hampton does. [laughter] >> yeah, i went to the university of texas said that means i got my credentials right out there. >> this was in the 60's and i vaguely remember it. i don't think any of us who write and have kept writing and having some success doesn't have the same had better moments as everyone is trying to write. there are days the magic works and there are lots of days the magic doesn't. my own her technique is when i can't think of how i should be saying something i imagine i'm having dinner with my wife. if i were telling the story to her instead of writing it what are the things i would want to tell her so that she would understand it and then i go back and try to work those things in. it is god awful hard work but i think i speak for everybody and there are other wonderful writers in this room i should point out some folks who have some valuable works what could be more fun, but could be a bigger thrill than trying hard to learn about things and writing them and sort of carrying of

i have a comment for hampton and a question for james.would like to say -- they say reading and writing history is like going to a foreign country and i want to thank you y'all for snapping our passports today for doing that. a comment for hampton is, oh, probably several years ago my wife and i were taking a tour of taos on a beautiful fall day when all the trees were yellow. and the tour guide took us by this little gift shop on the way out to the pueblo. and we saw this little old man behind the gift shop chopping wood. and he was doing it very skillfully and very forcefully. and i just couldn't believe for his small size how well he was chopping wood. and the tour driver said that fellow is a survivor of the baton death march. and i know there's a connection between your two books because the arizona national guard -- excuse me, the new mexico national guard had gone over to the philippines, i believe, for ghost soldiers, you know, and the -- anyway, between new mexico and philippines there's a connection definitely. >> yeah. >> the q

lee evans and philander hampton are charged with murder and arson.orked odd jobs for evans. but the 56-year-old had been cleared as a suspect until new information surfaced. >> detectives believe that the victims had broken into one of the defendant's homes and stolen an undetermined amount of marijuana. >> reporter: on that hot summer night, the five boys played a game of pickup basketball in this neighborhood. after dinner, they went out to meet with evans. they were never seen again. debbie wilson doesn't believe her brother melvin deserves to die for an alleged break-in. she is furious that evans didn't get caught sooner. >> it's not closure for me because i really believe that this man walked around for 30 years, living his life. our kids are dead, buried underneath some ground, and you had no heart. you didn't tell us. >> reporter: police say a third man, believed to be involved, died two years ago. evans and hampton face arraignment wednesday. bail has been set for $5 million each. terrell brown, cbs news, newark, new jersey. >>> in connecticu

the comment for hampton is several years ago my wife and i were taking the tour on a beautiful fall they were all the trees were yellow and the tour guide to us by the little gift shop on the way out to the plate -- pueblo and we saw this man chopping wood behind the gift shop doing it very skillfully and forcefully. i couldn't believe for his small size how well he was chopping wood and the driver said that fellow is a survivor of the bataan death march and i noticed the connection between the two books because the arizona national guard i guess excuse me that mexico national guard had gone over to the philippines i believe for the ghost soldiers -- any way between mexico and the philippines there is a connection definitely. õlest-j5t there's a rumor that custer had two soldiers available after he won the battle of little bighorn to take off to the nearest telegraph station to report his results to the national republican committee who was -- they were starting the convention, i believe. is that true or not? >> well, a man named craig repast wrote a short little book called "custer for

with the very latest on this one, hampton. >> hi, trish. for lawmakers make no mistake about it china's currency which some experts say 40% undervalued is simply the hot button issue. for the past 90 minutes lawmakers in the house ways and means committee have been hearing from currency experts saying there is absolutely no doubt china is a currency manipulator and it is affecting the economy and jobs here in the u.s. one of the witnesses at the peterson institute is telling lawmakers if china's currency was revalued, it could equal $150 billion a year in deficit reduction. and that also translates, he says, into 6,000 jobs for every dollar of every billion dollars in exports. >> revaluation of the chinese and otheration currencies are the most cost-effective step that could now be taken to reduce unemployment in the united states. it certainly would be the most important part of the president's national export initiative. >> but lawmakers are also being warned there could be a strong backlash from chinese officials who have taken a more ag

evans and another suspect, his cousin philander hampton still lived in town.hird suspect died in 2008 of natural causes. is there one shred of evidence that really stands out for you that you said you know what? this could be it. >> well, the putting together the fire with the disappearance of the kids. >> reporter: the fire he is talking about happened in 1978. about a year and a half ago, a witness came forward with new information about it. investigators knew they were close. the big break in the case came when investigators realized that a vacant home that had burned to the ground the night the boys disappeared that used to be right here actually belonged to one of the suspects in the case, philander hampton. but because the boys weren't reported missing until two days after that fire, police say there was no reason to make that connection, or ever consider that those boys might have been inside. investigators now believe the boys were lured to the vacant home at gunpoint, killed, and doused with gasoline. the house was burned to the ground. the boys' rema

