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crystal, he is coming after you.et and so he has now started -- he calls i rush babes for america. >> well, one clarification. i was one of the original founders and had part of the idea for stop rush.net. but stop rush has been a tremendous success because of hundreds of volunteers nationwide who have been logging reports and tracking sponsors. so, he was coming after a nationwide movement against him that has been very, very damaging to his business and to the business of clear channel radio. >> yeah. we have the ceo of the company saying they have lost millions of dollars because of what you and what the national reaction has been to his attacks. >> right. they came out to say they had lost millions. they only carry rush on 38 channels. so you can imagine if you multiply that by a factor of several factors what clear channel is losing. now, rush will have you believe that all of these efforts have had no effect, that things are just like they always have been, his ratings are up etc., etc. but his actions tell us

i am crystal, the program coordinator for lavos latina. behind me is the leadership group, a group of mothers who serve as leaders for the community. we have been around since 205 an05 and serve a unique need, te latino population and children as well. this is the highest concentration of children and the families are very intentional to make certain their children develop. the families have been important in the placement of new crosswalks and removing a bus shelter that was part of the new community. there is a priority for levels families. this project will stand 11 blocks in the tenderloin. and there will be children walking in and around the neighborhood. they have shown the levels. one of the moms had something they wanted to say. >> buenos noches. [speaking spanish] >> i have been a parent leader for four years, and we want to ask you to support us and all the families here are mothers, and youth are at the forefront of our work. and we hope to get funds from the city for that. this is something that is missing for the neighborhood.

crystal balls? and i said, send them to the white house. and he says, lady, i'll send them, but you got to tell the president they don't really work. but they were -- the country fairs were a great success. >> laurie, any crystal balls in the first bush white house? >> no, i'm sorry, we didn't get any crystal balls. we would have liked one, but -- >> were there favorite entertainers? >> favorite? >> favorite entertainers? >> well, when you were talking about bob hope, it reminded me he came a couple of times to our state dinners. you know, he would walk in and just act like he owned the place and he'd say, i've been here so many times, you weren't even born when i was here. so he was fun. and we did -- we had elizabeth taylor once, which was very exciting, and she, of course, was very glamorous, and we had don johnson and melanie griffith one year, and that was quite interesting. she wrote the cutest note to the president and barbara afterwards saying, my mother never told me what i should wear to t

all right, crystal egger, thanks. we'll get back to you for the national forecast in just a moment. >>> but first, we're going to get a check of this morning's top stories from tom llamas at the news desk. tom, good morning. >> good morning, jenna, and good morning, everyone. >>> there is world outrage over one of the deadliest attacks in syria's 14-month uprising. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel has our report. and we want to warn you, some of the images you're about to see are disturbing. >> reporter: the scale of the atrocity is only hinted at by this long trench, a mass grave after a massacre that included dozens of children in the syrian town of hula. u.n. blue helmet observers went to hula. they were shown a room full of bodies lined up in rows. the u.n. counted 32 dead children and 60 adults but stopped short of specifically blaming the syrian government. >> the violence is unacceptable and it's unforgivable. the death of 32 young children, the future of syria. >> reporter: this video appears to

. >> host: what is your crystal ball? >> that is our website. the center is about seven bridges a patient and one way we pull people into politics is two dangle predictions, the senate race, the house race and other trends in politics. is a newsletter that is free. every thursday morning 6:00 a.m., we remind people. >> the web site? >> this center or politics.org just click on the crystal ball. get your fix every thursday part of the university of virginia? >> absolutely. is copyrighted i am a product of the university of virginia they have my heart and probably my sold. >> host: the accuracy rate is quite high. 2008 to meet projected the electoral college we were one-vote off we missed the district in nebraska that went for obama. i kick myself many times over that. 98.6% of the senate to house and governor's races and a similar percentage 2010. >> host: what factors do you look at? >> polling returns and the financial data to know what they are spending and steady the demographics people just found this out to going to gloat or evangelical pop

crystal, help me understand the cardinal's position here.llow a noncatholic nurse at a catholic hospital to have access to birth control and if that were to happen, the church then walks away from all of its charitable works to the poor. >> right. >> how does that work? >> so it sounds like basically he would rather make sure they can deny women access to birth control than continue their work with the poor, which is just an unbelievable position, and keep in mind, the president initially -- you know, the rule came out from hhs, from the department of health and human services, and there was a bit of a backlash. even in that initial firestorm 60% of the country backed the president and said wick should have access -- >> nevertheless the president created a promise. -- a compromise. >> here is the compromise, you don't str to pay for birth control. you just have to offer it. you're not being forced to take birth control. you're not being forced to pay for birth control. you're just offering the option to women. what could be wrong with that?

