i am diane rehm. [applause] greta van susteren: ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor and my thrill to give you the 2017 lifetime achievement award winner, the one and only, diane rehm. [applause] [applause] diane rehm: thank you. thank you. thank you, all, so very much for this award. i warn you, i am not funny. [laughter] diane rehm: i will not be cracking jokes. i will be talking very seriously about what is happening in this world. [cheers] diane rehm: i want you to know i attended this event many many years ago, as a guest of friend and colleague, i never ever imagined that i would be standing here receiving this award tonight. so i thank the men and women who have gone before me, and i thank all of you for being here this evening. and to really ask you to remember the late great gwen ifill. [applause] diane rehm: and with such sadness, the loss of our good friend and colleague. now, i want to speak as an ordinary citizen, not as an employee of wamu or representative of any station or networ

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that was diane swonk. we want to remind you that bloomberg television and radio will have special programming around the interest rate decision. that is wednesday, starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern, with live analysis and reaction from a number of economists including from former fed vice chair --and many, many more. tune in, next week, 1:00 p.m., " the fed decides." let's get the first word news headlines. mark: president trump is congratulating house republicans for what he calls diligent work to repeal obamacare. the president says the repeal and replacement of you for the care law is inside. : this is the time we will get it done -- we are working together. we have great results, tremendous spirit, and i think it is something that is going to happen very shortly. mark: both the house ways and means committee and the energy and commerce committee cleared the legislation this week. the president will have his first phone call with the palestinian president today. the u.s. president is unpopular with palestin

[applause] diane, in the vice president of our board. and our master of ceremonies tonight, greta. [applause] in senator tim scott, republican. [applause] and jill jackson the cbs news. [applause] the assistant democratic leader and our treasurer. so thanks for being here. we have the warmest may to we have never had so reinvigorate program to honor the reporters to the issues in this that washington institution for inspiration. into keep many journalists honest. thanks for keeping us prepared. new ones to take a moment thought to honor another journalism icon? with a great pair of lawmakers in congress management and those have promised to live up to the performance of last year. >> wine year ago i am not sure they would have done this by one year after the first joint address to congress it is possible. and thank you to our sponsors to support many of the long term projects of this foundation into sponsor that cip restriction so thank-you to a toyota with the twitter feed for supporting out and ford motor company with the minority internship behind hour regional reporters and twi

then, frank and diane came to me. diane did the talking. she knew i would pay more attention to her. if this thing airs the way it is, the world is going to say there goes richard nixon stonewalling again. it's a disaster. this is bad. i went to president nixon and one of the few times he was gruff with me. but are you proposing? take as much time as you want and we will set the date. decide what you want to say and we will give them more time. that's how they got the extra four hours. without any compensation, nothing. we get in next to four hours. i will bring this to a conclusion. in any event, he really prepared. he knew what he wanted to convey to the american people, saying i'm sorry without saying i'm guilty. he planned it all out. i was doing all of the fighting about when it would happen. i said may, he said no. anyways, trashed. we got to the point and agreed upon it. i would always ride with him up to the place where we were doing the screening. this morning, i looked at him and he was so uptight. i called ray price. i said you r

paul, good morning. >> good morning, kendis, diane. we are expecting major impacts and closures along i-95, i-90, i-81 and i-80 for the rest of the day as this low pressure system strengthens as it moves along the east coast. now, as that occurs we're looking for a rate of snow between 2 to 3 inches an hour which means in some areas we're expecting significant or excessive blowing and drifting snow, and just how much, imagine this, between a foot to two feet in some of the major populated areas, as well as new york going down towards the philadelphia area, all the way up towards boston and possibly reaching bangor, but not only that, we're going to be concerned about very gusty winds as this low, this nor'easter strengthens as it moves right along the east coast. we're looking at winds to accelerate between 40 to 60 miles an hour. big-time problems, power outages likely and not only that, a surge from the water has actually created concerns for flooding along the coast. as far as the forecasting models are concerned, we're expecting fo