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hampton has the details. >> well, china's currency may be undervalued by as much as 40% and that is the hot button issue for lawmakers. a panel of currency and trade makers told president obama that they will declare china a currency manipulator when the treasury issues their next report which would open up sanctions and it could cause the yuan into deficit reductions and the current imbalance will be translating to 6 million american jobs into cheaper chinese exports which is according accord t according to c. fred bergston. >> this are important parts of the president's export initiative. >> reporter: but other experts say that there is a risk of a backlash. >> the chinese authorities are spoiling for a fight. and the united states' congress must be very, very careful about giving it to them. we should be careful that the market reaction to a trade war or currency war between the united states and china does not exceed in its negative effects the benefits which i believe would be minimal of remedy revaluation. >> what is needed lawmakers were told is for the u.s. to convince the chine

>> hampton, thank you very much. while green is the direction jobs may be going, our next guest is having trouble finding people with the right skill sets to fill the positions. solar reserve builds large utility scaled projects that is expected to create 100,000 jobs. joining us is keith smith, the ceo of solar reserve. >> nice to meet you. pleasure to be here. >> i know you have two farms planned in the santa monica, california, area where i harken from. your company is unusual in that it has managed to find the way with liquefied salt to generate energy at night as well as during the day, is that correct? >> that is correct. we have a large scale solar energy technology that utilizes integrated storage with salt, and technology designed by united technology corporation. we have two projects in late stage development here in the u.s., one in nevada, and one in southern california near blythe, and then we have a lead project in spain as well. >> you are a big success story which is something that we like to highligh

and at the end of the table is hampton sides, who did not go to the university of texas. but did barely crawl through yale university. [laughter] >> and it acts within the paper. i didn't believe it until he showed it to me. he is from memphis where he was born and raised. he's had a very successful career in journalism. is editor at large with outside magazine, which i know many of you read. his book, ghost soldiers in 2001 about the but and network and a i wrote rescue attempt in the philippine campaign was made into a motion picture. and, of course, his blood and done, the story of kit carson and america was published by doubleday in 2006 has been an enormous success. at that sort of resurrected the name of kit carson and american history. hampton is now, he was it in santa fe. he phoned kit carson west and south i it did for a while. and he is just completed held down on his treo, which is the story of the king assassination and the manhunt for the assassin which will be published by doubleday next month. so we are all looking forward to that. i think a good place to

hampton, thank you. we'll watch closely all day today.lso watching closely six flags which son its own thrill ride trying to emerge from chapter 11 in the next few weeks. the nation's largest theme park operator emerged from bankruptcy last june. the park opens for the season tomorrow and thank you for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me, becky. >> we've been watching very closely what's been happening in bankruptcy. i realize that you are very close to emerging from bankruptcy right now but you also switched sides this week going with a plan from avenue capital instead of stark investments plan. why did you switch sides? >> well, actually it's the other way around. we're going with a group of about 11 funds that are led by stark partners among others and frankly we went with them because it's our obligation to maximize recovery in any sort of bankruptcy process and what happened here is the junior bond holders wrote a massive equity check to $275 million and bought out and paid off the senior bond holders and so avenue and f

hampton, good morning. >> good morning, carl. as you mentioned, tumultuous debate. really went on all weekend. this whole orchestrated strategy, particularly on the part of president obama and the white house, focused primarily at trying to get wavering democrats to come home. >> the republicans wanted what i call the fox's guard the henhouse approach, in which we further deregulate the insurance companies, and let them run wild, the notion being somehow that that was going to lower costs for the american people. i don't know a serious health care economist who buys that idea, but that was their concept. and we rejected that. because what we said was, we want to create a system in which health care is working not for insurance companies, but it's working for the american people. >> and to the bitter end, the republicans and their allies, both inside and outside the capitol, stuck to, again, some core arguments on their side, as well. number one, about what this meant in terms of the size and continuing overreach, if you will, on the part of government, and of course

