first of all, it's among registered voters, 23409 likely vote earls, which is a differences. it also is based on democrats and republicans, so it's not just a republican primary poll. and then there's the issue of the margin of error. explain those three points. >> this is registered voters. three groups. we can poll national adults, anybody who is 18 and over if they are registered or not. and obama does better if you look at the broader group. we ask, are you registered to vote? over 80% will tell you they are. so, that whittles it down a little. and we do look at likely voters. those are the people we think are most likely to vote. even in a presidential election, you know, we'll be lucky if we have 60% of eligible vote earls, the votinga age population turn out and vote. typically we don't look at likely voters. now our decision isn't until later in the year. a lot of people haven't thought about it. we really don't know. in september and october, people are likely to say, yes, i am paying attention to the election, i do think i'm going to vote, things that we think are m

>> reporter: the scary guy was born earl kenneth kaufmann. >> scary is earl to me. here. >> reporter: mike elsmore grew up two doors down on this quiet street in new hope, minnesota. elsmore says earl was like a brother. but they couldn't be more different. >> he was always kind of wanting to be over the top. he was an agitator. >> reporter: even though scary's early childhood was happy, as the years passed, a divorce and an absent father left scary emotionally scarred. >> i wanted my dad to give me approval, you know what i mean? say, hey, son, i really love you. but he was really kind of a silent guy. my first tattoo is this little green dragon over here. >> reporter: scary got his first tattoo at age 30. before becoming a tattoo artist himself. in 1993, when his mother died, he turned to cocaine for several months. two years later, he started tattooing his face. is this part of getting some of that attention that maybe you missed? >> it could have something to do with the fact that maybe i didn't get any attention from my father. however, i've always felt fairly

earl. just a couple of takeaways. property rights are inflexible. and i think you would find that from all of our readings. >> definitely burke. >> payne as well and going back to blackstone. and our entire american legal tradition is an outgrowth of the english and based on blackstone as well going back even before. first to write it down and codify it and make sense out of it. >> he went back to -- >> yeah. >> william the first. and lastly, legal and political rights have to be recognized in tradition and that they are an outgrowth of the inherit rights given by god and discoverable through nature. i thank you so much for being here, i thank our guests for coming. >> lectures in history airs each saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern. and sundays at 1:00 p.m. we feature classroom lectures from across the country and different topics and eras at the american history. to keep up with m earn history tv during the week or to send us questions and comments follow us on twitter. twitter.co

spend so much time doing earl warren. one day you are sitting in the office say i am not busy enough at the newspaper. i have written a book on earl warren. i will take autobiography of eisenhower. what happened one day? >> let me say how delighted i am that richard was excited about the berlin airlift. i got a call from an editor in new york that scott and i work with and she was convinced there was an important eisenhower presidency book and a lot written about eisenhower. [laughter] >> delighted to see the wrong number. because phyllis lieber and my editor, observed that with a historiography on the eisenhower where period she felt the important niche was the presidency and since i covered some of the presidency in a course of the warren book i had a head start on it. the thing i should mention is when i started this book because i had seen eisenhower through the eyes of war and i thought i would write a different book that i ended up writing. warren and eisenhower -- he was appointed to the court -- grew apart during

most of them call him by his middle name, earl. >> thomas? who is that?ughter] >> at the big game be it rim shot or earl, they will have lots of support. >> we are supporting no. 0 thomas. >> that was the principal here at riverdale baptist school. he left here in the 11th grade to go to a prep school. his mother was always looking for the best opportunities for him. he is expected to turn professional after tonight's championship game. live from prince george's county, sam ford, abc7 news. >> no doubt she will be cheering him on from above tonight. we will have more on tonight's game coming up in sports. hear from thomas robinson, or earl talk about taking on ky. >> it's great for us to have someone local to root for. a look at the jet blue pilot as he appears in court today. >> and nfl cheerleader accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. why her mother also appeared before the judge today. what's a new safety features will be coming to d.c. cabs soon an my dad was a union electrician. sometimes i'd tag along to a work site carrying his lu

earl received a star on the hollywood walk of fame in 2003. was i ducted into the country music hall of fame in 1985 and received numerous grammys including a lifetime achievement award. he's also -- he also recorded with musicians as diverse as johnny cash, sting, and even elton john. most importantly for his beloved hometown of shelby, his legend will live on locally. thammings to an overwhelming community effort for the past several years, work is now under way to turn the historic 105-year-old cleveland county courthouse into the earl scrugs -- scruggs, this effort will focus on music and stories and preserve the legacy of earl scruggs. drawing on the region's rich history in music, the center will enlighten, educate, and celebrate the traditions and people of cleveland county and region for that matter, all the while honoring earl scruggs. legendary comedian and accomplished banjo player steve martin summed it up best when he said, quote, before him no one had ever played the banjo like he did. after him, no one -- nobody played the banjo

