[applause] >> it is my pleasure to introduce john fitzpatrick. >> thank you so much. i think you are one speaker away from the main attraction so i promise to be brief but i want to say first of all congratulations to the california academy of sciences, the board, and the staff. congratulations to the city of san francisco and the arts commission. congratulations to maya for bringing all of those thoughts and images and connections that this project has gone through to fruition here in this megaphone. it just occurred to me sitting right over there that endangered species and extinct species and threatened ecosystems and migrations around the world that are in peril of being lost because of the human endeavor, they all had a megaphone at this point. congratulations to the city of chicago for having this. what occurred to me is that this is pointed straight at the north american continent. it is broadcasting to the citizens of the entire country and it is carried out all over the world. what we have in store, we hope, the reversal that has begun over the past month. wh

in april she contacted congressman mike fitzpatrick's office for assistance.till getting the run around in july from the department of veteran's affairs she turned to fox 29. >> we have been trying to get answers for the family. i contacted congressman fitzpatri fitzpatrick's office along with the veterans affairs in washington. >> 13 months seems to be the average time for a philadelphia va claim to be processed. as far as i am concerned that's 13 months too long. >> congressman fitzpatrick handles claims much faster than philadelphia. his office received dozens of similar complaints. >> we are not going to rest until ramona receives the disability award he is due. >> they released this statement to fox 29. the department of veteran's affairs is commit to do making sure veterans and families receive the benefits they have earned. we are looking into the specifics of the claims and will be reaching out to the family. >> i was told they would take care of vets, and after this process and what i have been through i am not sure they can take care of their vets an

i'm deidre fitzpatrick for wbal- tv 11 news. back to you. >> maryland matt centrowitz is fourth in the 1,500 meter race last night. the winner is now being questioned about his performance. >> he ran the 800 a couple of days ago and an official said you are not trying that hard. this guy from algeria and goes to a doctor and the doctor said his knee is injured. he was allowed back into the competition and he wins gold. if he did not come back in, where would matt have finished? >> thank you. >> 71 degrees on tv hill. >> rallying behind same-sex marriage. >> committee members gather for a national night out. details are next. >> keeping kids safe at school. keeping criminals away [ male announcer ] the magic of nature appears every day, within each strand of an oat's rhythmical sway. when an apple's vibrant red temptation, and honey's sweet touch of golden sensation, join together with a pecan crunch you'll savor, creating the most perfect lesson in flavor. at nature valley, nature's best-written recipe is ready for you to enjoy.

thank you, deidre fitzpatrick. >> now insta-weather plus and traffic pulse 11 together. date.'g you up to an accident on the west side. this is near security boulevard. it is off to the side. 30 miles per hour prior to its security. delay start to develop at perring parkway. an accident in mill river. 50 and southbound 95 coming out of white marsh. a nice start at the fort mchenry and the harbor tunnels. light street is closed between baltimore and lombard. monument street is closed near patterson park. here's a quick live look at traffic. this is security. outer loop traffic is very heavy. those delays will be stretching back to 795 in the outer loop. you may need some extra time. not so much extra time needed at 95 and 395. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. ava marie is telling us about her experience with fencing. >> good morning. fencing began as a way to kill somebody with a sword. port. a proper suppor there was a lot of techniques to doing somebody to the death. all the training began with salutes to the opponents, and the spectators. then the fighting began. somet

dear dear fitzpatrick is in london with reaction. >> i could not be more happy, but those words fromel phelps as he goes out with another gold medal. he and his teammates won a gold in the four by 100 medley. he says that is the perfect way to go out. >> i have been fortunate to look back at my career and say i have accomplished every goal i have wanted to. i think at that point, it is just time to move on. there are other things i want to do in my life. i am not sure staring at a black line for four hours a day is one of those. there are a lot of things i want to do for myself to be able to relax. even though i am retiring, there are still things that i want to do a wrap the sport, i teach kids to learn how to swim and live active and healthy life styles is important to me. i am going to have fun. i do not know. i am out of it still. >> he says tonight -- the reality will start setting in in the next couple of weeks. he says he looks forward to traveling and playing golf. normal retirement stuff. >> now that we heard from the baltimore swimmer himself, and now we hear from the fans

>> steve: william fitzpatrick. >> jimmy: yeah, and what -- what's his boyfriend's name?immy: well, that's good. [ laughter ] >> steve: they get along. they were made for each other. >> jimmy: hey, guys, in sports news, alex rodriguez could be on the disabled list for a month after he broke his left hand on tuesday night. that's right, a month where a-rod can't hit. or as it's usually known, the playoffs. [ laughter ] check this out you guys. germany has opened a new hotline that lets people call in and yell curse words at strangers on the other end. [ scattered cheers ] we have something similar in america. it's called time warner customer service. [ laughter and applause ] it works almost the same. yeah, i unplugged it, you -- wait, oh, i didn't. oh, sorry, i forgot. i didn't unplug it. and finally, some olympic news, i read that the youngest athlete on team usa is a swimmer who's 15-years-old. while the youngest athlete on team china is a gymnast who should be born any minute now. [ laughter ] we have a great show tonight. give it up for the roots, everybody. ♪ [ cheer

people tell me ryan fitzpatrick. give me a break. [ticking] >> it was in this remote cambodian village that nicholas negroponte came up with his idea to give a laptop computer to every child in the world. >> the first english word of every child in that village was "google." >> [laughs] >> the village has no electricity, no telephone, no television. >> [child's voice] >> and the children take laptops home that are connected, broadband, to the internet. >> and that was just the beginning. >> the one laptop per child computer is a computing revolution. [ticking] [sprightly music] ♪ >> the national youth orchestra is so much in demand, it's on the road more than most professional orchestras. ♪ it's been hailed as the future of classical music itself. and it's all about children, about saving them, hundreds of thousands of children, through music. honk! [orchestral music] >> consider the life of jose gregorio hernandez. [dramatic conclusion] ♪ his blindness didn't stop the orchestra from letting him be as much a part of it as any other k

