talk about him and talk about how he plays into the stereotype of the fan base. >> david miller is a southerner from north carolina from the concorde area and he was loyal to us for about eight years. from 1994 into 2001. he saw, when we arrived in town he saw that what we were trying to do, he believed in our effort. he actually stopped racing and helped us as a chief mechanic for that eight year period and what was good about that, he was part of the system so he would tell my father and i went people were saying behind our backs, anything from calling you names, threats. we have been threatened and tools taken out of our race shop and then david miller would tell us about that and we would repair for that to prevent all of those types of episodes. >> and we would get the tools backed. >> since my father and i, we are real racers. we talk to everyone to sort out who were the good people, who were the bad people and then we would get allies in racing, where in the past nascar would bring in a magic johnson or dr. j. and they thought they could go out and just race almost like drivin

. >> reporter: aaron david miller served as an adviser to six secretaries of state and has witnessed the decline in american dimlomattic power. >> we can't morally preach anymore about the virtues of american-style capitalism when we can't fix our own dysfunctional, broken house. >> reporter: and seemingly can't-- >> that's the worst place to be. >> we must rebuild our strength here at home. >> reporter: the solution is to accept many nations now have a seat at the table and can influence world outcomes. >> it was easier long ago to say, well you have a couple of big powers. now you have a lot of powers. >> james fallows is a writer who just returned from living in china for three years. >> china has a very, very long way to go before they have the dimensions of the national power that the u.s. does-- maybe never. >> reporter: is american power truly on the decline? >> not really. things are changing. other countries are getting relatively stronger. it doesn't necessarily mean that the u.s. will decline in any way that really matters. >> reporter: fallows believes the changing world

david lee miller has the story of the airline nightmare. >> airport counters across europe are quiet. this eruption takes place in iceland with the plume of toxic acid spreading across europe. >> concern about navigation and ash in engines. >> that's why planes are parked. not just in europe but worldwide. >> i have been here for days and days and hours and hours. just waiting. and that's all i can do. >> i am frustrated. irritateed. twitter and disgusted. >> here in new york, frustrated passengers, have been forced to campout at jfk after a number of transthank flights were scraped. >> absolute nightmare. nobody tells you anything. they said they would come down and tell us within the hour. and nobody came down and told us anything until the next day. >> you have some food and few beds but nothing more. >> predicament is expensive. travelers lucky enough to get hotel rooms are forking over big bucks, not so lung he are left in airport terminals. >> i want to be home. so, yeah. lost. >> provide us with food and water and drinks. and a blanket. the floor is hard. but we got through the

in charlotte, north carolina, david lee miller, fox news. >> chris: one industry that is doing fine these days is the lobbying business. that is despite promises from president obama to change the way washington operates. correspondent william la jeunesse reports it hasn't worked out that way. >> we have to take action on both ends of pennsylvania avenue to end outside influence of lobbyist and do the work openly. >> reporter: how open the administration has been is open to debate. but there is no doubt about the influence of lobbyists in washington. >> while companies are slashing jobs, while the companies are scaling back other operations, they are in fact boosting operations when it comes to influence lawmakers. >> special interest spending on capitol hill topped $3.4 billion last year, all-time record. leading the pack, health and pharmaceutical products, 266 million. followed by general business, oil and gas, insurance and utilities at $144 million. >> organized interest who do lobbying are making a cost benefit trade off. if they want to get policy that they are interested in, they'

david lee miller vz more details now. >> reporter: tales of terror on the busy subways of new york. according to the new york daily news, disturbing details about the thwarted al-qaeda plot in new york city. sources say najibullah zazi and two other suspects planned to strap on explosives, head to the grand station and explode during rush hour to get the maximum amount of death and destruction. >> domestic terrorism is what we have to worry about. at the mall of america, in the subway system or at long beach harbor. >> reporter: this news comes after the arrests in pakistan. zazi confessed that they travel l to pack tan in -- traveled to pakistan in 2008. they were recruited by al-qaeda in manhattan. kt mcfarlands said it is a perfect example of why the patriot act needs to be renewed. >> because at the end of the day, you're not going to prevent something when the guy has got the backpack walking into the mall. the only time is to prevent it from happening and that means intelligence and working with domestic groups and finding out where the terrorists are. >> reporter: the attack

the miller tabak analyst david joyce warns that this is just a short-term victory and it doesn't impact his outlook on comcast, though this could change broadband's business model. >> what this ultimately can lead to is a more utility-like metered pricing of internet usage, which would be good for the cable and telecom companies. >> the fcc making it clear it will fight this ruling, issuing a statement say, "the court is in no way disagreed with the importance of prefrk a frpreser a free and open internet nor did it close the door to other methods for achieving this important end." maria, this could revive attempts to pass a federal law mandating net neutrality. of course we have to mention that comcast is in the process of buying cnbc's parent, nbc universal. back over to you. >> thanks very much, julia. up next a case of government gone wild? find out why a proposal by a california state legislator could prevent folks in the

