so i think it shows edison been edison in a context where we say thomas edison, money. who knew?so i will open it up to questions. [applause] >> david, very interesting talk. i was struck by the apparent similarity of some of his ideas and some of the populist ideas of the late 18th century, similar deflationary episode that people were struggling with it the farmers are very much the backers of populism in the very much the banks of new york. a bit of anti-semitism, all this conspiracy talk to you to define any connection between addison's ideas in the populist group? >> well, there are and is probably one of those things edison had a bit of an idea because he's living proof of the time. and the 1870s 1980s, the southern alliance, which was a farmers group proposed that they called sub treasury plan, which was a warehouse commodity storage plan. i don't think edison knew about that. he never referred to it instead i'm borrowing from this plant. and we first learned about that thanks to a tip from my sons teacher who was reading about it in high school. but that also feeds into w

i think edison -- and edison missed a boat a little. he also wouldn't rent or sell cars on the installment plan until he was finally forced to by chevy in the 1920s. ford didn't want the buyer to get in over the head. it's also true probably and i heavy society two-thirds of the population was on the farm. how do you repossess a car that the farmer stops making payments on? where do you find the car? in a 1600 acre farm? it's around. good luck. right. it just doesn't work as well on the farm as it does in the city. i think it was more the interest as opposed to, you know, being located. i think it was close to new york city because the facilities, the work force, and the -- he loved writing to poem. we have evidence of in new. if you're in new york call and we'll give you direction, come see us. >> we're being more pragmatic than the people on wall street. >> well, i think we're all say -- [inaudible] that's one thing edison wrote. the -- [inaudible] they knew exactly what the banker was doing. he sunt the intent that is bad. it's the s

more importantly appleton was the first place somebody other than thomas edison without edison's team of geniuses working around him tried to take this technology and apply it in the real world and failed miserably. when you understand why h j rodgers failed you will have a better understanding of how our grid works today and why there are some problems with it. a rogers -- h j rodgers's first problem was a technical problem. he had no idea what he was doing with the technology he purchased. there were no such thing as electric line men in 1882 or even electrical engineers. that was a dog thomas edison's staff was inventing as they went along in new york city and none of them had come west, he bought this technology but hadn't paid anybody to do it. it is harder to manage than he thought. the electric grid is like a river a water park. it isn't just one wire that connects you to a power plant. it is a circus of wires that connect power plants to consumers and back around to the power plant again and you have to have had complete loop or you will get blackouts. likewise the grid has to

sebastián, el creador de una red de crimen, tenemos la información de cuál podría ser el destino de edisonde la justicia lo busca por tráfico de narcóticos. >>> la captura de alias sebastián es un golpe morta para la oficina de envigado, tiene orden de extradición y lo vamos a hacer. >>> en su poder las autoridades encontraron un sofisticado arsenal, una subametralaldora, dos lanzagranadas, pistolas y munición. >>> se reconoce muy bien la relación con la organización de los zetas en méxico, donde han compartido el narcotráfico, y gran parte del a violencia. >>> edison vargas comenzó como sicario y después a sangre y fuego s eposicionó como líder del cartel de envigado, alias valenciano, su enemigo dio valiosa información para iniciar la persecuc. >>> 40 hombres especializados, hicieron el trabajo de llegar en horas de la noche, no fueron detectados. >>> freddy, subalterno de sebastián, a quien la policía siguió en las últimas semanas fue capturado en las últimas horas. >>> desde junio del año pasado comenzaron a caer los principales subalternos de alias sebastián , hace 8 meses lograron la

host: david owens, vice president of the edison electric institute. what is that isn't electric institute? guest: privately-owned electric companies not just in the u.s. but overseas. roughly, two-thirds of the electricity we use today is provided by privately owned companies. these are companies that sell securities on wall street's. some of those companies are privately owned by individuals. but for the most part, we are a vital part of our society. most end-users get their electricity from privately owned utilities, which are represent. host: if you'd like to join the conversation, here are the numbers to call -- here's an image from npr visualizing the u.s. electric grid. we see three main sections, the eastern grid, the western grid, and texas. guest: that is our. . the grid is policed by an organization called the north american collector >> reliability organization published electrical reliability organization. they created an organization which is policed by the federal energy regulatory commission that makes sure the lights stay on. the grits

