my name is florence kong and for the bay view and construction business. about the trans bay project we have some concern. it's about -- we noticed that the steel package is going to be rebid and sbe -- dbe [inaudible] is dropping from 23% to 12%. that means the goal is almost cut into half, and actually we know there are many local business that they will have the ability to do this project, and we always encourage hire [inaudible] because if we can encourage more local business to participate in this project it is actually also helping the local hiring and it will bring up the local hiring goals so this is our concern and hope that directors can look into this issue. thank you. >> thank you. >> and then we have manny florez. >> good morning commissioners. manny florez local 22, the carpenters union. i want to thank director sartipi for the kind words and get the word out and speaking to middle schools and doing our part but it works both ways. i have to commend her and her staff and the rest of them they work with us, anything that we want, we ask, we ge

i went to florence a number of times for this.he first trip really was to be inspired by the landscape of dante and to find the locationss that would become characters in the novel. obviously, read an awful lot about dante. >> reporter: but you have robert langdon. how did you decide what the driving mechanism-- this is also about the future. >> it is. >> rose: it's about population control. it's about technology. it's about epidevelopmentics. >> i try to mixole and new. i write about the vatican and antimatter in the same book. here i'm writing about a 14th century epic poem and i like writing in the gray area of ethical right and wrong where-- where you can argue both sides of the equation. langdon loves to argue both sieftdz equation and let the readers decide which way is correct. >> rose: tell us what transhumanism is. >> yeah, it is a very quickly growing philosophy. that deals with the scaebs and ethics of using advanced technology, like genetic engineering, to improve our species psychologically. some people consider it so

. >>> brian florence reports the team died after he collapsed at a gym near his home. >> reporter: instead of having lunch or hanging out with emir, friends are remembering him with a crush. >> he's such a good friend and a kindhearted person to everybody here and he will give the shirt off his back. >> last tuesday emir star wrest wler of wrestler. things were fine until he unexpy performed a medical brain surgery. because of massive bleeding in the brain, he was not going to make it. >> i was shocked, i still cannot believe it but as you get older because, i bet his family has the worst pain than me. >> friends say he might have hit his head before he went to the gym and got some ty cushion. >> we have final coming up and also with their limited life experience, it is sometimes it is hard for them to put something like this in to completely to understand it. >> the school has memory allize emir and also leaving flowers on tables and on top of leaving several friends behind emir also leaves behind two younger brothers and one of them are a student here at the school. ktvu channel 2 news.

and she serving his sentences at the federal prison in florence, colorado. he'll turn 71 years old. >>> still to come tonight on a second look as he told authorities that he wanted to start a revolution. but instead he got into a shootout with the officers in the east bay. >>> and a bit later, the men convicted of targeting the city officials with the series of the pipe bombs. >>> tonight on a second look as we are recounting the stories of the politically motivated plots. this summer he is scheduled to go on trial in alameda county. he's accused of trying to kill about four chp officers after stopping them for speeding on interstate 580. as they questioned williams, he told them that he was on his way to bomb the aclu and the environmental group in san francisco. here is mike's report from the time of william's arrest in july of 2010. an estimated 150 rounds were fired. >> when you see something like this, it is very frightening. when we come to work, we come to work believing we're going to come back home. >> reporter: tonight, the convicted bank robber wa

. >> we are going to rome, parma and florence. >> much has been cut from the itinerary but at left they will get to italy. a student summed it up best. (speaking italian n (. >> he is very happy. >> it is 4:45. a bay area girl is moving on to the semi finals in the national spelling bee in maryland. an 8th grade from san ramon correctly spelled two food words, another bay area competitor, a 13-year-old from cupertino did not have a high enough score to move on. the final cuts were based on points including a written test^, the competition this morning begins at 1 a.m. our time and you can catch the action on espn2. >> last night, my son wanted to were it because normally during the week we don't watch tv and he says "it is educational mommy ." this airs live and not at night so i tried to get him one... >> if you on tv and you don't walk tv during the week, well have to discuss that contradiction. >> that is the rule for the kids . >> good morning, everyone, at 4:46. here is what is going on as far as live doppler 7 hd, the radar showing how dry it is this morning. sunscreen is the rule