kinds of things, engines have shut down and safety concerns are real about the situation and david lee millerhe newsroom in new york city and where planes are not leaving airports for europe, right, david. >> indeed you are right, martha, let's say viewers who are watching us this morning, in an airport lounge, planning to travel to europe, better get comfortable, and there is a good chance they'll be in those airports, for at least a few more hours, possibly a few more days and the situation now is that the cloud has caused a ripple effect around the world. the number of transatlantic flights to europe, today, out of the normal 300 that land in europe, today, only 120 made it. at least 17,000 flights within europe, to europe, have been cancelled to date and have a laundry list i'll take you through, some of the countries affected. no particular order, britain, ireland, france, denmark, norway, sweden, finland, belgium, poland and germany and underscoring how serious the problem is, the romstein u.s. air force base in germany at this hour, has been shut down because of the volcanic cloud. mar

$100 million expansion and the addition of nearly 300 new jobs n charlotte, north carolina, david lee millerfox news. >>> the president will be in north carolina today to talk about jobs. yesterday, he was in massachusetts talking to emergency workerfollowing his torque floods in the northeast. coming up next we'll get an update on the scene there this morning. >>> ahead, a crime alert on howard university's campus. what has students on edge there. we'll talk about that coming up at 60. -- at 6:30. >>> washington isn't forgetting flood-ravad new england. besides a briefing, the president wanted to personally thank emergency worker. he says when these kinds of natural disasters hit, what matters are the people on the ground. >> he said one the process starts going, he will do everything to make it happen quickly. >> homeland security secretary janet napolitano and the top fema official will be in rhode island today. that state was hit especially hard. >>> let's check in with tony with another look at the forecast today. we hate to see what is happening up there but we are not having much to w

my colleague aaron david miller who is a public policy students will chair the meeting.e serves republican and democrat administrations. his most recent book is "the much to promised land." his new book, "can america have another great presidents?" be published by bantam in 2012. i must urge you not to make its forthcoming cover story on the peace process. aaron is very good at finding pro bucket said points of view. could i please remind you to close yourself loans, do not answer, take a message during this session because it will interfere with our lives. we have an overflow. during the q&a session, we will take questions from the overflow. aaronm you have the chair, welcome. >> thank you. one of my greatest joys of being at the center for the last four years is to be able to work with you. i greatly appreciated. welcome and good morning. 15 months since the administration of a political transformer the president, this president, like many of his present tears -- predecessors, is wrestling with the problem of the much to promised land. his determination to see the crea

joining me to talk about that is tony dwyer with collin stewart and dan greenhouse, with miller taback, and david faber and sue herera. tony, would you put new money to work right now ahead of the first quarter earnings season? >> no. you could walk in tomorrow and have a two to three percent correction. you have to look at the market dislocation of what we went through in the last ten years and these returns are historically rare. we expect the concurrent estimate is up to $81 for earnings this year. and $98 for next year. we think it is over $100, so you put the worst case multiple of 15 times in a non-recession environment with core inflation below 3% and i get 1500 at mid-point next year and i'm being conservative, so if it pull bask from alcoa's earnings it is not relevant to the investors. >> what about you, david faber, what are you focus odd en? >> well, as the earnings season goes along, maria, investors are looking for the top line and signs of significant revenue growth, and we know there are great productivity increases in the last six months and another question is what they say if a

david sop designated hitter. takes over the 1st base bag. delohse swings. miller throws him out, 1 down here in the 9th. confident on that throw. that could be clemson's biggest concern. defense is short. miller didn't make an error -- did make an error early but played well since then. strike 0-1. a single back in the 3rd. first of six hits on the night. 0-1 pitch. popped it up, right side. now drifting down the right field. freeman could not hold on to it. see if they give him an error on that. would have been a tough play roaching over hishould in foul territory. by the way that would be an example if that would have scored an error. [music] 02 pitch. fouled out of play. wonder if that's ever happened. there has been over 100 years of baseball, that's a lot of games. 0-2 pitch. on the ground. diving play to knock out down to not save it. that's going to be a hit for a second hit of the night. i think that ball hit the bag, there at third base. good job of getting his body in front of it. you were absolutely right ricocheted off the bag and back towards shultz actually. carson schille will pinch hit.

david perno, three college world series trips in his first 9 years. only 12 coach in the history have done that. >> matt: curve ball is hit to the short stop, brad millereff: one of the final 4. more college baseball coming up. another battle on wednesday night on april 14th at the georgia tech yellow jackets goodness the georgia bulldogs in game 2 of a 3 game series. >> jeff: talking about omaha, with so many great teams meeting in the area, georgia, clemson there, it was tough to buy the souvenirs you normally do because there were so many local fans there.