please fred. fred! your fred. oh that's the judges handle. um hum. who are you talking to dear?nick. oh nick? beat it, scram! yes sir. why fred you never talked to. never mind what i never there's gonna be lots of things you never seen the judge do. you better get used to it. yes dear i'll try. please fred you're hurting me. eh playing hard to get eh? [laughter] what's so funny? sorry eddie sorry. what's your name? oh really fred. what's your name? oh now you certainly know my name. i wouldn't ask if i knowed. i'll call you rosy. rosy! yeah a little number i used to run around with built just like you. come on come on relax i ain't such a bad guy. now stop it fred! hey who you yellin at. you! i sorry dear. okay. you'll be late. i got lots of time. of course but you're due at the auditorium to deliver your speech. come again. your speech dear it's getting late. i do all my speechin with my rod. i want you to make the speech eddie i'll be behind you. whispering in your ear it's all part of the plan. hey i think your doing a little too much plannin. on second thought dear maybe it

the dancing of fred astaire. and let's see, fred rogers. fred flintstone, fred krueger.there's more i can't think of right now. so, the next time sometime tells you to unfred, maybe you should stop and think about where we'd be without fred. and then tell jimmy kimmel to stuff it. this has been a special message from the american fred cross. fred! [ cheers and applause ] what do you have to say for yourself now? >> jimmy: it's unfriend. >> what? >> jimmy: it's unfriend, like national unfriend day, it's -- >> unfriend? >> jimmy: yeah, like on facebook. >> oh. >> jimmy: to get back to unfriend people that they aren't -- >> i feel a bit foolish. >> jimmy: this is the third year we've done this. >> it sounds like a very good idea. >> jimmy: thank you, yeah. nothing to do with fred at all. >> oh, that's a relief. thanks, jimmy. >> jimmy: well, thank you. >> do you mind if i hang out in the green room? they have great meat balls back there. >> jimmy: enjoy. stay as long as you like. >> i didn't want to do this. i feel much better about this. >> jimmy: un -- ah -- i had no idea

what is it matt what's happened to fred. [music] it isn't as simple as diagnosing case of the measles. no thank you. it could be a throw back to his formative years his young years. his boyhood years when he lived in the slums. but what caused it? fear probably. of what? [click] well he might be afraid of the high office he is running for. afraid of being elected afraid of the responsibilities it might mean. afraid of loving a woman like you. a woman like me? yes barbara i think fred should withdraw from the campaign. are you serious? deadly serious. but you can't be he's as good elected right now. yes i know. well he'll be alright, he's got to be he's got to be governor. from judges secretary to governor's wife not bad. why matt! barbara we've been friends for a long time. you're the loveliest girl i've ever known you're also the most ambitious. yes matt i am see i'm not a psychiatrist i don't know much about neurotic conditions. but i do know that what fred is doing he must do. psychiatry won't give a lot of poor kids a ch

[riendo] y fred... no sé, ¿cuánto...? (fred) lo mismo más o menos. ¿sí?(patricia woodward) la casa está completamente vacía, sólo hay un colchón, sí. qué más da. [patricia woodward hablando en inglés] [perro ladrando] ¡guau-guau, guau...! (ambos) ¡hola, hola...! [perro ladrando] ¡guau-guau, guau...! a ver si puedo yo. tiene que... así, ¡ya! ¡ooh, qué bonito! qué bonito el suelo, está todo encerado. ¡jajaja! very victorian. look at it. oh, qué bien, qué bien, sí. estupendo. es lo único que nos faltaba. ahí está la olga, acá, ven. ahí viene la olga, no la he visto nunca. qué emoción. ¡hola, olga! ¡jejeje, pasa! al fin puedo conocerte, ¿cómo estás? sí, muy bien. a que no pensaba que yo era así, ¿verdad? este es luis, luis. jubilado. (luis) mucho gusto conocerla. (patricia) no hay nada, está muy tranquilo. puede pasar. [luis hablando en inglés] (hombre) el informe indica que durante el breve período en que la esmeralda fue centro de detención, que nosotros hemos estimado de 12 días, en ese periodo se constituyó a bordo, según dice el informe, una unidad exter

