because of the actions of the iranian regime, an electronic curtain has fallen around iran. a barrier that stops the free flow of information and ideas into the country and denies the rest of the world the benefit of interacting with the iranian people who have so much to offer. i want the iranian people to know that america seeks a dialogue, to hear your views and understand your aspirations. >> the president's address to the iranian people on this commemorating the persian new year. they hadline that came out of today's address, claiming that the iranian government is creating an electric -- electronic curtain similar to the speech back in 1947 by winston churchill on the iron curtain between east and west europe. this an electronic curtain that is limiting access iranians have to social media websites including google and facebook. ♪ >> i risch tenor david o leery with "danny boy." that iconic irish song as the president today donning a green tie and greeting the irish prime minister. the day began for the irish prime minister, the tea shock with vice president joe biden.

oh, the terrible velvet curtains. the madisons decorate the white house. this image shown right here on the very front is actually the earliest known published image of the white house from a travel book. at this time when the madisons came into the white house, only part of the white house was finished. before the british came marched into washington and ended up burning the city to the ground. next slide. its original architect irishman james hobin won the competition set forth by washington and jefferson in 1792 to build what washington envisioned for the president's house, i would design a building that should look forward and execute no more of it at present than might suit the circumstances that shall be first wanted. a plan comprehends more than executed in a future period when the wealth, population, importance of it shall stand upon a higher ground than they do present. washington really understood that the white house may evolve just as the united states may evolve. the city's commissioners went to france lo

and there was a stage with a curtain across it like that, and behind that curtain was a map of england and the western part of europe. and we would have a mission briefer who would stand up and brief the mission. and the magic moment would come when he would take and draw aside that curtain, and on the map would be shown a red string which went across and showed the route in to the target, and then a great big "x" where the target was in germany, and then there was a lighter color ribbon which came back and showed the return ar area. and believe me, when he pulled aside that curtain and it showed a target deep in germany, you'd hear people moaning and groaning and saying going to have to -- not only fly the mission but we would have to fly deep into germany which meant there were a lot of extra hazards and your chances of being shot down were increased quite a bit if you had to go into a deep target. so that was -- that was always a heart-rendering moment. and then, of course, after you had the briefing, then you had the business of going out and then having the pre--flight of the airp

but you do have to take the curtain down. >> the curtain ain't coming down. >> it's got to come down, mr. harrison. if you can't take it down, i can get someone to help you take it down. >> get somebody to help me then. >> i'll be back. >> my style, if i have an offender that doesn't want to follow my orders, then i'll give them a warning. because i understand, you know, these guys are locked in most of the day. they don't have a chance to, you know, communicate with their friends or their family, whatever it is. so i'll give them a little bit of slack. >> i'm trying. that guy -- me up, man. i got destruction of property. i don't [ bleep ] know. she probably wants me to destruct her ass. >> he's going to take his curtain down. harrison. >> you want somebody to [ bleep ]. >> i ain't doing that, sarge. man, i want my privacy. >> come here. now, if i see that curtain -- >> it's going back up as soon as -- >> i will come in here, shake you down, and take you up and have you strip-searched and write you up myself. >> get the cable fixed. >> i'm trying to get your cable fixed. but i do not

with just a week to go before the curtain raising australian grand prix formula one's own new russian at the trough says he feels at home with his new team caterham and he's also promised he intends to outshine teammates heikki kovalainen in his third season in the sport come under the pre-season tests have shown that the team have made a huge step forward in comparison with the previous two years with the car is also much improved with a new engine and the red bull gearbox as for me i will do my best to help capture

actually facility helps with silicate that iron curtain we don't allow certain technology to get into the iranian people and so we're inadvertently playing a hand at that so what he did today was actually to say we're going to lift some of those things it's not all of them and there's a lot more work than these be done we're going to start with some of those so that we're not a part of the problem and how about you know speaking of sanctions as well then the state department said that they decided to exclude it number i think it was ten european nations from sanctions because they want to applaud them if they if they're doing a good job of trying to wean themselves off of iranian oil i mean is that the way to beef things work up because thanks and the thanks and well that's the thing the president didn't want these these new sanctions central bank sanctions you can't do any business with iran but it want that they got a graver where basically of countries are cooperating they don't get sanction it's interesting to note though that there are only china is not on that list india is not