the 20 kids on board were headed to hampton elementary school. >> there were to be yours if you have information on the missing baltimore county woman. police say 24-year-old charice traveled on the twenty first to meet with someone and has not been seen or heard from since. you see her picture on the screen. her first name is tattooed on her neck. you're asked to call crime stoppers act 1866-7-lockup. you may be eligible for a cash reward up to $4,500. they want to know if you recognize this man found unconscious on february 16. he was admitted and treated for hypothermia but has not regained consciousness. 410-361-2235 >> after years of back and forth and the confiscation of 19 horses, they may be back in business providing fresh produce to residents. this comes after the city and then settled their differences today. we have the details of that deal. >> the city seized 19 of those horses back in november, and a final signatures were put on an agreement with virtually all of them, 17 of the horses will be moving. it could happen as early as tomorrow. it is far away from the hustle

on hampton park boulevard in capitol heights maryland. police shut down the boulevard while they investigated. >>> rates of hiv and aids infections are up in the district. that has prompted after -- african american leaders to have a greater focus on the disease. >> on the date the city released its latest numbers, members of the national black leadership commission on aids came to capitol hill. they support a bill called h.r. 1964 that would provide funding for testing, treatment, and education for people in the black community with aids. in washington, d.c., 81% of the people who have aids are black. black ministers joined members of congress calling for a national effort. >> we need desperately the resources to save lives in the africaamerican community. we are losing lives in genocidal proportions. >> no place is it worse than in washington. clinics provide care to a growing population. mayor fenty's aids eat -- aids report showed 1/3 more people living with hiv-aids from 2006 toore than 16,000 in 2008. people like robert anbar purred

we will be -- >> we will be landing at my house in the hamptons and black eyed peas will be playing -- playing in a vat of fire. >> someplaces you get suned. >> i have one of those as well. and it cost me $35 million. >> go away, you go first. >>> let me welcome our guest. kimberly gilfol. she is sweeter than strawberry short cake and rides through candy land on a my little pony. i wish who ever put this in the prompter put it in correcterly. and who said, you said .com commentator. she is so sharp that teenage boys use her to widdle their wood. and he knows words like i know thirds. it is my favorite fraction. >> they put the oo -- as in basketball. placing teachers on top of hee hf-haw with proceeds going to charities slash prom committeeses and all droppings with placed in bags and given to bill. see for yourself. >>> who would have a problem with it? you guessed it. my sister's new boyfriend who is a jerk. and peta issued a, quote, action alert against the school district in nava daw which is planning -- in nevada. the dprendz of all things -- the friends of all things four legged

hampton park boulevard was shut down in both directions while accident reconstruction crews corrected evidence. >>> a new development in the ongoing saga with toyotas and allegations of sudden acceleration. a prius was in an accident in new york state. we reported it here on 5:00. a toyota spokesperson says the black box is showing information and engine speed and pedal position from the time of the crash. they hope 0 to gain and understanding of what is going on from that information. more than 8 milli toyotas were recalled because of this problem. >>> it's time to get counted ut criminals have their sites set on you. everything you need to avoid the census scam. >>> a warning this st. patrick's day. what is being done to make sure you are safe behind the wheel. >> could unwanted fat be the curb to stemming the stem cell research controversy.  >>> still ahead, move over google. there is a new web site in time. we are breaking down facebook at 5:30. >>> president obama's health care overhaul gained new support from a hold out democrat. fox 5's tom fitzgerald is back from cap

police have arrested lee evans and hampton.osecutor says the suspects murdered the boys by burning them inside an abandoned building. bail for the each of the men remains at $5 million. >>> a texas woman tried to save her car by tossing her child who is 1 year old, into the vehicle, to prevent the repoe man from driving away. >> when people know their car is in for repoe, they'll go to any extent to keep it. >> it was late in the afternoon, when ross showed up on this house. the 31-year-old already had the keys to repossess christal gardner's ford expedition. >> i don't even have the door closed. with the key in it. starting it. and i look look out of the corner of my eye. and i see a baby slide through that window. >> reporter: dallas police say gardner tossed her baby through the open window of her suv. ross says the 1-year-old landed hard on the back seat. >> like a kid, bouncing on a bed. >> the boy immediately started crying. so ross put the expedition in park. state law forbids a law to be repossessed if a person is insid

let's go to hampton pearson. we are all confused. you have to straighten us out. >> we know that china's currency may be undervalued by as much as 40%. that's got lawmakers getting hot under the collar. >> this is an absurdity. how we also know that china exports five times as much the united states as we export to china. we have leverage over china to insure equity. >> panel trade experts told lawmakers the obama administration should declare china a currency manipulator when they issue the next report on april 15th. >> reevaluation of the chinese and otherati asian currencies a the most cost effective steps that could be taken. it would be the most important of the president's national export initiative. >> but there is however a risk of a backlash. >> the chinese authorities are spoiling for a fight. and the united states congress must be very, very careful about giving it to them. we should be careful that the market reaction to a trade war or currency war between the united states and china does not exceed in its negative effect

