dow chemical. two thousand one third the boards of carbide approve the burger agreement create the world's second largest chemical company. does complicate things and doesn't because the. nation is very good in india and in the us and. principle the polluter pays principle is the idea under international law that the liability for pollution should always be traced back to the polluter the polluter should not be able to externalize the costs of pollution onto society at large or a third party it shouldn't be the government's responsibility to clean up at public expense after private polluters. so no no no no that is one of the. people. drinking contaminated water you see. in the neighborhood and then he got a lot of this bomb tested every founded highly contaminated they do not have any other choice and they are drinking this water. it was like sometime two thousand and four it was sometime in the evening. when i have eased back to my home there was a letter written by my brother. i'm going to die i

dow chemical go to how it go to how to how. agents of dow should be spanked. if you look at subject to the jurisdiction of a deal then you have to submit to the american courts and the american courts have to do something about. this in two thousand and four the supreme courts directed the government to provide clean and safe water but the government the states and central has failed to honor the supreme court order. then the problem is that by november two thousand and nine the government would supply clean water but that's a promise was never fulfilled but some pipelines were laid in some areas but not in every area the water that supplying these pipes his duty and not for drinking water all speak up some kids and dad get my definition addition control board certified advanced very high concentrations of coal like you said knowingly this water is what is being supplied to locals who have given their lives. the. company should realize that it cannot break this country's. budget if we win this fight outsiders will gain nothing again will be for years the peopl

is a sponsor dow chemical is responsible for a gas leak in 1984 in india. 100,000 people were exposed and 25,000 died in years following that gas leak. >> reporter: the army analyst accused releasing classified information heads to military court. more on that coming. >> reporter: reaction this morning after a teenage boy dies in a tragic accident in baltimore county. he told family -- what he told family members wanted to do when he grew up. >> two penn state administrators set to appear in court as the campus is embroiled in a child sex scandal. what we are expected to hear today and what they may have known. all that coming on this friday, december 16th. now over to a check of the weather and say good morning to meteorologist lynette charles where lynette, things are windy out there. >> oh, yeah. it's getting blustery this morning. wind gusting up to 30, 35 miles an hour this morning with sustained wind up to about 20, 25. so we are in for it this morning. so hold on to the hat. let's start off with a look at satellite and radar this morning. we are dealing with clouds across the a

. >> there was questions about letting dow chemical sponsor the games. the company has been criticized for a gas leak in india that killed 15,000 people in 1994. >> another cool day across our area. temperatures today into the low 40s pretty much everywhere. we hit 43 degrees at national airport, 42 at dulles and 43 degrees at bwi. it's a cold night tonight, temperatures dipping into the 20s. bundle up if you're heading out this late hour. 34 degrees now at national. we've got 25 at gaithersburg, 27 degrees at baltimore this hour. a haley 21 degrees at frederick and to the west 24 martinsburg, 27 winchester and 28 degrees at fredericksburg while manassas is at 21 degrees. ridge of high pressure in control across our area and that is keeping the clouds way. that's going to hold into the week. it's gradually moving east but very slowly. it is the dominating force in our weather pattern. we don't have any precipitation to talk about in the next few days. the later part of the week we have a system moving in from the west and that could possibly bring a few

i would say one thing you could do would be to call dow chemical and monsanto and say we know. we know what to do in vietnam. we know what you're doing here and stop. stop lying and stop saying this though evidence that agent orange causes cancer in human beings. the world scientific community knows that isn't too. the world's scientific committee has done studies. they know that dioxin is carcinogenic. they know that. we all know that. so with that i would like to just open the floor to questions, and comments and whatever you want to say. i'd like to hear what everybody has to say. >> are we on? can you hear me? >> there you go. >> so we are going to have questions and answers, and wait until we get the mic there. i wanted to let you know with several books up here. two of them by fred which are $10 apiece, bottom price your and he will sign them for you. we have one of the train once book, 9/11, 9/11 and there's also philip jones griffiths book, photography book, which is on basic sale for $20, a gorgeous photography book at so it's hard to beat those prices. here's the mic

