one would be the fall of the garden of eden. that is just an old myth. you can reject that one. a more tempting one might be a genetic explanation. people are evil because of their genes. that one is obviously fraught with danger. so people are not really going to go for that. what is left? basically people are shaped by their exterior environments. the most important part in goes economics. if you perfect world you protect the economic environment. what does environmentalism say? that is all wrong. actually we were much better off before all of this. ok, what did modern efficiency get us? it got as the holocaust for example which was old-fashioned anti-semitism married to modern economic efficiency. it got us atom bombs and we might kill ourselves. in the end. so the modern project of progress, even economists have more doubts about. that is the object of environmental criticism. you can see this with rachel carson who wrote silent spring which is the seminal book starting the environmental movement. until the late 50s, ddt was considered a miracle drug of modern chemistry. rac

they were taken to eden medical center.r apartment units up and down stairs on 82nd avenue. we spoke earlier with another family who barely escaped the flame. they said it all happened too fast. a lot of time this is time of year, people have christmas trees and it's so cold, people using space heaters to stay warm. we asked if either had anything to do with the cause of this fire. he said at this point it's too soon to say. reporting live in oakland, christie smith. >> lots of new information. we will check in later on. thanks. >> two teens suspected of stabbing a young man in front of a middle school. it happened by bridges academy middle school. the 20-year-old was stand several times. two suspects fled in a car. anyone with information on this case is asked to call san jose police. >>> a crime spree against pot growers and dispensaries is starting to worry neighbors and business owners. men with guns stormed into a home on locust street tuesday and tried to take pot and money. investigators say the home is a marijuana g

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weeks of separation ended this afternoon when darryl was reunited with his beloved put bull diamond at edenet hospital. this beloved pet went through a hot -- went through a lot for the single father. >> she said i lied. i lied. she did it. she's a heck of a dog. >> reporter: around 1:30 in the morning on october 24th, his second floor apartment caught on fire while the family was a sleep. he says diamond started barking, something she rarely does. >> it was because of diamond. it was diamond that woke us up. >> reporter: the vet treating diamond says she suffered burn wounds to 30% of her body that will leave permanent scars. >> 30-degree burns? >> yes. >> diamond has nerve damage to one leg but is expected to make a full recovery. >> she's a very lucky dog. she easily could have been overwhelmed by the smoke. the bill for diamond's medical care is more than $5500. he told us his own injuries, third-degree burns to his back, arm and foot help kept him in the hospital until two weeks a go. it's now preventing him from returning to work as a forklift driver for two months. >> i have to buy e

. >> reporter: the serengeti national park in northern tanzania is an eden of biodiversity.ith two-ton hippos, giraffes, zebras and lions, the proud kings. but environmentalists say the serengeti is at risk of total collapse. the government plans to build a road for commercial trucks, straight through the serengeti. we set off in a 4 x 4 jeep on trails used by park rangers that could soon become a two-lane 33-mile highway. our first impression, zebra, wildebeest, and endangered predators, will likely end up as road kill. animals jumped out of the way as we drove. lions sat in the path of our jeep. and conservationists say the highway could even stop the great migration of 2 million wildebeests, zebra and gazelle. >> we're worried about how detrimental it could be. >> reporter: professor andrew dobson was one of 27 renowned environmentalists to make an appeal in the journal "nature" last september not to build the road. >> you've got a reduction in the wildlife in this area. it could be as much as 50%, 70% of a decline in species, such as the wildebeest. >> reporter: we drove

