children i feel compassion and will you feel any measure if you disregard children if i feel david mitchell desire to help and to do anything i can but also the other side of. the feeling of being part of the great team everyone is very special everyone is so loved in our charity. for all. from one dept of my heart we don't have a stranger it's everyone is really connected to everything what we do and now it's about sixty five people who work in. our foundation and three hundred volunteers and in other maybe authority doctors so it's a great team and to the. owner to this day we all together garden in very often and events together charity events. charity especially when you do a secure it's pretty time consuming especially in russia we have to cut a lot of red tape and go through bureaucracy stuff like that do you always have time to do which you have to do for that reason is do you have to to to to make a decision either go help the children or go make some money do some acting. was hard choice to make sometimes it comes to compromise but not to make money or work for. charity to help chi

with us today, david sanger and andrea mitchell. helene cooper and then phac kara. and now it has come to egypt. the domino effect may bring fire to other arab states. the president that has been in the watch and wait position for much of the last three days vifri spoke to the listing, revolutionaries in the rest of the arab world. >> around the world governments have an obligation to respond to their citizens. that's true here this the united states. that's true in asia. it is true in europe. it is true in africa and it is certainly true in the arab world, where a new generation of citizens has the right to be heard. chris: we had a euro-centric foreign policy for years. this is a third-world look. he seems simm thick in talking to the people in the streets and possibly the people in the streets of the other countries. >> he is. the president put the onus completely on president mubarak. he had demands that president mubarak release the internet and telephone service, which of course would allow the protesters to organize and build up some more. he insisted that pr

david is martin, cbs news, the pentagon. >> mitchell: still to come on the tonight's "cbs evening new," the food and gasoline price increases that the inflation figures miss. >> mitchell: in labor department's core index of consumer prices flows december by one tenth of a percent. but that does not include the cost of food and fuel which most americans pay for everyday. count those in and the rate of increase was five times higher-- the fastest pace in a year and a half. cynthia bowers has more. >> reporter: with gasoline topping $3 a gallon in much of the country, for many americans, a fill-up is a budget buster. >> it's terrible but what can you do? >> reporter: prices at the pump have jumped 13.8% so far this year on top of last year's 5.5% rise. the national average for a gallon of regular is $3.90, ranging from $2.81 in wyoming to $3.70 in hawaii. but big-city prices can go much higher. try $4.30 a gallon at this d.c. station. increase is driven by the rising cost of crude oil, nearing $100 a barrel, an amount opec calls realistic. no wonder there's fear of $5 a gallon gas. commo

history-- doug wilder, the first elected black governor, and david dinkins, the first black mayor of new york. senate majority leader george mitchell called it a victory for the country. americans are prepared to accept candidates on the basis of their individual talent, dedication, and willingness to work hard. when it became official that doug wilder had won, i thought that it was historic because it meant for me, since i had been writing about the history of politics and what the vote meant to african-americans and holding office, that we finally would get a chance to see what happened when a black person held a statewide office like that, and we'd get to see how much difference it made, if any. and if it didn't make any, we'd get to figure out why, and what else we needed to do. but we needed to have him win in order for us to get to that point. so it really was crucial for the african-american community. i remember clearly tim stating in a conversation to governor wilder, and says, "yeah, yeah, yeah. you know, if this state is smart enough to elect you as governor, i'm moving back to virginia, my home." and once he got elected

i can only listen to my colleagues, david gregory and andrea mitchell. i had the good sense to get out of washington via amtrak this morning, knowing that when it snows there, it resembles the fall of saigon. >> wow. >> that's a little dramatic. >> nice to his friends there. >> welcome back to washington, brian. >>> we'll have more on the storm and the problems that it is causi causing, but first, this is "today" on nbc. n >>> just ahe headahead, is your grocery store designed to make you spend more money? we have supermarket secrets. nd we tamore on the piano that ended up on a sandbar. @÷8ñ >>> good morning to you. it is 7:26 right now. it is thursday morning. we are more than halfway through the week. gorgeous outside. should be nice across the bay area. we'll go to christina. >>> it will be a nice day. good morning, laura. good morning to you at home. we are looking at a lot of sunshine in the south bay along the peninsula. those will be the warmest areas with a bit of fog to keep it a little cooler. we have reduced visibilities this morning in the e

george mitchell is one, david hale is one, dan shapiro is one, dennis ross, and others. they're all engaged on these issues on an ongoing basis. the team is well-coordinated, and the fact that at one point, one or more figures would be involved and at another point, a different set of figures would be involved -- this is testament to the importance that we give to these issues. and we continue to make it as arguably the highest priority that we have. >> what is the update -- >> just a quick one. >> what is the update -- the view of the united states on the palestinian resolution that it's going to present to the un on the settlements? >> well, i can't comment on something that hasn't happened yet. we continue to believe that the parties need to resolve these issues through negotiations. >> just a quick one. do you see as the white house taking over the middle east peace process? >> i know there's always a temptation to -- >> let them have it. >> (laughter.) >> whew. (inaudible) questions anymore. >> one should not read -- these are difficult, complex issues. the presiden