it's over dow chemical's sponsorship of the london olympics. survivors hold they're responsible for the gas leak at a plant in 1984, which killed thousands of people. >> hello. i'm david eades with the headlines here at "bbc world news." police in the belgian city of liege say a woman has been found at the home of a man who carried out a deadly gun and grenade attack. a gunman linked to a far-right group has gone on a shooting spree in the italian city of florence, killing two senegalese street salesmen. polling stations have opened in egypt again today for the latest round of elections, the second in a series of parliamentary polls, the first since the fall of hosni mubarak. it's already clear islamist parties are likely to be the largest single force in the new parliament. it means a new contest is opening up between the muslim brotherhood and the more hard-line group who have strict views of segregating men and women. jon leyne has this from cairo. >> as egypt begins to taste democracy, it's the is lamist parties who are on the move. they've

industries or yeah go ahead make our water safer mr president but you can't put new regulations on dow chemical they gave us a lot of contributions last last election you would think that the same house republicans who insisted the constitution be read cover to cover with a few convenient omissions on the first day of this new session would be a little more careful when passing blatantly unconstitutional legislation but beyond its unconstitutionality it's completely unnecessary republicans argue that they need this new law to curb excessive new regulations coming out of the white house what they fail to mention is that president bush issued far more regulations and president obama has republicans also argue that these regulations are burdensome and they kill jobs lower economic activity something that hasn't been proven at all in fact just the opposite has been true so far over the past decade each new regulation actually creates jobs and boosts economic activity after all if you tell a power plant operator that they have to clean up and spew less pollution and the power companies have to go ou

in the same operation, 29 other companies were hit, including dow chemical, yahoo! and morgan stanley. >> it's reached an intolerable level and it is getting exponentially worse. >> reporter: two years ago, an operative at ford motor company downloaded thousands of files on hybrid engine design and gave them to the people's republic. and design secrets for this u.s. stealth fighter jet were allegedly attacked. take a look at china's version of the plane. very similar. >> this may be the greatest transfer of wealth through theft and piracy in the history of the world and we are on the losing end of it. >> reporter: how much wealth? intelligence sources say the u.s. is hemorrhaging $250 billion in losses to economic espionage annually. >> this is a national, long-term strategic threat to the united states of america. and this is an issue that failure is not an option. >> reporter: tonight, officials at the chinese embassy behind me say the charges are irresponsible and lacking proof, george. >> but pierre, as you know, and i know you talked to the same officials, i ta

vietnam what they know about the effect of the laboratory and in 1965, this is a memo that was in dow chemical said dioxin as potentially deadly to men beings and the corporate vision speaking lots went to the united states command and anybody else and say we are going to sell you this but we want you to know it is deftly to human beings that your troops our troops and vietnamese people and the rest are going to be exposed to something. the chemical companies insist they did tell someone but exactly who that someone might have been, i don't know. and i don't think they did. i haven't uncovered any of the information to that effect. >> if i can add a word, there's a concept applies here in many of our cases it is called intentional ignorance. so yes, you can choose to be ignorant of something, which you do know about, that applies all over the place and there is no way the government could have known this. >> it just doesn't make sense in terms of the profit system. the companies are telling us, the gas companies telling people what is in the fracking in the water. they are not. >> the energy c

other companies were hit including dow chemical. >> it. >> two years ago an operative at ford motor companyoaded thousands of files and hybrid engine design and dave them to the people's republic. design secrets for this fighter jet were allegedly the result of a cyber attack. take a look at china's plane, they similar. >> this may be the greatest translation of wealth and we are on the losing end of it. >> reporter: intelligence sources say the u.s. is hemorrhaging $250 billion in losses to economic espionage annually. >> a national long-term strategic threat to the united states of america and this is an issue that is failure is not an option. >> officials at the chinese embassy issued a statement calling such charges irresponsible and lacking proof. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> this is an anxious time for the unemployed as another day in washington goes by with no deal on an extension for unemployment pay. more than a million people worried that the check won't be in the mail in california. capital correspondent nannette miranda reports from sacramento on the jobless benefits

