you have these two blonde women in the foreground.they look normal and attractive, but in north korea wearing a hair like that is considered a sign of bad morals. the other thing is about no matter which direction the foreigners are looking at, their faces are partially obscured by sort of his menacing shadow that the only person in the crowd his face is evenly lit, who's attracted my korean is the only korean person in that crowd. but, of course, the americans are the real villains in north korea off again. kim jong-il has been pressing just as a jackal cannot become a lamb, the yankees cannot change this average make your. now you couldn't get a less marked his ideas than that. the sulleys are always very careful to draw a distinction between american capitalist and american, white americans and black americans, between men and between american women and children when they were talking about military topics. you don't see any of this in north korea. all americans are inherently degenerate. due to the raised according to the north ko

it recently has come to the foreground of russian public debate, and there is much greater concern that is openly expressed about china and the way china treats russia, and the way things may change in 10 or 15 years with respect to china. for many people, this is an additional argument that we have to avoid making china an enemy because obviously the balance is so much in china's flavor -- chuck's favor -- china's favor. we have a huge border with china where russian and the structure was virtually dismantled. with respect to iran, i think that russia will support sanctions with some exemptions. the ban on weapons transfer will not be supported. russia would certainly provide defensive weapons to iran. not so many, after all. iran is not our primary partner any longer. but this ban would not be supported in russia. some things that are not proposed that may come in the debate like doing something with [unintelligible] project, russia would not agree to that. russia would agree with other sanctions, particularly the embargo on supplies to iran of oil products, gasoline, and others. that

cherry trees in the foreground. what a beautiful morning outside. temperatures will continue to climb all the way back up to the mid and high 70s today. if you're visiting washington, congratulations on picking one the best cherry blossom festivals of all time to visit. temperatures right now 51 degrees in fredericksburg, virginia. our forecast for today mostly sunny. away from the bay, bay locations will have some bay breeze. up 70s and low 80s today and tomorrow another little you so much of summer time across the area with highs once again nosing in on 80 degrees. it's so nice outside you can almost tolerate sitting in some traffic. >> not a lot to sit in this morning. that's very good news. along interstate 270 the southbound flow, left side of your screen no worries, lanes are open. only iss you may run into southbound are the bright lights for the northbound road work that's tying up the left half of the roadway. those lights are extremely bright indeed. the trip along 95 northbound out of lorton up to the capital beltway, incident free. check

in the foreground, you can see a couple of rain drops on the lens. we'll have to get the wiper going soon. temperature only 53 degrees. now at national airport, a northeastly wind has done us in. cloud cover and cooler temperatures usually follow those northeastly winds in. our april now, get this our april is now 1 degree cooler than average. that's if it were the month of may. we are 11.58 degrees warmer than ample for april and since may is usually so much warmer, we're only a degree cooler than average. had it been the first half of the month of may. crazy stuff out there. no doubt about it. this early april has been exceptionally warm. temperatures around the rest of the area on your tuesday, where the light rain showers have settled in for longer periods of time, temperatures have held in the mid to high 40s right now. still waiting on steadier rain drops down into southern maryland. as a result, temperatures are just a hint warmer all the way down in st. mary's city temperatures in the upper 50s. live doppler, you can see drizzle drops and spr

. >> reporter: president obama put foreign affairs back in the foreground this week with a surprise sunday trip to afghanistan. he privately urged afghan president hamid karzai to work harder on fighting corruption-- something karzai promised to do after his disputed re-election last fall. but today, karzai insisted the election fraud was not committed by his partisans. instead, he blamed top officials of the u.n. and the european union. >> ( translated ): this is the reality, brothers. for this reason today, i come here to talk to the members of the independent election commission about fraud in the presidential election and provincial election. no doubt, there was huge fraud. there was vast fraud. the fraud is not by the afghans. this fraud has been done by the foreigners. >> reporter: karzai singled out american peter galbraith-- a former u.n. official in afghanistan. he was fired last year in a dispute with his boss over how to deal with fraud allegations. in washington, state department spokesman p.j. crowley did not comment directly on the accusation. instead, he put the onus squarel

here in the foreground you have what's left of the church n. the background you see tree damage. some of the trees almost untouched. others just shattered stumps for the time being. some of the worst damage was here in yazoo county. a trail of destruction and a fatal blow to mississippi. >> it was terrifying. i mean, scare me to death. >> roof started to cave in on us. sounded like a train coming through the restaurant. top flying off the restaurant. >> reporter: a twister with winds up to 160 miles per hour tore across mississippi saturday killing almost a dozen people, including two children and a 3-month-old baby. >> reporter: a twister with winds up to 160 miles per hour tore across mississippi saturday killing almost a dozen people, including two children and a 3-month-old baby. more than 30 people were injured. >> it was unbelievable. when the wind exploded it was like anything i have never experienced. >> reporter: sunday, many people came to see what's left of neighborhoods. toppled trees, damaged carrings, hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed. >> we're lucky to be

it recently has come to the foreground of russian public debate, and there is much greater concern that is openly expressed about china and the way china treats russia, and the way things may change in 10 or 15 years with respect to china. for many people, this is an additional argument that we have to avoid making china an enemy because obviously the balance is so much in china's flavor -- chuck's favor -- china's favor. we have a huge border with china where russian and the structure was virtually dismantled. with respect to iran, i think that russia will support sanctions with some exemptions. the ban on weapons transfer will not be supported. russia would certainly provide defensive weapons to iran. not so many, after all. iran is not our primary partner any longer. but this ban would not be supported in russia. some things that are not proposed that may come in the debate like doing something with [unintelligible] project, russia would not agree to that. russia would agree with other sanctions, particularly the embargo on supplies to iran of oil products, gasoline, and others. that

in researching the book or going into the kind of background of the characters who were in the foreground is the certain sort of -- it's sort of obviously discovery in a way that certain structures of patents of types of things that happened in the los angeles back then still occur today. in other words, that the civic structure -- and it's because the city grew so quickly. and i think in many ways it has that kind of small town political structure still. and if you look at these powerful organizationlike the dwp or the lapd the problems that they have now, that all began back then. it was all put in place in the 19 teens and 1920s. >> say more about that. by the way, i always tell my journalism students that l.a. county and city is like high school but with a lot more in stake. >> well, to take the lapd, traditionally, the lapd has always had a smaller man power than other big urban areas so sort of far fewer cops per square mile or per head of population than new york or boston or chicago. and i think -- if you look at the -- >> so command and control became the model? >> right. and if