benjamin franklin. benjamin franklin. that's right. benjamin franklin was noted as a first-rate scientist before he became a statesman for 13 the colonies. benjamin franklin did a lot of work in electricity. benjamin franklin is said to be the isaac newton of electricity, an enormously prominent scientist in his day before the 13 colony-type thing and before signing the declaration of independence. ben franklin, he did a lot in electrostatics. so this then is negatively charged and the cat's fur then would be? positive. positive. which, by the way, underlies a very important principle called the conservation of charge. and the conservation of charge simply says that, "hey, gang, whatever charge you got, "it's what you got. "you don't make any more, you don't make any less. all you do is transfer it from one place to another." it's like maybe a brick road. there's so many bricks in the road. now, you take some of the bricks off the road and put them on the sidewalk. what's the total number of bricks i have before and after? same. the sa

the first american, about benjamin franklin and tea are about theodore roosevelt. together these books comprise not haphazardly but purposefully a history of the united states for the last 200 or so years. a number of these books have been best sellers. traitor to his class and the first american were both finalists for the pulitzer prize and you can see h. w. brands on tv all the time if you go to the history channel or turn on the tv, there he is. this book is -- i will hold this up again so you can see and recognize it easily at the book signing tend, it is a tremendous biography of ulysses grant filled with stuffed i certainly never knew and was delighted to find out. it is very authoritatively and readable. before we get to grant himself i wanted to ask bill a broad question about biography. here at the book festival there are a number of biographers. i have read several of these already, robert caro's latest volume in his massive history, biography of lyndon johnson. janet reed's biography leonard cohen, all these people at the book festival among others. dav

president i'm joined by while escobar in cairo he is a blogger and a journalist in beirut we have franklin lamb he is director of the americans concern for middle east peace and in washington we cross to ivan eland he is a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute or a german cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want while in cairo and i to go to you first of the president has been widely criticized for his decree expanding his power but others would say it was necessary that political shock therapy is necessary for egypt to move forward to transform how to react to that i don't think dictatorship is ever necessary to move forward as we've seen in the past the military has done the same thing and it's given granted itself powers and we've seen what they've done with these powers they've killed a lot of egyptians fellow defense and they have not lived up to their mandate so in light of that i can i cannot accept that being a dictator is a way to democracy and a man who is accepted to to give himself dictatorial po

franklin: so it's very expensive. the bottom line is, we, as atlantans, as georgians, don't have a choice to protect the river. we need to leave it better than we found it, and it's really been a political advantage for me, not a disadvantage. people laugh about me being the sewer mayor, but they remember what i'm doing. griffin: we want people to understand, when they see one of our work crews out working on the mains, that that work is necessary in order for them to have good clean drinking water or to have a good, functioning wastewater system. franklin: you don't put a roof on the house one time. you don't fix the plumbing one time, any more than i get my hair done one time. if we don't continue to invest for the next 20 years, we'll find ourselves back at the same point that we were in the late '90s. if we don't protect water, we will be without water. we will be without industry, we will be without jobs, we will be without a healthy economy, and our people will be sick. so we don't really have a choice. we're go

>>> franklin cómo estás papá? cómo es'tas mi panna? pa'delante con franklin! >>> vente pasamo? así. >>> te gusta el basketball? >>> si, mucho. >>> el sacrificio que hace la familia para llevarlo a terapia a orlando y qué tal para las matemáticas? bueno! me gusta y quiero ser ingeniero civil. >>> serás! >>> yo te contactaré con uno que le encantaría ser tu mentor. >>> será con las sonrisas o con sus palabras pero inspira. >>> usted salió de una depreisón tras concoer la historia de franklin? si, al verlo a él en sus condiciones y yo teniéndolo todo y con mi mamá y mi hermana y mi amiga y mucho más. >>> yo quiero hacerte una invitación muy especial y nos motivas mucho el próximo 14-15 de diciembre haremos un gran esfuerzo para presentar teletón usa, quiero invitarte a que formes parte de esto y serás el representador de esto también. me encanta! (aplausos). >>> (gritos). >>> bienvenidos!.miren cómo está esto! >>> bienvenidos a casa corazones, ya saben comer bien no? >>> así es, y daremos cada uno las gracias. >>> por qué dan gracias? >>> porque este años ha sido de bendici'no y q