y como prueba indican los expertos estn los casos de la fracesa florence cassez acusada de secuestrol ex zar antidrogas y el general tomas ngeles por presuntos vnculos con el crimen organizado y que al final recibieron un "usted disculpe..." sin olvidar claro el video recientemente filtrado en el que un funcionario obliga a un presunto narcotraficante a cambiar su declaracin... y todas estas pruebas de manipulacin y fabricacin de culpables dicen los analistas son las que ha puesto en entredicho la imparticin de justicia en este pas, pero sobre todo han llenado las crceles mexicanas de inocentes... el actual gobierno ha reconocido el deterioro del sistema de justicia en mxico e incluso ya ha comenzado a reconstruirlo ... cesar ---el presidente de el salvador, mauricio funes, take vo ---nombro esta tarde a los nuevos ministros de justicia y seguridad publica, y al director de la policia nacional civil.. ---el mandatario seÑalo que esta pendiente la designacion del nuevo director de migracion.. ---de esta forma, funes cumple el fallo de inconstitucionalidad dictaminado por la corte supr

florence night inghail died in 1910 at the age of 90.mple continued to inspire nurses on both sides of the atlantic. during world war ii first lady eleanor roosevelt honored the nurses who helped heal america's wounded. more recently in 2010 president obama offered his own personal tribute to the american nurses association. >> a nurse will hold your hand sometime. or offer a voice of calm. or that knowing glance that says, things are going to be okay. >> osgood: did we mark the final day of national nurses week, a salute to all of america's nurses and to the lady with the lamp who lived away. who lit the way. >> why did you two come here? osgood: still to come... i said if he slaps me, i'm going to slap him back. >> osgood: looking back with sidney poitier. but first... >> lucky guy tom hanks. so do tire swings! this is our ocean spray cran-lemonade. it's good, old-fashioned lemonade. only better! whoa! [ splash! ] ocean spray cran-lemonade. a bold twist on an old favorite. i am an american i'm a teacher. i'm a firefighter. i'm a carpen

figures or religious leader lawrence jump and that's a very good only i don't mean it's going to florence is going to lawrence first go ahead i mean if we take if if we have that can't be true if you take a look at all the. gallup polls that are done over the last twenty years over fifty percent of the american and canadian i'm canadian so i'm sure that the comparison population also believe in a young earth under ten thousand years another thirty five percent believe that god created man so it's eighty five percent of the population is theist. i'm sorry i know that fifteen percent of the population is controlling the media or perhaps the educational system but eighty five percent of the population is theist in the us and in canada and certainly i don't see an atheistic. president in the us as. coming to power they have to go for the religious vote because it's such a powerful vote in the us it is less so in canada but such a powerful vote in the us so i don't understand what rob was saying i do know this though that it's maybe not as easy as you think mention that it just wasn't real rat

so everyone that is becoming a nurse, this week it culminates on florence nightengale's birthday. >>ng surgery. >> greg: calling it a lap dancer oh, my god. it happened today! >> what about the picture. there it is. >> my wife. luck. governor is lose weight. >>> i don't get this. welcome to "red eye." it is like men at work, if by men you mean i have never been sober. now to andy levy for a pre game report. what is coming up? >> is google glass is privacy nightmare? >> some say yes, but nerds say who cares? and how did a world famous psychic screw up the cleveland abductions? the shocking story everybody else saw coming and why do women think nare saw cystic men are sexy? this and other stories about me ahead. >> that was awesome. you are finally using your real voice. >> i don't follow. >> that thing when you made that voice there. not everybody

the new trial will start in florence italy and amanda knox will not be required to return. >>> syrian rebels quoted in the washington post say the administration is sending weapons to the opposition while at the same time pursuing the conflict. >>> president barack obama will probably make a final decision on giving weapons to the opposition within weeks. >>> new video has surfaced which appears to show the crash, incredible video of the 747 which killed all seven americans on board. we will have more on the theories of what caused that plane to crash. >>> they hit another roadblock and democrats say there is not more help for same-sex marriage couples. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are putting up a big fight, kyla? >> just because the immigration bill was proposed by a group of state force does not mean it will not have enough to pass. the big plan is same sex couples and they plan to make immigration easier and my grand farm workers and those living in the u.s. illegally but in the 88 pain bill they cannot expect them to become residents. members of their party would not supp