and thomas edison and his streak of genius that seems to invent just about everything. and scientists and chemists bring home their bundles of nobel prizes and the engineers and their ability to exploit what we have discovered. yes, be bought to the moon. yes, we did. i use a cell phone and i'm in wonder at the radio wave that can come through concrete walls. at wonder at the information i can command on a little device small enough to fit in my pocket. isn't science wonderful? aren't the people who did it all wonderful. wasn't ronald reagan right when he said his generation, the world war ii generation were born without this wonder, that they were the ones who developed it? >> i don't know where the new ignorance has come from, this refusal to allow scientific evidence that the earth is getting warmer as the snow and ice melt. i don't know what came of us, those religious among us that belief in the moral truths of the bibles and understand that the long history of the planet that predated abraham. the reason we succeed is to learn and then do the right thing.

. >>> asÍ las cosas, las autoridades de colombia capturaron cerca de medellÍn a edison vargas, considerado narcotrÁfico en ese paÍs. al mando de la organizaciÓn criminal. se le acusa de mantener alianzas. su extradiciÓn a estados unidos estÁ en tramite. >>> vÍctima de un infarto en el baÑo de su casa en cali muriÓ uno de los compositores mÁs destacados de colombia. jairo varela, tenÍa 62 aÑos. el conocido mÚsico autor de destacados temas que han dado vuelta al mundo. nos dejan escuchar algo de eso. >>> jairo varela viviÓ lo suficiente para saber que su gran pasiÓn, la mÚsica lo harÍa inmortal. el hombre que soÑÓ y vivio por nietsche uno de los mÁs grandes grupos de la historia de la salsa muriÓ en su apartamento al parecer de una afecciÓn cardiaca. >>> hemos reconocido en jairo varela un gran compositor. un gran mÚsico 30 aÑos con el grupo nietsche. disfrutando con ellos. y muy triste para la cultura colombiana. >>> >>> la historia de su vida lleÓo a su en in en cali. la misma ciudad que hizo inolvidables ocasiones el himno de su... >>> 7 aÑos pasaron desde que sonÓ con el grupo. es mÁs bo

thomas edison and his streak of genius that seemed to invent just about everything.we are today each year when the american physicists and scientists and chemists bring home bundles of nobel prizes. the engineers and wonderful abilities to exploit, yes, we've got to the moon and yes we did. i used a cell phone and i'm in wonder at the radio wave that can come through concrete walls. i'm in wonder with the information on a little device to put in my pokts. aren't the people who did all wonderful? wasn't ronald reagan right? the world war ii generation were born without all this wonder and they developed it. i don't know where this new ignorance came from. this crazy rejection of all man kind has learned. the refusal for scientific evidence that the earth is warmer even as the snow and ice melt. i don't know what came of us who believed in moral truths of the bible but understood the discovery the bones and other

. >> edison for the interpreter. >> good evening, miss lopez. have you had a chance to lead -- or read the declaration that ivory madison submitted for these proceedings? >> yes. >> did you see what she said about the conversation that the to have you had on january 1? >> yes. >> are the things that she said you said during that conversation accurate? are they true? >> no. there is some misunderstanding. >> you remember where she wrote in the declaration that you told her that after you and ross return to your house, inside the apartment, he was pushing and remember that? >> yes. >> you already testified that when you were grabbed the one time in the car, you had a >> yes. >> if he was pushing and pulling and grabbing you, wouldn't you have had a few more bruises? >> objection, argumentative. >> overruled. >> i am sure because i bruce really easily. but i get bruised. >> did he ever push or pull or grab you inside your house that day? >> not that day, and never. >> hugh went over to miss madison's house, when you made that video, correct? >> yes

