cathy lewis is a host at whrv in hampton roads, virginia. and john myers is the statehouse bureau chief for kqed. john myers, i want to start with you because the numbers that jim and david chaian were talking about a few minutes ago are quite interesting. they're just as interesting in california where 53% say the nation is headed in the wrong direction but 54% have a positive view of president obama. how does that work out? >> i think it's an interesting split decision there, gwen. i agree with you. the president certainly still popular, as you said, here in california. we are a blue state, a plurality of democrats here in california. you know, it's hard to know exactly what is driving that pessimism on the wrong track figure. i have a feeling that a lot of it has to do with the economy here in california. we still have one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. 12.4%. we have a state budget crisis yet again. we've had about $60 billion of deficits over the last three years. we have a $19 billion problem now which i think draggi

products hampton one of. its attempt in especially so in principle it is possible to tell whether a product was manufactured by our company. i. think had the manufacturing date stamped with a mixture of paint and. it's unlikely that a regular customer would be able to tell the difference. the twenty thousand empty plastic bottles and caps to be filled with counterfeit liquid raised many questions about how to combat fake products. matched factory standards. investigators failed to find out where the illegal factory had acquired its containers according to one theory they were manufactured it illegal factory and then were delivered to this warehouse shady channels company could not explain where the containers came from they just didn't want the media to mention fake detergent because this will significantly decrease sales of the original product. in just a few months the illegal producing counterfeit goods cost the original brand three hundred thousand dollars paradoxically many of the customers themselves se

lui britone, ralph lauren, east hampton second homes, those were the marks of success.he mantra, he who dies with the most bling wins. not anymore. during this gm, great meltdown, the metlife survey says the american dream has morped before our very eyes. consumption is caput. personal relationships trump bling. friends, family, marriage, children, bling is out. people are in. 77%, almost four out of five people in this country say quality of life is defined by improved relationships and 87%, almost nine out of ten reevaluated priorities to put emphasis on personal relationships. 58%, almost three out of define the american dream of having family and having children. >> question, what do americans see as the main ingredient of the american dream? beth. >> they see financial security trumping family. although now out of necessity, because they are trying to hang on. >> they want a safety net. >> they do. >> look. i disagree with the end of what you set up. i disagree that the whole idea of the american dream is about who is going to make a lot of money. who is going to h

and tamron hall is here to bring hampton out now.now. >> hampton is a little rambunctious. going to need a little house training. it's interesting when you get into the home he likes to curl up on your lap and relax and becomes a lap dog. he's very excitable, very rambunctious. he's going to need a little bit of leash training. >> you don't see these all that often. >> no, you don't see these all that often. >> but very affectionate. you literally, when you pick him up, he's a great baby. >> tamron, thank you very much. all right next we have bo. let's put bo's picture up. purebred yellow lab. >> puppy. >> and now our page brittany, who by the way, got all gussied up for the occasion. brittany, hi, bo. >> bo is only 5 months old. you can see how big he is. he's going to need to be trained. he's losing his teeth now, so he needs a lot of chew toys for that teething. a lot of exercise, obviously. loves water like most labs. >> i'm actually surprised, richard, for a 5-month-old puppy, he's really -- >> lays down right on cue, huh matt?

>> in south hampton, long island. >> larry: what was this like from your perspective? >> heartbreaking. the rest of the world looks at lindsay lohan as an icon, cartoonish character, we see her in all the tabloids and shows. but to michael, this is his daughter. i have a daughter and if you can imagine having your daughter taken to jail and how devastating that is. that's what he's going through. he has, through me, trying to get to her for months and to get her to go to rehab. if she had gone to rehab a month or two months ago, none of this would happen, what michael was crying from the mountaintops about. >> larry: robert shapiro is a very good friend of mine, i spent all day sunday with him. he's no longer her attorney, i guess at all. he had told me, he was proposing rehab, and then jail. what happened to him in this. >> why didn't it -- >> larry: he wasn't able to tell me because of the laws of the court. you can tell me your perspective. >> i don't know why no attorney for lindsay lohan filed a notice of appeal in the last two weeks. had any attorney done that, t

. >> and lionel hampton and ella fitzgerald or cab calloway, marian anderson. >> joe louis, jackie robinsonhel paige and roy campanella and many, many others. after a while, you got so used to it that you didn't look up especially, but i just remember that part of it. it was as if the whole world, and particularly the people in the black world, all walked through the editorial rooms of the pittsburgh courier. >> narrator: celebrities shared the spotlight with the courier's own reporters. >> the courier paid better than many other black newspapers, because it was very large. it was highly successful, but the main reason they did it wasn't for the money. it was because they were stars out there. they were known. their names and pictures appeared somewhere. on a column, they had a picture of the person and the name. people knew you. you knew them. and they looked to you to take up their banner and to fight or to take up their star and to raise it up on high so people would know what they had done. >> the pittsburgh courier always had a strong sports department. football and basketball were pla