but of course we know that franklin roosevelt won. even though it's not inevitable that he was going to win, there are some skills that he demonstrated in that election that show why he wants. how he campaigned and how he connected to the voters and that is one of the issues that i try to deal with in this book. before going back to the story, i should tell you a little bit about the research much of which happened in this building in downtown in the manuscript room and the newspaper reading room and other sections i started out of course by trying to read as many books about roosevelt and hoover and about the great depression as it possibly could. there is no end of literature on those subjects. but then of course, if you are writing a new book you have to file a new perspective on these things. you have to demonstrate that there is a reason to read your book as opposed to all these other books on the subject. and so, i began looking at the oral history many of which are here in this library. i began looking at - collections downstai

my name's jay franklin and i'm 57 years old. -- james franklin and i'm 57 years old. >> reporter: jamest the man he used to be weak and bedridden six months after his stay at st. thomas moore's nursing home in hyattsville for what should have been the road to recovery. >> i didn't have no idea that i would still be in the hospital and for me to be in that hospital has been a tragic change for me. >> reporter: in may franklin was discharged from the hospital and sent to st. thomas moore for rehabilitation, a 230 bed facility. medical records show he had a sacro ulcer commonly called a pressure ulcer or bed sore. at that stage it was small and healing. a month later he was rushed back to the hospital, the bed sore now nearly as look as a football covering his back and buttocks with an infection deep into the tissue and muscles. when his wife patricia franklin saw it -- >> and i screamed and i almost fell to the floor. i've never seen nothing like that in my entire life. >> reporter: the wound had massive gangrene and a foul smelling discharge putting him into septic shock. when the body's

and the parliament to come who he expects to be mostly of the muslim brotherhood i i would expect franklin but the president was elected democratically elected and he has a mandate for change so go ahead frank well that's right and i think it's an overstatement to conclude for quickly he's a dictator. i think he's defending the revolution the reason he had to act is that the judicial council was going to overturn and block the constitution and prevent it from being finalized and i frankly believe what he says these measures were this is thirty they were temporary i think people are going to by and large get behind your back on this i think the white house is going to give them a little space it's not pretty but i dispute the idea that always in history temporary powers become permanent powers i agree that that's what happened in fifty two and ever since in egypt. of course that's what happened in the. nazi germany kept temporary kept. erasing every. for years the by no constitution or postponing it there is danger but i think that his instincts have been demonstrated and i think that his t

the odds are on our side. >> franklin insists that his loyalty to his crew comes first. but he's also got other motives. he is fighting a drug conspiracy case, and hopes to curry favor with the state's attorney. so he has agreed to keep carpenter and sandoval in the loop about the power struggle. he is one of many informants they have on both sides of the conflict who are helping them to intercept kites. >> there has been a lot of kites going back and forth between the two groups. this is one particular kite from division 9. >> it's an official memo. this is equivalent to what i say is a third guy in charge. then he is saying take care of this business. he clearly state the people he wants hit, saying they're being charged with disrupting organization unity. they ought to be blasted on-site, asap. and this is now the game. >> with information like this in hand, carpenter and sandoval are alerting jail officials. they're also warning multiple inmates who arunder threat based on the kites they're receiving. among those >> jail is a very small place. and sooner or later we'

franklin growing old. because he becamet america's emissary to france during the american revolution at the age of 70. and i started writing about franklin when i was around 40i years old orbo so. i really wondered whether i wase going to be able to understando franklt was like to grow old. partly for this reason, i decided, and this has carried through in my other vote, i decideo te tell my story. i tried to relate the lives of mys, characters as much as possible through the perceptions, the words of people who saw them. people who knewperc them. kw my books tend to have more of eyewitness type stuff and some. if i others.ave if i have a choice between in mw writing a scene in my own words and writing a scene in the words of somebody there, whole i willn tend to go towards the person who is was there. i think that conveys a certain authenticity. i will say that it relieves the burden of providing thee authotu authority. because the question that anyona should have been reading a workt if iistory is how do

they failed to to franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. four of them did not effectively communicate this agenda or initiative were jefferson, monroe, grant and cleveland. obviously the dominant source of failure for the second term prudent has been their inability to successfully work with congress, the second term presidents have faced troubled or second terms do directly to the fight between the congress and the white house. having a congressional majority of their own party is no assurance of release. those presidents that serve in the congress having the majority of the opposing party during the second term included willson, eisenhower, nixon, ronald reagan and clinton. the competitive battle to the president and congress dates to the site george washington had in the congress over the treaty. he had won approval only after standing considerable efforts looking directly with members of congress compromising and cudgeling and that was with the congress having the majority of white thinking federalists' a president who was revered in a

