joining us now is hank smith of haverford. hank, let's start with you. give us your perspective on where we are in this recovery. are the fundamentals of the economy strong enough to maintain the run up in equities that we've seen? >> we think so. twael, we think a lot of the bounce so far is a make up from the psychological blowoff from mid january to the beginning of march. and we agree that a lot of this is the fear and pessimism from early march having segued into anxiety. anxiety, of all this cash on the sideline, missing in a bull market and worse, getting paid nothing to be in cash. compared that to another general issue, but then the cash on the sideline was earning double digit returns. today, that is not the case. where we slightly disagree with lutar, that we think that the fundamental picture looks strong and is going to get stronger and that this recovery is real and that top line growth will be coming to the corporate income statements and it will have an outside effect on the bottom line due to all the cost cutting and productivity enhance

which means you should be perfect today, hank.ts and mark sanchez taking ton patriots and tom brady. brady's never lost to the jets. will rex ryan be kissing bill belichick's rings after all? >> our ongoing stheem you and me against the world although that may have been before your time but the world is reacting over the jets win but mark sanchez will be facing a 3-4 and whatever variations bill belichick throws at him. this number is a bargain as new england opened at 5 1/2 and now are down 3 1/2 and have won against the jets in the meadowlands i'm taking the patriots. >> listed as out doubtful kevin kolb took all the snaps in practice and they need to figure out a way to shut down drew brees, saints or ag snls >> call me anti-world on this one, and assumes without donovan mcnabb seinfeld facing doom against new orleans but catch this, drew brees had a quarterback rating in the 60's on the road last year against five better defenses averaging just nine points face as defense in philadelphia ha have five interceptions and five sac

and tom hanks is caught in a dry cleaning bag. can someone help him? no? no one can help tom hanks?s? where did you come from? >> i've been here the whole time. [ laughter ] >> no, you haven't. >> sure, i have, from before. i'll take -- give me "famous chinamen" for 200. >> there is no "chinamen" category. and there would never be anything that offensive. >> who is pat morita? [ laughter ] >first of all, pat morita was japanese, not chinese. >> who is -- >> good lord. let's just move on to final jeopardy. the category is nonsense words. just write a random series of letters. any letters. as long as it's not a word, you will win. and as i am reasonably certain that most of you are illiterate -- i like your chances. [ laughter ] so, let's see what rare gems our contestants have mined today. kathie lee, let's see your nonsense word. [ laughter ] hoda kotb. that's not a nonsense word. that's your co-host on "the today show." >> kotb? believe me, that's nonsense. where's the vowel? kotb? what is that? >> and your wager? you wager that you'll be passed out in an hour. [ laughter ] >> you'

real quick, hank.s you look back over the last year, and what has occurred, how do you see the financial landscape looking in the coming year? >> look, i think it's a little bit better, but i think credit is still very tough. i think it's reported that commercial real estate is still maybe going to have more problems than less. they still have a very big inventory of foreclosed homes. it's going to be a slow recovery. jobs are still -- loss of jobs are still rising we're probably going to go to 10% or maybe a bit higher in unemployment. it's not a great picture. >> where are you investing right now? >> asia. and also selectively in the united states. >> hank, great to have you on the program. >> good to see you, maria. >> hank greenberg, former ceo and chairman of aig. >>> in less than four hours, president obama will deliver a critical speech on health care reform. what will congress do? what will happen with the sticking points so far? the so-called public option. bad cholesterol but your good choles

that's something hank and i have been working on. now i have a leg to do it on. i couldn't do it before because my leg was limiting what i can do. now i feel so much more stable on my left side. >> i know you got one guy that's real confident right now. you know, phil, 20 birdies this week, number one in putting. all of a sudden he's got a lot more distance and a lot of confidence. that's going to be a good year next year, i think. >> yeah, you know, phil played well, and you know, he did the things he needed to do this week. unfortunately, i didn't putt well. and consequently, i didn't really push him. today was a perfect example of that. i had plenty of looks early, and i didn't make those. phil ran off and got away from us a little bit. >> it's not too often you have phil and tiger winning in the same day. >> it's certainly different. >> tiger, you got presidents cup coming up in a couple of weeks. it's the last really big, huge event, international competition. sb besides that, though, give people a sense of what you do in the off-season. do you actually take