. >> reporter: a convict james earl ray was convicted in the assassination and has since died. >> the family of dr. martin luther king jr. decided that james earl ray was not responsible for the death and that the testing of the rifle in the '90s showed the fatal bullet didn't come from that gun that was supposedly the one used by ray in the case. >> reporter: visitors to dr. king's memorial on the mall on whether the records should be released -- >> we always believed there's been some kind of conspiracy that's contributed to his death and it's time for full record of release for all things that pertain to his life. >> we're intelligent people. it's almost impossible to be just one person and i think there's a bit of conspiracy. >> even if they show us no smoking gun, we should own our own history and i think that it's important for us to -- to take that history back from the national security state and know what the government was doing and what it was thinking about dr. king. >> reporter: gary nuremberg, 9news now. >> members of the house and senate have said they will introduce bi

. >> reporter: a convict, james earl ray, was convicted in the assassination and has since die. >> asr. martin luther king decided that james earl ray was not responsible for the death and that the testing of the rifle in the '90s showed that the fatal bullet did not come from that gun that was supposedly the one crude by ray in the case. >> reporter: visitors to dr. king's memorial on the mall on whether the records should be released. >> we always believe there's been some kind of conspiracy as to his death and it's time for a full release of all records spa. let's see what it is and make up our own minds. we're intelligent people. >> it would be almost impossible for it to be just one person. >> even if they show us no smoking gun we should own our own history and i think it's important for us to take that history back from the national security state and know what the government was doing and what it was thinking about dr. king. >> judge says that when similar records on the john f. kennedy files were released they rewrote the history of the bay of pigs, the cuban missile crisis a

. >> reporter: a convict, james earl ray was convicted in the assassination and has since died. >> the family of dr. martin luther king jr. decided that james earl ray was not responsible for the death and that the testing of the rifle in the '90s showed that the fatal bullet didn't come from that gun. that was supposedly the one used by ray in the case. >> reporter: visitors to dr. king's memorial on the mall on whether the records should be released -- >> we always believed there's been some kind of conspiracy and that's been tricked to his death -- attributed to his death and it's time for full record of release for all things that pertain to his life. >> we're intelligent people. just almost impossible for it to be just one person. so yeah i do think there's a bit of a conspiracy. >> even if they show us no smoking gun we should own our own history and i think it's important forus to take that history back from the national security state and know what the government was doing. >> reporter: gary nurenberg, 9news now. >> gary says that members of both the house and senate have said

and quite simply, they get along bet earl with customers. at duke energy in north carolina, listen to this. it takes eight years and a lot of money spent to train workers on the line. half the techs are over 50. which is why their work day starts with a workout, hoping to stretch their time on the job. older workers more patient with the customers. and just today, president obama signed jobs legislation aimed to put small business on the fast track to raising money, going public for so many americans dream canning of creating the next facebook. all of this comes on the eve of that all-important jobs report. >> any clue about the percentage it's going to be somewhere. >> reporter: economists across the board estimate 200,000 jobs, slightly lower than what we've seen, keeping unemployment about the same as more people now enter this force with hope. >> okay, thank you david muir. >>> and now, our washington watchdog on patrol. we have new video to show you. it sparkled outrage today and shows those government workers who travised to las vegas

but watch the full interview with general james earl jones and the next hour here on r t. russian space scientists are preparing the next giant leap for mankind with the ambitious goal of gaining a foothold on the moon within ten years they announced one of the daring project coincides with the fifty first anniversary of the very first manned space flight are he somebody who looks at the chances of success. to put a man on the moon to keep him there that's the aim for space exploration in the coming decade according to a plan unveiled by moscow's academy of sciences' choice what bloggers are worth mankind could not stay where it is now for a long time we have been successful in exploring near earth space it's time to move beyond it the goal is to put unmanned rovers on the moon by two thousand and twenty with landing stations established by twenty twenty two which will start the process of building a permanent manned base their own on the minute the moon is that all well say scientists we actually know surprisingly little about our closest cosmic neighbor and the consensus

the african american woman will not tell earl that his wife has actually left him already and run off with another man. she doesn't tell him that because she's trying to protect his manhood. those are things i think if you are a smart playwright, you really take advantage of your very smart actors and your very smart directors. again, this thing where it's always coming down it ego. at sundance, in every rehearsal process, i like being part of a very generous workshop. if you were in there you would say, wow, it's pretty free-wheeling. for example, you have 9 characters, 9 story lines that all are trying to be pieced together so they all are introduced, they all intertwine and at the end they are all resolved in some form or fashion. it's a delicate architecture. as we were in rehearsal process, i really rely on actors to kind of say at some point you have tweaked something here, but my character on this part of act 2 no longer is in the right place. so we have to pay attention to that. so in the rehearsal process, it's very democratic up to a point. i talked to cary recently, said i