while he was british by birth he was franklin's best friend when franklin was in london for those many years. he actually coelaborated with franklin on the air discovery which is a whole tas nating sideshow. priestly was one of the cofounders of the unitarian church in england and he had, his single most powerful effect on jefferson's religious views of anyone. jefferson was a huge, we would now say priestly fan boy and was incredibly moved by priestly. because he was such a maverick he ended up getting run out of england in the birmingham riots and comes to the united states as really our first great kind of intellectual exile, coming for the kind of intellectual freedom. then gets into, gets bound up in, kind of has a falling out with adams. gets bound up in all these controversies in the united states and, ends up being this single most mentioned figure in the adams-jefferson letters. he is mentioned 10 times as many times as franklin is, for instance, in the famous correspondence between adams and jefferson. he is kind of like this unsung, this missing founding father who shows up

(carl franklin) we wanted to somehow break the genre.hollywood crime. slow down, ray. don't panic. he recognized me back there, man, i know he did. if he recognized you, he'd arrest you in the store. he was just looking us over. white boy and a nigger girl in texas, that's all it is. (carl franklin) the characters weren't all good or all bad, they were flawed. i'm going to pull 'em over. and with that principle kind of established that this was a world where people had good and bad sides and where evil was not as clearly defined or as simple as it normally is in a hollywood film, that created a lot of room to interpret and to do a lot of human inner-character work. y'all want some rolls? (carl franklin) the fact that race was not the foremost issue in the film was in the writing, but it also coincided with my own view of racial problems that we have in the world. i hope to hell he does show his heinie up there, that piece of white trash and them two niggers are -- ow, shirley, you nearly broke my -- arnie, pass me them pickles, will you?

john heilemann writes -- joining us now from washington, is the editor of the new republic franklin. >> hey. >> we've been watching this tape of the incredible anim mittble bill clinton out there doing this thing. also joe biden out there, two very effective surrogates for team obama. we have heard precious little from paul ryan save an echo of the revenge line they are trotting out over the last 24 hours. do you think in the end, regardless of what happens tomorrow, paul ryan has been a good choice for mitt romney this campaign cycle? >> i agree with you. he's been strangely disappeared from the campaign trail. i think he's out there, drawing some sizable crowds but nothing like the way the mccain people trotted out even sarah palin at the end of the campaign in order to gin up enthusiasm. but i think there's a way in which had he may have on that slightly hurt mitt romney which is that you look at medicare as an issue, and the way in which the ryan plan has resonated despite the fact that the obama people haven't really pushed it like the way that you mute think they would have pus

franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. four who did not effectively communicate their agendas or initiatives were jefferson, monroe, grand and cleveland. the dominant force of failure for a second term presidents has been there in the ability to successfully to work with congress. lee eight second term presidents have face trouble their second term due directly to the fight between congress and the white house. having a congressional majority of their own party is no assurance of relief. those presidents who served with the congress having majority of the opposing party during a second term included wilson, eisenhower, nixon, reagan and clinton. the competitive battle between a president and congress bates to the fight george washington had with congress over the jay treaty and. he had won approval only after considerable effort working directly with members of congress, compromising and cajoling. that was with the congress having a majority of right thinking federalists and a president who is revered as a national hero. w

it's at franklin and fell, the center of the building is the robert n minor auditorium, it is within a concrete box and it is a 700 seat performing arts style auditorium, it's a surround look as you can see where the performers can be further into the audience, there's a flexible configuration that we've developed with our architect and our designer to have an experience that we felt was tight and responsive to the needs of jazz that was important for the artist engagement with the audiences, so reflecting this design of community all the way through the actual space. looking at just the entire layout of the site, you can see where the concrete box na surrounds the auditorium is surrounded in turn by an l shape of support areas, those support areas include our ground floor lobby, an ensemble room and our education space, they are about 100 piece ensemble room for rehearsals, classes, our classroom all stars, our community band that will perform, rehearse and learn together on monday night, as well as some practice rooms, our cafe which we are in partnership with charles fan to delive