. >> what is your crystal ball?> well, the crystal ball is what we'll tell our website at the center for politics. and our center is all about civic education and participation. one way that we pull people into politics is by dangling predictions, the senate, house, gubernatorial races. and other trends and politics. this is a newsletter that we sent out. it's free. good to our website in sap. >> the website is center for politics stop or. center for politics stop order. click on the crystal ball. >> part of the university of virginia? >> if everything we do. copyrighted by the university of virginia. a product of the receiver j. they have my heart and probably my soul. >> what is your to the accuracy? >> is quite high. in 2008, for example, where we predicted the electoral college or $1 off. really missed one. the district of nebraska. nebraska went for obama. i kicked myself many times over that. i just did not believe it. we got 98 percent of the said house a very similar percentage in 2010. >> with benefactors d

crystal lynn is the one that's been the longest. it's made from crystals. it is firm, hard like crystal. they're over 85% or 90% of the market now. they have the highest efficiencies. in other words, they'll capture more of the sunlight per square foot than the other technology. this can be significant especially in a city like san francisco when maybe you don't have a lot of roof space, but you want to get as much power as you can. this is probably the choice preferred for most homeowners. the second technology which is coming on strong is called thin film. that's really a whole different technology using a lot less material. it's like sprayed or painted on, a different way of producing electricity. this stuff has a lot of potential because it can be used in a lot of different ways. this is a thin film panel here, right here and one of the innovative ways you can use this thing is on thought metal seamed roofs. they have an add he'sive backing on and they can stick down on the roof without penetrating the roof. it's a very effective and cheap and safe inst

i went to the pay phone and call billy crystal. he had been talking to lorne about the possibility of being on this new show. i said, do you have any hints you can give me so i can have a leg up in this meeting? he said, well, he used to write for woody allen. he used to produce monty python specials. oh, and he hates mimes. lorne hates mimes. the bulls up a chair and give him this poem with 1100 jokes in it. he opens it. he reads the first joke. egos, u -- he goes, uh-huh, good. then he closes the book. i wrote 1100 jobs over two days, and he reads one joke. i wrote a jokes and the post office was about to issue a stamp commemorating prostitution in the united states. 10 cents, but if you want to lick it, it is a quarter. [laughter] he said, good. good. he said, tell me, how much money do you need to live on? i said, well, i am making $2.75 an hour at the deli. match it. [laughter] he said, well, tell me a little bit more about yourself. acted it to mean before he committed this kind of cash, he wanted to see what he was buying. i

yeah, that's weird. >> i can't remember saying it but apparently i did. >>> crystal is back and you've got the national forecast. >> that's right. boy, we have a triple threat as we head into the weekend. let's get right to it. we're talking about beryl, the threat of severe weather and dangerous heat. this is our risk area today for damaging winds, large hail and even isolated tornados. north texas all the way up into the western lakes. that could certainly impact your plans if you're going to be doing any dprigrilling outdoors. that heat wave across the south into the ohio valley. did i mention we even have snow falling across the northern rockies. that's a look >>> and here's a great start to the day for the 75th anniversary of the golden gate bridge. as we look at that forecast, we'll see some clearing skies just after lunchtime, but cool and breezy temperatures around the golden gate. highs close to 60 in san francisco indid not upper 60s to low 70s with morning drizzle. your seven-day forecast shows memorial day a bit warm e. then the summer-like heat comes back and then cool aga

