i'm alfred edmond, jr. >> tom: one more note about apple and a glitch with "siri." that's the popular voice command software on the company new iphone 4s. if you have a strong scottish accent, then the personal assistant may present you with a dilemma. listen to the word "reminder." >> create a reminder. >> james, i don't understand. create "alamane"? >> create a reminder. >> sorry, i don't understand. >> tom: that's "nightly business report" for thursday, october 27. i'm tom hudson. good night, everyone. we hope to see all of you again tomorrow night. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

. >> when edmonds is recalling 5,000 pounds of -- wegman's is recalling 5,000 pounds of pine nuts formonella. the cdc has initiated a multistate out of investigation. >> if you are upset about new charges for using your debit card, you are in good company, and president obama is even addressing the issue in a recent speech. why are banks in forcing these charges, and what can be done about it? >> did you like to use your debit card to make purchases? that convenience could soon cost you. a handful of national banks plan on a carpet -- charging customers a monthly fee. bank of america will charge its customers $5. >> only one other bank is charging $5. consumers should vote with their feet. >> it is good value. you cannot buy the cost of a foot long subway for $5. why is this happening? >> tonight we will hear what the banking industry has to say and we will show you how to pick the right bank for you. >> now, your insta-weather forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> a few showers on hd doppler. some scattered rain showers will track throughout the state of and on through

he talked about bill hewlett and then he talked about edmond land the founder of polaroid. he said edmond land once told me those people that can stand at the intersection of humanities and science, the liberal arts and tenology, that intersection, other people can change the world. and that was his unique genius, and i thought as soon as he said that, he's suggesting a theme for the book, he's being controlling. and maybe going into control it turned out to be right. this this is what creativity's about. we talked about needing to educate more engineers and mat -- mathematicians that's fine. but you have to connect creativity to engineering. the company that does that best, and i suspect will do it best a generation from w is apple because tt's the main thing he injected into the company's dna. >> charlie: look at the reaction. are you at all surprised. >> it does enter the emotional thing. here's a guy that makes an emotional connection. he has a patent on the boxes so that when you open it up and that iphone cradled. his great industrial design partner. they not only pat

as you leave through the hall, on the right-hand side, you will see a statue of edmond burke and edmond burke said that life was a partnership. a partnership in all science, in all art and in all things. because of the nature of that partnership, it could never be achieved in one generation. it could never even be achieved in many generations. it was in fact a partnership between those of us who are living, those of us who are dead and those yet to be born. you have shown today that your generation will be equal to the challenge of that partnership. well done. >> thank you very much. my name is -- i'm a labor and cooperative member of parliament for hamilton west which is just outside in the city of glasgow in scotland. it's a great honor to be here, not only high quality of debate and contributions this afternoon but i have to say probably on behalf of at least four of us in the front. probably the only one we'll get to sit on these benches. >> for some of the -- probably forever. [ laughter ] but it is great to be here and to hear the debate. as conrad said, it's been impressive after

the third class patrick edmond raped and assaulted a female classmate, prosecutors said it happened last october in the woman's dorm room. he is in mississippi. he says the sex was consenual. he is expected to be expelled. >>> one person is dead, another hurt during a car crash on belaire. it happened in kingsville in baltimore county. the 85-year-old's cadillac was hit as she turned left onto belaire road. she died, the driver of the other car was taken to the hospital. >>> at the stroke of midnight a slew of new laws go into effect including one aimed at keeping your hands on the steering wheel. two years ago the legislator made it illegal to text behind the wheel of a moving car. tomorrow that ban will expand to include texting and reading texts. will are a lot of people support that law. expects say it causes 200,000 crashes a year and drivers under 18 are the most likely to get into a text related crash. >> even taking your eyes off the road for just a second to check your text and not texting, it is -- i think that's just a recipe for disaster. >> there is a lot of distraction whil

. >> on welcome to gusher in edmond okla. oil is gushing into the air from a pipeline. hidden underground pipe yesterday causing that break crews have been working to contain the oil which has been running off into a nearby pond, officials say that there is no danger to people in the area, just of release strong odor. no word on just how much oil has been spilled. >> when you think of bombers country you think of people and places not of gang crime but an omniscient gang is suspected in five attacks on homage families in ohio, home invader is cut off men's beards and women's hair, the alleged motive was to humiliate the victims for whom growing here is a blessing. police blame of breakaway group of spirituals differences for suspects are under arrest. 50,000 seasonal workers are expected to be hired for the holidays in november and december. that is the word from the national retail federation which says that the same amount of seasonal workers as last year but still far from the previous session highs, retailers nationwide expect holiday sales to rise above 3% this hol