good luck, fred.ey, nolan, somebody's coming. i'll see who it is. you stay here, sam. keep your hands up, stranger. don't ya know you're trespassing on private property? isn't that what the madden gang specializes in? trespassing on other people's property? just what do ya mean by that, mr.? well, the madden gang, is good enough for me. oh, that's why you're wearing the mask. thinking about joining up with us, eh? i've been trying to catch up with you for a long time. well, climb down. but don't try anything funny. sure. it's a mighty fine horse ya got there. you wouldn't wanna tell me where you got him, would ya? no more then you would wanna tell me where you got yours. ha, you're alright, stranger. come on over by the fire. thanks. howdy. sit down. take on some grub. i wonder if that is, madden? cause if it ain't you best start saying your prayers, patrick. you've just a couple minutes left. you haven't got much time left either. someday they'll catch up with you, polecats. polecats, huh? i'll show

fred, good to talk with you.appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. >> shareholders will be pleased with that answer. see you soon, fred. >> thank you. >> the market is rallying while you guys are talking. >> 32 points higher. >> interestingly, the day before we get the jobs number. also, one of wall street's top strategists will be joining us with his 2013 market outlook. he's bullish on three specific sectors. we'll name name when is we come back. >> how about the fact that a third of americans believe now is a good time to invest. do people with money in the market agree with that sentiment? the surprising results of all of america economic survey coming up. ♪ mom? dad? guys? [ engine turns over ] [ engine revs ] ♪ he'll be fine. [ male announcer ] more people are leaving bmw, mercedes and lexus for audi than ever before. take advantage of exceptional values during the season of audi event. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures.

farming's a business, carl fred. if you can't cut it, then you lose. oh. by the way, my daughter and son-in-law are looking for a place. sell this place to me before the bank takes possession, you'll make yourself $1,000. $1,000? this land has been in my family over 100 years. it's more than you'll get in two days, which is nothing. you've got that grandson to consider. how will you take care of him after you lose this place? you have until noon tomorrow to think about it. good day, carl fred. i thought i told you to hit the road. we hoped to find some work. you deaf? you heard that loan shark. i can't pay anything. room and board will do. we'll help dig a well. shows what you know. i dug 10 dry wells in the last 6 months. came up empty. how will we find the right spot in 48 hours? i've done my share of divining. that's hogwash. maybe it is. it's worth a try. it's a waste of time. this land's been in your family for 100 years? yeah. what business is it of yours? you must have kin buried around here. don't give that up without a fight. you seem to know how

i don't think fred is wrong. i think he is speaking about job production from the type of viewpoint that he has, but i also think that, that speech is exactly what's wrong with not having small business at the table in washington at this jobs council because it is not intuitive, nor do they understand the heart and mind of the entrepreneur and what either depresses that job growth or creates a robust view to job growth. melissa: yeah. jamie, i mean the point of what he was saying that raising taxes, he was trying to justify the belief that raising taxes will not cost jobs. do you think that raising taxes will cost america jobs? >> well, if you absolutely postively want to kill jobs raise taxes. it will happen overnight. we've got some great research from family enterprise usa that shows that 75% of new jobs are created by family businesses. a lot of those family businesses are pass through corporations. so when those marginal income tax rates go up, the first thing they do they have to cut employment or freeze hi

i also want to ask you guys, fred smith, ceo of fedex, fred smith had a different approach to this. i want to get your reaction to the other side of this break. don't move, we'll pick up with "money"'s executive roundtable and the truth whether higher taxes will hurt businesses as some say when we come back from this break. excuse me, we have breaking news right now. we'll go to adam shapiro to bring breaking news. what do you have? >> it involves netflix. apparently the company and ceo reed hastings received wells notice from the staff at the sec. the staff recommending that the sec institute a cease and desist proceeding, possibly bring civil action against the company and hastings. the wells notice cites violation of regulation and fair disclosure. now the company is saying, this is coming from the ceo, that they expect, and this is the quote, things to be cleared up quickly. melissa? melissa: great, thank you for that report. we'll get back to our roundtable on the other side of this break. and the next big government bailout, this time the federal housing administration heading

fred: somebody closely connected and of the same gender. nobody calls baby boys fred anymore. can choose: the child must be baptized in honor of our patron, saint raymond nonnatus. sounds like a spiv. [breaks wind] sister evangelina: ooh. sounds like a digestive system in full working order. now then, little raymond, let's see if we've warmed you up. oh. sorry. it's not what i asked for, but it's a start. i can't believe the council won't re-house her. the building's been condemned. elderly single people are supposed to go into nursing homes. we can do better than that for mrs. jenkins, can't we? i don't doubt it. [clattering] sister evangelina: call off the search! i've found the bath. what's more, it's full of coal. [grunts] right. off and i'm up. oh, come on. move any slower, you'll grow moss. don't you take against my rosie. you come over here, dear. i don't know who rosie is, mrs. jenkins, but she isn't me. no. she had a little girl's hands. yours are only small. oh. oh. ooh. mrs. jenkins: i'm not taking them off! i've told you, i'm not! you thieving besoms! jenny: please

