commonwealth edison recently earned a low score on the j.d. power and associates survey of utility services the ranked one 12th out of 124 for overall performance and next to the bottom in the rankings for customer satisfaction that survey was taken before storms in june and july that knocked out power to hundreds and thousands in the chicago area ... just days after his trial began a judge declares a mistrial in the federal perjury case against roger clemens tensions are rising on both sides of the isle the warning that president obama is issuing as the heated debt talks s sheet or bar? how do you get your bounce? oh i'm a forgetter. i tend to forget things all the time. so i'm a bar person. i don't need to remember the dryer sheet, so if i forget i'm still good. woman: (shouting) remember the bar! [ tires squeal ] an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual insurance if your car's totaled, we give you the money to buy a car that's one model-year newer with 15,000 fewer miles on i

reinaldo rueda concluyó sus entrenamientos previos partió el domingo ante paraguay, afirmó que luego de edison alemania para el mayor femenino el partido entre japón y méxico, partidazo para las japonesas después de 90 minutos victoria de japón, la gran figura del partido congolés a los 13.19 y 80 minutos, ahora con esto japón clasifica los cuartos de final, pasamos al encuentro entre nueva zelanda inglaterra 2-1 resultado final victoria de inglaterra. y terminamos en el mundo del tenis para la semifinal del torneo vivió partidazo india, empezamos con el duelo entre el español rafael nadaly británico andy murray como murray intentando avanzar a la final pero no debió permitir el español, victoria de nadal en cuatro sets. para pasamos al otro partido entre el número dos del mundo novak djokovic, y jo-wilfried tsonga, djokovic sólo buscaba avanzar a la final para quitarle número uno a nadal y eso fue lo que su triunfo en cuatro sets. y ahora es el nuevo rey, es el nuevo número uno del mundo, pero me sobra con eso ya están al tanto con último del mundo deportivo, vamos una breve pausa pero no se

and power edison expect to pump more power to new york today than any other day in the history. you thought the debt and deficit talks were hot and heavy before, they are certainly not getting any easier. >> i guess we're all getting frustrated. it's 100 and some degrees heat index outside, and i can understand people getting worked up about this sort of thing. >>> more on politics in a moment. i want to start with a street level view of what has to be considered an emergency. justin bruno heads up the office of emergency management. he is kind enough to step outside and tell us what he has been up today. thank you for making the time and braving the heat. is your city in emergency mode right now? >> we absolutely are. we have temperatures we have never seen before. heat indexes will be 105 to 115, which are record numbers. the power grid is significant, and you mentioned that in your earlier comments. we do expect to see more power demand than ever before in new york city. we have activated our emergency operation center, a situation room. we have agencies present, and one thin

stevenson expressway were flooded some vehicles made it through but at least one car stalled commonwealth edison continues working to restore power to thousands man in the north suburbs at the height of the storm hundred 45,000 customers were in the dark that number drops significantly at this hour 22,000 people are without power 15,000 of those are in the northern suburbs 3000 without power in the southern suburbs 3500 people are without power in chicago >>nancy loo is up north with the report >>everywhere you look in illinois beach state park there is devastation among the natural beauty ... last night the storm did a big number on this popular summer destination half of the trees are down at the resort where there is some roof damage and there are two weddings scheduled for tomorrow >>the meeting rooms look good we still plan to go ahead with those weddings >>the sleeping rooms will have some damage in maybe people will be accommodated elsewhere >>some suspect there was a tornado here in scion beach park and winthrop harbor lines are down as well as trees >>people can't recall ever seeing suc

incandescent lamps in the eighteenth seventy's using carbon filaments renowned american inventor thomas edison introduced improved elements that extended relatively short life of electric bulbs to forty then to over one thousand hours by the early twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulb still in use today were already emerging and lamps appeared in the. at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact florescent stores were pioneered in the seventy's and are still a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency. diodes may be seen in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making the lighting of the future. future the big shots the octagon factory opening. clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on and she was joined by top level dignitaries and investors from moscow and beyond it's a project that state high tech corporation is happy to throw its weight behind. in the field. in fact. all of this physical technical institut

inventor thomas edison introduced improved extended relatively short life of electric bulbs forty. twentieth century the tungsten filament light bulbs still in use today were already emerging . at the end of the one nine hundred fifty s. and high pressure sodium street lighting in the sixty's compact stores. were pioneered in the seventy's and are still a popular option as we move towards energy efficiency. diodes may be seen in the ninety's with improvements in technology since then showing incredible flexibility and efficiency quite possibly making. the future. future big shots to the octagon factory opening. clearly understood the positive impact of having the company on and she was joined by dignitaries and investors from. state. is happy to throw its weight behind. in the field. in fact. cademy it all of this. fundamental physics and cutting edge technology since the days of its founder. would soon. train the ranks of the soviet union's top nuclear scientists they also begin work on semiconductors that underpins virtually all modern electronics. was one of the institutes in th