and this from crystal.ing to meet the needs of your child and to love your child but never leave your child alone is doing more harm than good because it doesn't let the child learn independence. keep the conversation going. i'll read more of your comments in the next hour. we're following a lot of developments in the next hour of the "cnn newsroom." first with martin savidge. >> reporter: i'm in mississippi, carol, where a murder and kidnapping drama came to an end last night just down this dirt road. we'll tell you how the rescue happened coming up. >>> i'm barbara starr at the pentagon. a soldier coming up on three years in captivity. his parents want him home. we'll have details at the top of the hour. >>> and i'm alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. do you own an ipad? well, ipod actually. there's a good chance you may be suing apple because you own one. i'm going to explain why in the next hour. >> all righty. >>> also a study out says 42% of americans will be obese by 2030. an upcoming hbo do

that would be a different thing. >> crystal your thought?have been hearing a lot about it and the possibility of politicizing to this or sexualizing the president. what are your thoughts? >> you know, it's obama. we get to see a different side of obama, a softer side, a sexual side. he's a man. he had a life. he dated. you started to say she was black but she was actually white and people will read it with curiosity. it validates him as a man who is interested in dating nice ladies. i think what people are more interested in, in the book is his years and thought process at colombia and harvard. i'm like more power to you, brother. cook said -- >> the black thing is my slip of the tongue. i don't think it matters. >> it matters because she cooked. the woman said even though she dated him and fell in love with him she said i see him marrying a strong black woman and michelle obama is a testament to that. this is one area agree with goldie. >> we have to go. okay. thank you. both. thank you. goldie, goldie and i disagree but we are still friend

commission merchant, but that doesn't -- >> no-man's-land, there's nothing, things that have not crystallized in the regulatory fashion yet? over such a big bank? >> well, the bank is overseen by bank regulators. under dodd-frank, the market regulators, we will stand up and oversee swap dealing activity in a bank or in an affiliate of the bank or security based, but you're right.

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crystal clear, and a chill in the air after a beautiful thursday. great may weather with partly cloudy skies, 49 now, we have humidity relative humidity at 71% but the dew points dropping, it's getting dryer and breezier, not as windy as it was earlier today when the camera was shaking on top of the science center. mighty fine sunset over charm city and dundock clear night. look at some of the lights of the marine terminal and how about annapolis at the naval academy? a chop into the chesapeake but a nice clear finish to the day. we will be bright and sunny. remember the sunglasses for your early morning drive. it'll be a bright bright day especially if you drive east. are you looking at very bright conditions. take a look at radar picture. its clear. temperature wise, some spots well down in to the 40s already. 47 oakland. the 30s tonight. a freeze concern for garret over night. most of central maryland, already getting down in to the 40s and wake up in the low to mid40s tomorrow. which a crisp and breezy start, winds set to pick up tomorrow. breez

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methamphetamine, half as potent as the old crystal meth that was on the street five years ago. and that's good news for people who care about rates of addiction because the people who experience weaker meth are likely to use far less of it, and potentially not become addicted. >> narrator: but just as they always have before, the meth cooks have found a new way to get pseudoepherine. today, former cook robert lucier is clean after spending time in jail. but not long ago, he was running a gang of super smurfers. >> other people go inside and purchase these items for you in small quantities, and you just take them around to all these different stores and you just buy one or two boxes, you know. and you have four, five people, and you just go from town to town, loading up the trunk with boxes of pills. >> narrator: meth cooks like lucier then use the shake and bake method to turn the pseudoephedrine acquired from super-smurfing into extraordinarily pure meth. >> i didn't get my good from doing the drug itself. i got my good from making the best monster i could build. it wouldn't b

staying with football russian champion with a neat medical crystal has been dropped from the it's a good squad for next month's european championships the st petersburg left back was questioned by the police in a widening match fixing prole which has seen a lad captain stefan arrested along with eighteen others thirty two year old midfielder maori has been held along with former general midfielder omar milan and that's a while given to skull which until now call to who has just left the club so the sciri it's all in his first season in charge is also being questioned police are searching more than thirty homes off players coaches and club administrators from across the divisions and also visited italy's training camp as our friends eddie was set to announce his squad this monday but it's up official has now said that fifteen capped crystal will not make the final twenty three man squad. but if i explain to them you can shoot them i'm not talking to him because he would have experienced through the media pressure to move human can do would he's not at peace i don't because we saw him and