thanks, diane. >> thank you. >> thanks, diane. >>> coming up on "gma" on this saturday morning, we've got new details about harrison ford's close call with a passenger jet. for the first time we're going to hear what he said to the tower after he skimmed right over a plane waiting to take off. >>> plus, making history on the hardwood. south carolina going deeper than they've ever gone in the ncaa tournament, plus the david versus goliath battle that's brewing between xavier and gonzaga. stick around for march madness mania. >> michigan -- >> yeah, they're out. thanks for reminding us. >>> "good morning america" is brought to you by lowe's. brought to you by lowe's. the moment you realize the only part of your lawn growing like weeds is the weeds. at lowe's, our personalized lawn care plans help you create the yard you want. all projects have a starting point. start with lowe's. hurry in and get 50% off scotts ez seed at the lowe's "refresh your outdoors event." ♪ [ alarm ringing ] like your alarm clock -- right on time. your double-soy whatchamacallit -- always there. your parking spa

. >> good morning, kendis, diane. looking out for another round of severe storms to rumble its way throughout portions of texas and into oklahoma. we're expecting damaging winds up to 50 to 60-mile-per-hour winds, hail, between an inch in diameter or even bigger, flash flooding likely along i-20 as well as i-10 and even along i-35 and watching out for the potential of tornadoes tuesday during the day towards oklahoma city and tuesday dallas towards san antonio. kendis, diane. >> now to the major developments overnight including new presidential tweets and a top congressman under fire. >> the head of the house intelligence committee is looking into russian election meddling but is now facing growing calls to recuse himself an devin nunes confirmed he met with a secret source on white house grounds. democrat i say he's too close to president trump to run an objective investigation. >> and the president took to twitter looking to shift the attention to the clintons. but abc's janai norman has the latest right now from wa

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after those headlines about charles manson's health, tonight here, the never-before-seen moments from diane sawyer's interview with manson. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us here on a very busy friday night. and it was quite a moment today at the white house. president trump and german chancellor angela merkel, her first visit to the trump white house. coming after a campaign where donald trump said she was ruining germany. the two leaders asked about their differences. and the president was asked by international reporters about his bombshell claim that president obama wiretapped him. the president indicating it was from something he saw on fox news. but a short time later, an anchor on fox saying fox news knows of no evidence of any kind that the president was wiretapped in any way, full stop. we begin with jonathan karl. >> reporter: the president welcomed the german chancellor to the oval office, but -- >> handshake? handshake? >> reporter: they did without the usual handshake. >> handshake? okay. >> reporter: the awkwardness isn't all that surprising. as a candidate, tru

i'll take that as a compliment opinion. >> the crazies hash tag is is diane part yeti?, give kendis his toupee back. >> hey, that's kinda harsh. but so true, i would say. >> do you remember giraffe mom, the woman who danced around in her room with the giraffe head? the real giraffe mom gave birth with the jiffar had on. and our viewers, you, had a little bit so say about that. >> people in maine are so strange. grew up in new hampshire, know lots about maine. wasn't she in new jersey? >> and this is marilyn. she's thinking, it would have been a tiny bit funny had she put on the entire giraffe costume, but that might have been a little bit challenging. >> and this is charles who said, i love your outfit -- this is not giraffe man. >> no, they're talking charles is saying that he liked my outfit and my earrings. which is very nice, charles. he sent on a day that i was not here. >> well, isn't that you? >> apparently charles thought so. >> you anchor women look alike. >> i'm sure lindsay appreciates the comment about her dress and her earrings. i did pass it on. okay, onto