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the bartkowicz officer -- bart officer is now at eden medical center with major injuries. the suspect was in a car that was stolen from castro valley bart station last friday. he's also in the hospital. we will have a live report on this story coming up at 5:00. >>> it is 4:32. california's battle over same-sex marriage heading to an appeals court today. at issue is proposition 8, that's the voter-approved measure that limits marriage to male/female couples. mayor sayer is in san francisco. that's where a panel of judges will be hearing arguments this morning. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. just a few hours from now attorneys on both sides of this debate will meet here in the courthouse behind us. this is the u.s. court of appeals. a panel of judges inside the building will then hear arguments on the constitutionality of proposition 8. of course, it was two years ago that california voters approved the same-sex marriage ban, but earlier this year a federal district judge struck down that measure as unconstitutional, saying it amounted to a state-sponsored d

he's now in icu at eden h ospital. the b.a.r.t. police officer not involved in the chase suffered a concussion. he's at eden. as for this investigation the deputies saw an air-soft pistol inside the stolen car. jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. >> okay, jade. thank you. >>> there's now a homicide investigation in oakland after the death of a 4-month-old baby. the baby was rushed to c hildren's hospital yesterday morning. but the baby did not survive. we have very few details about the case right now. but they're are reports the baby may have been suffocated. no arrests have been reported. that investigation continues. later today police 234 err -- police in hercules hope to get some answers in another sad incident involving a child. doctors say the little girl is making a rapid recovery at children's hospital in oakland. police are still out there l ooking for the gunman and they don't believe that little girl was the intended target. >>> 8:06. the big news from washington, d.c. came just one hour ago. the u.s. supreme court has

one to beat the fall in the garden of eden. well, that is just an old death. so, you can reject that one. a more tempting one might be a genetic explanation. people are evil because of their genes. and that one is obviously thought with danger. so people are not really going to go for the. i'm what is left basically that people are shaped by their exterior environments -- the most important part is economics if you want to perfect the road to perfect economic environment. what does environmental -- environmentalism say? is that we were much better off before all of this. and okay, what is modern efficiency got us? well, it got us the holocaust, for example, which was old-fashioned anti-semitism rate to modern economic efficiency. it got us atom bombs in the end. and so, the modern project of progress -- even economists have more doubts, but that basically is the object of environmental criticism. and you can see with rachel carson and silent spring, which was the seminal book starting the environmental movement -- i mean until that are in the 50s, ddt had been

. >> yes he's at eden high school with a very serious head injury. >> reporter: thank you so much.ergeant jd nelson joining us about an incident that lasted four minutes but had serious preprocushions. we'll have more live from hayward coming up. >>> the oakland police department is facing the challenge of operating with a dwindling force. the chronicle reports six of the 33 patrol beats are left uncovered. there are only five officers to handle all investigations ranging from car thefts to burglaries. opd is expected to lose more officers to retirement and other police departments. a voter approved parcel tax keeps dozens of officers from street patrols. >>> the battle over same sex marriage reaches a historic level this morning as a federal appeal court takes up a legal challenge to proposition 8. the panel will hear two hours of arguments beginning at 10:00 a.m.. first both sides will argue over whether the sponsors of proposition 8 have legal standing to appeal a federal judges ruling that struck down california's same sex marriage ban. the partial will hear arguments about the

london ruled that he could be released on approximately $320,000 bail while he fought extradition to eden. but swedish prosecutors appealed the decision and it is set for tomorrow. he was arrested last week because he is wanted for questioning in sweden on sex ime charges. if he is released on bail, he'll stay on the 600 eric estate own by one of his supporters. he raise someday eyebrows in court yesterday when he asked the judge to keep the address a secret. the judge refused. >>> one las vegas's poshest casis is looking for a man who stole more than $1.5 million worth of chip. police say a chief on a motorcycle robbed the bellagio yeerday morning. they stay armed man pulled up to the casino and took the chips. he hasn't been seen since. investigators believe he may be the same man responsible for a similar heist at e sun coast hotel and casino last thursday. >>> travelers may be packing more than just presents when they rid amtrak. starting today, passenger are allowed to check gun an ammunition in their luggage on certain rail cars. there are some restrictions though. first you muste t