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." ♪ >> hello, i'm michael fitzpatrick. hair and a ponytail. i tried to grow my hair long, too, ever since i saw a singer in a cool band at a rock 'n' roll concert. he was singing -- ♪ oh baby drive me crazy and the guitar was like -- [ makes guitar noises ] he looked so awesome with his long hair and sleeveless shirt. anyway, the suspect is still on the loose. ♪ >> jimmy: that was "globe news." now, let's check in with our weatherman, gary. how you doing, gary? >> not too good, jimmy. i have a fungus, and it's starting to spread all around -- >> jimmy: all right. thank you so much, gary. folks, i want to take a moment to honor a man who has been part of the "night news now" team for over 35 years. today is his last day, and he's up in the control room right now. thank you for everything you've done, francis. >> what? am i being fired? >> roll the graphic, francis. >> i don't want to roll the graphic. >> jimmy: just roll the graphic. ♪ >> jimmy: we're going to miss you, francis. take care. and now for the lottery, let's tak

people tell me ryan fitzpatrick. give me a break. >>> todd aiken says he's not quit, undoubtedly putting the republican majority in the senate in jeopardy. here's nbc's stevehandlesman to lead us off. >>> this republican crisis seeming like it would end with todd aken step aside. but akin says no. i'll have a lot more on this story later in the show. >> all right, steve, thanks very much. also this evening, is the president relying on leftist nancy pelosi and valerie jarrett for every move he makes as president of the united states? that is the bombshell assertion from a new book "leading from behind" the headline-making book also reports it was hillary clinton who pushed obama to finally pull the trigger on bin laden after three false starts. the author of this blockbuster book joins us exclusively this evening. market is down today. here's the big story. i tweeted about this today. oil has been rallying. this as sash rallying between iran and israel get stronger by the hour. check out how gold is soaring. is this a

beyond, one top technical strategist says he's seeing a strong sell right now, joining us is tom fitzpatricko see you. why do you see such big sell signals, why are they? >> a couple of things we're looking at, michelle, the long-term overlays that are closet to what we're seeing today. and in particular while there are differences, a lot of similarities with the buy action today and what we saw in the 1970s particularly into that period around 1976, 1977, both in terms of the market, housing, the economy, and other asset markets. but more close to home, one of the things we're looking very carefully at is the vix and in particular, the pattern we've seen in the vix since the s&p hit highs in october of 2007. >> what about the vix? it's too complacent, it's not doing enough? >> i think complacency is probably the right thing. if we look back at the highs in october of 2007, the vix is a volatility indicator but when we did, we traced lower on the vix and ever since then we've had significant pullbacks on the vix that have been traced back to the same trend line all the way down on six occasi

. >> erin fitzpatrick walking us through all of those crops. thank you on much. it's tragic. people are slaughtering their livestock because they can't afford basically the production to feed them. absolutely. >>> one investor sees the bright side to the crisis telling cnbc.com, there is an opportunity for investors. head over to our website new as well to tune into our special coverage on drought of 20 12 all day today on the networks of nbc universal, that's cnbc, msnbc and the weather channel, which has done a really good job of tracking what's going on. >>> while online, keep this in mind for facebook's share price, likely to be on the move as first lockup on sales expires for early investors. 221 million shares eligible for sale thursday, part of 2 billion that may become available over the next nine months. watch angel investors, peter teal, microsoft and goldman, they still stand to benefit from early investment even though facebook shares are down by half. >> they don't like to keep investments for a while. >>> that's it for today's edition of "worldwide exchange." yo

ryan fitzpatrick went undefeated in 2004. now plays for the buffalo bills.tball teams go, that's pretty good. but what if i said i went to the university of texas, but i'll always claim harvard's research library as my own. >> i see. >> you get to claim it as your own? that sounds absolutely ridiculous. and the same thing at harvard, i loved lsu my whole life. come on. that's just absurd. >> the article is hilariously funny. thank you for talking to us about it. thank you. >>> ahead on "starting point," a massive shipment of those gorgeous red soled shoes stopped in their tracks. we'll tell you what they would have gone for if they'd hit the market. ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] >>> welcome back to "starting point," everyone. a quick check of some of the stories we're following this morning. u.s. customs turns into a giant shoe closet after agents seize thousands of fake christian loub tan shoes in los angeles. the nearly 20,500 pairs of counterfeit red soled shoes could have brought in $18 million. that's a lot of money, if they had reache

. >> fitzpatrick. >> stephanie: jim messina.ow who butch patrick is right? >> stephanie: yes! he's eddie munster. >> pugsley. >> stephanie: bill in jersey with some ryan fun facts. hello, bill in jersey. >> caller: hello. yes, hi. sorry about that. yes with ryan, no one knows he's only passed two pieces of legislation in 14 years. >> stephanie: what were they? >> caller: taxes on arrows for archery and the other was naming a post office. >> stephanie: very good. the entire legislative achievements of paul ryan. >> really? >> stephanie: there's him with some -- poor dead animal. >> wait a minute. so he passed taxes onseses -- >> stephanie: one renamed a post post office in his district and the other bill changed the way arrows are an excise tax. >> so they're not taxed. >> stephanie: his bill amended the i.r.s. to impose a 39 cent tax on a per arrow shaft instead of a 12.4% tax. >> so he raised taxes. >> stephanie: on arrow shafts. >> so he's a tax raiser. >> stephanie: he's an arrow tax hiker. >> i don't think that will go over