fred you don't know how hard i've been trying to help you in every way.but i am afraid i can't go much further. you're not only destroying yourself your destroying me. and i just can't stand it any longer. please lets go on with the ceremony. honey i can't my eyes have been opened, marrying you now would be the worst thing i could do. which don't mean that you lost fred parker but like you said this afternoon you'll be finding him again. and you'll be proud of him, like you always was. honey if i can only make you understand. [music] [music] i think i do understand darling come i'll drive you home. please forgive us. eddie you have a visitor. you might like to know that in his breast pocket. he is carrying the very gun with which he snuffed you out. he's been carrying it around ever since, brings him luck he says and now replay that long overdue debt with your own gun, that's what's known as poetic justice. [music] [music] (voice of minister) heed not mephistopheles my children lest you suffer eternal damnation. when he whispers in your ear turn away your

fred francis, former nbc senior correspondent and founder of 15seconds.c 15seconds.com.ren ashbam and steve who spent decades at "new york times." are the media now, finally, leading a national debate on guns? >> reluctantly and awkwardly. the way they got this started off. painful as a journalist for 40 years to watch all the mistakes. but carrying it through now over a full week clearly going into another week after this into the holiday weeks. i think the debate is off and running and i think it has legs. >> it seems like the reporters and the pundits, some of them, at least, finally showing the emotional impact of covering this. >> in the beginning you want to do the job you're sent there to do. you get your mind in the game. you find your cell phone, your laptop and you pack your clothes and you're going to be there for five days and you're in this bubble where you cannot let emotion come in. it's not until a week later, four, five days later where we're starting to see the toll it is taking on journalists. >> is there a danger as the media do now either lead or bec

hello matt look i'm at fred's-- no he isn't here. he took a plane for st louis. well that is extraordinary. well don't be unduly alarmed it may be only a passing aberration we'll see when he gets back, let me know the moment he arrives. and let me warn you barbara no matter how strangely he acts don't antagonize him. humor him indulge him. remember you're dealing with someone who is ill perhaps very ill. now you understand now don't you barbara

you knew fred rogers some. >> i did. i had met him several times as a child. sometimes my dad would bring me to work had. >> suarez: what was your impression? >> he was everything he was on the show. it wasn't an act. it wasn't just for the cameras. the times that i met him were sort of similar to the times that are in this photograph with this boy. every time that mr. rogers would talk to a child or talk to me he would get down so that he was looking at you in the eyes so you were kind of an equal plane. that made a child feel really special. >> suarez: did you realize he wasn't like other adults, that he talked to you in a different way? >> i think he did. you know, there's just something so special about meeting him and knowing him. i know that my siblings felt the same way too in all the times that we got to interact with him as kids. >> suarez: laura juddkiss of the "washington post" thanks for joining us. >> thank you. ifill: yo >> ifill: you can look more closely at that great photo on our web site, where there's also a link to "pbs parents," where you

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fred, do you know?tually general ma, what happened, two brothers in one wedding party who got into fistfight. something flew. two wedding parties. obviously alcohol was involved. they gathered at bar and the think breaks out into a melee. jenna: esther, quick final thought. you said it well. tragedy no matter. this is supposed to be happy day and didn't turn out to be that way. >> right. very sad. >> next time i'm in philadelphia i will hang out with friends, not go into lobbies. >> wow!. >> hang out with fred. jenna: he has fast talking. near different events. our own rocky balboa in philadelphia. >> in old fashions melee, philadelphia is ground zero. jenna: as we mentioned it is a tough case. it is tough because what is happening on a special day for two families. esther, fred, nice to have you. >> merry christmas. >> thank you. jon: well, as we approach the longest night of the year the medical advice to turn out the lights when you go to bed to improve your mental health. can lights at night make yo