in virginia, traveling alon franconia road, your closures are between edison drive and gum street.ead over to i-95 northbound. north of the occoquan, approaching route one. still police on the scene of the incident. blocking your right shoulder lane. travel lanes are open. heading over to maryland right now, the intersection of seven locks road as well as democracy boulevard. you can see here police are still on the scene of the crash there. good news is the intersection is open but you're going to have to use caution and give yourself a little extra time if you're traveling in this area. angie and eun, back over to you. >>> 69 degrees. an important recall for parents this morning. the popular snack that could be tainted. >>> and get ready to bring your appetite. >>> governing what your kids eat could be the key to keeping them in shape. that's according to a new study. researchers say laws that restrict the sale of junk food and sweet drinks could play a role in keeping kids' weight in check. children gained less weight from fifth to eighth grade if they lived in states with stron

one bay area lawmaker organized an event to give that's what they need edison will stop lisa washington on what is needed. >>> ricardo apps knows firsthand the importance of resources for soldiers returning home from war. >>> for seven years i was lost in sacramento >>> the gulf war veteran spanned 17 years in active duty and then found himself homeless and tune in with a list of physical and mental issues >>> i'll have p.t. est, i have back injuries from my service i have described my shoulder, i get my head on something law was in desert storm. >>> ricardo says he spent the last seven years fighting for disability benefits from the department of veteran affairs and still waiting for approval. >>> i submitted a claim for service connected disabilities seven years ago, and i keep getting deny letters. >>> he is one of many vets that attended this resource center in hayward. >>> they have given all for us we should take care of them >>> one dozen agencies present to help veterans including the disabled american veterans >>> it is talking to someone who understands what you have done and

. >> edison for the interpreter. >> good evening, miss lopez. have you had a chance to lead -- or read the declaration that ivory madison submitted for these proceedings? >> yes. >> did you see what she said about the conversation that the to have you had on january 1? >> yes. >> are the things that she said you said during that conversation accurate? are they true? >> no. there is some misunderstanding. >> you remember where she wrote in the declaration that you told her that after you and ross return to your house, inside the apartment, he was pushing and remember that? >>

and thomas edison's proposal for overhauling the u.s. monetary system after world war i and jamal joseph recounts his life as a member of the black panther party in the 1960s and 70s. >> john kennedy met with earl macmillan, the british prime minister. they discuss arms control or whenever. issues between the two powers. they sure did but only long afterwards did we get the notes on what they said to meet other in private. kennedy spent a lot of time complaining about that press coverage. the press was being tough on jackie and other things and macmillan was a generation older. why do you care? portion of. doesn't matter. you have a bit things to worry about and kenny said that is the -- kennedy said that is easy for you to say. one of the press that your wife was a drunk? mcmillan replied i would simply say you should have seen your mother. it is the kind of thing that later on -- gives you an idea what these people are like. >> historians and biographers use the advantage of hindsight to understand their subjects through a prism of tim

as they did in netherlands also and they sent money edison people. and this was of course the hiden have been there their idea was to radicalize of people because if you take. seems to be a unique thing it is not a unique thing and clearly the word. from saudi arabia has nothing to do with islam of the margins of the turkish but this is from western books and to those people by descent with the always the debate john and dutch authorities and this was seen both for twenty years twenty five and for twenty five years stuff and yes . the saudis were phoning with sending people. for instance. in the. netherlands in daughters and three or four after another for fear of ungar the dutch security. money or the missing clerics in the netherlands and. deformed that seventy sixty to seventy percent of them were unable to understand read speak dutch so very clearly they cannot be a factor of integration they cannot they cannot understand the society in which deliver and in which to follow us. they cannot tell them what was good advice because they don't know and