. >> i see you from florence, kentucky, florence, y'all, i see you right there. right there.de to paula. good morning, paula. >> good morning, sam. i heard that southern drawl coming out. well, now here's a look at what's ahead on the "gma morning menu." right on target, the super store breaking into the bridal market with $99 wedding gowns. how about that? >>> and jennifer aniston revealing whether america's favorite friends are headed for a reunion. >>> and hot bargains for warm weather in our big "deals & steals" exclusively for our "gma" viewers. it's all coming up live on "gma" here in times square. ♪ >>> "gma's morning menu" is brought to you by the makers of caltrate. the number one selling calcium and vitamin d3 supplement brand. cium and vitamin d3 supplement brand. every year. we had a great spot, not easy to find, but worth it. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function starting within five minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudd

so everyone that is becoming a nurse, this week it culminates on florence nightengale's birthday. >>reg: calling it a lap dancer oh, my god. it happened today! >> what about the picture. there it is. >> my wife. luck. governor is lose weight. let's go to special report. good evening. i'm bret baier, north korea and south korea are still technically at war and have been for six decades. today, president obama met with the south's new leader amid bell lo does belloings among fighting for real. tough talk for the president was immediately compared and contrasted with the administration in action on the other side of the world. chief white house correspondent ed henry has to

a house in florence, kentucky, explodes.'s captured by a surveillance camera in a business across the street. the camera shows the house being blown to pieces, the roof collapses on to a heap of crushed walls and windows. fortunately, no one's home during the blast. officials believe the explosion is caused by a natural gas leak. november 4th, 2009. a surveillance camera silently captures an explosion at the silver eagle refinery in woods cross, utah. the enormous blast is the result of a fuel line leak at the petroleum processing facility. flames shoot more than 100 feet into the air. the shock wave is felt for miles, including at the nearby fire station. >> my first impression was that one of the firefighters here had made driven one of the fire trucks into the building. it shook the building that hard. >> minutes later, the firefighters are at the scene of the blast. >> you could see flames. flames were visible into the refinery and heavy black smoke coming out of the refinery. >> workers at the refinery are able to shut

. >>> up next, is jodi arias headed to a solitary cell on death row outside florence, arizona?uld she have done d [ thunder crashes ] [ female announcer ] some people like to pretend a flood could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. >>> state versus jodi arias. verdict count one, we the jury dual impaneled and sworn on the action find the defendant as to count one first degree murder guilty. five jurors find premeditated, zero find felony murder. seven find both premeditated and felony. >> body language experts have viewed and reviewed how the convicted killer jodi arias responded to the jury's stunning verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. hear how the defendant explains her reaction and tells us what she would have done differently in the desert with literally blood on her hands after committing the murder for which she potentially faces the death penalty. >> so if you had to do this all over ag

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let's be clear, we have a super max facility in florence colorado, 100 miles south of denver, some of worst people housed there with absolutely no danger they will escape. we keep everybody from ted kazinski to richard reid, the shoe bomber, the reason we take shoes off at the airport to the underwear bomber from christmas day 2009 and a host of other bad people. we can house bad people in this down industry and we shouldn't be afraid as mitt romney said in that clip that you showed to demonstrate our values to the world and trying them and if they are guilty imprisoning them, if not, release them. >> so you're making the case right there for why this should be possible but you're also saying work needs to be done. communications work needs to be done to solve it so it doesn't fail again. given the work that needs to be done why do you think the president is taking on this fight? why take now he wants to do this given the fact it will take work? >> the president considers this one of the main unfinished business from his first term and immigration reform which is set to get done in th

in florence over timothy mcveigh who carried out of the most lethal act of terrorism prior to september 11th. that is to say, the oklahoma city bombing. he did not belong to a group, but he did have at least two accomplices. william pierce wrote a sequel to the tennant diaries, called hunter. it is worth mentioning that the radical environmentalist movement has used the leaderless resistance approach as well. a leading figure in the radicalization of the environmentalist movement was at work -- edward abbey. he began selling billboards in new mexico in 1958. and in the early 70's other groups to follow suit with similar operations. for example, there was a group called the decorators. they cut down billboards and destroyed newly constructed homes in the area of tustin, arizona. and their exploits became the model for a gang of activists depicted in a book called the monkey wrench gang. that was written by edward abbey. that novel is believed to have inspired some environmentalists to seek a more radical vehicle for their activism. this culminated with the creation of earth first in 1980