prosecutors say patrick edmond raped the victim in her dorm room last fall in annapolis. he testified it was consensual. >>> copper thieves are causing major trouble in dale city in woodbridge, virginia. they've stolen copper piping from homes causing water damage and gas leaks. this crime is more common when copper or gold prices are more high and it ends up affecting the entire community. >> if you steal copper, it may take out an entire system, a phone system that works for a hospital and today the beach had seen some problems and the entire lighting system had gone out. >> you can report the copper and metal thefts on straptheftalert.com. if metal is taken from -- scraptheftalert.com if metal is taken from your home or business. >>> the cdc says as many as 17 people have now died from possible listeria traced to colorado canteloupes. 84 people in 19 states have become ill. the death toll is expected to rise because the symptoms can take several weeks to show up. the bacteria has now been spotted in lech fuss. true leaf farms in cal -- lettuce. true left farms in calif

judge nancy edmonds is making certain that umar farouk abdulmutallab understands what he is doing.ds his rights and understands chs after they elected not to present a defense, defense team elected not to present opening argument yesterday in court. looked like the government had a very solid case against the defendant in this case. i spoke with the attorney, anthony chambers or standby attorney anthony chambers yesterday. he promised there would be a big development in court this morning. they convened court this morning after arriving here at the federal building. immediately recessed for some discussions behind closed doors and now we see that they have changed the plea to guilty. martha? martha: big development. thank you very much. mike tobin in detroit. bill: meanwhile mitt romney is calling out the perry campaign saying they need to denounce a dallas pastor who called mormonism a cult. orrin hatch with more on that and the race for the white house and how religion fits into all this next coming up. martha: newt gingrich looking to score points with the candidates last night

. >>> after a long layoff, the capitals are back in action tonight on the road as they play the edmond ton oilers. the caps started this season -0 and are just three wins away from tying the league record for the best win of the season. first, they play the oilers tonight at 9:30. go caps. they have had such an amazing start. >> they really have, yes. and, of course, win the stanley cup. >> advance beyond the first couple of rounds of the playoffs. >>> time right now is 5:27. coming up, new evidence that the gap between the rich and poor issing growing. >> also, police say they know where the body spotted on top of a moving tractor-trailer came from. >>> and next, the graphic images shown on day one of the >>> shocking scene, the jurors in the lululemon murder case get a look at the bloody crime scene inside the posh bethesda store. >>> groeg gap, the richest americans are getting a lot richer. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. welcome back to news 4 today. it's thursday, 27th day of october. taking a live look outside right now, we have 59 degrees in the nation's capital an

some supporters of san francisco mayor edmonds lee are being accused this weekend of filling in ballots residents of chinatown. someone from a rival campaign claims to have caught it all on video. we are told some candidates are calling foul. >> this is video taken by adam with the mayoral campaign on stockton and pacific streets in china town. it shows workers wearing ed lee for mayor shirt set up on ironing boards. it shows workers filling in ballots for residents and telling them for whom to vote. he spoke to us via skype from sacramento. >> i had a canvasser is tell us they saw the workers fill out the ballots themselves. what i saw was the workers using a stencil, holding the stencil over the ballot and having the voter fill in the stencil. >> this activity has enraged ed lee campaign manager, tony winger. >> that group and people doing it having in to do with the merrily's campaign or anything about his campaign. we want that group to cease and desist from anything they are doing from anything under mining the process immediately. >> the group that set it up is the neighborhood al

. >> i'm as much as a populous as the next guy, but this is why we conservatives read our edmond burke, right? these revolutions happen. and we saw the american revolution happen, and there was this big conservative force, where they said, we needed to throw off the yoke, but we needed to make sure to preserve order. liberty and order are often in contention. >> and respect. >> and here we have this the people's revolution. everybody has an idea of what the people are. and maybe the people, for a lot of these revolutionaries, didn't include christians in egypt. >> no, i think that that's a brilliant point. and the interesting thing in watching the protests closer to home, and just in sort of my own learning, and watching how this has happened, is that the whole thing seems to be based on an open source model. which is, the way you solve problems is not with some sort of executive authority, dylan ratigan's here and he says you should do this or tim carney's here and he says you should do this or sam seder or whatever it is, it's we need more food, we need more health, we need more what