everybody, where every division is weighed down by you know, massive beurocracy, you know, thomas edisondn't invent the light bulb like that. >> it has gotten so big. thank you so much, kirk eichenwald joining us. >>> coming up next, lydia bastianich and me will sit down and have a meal at the table. and have a meal at the table. >> everybody to the table, with scottrader streaming quotes, any way you want. fully customize it for your trading process -- from thought to trade, on every screen. and all in real time. which makes it just like ving your own trading floor, right at your fingertips. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start.. try our easy-to-use scottrader streaming quotes. [ all ] i'm with scottrade. ♪ ♪ i want to go ♪ i want to win [ breathes deeply ] ♪ this is where the dream begins ♪ ♪ i i want to grow ♪ i want to t try ♪ i can almost touch the sky [ male announcer ] even the planet has an olympic dream. dow is proud to suprt that dream by helping provide greener, more sustainable solutions from thelympic village to the stadium. solutionism. the new op

california utility edison international led that sector losers. while earnings were better than forecast, the electric power producer continues having trouble restructuring the debt of its wholesale power business, threatening to put that unit into bankruptcy if it can't rework its debts, or sell it. shares fell 2.7%, down to a five week low. earlier this week shares traded at their highest price in four years. the company's wholesale business has suffered from a high debt load, aging power plants and low electricity prices. fellow power producer exelon shed 2.2% after coming up shy with its latest quarterly earnings. it also was hit by lower power prices. a different type of power company, first solar was in focus after the closing bell. earnings more than doubled from a year ago, and handily beat analyst average estimates. solar panel makers have suffered from falling prices but first solar has been developing big solar farms, helping its financial performance. this stock was the worst performer in the s&p 500 last year. and they're down 56% so

down by, you know, massive bureaucracy and massive amounts of meetings and memos, you know, thomas edisonidn't invent the light bulb with the los of meetings and memos. >> it's gotten so big that the bureaucracies are there. kurt, good to have you on the program. thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. >> we'll see you soon. >>> coming up next, lydia b bastianich and me will sit down and have a meal at the table. >> everybody to the table and let's eat. >> we'll be right back. ♪ i want to win [ breathes deeply ] ♪ this is where the dream begins ♪ ♪ i want to grow ♪ i want to try ♪ i can almost touch the sky [ male announcer ] even the planet has an olympic dream. dow is proud to support that dream by helping provide greener, more sustainable solutions from the olympic village to the stadium. solutionism. the new optimism.™ ♪ this dream trick question. i love everything about this country! including prilosec otc. you know one pill each morning treats your frequent heartburn so you can enjoy all this great land of ours has to offer like demolition derbies. and drive thru weddings. so if yo

my husband worked 32ears for con edison on pipes. saved $60 a week. he wasoing to buy us a place in south carola when he retired. but tapp cleaned him out. tappan killed him. coronary. he was neverick before. just gave out. the day afte he went down so did i. and . kopinsky told you he'd get your money back right. ii gave him $3,000 to check on ba records in the caribbean. where am i to g $3,000? you never got involved with him? i rounded up $600 from my sister and her daughter. he took it as down payment. then he asked for 600 more. he said he was this clos to tracking down my money. but he ner quite did. i know. if i'm not the biggest fool on earth i don't know who is. some guy les his life savings to tappan then kopinsky cos along and licks the plate. i'd wa to kill him too. what, you want to be reassigned to a squad that tracks down murderers you dot sympathize with? eh, same o cliche-- "the little guy gets screwed." th lawyer's rich clients get some of their moneback and guarantee you he collected his fee. i saved up some money for my retirement.