. >> mccullough: it was ben franklin's idea.e very beginning comes the idea of learning, of books, of ideas. >> safer: ben franklin still watches over this city. and so does george washington. tell me something-- as a historian, do you get any funny feelings when you wander around philadelphia? >> mccullough: now, morley, you understand, i don't believe in ghosts. you... you... that's clear. >> safer: okay. >> mccullough: but at night, walking up market street or chestnut street, going past where they all lived and convened, it gets very quiet. i know that they're here. they really... you feel it. you feel it. walk around at night. walk over to the cemetery at christ church just up the way here. you'll feel it. >> safer: you might feel it too at the city tavern, the watering hole for franklin and the others, where, after hours, they plotted revolution. >> mccullough: this is the place where george washington and john adams first met. this was the hangout, and it was loud, it was lively. well, i would like to start with mr. washi

announced they were looking -- the raids were targeting known drug dealers in the penn rose and franklin square neighborhoods. the group of 24 were all connected and helped fuel the violent crime spike that included 10 shootings and one murder. >> their records reflect a long history of violence and drug work within those neighborhoods, so extracting them will bring immediate stabilization. >> police believe more criminal cases could come out. agents conducted drug buys for heroin, crack and cocaine. >> a rosedale man is dead and two others are in shock trauma. a westbound truck crossed the center line hitting a mazda. the impact sounded like an explosion. they took these pictures with a cep company that showed the damage. >> i tried to see what was going on with the vehicles. i could see that one man was badly injured. the driver of the vehicle was -- they were both trapped in the car. they had to cut them out. >> 26-year-old william strayer, jr. was taken to franklin hospital but did not survive. >> an update on the accident we first told you about as breaking news last night on abc2 n

franklin playing host. tied at 14. franklin's hilton. racing there. not long after, reggie ellis. 13 yards. franklin in control 28-14. millers storm back. white. 28-27. extra point though no good. 2:40 to play. millford mill at it again. this time with the option to keep it. very good option to have. look at him go. 61 yards for a touchdown. 33-28. drives the length of the field. all kind of time for thornton. white lies in wait. game over. millford mill wins the aaa north. 33-28. here's defending aa state championships from river hill playing host to appleton. hawks down. two point converge good as well. may be the turning point of the game. we can say that it was. isaac murray. stripped by river hill. hawks recover. couple plays later. they take full advantage. takes the pitch. lets it fly. off and gone. 78 yards. raiders did fight back. raiders end up winning 35-27. college basketball last night. college park maryland. brooklyn first half. look at the move. splits the defenders. 7' 1". he scored maryland's first eight points. finished with 18. just

people i remember jeff jefferson as a matter of principle refused to patent any of his invention ben franklin was very reluctant to do that if this is this was an ideal of the founders they resurrected exactly right now we are the cream of the crop in science and technology is too often working on weapons of mass destruction and i mean you know they can hit a target five thousand miles away they can have a miniature drone that kind of tell it back to the people brilliant modern public transit renewable solar energy wind power the kind of products that will produce cheaper housing more durable products better agriculture how do we incentivize it through tax code if you're changes in government spending power one is for example to deflate the military industrial complex which consumes half of the federal government's operating expenditures we have no more major enemy have some gangs we don't have the soviet union anymore but we still have an eight hundred billion dollar budget and two criminal wars operating in asia the second is as citizen scientists which the book talks about more and more pe

missy franklin, coming to cal! at bank of america, we're continuing to lend and invest in the people, businesses, and organizations that call the bay area home. whether it's helping a nonprofit provide safe, affordable housing within the city, supporting an organization that's helping kids find jobs and stay in school, or financing the expansion of a local company that's creating healthier workplaces, what's important to the people of the bay area is important to us. and we're proud to work with all those who are making our communities stronger.

it will stimulate spending but the other great jobs program is repairing america we all know that franklin delano roosevelt did it it's jobs that are in every community they make life better they rebuild in modernize our public facilities from public transit to clinics schools sewage drinking water systems almost things we see crumbling i always bridges what eisenhower republican did it just like a democrat you can pay for by raising the corporate taxes to what they were in the prosperous sixty's ok getting rid of the hundreds of billion dollars of corporate subsidies and corporate welfare and cracking down on corporate crime and fine you know and putting it back into the community really ralph nader it's a seventeen solutions we got through ten of them you need to get the book and read it to get all seventeen of them sir thank you and i have it on the program thank you. now up next we'll speak with journalist and author thomas frank after the break. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that we americans call i don't know. i'm sorry i'm just a guy who cares an aw

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franklin. td. this one, 27 yard. he had 171 yard. and two scores. usc, driving second.t barkly. look out. crunched by anthony barr. ucla wins 38-4 to clinch their second. straight pac 12 title. congratulations to the bruins. alex smith. lifted a questionable -- listed as questionable for the showdown with the bears. 49ers quarterback has not been fully cleared. suffering a concussion. describe what the final step is for smith to return. and the quarterback. probably would be different. consistent thing. the helmets coming off. i was standing up. >> with alex smith, and hopefully play monday night against the chicago bears. should be a good game. diane have you noticed when you ask a guy with concussions a question about the concussion, he says i don't remember. of course he is goingo say that. >> i had a concussion once too. i am going with that. ten years later. >> and henry, we have got san jose state tonight. in a big game. >> san help say state going to be in action, once again. spartans, bowl eligible. they're going to be going to a bell game most likely. cal, oreg

