is the new egypt? do you think something could be discovered about these women? >> one last question. yes, sir, please. >> [inaudible] from the arab league. thank you, lisa, for your sharing with us. in your capacity as the head of the american university in cairo and the current change now especially that most of the people who carried the revolution was young people, do you see the anti-american sentiment in the streets? and what do you see the role of the american university in the upcoming two or three years regarding the change in egypt? >> okay. i'm going to start with that last one. i'll give you my inaugural address. no. [laughter] i think auc, well, first of a

i said talk to connie pillage. [laughter] that's pretty good, i must say, that's pretty good. [laughter] no, in all seriousness, look, i think you would agree with this, i love the idea that one of my colleagues had, he's gone, to allow kids who are really particularly bright to be able to -- or those like me, you know, kind of average and hard working, okay, to be able to accumulate college credit in high school. we also believe, and i have to tell you, i believe that the university system will ultimately be under attack from online schools because you can go to the university of phoenix and you can get a degree and compete with anybody for a fraction of the cost of what it takes at a university. i think the universities have had great difficulty because of their up ability to control their bureaucracy and their costs. i hope you'll join us because i think there's a number of things we need to do. we need to rationalize these programs. does miami have to compete with ohio state and compete with ken state? interesting story. up at the university of akron at ken state, they're

introduced almost a year ago and teamed up with michele bachmann of minnesota and others, including connie mack of florida, and parker griffith of alabama, no longer in this congress, a number of others that were part of this original effort to introduce legislation to repeal obamacare and many others have signed on as co-sponsors and 178 that signed the discharge petition to repeal obamacare. the message was very clear. and h.r. 2 was debated and passed the house of representatives in the early stages here in the 11th congress last month, excuse me, in january, where it was sent over to the united states senate. that's an important step. another important step is to do as i've said since at least the middle of last summer, every appropriations bill, introduce language in that bill that cuts off all -- off all funds that would be used to implement or enforce obamacare. that's an essential part of this. i'd gone back and read through the history of how this congress shut down the funding for the vietnam war and shut off a war that had gone on for over a decade and they did so by putting lan