the place filled with secret passageways is palazzo vecchio in florence italy with great works of artock. >> can i tell you something? i used to live on these things. i love these things. >> smell them. they smell really good. >> there you go. >>> the author himself, dan brown, i had the rare opportunity to sit down with him in his miami in new hampshire. take a look. in his home in new hampshire. >> so grim and terrifying. >> dante's decent into hell, demons and grotesque monsters, satan and a hole lot of pain. this 14th century classic is a perfect fit for one of the 21st centuries most successful authors. >> langdon is back, cracking codes, going through museums, checking out master pieces. he's getting chased a lot. >> he has that tendency. >> sometimes i don't know who's chasing him. why do you love the action of this intellectual guy, thinker also running for his life half the time? >> as dante does so well in "inferno" moving down to the levels, i love to use action to propel plot. >> reporter: with "inferno" robert langdon returns to familiar territory, back in italy, this tim

florence mwayopa: these are some of the children that belong to this household. they are being looked after by their great-grandmother. the... grandmother had twelve children she has lost all except for two. as i traveled to other nations in the world, and especially resource-poor areas of the world, one of the things that i'm struck with most is that they are exactly where we were 15 years ago at the very beginning of the epidemic. the first point is that most government officials don't understand what's ready to hit them. one problem that haunts the public health community is how to attack the epidemic as it is spreading through major population areas. there was an international conference on h.i.v./aids in geneva, switzerland, a year ago. the title of the conference was "bridging the gap." under no circumstance were we bridging a gap because on one side of the hall were all of the western countries talking about the side effects of these drugs and how to make it easier for the patient to take the medicines. and on the other side of the hall was the entire rest

south carolina has gained a new seating congress to include the communities of myrtle beach and florence, now held by tom reiss. this new seventh district creates a new -- a unique district. the first district of south carolinas 10iles wide along the atlantic coast. from cheltenham county to the island in beaufort county. it is a special district at tom born in.f were boroth the district is a composite of america. in the first election, tim scott was elected as only the second african-american from south carolina elected to congress in 100 years. we are grateful governor nikki haley appointed calmest men tim scott to serve in the u.s. senate. [applause] this created a replaced that with 60 participants the largest number ever and a congressional primary. we are here today to recognize the survivor of the primary, the runoff, and general election, cut within mark sanford. i yield to congressman david price of north carolina. but i think the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise in place of the dean of the south carolina ,elegation, comment jim clyburn a way to become family medical

. >>> today begins national nurses week and if florence nightingale were around show's be surprised how likely than ever that a nurse by your bedside will be a man. peter, age 40 decided to pursue a career usually reserved for women. >> i was unemployed dur 20ug 10 and couldn't find a new business. said, you know what? i'm going to try something different. >> reporter: he's in his last semester or nursing school at new york university. >> what would you say to someone who has kind of the old school thinking well why don't you just be a doctor? nursing is for women? >> i was actually one of those people thinking well, i don't want to be a nurse. that's nothing something for me. you actually see how they really treat not just the patient but the family because they're basically doing full care. it's fantastic. >> reporter: according to a recent city from the census bureau the proportion of male nurpss in the u.s. has more than tripled since the 1970s now close to 10%. perhaps thanks to the economy, employment in health care is up nearly 1.4 million since the start of the recession. while

prosecutor in the case, five years before this case, did a famous italian case called the monster of florence case. or he tried to say that a dentist, who died, was killed by a satanic cult. and it didn't exist and me man committed suicide. so when it got to the main da knox, not that many murder cases. when he got into another high profile case he took his theory from the last case of the satanic cult, and they instantly -- he called her a shih she-devil and said it was cult orgy. so you have a persistence. the case has only been re-opened because an appeals court -- they haven't even stated their logic, but in italy, cases go on forever. one case went on for 20 years where he was accused of killing of somebody being part of the mav acquitted, convicted, acquitted, convicted. i don't know much about the italianity system but i'm glad we don't have it here in doing that case, i did believe that the miranda rights are the best thing that ever happened north just to justice but to history. i don't know in thin blue line -- in 1976, did they read the miranda rights to him? >> they did read his r