. >> reporter: the president started his campaign day in franklin county, ohio, with some better than expected unemployment numbers. >> this morning, we learned the companies hired more workers in october than at any time in the last eight months. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: and employers added 171,000 new jobs in october, about 45,000 more than many analysts anticipated. and the labor department says hiring over the summer was better than previously thought. despite the improvement, the president is still facing a high unemployment rate. because more americans are trying to find work, it ticked up from 7.8% to 7.9%. that's the highest number an incumbent president has faced on election day since franklin roosevelt. mitt romney says he'll do a better job if voters put him in the white house. the republican nominee is spending the last few days of the campaign making that case in the battleground states. romney is in iowa and ohio today, trying to pick up the few remaining undecided voters. >> and we ask you to stay at it all the way to the finish line. because we're going t

franklin. breaks free. 27-yard touchdown. 171 yard. two tds. driving again. barclay.tayed down for a while. he would leave the game. then with less than two minutes left. ucla. traeg to stop usc. thigh block. the field goal. this baby is history. then gets the gatorade bath. 38-28. second quarter. irish up. 34-yard touchdown pass. 28-0. notre dame. third quarter now. up 31-0. bay area guy. george atkinson. hits pay dirt. 38-0. at that point. that is your final. they remain undefeated. harvard/bills quarterback. ryan fitzpatrick. the game between harvard and yale. takes the handoff. harvard beats yale. for the sixth year. in a rope. 34-24 is your final. to the big time. allen smith. questionable for the showdown with the bears. quarterback has not been fully cleared after suffering a concussion last sunday. offensive lineman. dealt with concussions before. described what the final step is. for smith to return. for me it was like i basically. with my helmet. the quarterback would be different. it's their job. their consistent. we wish alex smith the best. what about, th

. >> joining me now is neal franklin, a 32-year law enforcement veteran in maryland and also speaks for a group called le against prohibition. >> i'm in favor because marijuana legalization is not something new. this policy of prohibition has been a perpetual policy disaster for over four decades now. as a matter of fact, one of the first law enforcement leaders, a man by the name of august vietnam vommer chief of berkeley in california and also the first leader of international chiefs of police. right after the end of alcohol prohibition in the 1930s, he said that managing drugs in our community is an issue for health. it is not one to be solved through law enforcement. this is nothing new. there are many reasons to end marijuana prohibition in this country and i'm glad that voters in colorado and washington stepped forward. this has been on the president's plate ever since he's been in office and it's time for him to deal with it. >> you were on the front lines for many years in the war on drugs, but i understand a tragic accident of a fellow officer changed your life. is that when yo

franklin again a 29-yard blast. he had 171 yards. ucla wins 38-28 to win the south division. product george atkinson ii, irish undefeated now 11-0. as they beat wake forest today 38-0. >>> l soviet unionsu avoiding an upset to beat mississippi 41- 35. >>> this is wisconsin's monta ball. he tied the college football touchdown record with a 7-yard score against ohio state. that's number 78 for his career. buckeyes did win 21-14 to remain unbeaten at 11-0. >>> and nfl the raiders 3 to 5.5-point underdog at home hosting the saints. the saints means a lot of quarterback drew brees throwing left, right and over the middle. saints play-off hopes still alive after an 0-4 start. the raiders know about their own pass defense issues. yeah. and brees realizes this is a chance to expose this raider defense and the silver and black knows it. >> they really look like a basketball team that plays football. they are very finessed and they do a very good job of being able to run the football but their mindset is to spread it out and throw it. >> it would be great here and there but then when w

this is franklin boulevard. 83 at york road, traffic is light down to the beltway. of of of traffic -- we will let you know once the delays develop -- all of the traffic. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now let's get the latest on the buses and the trains. for that we go to kurt kronke of the mta system. >> the camden and brunswick trains are on schedule. light rail is on time. there is a diversion affecting the 61 bus. the five bus is diverting at central and monument. on monday, there'll be no marc train or weekday mta commuter bus service. now back to tony pann. >> things are pretty quiet in baltimore. it has been a rough couple of weeks. 38 degrees at the airport. a chilly start. i do not think you'll see any frost on your windshield. the weather is still chilly up and down the east coast. 54 in kansas city. that warm air is sliding eastbound. high pressure is still west of us. the wind is coming out of the north or northwest. you can see the skies are clear. it will not be as windy as yesterday. we will start to warm up. the jet stream will move up into