. >> you compare it with high earl fuel costs and consumers are going to see higher ticket prices. >> reporter: analysts say the merger makes sense for american airlines employees who, today, backed it. instead of the 13,000 layoffs the bankruptcy calls for, usair promised to cult just 6,800 jobs. american airlines management wants no part of this, preferring bankruptcy. but at least one analyst calls that delusional. over the last 30 years, some very big names are no longer flying. eastern, pan-am, piedmont, twa, all gone. and in this latest round of huge mergers, delta swallowed northwest, united absorbed continue innocent continue inno. >> the real key, the small earl city takes the brunt of flights. >> fewer, fuller flights and less competition may make for healthier airlines, but at a price the public is paying. jim avila, abc news, new york. >>> and overseas now to an airline traj dill in pakistan. emergency workers are searching the crash site with a passenger jet went down when it flew threw a lightning storm. tonight, the pakistani government safing all 127 people on board pe

witnesses describe the shoot earl as a white male, driving a white truck. suspect was randomly killing, perhaps targeting black people. >> i was naacp president for seven years. i understand and i know hate crime when i see one. >> reporter: england and alvin watts, 32, were arrested outside city limits. tips played a critical role in solving the case, in including one call claiming england had a white truck and he was making plans on burning the vehicle. >> we were desperate for leads. we made some very pointed rekwemss of our community to come forward, and they did. >> reporter: david, in tulsa, the fear after these ail remss is giving away to sighs of relief. >> our senior justice correspondent pierre thomas, thank you. >>> and on this easter sunday, a familiar face helping to deliver the sunday sermon. quarterback tim tebow, who has a devout following for his playing and his praying, today drew a huge crowd off the field. and here's steve osunsami. >> reporter: he's arguably the most well-known evangelical christian in america today. jets quarterback ti

earl scruggs died in nashville wednesdayality... wednesday at the age of 88.ly childhood. one thing by perfecting his own three finger picking style. in his hands the bang owe was transformed. he reported his signature song foggy mountain breakdown in 1949. a tune that won a whole new audience 18 years later when it was featured in the movie bonnie and clyde. by then, earl scruggs and lester flat have achieved recognition on tv with the ballad of jed clampett ♪ come and listen to my story about a man named jed ♪ >> osgood: the theme song of the beverly hill billys here on cbs. in 1969, earl scruggs performed an anti-war demonstration in washington. >> i'm disgusted and in sorrow about the boys we've lost over there. >> osgood: dedicating followy mountain breakdown to the soldiers lost in vietnam. the song was included in the national recording registry at the library of congress in 2004. the next year scruggs performed it on the late show with david letterman. accompanied by steve martin and friends. earl scruggs won four grammys and a lifetime achievement awa

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he must have a voice like james earl jones, the voice of god. this man stands up, very well- spoken. do you remember a movie star called david niven? very distinguished, well-spoken. i thought that must be cesar chavez. he was introducing siegler to of this -- he was introducing cesar chavez. then cesar chavez walks up. he is like 5'5"with a very soft voice. it did not make sense. the more he began to speak, the more i forgot his height, what he looked like, because i focused on his message. he talked about human dignity, the rights of workers, the fact that working people have to sell their labor, but it does not mean they have to sell their souls or dignity. the more he talked, the more i understood the power we had as individuals and collectively. the next morning, i cracked open my piggy bank. oci paid three months' worth of used to join the union. [applause] that was 47 years ago. cesar chavez was a life changer. he made you believe you were capable of doing much more than you believe you were capable of. he said that imagination in new and

earl yes it was 16,000 lightening strikes. now we'veadbole00 stke e sor eeree nig. oter pobms t thre lt hevyaiinoh rith sthwe,here' of south florida. miami yesterday, two to three inches of rain. still cloudy today. the keys have numerous areas of rain. this will continue today into tomorrow. if you chose this week to head down to south florida or the bahamas, unfortunately the weather is not cooperating. if you live in pittsburgh, toledo, cleveland, all the way through louisville, lexington, indianapolis, st. louis, a chancef dition stro stormshi afrnn. tin e tnathatis osyoi to b fm ubck am, cy t and hot again. we're fine in the southwest. as we head into may, we expect a lot of severe weather and thunderstorms and it looks like we're going to have it. >> say it isn't so. bill, thank you. >>> the economy sputters. airfares soar and do we really need another "titanic"? your first look at today's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> an ejection, a remarkable comeback and a playoff performance for thererd oks. you're watcng firstk on nbc. withwiffer duss, a re cl