connecticut has some of the most strict gun laws in the country. >> they do. >> fred, you've polled foryears on this and many other topics. the numbers on gun control broadly not speaking the last two weeks but broadly suggest the country is -- would prefer less strictures rather than more to enforce what we have rather than more. we've seen the numbers change a little bit. is this an upward trend or not? >> i don't know. i think the jury is still out on this, chris. i think in terms of this, is this a tipping point moment, it is, but it all depends on what it is. is it a tipping point moment where the congress and the president moved in one direction? >> right. >> is it a tipping point moment from the nra in terms of its image with the public? i mean, as sara said, the images from last week and this week are indelibly imprinted. i don't think we know what kind of tipping point this is. >> now i want to shift gears with the recognition that it's almost impossible to shift gears from that topic. >> right. >> but i do want to talk about what is an amazing political story just in terms of

and it scheduled four extra south bound trains from san francisco new year's morning. >>> fred is in for mark and will tell us about josh hamilton and how it will be a very merry christmas. >> 31-year-old josh hamilton has a lot of talent and a lot of baggage. one year after they over spent to get albert pujols the angels make josh hamilton the second highest paid player in major league baseball history. his $25 million per year salary ties him with ryan howard for -- only alex rodriguez is higher. andres torres agrees to a new deal. he was traded to the mets last year by the giants for pagan but now returns to play left field. he batted .230 with three homers for the mets. and it is finals week at stanford but they are getting back to football 101. practice is every other day. they switch to a three day practice schedule. this game against wisconsin will be the first road bowl appearance in 13 years. and the seniors are making sure everybody understands the importance of finishing strong. >> that is a good thing, we have a good locker room. first class guys. wasn't too hard to keep

>> uma, the issue is, i'm sorry, fred.n't moon to cut you off the issue you can't not purchase weapons for felons. felons should not be in possession of weapons. congress passed a law. states have such laws that they passed. if she helped someone she knew was a known felon purchase firearms, she is guilty under that statute. that is what they're going. the state, new york, class c felony which is lowest level felony, she filed a false application. these are crimes and al gigss that happened two years ago. fred is a very experienced former federal prosecutor. they know normally before they indictment someone they have their ducks in a row. not so in this case. the feds arrested her afterwards. we have sandy hook. columbine, rejuvenation of argument of second amendment. a pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. they want to stop felons from having people directly or indirectly help them get weapons. >> that is not where the federal form says. that is not what the federal form says. are you person who will use and possess

>>guest: i disagree with fred smith.st of all, if you take the top 100 fortune 500 companies and added all their capital investment together, it would not, you would not scratch the surface compared to the capital investment, almost 18 million small businesses invest in each year. so, fred smith believes in what the government has to offer and let the government run fedex like it ran the post office. >>eric: what is the effect of raising taxes on the top 2 percent do a businesslike yours? >>guest: in new york state it would cost us $15 billion alone and 46,000 jobs. >>eric: you personally? >>guest: it would end up reducing my employee payroll, it will reduce my employees by 10 or 15 over all, and it will negatively impact it right across the board. >>eric: who is he talking to? who is fred smith talking to when he says it won't be the job killer that everyone claims. >>guest: i don't know, everyone is mystified by the comment. i don't think fred smith would be able to achieve what he did, today, if the tax hikes that the

row czar row, maria or teeinga and fred narrow ran hough [spelling?]. >> i have i have been asked to speak on behalf of mission director of language of vocational school and i'm going to ask a big favor these two ladies here speak spanish and have been waiting all day and they had interpreters and they had brought some people from their community to talk about the probability and they would like it talk about it, they speak spanish my spanish is pretty decedent and i'm hoping that i can translate. >> >>> yes. >>. >> (spanish). >> okay shes here to support the probability on 14th and south vannest. the prompt is going to provide a sense of more security for them in the community show said that they like the fact because think walk in the community and they go to a store in the community a lot of these people don't have transportation and they like the fact that when they walk down that the dealership actually knows some of these people and watches out for them -- johnathan? >> i guess it's an employee his name is johnathan and they talk and johnathan had

his whole biography with swung who has worked very closely with him, fred kemp. coming up.couldn't deal with it coming from both the right and their own constituency. the president is having problems with these choices, and if it is going to be chuck hagel at the pentagon and then he has to figure out what he is going to do at treasury and at cia because you are going to have an all white male national security cabinet. >> john kerry, a democrat, and chuck hagel, a republican, but what do they have in common? they're both white male senators in their sort of 60s. remember, the president made very clear -- >> veterans we should point out. >> and veterans as well. >> neither is gay. >> fair point. the president has said repeatedly that he wanted a cabinet that reflected america. well, susan mentioned that the 2012 election, what did that election tell us? it told us that the demographic changes that we've all sort of been waiting for, the continued decline of the white vote, the rise of the hispanic vote is here, and that would, it anything, accentuate the immediate from pres