and hank greenberg had more. pujols might be able to match their total or even pass them when you consider he has 21 games left. >> usa soccer was feeling the heat wednesday night. >> get out the pen and paper, with the victory against trinidad and tobago. the americans would ensure themselves a top four finish in no worse than a playoff berth. now a loss doesn't sink them, but they'd likely need to win out if they wanted to play in the world cup. >> first things first. josie altador looking to repeat a performance he had earlier against contribute dad and tobago. a hat trick. trinidad and tobago, catching the u.s. defense. slipping a little bit there. glen chipping away. can't get it to go in though. on the other end, the free shot. and comes up up with the big save. little bit of a crazy sequence here. check out the chip shot. tim howard, a little frustrated and so is is glynn who couldn't sink it. second half, still scoreless. clarke takes the space. there is the second half. ricardo clarke now taking his spac

that's something hank and i have been working on. now i have a leg to do it on. i couldn't do it before because my leg was limiting what i can do. now i feel so much more stable on my left side. >> i know you got one guy that's real confident right now. you know, phil, 20 birdies this week, number one in putting. all of a sudden h's got a lot more distance and a lot of confidence. that's going to be a good year next year, i think. >> yeah, you know, phil played well, and you know, he did the things he needed to do this week. unfortunately, i didn't putt well. and consequently, i didn't really push him. today was a perfect example of that. i had plenty of looks early, and i didn't make those. phil ran off and got away from us a little bit. >> it's not too often you have phil and tiger winning in the same day. >> it's certainly different. >> tiger, you got presidents cup coming up in a couple of weeks. it's the last really bi huge event, international competition. sb besides that, though, give people a sense of what you do in the off-season. do you actually take a

you sign hank basket. how do you see the reps of the wide receivers coming out?e most part. hank came to us. certainly can't learn the entire offense in a short period of time. we have areas in which we need him he will be able to go in and contribute. >> people are focused on the wide receivers. how do you get the run game going? >> it is something we have been consistently working on. you will see a better run game than we have. we have to get it going. that is an important part of our game. >> good luck tonight. >> jim caldwell of the colts. tom jackson, cris carter, keyshawn johnson, mike ditka and we will see you at the top of the hour for monday night countdown. we can start with you tom, most impressive team we have seen thus far. not the best but the team that opened up your eyes in a surprise fashion? >> it is all perspective. i don't want to be a homer. but where i thought the denver broncos were going to be and where i find them now i am shocked. i don't care who they beat. they are 2-0 and i am satisfied. >> speaking of 2-0, you have to say what the n

it says hank jr. can't go within 500 feet of misty or her home. and adds, he cannot have any firearms or ammunition. >> lindsey croslin says she no longer feels safe in the area and is moving. fearing that if she stays she is setting her own three children up to be stolen. >> ronald, has the theory that misty left the home some time during the night been disproved? >> i'm not sure. i believe that it has, nancy. i'm almost 100% sure but i wouldn't tell you that and lie to you. i'm pretty sure it has been disproved. >> do you believe she left the home and left the children alone, ronald? >> absolutely not. >>> and tonight, live to connecticut, in the mystery surrounding the sudden disappearance of a gorgeous young ivy-league med student set to walk down the aisle this sunday. the 24-year-old beauty last spotted on grainy surveillance video walking into a yale research facility. a false fire alarm mysteriously goes off in the research building. people rush out and le is never seen again. tonight, where is brainy beauty 24-year-old annie le? >> police

he didn't specifically call hank jr.'s cell phone. he called the house of hank -- hank jr. his family. and that was at -- >> did he talk to the brother? >> i don't know who he spoke with. i know when we were speaking with fdle that a call came up and they questioned him about it and he said he called to ask if misty was at the house at that time. >> to marlaina schiavo, our producer on the story. marlaina, we have gotten in touch with his attorney and after he goes through the usual legal jargon, he's trying to defend his clients, bassically it boils down to this. he didn't go in the house, did he? so does he really know she wasn't home? did you get something else out of that statement? >> no, that's pretty much what he said. and he also said that his client still denies that she left the home that night. and -- >> go ahead, dear. >> and he also said, that you know, she may have slept through it, she may have ignored her brother, but he has to get to the bottom of it. he actually hasn't even spoken to misty that much about this interview. i mean, with the tidbits he just ga