what do you diane or diane. >> diane is my name.0 new year's eve and iful great about it. >> i did not say great. i said embracing it. >> there's a big difference. >> is there a difference between great and embracing it? >> if you embrace it, you end up feeling great about it. it took me a year to prepare myself. >> so at 69 you were getting ready? >> yes because i -- this is a new act. this is my third act. and my third act is about using my experience and my knowledge and my whatever to share it and to help. and i'm so inspired by women and mentoring and philanthropy. but mentoring is something that gives me so much joy and so much pleasure. >> everybody at the table gasped and thought, o congratulations. you look so good. there's a big turning point in your company because now you have a new designer. you're not involved in the day-to-day. is it hard to turn over it to someone else? ? what is his name? >> his name is jonathan sanders and he's an english designer. he's more than a designer. he's my first creative chief officer. he

diane macedo is here.ns this morning ago they're preparing to honor carrie fisher at a public memorial this morning. what to expect from her up come be role, fisher finished shooting when she passed. now disney sea bob iger says the film remain as is. she plays princess leia turned general leia and many wondered if it would be rewritten. she appears throughout the film and they're very happy with it, no change is needed. it hits theaters december 15th. there's at least one film left in that franchise. >> i expect we'll see more. >> speaking of which, the power rangers reboot is gearing found for a franchise of its own and the film's purchases says fans can look forward to a six film art. it turns out the production team alread installments while developing the first film which is out now. he also says they've already started working on the second one and, dan, i know you're a big power rangers fan so i know this one is special for you. >> uh-huh. >> dan is one of the orange power rangers. >> yes. finally y

diane macedo, what's popping? some news on natalie portman popping, you could say, so she told the world last weekend she couldn't attend the oscars due to the late stage of her pregnancy. well, it turns out that late stage was a birth. the actress and her husband benjamin millepied just announced they welcomed a baby girl four days before the awards. little amalia joins big brother, aleph, who is 5 now, believe it or not. >> wow. >> and the couple met while working on "black swan." he was a choreographer for the movie and you might remember portman won the oscar for best actress for that film while she was pregnant with her son. now she gets nominated while pregnant with her daughter. i'm wondering if maybe the babies are some kind of luck charm. >> babies are good luck charms. >>> nominees are in for the radio disney newsic awards. singer justin bieber has been nominated for five awards including best artist, megan trainor and selena mow guess grabbed four tying her with the host of the show kelsea ballerini, on

we have got, sam, tweeting us, never stop singing on wnn, diane. i want the diane macedo cd.t, her rapping skills are pretty good. >> i wasn't like when i said i know every word. >> oh. ♪ in west philadelphia born and spen most of my days chilling ♪ ♪ out max and relaxing all cool and shooting b ball outside of ♪ ♪ the school with a couple of guys they were up to no good ♪ ♪ started making trouble in the neighborhood ♪ ♪ got in one little fight my mama got scared ♪ ♪ she said you're moving with auntie and uncle in bel-aire ♪ ♪ i whistled for a cab when it came near there was a dice in the mirror ♪ ♪ if one thing i would say, this is weird, forget it you're moving to bell-aire ♪ ♪ i pulled up to the house around 7:00 or 8:00 your ♪ every day it's getting closer ♪ ♪ going faster than a roller coaster ♪ ♪ a love like yours will surely come my way ♪ ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ every day it's getting closer ♪ ♪ going faster than a roller coaster ♪ ♪ a love like yours will surely come my way ♪ ♪ hey, hey, hey babies aren't fully developed until at least 39 weeks, which means babies born even

diane roberts caught up with them at practice. >> the terps spent the day practicing for their sweet 16 matchup saturday against oregon. freshman sensation destiny slokam is ready. >> i'm familiar with them. oregon is right next. a lot of players are from the west coast. i played them in aau many many times. i know a lot of their tendencies and things like that. >> this time last year the te losing in the second round. this season was dedicated to moving on in honor of last year's seniors. >> one of our goals to make it past this one. but you can't look past any time. everybody playing in march is a really good team. it's really exciting to move on to the next round. >> we're excited about being in the sweet 16. getting to practice another day. and prepare for another game. >> if the terps make it past oregon, the team that awaits them, the top ranked huskies. you know. uconn. while the girls here say they're only looking at one game at a time, just about everybody else is looking forward to that matchup. diane roberts, wusa9 sports. >>> hard to believe we're only 12 days away from o

