. >> we are here with the judge frederic block, author of an inside look of a federal trial judge. you were brought on the court in 1994. >> correct. 1994 i was nominated by president clinton, recommended by senator moynihan. i've been here for last 18 and a half years. >> your sub telecom inside look at the life and work. getting a regular day in the courtroom. >> every other day in the court room, there's no such thing as record in the courtroom. we send people to jail but we do that about three or four times a week. we get our share of so-called high profile trials because we sit in new york city. i had the gotti trial, and light in new york city is a very dynamic type of judgeship because we really are pretty much with the action is at. i've had terrorist cases, you name it, we have had. >> how do you separate your professional life from your personal life? >> well, i sort of like to believe i have an integrator have an integrated life. i'm a musician. i wrote this book for the first time at the tender age of 78. the reason i did that is because i really believe that we need mo

among the dead, three americans, gordon lee rowan of oregon and frederic buttaccio and victor lovelady him all the time, do you feel safe? do you feel safe going? if you don't feel safe, you don't have to go. and he said, oh, nothing's happened there in so long. >> reporter: the wife of one of the seven americans to survive, steven wysocki, told abc news her husband hid at the gas plant for 2 1/2 days, often just feet away from the terrorists. >> there were a couple of times when he said he truly did think he was going to die. >> reporter: the rogue al qaeda leader behind the attack, mokhtar belmokhtar, said in a video made public today that more such attacks should be expected. not he is target number one in a rapidly expanding u.s.-french military operation near his base, where the first american transport planes landed today. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> and coming up from here in washington, d.c., the powerful voices at the inauguration. we take you behind the scenes in our "instant index" tonight.♪ [ male ♪ o'er the land do you turn an of the free ♪ into a scooter that talk

this picture is "flaming june" by frederic lord leighton. - does anyone recognize it? - women: yes. famous picture isn't it? it has become so. bruce: ahead of his lecture on the female form rupert made a research trip to the tate to build a case for the defense. maas: the sitter of this painting used to be thought to be a very beautiful girl called dorothy dene. in fact, we now think it's another girl called mary lloyd. i doubt she had a thigh quite that long. but my word, she was a stunner and she was quite-- well, if i may say quite well-built as well. great artists painting the human body often make exaggerations. michelangelo's "david"-- he's got the biggest feet you've ever seen in your life. i mean they're really absurdly large. there's a reason for it. he stands better for having big feet. if he didn't have big feet he'd fall over. and there's a reason for this girl being slightly disproportionate. it wouldn't work if her thigh was any shorter. that needs to spread across the composition to make the two halves of it like a yin and yang shape, work. i do sometimes get into a l

high temperatures are ranging from 39 in frederic to 35 in cumberland.have more with monica and she has the latest with time safer traffic. >>> south of i-70, / route 40 and be aware of that, i am happy to say things have been looking great no issues coming in and as you traffic to fairfax you will be okay. let's look on the northbound side of interstate-95 and it is slow and that's because of an accident on the outer loop of the belt way and that's why you are going so slowly and if that is where you are headed leaving springfield and back to the area beyond. on the north side of town, bent way has been great, college park in bethesda and on the outer loop, you can see traffic is moving well on the top side of your screen. we will be back with more on the top side of your screen. >> let's look at what your partners are covering. good morning, anthony. >> good morning, andre and mike. >>> bill richardson has plans to visit north korea despite serious concerns. we will take you to the town at the center of a new reality show to hear what residents say is

milton friedman said this, nobel prize winner, frederic haye can k, nobel prize winner.id, this another nobel prize winner. shrinking the government is pro growth in the economic model i subscribe to. why aren't the republicans talking about that? this is one of their problems. all right. you gentlemen stick around. keith, matt, and mark. now, we're going to tackle gop rebranding. this is going to be good. rebranding efforts. and minority reach-out with a senior republican who was at 9 williamsburg conference. let's hear his story. >>> welcome back to "the kudlow report." in this half hour, the stock rally is still riding high. that's right. we closed at another five-year high for the dow today. but not enough americans seem to be enjoying this ride. they're sort of staying out of stocks and missing this big run-up. and whole foods ceo john mackey is speaking out again about obama care and many other issues. remember, he is probably the most outspoken business leader against obama care, and he's going to join me later in the half hour. >>> first up, just days after presi

among them, three americans who were working for bp. 58-year-old frederic of cayden, texas, gordy ofgon, and victor of houston and neerdland, texas. a 57-year-old father of two, who a local police chief says, was well known. >> i knew victor. i knew him to be a good family man, had a good family. his kids went to school here. they were well-respected people here. >> a good family, a close family. they've got a supportive extended family and i'm sure a certain number of good friends who are able to be with them. >> reporter: among the seven u.s. hostages who survived, steven of albert, colorado, and mike cobb of corpus christi, texas. he was the manager of the plant. a friend says cobb texted, "i'm alive," and said he hid in an unused room until he was able to escape unarmed. bp won't comment on the workers, citing privacy concerns, but says executives are offering their families the company's full support. and there are ripple effects here, including concerns that crude could top $100 a barrel. also, that oil production could be impacted in places where there's political disruption,