a high school football team out of oklahoma. 16-year-old ryan smith, seen here, he's a junior at edmondednesday night a day after he broke his leg in practice. what is not clear how he died. the teenager reportedly treated and released the same night of his injury. >> it he was hit by another student and broke his leg in two places. >> very rare for something like that to happen. very unfortunate. two things that come to mind would be a blood clot developing in the leg after, after the injury. fortunately we don't see them very often. >> he was always pumped up on the field. he was just amazing kid. i can't believe he's gone. bill: sad story there. the medical examiner is trying to determine his cause of death, oklahoma. martha: all right. let's talk about this for you. we are being brutalized she said because of our faith that was from anita perry, texas governor rick perry's wife. his opponents for the gop presidential nomination is beating up on him because of his strong chris00 -- christian values. let's watch. >> our opponents in our party so much of that is i think they look at hi

when they came back into court, standby counsel addressed the judge, just nancy edmonds and said his client wanted to enter a plea of guilty. from there, they went through all of the counts. the judge was very, very specific and very careful to go over all of the counts with him and one by one he said, i plead guilty. to each and every count. and then after that, he read a statement saying i knowingly did all this and was inspired by mr. al awlaki, recently killed in a military action two weeks ago and said he did it 0 to avenge the killing of innocent muslims and the that the u.s. was guilty. he also said he was guilty under u.s. law but not under the law of the koran. after all that ended he said at the end, a la akla which also means god is great, and that was how it ended. >> what was the reaction when he made that statement? >> reporter: well, a lot of buzz. in the courtroom, i was in that overflow room watching it from the overflow room. of course, in the courtroom, you could not leave, but the buzz was to stay in the overflow room or in the courtroom and there was a lot of act

. >> we also have a question from edmond for ray. >> thank you. good morning, ray.out the different kinds of iras i keep hearing about. which one is best for me? how much should i be putting in, and also what will that be by the time i retire? after tax contributions all the money grows tax-free. everything you take out is completely tax-free. all the growth. there's also a roth 401k contribution. many employers offer that feature. after tax contributions, but all the money grows completely tax-free when you take it out. take a look at those two options. i like roth 401k because your employer may match your contribution. s then roth ira, can you do an additional $5,000 a year. you just do $5,000 a year for the next 35 years until you're, like, age 62, okay? you could have almost $700,000 tax-free in a roth ira, which is a couple hundred thousand more than you would have nay traditional ira, all tax-free. >> great. carmen. thanks to all of you. we appreciate it. if you have questions about your finances, go to our website cbsnews.com, where our experts will be able t

the philosopher edmond burke would flinch if he saw the current brand of g.o.p., they are extremist around reactionary and not conservative in the best sense of that term. i think there is an attempt that has been the project of the right the last 40 to 50 years, 70 years, to repeal the core elements of the new deal. and i think that now and i wrote a column in the "washington post" two weeks ago there is even an intent to reject the core principles of the enlightenment, to reject the idea of reason of fact based evidence. we see it on the debate about climate science. we see it in michelle bachman's treatment of vaccine contributing to mental instability among children to receive vaccine. i think there's been a degradation of our political debate and discorpse and i think hannity and limbaugh contribute to that. that is not to say there is not on the left there are people who like to make noise and be more sensation it is most stic but often tethered to facts whereas i would arc there is a -- i would argue there is a lot of untethering from facts on the right. and people have a right to t

as you leave through the hall, on the right-hand side, you will see a statue of edmond burke and edmond burke said that life was a partnership. a partnership in all science, in all art and in all things. because of the nature of that partnership, it could never be achieved in one generation. it cld never even be achieved in many generations. it was in fact a partnership between those of us who are living, those of us who are dead and those yet to be born. you have shown today that your generation will be equal to the challenge of that partnership. well done. >> thank you very much. my name is -- i'm a labor and cooperative member of parliament for hamilton west which is just outside in the city of glasgow in scotland. it's a great honor to be here, not only high quality of debate and contributions this afternoon but i have to say probly on behalf of at least four of us in the front. probably the only one we'll get to sit on these benches. >> for some of the -- probably forever. [ ughter ] but it is great to be here and to hear the debate. as conrad said, it's been impressive afternoon a

civil rights wasn't the result of one man's great speech in washington or one famous march across the edmond pettis bridge. a fight for women's rights and fair pay and protections for the disabled, none of those fights were easy, yet in the last few years, we celebrated the 90th anniversary of the 19th amendment, the 75th anniversary of social security, the 45th anniversary of the voting rights act, the 20th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act. what will we celebrate in 20 years or 45 years or 75 years from what we have done here this year? how will we show the march to our justice is the march of our nation's progress? we do so by marching with his spirit rather than standing in his shadow? dr. king said of reverend shuttlesworth -- quote -- "he proved to his people that he would not ask anyone to go where he was not willing to lead." that's a testament to his courage. four years ago, then a candidate for president, president obama escorted shuttlesworth across the bridge in alabama. on behalf of a grateful state, ohio, and with in partnership with senator portman, senator sh