. ♪ live on top of the world >> one more time ♪ let's get back to eden and live on top of the world ♪r developments of the day. >> ifill: president obama announced the outline of the compromise of republicans that extends existing tax cuts for two years. it also extends jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed for another 13 months. the president spoke from the eyesen hour executive office billing next to the white house a short time ago. >> without a willingness to give on both sides, there's no reason to believe that this stalemate won't continue well into next year. this would be a chilling prospect for the american people. whose taxes are currently scheduled to go up on january 1 because of arrangements that were made back in 2001 and 2003 under the bush tax cuts. i am not willing to let that happen. i know there's some people in my own party and in the other party who would rather prolong this battle, even if we can't reach a compromise. but i'm not willing to let working families across this country become collateral damage for political warfare here in washington. i'm not

the first time in five weeks this afternoon darryl steen set eyes on his beloved pitbull diamond at eden pet hospital in the valley. the two last saw each other on the night it left the single father and his two daughters homeless. >> saved my family. i owe her everything, you know. i owe this dog everything. >> reporter: steen told us 1- year-old diamond is a quiet dog. she rarely barks. but on october 24th around 1:30 a.m. diamond woke steen up by barking. >> i wanted to know what she was barking up so i got up and what are you barking at? i go to my living-room and the whole living-room was engulfed in flames. >> reporter: he and his whole family escaped with only the clothes on their backs. rushed to the hospital with smoke inhalation. steen thought she died in the fire. diamond suffered serious injuries, nerve damage to one leg and burns to 30% of her body. she is expected to make a full recovery. >> she will have permanent scarring so she will always have that sort of her badge of honor. >> i appreciate it so much what you guys did. >> she has become sort of a mascot for everybody.

the first time in five weeks this afternoon darryl steen set eyes on his beloved pitbull diamond at eden pet hospital in the valley. the two last saw each other on the night it left the single father and his two daughters homeless. >> saved my family. i owe her everything, you know. i owe this dog everything. >> reporter: steen told us 1- year-old diamond is a quiet dog. she rarely barks. but on october 24th around 1:30 a.m. diamond woke steen up by barking. >> i wanted to know what she was barking up so i got up and what are you barking at? i go to my living-room and the whole living-room was engulfed in flames. >> reporter: he and his whole family escaped with only the clothes on their backs. rushed to the hospital with smoke inhalation. steen thought she died in the fire. diamond suffered serious injuries, nerve damage to one leg and burns to 30% of her body. she is expected to make a full recovery. >> she will have permanent scarring so she will always have that sort of her badge of honor. >> i appreciate it so much what you guys did. >> she has become sort of a mascot for everybody.

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anyway, i walked through the village of eden wore row of the seven seas, not a particularly difficult place to navigate as there are only about 40 houses, to where they lived. and there was her husband with his arms folded at the garden gate. he said, i understand you're a writer. i said, yes. he said, i imagine you're here to see emily. i said, i would like to. he said, no, absolutely not. that story was so embarrassing to me and to her and to everyone on the island, we never want it repeated so it'll go away. and he was the only -- he and emily were the only two islanders i never got to see. so anyway, i did all sorts of other things and then got back to where i was living at the time and wrote a book in which there was a big chapter about tristan decuna, and i quoted those two paragraphs from derek booy's book because they were beautiful, and it was a very tender piece of writing about a young naval officer with his unrequited love affair for this island girl. so i thought no more about it. then in the 1990s i was in the south atlantic lecturing on various islands like south georgi

contact with members of the allied governments most importantly with the churchill government, anthony eden, and to try to let them know, there are germans inside germany who are involved in this plot to kill hitler. so this is what bonhoeffer's main role is. he continues to write. write the "ethics" during the time. in 1943 he becomes engaged. in the book for the first time i tell the story of the love affair. for him he was late in life. he's 36. he never thought he would get married. the times were difficult. i'm going to serve god. it's not going to be part of my life. he meets the woman. they fall in love. i tell that through the letters. i should say that the previous big biography on bonhoeffer the only one published by 1967. extraordinary book. but he didn't feel the freedom to write about the love affair. they have not been published. i have the joy of being the first one to tell the story. there were a number of things that haven't come out until recently. this is to me a beautiful story. he gets engaged, but no sooner than he gets engaged, he's arrested. they finally catch up wit

make contact with members of the allied governments most importantly withor the governmet anthonyt, edend to try to len them know that there are germans inside germany who are involved in this plot to kill hitler. so this is what bonhoeffer'ser's rain -- main role is. he continues to write during this time and is travelingh around. 1943 he becomes engage.e in the book for the first time i tell the story of this love th affair that he has been for him it was late in life. he never thought he would get. married because the times are so difficult. he thought i'm just going to serve god and is not going to b. part of my life that i get to be married. he meets this woman, they fall in love and it is a beautiful story. i tell that story through theght letters that were published inbi 1992. the previous biography was published in 1967, an extraordinary book but he didn't feel the freedom to write about this loved affair and these letters had not been published so i have the joy of being the first one to tell the story and a number of other things in the book that hadn't come out until more rece