schwarzenegger will lead down the gorge hampton sought to hughie as the next chief justice.ill become the first asian-american to lead the state's judiciary shall also give a female majority for the first time in its history the 50 year-old is a graduate of uc-davis will lot and a republican and if approved by voters she would replace. was an exciting day in baseball starting with the giants facing their daughter's rival in l.a. tensions were high not pitching like to himself down 5-1 in the fourth inning he cannot attend so both branches are want is someone else gets fed they want to be ejected. well with that said dirges starter hit evelyn rollins so he's gone so and now in the ninth inning something you don't see very often bases loaded he goes out for power, he heads back to the dugout bench and practices of those steps back on the mound, or you can't do that giants manager judges did you're only allowed to kerman once in an inning if you judge the mound again that counts as a signature a year of surgery pitcher. that said the giants down one and you could try to come in

jim, love these summer nutrition programs, having personal experience with one run here in hampton roads area in newport news. i have a unique business that is a mobile fitness center that was used as a critical mass in public housing complex here in newport news. sadly, though, the not-for- profit -- a little unsophisticated and we were not able to reach a modest fee for my service which afforded the calories out component of the meal program. one of the things i did notice, though, in my several visits -- turned out to be pro bono because of this misunderstanding -- i found that the food that the children were receiving was nothing glorified -- more glorified and corn dogs, chicken nuggets, canned fruit salad. i run a first-class program -- i ended up with 30, to 40 children at my facility on site -- they spent far more time with me in the fitness program, which enable -- enabled me to mentor burning calories and involve the whole neighborhood. it was not just the children but there were grandparents, great grandparents, cousins, all goals, and the other members of the public housing c

our next call is from hampton, new hampshire. this is richard of the democrats' line. caller: good morning. it just a couple of comments. this whole package -- social security, medicare, and medicare. the whole system is going broke. the other argument is we are solvent and it will last for years and years. there was an article recently in "the boston globe" about the medicare fraud scams that going on, and there was one thing that really disturbed me. it says that there are between $60,000,000,000.-194160629 dollars of medicare fraud every year. -- between $60,000,000,000.- 194160629 dollars of medicare fraud every year. guest: that has been a problem for many years, medicare fraud. i think if you put more assets into trying to figure out what is happening. i look at figures in florida, and they are absolutely unbelievable. so, we have to address better medicare fraud. but let me just talk a minute about medicare. in no, we just had the health care bill. i told my members that we have to do medicare reform because if we do not do medicare reform medicare will not exis

jim, love these summer nutrition programs, having personal experience with one run here in hampton roads area in newport news. i have a unique business that is a mobile fitness center that was used as a critical mass in public housing complex here in newport news. sadly, though, the not-for- profit -- a little unsophisticated and we were not able to reach a modest fee for my service which afforded the calories out component of the meal program. one of the things i did notice, though, in my several visits -- turned out to be pro bono because of this misunderstanding -- i found that the food that the children were receiving was nothing glorified -- more glorified and corn dogs, chicken nuggets, canned fruit salad. i run a first-class program -- i ended up with 30, to 40 children at my facility on site -- they spent far more time with me in the fitness program, which enable -- enabled me to mentor burning calories and involve the whole neighborhood. it was not just the children but there were grandparents, great grandparents, cousins, all goals, and the other members of the public housing c

you went to the hamptons. >> randy falco used to work here at nbc for years.ou guys have seen on the weekends on the "today" show. susan and randy falco and jane hansen. it was a nice dinner party. they had a chef who came and cooked. >> look at this. they really went out. that's beautiful. >> it was a relaxing, beautiful day. >> you stayed longer than you planned to because it was hotter than you know what. the only place to be was somewhere near the water. we stayed home pretty much. but bambino got fixed. yeah. >> oh! >> little bambino. there he is. when we took him in to have it done, he's 3 1/2 pounds now. he's gained two pounds. so in other words, there wasn't a whole lot to fix. but whatever he had, we took. so i was going to go see "salt" friday night. frank and i were going to come. but we bring him home to the vet. and you cannot leave your baby at a time like that. he did not know what had hit him. but he sat there. i kind of loved it because i thought, it's been years since i, you know rs crad, cradled. he didn't sleep. he just looked at me, like,

. >> when you're in a house for the hamptons -- what happened there? >> nothing.ou see is what you get. so many people wake up and say, my husband's lazy. don't like it, don't buy it. >> maybe he's going through a bad time. >> whatever it is, he's not motivated, he's lazy, move on. >> my daughter is married to the guy and you're in it. >> in this case, you haven't bought yet, move on. if it's my daughter, i'm like good-bye. >> all right. thank you, donny. >> you should hear what i said to cody. >> he's coming up. >> it was about twins. >> angelina jolie or a laugh out loud romp? up next, at the movies. >> first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> we're back with our weekend movie preview with cody gifford. angelina jolie is back as an action heroine, steve carrell is back with a funny one. >> cody has his picks. hello. >> you have been busy. three this week. >> "charlie st. cloud." i have seen the previews and i want to see a movie like that. it feels warm and fuzzy. >> maybe those aren't the best adjectives. it's a fantasy melo-drama adapted from a novel. it's kind of d