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and riding through the countryside intimidating people. >> congressman hank jackson. coming up in the face-off debate here tonight, some people said the president's election was proof positive that america has turned the corner on the issue of race. but now, the issue is back. and in a big way, the debate over a post racial meamerica coming up later in the broadcast. >>> this is not the first time that president carter has made controversial comments. his claims of attacks that the president's politics are racial seems familiar. all too expected. kitty pilgrim with the report. >> reporter: president jimmy carter left office a relatively young man in his 50s and since then has been a visible figure on the world stage. no one questions his humanitarian work. working with habitat for humanity. in 2002, carter won the nobel peace prize. but it's also generated controversy by inserting the former president into difficult situations, often at the discomfort of the administration in power. for example, last april, carter met with a senior hamas leader, generating outcry from

hank greenberg apparently proposed to mr. towns cutting back on the interest rates that they're paying right now. cutting back on the government stake, which is right now at 80%. and the term, or the -- how long it would be that they have to pay back that money, doing all that of course wasn't a slam drunk and isn't a slam dunk still, but investors certainly liked the fact that aig was behind it. i mean, because aig put out a statement saying, hey, anybody else that wants to come up with great ideas to help us get out of this mess, come on, we're all for it. so the fact that's happening and the fact they've already adjusted, the government has three times the deal with aig tells investors that there might be something going on. 60 strike with the stock trading at 45 this morning. the 65 strike. again, $20 out of the money with the stock at 45. the stock made a run toward 49 at the end of the day and based on the activity we saw i don't think the run's over yet. >> hey, doc, it's joe. the general accounting office said today i

in coral gables, i'm hank goldberg, espn. >>> hammer time.ly two wins against ranked opponents for the past three seasons, one under larry coker and two under randy shannon miami is 2-0 with both wins coming over ranked opponents this season. the cannes are ranked higher -- canes are ranked higher than 2005. two big games coming up. >>> you call the halfback throwing the ball, i'm calling time-out or calling an audible. >>> that's sonny jurgenson and in washington, d.c., he's still king and what happened after he called out jim zorn. the yanks a game away from making the postseason. rangers, fight fighting for their playoff lives. these plays are good. we'll see if they're good enough. anhn

tom, that's hank croslin sr., right? what was your reaction when you heard that?ou know, it's one of the things that my head started spinning again. and i wondered if there was any truth in it at all. and i actually talked to roy moffit, and roy moffit helped us in the past so many times on searches. and very hard working, successful businessman here in houston, texas. i got a call this morning from roy and he said, you know what, i will go ahead and write that check for $35,000. he wrote the check out. and then his office called about 30 minutes later and said, you know what, we pray ronald can go ahead and cash this check. and i know this for a fact, if ronald needs the cash, i know roy moffit will fly to florida, with $35,000 cash, if he can ride with ronald to bring haleigh back safely. all we want is haleigh back. the money's there. if ronald needs the $35,000, it's there. >> what do you make of it? i'll ask john as well. does this say that ronald knows where she is? and if he had the $35,000, does it sound like it's ransom money to get haleigh back? or is he

. >> snoberal calgh went unanswered so he calls her brother hank to go down the street to the residence if he can make contact with misty and hank says he dnls go doave the str9/1t and says when gets there that the lights are off in the trailer and it is rurk and quiet. >> i put her to bed about 8:00, algisd,. >> gerovedo thewe broke the nes shortly after the child disivt thieared that misd i hon out that w9/1kend partying hearty and might not even have been home when halmsgh went missin fa >> 3:00 in the morning i got up because i home to use the junthroom and i walked in the kitchen and the backdoor is junck onew d i didn't notice about halmsgh then until i seen the backdoor oth hal gone. weien i went to sleep there she was there and when i woke up hee was gone. >> what she has told us is a as far as and the idea that she was der how she was doing is just not believable. it is totally unbelorivable in it is totally unbelorivable in n >> geraldo: remember, in a recent voice a tilysis and lori dete to dor session, i sincests say misty fails miserably. >> i can s9/1 it there is something