. >> off he goes to the site of the garden of eden. he didn't like it when he got there.ig leaves. no apples. >> osgood: robert riply died of a heart attack in 1949 at the age of 58. but his "believe it or not" tradition continues to this day in newspapers, online, and at 85 attractions around the world including a believe it or not museum in new york where it all began. among its features, replicas of a two-headed cat. robert riply's own personal collection of beer steins and what is billed as the world's largest collection of shrunken heads. today the riply organization is marking the anniversary of that very first cartoon while looking ahead to another celebration this coming saturday. it turns out robert riply was born in 1890 on christmas day. believe it or not. there's no place like home for the holidays. coming up, we'll get you there. ,,,,,, ♪ i'm gonna get it, i know i'm gonna get it. ♪ ♪ i can't wait ♪ every little step, brings me closer to the gift. can't be late. ♪ ♪ rip it open in a second and it's time to play. ♪ ♪ i was up all night in anticipation feeling

we like eden prairie, by the way.e nicest places to live in the country. it's buried this morning. let's get to how the arctic air unlocked in the south. even in atlanta, folks from atlanta, you're getting record low temperatures. you're two degrees below your record low. and the cold air goes all the way to the deep south. in the west, we'll find the warmer temperatures leaving. and we get >>> there is some clearing overhead would sunshine to warm you up but it is still very cold outside. in the teens to near 20's. when you factor in the wind chill, it feels like we are in the single digits. it is very cold and windy with a wind advisory until 10:00 p.m. with ties only near 30 degrees. we cannot rule out isolated snow showers tonight and tomorrow. oh. was that something with the music? hi. we'll have more weather in times square in the next half hour. >> robin said it was the album cut, sam. >> okay. >>> now, just hearing the phrase internal decapitation makes you wince. when i first heard it, i wondered how it was p

we like eden prairie, by the way.of being one of the nicest places to live in the country. it's buried this morning. let's get to how the arctic air unlocked in the south. even in atlanta, folks from atlanta, you're getting record low temperatures. you're two degrees below your record low. and the cold air goes all the way to the deep south. in the west, we'll find the warmer temperatures leaving. and we get the systems that are sliding down the coastline. in comes some damp a oh. was that something with the music? hi. we'll have more weather in times square in the next half hour. >> robin said it was the album cut, sam. >> okay. >>> now, just hearing the phrase internal decapitation makes you wince. when i first heard it, i wondered how it was possible and what it could mean. for the parents of 2-year-old mi kah andrews, it was clear. after a car accident, his neck snapped. this is extraordinary. we throw this word around a lot. medical miracle. >> this is one if there ever was one. george, if not for the quick think

duke of wellington famously observed at the battle of waterloo that it had been one on the field of eden. the bell for america's future will be won or lost in its public schools -- the battle for america's future will be won or lost in its public schools. there is a debate for those who want more accountability and those who see the need for more resources. in truth, no one who has seen the conditions in our urban schools can deny the need for more resources and no one who believes in incentives can deny the need for more accountability. the race to the top, the administration has sought to provide resources and increasing accountability. these efforts will have to be greatly magnified in the future. even as we strengthened elementary and secondary education, but we must also expand higher education opportunities. the u.s. used to lead the world in the share of its young people who became college graduates. it is no longer in the top 10. worse yet, over the last generation, in coming? in this land of equal opportunity -- income gaps in this land of equal opportunity and college attendanc