they are in effect an iron curtain. if this is how it symbolically strikes people could the cylindrical columns also be seen as missile silos. the number of holocaust survivors say it's reminiscent of internment. one survivor told me that the chain link quote/unquote fences reminded her of the camps. the proposed metal curtains tor provide a screen that would obscure the johnson department of education. we have been concerned and others would agree this could be seen as a symbolic affront to one of eisenhower's contemporaries, the majority leader of the senate during his presidency. we do not thing design team thought of these things in advance. frankly, nor did we for a while. but the public criticism does underscore the importance of context with respect to eisenhower's life and times. in addition, we're concerned the metal scrims will pose ongoing maintenance issues especially in the budget constrained times. any high wind would ensure leaves and trash could be caught in the gaps. the same can be said of interactive

through another client of ours we found out a good resource for him for sound curtains, which he will be buying from a company in san diego. he has become an active participant in the community and helped to cater mayor ed lee's inauguration. and he's always ready to help whenever we ask for help. he's been in business approximately three months. his prior experience -- his family is in the import business and they have imported rice from thigh land for a long time -- thailand for a long time. he also has worked as a deejay himself and has worked with karaoke for events in the thai community. i think those are all my short-term comments. unless we have to go into more detail, i think i have covered we have reached out to the community. there was originally a very strong letter of opposition from crown tower of hartman's, which is a half a block away, in the next block, in the 600 block. but after the president of that residential group -- there are 55 units in there -- went to meet with shawn and talked to us and heard what was really afoot, he did send a letter, which we got a copy o

these metal mesh curtains are actually 80 feet high. this is the size of an eight-story office building. everyone visiting the memorial will be dwarfed by these ed if iss. i don't think he would understand it. he was well known not to have much time for modern art. as a matter of fact, my sister ann and i could tell you a funny story riding along the gettysburg country side with grandad saying he hated billboard. this would not be in keeping with any style he would really understand. >> do you or the family think there are elements of the sdpin that are, for lack of a better word, salvageable? >> we welcome the opportunity to talk to mr. gearry again. we had a very cordial meeting in december. the time frames for everybody's schedule were so con trained it was extremely difficult to see him before this hearing. but certainly any redesign does not preclude talking to mr. gearry about being the person to do that. but i think this is -- you know, this is to be determined, i think, in the coming weeks. >> let me ask one last question. if th

the curtain. she was always involved in the with the girls to read his milking a cow with a federal scouts but she also set up a national board of directors. her family was involved, her mother on the first board of directors. she got her first large donation from her brother-in-law, she pressed one brother into being an attorney for the organization and another an accountant. she created and oversaw the washington headquarters and moved to washington, d.c. in 1913 when she had only a couple hundred girls, that optimism she decided she had to have a national headquarters with only a couple hundred girls, i love that. she's all the publicity as well be that she was the one who made the first initiative to the united states first lady. she copied the boy scouts, the head in national lottery president and she loved that idea so she campaigned tirelessly for more girls, leaders, training, camps, shoes modernize of her organization. she oversaw every part of it had cared about every detail she was invo

that curtain. juliette gordon low was always involved with the girls. here she is with one of the cows. but she also set up a national board of directors. her family was involved. her mother was on the first board of directors. she got her first donation from her brother-in-law. she pressed one brother into being an attorney for the organization and went to being an accountant for the organization. she created -- moved to washington d.c. in 1913 when she only had a couple hundred girls. she decided she had to have a national headquarters. with only a couple hundred girls. i love that. here we saw the publicity as well. she was the one who made the first initiative to the united states first lady's. this is mrs. hoover of course but she copied the boy boy scouts. the boy scouts had a natural honorary president and juliette love that idea. she campaigned tirelessly for more girls, more troops, more training, more camps. she was monomaniacal about her organization. she oversaw every part of it. she ca