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on the witness stand now, a new witness, shatara hanks, an acquaintance of damon darling.was a bit older than him. she met him while he was in high school. she knew him by the nickname red rock. let's go inside the courtroom and watch. >> so you've always lived there with your family? >> yes. >> now that address, and i'm going to reference you to july 1st, 2006, the day of the shooting, you know where that took place, right? >> yeah. >> how far away is your house from that shooting scene. >> like two or three blocks. >> two to three blocks. >> okay. >> now back on july 1st, 2006, during the afternoon, late morning or early afternoon hours, did you see the defendant in this case, damon darling. >> yes, ma'am. >> okay. where did you see him, do you remember? >> 52nd and 13. >> just met him to talk? >> yes. >> okay. did you -- at some point did you guys stop talking? >> yes, right. >> was there an agreement to get back together that day. >> yes, ma'am. >> okay. how were you guys going to contact each other? >> over the phone. >> so where did you go from there? >> i went home.

in tokyo, the nikkei climbed 90 points, the hank seng leapt 424 points. >>> the dow is closer to that magical 10,000 mark after a decent rally yesterday thanks to corporate deal making. word broke early after plans to acquire computer affiliated services for $6.4 billion. sending shares of that company soaring 14%. meanwhile, shares of xerox, they sank 14%. in another $6 billion deal, abbott laboratories got a 2% boost after announcing it will widen its footprint through the purchase of solvay's drug unit. >>> the dow had its biggest gain in more than a month the best quarter since 1998. analysts looking ahead to when the dow might cross 10,000. >>> apple shares rose 2% following news that its popular iphone will hit the shelves in china and france in the months ahead. cisco systems led the day on the nasdaq. the network equipment maker gained more than 4% after an annual upgrade citing demand from the telecom market. >>> dow chemicals received federal approval to sell off morton salt. that's all in an effort to raise funds to buy rome and haas down the road. >>> the average price for

>> nancy, hank jr., hank tommy croslin was arrested and has been charged with grand theft for allegedlyaling a colt pistol from a neighbor. you wouldn't think that was a, quote, serious crime, but the bond is set at $50,000. >> do you believe they have taken him into custody on this argument over a pistol in order to try to get him to talk about haleigh's disappearance? >> they want anyone close to the family to tell them what they know about misty, about anything related to the crime. so i do. >> to ronald cummings joining us tonight, he's haleigh's father. he's joining us exclusively since this arrest. ronald, what do you make of it? >> miss nancy, i don't know what to make of it. i just don't know what to think. >> well, what is the brother-in-law telling you? what are you hearing from misty's family? >> miss nancy, we don't have much contact with the family. misty has an injunction against thomas, so we don't have any contact with them. >> to terry shoemaker, the the attorney for ronald cummings. do you believe he was taken into custody in order to put pressure on him to find out wh

>> nonsense, people love me. >> no one, hank, not a sole. >> is something [ bleep ]?" "it's too hateful." "too misogynistic." "it's too soft." "it's too mean-spirited." >> like those are bad things? [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: david duchovny! "californication," sundays at 10:00 pm on showtime. ultimate fighter kimbo slice on next. come on back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ (woman) i'm taking an antidepressant, but i think i might need more help. (announcer) approximately two out of three people being treated for depression still have depression symptoms. (man) i'm on an antidepressant, but i'm still not where i want to be with my symptoms. (announcer) if your antidepressant alone isn't enough, talk to your doctor-- one option your doctor may consider is adding abilify. abilify is fda-approved to treat depression in adults when added to an antidepressant. learn more about abilify. call your doctor if your depression worsens or you have unusual changes in mood, behavior, or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens and young adults. e

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hank goldberg has more on the storm brewing in south florida. >>> head coach randy shannon knows what good old days were like at the university of miami, having won a national championship as a player under jimmy johnson in 1987. the hurricanes ranked in the top 10 for the first time since 2005. shannon is making sure that the 2009 version of the u does more walking the walk than talking the talking. >> you got to take one game at a time and tell the players, after four galms you're going to -- games you're going to find out where we are as a football team but one at a time. go one game at a time because you cannot defeat the first opponent trying to think about the fourth. and those guys, so far, they've done a great job of concentrating. >> coach smith, compartmentalizing each game, ok, this game's over with, let's go. next game. >> sophomore quarterback jacory harris has carried shannon's personality on to the field. bringing a quiet confidence to the rest of his team to feed off. >> the pressure that comes with winning and the hype that comes with winning, and i don't let it get t