. >> reporter: the match was struck more than a year earl when this amateur video emerged of police beating rodney king after a dangerous high-speed car chase. >> how dangerous was it? >> i was screaming someone please come out, screaming as loud as i could so someone could hear me before i die. >> reporter: the video brought long standing complaints of lapd abuses against the black community to a head. >> they would brutalize undeserved segments of the city. >> reporter: for officers were eventually charged with assaulting king and put on trial. >> very happy. >> reporter: news of their acquittal hit south central l.a. like a lightning bolt. the epicenter -- the intersection of florence and r normandie where a shell-shocked city would witness another beating, a truck driver by an angry mob. whose idea was it to go public and say something? >> i wanted to say something, you know? but i didn't. can we all get along? >> these five simple words guided the last 20 years as l.a. res inned millions of dollars in south central, applying the lessons of 1992. >> you can't grow and be a great city if

chief justice earl warren professor of constitutional law.i've been looking forward to talking about this a long time. >>> last word, find out what karl rove thought about the choice of dick cheney as vice president. not what you think. lawrence o'donnell has the details on that. best thing in the world, not intended to be a karaoke edition but nobody will stop you if it turns out that way. >>> since the strategy of advocating furiously against women's hale, republicans are trying something new and decided to take a you turn from their previous position and deciding now to not block the reauthorization of the violence against women act in the senate. it looked for weeks like it was poised to become a big partisan political battle when it passed out of committee on a party line vote with zero republican support and ultimately the republicans caved. it passed on a 68-31 vote and 15 republicans voting yes. there is more. the now women friendly republican party not blocking the violence against women act, they're creating a brand new republican g

a cloudy day out there and rain at times earl this morning but for now we see the cloud cover with a little bit of clearing toward the frederick and hagerstown area, limited rain on the radar scope. just a couple of showers in garrett county. a quarter of an inch in baltimore sense midnight a third of an earn in annapolis. most spots getting a trace. indian head. temperatures comfortable, mild and humid. right now in the low 60s from baltimore south into fair fa. 60s, cloudy mild and damp. the chance for more rain for part of your weekend. we can tell you which part straight ahead. >>> criminals go to work sites and they try to steam things they can pawn later on for money. a lot of times they get away. this time things are different. don harrison talked with police about their latest capture. >> reporter: this is a community under construction in lettering lettering -- glen burnie. there are a lot of things on site, things like copper wiring and tubing. >> area recyclers pay a premium for it. >> reporter: last night before 2 a.m. some copper pipes were stolen from the work site. ove

. >>> sony will reportedly slash its global work-force by about 10,000 as earl as the end of this year. >>> and finally gadget-loving chocoholics rejoice. thanks to the first commercial desktop printer you can now churn out your very own chocolate designs for just under 4,000 bucks. huh. >>> the knicks return, the tigers claw the red sox in extra innings and the pirates stun the phillies. >>> plus bubba watson is set up for the win at augusta. your early morning sports helines are straight ahead. >>> after a beautiful holiday weekend, you're watching beautiful storms. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, he's never taken a golf lesson in his life. now bubba watson's wardrobe boast as green jacket. here's nbc's mario solis with all your sports headlines. >> good morning to you. the final round of the masters started with history and finished with a shot for the ages. to augusta, south african louis hue tayshaun with one for the history books. the ball hits the fringe and just keeps on rol

one of those men is william earl basset.s been incarcerated since 1963 and in stateville since 1966. originally he was serving a maximum of ten years for burglary and forgery at another illinois penitentiary called menard. >> i had a short parole coming but a guy was messing with my food in the dining room and i just -- i went off, tried to get him and got involved in a prison riot down there. there was three prison guards got killed down there at the time. they give me the electric chair for one of them murders. they said everybody stabbed this one lieutenant. >> in 1972 the u.s. supreme court abolished capital punishment. basset's sentence was commuted to 150 years with the opportunity for parole every year. though he's been repeatedly turned down for parole, he remains one of stateville's model prisoners. he's worked in the industries department for more than 15 years. >> let's make sure it gets out to the right place. we have to number everything. >> i like it. i'm the type of guy likes to stay busy. i can't just lay aro

james earl ray was discovered hiding in heavy brush, not far from the prison. eventually new security measures were installed including razor wires and motion sensors. if a prisoner gets past these deterrents, they still must escape brushy mountain's blood hounds. >> this is canine daisy. she's about 2 years old, and she's the best tracking dog we have right now. if an inmate leaves here especially behind the wall, they are going to go straight up the mountain, one way or the other. that's where she would come into play. that's basically the only way we could find them in the mountains with one of these dogs because it's so thick and everything. there's nowhere to go. you can wander around for days in the mountains and get lost. they are silent trackers. a lot of people is mislead by these dogs. they watch movies on tv. you see a guy with two or three dogs in each hand chasing an inmate. the dogs are all barking and stuff. these dogs don't bark. they keep their nose to the ground and they track. that's all they do. she will pick up on a human scent and follow i