room was first pulled together and they are -- the thing that i think is extraordinary about these curtains is the stonework along the edges. not real diamonds but look like diamonds. this is velvet on velvet, burned into place. beautiful. very big effort on the part of the preservation society to under take this project and i'm telling you this, because we are an organization that is designed to create an atmosphere that gives you the visitor a chance to understand what life was like in the 1890s in guilded age america but our job also includes restoring our building and the collections within the building. we are trying to bring back the newport houses to their former glory. so the visitors get a sense of what this era of american history and it's changes what it was all about. we are in the gothic room of marble house and there are lots of interesting stories about this particular room. the first is that vanderbilt's daughter was consuelo and she went onto be married to the duke of marlboro. it is said that he proposed to her in this room. it was a bride that she brought to the table so

and to replace these curtains. and the interesting story about this fabric is that it was made in france on the same loom, with the same design that initially was used to create the first textiles. so it's an extraordinary stroke of luck that we were able to use exactly the same weaving techniques to create what had been here in the 1890s, when the room was first pulled together by alva vanderbilt. and the thing that i think is extraordinary about these curtains is the stonework along the edges. the -- not real diamonds, but look like diamonds. this is velvet on velvet, burned into place. beautiful, beautiful. very big effort on the part of the preservation society to undertake this restoration project. and i'm telling you this, because we are an organization that is designed to create an atmosphere that gives you, the visitor, a chance to understand what life was like in the 1890s, in gilded age america. but our job also includes that of restoring our buildings, taking care of them, preserving them, and then resto

our main concern is that they're not the floor to ceiling curtains drawn, applied to the windows so it is obscured. commissioner sugaya: i think the commission, as long as i have sat on it, have dealt with -- the issues that keep coming up some fairly regular. we always have the same kind of answer. i think if we wanted to somehow ask the board -- i do not know if they are ready to take up the subject again. looking at the whole issue of where mcd's should be located, the distances between dispensaries, the distances to certain particular uses, expanding the kinds of uses or diminishing numbers or types -- that whole issue seems to be something that we might want to ask someone on the board, maybe through president chiu, to take up as an issue. i think it would extend also to things like the kinds of security that should be required, whether or not any kind of vaporization, smoking, or consumption would be allowed on site, following commissioner antonini's analogy with a pharmacy -- i guess you could take a pill on the way out. there are a host of issues like that which could be taken

. >> beautiful curtains. >> yes. these are some gauzy curtains.n from kmart. $22. hang it floor to ceiling. you want it to drape and look really romantic and kind of puddle at the floor. >> mm-hmm. >> add this to any existing lighting or window treatments you have, give another layer and it's kind of fun. >> lastly. >> this is if you splurge. you can never have enough accent pillows. these are easy to switch out. this is a chaise longue from overstock. a little more pricey at $380. but this is nice to just lounge on it. kind of a sex appeal. and also this really nice kind of rag rug gives it another layer of texture from urban outfitters. >> thank you very much. >> up next, is this a dream come true? >> could be. guilt-free. we know a place where tossing and turning have given way to sleeping. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activit

of reminiscent of internment. >> if you remove the curtains which i understand mr. geary is not willing to, do you don't have a whole lot heft. you have a little boy -- left. you have a little boy sitting on a ledge looking at two bas reliefs. simply the narrative is not correct. >> reporter: the head of the memorial commission depended the profile. >> a young eisenhower will be looking out what the he is to become, a great general and a -- of what he is to become, a great general and a great president. >> reporter: the cost is $32 million with the completed project expected to cost 100 million, enough to prompt ike if he were here to warn us about the memorial industrial complex. james rosen, fox news. >>> d.c.'s new red top meter program suspended for 90 days thanks to emergency legislation passed by the d.c. council today. the old rules said if you had a disability placard you could park for free in handicapped spots. the new program requires disabled drivers to pay the rate at red top meters, but they can park twice as long as the stated time. many drivers did n