. >> now, a new trial for amanda knox is expected to begin sometime next year in, florence italy. knox will not be required to be there. >>> the famed berkeley restaurant is expected to reopen in six weeks. back in march, a fire badly burned part of this building. crews brought in structure support. celebrity chef and owner alice waters plans to open both the cafe and restaurant on june 10th. >>> 7:18. a new study is raising health concerns about eating ground turkey. consumer reports tested ground turkey from stores in 21 states. mort than half of the 257 samples were contam plated -- contaminated with fecal bacteria. that can cause food poisoning and infect fictions. but a -- infections. but a spokesperson for the group calls this alarmist saying it was based on a small sample size. >>> a jury will soon decide if the lawrence lab should pay five former workers at least $6 million each. the workers say they were singled out because of their age. the lab blamed those job cuts on the recession and a change in defense policy away from nuclear weapons developments. >>> 7:19. tech ana

the woman told him she wanted to go to florence someday because her family was from there.lotte, north carolina for the coca-cola 600. this year they welcome home our troops with a giant pizza party. with more details is the president of charlotte motor speedway marcus smith, the founder of papa johns, john shatner and two-time daytona winner michael waltrip. marcus, what are you doing this weekend? >> man, we're holding the biggest memorial day celebration on the planet right here. coca-cola 600. we got all of our friends. papa john and michael here heaping to us kick it off. we want to reach out to the troops and their families to have great time with us here. >> and what is papa johns doing? >> we're donating 3,000 pizza. we're going to feed 10,000 of our troops, salute them, tell them thanks and how much we appreciate them protecting our freedom. we have a special for uso, two large two-topping pizzas $22 and we donate $1 for each pizza that we'll donate to the troops. we'll have a good time with the troops on sunday. feel free to join us. >> fantastic. i'll try to do t

steve from go to florence, colorado on our republican line. caller: good morning.pend 20 or 30 minutes talking. with benghazi, why do we not find out the real reason stevens was there in the first place, toling arms to al qaeda topple the libyan governor. trying to get those weapons back to syria. why are we dealing with a cat in the first place? -- with al qaeda in the first place? this a. p. thing, isn't it strange that all of a sudden they are going after the ap because of leaks? stevens was in libya because he was the ambassador to libya. he hangs out at consul in libya. irs 45worked for the years. i should have asked about this. people agree there needs to be does have some broader issues about campaign finance reform. the citizens united case broadens the scope of who could qualify for tax-exempt status because you have so many groups now that are qualifying for -- as groups for the betterment of society. we have new kinds of groups that we did not have before. there are so many changes happening to the system that i think we have falling -- we have fallen be

. >> my name is florence reid. i'm going to read my question.this is direct it towards both of you. you mention nixon's relationship with g frederick mario perhaps are relevant to nixon's legacy of racial politics with the other two african-americans who served in congress during his term, which were william goslin and out of clayton pio. he championed nixon the black community during his tenure as vice president and according to a not a biography was snubbed in favor of moral opportunity was her back delicate to travel with nixon's administration. that was the consistent pattern was very selective, although all three of those congressmen were democrats and obviously would've not been the first choice just for that reason on its own. but for it to have been limited in the circumstance like that, to deal with the say will shop on trancelike on this congressmen and the other two will be decisively turned away. how do you feel something like that affects the legacy of a man who already has a very divided, depending how you could judge the relations

south carolina has gained a new seat in congress to include the communities of myrtle beach and florence, now held by tom rice. this new seventh district rotated all the districts creating a unique district of the first. the first district of south carolina is virtually 10 miles wide along the charleston count buford county. it's a special district to tom and myself and that we will a historic eston, city. in the district's first election, tim scott was elected as only the second african-american from south carolina elected to congress in 100 years. we are grateful governor haley appointed congressman tim scott o the u.s. senate. this created a replacement primary with 16 participants. the largest number ever in a congressional primary. we're here today to recognize the survivor of the primary, the runoff and general election, congressman mark sanford. i yield to congressman david price of north carolina. mr. price: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise in place of the dean of the south carolina delegation, congressman jim clyburn, who's away this week on family medical