nuclear program is exclusively peaceful but some world power is suspected of pursuing atomic bombs and edison journalist james corbett has skeptical about the i.a.e.a. as a role in the crisis unfortunately the i.a.e.a. has been exposed during this entire area reining in dispute as as little more than a gang of thugs rather than a bureaucratic agency that's trying to neutrally arbitrate this dispute and really what it demonstrates is that the nuclear powers that that currently exist are really trying to enforce a monopoly on nuclear power and a dictating what countries can or cannot have access to that so that they're attempting to to hold the iranian government which is a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty to higher standards than other members of the i.a.e.a. who are currently using nuclear power and of course one of the biggest detractors of iran in the iranian nuclear program is israel which itself is not a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and has hundreds of nuclear weapons itself which have never been publicly officially disclosed so there's there's a lot go

a panel of judges in chicago as edisonin chicagos edison park neighborhood is determining which% mostt a person that is hung up on money even though i'm in the business, it's more about people. he has done pretty well for himself even though he is modest. they didn't keepif we helped them imagine what they can do for us. like other repair shop owners he sometimes ends up with cars too costly to fix so the owners walkaway he was talking with other shopowner said a conference last year and i thought how hard would it be forced to fit some of those and give them away dekalb their freewheels wheels to prosper. and he knows just which car he is going to bring back to life. a 20054 escape with a loan engine he got his hands dirty and so did all the guys who worked for him. let's finish these breaks. but the biggest culprit may have been in the local parts distributor. it was basically whatever the car needed to keep it running rights that's what we want to do. steve says the only thing the car needs now is an oil change every 3,000 mi. and a new owner. we came here for a recent one person i

edison and san diego gas and electric rung up inspections, repairs and replacement.t has been offline since january after the discovery of damaged tubes that carry radioactive water. >>> officials briefed lawmakers on one of the bishest -- biggest sexual assault scandals in u.s. history. >> we are problem solvers and what happened to us should never happen to another member of the military. >> she is a former navy pilot who blew the whistle 20 years ago. she was assaulted two years ago. today they brought petitions asking for public hearings into the scandal in texas. instructors are accused of assaulting dozens of women. >> the investigations are inadequate. there were a lot of questions they didn't have answers answers to. >> they asked the briefing be closed so comments would not interfere with the investigation. one of the women said the scandal is just the tip of the ice burg. >>> a woman and her daughter narrowly missed being swallowed up by a sink hole. here is the scene. a car on the edge of a 15-foot hole. officials say a sewer main break caused the road to

[laughter] >> if he had been there when edison was testing the light bulb, it would have been a risky anticandle scheme. >> [laughter] >> >> [applause] >> and if he had been there when the internet was invented, -- he now leads the party of franklin delano roosevelt but the only thing he has to offer is fear itself. that outlook is typical of many in washington. always seeing the tunnel at the end of the light. but i come from a different place. and it has made me a different leader. in midland, texas, where i grew up, the town motto was the sky is the limit. and we believed it. there was a restless energy, a basic conviction that with hard work, anybody could succeed. and everybody deserved a chance. our sense of community, our sense of community was just as strong as that sense of promise. neighbors helped each other, there were dry wells and sand storms to keep you humble, life-long friends to take your side and churches to remind us that every soul is equal in value and equal in need. >> [applause] this background leaves more than an accent, it leaves an outlook, optimistic, impat

fox business rick edison explains from washington. >>> it is difficult to resolve differences on taxesspecially when lawmakers cannot agree on tax increase and tax cuts. if congress does nothing taxes increase almost across the board. they want to expend most of the current income rate while allowing tax increase earning 250,000 dollar as year. democrats insist a middle class tax cut. >> every tax payer would receive a tax cut if we extend the middle income tax. >> republicans want to extend all rates for a year and argue anything less is simply a tax increase. >> democrats would risk putting the country into a recession unless they can force congress to vote on the tax increases it would fall on the people. >> it will likely pass in the republicans. they work out the policy definition differences after the election. >> it is a fight going on for years. getting the run around from the department of veteran's affairs. lauren cohn had this story. >> raymond is 86 years old a world war ii veteran. 10 months ago his daughter had him move to a private facility. that was the first time she f