. >>> the the final curtain call for cinequest festival.ovie lovers have been going to watch the most popular films of the festival. organizers say it has been a big hit this year and attendance has been extraordinary and based on the lines today it is still going strong. people are enjoying the gourmet food trucks also that have been parked outside of the theater for encore day today. >> you come out and connect with 100,000 people for 50 countries. it is a great way for us to enjoy each other and meet more people and have a fabulous celebration. >> this year's festival featured more than 250 screenings and 26 parties. and right now we are going to check in with rob because the party is about to get rainy around here, isn't it? >> the curtain call on the 70 degree temperatures ended on friday. this weekend has been cooler as we saw from the day's highs. sunshine and upper 50s and low 60s for highs. 61 san jose and 50s around san francisco. 61 oakland. right now a cool evening but not too bad. 52 san francisco. 55 oakland. 56 san jose. good

these curtains are 80 feet high. i don't think he would understand it and i don't think that it would appeal to them. it was unknown. as a matter of fact, my sister could tell you a funny story about riding along the gettiesburg countryside with him on different occasions with grandad saying he hated billboards. this would not be in keeping in any style he would understand. >> do you think there are elements of the design that are salvageable? this is to d determined in the coming weeks. >> let me ask one last question. if the family has a position on funding this memorial, the commission's testimony that private funding would be detracted from funding of other organizations. >> yes, in my lengthy submission to the committee, i went do that a bit. we had a much better interactive process between the commission staff and the eisenhower legacy organizations. this has crumbled in recent years. >> are there other questions from the committee? if not we thank you. your written testimony will be in totality in the record.

these metal mesh curtains are 80-feet high. this is the size of an eighstor. i don't think he would answer it. i don't think it would appeal to him because he was well known not to have much time for modern art. and smft, my sister ann and i could tell you a funny storang e with him. both on different occasions. with grand dad saying he hated billboards. this couot any style he would r understand. we had a meeting in december. the time frames for everybody's schedule were so trained it have difficult to see him before the hearing.t any redesign does not conclude talking to him about being the person to do that. but i think this is to be determined in the coming weeks. >> let me ask one last question. the commission's testimony infers would detract from other funding organizations. do uf a position on that? >> yes. in my lengthy position to this committee i went into the issue a bit. we had much a process between the staff and the organization staff. this has crumbled. this indicates there is a lot of work to be done going forward. and this is going to require

this would be a curtain and the oil makes it easier to play. (music) (speaking japanese)

a curtain to insulate all the like glass win does right in the front, and in that case it should be blocking about the concern about the homeless watching the entertainment as well. but i re-ordered one that is fireproof, so i have to wait a couple of more weeks to get that kind of thing. the first one i ordered is not fireproof. so i re-ordered it like yesterday. as far as the concern, i think we really are doing a sit-down passing the microphone to the tables with a couple of tv's. so they might have misunderstood the points of doing the entertaining, like lighting kind of things. if they're concerned about how loud it's going to be, it's going to be as loud as my music running in the restaurants right now, like every single day. so when people sing, they don't really want to go super, super loud. in a small room like nine foot high, if you go that loud, it's going to go feedback through the microphone anyway. so you can't go crazy loud. so it's not super, super entertainment, like dancing kind of things going on. so i guess maybe if they understand more about the point that we're trying t

>> welcome inside nationwide arena where the georgetown hoyas are practicing right now behind the curtain. that's the way they like it. if you think they are satisfied by winning their first ncaa tournament game in four year, well, think again. >> the journell hoyas played a very solid game on friday, shooting 611% from the field and holding belmont to just 49%. the defense was stifling but the groups are no longer a concern. and the win, while nice, is just part of the goal. >> one game at a time. it felt very good to get that first one down. >> i don't know who we play after this, if we are fortunate enough to win this game but it does not really matter. we have to win this game first to go no the next game. >> next time up, nc state, a game with 20 wins. a lot of respect

financial go to nice cars or disco stacy had a bit of more of the cd secrets behind the curtains of global finance a kaiser report just ahead for you. most times or this is the cause report young goldman sachs or stone stacey banks when you were a banker on wall street did you ever written anybody's eyeballs out yeah that's a common vernacular for just stronger customer rip their eyes a tear off their head down their necks you know typical things like this the idea is to destroy the customers ok well we're talking about goldman sachs why i'm leaving goldman sachs this is the viral video of this week the coney twenty twelve of this week greg smith goldman sachs executive director and head of the firm's united states equity derivatives business in europe the middle east and africa who spent twelve years at the firm is now wrote a letter he resigned what a letter to the new york times explaining why he's resigning and said that the company is toxic and destructive and he said what are the three quick ways to become a leader of goldman sachs a execute on the firm's axes which is goldman speak