. >> you know andrew liverus, the ceo of dow chemical, he's got a book called "make it in america," sounds of guy. you're made in america. telling the same story. >> i like it. >> david, a pleasure. congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> an inspiration for all of us. keep after it. keepamerica.com is the website. do check it out. official launch soon to come, but still a little more to come here. "hardball," first off. newt's on top. chris taking a look at whether he'll last. >>> but first, here and full of holiday cheer, none other than imogen lloyd webber with a daily rant on how to survive what she calls the festive season. ♪ i'm burning out this useless telephone ♪ ♪ my hair is gone ♪ cheap cologne ♪ motor home ♪ i'm the rocket man! [ both ] ♪ rocket man ♪ burning out his fuse up here alone ♪ burning out his fuse up here alone? ahh. [ male announcer ] crystal clear fender premium audio. one of many premium features available on the all-new volkswagen passat. the 2012 motor trend car of the year. ♪ and i think it's gonna be a long, long time ♪ they won't be beat. oh, actually... th

in the dow chemical case where the police used cameras to surveil and industrial plan, there was a planthat would have violated trade secrets law for anybody else. court -- tort law does not define the boundaries of the fourth amendment. the corps was very careful to reserve the possibility of 24 hours surveillance of every citizen in their purses and then their residences and say we have not seen that kind of abuse. if that kind of abuse comes up the legislature is the best equipped to deal with it. eight, in fact, our society regards that as an unreasonable -- >> do you have any idea how many cbs devices are being used? >> the federal government qaeda. >> guest. it is in the low thousands annually. it is not a mass of universal use of investments. the fda requires that there be some reasonable basis for using gps before it installs it. and as a result this is a technique that basically supplements visual surveillance rather than supplanting it altogether. there was visual surveillance that was directed at respondent. the gps allowed it to be more effective. as justice kennedy, and i t

take a tour of the chevron refinery in my district, dow chemical, dupont. safety is their number one job daily in that facility. they take pride in it. they invest a lot of money in it because they know what an unsafe workplace, what a dirty workplace, what a crowded workplace costs them in lost time and productivity. this bill goes counterto the best practices in industry. counter to the best practices in small businesses. this just doesn't work in modern industry, this is a throwback to the 1970's or 1960's where miners used to assume they had to consume coal dust and die of black lung. for steel workers they fell into open hearth furnaces in the old mills. today you can get run over by a coal conveyance system. you can get caught up in a line, in a rolling line. but you don't because they invest in your safety. and now the american government is telling them you won't have to invest in this safety. i think they are going to ignore that because they have been to the other side. they know what it was like to have casualties. and they know that that doesn't

this is a dow component, the huge chemical company that tends to be a huge part of the economy.'re concerned there is uncertainty around the globe and it's starting to show up with the conservatism in the supply inchas. so they're seeing a real effect of that. and that caused a bit of concern. we lost about half the gains. open by about 50 basis points. it's europe that's driving thicks, chuck. >> one of those fridays. thank you very much. >>> coming up, the newt gingrich pile on. will the attacks really resonate with voters? we'll talk to a guy who knows the republican electorate like none other. he's an elected member of congress. one of the few who knows public opinion. >>> plus why celebrate for just eight crazy nights? hanukkah came early this year to the white house. >>> and a deadly shooting at virginia tech. a campus familiar with gun violence. you're watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. then i'd be like, you rule! and my kids would be like, you rule! oh, load up the sleigh; this is going to be a great christmas. [ male announcer ] more christmas for your money, guaran