good morning, diane. h >> i want to prep you because when you see this video it's hard to believe it has a happy ending but this tennessee toddler is alive and well thanks to this quick-thinking teenager and a very important high school class. as a fast food worker, kaela eads is used to hearing customer requests but none quite like this. >> it's something i'll remember forever. >> reporter: a mother desperate for help. luckily, kaela was prepared. >> it was like a miracle. >> reporter: it all started outside pal's sudden service in bristol. a mother placed her food order then turned around to see her son not breathing. watch as she runs up to the drive-through window begging for help holding her 3-year-old limp in her arms. >> she tells me, she just says, somebody help me. does anybody know cpr? >> reporter: 18-year-old eads instantly runs out to give the toddler cpr and shortly after he starts breathing again. she says she's cpr certified thanks to a high school health and science class. >> at least two

and i had seen the sleeping mat done on a youtube video. >> the mats are 3-foot by 6-foot. >> diane had it upon herself to crochet mats out of plastic bags on her own. when she met terry the sleeping mat project was born and now months later the facebook page shows people from all over the area who are taking time to help those in need in any way they can. >> this is something anyone can do or anybody can play a part in and until those people are at the point where they're ready to accept help and take that help and move forward, um, this is something that's going to be a comfort to them and necessary to them. >> reporter: as terry and diane showed me the process it was clear that they had found way to get involved and were encouraged by how many people wanted to join them. >> we had young children cutting bags, a and we have people that are in their 70s and possibly 80s crocheting mats for us. >> their emotional connection to the people they help was clear when i shared with them the response to the mats that i personally scene distributed. >> i was out when they handed them to people.

paul. >> good morning, diane.m still has the another chapter left to it. look for another round of severe storms to plow its way throughout the ohio valley region and at the least produce some torrential downpours throughout portions of the northeast and rainshowers all the way up towards maine. we are expecting another round of possible tornados. deadly tornados. damaging hail. and wind. accelerating up to 65 miles per hour or even worse. diane, kendis. >> all right, thanks to paul. more news coming up, including the ceo of uber, call the on camera. lashing out at one of his drivers.ed this exchange and video. >> and beyonce -- is backing out of coachella, hard act to follow, no doubt. wait until you hear who is filling in. we'll fell you that later in the skinny. >> yeah, we just learned that. i pinky promised my little girl a fabulous garden party for her birthday. so i mowed the lawn, put up all the decorations. i thought i got everything. almost everything! you know, 1 in 10 houses could get hit by a septic d

. >> good morning, diane, kendis. we still have the same low pressure system that's going to bear more towards the northeast but before it does that it will cause big-time problems and quite frankly, havoc throughout both of the dakotas. going into minnesota as well as wisconsin, nebraska and omaha expecting very windy conditions, winds accelerating between 40 and 60 miles per hour with or without an actual storm. kendis, diane. >> paul, thanks. >>> president trump is making progress on two of his key campaign promises. >> yeah, things are very busy in washington. the travel ban 2.0 and republicans have released their long awaited plan to replace obamacare. here's abc's lana zak. >> reporter: after campaign promises to repeal and replace obamacare -- >> immediately repeal and replace obamacare. >> reporter: republicans are unveiling their replacement plan which would eliminate the said mandate and begin pulling back subsidies as well as create tax credits to buy insurance. >> it would reduce federal spending and mean

alan davis the retail federation, david lenhart from the new york times, and diane whitmore, director of the hamilton project and senior fellow at brookings. finally, let me introduce robert ruin. robert is the founder of the hamilton project and a leading voice on many economic issues. he is also the cochair of the council on foreign relations and a board of trustee. a lot of institutions and many others. previously, as you all know, he set aside a private-sector career to serve as the director of the nec and then as the 70th secretary of the treasury please join me in welcoming robert rubin. [applause] >> thank you. for those of you who were frightened that i am in the keynote speaker, i am not the keynote speaker.