authorities say an electrical problem ignited a curtain in the auditorium. if he had not put out the fire, things could have been worse. >> it could have caught other things on fire. we have a bunch of fabric seats. it could have been bad. >> he just relied on his instincts. >> this is where the story gets crazy. he helped put out the fire just before he was already scheduled to receive another award for another heroic act. it was for saving a man's life in september by performing cpr. the man had collapsed his heart stopped. get this, he had never taken cpr. >> my dad had given me some impromptu baby steps on how to do it. >> helping with the fire and the cpr seem to kind of be part of a pattern. he says last week he helped another person who had been in a car accident. >> quite a good samaritan. still ahead breaking box office records, a nationwide phenomenon. turn left. the passat is one of nine volkswagen models named a 2012 iihs top safety pick. not that we'd ever brag about it. turn right. come on, nine. turn left. hit the brakes. huh? how'd that get t

bernanke holds a lot of power, that historic figure behind the curtain in "the wizard of oz" and when doesn't say things and most people can't understand either side of that equation, he can move markets but the ltro, europe and the uk probably were a little more blunt about certain issues, and i think that he was just kind of included in that ven diagram. back to you. >> rick, on a different subject, if you were a credit default swap buyer and you were going to get, you saw something go to 40or 50 cents on the dollar, would you be miffed or buy another one? does that seem fair? >> reporter: let me sell you something. if you ever have a chance to read the rules and how they delegate it to certain committees and people that represent certain groups on who ultimately decides what's a credit event and what isn't, i'd personally, i don't believe in regulation. let people buy whatever they want to buy. if you're asking me would i buy something, would i get a haircut like that and somebody from up above behind another curtain says default, no default? not on your life! >> do you think that

. >>> and i got to take a peek behind the curtain of the musical drama "smash." i caught up with the stars to find out why it's hitting a musical note with everyone. >> it's a fun show and the plot is thickening. >>> let's talk first about the tense moments on the tarmac. passengers on an merge airlines flight were just settling in when the flight attendant began a disturbing rant on the p.a. system. nbc's michelle franzen has the story. >> reporter: the trouble began on american airlines flight 2332 as it was leaving the gate for chicago. >> i thought it was a reality show because it didn't seem real. >> reporter: passengers say that's when the flight attendant went on a rant over the p.a. system, demanding the pilot open the cockpit and turn around because the plane was going to crash. >> and then a lot of other incoherent statements trying to get in communication with the cockpit. almost like she thought she was on the phone with them only. >> reporter: passenger video captured the moment when crew members struggled to subdue the woman described as a veteran a

drug curtain. by folding sheets of paper the teenagers learn how to make no pads victor is among them sisters below everyone. below zero to follow of course he dreams of a glittering career in the fears that but he understands that the profession of a brochure maker could come in handy one day. ok it's old on. a tangent to the edges here victor's teaches say that his passion for the theatre has affected his character. i want to it's difficult to work lamest he's a perfectionist he wants everything to be done quickly and clear out like on the stage door was mix it up yes but here you have to be more accurate and precise starker that's his second nature now to. the first well hello hello well hello actress come on commercial i've even practicing at home i have well then good speak up loudly and clearly scream but don't know be in a hurry ok yeah. yeah you threw me out. carry on me go even though i don't. like the way. how cool. would it get here oh yeah you can't. move here. but what you got it's sti

fought, and peace defended, a city divided, a wall come down, countries imprisoned behind an iron curtainberated. we've seen the demise of a cold war and the rise of new threats, the transition from an industrial revolution to an in age where new technologies empower our citizens and adversaries like never before. our world has been transformed over and over and it will be again, yet through the grand sweep of history, through all its twists and turns, there is one constant. the rock solid alliance between the united states and the united kingdom. and the reason is simple. we stand together and we work together and we bleed together and we build together in good times and in bad because when we do our nations are more secure, our people are more prosperous, and the world is a safer and better and more just place. our alliance is essential. it is indispensable to the security and prosperity that we seek not only for our own citizens but for people around the world. and that is why as president i've made strengthening this alliance and our alliances around the world one of my highest foreig