bailout or bailout hank..hat doesn't seem fair to lehman and its employees that you had to make an example out of their firm but not other firms. >> i don't know that lehman was -- lehman wasn't chosen to be any kind of example. i think it was very, very difficult to get the messaging right to markets at that time as to what the government's intentions were. i'm sure it's possible that if we had signalled our intentions that there were not going to be big bailouts early, earlier than thursday, a week heading into that weekend, then maybe marcus would have been better prepared. what was amazing to me that markets were completely unprepared. there'd been a real acceptance in the market that government was going to come in and some ltcm kind of way, maybe a bear stearns kind of way or with just a straight bailout.t. i remember talking to someone at one of the big banks on that saturday morning, and she told me that their back offices were full with every bank trying to figure out what their counterparty risk was

tony romo, what happened there, hank? jason witten, incomplete. kenny phillips thinks he has a touchdown. tom coughlin says let's review this. off the heel of witten into the hands of phillips. here's the problem, we'll give you an interception and there was a whistle to put the play dead. we can't give you a touchdown. it worked out fine. mario manningham will cap the drive with a touchdown but not before drama, a little juggling but hauls it in for the score. 10 catches are, 150 yards for. giants lead 20-17 at the half. in the third quarter they've counted up all those people, 105,121. the 121 came from new york. jerry jones is happy and please everyone, buy a snack. back to the game. third and goal, cowboys. tony romo, rough night slinging it. did all right running it there. cowboys lead 24-20 heading to the fourth quarter. this is when you make your money in the nfl, third and 8 for the giants. eli manning over the middle. steve smith, how about 22 yard there with the magic bean. smith and manning hooked up 10 times. giants up 27-24. later in

hank goldberg has more on the storm brewing in south florida. >>> head coach randy shannon knows what good old days were like at the university of miami, having won a national championship as a player under jimmy johnson in 1987. the hurricanes ranked in the top 10 for the first time since 2005. shannon is making sure that the 2009 version of the u does more walking the walk than talking the talking. >> you got to take one game at a time and tell the players, after four galms you're going to -- games you're going to find out where we are as a football team but one at a time. go one game at a time because you cannot defeat the first opponent trying to think about the fourth. and those guys, so far, they've done a great job of concentrating. >> coach smith, compartmentalizing each game, ok, this game's over with, let's go. next game. >> sophomore quarterback jacory harris has carried shannon's personality on to the field. bringing a quiet confidence to the rest of his team to feed off. >> the pressure that comes with winning and the hype that comes with winning, and i don't let it get t

>>hank you very much. >> susie: you c wash an extended version of ou inrview with charles evans or read e ente tranript on ourebsite, on pborg. he baaaaaaaaaack! apple c.e.o.teve jobs took the stage today at his cpany's product launchvent in san frcisco. at hisirst public appearance in about a yr, jobs rolled out new versions of appls popular i-pod,dding a video camera, microphone and speaker to it nano model. the device even has pedometer and a built-in f.m. radi it's priced $149 for the eight gig mol. the company also upgraded itun, its digital media store, givi users more control over ntent. in spi of all the buzz, care- is and comny analyst rob sear- uh says todas event is not a game changer for apple. >> sie: sear-uh also >> i don't think it changes the outlook. iphone is still the to of the line forpple. macsontinue toe important for ple and today's events were a little of, hey, don't forgs about the ipod, we're still refreing that and selling a lot of i pod susie: he also recommends buying shares of app, calling it theest computer products company, bar none. and paul, steve jobs

once with hank paulson where we said he's being so reasonable to this, then it didn't sound that way when he went out publicly. anything you would want to ask him? >> i'd want to know what the tipping point is. >> the publix optic option in h care. >> we'll do all of that then. >> that's coming up momentarily. >>> that's "power lunch" for wednesday. see you tomorrow. >> miss burnett is up next. >>> steve jobs takes the stage in a dramatic appearance at apple's ipod event in san francisco. his first appearance at an apple event since his return from liver transplant surgery. >>> microsoft's chief financial officer says the economic climate is still tough but that the worst is behind us. that's cnbc.com news now, first in business worldwide. i'm julia boorstin. >>> live from our nation's capital, this is "street signs." i'm erin burnett. we're just moments away from the beige book look at the economy. we'll talk to house financial services chairman barney frank and talk about the president's key speech on health care tonight. all of that today on "street signs." >>> first breaking news