diane, kendis. >> all right. thank you,0 los angeles. a new wave of bomb slelts targetitarget ing jccs across the country. 13 in florida, chicago and new york. students had to evacuate schools. there have been more than 120 threat in dozens of states since the start of the new year. the white house is condemning these incidents. the u.s. senate is urging the trump administration, administration, to take more action. >> and there will be no criminal charges filed against a north carolina police officer who was kaumt on camera doing that. slamming that female high school student to the floor. that officer was trying to barack up a figbreak up a fight in january. the grand jury decided there wasn't enough evidence to file criminal charges. the officer resigned last week after being placed on leave. >> new study suggests just a matter of time before a major earthquake hits southern california. experts stay powerful quakes along the fault line in the los angeles area. take place about every 100 region happened 160 years ago. >> the they're ac

and diane whitmore schanzenbach , a senior fellow at brookings. finally, let me introduce robert ruben. robert is the founder of the hamilton project and the leading voice on many economic issues. he's also the co-chairman of the council on foreign relations and a member of the board of -- trustees of a lot of institutions. mount sinai health system, and many others. previously, as you all know, he set aside a private sector career to serve our country during the clinton administration. first as the first ever director of the national economic asncil, the nec and then 70th secretary of the treasury. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome robert ruben. [applause] mr. rubin: thank you. for those of you frightened by the notion that i am going to be keynote speaker, i'm not going to be a keynote speaker. i had about 30 minutes of comments and i thought everybody would find them fascinating but he did not seem to think so. we're going to pass on that.

. >> good morning, diane, this new guy, kendis, who ever you are. congratulations on the new anchor spot. you know you are exactly right though. the president was, very disciplined in his message. but this was really more of a change in demeanor more than any change in policy. >>> the president's first adress to congress. >> i am here to deliver a message of unity and strength. >> reporter: the president began talking about civil rights and >> we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms. >> reporter: what started with a call to come together, soon split the members. >> we will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border. >> reporter: the president also pushed forward with his promise to repeal obamacare. >> i am calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding obama care disaster. >> he addressed tax cuts, both for businesses and the middle-class. >> my economic team is d

>> this question is from diane shite. >> yeah. >> diane, will you please stand up. >> okay.hank you diane. >> what is the senator doing to ensure an independent investigation of russian conclusion with trump? >> okay, i think i've -- okay. right now i think the house intel committee is about to fall apart. and i don't know if they can get it back together. i hope they can. i didn't like it when nunes went down to the white house and started talking about things i'm not familiar with. i didn't like it when schiff keeps telling everybody there is evidence circumstantial in nature that there is collusion. that's really not the appropriate function of either one of these guys. i hope they can get it back together. so far, so good in the senate. but i promise you this, diane, if it comes to the point that i think we're so broken over this, it will be time to have a joint select committee. we're not there yet, but we may get there. okay. i'm not for an outside committee yet. yes, ma'am. >> thank you, sorry. thank you. there is ample evidence that mr. trump or associates of mr. tru

there is not a single soul at this hour joining diane's facebook live. >> does anybody want to -- >>lly doubles our number of viewers right now on tv. >> all right. so now grandma can go live on facebook on the decktop computer. >> those are the only people on facebook. >> okay, bye. >>> moving on -- >> yeah. >> oh. speaking of videos this is a good one. so you know, you have a campaign for student office. well, one of the big things su want to stand out, of course. so etha o'brien a student at the university of lick rick decided she would do this in her campaign for vp academic officer. >> looks normal enough. >> [ bleeped ] ♪ >> so her pitch was hey, guys, just a quick video to get to know me. some may say it's out of this world. ime attention. mission accomplished. >> she did. >> she's got over 180,000 views. 3,000 likes. so i don't know if that wins you an election or not. >> i don't know. >> good luck. >> or if it application you want to feel like you're at a rab. >> you enjoy her diving. > that was kind of neat. so this is mom of the year. man, i wish i had this mom when i was