it's set in florence. >> it is. it's very much a robert langdon thriller.e epic poem, the divine comedy, serves at a catalyst to inspire a kind of a twisted villain to do some scary things. >> i just remember the big, fat volume from high school. what about it that makes it come p peling? >> halfway through this novel, i was saying what was i thinking tackling the divine comedy and inferno. the amazing thing about inferno, 700 years old, but it has, it really inspired our modern vision of hell and the bible talks about hell kind of in ethereal terms. greek mythology a little more specifically, but it wasn't until dante that we had this structured, codified vision that was terrifying of hell and sin became or hell rather become the deterrent to sin and a lot of people got pretty afraid of sinning and went to church. >> what drew you to these topics. >> you know, i love art and architecture. i had written about the fine arts, but never about the real arts, so, inferno drew me that that it was new and literary work. but it also inspired -- there was in art wor

. >> my name is florence reid. i'm going to read my question.this is direct it towards both of you. you mention nixon's relationship with g frederick mario perhaps are relevant to nixon's legacy of racial politics with the other two african-americans who served in congress during his term, which were william goslin and out of clayton pio. he championed nixon the black community during his tenure as vice president and according to a not a biography was snubbed in favor of moral opportunity was her back delicate to travel with nixon's administration. that was the consistent pattern was very selective, although all three of those congressmen were democrats and obviously would've not been the first choice just for that reason on its own. but for it to have been limited in the circumstance like that, to deal with the say will shop on trancelike on this congressmen and the other two will be decisively turned away. how do you feel something like that affects the legacy of a man who already has a very divided, depending how you could judge the relations

. >> host: florence, wisconsin peterborough area. >> guest: calling to ask if anyone agrees with me that the redistribution of population is the plan. if you are familiar with agenda 21, which has to do with the united nations and the department of natural resources, i live in the upper midwest, the border of wisconsin and upper michigan. i noticed on your map that northeastern minnesota, northern wisconsin and a sheik in i also have seen the color-coded maps put out by agenda 21 and the dnr, indicating this is a red zone. with guns are depopulated to minimal use by human beings. as part of a plan. >> guest: i would disagree that this is part of a plan. the patterns are representative of the pattern of economic growth, demographic growth we've seen over the last decades. >> guest: the county that the caller is coming from, that part of northern wisconsin has seen population growth. it's been a popular retirement destination for people from twin cities, milwaukee and chicago and it's really kind of an interesting area in terms of being a rural area that did see a lot of growth in the 1970

institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> republican congressman bill florenceve an address to texas a&m university in early may. he spoke to the class of 2013. his speeches about 30 minutes. [applause] >> howdy. thank you for that nice introduction and thank you for inviting me to join you at this commencement. i wife and i are thrilled to be here. i would also like to exercise one of the privileges that comes with finger speaker this evening. that is to give a shout out to my relatives in the audience. joining me is my mother, her husband, and my sister in law. toave a few more shout outs offer in a few minutes. by the way, this commencement is being recorded by c-span. so if you think today is a great day to be a texas aggie, please let our c-span audience know. yes. it is a great day to be a texas aggie. here are a few of the reasons. 50,000home to more than students, the sixth largest university in the country. we have more than 360,000 former former students worldwide. or 500,000 in the extended family. we have a coveted membership in the association of am

the answer is dante's church in florence, italy, inside is represented unrequited love. books to blockbusters. we have j.j. abrams here, the director of the upcoming "star trek into darkness." good to have you back here. an iconic film franchise for the second one in this particular installment. you basically almost built a spaceship, as i understand it. i've been hearing from some of the stars who have been by this last week the set was amazing. >> the set was incredible. the key for this movie was, well, two things. one, to make it seem like a stand alone thing. you don't need to have seen the other films or the original tv show. the set itself was authentic. a lot of movies is blue screen, green screen stuff, and you feel it and taste it and just see it's not real. we've built some amazing sets to make this thing seem as authentic as possible. >> we've had a couple of actors from the movie on already. they told us nothing, absolutely nothing. >> i love that. >> we have done interviews where people just stared at us. they wouldn't give anything away. you have threatene