>>hank you, charlie. >> rose: stt with what the esident said on wall street. the theme seemed to be we're all responsible, wall street, ma street, washington, and they're also jointly responsible for inging everything back tother. is that thessage? >> yeah, and there was nothing new in terms of policy. the prident outlined the policies for his regulatory reform agendathat he outlid in june. there wasothing new. although since then the have been repor in the mediabout inflated bonuses, out some financia institutions returng to somerisky morage practices. also resistance from walltreet the president' relatively othless non-binding resolution for shareholders to have a say in executiveay. and because ofll this, the president told wall seet... there was a room full owall stet executives heren new york and at federal hall, he told them thatsome people are gettinghe wrong message from this fincial stabilization that we can return to the way thin were and that is not to be thecase. >> rose: what ishe regulatory scheme that... regulatory architecture that th have in m

hank you. >> lehrer: the u.nsecurity council ld a rare "summit" today to work toward eliminang nuclear weapon there were also new cal to confront ir and north korea over their nuclear program margaret warner has r lead story repo. >> warnerpresident obama aired today's meeting of the 15-member securitcouncil summit on clear weapons, a rst for an american presiden and 14 of the council members re represented by heads of government, a rare ourrence. the sole it on the agenda: passage of a resoluti affirming the goals of uclear disarmament and nonproliferation,nd committing to work more gressively to aceve them. >> e draft resolution has been adopted unanimouslas resolution 188of 2009. >> waer: the president laid out the stakes in srk terms: just one nuclear weapon exploded in a city, bit new york oroscow, tokyo or beijing, london or pis, could kill hundreds of thoands of people, and iwould badly destabilize our secuty, our economies d our very way of life. oe more the united nationhas a pivotal r

>> you know, hank paulson was the former ceo of goldman sachs. tim geithner was i think was offered high positions at goldman sachs. he was also at post relationships with goldman sachs. the people who have been critical of both men has been critical on the grounds that theirolicies have be if anything too friendly to the investment banking community. there's a coherent set of questions that have been raised about that. i don't know that i see a huge broad policy. they are both have ten the aggressi effect so that if w don't bail out the large institutions that will have a broad negative effects on th economy as a whole. and so i think they've been quite aggressive in trying to keep those institutions from having to go under for that reason. >> a professor frank, you talked about ben bernanke as well. you know, the fed chairman quite well, coauthored a book entitled "principals of economic" he's under a lot of fire right now. his term expires in january 2010. do you think he will be reappointmented or more important think, does he think? >> i don

>>hanks, charlie. it's great to be her >>ose: what does this speech and the little conoversy that developed say about pockets of sistance to the president? >> well, it says that there e still some very, very strong pockets ofesistance tohis president a they are able to get their voices hed through some of the conservativemedia out there. therwas not a story tha was tting much attention in the so-called mainstreamedia. it was one that was being voiced among conservatives and really a lot it was based , a, this fearhat presidentbama is tryi to create a ptisan army and is doi this unscrupuusly and unprecedentedly to reach out and draft indivials to join ts partis army. there' not any eviden of this of course, but this is out there in the netherland of the unid states. and then there'salso the fact that tre is this very clumly inartful written preparatory terial for tchers sayi that they need to ask stents ask themlves how can i help the presiden,ow can i he e president. that's sometng they revised after c

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. >> ssi peled,hank you very ch for joiningus on "worldfocus." thank you. >>> want to know what you think about thecontrovers do you believe either israel, hamas or both committed war crim in last winter's war in gaza? tell us what you think by visiting the ow yo see it" section of our website at worldfocus.org. >>> turning from theontroversy in israel to onein afghanistan, the ongoing uncertainty ov th country's presidentl election. today afghanfficials announced what they called the fal preliminary votecount. it would give president karzai nearly 55% of e vote enough fohim to win the ection outright overopposition candidate abdullah abdulla however, monitoring group i still considering what to do about widespread aegations of fraud and could invidate enough vos to force a runoff. >>> clos to ho, another sign that life is in se wys changingnside cu. that country will now low christian inmates t attend organized prison services. previously inmates were only allowed to rship invidually. earlier a group lan american cathic bishops had asd that inma