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endorsed by thomas edison, queen victoria.au with six ounces of cocaine in every bottle. then a copy cat wine. >> the great mother of invention. he took cola nuts and syrup and made the refreshing drink we call coca-cola. >> he wrote in an 1895 letter. >> i need a lot of cocaine. >> he finally stopped using it after he and a friend of his used cocaine on a patient and nearly killed her. >> by then, other doctors worried, too. >> too many people were taking too much cocaine and they were presenting as addicts who needed the stuff. they could not live without it. that is when doctors began to say, huh, we better rethink this. >> by 1923, cocaine was not in coca-cola. >> by 1920s and 1930s, the cole porter song, "i get no kicks from champagne." one sniff bores me terrifically. ♪ i'm sure that if ♪ one sniff ♪ that would hold me ♪ to riff >> you saw it as well in charlie chaplin's modern times. he is in jail and he accidentally takes cocaine that he thinks is salt. because another jail bird puts his cocaine in a salt shaker. he is

that would keep the market for cheaper incandescent bobs which haven't changed a lot since thomas edison in vented them. the government shouldn't force folks to buy those. did i answer your question? >> indeed, nicole, you did. thank you very much. let's turn to christina loren, meteorologist christina loren. hello. you're putting on your mike i can tell. >> a mike malfunction. let me hook it in. live television. welcome to hump day. it's going to be good if you live inland, near the coast in san francisco, one of those gray, cold days. you'll need that jacket. take a look at measured rainfall yesterday. measured precipitation coming from that really thick fog. you'll likely encounter that on your way to work this morning. probably going to need those windshield wipers from the east bay to south bay up through the peninsula this morning and north bay as well. we have very, very foggy conditions. as a result, the fog is so thick that it's generating a mist. this is the reason why. we've got this area of low pressure, a really stubborn area here, kind of sitting and spinning over the pacif

. >> they call it an edison base or a medium base. it goes in the regular light bulb. >> reporter: and the other one? >> this is a compact fluorescent light, this particular one is a 15 watt. the new kid on the block. >> reporter: a lot brighter. >> a lot brighter. >> reporter: does anybody say they're too harsh? >> if they're too harsh, you can down wattage. >> while the lights my differ some, some say the old light bulbs are electric heaters that give off a little bit of light. 90% of the energy is given often by heat. >> reporter: but the new bulbs also contain small amounts of mercury. >> if i dropped this light bulb, we would have to evacuate the house of representatives, according to the epa light bulb law. >> reporter: one group freedom action opposes the ban with the video of a black marketeer dealing with the black market of the future. >> reporter: there is one problem with selling incandescent light bulbs in texas. >> reporter: but then a light bulb went off in george lavender's head. >> if we attract light bulb manufacture

. >>> finally, a victory, at least temporarily, for 16 hindus in edison, new jersey. a state court of appeals ruled the hindus can go ahead with their lawsuit against a restaurant that served them non-vegetarian food after assuring them their meal was meatless. the hindus want the restaurant to pay them sufficient damages to cover trips to india so they can purify themselves in the ganges river. >> that's our program for now. i'm bob abernethy. you can follow us on twitter and facebook, find us on youtube, and watch us anytime, anywhere on smart phones and iphones. there's also much more on our web site. you can comment on all of our stories and share them. audio and video podcasts are also available. join us at pbs.org. & ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis-based private family foundation dedicated to its founders' interest in religion, community development, d education. additional funding by mutual of america, designing and customizing individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corpo

these indians went to an edison restaurant and served something else.rdered and went back to the restaurant and sued them. they say now they have eaten consumed meat, which is forbidden for certain hindus. they have to go to india to cleanse their souls. >> that's what they feel they have to go to india. they can't go to a temple here? >> that is what the debate is about. a lot of hindus are angry for them what they say -- they say these people are taking advantage of american law. in fact, one of the indian leaders i spoke to yesterday in edison called it a hypocrisy of the law. they said they could very well go to a temple here. they are taking extreme measures. >> interesting because this sin was committed in mistake. >> they didn't knowingly do it. they want to go to the river where the hindu religion start. >> veggie fries? >> they came french fries being fried in vegetable oil but the french fries themselves campaigned beef products and they had -- it was a dozen 10 million settlement in 2002. >> can you tell me why this is so important to devout

thanks marina good morning and welcome to the business update italy's second largest utility edison has renegotiated the pricing of its long term gas contracts with russia the italian company says it might be able to save up to two hundred eighteen million dollars now industry analysts believe the agreement could have a wider impact on other european operators many of them are seeking to renegotiate long term contracts with supplies from russia and algeria. russia's resuming vegetable imports from hungary in the past few weeks russia's consumer watchdog has also lifted restrictions on eight other e.u. nations including france belgium and the netherlands the ban on the verge was imposed early in june after a deadly outbreak of e. coli in germany u.s. lawmakers are racing against the clock to forge a deficit reduction deal the agreement would clear the way for congress to raise the fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling if the politicians talks get stuck the u.s. may suffer a damaging default but this could spur demand for u.s. bonds as the chief economist as burbank he explain

and this is the second largest utility edison has reading go cheated the pricing of its long term gas contracts with russia the italian company says it might be able to save up to two hundred eighty million. dollars industry analysts believe the agreement could have a wider impact on other european operators many of them are sitting in to be gauche if we negotiated long term gas contracts with suppliers from russia and of chariot . and russia has revised its grain output for two thousand and eleven to almost ninety million tons from the previous eighty five million the export forecast has also jumped by three million to eighteen million for the year this is after the country lifted its ban at the beginning of the month the vice president of the country's grain union says russia would take two years before it could adjust its prices back towards the national levels. the use we have had to enter the market in general there is always a premium when entering any market traditionally on the grain market a premium is in the region of ten to fifteen percent in previous years when we were ent

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president back in nineteen twelve this is a this is a tape that was recorded on our racks by thomas edison himself this is teddy roosevelt. don't be. afraid to. give. period. in other words just in summary what teddy roosevelt proposed in nineteen twelve was that a minimum wage a living wage should be enough to live on enough to raise your kids enough to put them through school and if they have a vacation and enough to have retirement we used to call that the united states the middle class and the debate on the viability of social security is another issue that has many of you talking all over the past few weeks i've said several times that despite what republicans want you to think social security is not bankrupt it's not either bankrupting us as a nation or is it itself bankrupt that some of you are still not convinced but here you have senator sanders consciously saying it so security is flush and is like two point four trillion dollars of excess it's funded well then if that's the case so i assume they're going to be checks to people who get so security checks that for your file cabine