kendis, diane. >> all right, north of the border residents of a canadian town are seeing pink. not just this tie but tap water. >> it's about that color, though >> the town's 1,000 residents vented about their weird water. you can see it there on social media. town officials are now apologizing. >> they say a recent chemical treatment is to blame. authorities insist that the water is safe and the problem is nearly fixed but residents are urged to run the water until it becomes clear. so, that's all i need. should be. man, it's a lot brighter once you see it in front of the lights. >>> still ahead, the earthquake warning that no one in california wants to hear. >>> plus, a deadly crash in mississippi. a train plows straight into a bus carrying a group of senior citizens. we have new video from the scene. >>> an arrest in florida. it may put an end to a murder case that's been cold for nearly 25 years. the details ahead. >>> this is a strange sight here in new york. that is lady liberty in the dark. the outage lasted for several hours, a spokesperson says it was an unplanned outa

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diane was home when it happened. around 11:00 a.m., landscaper frantically ringing the doorbell. >> he saw the earth come up like it was blowing. kind of like a volcano would erupt. >> reporter: called 911. >> saw the vapors and strong gas smell. >> reporter: evacuated some homes and had others shelter in place. pg&e says the cause of the leak was rain. >> soil still saturated in some locations, facilities are compromised and can result in gas leak. >> reporter: four inch steel pipeline came apart. 20 customers without gas most of the day or night. diane not inconvenienced by that but worried about long-term safety. >> there's concern with what happened and we live in area where the earth moves. >> reporter: had a similar leak about a year ago. san jose, abc7 news. >>> it's dry in san jose right now but going to change this weekend. sandhya patel with more. live doppler 7. >> get ready for winter again. show you live doppler 7 right now. clouds in there and getting thicker. tracking cold snow and snow showers up to t

that's straight ahead in "pop news" with diane. stick around. ahead in "pop news" with diane.ck around. active. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs and feet. don't drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don't drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. those who have had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. with less pain, i can be more active. ask you

kendis and diane. >> all right, janai norman live from washington. many people will be listening in to see what that testimony reveals. thanks, janai. >>> one more note about something critical on the calendar. we actually learned late this morning that president trump and the president of china will hold their first face-to-face meeting next week. >> china says president xi jinping will travel to florida a week from today for a two-day visit at president trump's mar-a-lago estate. he had sharply criticized china during the campaign. >>> and breaking overnight, the president's travel ban will stay blocked for the time being. a federal judge in hawaii extended his previous order. the state has argued the ban discriminates against muslims and hurts hawaii's tourism industry. the white house has argued the executive order comes under the president's power to protect national security. >>> ivanka trump now has an official job in the white house. the president's daughter has been hired as assistant to the president. it's a government position, but she wil

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with that, i will turn the podium over to diane. [applause] diane: thanks for coming. the modern economy is heavily reliant on data. business, governments and families must navigate the complexities of a world made possible by new technologies and innovative business practices. it's vital to have a reliable information about the economic and social environment to make informed choices. government statistical agencies provide an important source of this information. a desire to collect data for the common good dates back to our founding fathers, when james madison argued that reliable data on agriculture, commercial and manufacturing interests would allow congress to represent the interests of its citizens more effectively. hard numbers would be useful to congressional debaters, as you can read in the madison quote on the screen, in order that they might rest their arguments on facts instead of conjectures. it's perhaps not as well understood by the public as it should be, the care and rigor with which government data are collected. stacked overwhelmingly by dedicated c