accused of burning five new jersey teenagers to death in 1978 say they are not guilty. 53-year-old hampton and 56-year-old lee evans made their first court appearance in newark this morning. until yesterday nobody knew what happened to those five boys when they disappeared. it was one of the state's longest running missing persons cases. both suspects were charged with five counts of murder, one count of arson, being held on $5 million bail each. one of those guys reportedly told a family member what actually happened back in 1978. >>> the national urban league released its annual state of black america report today. for the first time it also addresses inequality for hispanics. the nation's fastest growing demographic group. it shows african-americans are making gains in overall equality but still twice as likely as whites to be unemployed. and more blacks and hispanics lack health insurance compared to white americans. i'm joined now by congresswoman barbara lee who chairs the congressional black caucus. was any of what you saw in this report can be congresswoman, a surprise to you? >> n

tennessee scored the first 15 points before austin peay hit a crushing defeat and duke blazes by hampton, 72-37. and the men's tournament is anyone's game the women is over. u-conn hasn't lost by less than double figures all year long. >> thank you for the cinderella analogy. >> don't let anyone steal those, dave. week long fight against flooding. the red river near to cresting. rick reichmuth in moorhead. >> it's going to be cresting today and perhaps a sigh of relief for many of the residents here, i'm joined by a city council member here in moorhead, not over in fargo. tell me how everybody is holding up dealing with this for a second year. >> doing good. this year was a lot better than last year. this year last year, things were going wrong and this year things are tightened up, buttoned up and ready to go. >> what kind of changes happened to the city council here after last year? there was a bit of unrest and people were unhappy after everything was handed. how it was handled last year. any changes, what you guys are doing differently this year. >> we had significant changes, three

soldiers and next the panel of how to write history that includes outside magazine editor-at-large hampton sides former fort worth star star-telegram and agency founder james donovan then retired general anthony zinni discusses his book leading the charge today though live programming concludes with former baltimore sun by house correspondent teenine discussing her book citizens of london. [inaudible conversations]

. >>> and an unusual sight for commuters in hampton roads, virginia. find out why this train car ended up dangling off a drawbridge. >>> a texas couple is telling their health insurance company to do the right thing. they can't get it to cover their 10-day-old son. that's houston tracy there. born with a congenital heart defect that's rarely detected before birth. he's recovering from life-saving surgery. but when his parents tried to get insurance for houston, he was denied coverage. >> they kept saying it's pre-existing. it's pre-existing. but i don't know how it can be pre-existing on a baby that was just born. >> blue cross and blue shield of texas would not talk about the case, but it did comment to our affiliate ktxa about the health care reform law and says it will review the requirements to, quote, ensure full compliance. >>> the legislative battle over health care reform, by the way, is done. last night, the house passed a smaller health care fixes bill. no republicans supported the bill now headed to president obama's desk. senator republican

fred hampton, you know, who i am a huge fan of. very much working-class families and even if you look at all over the world sort of the power and impact of unions and radicalizing people and making them sort of understanding what their rights are and what their rights should be and that is what is missing on this because ultimately isolation of people and that is i think the greatest danger for the community now that we are isolated from one another. rich from poor and that is true for the entire country that to me is the messiah figure comes up short and we can't produce them anymore. >> good evening. thank you for sharing. [inaudible] that is when barack obama campaigned [inaudible] personal responsibility for your issues. so it seems like you said, you started to talk about this a little bit, i'm not so sure [inaudible] utah gave little bit about this and say first of all we just want to make sure taxes are not [inaudible] so my question is to the extent can we really have the discussion when we decide what is we actually want b

. >> my name is juliet landfair and i work here at the university of richmond for west hampton college. tonight we are going to be talking about how the sit-ins changed america. and this is a big topic, a very big topic and we're lucky to have two significant scholars here to talk to us about it. 50 years ago this past monday, four college men from north carolina a & t college arrived back in campus for their second semester and it was a few weeks into 1960, a brand-new decade. six years had passed since the supreme court handed down the brown decision ruling that segregated schools were inherently unequal, unconstitutional. five years had passed since the montgomery bus boycott had started. and three years had gone by since the high school students at central high in little rock had desegregated that institution and yet for these young men sitting in their dorm room talking to one another looking around them in greensboro, north carolina, little had seemed to change. segregation seemed to prevail in every aspect of the lives around them. these men decided after much discussion to go t