. >>> fred inglis is in and for all the talk of the 49ers we can't forget that the raiders are about to play their final game. >> the 3-10 raiders finish their home season schedule when they host the chiefs. that game will be shown on local television although it's not what you would call must see tv. oakland beat the chiefs back in october then they've lost six in a row since then. but in that game, derek mcfadden ran 310 yards. several others will get chances too. >> this isn't preseason. this isn't where you work on things just to see where you are at. this is regular season, nfl football and we're trying to win football games but in the process we are trying to get a look at young guys. >> we want to finish off strong as a team. we owe it to the fans to do that. and to continue just to fight. fight as a kwraoupt and i think we will. i think we have enough in us and i think we have enough here to do that. >> well imagine being a major league pitcher with a career of 48 wins and 58 losses and looking for a contract. how much would you expect to earn. how about $80 millions over fou

fred francis former nbc correspondent and founder of 15 seconds.com. fred, you spent years at nbc. what was jeff zucker life as a leader of the truth? >> very personalable. not uncommon for jeff to leave his office for 30, 40 minutes each day. sometimes morning and afternoon and just walk around and chat with people and not just the stars at the to the shtoday sho or magazine show and no what stories they were working on. that was his detail. knowing his people and that's where people became so loyal to him. >> he became producer of the today show at 26 and launched that morning show for a 16-year run. how would you describe his track record has a news man? >> it's terrific. the today show led the way. what he demonstrated there and has demonstrated since is an imagination to know that cnn needs to know its news can be more than politics and war. news goes across the board and touches people in a thousand ways. you got to do the great story telling. >> when he left nbc people said, critics said he took over and left the network in fourth place in the ratings. on the entertainment s

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we run through the afc play off pictures and our fred inglis is well, well, well.ing up, we didn't have u-verse. we couldn't record four shows at the same time. in my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. and if mom was recording her dumb show and dad was recording his dumb show then, by george, that's all we watched. and we liked it! today's kids got it so good. [ male announcer ] get u-verse tv with a total home dvr included free for life. only $29 a month for six months. rethink possible. >>> welcome back to the second half of sports wrap, one of if not the best feel good story of the year. the indy-colts awful last season. but everything goes right for them on the field thanks to a little luck and the news off the field encouraging as well. their coach chuck pagano returns he's been fighting cancer to the sideline gary kubiak of the texans applauding his return. kareem up the middle he's untouched, he ain't coming back. the colts taking a 21-16 lead on to the early fourth quarter leading 21-16. here's luck threads the needle with the pass ty hillto

thank you, fred.n in pasadena. >> yeah, yeah. >> this past week and we went to the rosebowl, got to see some of the floats that were being made. it was spectacular. i did get a pretty red rose down hear. >> and fred has another one. >> exactly. >> very lucky. >>> let's check in with tara. she's gonna help you get to where you need to go. and also because it's new year's eve you can ride for free on muni in certain areas. >> that's right. a great, great program. they are offering free rides from 8:00 tonight until 6:00 tomorrow morning. caltrain and sam transofferring free rides after 11:00. vta will be free from 7:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. b.a.r.t. is offering extended service. we're gonna head outside, this is highway 4, the bay point, pittsburg area. the sun is out. it's pretty cold. we have icy patches up up in the hills of eye ren could you -- orib da. this is up -- eye rin da. this is up -- orinda, this is where somebody careened off black ice. be careful driving this morning. mill pete, westbound tra

even fred kagan acknowledged to the post the arrangement was strange and uncomfortable at times.ajiv chandrasekaran wrote in the post. and the washington bureau chief for mother jones. rajiv, thanks for that great report. i love it when you make news. holy cow i was about to say when i read the post front page today. as a student, in a very negative way of the iraq war, who has always suspected anybody who pushed that war was pushing an agenda that wasn't necessarily for a good cause, the kagans, robert kagan, fred kagan, kimberly kagan were prominently featured in your newspaper all the time, pushing the latest neo con war. now they we find out they're in bed with general petraeus, who reports to commander in chief barack obama. how did they get inside when they were from the other side idealogically? >> because, chris, four star generals have a lot of leeway when they're out halfway around the world. this arrangement wasn't well-known at the white house, at the white house. certainly if they knew they would have objected the extraordinary access that the kagans got. petraeus wa