this is eden prairie, minnesota. shows a huge snow drift at his back door.door was easier to navigate. if you'd like to contribute to our i-report, go to cnn.com, click on the i-report tab. >>> flooding and mud slides led some people to evacuate their homes in parts of western washington state. 6:00 some rivers crested after record levels after more than 3 inches of rain fell on seattle over a 24-hour period. meteorologists say the worst of the flood danger is over, but more rain is expected today. >>> also today, the tax cut deal that president obama cut with republicans could clear its first hurdle. a test vote is expected in the senate. >>> after a rough week for the white house last week, this could be a sign that momentum is swinging in their favor. ed henry's live at the white house this morning. and ed, this may have all started after a surprise appearance in the white house briefing room on friday. >> that's right, joe. former president bill clinton. they had a scheduled meeting, we knew about that late on friday afternoon, but we didn't expect the t

much like the fruit from the garden of eden is so attractive, but it's not going to be good for us because's no diversification of thoughts. can you picture a well-known constitutional scholar whose way of teaching a class out of the constitution and the fact that he keeps trying to violate it. guest: in terms of awe raelian, i would sub nate this digital learning -- traditionally the teacher in the classroom. i found most often not to be awe raelian either. but it does permit regular access and permit the student to engage different sources of information. and it also permit it is student to have access to information that he or she otherwise would not have. but indeed what other areas that can be useful is to provide students in a community which has one dominant industry and permit it is student now by being online to be able to see and have his or her eyes open and be made aware of a number of opportunities. so i see this as opening doors and not closing them and certainly not directing people in a certain direction. i have not seen the internet and all the blogosphere. i had not seep

duke of wellington famously observed at the battle of waterloo that it had been one on the field of eden. the bell for america's future will be won or lost in its public schools -- the battle for america's future will be won or lost in its public schools. there is a debate for those who want more accountability and those who see the need for more resources. in truth no one who has seen the conditions in our urban schools can deny the need for more resources and no one who believes in incentives can deny the need for more accountability. the race to the top, the administration has sought to provide resources and increasing accountability. these efforts will have to be greatly magnified in the future. even as we strengthened elementary and secondary education, but we must also expand higher education opportunities. the u.s. used to lead the world in the share of its young people who became college graduates. it is no longer in the top 10. worse yet, over the last generation in coming? in this land of equal opportunity -- income gaps in this land of equal opportunity and college attendance

police say 19-year-old brennan eden was traveling at over 100 miles an hour, when he lost control, spedhrough the median, went airborne and smashed into a concrete bridge pillar. watch and you can actually see him bounce across the payment. >> i just remember driving regularly, the speed limit, just like anyone else. >> reporter: this is all that was left of brennan's 1980 firebird. the car literally in pieces. >> we have a vehicle that does this much damage, how another vehicle wasn't involved is amazing actually.brennan was ta to the hospital in an air ambulance. his mother, a trauma nurse was 40 miles away. >> i was wondering what i was going to see, how i was going to able to handle him in such critical condition. >> reporter: brennan was in intensive care for several weeks and underwent four surgeries before he learned to walk again. doctors say there's no medical logic to explain his survival, but the fact that he was thrown from the car may be one explanation. >> i don't remember any speeding, crashing, nothing. >> reporter: shortly before the accident, police approached brennan'

but this eden of biovdiversity s in danger.ad which has strong political support in this poor country is a scandalously bad idea. we set off in a four by four jeep on the trails and dirt roads that could soon become a 33-mile, two-lane highway. our first impression, zebras, wildebeests and others -- >> now there's just a few trails used mostly by tourists and park rangers here, but you have to drive very slowly so you don't hit the wildlife. imagine a thoroughfare through here. zebras jumped out of the way, lions -- environmentalists say the road could even stop the great migration of animals. thousands of wildebeests on the open plains, it's the greatest migration of land mammals on earth and it is breathtaking. you can hear the snorting, feel the hooves pounding the earth like a tremor. but not if the road cuts them off from food. princeton university professor andrew dobson was one of 27 renowned environmentsalists to make an appeal not to build the road. >> you get a reduction in the wildlife. in this area it could be as mu