. >> reporter: late monday, police arrested 56-year-old lee evans and 53-year-old phil lander hamptonone of the longest missing persons cases ever in new jersey. at the time of the crime evans told police he dropped the boys off at a street corner near an ice cream parlor. >> he was the last one to see the kids and i've always felt that he was responsible. >> reporter: helen simmons has collected virtually every newspaper article since her nephew michael and his teenage friends disappeared. >> doesn't change anything. that's the sadness of it. you know? if this is justice, justice is always empty. >> reporter: the abandoned house was destroyed in the blaze. the five bodies were never found. >> the motive we believe was a result of apparently some marijuana that was stolen from the boys, from these individuals, apparently a few days earlier and this was a killing in retaliation for that. >> reporter: the break in the case came when a witness with direct knowledge of the murders came forward 18 months ago. newark police say they never looked at the matter as a homicide but always treate

. >> were at this years cpac conference talking with jane hampton cook about her new book. please tell us about "battlefields & blessings." >> this is a story that they've encouraged from the war in iraq and afghanistan and my co-authors and i interviewed 60 or so men and women from the military to really get their first-hand account and their experiences in iraq and afghanistan. and the book is formatted into 365 stories. you can read them one every day if you want and really just get a really good clans on how people have lived loudly for liberty on our behalf in iraq and afghanistan. he might tell us about -- i'm sorry, have you been to cpac before? >> yes, i have been to cpac before. it's a great place to talk about the founding of our nation and also talk about what people are doing today for the cause of liberty and freedom. >> it seems like your books run in kind of a series, or do they follow a pattern? >> yes, the series is called "battlefields & blessings" and there are four books in the series. there's one on the revolution was as one of my titles. one of the civ

the 1980 surgeons were like professor that they live next-door to professors but now they live on hamptons they're like investment bankers. are providers are paid excessively. not the primary care providers but the surgeons. and we treat our patients much, much too intensively. here's the tricky thing. we don't actually go to the hospital more often. we don't see the doctor more often. it's once the medical system gets its hands on is it in treatise more incredibly more intensively. now let's be clear, you know what? it's worth it. nothing frustrates more than to hear people say we spend the most innovative way of the 32nd best health care system because look at our infant mortality rate. that's a crazy thing to say. the truth is if you are an insured with the person in america there's no place else in the world that's better get health care. don't take my word for it. let's look at what the economist would look at, supply and demand. every year about two and 50,000 people come to america to get their health care from other countries. about 12,000 people in america to get health care from

hampton pearson tracking the hearing on capitol hill. hamp? >> good morning, mark.e no mistake about it, for lawmakers, china's currency, what some lawmakers say may be 40% undervalued, is the hot-button issue. late yesterday, senators chuck schumer and lindsey graham said they'll put on a full court press for higher tariffs and sanctions in the coming months if china doesn't revalue its currency. as we look in on that house ways and means hearing just getting under way, remember that april 15th will be the next opportunity for the treasury department to declare china a currency manipulator. president obama has said he favors a stronger yuan. law majmakers say it's time for actions to speak louder than words. >> there's hesitancy within the administration, but that hesitancy cannot lead to doing nothing effectively. and china says anything that we do that would be effective is, in quotes, protectionism, but it is really china that has been protectionist in terms of its trade policy and its currency policies. >> and of course, currency value is not the only issue. th

stimulus dollars to build a 2.66 mile bike trail that connected the manhan bike trail to the north hamptone how to pronounce it, trails. that would give them greater access to taco bell. i'm sure taco bell is very appreciative of the taxpayers. many dollars were sent to other companies. former president clinton campaign pollster was awarded $5.97 million in taxpayer funds from the stimulus bill. and i can go on and on and on. we build bike trails in georgetown with stimulus dollars that were put in place in neighborhoods where the average house value here in georgetown was over $1 million. i mean, come on. the american public needs to stand up and say, -- say no to this outrageous takeover of their liberty and their freedom. madam speaker, a c.e.o. of a steel making corporation recently said, quote, companies large and small are saying i'm not going to do anything until these things, health care, climate legislation, go away or are resolved, unquote. that's what's happening, madam speaker, in this country. small businesses and large are scared. the american people are frightened. when i di