edison runs the plant in san diego county the company says 730 people will lose their jobs. the decision to make the lay-offs follows two year study that look at similar plants and their operations. san onofre has been closed since january ongoing repairs made to the tubes that carry radioactive water. >>> central valley's slaughterhouse shutting down this morning a video surfaced showing cows getting shocked and shot. animal rights group sent the video of the meat company to the agriculture department. it is a major slaughterhouse south of fresno. the company tells us a newspaper it has not seen the video nor does it know who took the pictures. the slaughterhouse is cooperating with the government's investigation. >>> the world's best sailors will race some of the fastest boats on the globe in san francisco bay starting today, kickoff to the america's cup world series. they were practicing yesterday eight teams taking part with a total of 11 boats. the 45 foot catamarans with 70 foot tall masts will be running the course today, official race tomorrow through sunday katie ma

before the immigration judge the hearing was recorded on a voice writer a machine invented by the edison company and they promised clarity in the advertisement. to final disks contain audio mouthful of scratches and pops aramark a wall artifact of another era. 33 minutes of testimony tells the story caught of immigration no man land. of who gets to stay in the united states and who must go. [speaking spanish] the translator instructed. raised your right hand. he said i swear in spanish. of the records pedro victor garcia sounds calm and respectable he would maintain his three cigars per day have it and ask the people on to a political party is in cuba. >> he said we don't have political parties. so he became a guiding spirit it ended a he was ordered deported from the united states he caught a break you're not put on a plane and sent back right away you were ordered to leave and expected to do so. a few days later but i talk about his grandson having good timing he was born under a thatched palm rubin in rural q but his mother was a litter and had polio was a child had good timing. a few

pedro victor garcia's appearing was recorded on an edison voice writer. a machine. they had great clarity in its advertisements. two vinyl discs, containing audio recordings. the record is a remarkable artifact of another era. in 33 minutes of testimony, they tell the story of a man caught in an immigration no man's land. a lesson about the laws but decide who gets to be in the united states in who gets glencoe. the translator instructed, sir, raise your right hand. i swear, garcia, he said in spanish. his voice was a low rumble. on the record, pedro victor garcia sounds calm and respectable. he speaks spanish and a smoky voice. the product of a three cigar a day habit. a habit he maintained into his 80s. he asked people onto political party in cuba. >> we don't have political parties, he said. so he really became a guiding spirit while working on this book. you probably know how this hearing ended. ended with him being being deported from the united states. and he really caught a break, though, in those days you are not necessarily put on the plane and sent back ri

it was, i believe an edison award. and it was a very long, boring evening. the audience looked miserable. and then he just got out, you know, dressed in his tuxedo with a sad face and said, ladies and gentlemen, i have had many bad experiences. this, by far, is the worst. [laughter] >> tell us about life on the s.s. united states back in the heyday from the passenger perspective and the crew perspective. >> well, the ship had three classis, which is something that is very foreign today. only go on cruises we usually have to borrow the ship. back then it was divided. first class usually was reserved for the burial of the. cost the equivalent of around $5,000 up one layperson to go first class. and if you travel first class, especially during the high summer season, you are most likely to run into at least one are to celebrities on board, to name a few, southwest, the kennedys, i don't know if there were on board the same time, but -- i don't know the answer to that one. but actually, president truman, eisenhower, and speaking to crewmembers, observe these cel

[cheers] the american dream is that any among us could become the next thomas edison. next henry ford. the next ronald reagan. but to lead us forward away from this looming debt crisis it will take someone who believes in america's greatness. who believes in and can articulate the american dream. someone who has created jobs, someone who understands and appreciates what makes america great. someone who will lead our party and our nation forward, i believe that someone is our nominee governor mitt romney. [ applause ] as reagan said. our freedom is never more than a generation away from extension. if our freedom is taken, the american dream will wither and die. to lead, we must transform the coldness of austerity into the warm vibrant embrace of prosperity. to overcome the current crisis, we must appreciate and applaud american success. we must step forward, unabarbedly and proclaim did you build that you earned that you worked hard. you studied you labored. you did build that. [ applause ] and you deserve america's undying gratitude for you, the individual are the engi