crystal wright, you were watching this morning. did you think the vice president minced words, and i ask you that because here's what -- here's what david axelrod tweeted out afterwards. he said "what vp said -- he tweeted this a little bit earlier right after he said what "what vp said that all married couples should have exactly the same legal rights is precisely potus' position." i don't really quite understand that, but can you make sense of that? >> you know what -- don, i think it's a hot mess all the way around, and, you know, i think obama is loving the fact that goldie is trying to now legitimize the vice president of the united states' remarks as personal remarks. she's trying to, you know, parse this on a legal analysis that he has a right to his own opinion and then in the next breath goldie admits, along with you, that most american people can't distinguish between vice president biden appearing on a television program as the vice president of the united states and his personal opinion. he does not have a right when he

did you see those crystals form at the top? [makes noise] do you see now why ice forms at the top of a body of water? ain't that neat? so now you start to get some ice and the ice floats on top of the other water. do you see why you have to have-- although that only happens with the shallow. you go up to lake tahoe and you take a saucer full of water, put it outside your motel room, come in and play checkers, half a game and go back there, boom, that water is solid ice. and you look out at the lake and it stays water all the time. now you'd be saying, "why?" the reason for those sort of things. how come then, like, glacier waters rapids, like some are-- is only about, like, four or five feet deep. say again, say again? how come some glacier waters like rapids is only about four or five deep. i know they're moving, but how come they don't freeze 'cause they're like ice, that's ice cold. how come moving water doesn't freeze? yeah, how come moving water doesn't freeze? well, sometimes moving water does freeze. you just usually see

maryland's most powerful radar crystal clear and dry.hrough at left late through sunday, late through your mother's day. we think by sunday into monday maybe the chance of rain coming back. enjoy a bright sunny weekend. look at the temperatures, upper 60s, set to fall sharply. wind frpts northwest around -- winds from the northwest aren't 20 to 25. hair bone dry. dry hair cools off quickly, plus the north wind. it will be crisp by daybreak. very, very good looking weather. just a few rain producing clouds, mainly north of maryland and pennsylvania but a lot of the rain is not touching the ground, verga. a big high pressure cell settling in just in time for the weekend. this is perfect. the big dome of sinking air and it prevents not just any chance of rain but prevents much cloud cover, so a good chance to catch a few rays, get those vitamin d levels up. looking good as we go into the day on slt day, more clear weather on tap. more sunshine. it looks great. for sunday partly cloudy but generally dry. overnight down to 46, clear and colde

hey, crystal! >> hey, guys. plaza, we have tons of birthdays this morning, including mandy, turning 35, celebrating in the big apple. have a fabulous time. the clouds are going to break up eventually as we head into the afternoon. expecting a cooler than average day here, but not across the majority of the country. record heat possible across the southern plains up through the mississippi valley. those temperatures 10 to 15 above normal, and then we're also looking at an area of severe weather once again through te good morning. >> good morning. clouds will stick around for much of the day. keeping our temperatures in >> and back over to you, jenna. >> crystal, thanks. >>> authorities in los angeles are searching for a fox movie executive who vanished nearly five days ago without a trace. now his family is making a public plea for help. here's nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: the mystery began wednesday morning when movie executive gavin smith didn't show up for work. >> it's so out of character for gavin to j

. >> joining me now is democratic strategist crystal ball and jonathan capehart. i think you both and other close observers of this show have figured out by now that i like and respect george will, although i disagree with him on most things. there are actually times, there are some times when i really, really love george will, just love him, like this sunday when he said this. >> i do not understand the cost benefit here. the costs are clear, the benefits -- what voter is going to vote for him because he's seen with donald trump? the cost of appearing this with bloviating ignoramus is -- >> the republicans and mitt romney have made the cold calculation that they may win with 50.1% of the vote, but they want 100% of the racist vote in america. they don't want a single racist to stay home. so they got the pied piper of american racism and that is now donald trump to do his tune about hatred of the president and the birth certificate and crystal, i think george will is too noble a republican to ever have had down and strategized how to get the racist vote. >> i thin