. >> fari-borz gaed ar,hank you very much >>. >>> just where was benjam netanyahu on monday? netanyu's officeaid he was visiting a governmt facility inside israe isrl's biggest newspaper isnow reporting tanyahu was o a secr mission to moscow to convince the rusans to stop selling ams toiran. the russians a suspected of selling anti-aircrt missiles to theranians and those ssiles could be used ainst israeli jets in the event of attack on iran's nuclear facities. we would le to know how you think the obam administration should respo to iran's nuclear progm. shou it try tough sanks or something even stronger? you can tell us wh you tnk by going to the "how you see i seion on the websiteor at worldfocus.org. >>> from neighboringfghanistan there s news today of a dramatic recue. sthen fowler, a reporte from "the n york times" was freed by british commandos after a raidn a taliban hideou fowler seen hre was kidnapped along withis afghan translator after the two ha traved to northefghanistan to investige an air strike last week that killed some 70 peole cluding a nuer of civilia. bri

. >> michael novacek,hank you very mh. >> nice to bhere. >>> finally tonight, we wan to return to a story thatasn't be in the headline lately b is still havin a major imct. has been almost a year and a half since a devastating cyclone to through mymar also known as burman southeast asia. 100,000 people or more may have be killed and many are still suffering. ase hear fromthe cadian broadcastingcorporation, the aid effort is bing hampered by widespread corruption. >> reporter:n the dta where burma meeti the sea, life is harder than ever. it's been 16 months sncehe cyclone swamped everything re. after struggling with the military junta, international aid flowed in, but many have reived next to nothing. th family tries toke out a living selling charal. there e eight children to provide r. d there's been virtually no help sin nargus hit. "i just go a bucket and a pan, that's it she say "i that all you got?" she's asked. "f other livin i didn get ything." the fami's pigs are not for eating. they too will be sold to pay for vital supies like cooking oil. ey can't afford to send the kids to scho

>>hank you, daljit. >>> in his dress tohe unite nations general assembly, president obamaalso spoke about another key foreign polic issue, the nuclear amtions of ir and north korea. veral countries l by the unit states areonsidering addition sanctions again iran and north kore if they don't curb their nlear programs. >> and i willepeat -- i'm committed diplomacy that opens a path to greater prosperity and more secure peace for both nations ifhey live up to the obligations. t if the governmes of iran and north kea choose t iore inteational standards, if ey t the pursuit of nuclear weaponahead of r stability, if they are oblivious to the dangers of escating nuclear arms ras in both east asia and the middle eat, then they must be held accountable. >>n an interview with the associatedress, iranian presidt mahmoud ahmadinejad said that he excts xt week's discussions with the wt about ir's nuclear pogram to be free and open, but called on the world's clear powers to give up some of their weapons, too. ist likely nucle negotiations withiran will succeed or are harsher sanctis against iran inevit

>>hank you, thank you. >> the perception, i suppose, the way outo frme this, seems at we have not heard mch from arab nations when i comes to sancons against iran. is th inkralt? >> it is not curate. the egyptians and theaudis will be more than happ to s some sanions impos on iran. today in newspapers,oth newspapers wrote about the subject and both are i agementith the western -- with certawestern measures to impose harsher sanctns on the iranian regime but they're a little bit raid of military strike because they fe that mit not get us wherewe want to be. >> is it safe to say that arab nations do not want to see a nuclear armed iran, and if so, why no >> i would say that on this point, theyrians and the libyan might t mind it or maybe would like t see it. the sdis andhe entire gulf, the egyptians, yemeis and jordanians would like to not see a nuear iranecause it wod change thealance of power. and there's a religus element in the arab world. most of thoseountries that i ve counted in the arab gu have a lot of shiites among th. iraq, for emple, 65%, saud arabia %,yemen 90%. what if of th

. >> jim: hank aaron's number, 44 doubles this year to go along with 30 home runs.the curve ball just stays up. evan longoria talking before the game, if you get the front foot down, it is easier to slow the ball down. he didn't have any problems slowing that curve ball that stayed up a little bit. >> gary: he is tied with the leaders here. here is ben zobrist with two down, a runner on at second base. that is outside for a ball. he hit a dinger last night. a 3-2 pitch. >> jim: yeah, and just clobbered it. it sailed out of here. you can see jim johnson wasn't happy with it. >> gary: ninth inning, tied the ballgame up that set the stage for matt wieters to end it with his own home run. 1-0 delivery will be taken down low. >> jim: excuse me. go ahead. >> gary: no. >> jim: i was talking about zobrist, a right-handed hitter actually hitting much better averagewise and then if you transpose the numbers per at- bat, there's much power from this side, and, of course, he didn't start switch hitting until he was a senior in high school and then in college. >> gary: 2-0 count

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