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melissa: fred, what has it meant you personally? is hard to account for what the cost of this is. it probably won't accounted for until after the strike over whenll the rifications hav dom noted down buttit is always devastating to me personally. and it is worrisome for me about my employees a my drivers. melissa: we look at numbers that are involved here an everyone has their estimate and they're arguing or whose esmates are right but what we see is 1.2 million jobs are supported by the ports. 400 billiois in goods move through the ports in 2011. so when people say shutting them down is a billion dollars a day or more,hat sounds like a very at the same time, it is about about 800 members of a clerical union are working related to thepo. it is that they make $87,000 a year. $41 an hour. when benefits are factod in they have annual compensation of $165,000 a year. they are the ones started this strike because they feel over time their jobs will disappear as th work is automated. the longshorem joined forces wh them in support of them

thank you, fred. >>> well, coming up, we have much more ahead on the 10:00 news. >> we'll have a look once again at the weather radar, as we're bracing for a powerful storm starting tomorrow morning. and we are on storm watch and we'll have the latest on what to expect. >>> thank you for trusting ktvu channel 2news. see you the next time news breaks. >> we're always here for you online at ktvu.com and mobile ktvu. see you tonight at 10:00.

from the island of mindanao in the philippines, fred de sam lazaro profiles a group of peacekeepers struggling to maintain a fragile cease-fire between government and rebel forces. itn's john sparks reports on police officers in china, and their accusations of widespread corruption by local officials. and jeffrey brown samples the poetry about greece's financial woes and its austerity measures. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: the election commission in egypt confirmed today the new constitution won nearly 64% of the vote in a referendum. the panel also reported turnout was just a third of the country's 52 million registered voters. president mohammed morsi and his muslim brotherhood backed the draft constitution. opponents warned it paves the way for islamic rule and curbs on civil liberties. the six persian gulf arab nations demanded an end to what they called iranian interference. they issued a statement today at the end of the gulf cooperation council's annual summit. the statement gave no details. the six u.s. allied count

fred francis senior correspondent and founder of 15seconds.com.aura ashburn editor and steve roberts at the george washington university who spent a couple decades at "new york times." since nothing else came back looking back in our national history and not prosecuting paula broadwell for stalking or anything else. >> we were right after the presidential election, everybody was bored. and this happened during newtown or during the presidential campaign. it would not have been as big a deal. this was a timing issue. >> nothing else going on, remember how, you know, the stakeouts in front of jill kelley's house. >> how do they send 30,000 to 40,000 e-mails. just this nonstop, salacious story. >> yes, but it was great television. sex and espionage and spies. i mean, this was the kardashian of national security. >> that's not a good thing, pal. >> wrong metric. that was the kardashian impression in the worst way. it was to try to get eyeballs and sensationalize the story and good tv and good entertainment is not the same as good information. this was

fred de sam lazaro has the latest in our "agents for change" series. a version of this report aired on the pbs program, "religion and ethics newsweekly." >> brown: for 25 years, father rick, defined and redefined through crisis and even catastrophe. he came to this impoverished caribbean nation in 1987 after a few years in mexico and honduras to expand the mission of his catholic religious order. >> we came in fact to set up what we do everywhere, which is home and school for orphan and abandoned children. we say orphanage is just -- it's sier the fact is we have community of families, that's what we have. community of families that have been broken by tragedy. >> today 800 children whose parents have died or whose families are unable to care for them are housed in several centers. this one taking to functions out of shipping containers. the shelters' young managers themselves grew up here like 22-year-old billy. his mother was here when she was three. >> my mother was very rly a about 16 years old, then my father took off. then my mother couldn't take

. >> woodruff: from haiti, fred de sam lazaro reports on the efforts to stem a deadly cholera epidemic that began after the 2010 earthquake. >> ifill: and ray suarez talks to author and journalist tom ricks about what he describes as the decline of american military leadership. >> today nobody gets credit for anything and mediocrity is accepted as a core value in the performance of generals. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: neither side showed signs of budging today as the nation edged closer toward a so- called fiscal cliff that could raise taxes by year's end. we begin with

from the island of mindanao in the philippines, fred de sam lazaro profiles a group of peacekeepers struggling to maintain a fragile cease-fire between government and rebel forces.o >> there are many other organizations that do medical care and food provisions. never enough. what is new here is civilians protecting civilians. >> ifill: itn's john sparks reports on police officers in china, and their accusations of widespread corruption by local officials. and jeffrey brown samples the poetry about greece's financial woes and its austerity measures. >> we'll hock the person to buy our bread. if you believe the headlines, then we're sunk. greece downgraded deeper into junk. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour.n >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made poss