bill: 9:35 in new york. 9:35 in columbus, ohio, that is franklin county.look at the polling lines that are open. we'll check in a moment with mike to be inch and see how the voting is going there. before we go there on the board behind me i want to show you right now what to look for later tonight in ohio. there are a couple of keys you can examine in 2008, a state that went blue for president obama. how did he win ohio? you can key in-cities. new hampshire i will ton county, cincinnati. franklin county, columbus. cuyahoga county, cleveland, that area went blue as well. that was from 2008. what is going to happen this year? later tonight when we get our results we will start to see everything tick in from time after time, red and blue, red and blue throughout these counties including franklin county, which is where the capitol city is located. mike tobin is there as well. i want to check in with him live. good morning, mike. >> good morning, bill. off and running here in the state that many feel could be the decider. the voters were packed outside the voti

and i would think if your thoughts live from beirut political analyst to dr franklin lamb my pleasure my pleasure now israel's got itself militarily entangled on two fronts he is all in one day firing his first weapons into syria sunday just hours before hitting back at militants in gaza killing several civilians we got details about that just ahead. usually the police and occupy protesters are like oil and water but it led to they've come together to save the house of a former detective jacqueline barber unfortunately ms barbara lost a lot of money battling cancer and was facing eviction what she turned to occupy homes for help so far she's managed to stay in her home despite it being sold out from under her feet but the main thing is that her fight to stay in her home has become like a bridge between two groups who are usually at each other's throats the police and occupiers the thing is that cruel economic practices can. does saul even retired police like ms barber i know there are some irresponsible people who buy things they can't pay for and here the police have to do something

leader was reelected with the highest unemployment rate of any president returning to office since franklin roosevelt in one thousand nine hundred thirty six the u.s. unemployment rate is around seven point eight percent and tens of millions of americans are not experiencing the economic recovery that obama promised four years ago but in the u.s. twenty twelve election voters were forced to pick between a democratic incumbent who hasn't delivered on his promise of change and a republican such as mitt romney whose agenda included shrinking government and slashing taxes in times of financial uncertainty during his acceptance speech barack obama assured americans that the best was still ahead but as our tease guy in a chicken reports the best may be more of the same. and the winner is i want to. participate in this is like. you made your voice heard and you made a good mitt romney has accepted his well it's just a case of obama to congratulate him on his victory. full on excitement in the president's hometown of chicago way to president obama's daughters chanting four more. years savor what do

it's therefore the most serious pretty stretched to damascus yet i spoke to political analyst dr franklin lamb he says only foreign action can topple assad at this point. absent a nato type no fly zone massive massive air strikes no i don't think. the regime can be defeated because their air force is being supplied it still has a lot of reserves and i don't i don't fear a measure got nato or a ground invasion i think what we've seen so far of this opposition which is actually splendor and some ways they've got a very steep slope to climb the only reason we have that almost tissue quality remark was the threats and that could be the political pressure that was put on them pay had to do something this weekend do you think the west is going to show up in qatar and arrange a show and no result no how long it will last we don't know and it's been twenty one months into libya you recall and there are factions still aren't glued together and they had the benefit of nine thousand bombing runs by nato so i i think that the other problem is not the groups themselves which are very disparate but the

delays at franklin boulevard. southbound delays will continue down to the beltway.at is the latest on traffic pulse 11. ava marie is having fun this morning. >> good morning. this is part of the fundraiser happening this weekend for the tennis education foundation. the pros are hitting their fastest serve. close to 120 miles per hour. >> they have to warm up. >> what is the fastest serve ? >> i will go with andy roddick, about 150 miles per hour. this player is on the tour. he can go to about 120. that is incredible. we would be excited if you hit 50. >> let's give it a try. >> here she goes. matt is helping her along with josh. 43. come on, girl. crack it. she is getting ill nervous -- she is getting a little nervous. one more. it will be a fun at night. we'll have two exhibitions. 54! >> i got close to the 50 mark. that is one event. >> the greenspring tennis and foundation website. you can call the front desk at greenspring tennis. >> i got close to 50 miles per hour. not quite. >> i am sure it was a gust from the air-conditioning unit. i think i saw it butterfly