wanted a base an indian ocean at all cost because of the cornwall to go garcia has a most wonderful you know log on and that would really be the ideal place for a base so we were at odds or a wrong place if you know as. wrong place at that time because that place was the best place for the most sophisticated us than you can base outside of the us and the day in one nine hundred seventy one due to an agreement between the u.k. in the us the british made the island available to the americans as a military base because of its two strategic position and to put it its two thousand inhabitants today according to the pentagon diego garcia is one of the thirteen major u.s. military bases in the world and has played a crucial role in all post nine eleven conflicts. today live scattered between more rishis in the united kingdom where for years they have been fighting a legal battle to return to their. in two thousand and eight though the house of lords overruled all the cases previously won by the which propelled their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense purposes and we

fifty five four pound turtle named snorkel was suffering from epilepsy snorkel washed ashore in cornwall england about eleven years ago and since been housed at the national marine aquarium in plymouth england but a korean officials fear snorkel had a brain tumor too so snorkel was packed up sent on a three hundred twenty mile road trip to glocester where there was an m.r.i. machine big enough to scan her once there just like any human snorkel her brain scans luckily no tumors were found and snorkel should be just fine but i think this case officially debunks the republican myth of rationing health care in the u.k. and turtles can get quality health care without waiting in line we have a few things to learn over here in the united states. coming up lone star gov rick perry got real chummy with billionaire coach brothers this weekend so what exactly does he want from america's biggest oil barons and what is rick perry trying to sell to the american people. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through. who can you trust no one who is in

between california and cornwall street, fifth avenue and fourth avenue in the richmond district. he assured the neighbors who were very agast at the idea of these old cable cars being set up that they would be very tasteful and artistic. and essentially, yeah, it was like one room with a little bathroom attached made up of old cable cars. dr. cross thought he was hitting on something. there were hundreds of thousands of people who were homeless, looking for new places to live in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire. so he thought why not use these old cable cars. it only lasted about 10, 12 years. guess it wasn't a big hit. he built a more conventional apartment building after that to replace it. it really was the 1906 earthquake and fire that sort of spelled the end of carville. you have these hundreds of thousands of people looking for new homes, suddenly displaced. now they might listen to these men and say, look, you were renting before. you don't want to live there. i've got this lot out here, sand dune. but it's $100. you can build a house here for cheap. suddenly, more

cornwall paradigm that's what that's what people hook into because everything else is so depressing it's so complex and depressing that's a double whammy right there i mean they're your songs i mean you know you want to talk about jobs you know they want to hear about well let's you mention that i think we actually have like a little cute compilation clip of just how seriously the main street networks took took a couple of the press conference and before we play i'll preface the usually you know police he has these pressers every single week normally it's not really covered by the mainstream press but congressional reporters go there take their notes etc the case leaks right before the press or and so all of the cable networks led with live coverage of this take a look at how they handle it when she changed the topic to jobs. but it's day one sixty three hundred sixty three days since the republican right at the end of basher i actually saw john king sort of green day because he sort of expected that the answer is almost the sanction is not going to have any car land on anthony weiner's

. >> pippa is kate middleton -- princess katherine of cornwall, no, that is camilla.ey are single. she had a breakup. now dating her former old boss, george percy who is the duke of northumberland. everybody has got a title that sound like a cucumber there. >> guys if you want a chance with her, good luck. >> act fast. >> act fast. eat. it feels good on my sensitive skin. i don't feel like i'm shaving. [ male announcer ] fusion proglide is engineered with gillette's thinnest blades ever it feels like it's doing the work for me. [ male announcer ] so it glides for less tug and pull. it was smooth. this was fantastic. i'm having way too much fun with this razor. [ male announcer ] turn shaving into gliding with fusion proglide. i'm a believer. he is a believer! yeah! [ male announcer ] gillette fusion proglide. >>> and here are some stories to watch today on abc news. president obama travels to durham, north carolina where he'll discuss jobs and manufacturing at an energy efficient l.e.d. lighting factory. contenders for the republican presidential nomination take part

we think that the war ended in 1781 when cornwallis surrendered to washington at yorktown. in fact, it didn't end for two more years in november of 1783. this is the story of those tumultuous and dangerous two years. the united states could have so easily have fallen apart in those years. it had no money, the states were not allied, they wouldn't give any money to pay for the armies, so the army was on the verge of mutiny. the treaty with paris had not been signed yet, so the country was in complete chaos. and in many ways washington held it together during those two years, and that's what this book is about. >> those are some of the books coming out in fall 2011 from bloomsbury. if you would, give us a snapshot of bloomsbury press. >> well, it's more than just bloomsbury press. bloomsbury usa on the adult side has the press imprint and walker and company, the main imprint does a lot of fiction, food, natural history, um, and some sports-related titles. bloomsbury press does the history and science and current affairs and economic, and the walker list does some history and

we think the war ended when in cornwallis surrendered to george washington in yorktown. it is two more years and so he let the forces out of new york in november of 1783. this is the story of the tumultuous two years the united states could have easily fall apart in those years and had no money and states were not allied. they would not give money to pay the army so the army was done bait and on the verge of mutiny. the treaty with harris had not been signed yet so the country was in complete chaos. in many ways washington held it together in those two years. .. >> and the walker list does some history and science as well, some self-improvement books and a lot of language books. >> are you selling more e books than you are hardback books at this point? >> not more, but we're selling a great many e-books. sales have grown dramatically in the last six months as they have for every publisher. since christmas they've, of course, exploded. so we're selling many more of them than we were at this tim

bateman to the castle, the home of the cornwall west family and that was winston churchill's stepfather'swhere they were renting. mrs. bateman inherited everything that he had. he left some money to sisters and small accounts and an allowance to his wife, but mrs. bateman received almost almost everything. this was very traumatic in a series of lawsuits followed which were rather scandalous to say the

the army at the surrender of cornwallis at yorktown was larger than walks's army. >> that right?ook, i had to pick it up and buy it, but this is a little off your beaten path as far as what you write b. >> is part of what i've loved most of my life, since i was 10 or 12 years old, and music, article, theater and i also feel that history is much more than just soldiers and politicians. it may be hard to believe. >> yes, i know. >> but as you know, some ancient civilizations we only know because of their art, their architecture. >> right. >> and to me, mark twain, george gershwin, will are all as impors anybody else and that should be included and i wanted to do something to bring them into the tent. >> i like t finally, i should mention the first american woman to become a doctor, elizabeth blackwell. >> one of the most remarkable americans ever who was determined she would become a physician and she went to paris to study and contracted an eye disease which prevented her from becoming a surgeon so she came back here to new york and founded the first women's hospital in america. >